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American essays 20th century American fiction American fiction 20th century American fiction 21st century Detective and mystery stories, American Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott) 1896-1940 Noir fiction, American Roman américain 20e siècle Science fiction, American Short stories, AmericanMurray, Albert
Summary: "Albert Murray (1916-2013) was one of the most provocative and original American thinkers of the twentieth century, writing with equal grace and power as an essayist and novelist."--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURStephenson, Neal
Summary: In twenty-first-century America, a teenaged computer hacker finds himself fighting a computer virus that battles virtual reality technology and a deadly drug that turns humans into zombies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In this first-ever anthology of Indigenous science fiction, Grace Dillon collects some examples of the craft, with contributions by Native American, First Nations, Aboriginal Australian, and New Zealand Maori authors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Arizona Press 2012
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALSummary: "Ben Marcus, one of the most innovative and vital writers of this generation, delivers a stellar anthology of the best short fiction being written today in America In New American Stories, Ben Marcus has collected a diverse, exciting, and wholly unique book of contemporary American fiction writers. Herein are the luminaries of the form like Deborah Eisenberg, George Saunders, and Denis Johnson,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Contemporaries 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWCapote, Truman
Summary: "Catapulted from a childhood spent in a Missouri orphanage to the dizzying peaks of New York high society, the destitute and debauched writer P. B. Jones spends his days moving between the paltry cell of a Manhattan Y.M.C.A. and the opulent playgrounds of the metropolitan elite. Though Jones struggles to make ends meet, his effortless associations with the moneyed and powerful thrust him into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Modern Library 2024
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Summary: This second volume in Library of America's definitive Didion edition includes two novels and three remarkable essay collections with which she extended the compass of the extraordinary journalistic eye first developed in the celebrated books Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album. Gather here are Salvador, a searing look at terror and Cold War politics in the Central American civil war...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 DIDFeinberg, Leslie
Summary: Jess Goldberg decides to come out as a butch in the bars and factories of the prefeminist '60s and then to pass as a man in order to survive when she is left without work or a community in the early '70s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firebrand Books 1993
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Summary: "This paperback edition of Hemingway's second novel reprints the corrected text from the Library of America omnibus Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises & Other Writings 1918-1926. In an appendix it gathers writings related to The Sun Also Rises-a short selection of journalism and letters"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEMSummary: This anthology of short stories represents some of the most significant works from the most influential American authors of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AudioGO 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BESAlexie, Sherman
Summary: Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: CD FIC ALEGrey, Zane
Summary: Lynn Weston, a college athlete, finds adventure when gangsters try to blow up a great American dam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walter J. Black 1963
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREContents: Spurs / Tod Robbins -- Pastorale / James M. Cain -- You'll always remember me / Steve Fisher -- Gun crazy / MacKinlay Kantor -- Nothing to worry about / Day Keene -- The homecoming / Dorothy B. Hughes -- Man in the dark / Howard Browne -- The lady says die! / Mickey Spillane -- Professional man / David Goodis -- The hunger / Charles Beaumont -- The gesture / Gil Brewer -- The last spin / Evan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESContents: The postman always rings twice / James M. Cain -- They shoot horses, don't they / Horace McCoy -- Thieves like us / Edward Anderson -- The big clock / Kenneth Fearing -- Nightmare alley / William Lindsay Gresham -- I married a dead man / Cornell Woolrich.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1997
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC CRISummary: An anthology culled from "Black Mask" magazine is a tribute to its mastery of the pulp noir genre that includes such stories as "Murder Is Bad Luck" and "Diamonds Mean Death" as well as two full-length novels including Paul Cain's "Fast One."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLAStafford, Jean
Summary: This volume collects for the first time the complete stories of a Pulitzer Prize–winning master of the form, a writer acclaimed for her acute psychological insight, exacting eye for detail, and mordant sensibility. Set in New England, Colorado, New York, and Europe, Jean Stafford’s stories intimately examine the lives of women and men beset by restlessness, dislocation, and isolation. “The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 STAWolfe, Tom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2000
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Summary: "It was Gatsby that solidified his reputation as the chronicler of the Jazz Age and established him as one of the leading American novelists of his generation. Perhaps no other novel of the twentieth century makes a greater claim to being our Great American Novel--for its poetic prose, its exploration of the broad, intertwined themes of money, class, and American optimism (Daisy Buchanan's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FITFaulkner, William
Summary: Partly abridged.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Caedmon 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FAUSummary: Spider-Man's most notable stories are brought together in this anthology that features tales of identity, hero-worship, and Spidey's early career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LEESummary: Collects forty short stories published between 1915 and 2015, from writers that include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and Alice Munro that exemplify their era and stand the test of time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015