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American drama (Tragedy) 20th century American essays 20th century American fiction 20th century American literature 19th century History and criticism American literature 20th century American literature 20th century History and criticism American literature 21st century American literature 21st century History and criticism Authorship Williams, Tennessee 1911-1983Summary: "A groundbreaking collection tracing the history of intellectual thought by Black Lesbian writers, in the tradition of The New Press's perennial seller Words of Fire"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 MOUSummary: Includes essays and literary works by Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Herman Melville, Clarence Darrow, John Kenneth Galbraith, and H. L. Mencken as well as an essay by Henry L. Stimson (P.A. 1883) on the decision to use the atomic bomb.Contains primary source material.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Square Press 2000
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 810.8 AMEDean, Michelle
Summary: Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm—these brilliant women are the central figures of Sharp. Their lives intertwine as they cut through the cultural and intellectual history of America in the twentieth century, arguing as fervently with each other as they did with the sexist attitudes of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 DEADidion, Joan
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 DIDSummary: Anthropologist, teacher, first black student to attend Barnard College, author associated with the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston is best known for her acclaimed novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. This program follows Hurston’s biography, beginning with her childhood in a subtropical paradise in the South that inspired her throughout her life. This documentary includes interviews with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Kerouac, Jack
Summary: Features the complete recorded works, many released for the first time, of "beat generation" writer and poet Jack Kerouac.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Rhino Records] 1990
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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 STAWilliams, Tennessee
Contents: Orpheus descending. Suddenly last summer. Sweet bird of youth. Period of adjustment. The night of the iguana. The eccentricities of a nightingale. The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. The mutilated. Kingdom of earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. Out cry. Vieux Carré. A lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The Civil War. A nation torn apart. A war fought in great battles, and a war fought on a much smaller scale…within the minds and hearts of a nation’s young men. On a lonely bridge, a group of soldiers prepare for the somber task of hanging one of their countrymen, now an enemy, for sabotage. This classic retelling of Ambrose Bierce’s acclaimed story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1962
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Summary: “One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.” And so we begin O. Henry’s best-known and timeless story. It’s a wonderful romantic tale of a young married couple who have little money to buy each other Christmas presents - with a charming surprise ending. Starring Rosemary Deleonardis, Kiah Gordon, David A. Silverstein, Linda Stiegler, and Adrienne Storrs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2001
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Wachtell, Cynthia
Summary: Until now, scholars have portrayed America's antiwar literature as an outgrowth of World War I, manifested in the works of writers such as Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos. But in War No More, Cynthia Wachtell corrects the record by tracing the steady and inexorable rise of antiwar writing in American literature from the Civil War to the eve of World War I.-publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Louisiana State University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.9358 WACWilliams, Tennessee
Summary: Profiles the works of Tennessee Williams and provides information on his life and writing career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.54 WILContents: Dilbert, Oct. 8, 2001 / Scott Adams -- Jimmy Hoffa's Odyssey / Ai -- From: Before we were free / Julia Alvarez -- Confessions of a lonely atheist / Natalie Angier -- From: Timbuktu / Paul Auster -- Filthy with things / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- From: Sweet Summer / Bebe Moore Campbell -- What to do / Hayden Carruth -- From: Caramelo / Sandra Cisneros -- Mrs. Dutta writes a letter / Chitra...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.8 THIParker, Dorothy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Press 1970
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813 PARSummary: "Featuring some of America's greatest writers and poets, this landmark anthology is a one-of-a-kind field guide to the American literary imagination. Americans have always been fascinated by birds and from the beginning American writers have captured this keen interest in a variety of genres: poems, journals, memoirs, short stories, essays, and travel accounts. Here literature professor and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.8 AMECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.8 AMESummary: Amy Tan is the author of several bestselling novels, including the The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, and the beloved Joy Luck Club, which has been translated into 35 languages and became a commercially successful film in 1993. Tan has said in the past that "books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable." In this TEDTalk, she speaks further on the human response...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: This overview of the biography and writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald from the Famous Authors series traces Fitzgerald’s life and influences from his birth in St. Paul, Minnesota, to his university days at Princeton and literary celebrity and frivolity in New York, to his status as social purveyor of modernists in Paris, and his tumultuous marriage to the talented but troubled Zelda Sayre...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Franco, Jean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 860.998 FRASummary: Flannery O’Connor is a writer with a keen sense of observation for the subtle cruelty that comes from fear of the unknown, and a case in point is her story “The Displaced Person.” Set in Georgia during the late 1940s, the displaced person is Mr. Guizac (Noam Yerushalmi), a Polish refugee who’s relocated by a priest (John Houseman) to work on Mrs. McIntyre’s (Irene Worth’s) farm. Quickly the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1976
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Summary: Traveling from town to town during the summer of 1919, young Andy (Ron Howard) has left his Ohio home in search of adventure and romance as a horse trainer on the country fair racing circuit. More than a little “wet behind the ears,” Andy learns a bittersweet lesson about life when he meets Lucy (Amy Irving,) the girl of his dreams, at the racetrack one day. Ashamed of his occupation, Andy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1976