Filter By Subjects
Alternative histories (Fiction), American Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Fiction Crane, Stephen 1871-1900 Endangered species Extinction (Biology) Imaginary wars and battles Fiction Mass extinctions United States Biography Anecdotes United States Social conditions 1945- Anecdotes United States Social life and customs 20th century AnecdotesFilter By Subjects
Alternative histories (Fiction), American Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Fiction Crane, Stephen 1871-1900 Endangered species Extinction (Biology) Imaginary wars and battles Fiction Mass extinctions United States Biography Anecdotes United States Social conditions 1945- Anecdotes United States Social life and customs 20th century AnecdotesAuster, Paul
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSAuster, Paul
Summary: Quinn, a mystery writer, becomes involved in a puzzling case; Blue is hired by White to spy on Black; and Fanshawe, a gifted novelist, disappears, leaving his family and work behind, in an omnibus edition containing three interconnected novels.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSAuster, Paul
Summary: "Each year, approximately forty thousand Americans are killed by gunshot wounds, which is roughly equivalent to the annual rate of traffic deaths on American roads and highways. Of those forty thousand gun fatalities, more than half of them are suicides, which in turn account for half of all suicides per year. Add in the murders caused by guns, the accidental deaths caused by guns, the law...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.33 AUSAuster, Paul
Summary: It is a novel that forces us to confront the blackness of the night, even as it celebrates the existence of ordinary joys, in a world capable of the most grotesque violence.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audiobook 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AUSAuster, Paul
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSAuster, Paul.
Summary: Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster's fifteenth novel opens in New York City in the Spring of 1967 when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University, meets the enigmatic Frenchman, Rudolf Born, and his silent and seductive girlfriend, Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audiobooks America 2009
View online at OverDrive
Auster, Paul
Summary: "Paul Auster's greatest, most heartbreaking and satisfying novel -- a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself: a masterpiece. Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSAuster, Paul
Summary: Stephen Crane transformed American literature through an avalanche of original short stories, novellas, poems, journalism, and war reportage before his life was cut short by tuberculosis at age twenty-eight. Auster casts a dazzled eye on Crane's astonishing originality and productivity. He provides insight into Crane's creative processes, and shows how Crane's life experiences, in rebounding...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CRANE, STEPHEN AUSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B CRANE AUSAuster, Paul
Summary: Recovering from a near-fatal illness, Sidney Orr, a thirty-four-year-old novelist, purchases a mysterious blue notebook from a Brooklyn stationery shop and is drawn into a bizarre world of eerie premonitions and baffling events.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSAuster, Paul
Summary: An elderly man awakens disoriented in an unfamiliar room, with no memory of who he is or how he got there, and receives visits from a series of people who give him frustrating hints about his identity and his past.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC AUSAuster, Paul
Summary: "Paul Auster's brilliant eighteenth novel opens with a scorched pot of water, which Sy Baumgartner--phenomenologist, noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor--has just forgotten on the stove. Baumgartner's life had been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna, who was killed in a swimming accident nine years earlier. Now 71, Baumgartner continues to struggle to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2023
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEAuster, Paul
Summary: Retired life insurance salesman Nathan Glass moves to Brooklyn to find anonymity and solitude through his declining years, but a chance meeting with Tom Wood, his long-lost nephew, forces him to come to terms with his past.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC AUSAuster, Paul
Summary: Poet and student Adam Walker meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent, seductive girlfriend, Margot, sending Adam into a perverse triangle that leads to a shocking act of violence that will alter his life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSAuster, Paul
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1992
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSAuster, Paul
Summary: Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget--his wife's recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus. The retired book critic imagines a parallel world in which...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSAuster, Paul
Summary: After falling in love with an underage girl and stirring the wrath of her older sister, New York native Miles Heller flees to Brooklyn and shacks up with a group of artists squatting in the borough's Sunset Park neighborhood.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSBrainard, Joe
Summary: An artist associated with the New York School of poets, Joe Brainard (1942-1994) was a wonderful writer whose one-of-a-kind autobiographical work "I Remember" has had a wide and growing influence. It is joined in this major new retrospective with many other pieces that for the first time present the full range of Brainard's writing in all its deadpan wit, madcap inventiveness, self-revealing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.52 BRASummary: A collection of 180 personal, true-life accounts from NPR's National Story Project reflects the work of men and women of all ages, backgrounds, and walks of life and is accompanied by a look at the role of storytelling in our lives.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 ITHSummary: Episodic story, divided into five chapters, each bearing the name of a character; main characters appear in most chapters. Most of the characters are connected by the fact that they hang out or work at the Brooklyn Cigar Store, where they tell stories and smoke a lot. Chapters explore the interpersonal relationships between this large and diverse group of characters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SMOSummary: "Oscar- winning director Louie Psihoyos (The Cove) assembles a team of artists and activists on an undercover operation to expose the hidden world of endangered species and the race to protect them against mass extinction. Spanning the globe to infiltrate the world's most dangerous black markets and using high tech tactics to document the link between carbon emissions and species extinction,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016