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Authors, American 20th century Biography Banville, John Homes and haunts Ireland Dublin Dublin (Ireland) Description and travel Homes Manners and customs Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, Ishbel Gordon 1857-1939 Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon 1847-1934 Parapsychology Social conditions TravelCisneros, Sandra.
Summary: "From the beloved author of The House on Mango Street: a richly illustrated compilation of true stories and nonfiction pieces that, taken together, form a jigsaw autobiography: an intimate album of a literary legend's life and career. From the Chicago neighborhoods where she grew up and set her groundbreaking The House on Mango Street to her abode in Mexico, in a region where "my ancestors...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CISNEROS, SANDRA CISSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Hunt, Samantha
Summary: "A genre-bending work of nonfiction, Samantha Hunt's The Unwritten Book explores ghosts, ghost stories, and haunting, in the broadest sense of each. What is it to be haunted, to be a ghost, to die, to live, to read? Books are ghosts; reading is communion with the dead. Alcohol is a way of communing, too, as well as a way of dying. Each chapter gathers subjects that haunt: dead people, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 130 HUNHines, Stephen W.
Summary: Biography of children's author Laura Ingalls Wilder, with articles, interviews and recollections of friends and neighbors, focusing on her later life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: T. Nelson Publishers 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.52 HINRichardson, Sarah
Summary: "Following the bestselling success of Sarah Style, HGTV star and design queen Sarah Richardson takes readers inside her personal style at home. Following up on the smash success of Sarah Style, renowned designer Sarah Richardson delivers a unique aspirational design book that walks us through her homes. From downtown Toronto to rural Ontario to the shores of Georgian Bay, the homes of Sarah and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 670 RICWheeler, Sara
Summary: A witty and insightful tour of contemporary Russia, using its Golden Age writers, from Pushkin to Tolstoy, as guides: part history, part sociopolitical commentary, Mud and Stars reveals the heart of a country that never fails to surprise us.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2019
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Summary: Encourages everyone to use their imagination and explore nature to create, invent, learn, and build fairy houses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Light-Beams Pub. 2008
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Summary: "A personal memoir about downsizing and the author's experience building her own home and living the minimalist lifestyle"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILLIAMS, DEE WILWright, Richard
Summary: The author grew up in the woods of Mississippi amid poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard", hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other side by blacks who resented anyone trying to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial Modern Classics 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WRIGHT, RICHARD WRINicolson, Adam
Summary: June 1797 to September 1798 is the most famous year in English poetry. Out of it came Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and “Kubla Khan,” as well as his unmatched hymns to friendship and fatherhood, and William Wordsworth’s revolutionary songs in Lyrical Ballads along with “Tintern Abbey,” Wordsworth's paean to the unity of soul and cosmos, love and understanding. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821 NICHickam, Homer H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2000
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Summary: In the summer of '61, Homer "Sonny" Hickam, a year of college behind him, is dreaming of sandy beaches and rocket ships. But before Sonny can reach the seaside fixer-upper where his mother is spending the summer, a telephone call sends him back to the place he thought he had escaped, the gritty coal-mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia. There, Sonny's father, the mine's superintendent, has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Hamilton 1993
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Summary: Examines how spending time abroad in Paris changed the lives and outlooks of three notable American women.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.361 KAPHaines, John Meade
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAINES, JOHN HAIChoudhury, Kushanava
Summary: The author describes how, after moving to New Jersey at the age of twelve, he returned to Calcutta to work for an English language newspaper, where he encountered a chaotic, living city unchanged by time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHOUDHURY, KUSHANAVA CHOBegley, Louis.
Contents: Preface / by Louis Begley and Anka Muhlstein -- The keys to Venice / by Anka Muhlstein -- The only way to enter Venice / by Louis Begley -- Venice : reflections of a novelist / by Louis Begley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.53104 BEGBanville, John
Summary: "Born and bred in a small town a train ride away from Dublin, author John Banville ... saw the city as a place of enchantment when he was a child. It was first a birthday treat, the world his beloved, eccentric aunt inhabited. When he came of age and took up residence there, the city was a frequent backdrop for his dissatisfactions as a young writer (James Joyce had 'seized upon the city for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.18 BANColes, Polly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trafalgar Square 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.311 COLGulley, Philip.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 GULLEY, PHILIP GULRebanks, James
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of The Shepherd's Life chronicles his family's farm in England's Lake District across three generations, revealing through this intimate lens the profound global transformation of agriculture and of the human relationship to the land"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 REBWelfare, Simon
Summary: "A unique and fascinating look at Victorian society through the remarkable lives of an enlightened and philanthropic aristocratic couple, the Marquess and Marchioness of Aberdeen, who exhausted their vast fortune buying homes around the globe where they entertained the rich and famous while also campaigning for the poor and disadvantaged. As the Marquess and Marchioness of Aberdeen, John and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021