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bibliography biography Detective and mystery stories. Fiction. Fictional literature. novelBray, Kingsley M.
Summary: Crazy Horse was as much feared by tribal foes as he was honored by allies. His war record was unmatched, and his rout of Custer at the Little Bighorn reverberates through history. Yet so much about him is unknown or steeped in legend. This book corrects older, idealized accounts, and draws on a greater variety of sources than other recent biographies, to show the real Crazy Horse: not the brash...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 1978
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.3 EDMDanziger, Edmund Jefferson
Summary: This book tells the story of the Chippewa Indians in the regions around Lake Superior-the fabled land of Kitchigami. It tells of their woodland life, the momentous impact of three centuries of European and American societies on their culture, and how the retention of their tribal identity and traditions proved such a source of strength for the Chippewas that the federal government finally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970 DANThornton, Russell
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.6 THORuoff, A. LaVonne Brown.
Summary: Examines the history, evolution, and culture of the American Indians, discussing both oral and written literature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 RUOOrchard, William C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Museum 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.582 ORCThomson, Virgil
Summary: "For fourteen memorable years Virgil Thomson surveyed the worlds of opera and classical music as the chief music critic for the New York Herald Tribune. An accomplished composer who knew music from the inside, Thomson communicated its pleasures and complexities to a wide readership in a hugely entertaining, authoritative style, and his daily reviews and Sunday articles set a high-water mark in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780 THOGoodis, David
Summary: Collects five crime novels of David Goodis all dealing with unfortunate people and dark doomed settings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOOSchoolcraft, Henry Rowe
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.2 SCHHubbard-Brown, Janet.
Contents: Uncertain origins -- To be Shawnee -- This land is our land -- The revolution and its aftermath -- Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa -- Nowhere left to go.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House 1995
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 970.004 HUBSummary: "Sometimes things come to people out of the blue and seemingly for a reason. The Anishinaabe word for this is nigika. The stories contained in this collection reached Howard Webkamigad nearly eighty years after they were recorded, after first being kept in their original copper wire format by the American Philosophical Society and later being converted onto cassettes and held by Dr. James...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398 OTTSummary: This anthology traces the surprising story of how Americans made Shakespeare their own through a wide range of genres. The writers included range from the 1800s to the present day, and offer testimony to Shakespeare's profound and enduring influence --
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.3 SHAAlcott, Louisa May
Summary: "After the success of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott brought her genius for characterization and eye for detail to a series of revolutionary novels and stories remarkable for their forthright assertion of women's rights. In the largely autobiographical Work: A Story of Experience, twenty-one-year-old orphan, Christie Devon, announces 'a new Declaration of Independence' and pursues economic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALCMacdonald, Ross
Summary: At last, the brilliant successor to Hammett and Chandler in a definitive collector’s edition: Revered by such contemporary masters as Sue Grafton, George Pelecanos, and James Ellroy, Ross Macdonald (the pseudonym of Kenneth Millar) brought to the crime novel new levels of social realism and psychological depth, while honing a unique gift for intricately involving mystery narratives. For his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library Of America 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACCalloway, Colin G.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 1989
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 970.004 CALSmith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Old Earth Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SmithAlcott, Louisa May
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALCMunro, William Bennett
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 1921
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.371 MUNMacdonald, Ross
Summary: From his vantage point in Southern California—and through the eyes of his great creation, private eye Lew Archer—Ross Macdonald (the pseudonymn of Kenneth Millar) fashions a haunting, startlingly immediate vision of modern America: a swirling mix of sexual exploitation, intergenerational conflict, racial animosities, and ecological disaster. In Black Money, Archer is hired to find a wealthy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACLaux, Dorianne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BOA Editions 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 LAUSummary: The Broadway musical is one of America’s great indigenous popular forms, a glorious hybrid that emerged “out of our speech, our tempo, our moral attitudes, our way of moving” (as Leonard Bernstein put it). Now, in this first volume of a landmark two-volume collection, The Library of America presents eight enduring masterpieces charting the Broadway musical’s narrative tradition from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792 AMELardner, Ring
Summary: At the height of the Jazz Age, Ring Lardner was Americas most beloved humorist, equally admired by a popular audience and by literary friends like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edmund Wilson. A sports writer who became a sensation with his comic baseball bestseller, "You Know Me Al," Lardner had a rare gift for inspired nonsense and an ear attuned to the rhythms and hilarious oddities of American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2013