Davis, Kathryn
Summary: Three households coexist in a single restless vision: a dollhouse; a dysfunctional family in 1950s Philadelphia; and the cottage home of Edwina Moss, a nineteenth-century expert on domestic management. While the inhabitants of the dollhouse are powerless to shape their destiny, the four members of the Philadelphia family dedicate themselves to mutual vigilance, as if it might be possible to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC DAVDavis, Kathryn
Summary: Examines how the engineer George Ferris invented and constructed the amusement park ride that bears his name for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 791 DAVDavis, Kathryn
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DAVDavis, Kathryn
Summary: The Silk Road begins on a mat in yoga class, deep within a labyrinth on a settlement somewhere in the icy north, under the canny guidance of Jee Moon. When someone fails to arise from corpse pose, the Astronomer, the Archivist, the Botanist, the Keeper, the Topologist, the Geographer, the Iceman, and the Cook remember the paths that brought them there--paths on which they still seem to be...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVDavis, Kathryn Gibbs.
Summary: Describes the various kinds of pets, including grizzly bears and alligators, kept at the White House by various presidents from George Washington to George W. Bush.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J636.088 DAVStafford, Jean
Summary: Boston Adventure follows Sonia Marburg, the daughter of immigrant parents, as she seeks to escape her impoverished childhood by becoming the secretary-companion of the socially prominent Lucy Pride. The novel won praise for its perceptive satire of upper-class Boston society, while Stafford's portrayal of the inner life of her protagonist drew comparisons to Henry James and Marcel Proust. In...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STAStafford, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 STASummary: Collection of episodes of the television Dark Shadows about a two hundred year old vampire named Barnabas Collins living on his family estate in Maine. Contains episodes 614 - 655.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DARSummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO