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Updike, John.

Summary: From the publisher. When we first met him in Rabbit, Run (1960), the book that established John Updike as a major novelist, Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom is playing basketball with some boys in an alley in Pennsylvania during the tail end of the Eisenhower era, reliving for a moment his past as a star high school athlete. Athleticism of a different sort is on display throughout these four magnificent...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1995

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UPD

Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad)

Summary: Owning a small portion of the Trinidad earth and a respectable house is the dream and the reality sustaining Mohun Biswas through a life of frustration and despair.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1995

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAI

Solzhenit͡s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich

Summary: Recounts the experiences of Shukhov, a prisoner at a Soviet work camp in Siberia, as he struggles for survival.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1995

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOL

Orwell, George

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 824.912 Orwell

Morrison, Toni.

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Macon Dead, Jr., known as Milkman, grows up in "his father's money-haunted, death-haunted house with his silent sisters and strangely passive mother" and with his friend Guitar who is connected to the secret avengers called the Seven Days, falls in love with his cousin Hagar, learns from bootlegging Aunt Pilate, and then heads south, lured by the promise of buried gold and the mysteries of his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1995

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOR

Didion, Joan.

Summary: A compilation of essays and nonfiction writings spanning more than forty years includes the author's reflections on politics, lifestyle, place, and cultural figures, including such topics as Haight-Ashbury, the Manson family, the Black Panthers, California earthquakes, and Bill Clinton.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 DID

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Essay Didion

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1992

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.1 Chauc

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 NAB

Dante Alighieri

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1995

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Waugh, Evelyn

Summary: Tells the story of the difficult loves of insular Englishman Charles Ryder, and his peculiarly intense relationship with the wealthy but dysfunctional family that inhabited Brideshead. While at Oxford, Charles Ryder meets boyish, flamboyant Sebastian Flyte, who introduces Charles to a charmed and glamorous way of life that continues until Sebastian's health deteriorates.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1993

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAU

Kipling, Rudyard

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Everyman's Library 1995

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KIP

James, Henry

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Kate Croy and Merton Densher, poor and secretly engaged, try to encourage the interest of Milly Theale, a fatally ill young heiress.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1997

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAM

Trollope, Anthony

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1997

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRO

Chandler, Raymond

Contents: Blackmailers don't shoot -- Smart-aleck kill -- Finger man -- Killer in the rain -- Nevada gas -- Spanish blood -- Guns at Cyrano's -- The man who liked dogs -- Pickup on Noon Street -- Goldfish -- The curtain -- Try the girl -- Mandarin's jade -- Red wind -- The king in yellow -- Bay City blues -- The lady in the lake -- Pearls are a nuisance -- Trouble is my business -- I'll be waiting -- The...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2002

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHA

Chandler, Raymond

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2002

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHA

Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich

Summary: Stories provide an ironic viewpoint on life in nineteenth-century Russia.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1999

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Allende, Isabel.

2 holds on 2 copies

Summary: A magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not want to leave, and one you will not forget.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005

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Adams, John

Summary: "Traces John Adams's career from his leading role in the debate over independence, [...] to his tireless efforts to establish the fledgling government of the United States and supply its army in the filed, to his crucial diplomatic service in Europe [...]. It includes his hightly influential 1776 pamphlet Thoughts on Government, dozens of his characteristically frank and revealing personal...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 ADA

Donne, John

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: J.M. Dent 1990

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.3 DON

Gibran, Kahlil

Summary: A collection of the major works of the celebrated poet, artist, and mystic features an array of stories, parables, prose poems, and essays that include "The Prophet," "The Wanderer," "Jesus the Son of Man," "Spirits Rebellious," and "The Gardens of the Prophet".

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 892.715 GIB

Grass, Gunter

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1993

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRA

Mansfield, Katherine

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1991

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAN

Trollope, Anthony

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1994

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRO

Wollstonecraft, Mary

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1992

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 WOL

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