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Dick, Philip K. Jackson, Shirley Lethem, Jonathan Lethem, Jonathan. Mailer, NormanLethem, Jonathan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LETLethem, Jonathan
Summary: Before the Arrest, Sandy Duplessis had a reasonably good life as a screenwriter in L.A. An old college friend and writing partner, the charismatic and malicious Peter Todbaum, had become one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. That didn't hurt. Now, post-Arrest, nothing is what it was. Sandy, who calls himself Journeyman, has landed in rural Maine. There he assists the butcher and delivers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction LethemLethem, Jonathan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LETLethem, Jonathan
Summary: Phoebe Siegler first meets loner Charles Heist in a shabby trailer in the desert outside of Los Angeles. She's on a quest to find her friend's missing daughter, Arabella, and hears that Heist is preternaturally good at finding people who don't want to be found. As the pair navigate the enclaves of hippies and vagabonds who aim to live off the grid, they learn that these outcasts exist in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LETLethem, Jonathan
Summary: "A collection of bestselling, NBCC prize-winning author Jonathan Lethem's finest writing on the subject of writers and writing. A readerly wake-up call from one of America's finest and most acclaimed working writers. Picking up where his NBCC Award finalist collection The Ecstasy of Influence left off, More Alive and Less Lonely collects more than a decade of Lethem's finest writing on writing,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 LETLethem, Jonathan.
Summary: Nine short tales vacillate between reality and surrealism and include the stories "Pending Vegan," "The King of Sentences" and "The Porn Critic."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LETLethem, Jonathan
Summary: An international backgammon hustler, who has amassed a fortune through psychic tomfoolery, develops a large tumor on his face that compromises his vision and eventually threatens his life, forcing him to pursue an experimental surgery and contemplate existential questions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LETLethem, Jonathan.
Summary: Nine short tales vacillate between reality and surrealism and include the stories "Pending Vegan," "The King of Sentences" and "The Porn Critic."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LETLethem, Jonathan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LETLethem, Jonathan.
Contents: The happy man -- Vanilla dunk -- Light and the sufferer -- Forever, said the duck -- Five fucks -- The hardened criminals -- Sleepy people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace & Co. 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LETLethem, Jonathan
Summary: Before the Arrest, Sandy Duplessis had a reasonably good life as a screenwriter in L.A. An old college friend and writing partner, the charismatic and malicious Peter Todbaum, had become one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. That didn't hurt. Now, post-Arrest, nothing is what it was. Sandy, who calls himself Journeyman, has landed in rural Maine. There he assists the butcher and delivers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LETLethem, Jonathan
Summary: In the streets of 1970s Brooklyn, a daily ritual goes by the dance. Money is exchanged, belongings surrendered, power asserted. The promise of violence lies everywhere, a currency itself. For these children, Black, brown, and white, the street is a stage in shadow. And in the wings hide the other parents; cops; renovators; landlords; those who write the headlines, the histories, and laws; those...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Lethem, Jonathan.
Summary: Chase Insteadman, a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan's social scene, lives off residuals earned as a child star. Capitalizing on the rapturous and heartbreaking love letters he receives from his teenage sweetheart and fiancee, he lives a life of cloistered ease, that is until a pop critic with a conspiratorial countercultural savvy and a voracious paranoia force him to confront the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LETLethem, Jonathan.
Summary: "A dazzling novel from one of our finest writers--an epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of all-American radicals At the center of Jonathan Lethem's superb new novel stand two extraordinary women. Rose Zimmer, the aptly nicknamed Red Queen of Sunnyside, Queens, is an unreconstructed Communist and mercurial tyrant who terrorizes her neighborhood and her family with the ferocity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LETLethem, Jonathan.
Summary: Discusses the process behind writing and recording of Talking Head's album "Fear of Music."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Continuum 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.33 LETLethem, Jonathan.
Summary: Lionel Essrog, a victim of Tourette's syndrome, is rescued from the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, along with three other boys, by local tough guy Frank Minna who molds the group into a fly-by-night detective agency, but when Frank is knifed and tossed in a dumpster, Lionel is forced to become a real detective in order to find the killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1999
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LETSummary: In 1950s New York, a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MOTCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Motherless 2020Mailer, Norman
Summary: The first posthumous publication from this literary icon, "Mind of an Outlaw" collects Mailer's most important and representative work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 MAISummary: New York Times best-selling author of ten genre-bending novels Jonathan Lethem helms this collection of the year's best mystery short fiction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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Summary: Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret takes readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis. We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate. This edition features an afterword by Jonathan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY KILSummary: "Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar's Shake It Up invites the reader into the tumult and excitement of the rock revolution through fifty landmark pieces by a supergroup of writers on rock in all its variety, from heavy metal to disco, punk to hip-hop. Stanley Booth describes a recording session with Otis Redding; Ellen Willis traces the meteoric career of Janis Joplin; Ellen Sander recalls the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 SHADick, Philip K.
Summary: "'A great and calamitous sequence of arguments with the universe: poignant, terrifying, ludicrous, and brilliant. The Exegesis is the sort of book associated with legends and madmen, but Dick wasn't a legend and he wasn't mad. He lived among us, and was a genius.'--Jonathan Lethem. Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011
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Summary: The third and final volume of an overview of the author's work features novels written during his later years, including "A Maze of Death" and "The Divine Invasion," when the themes of religious revelation became predominant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2009