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Roth, Philip

Summary: "Throughout a unparalleled literary career that includes two National Book Awards (Goodbye, Columbus, 1959 and Sabbath's Theater, 1995), the Pulitzer Prize in fiction (American Pastoral, 1997), the National Book Critics Circle Award (The Counterlife, 1986), and the National Humanities Medal (awarded by President Obama in 2011), among many other honors, Philip Roth has produced an extraordinary...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 ROT

Hamilton, Alexander

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.73 HAM

Keller, Helen

Summary: "A deluxe hardcover edition of Keller's classic memoir The Story of My Life--presented in complete and unredacted form--along with the brilliant, still-underappreciated personal essays of The World I Live In, in which Keller reflects on the senses, language, philosophy, dreams, and belief. Includes a selection of more than a dozen essays, speeches, and letters--most of them out-of-print,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2024

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Catton, Bruce

Summary: An analysis of the Civil War focuses on Generals McClellan, Burnside, Hooker, Meade, and Grant, and discusses the final defeat of General Robert E. Lee.

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 CAT

Welty, Eudora

Summary: "Stories, Essays, and Memoir" contains all of Welty's collected short stories, her first book, "A Curtain of Green and Other Stories" (1941), stories based on her travels, and the ever-popular memoir, "One Writer's Beginnings" (1984).

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.52 WEL
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEL

Douglass, Frederick

Summary: Edited by Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer David W. Blight, this Library of America edition is the largest single-volume selection of Frederick Douglass’s writings ever published, presenting the full texts of thirty-four speeches and sixty-seven pieces of journalism. (A companion Library of America volume, Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies, gathers his three memoirs.) With startling...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 DOU

Kingston, Maxine Hong

Summary: "The largest and most comprehensive edition of our foremost Asian American writer: three classic books and additional writings, many rare, that together offer a vivid and searching portrait of immigrant experience and American dreams"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 KIN

Summary: This volume contains writings drawn from letters, diaries, newspaper articles, public documents, contemporary narratives, and private memoranda from more than 70 participants--American and British, Patriot and Loyalist, military and civilian. The writings describe the most dramatic events of the War of Independence: the early battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill, the failed invasion...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2001

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

Goodis, 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 GOO

Adams, Abigail

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Summary: Abigail Adams was an unusually accomplished letter writer. Spirited and insightful, her correspondence offers a unique vantage on historical events in which her family played so prominent a role, while bringing vividly to life the everyday experience of American women in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Here are 430 letters—more than a hundred published for the first time—to John...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library Of America 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 816 ADA

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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2011

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

Hurston, Zora Neale.

Contents: Mules and men -- Tell my horse -- Dust tracks on a road -- Selected articles.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1995

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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC Hurst

Irving, Washington

Summary: From the Publisher: America's first internationally acclaimed author, Washington Irving, was also one of the first to write about its then far-western frontier. After seventeen years in Europe, the famous author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" returned to America and undertook an extensive three-month journey through present-day Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Describing scenery and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 IRV

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich

Contents: The real life of Sebastian Knight -- Bend sinister -- Speak, memory.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1996

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAB

Tocqueville, Alexis de

Summary: Describes the unprecedented "equality of conditions" the author found in the United States during his visit in 1831-32, and provides enduring insight into the political consequences of widespread property ownership, the potential dangers to liberty inherent in majority rule, the importance of civil institutions in an individualistic culture dominated by the pursuit of material self-interest,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.8 TOC

Adams, John

Summary: "... includes the complete newspaper exchange between Novanglus (Adams) and Massachusettensis (loyalist Daniel Leonard), as well as extensive diary excerpts and characteristically frank personal letters"--Jacket.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2011

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

Adams, John

Summary: A powerful polemicist, insightful political theorist, and tireless diplomat, John Adams (1735–1826) was a vital and controversial figure during the early years of the American republic. Once overshadowed by Washington and Jefferson, Adams has become the subject of renewed interest, with a best-selling biography and acclaimed television series reintroducing him to millions. Now, this final...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.4 ADA

Franklin, Benjamin

Contents: Letters from London, 1757-1775 -- Paris, 1776-1785: including political satires, bagatelles, pamphlets, and letters -- Philadelphia, 1785-1790: including bagatelles, speeches in the Constitutional Convention, writings on slavery, letters -- Poor Richard's almanack, 1733-1758 -- The autobiography.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.2 FRA

Maxwell, William

Contents: Bright center of heaven -- They came like swallows -- Stories 1938-1945: Homecoming ; Actual thing ; Young Francis Whitehead ; Haller's second home ; Patterns of love -- Folded leaf -- Time will darken it -- Stories 1952-1956: Trojan women ; Pilgrimage ; What every boy should know ; French scarecrow -- Writer as illusionist -- Appendix: Introduction to They came like swallows ; Preface to Time...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2008

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAX

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.911 ROO

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROO

Thomson, Virgil

Summary: "In this second volume in the Library of America's definitive Virgil Thomson edition, Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic Tim Page collects for the first time the great composer's four witty, incisive, and compulsively readable full-length works. Written with authority and élan, these classic books offer an engrossing tour of the tumultuous twentieth-century musical scene and Thomson's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780 THO

Twain, Mark

Summary: A tramp abroad (1880) is based on Twain's travels in Europe from April 1878 to August 1879, blending autobiography and fiction. Presented with the author's original sketches, Twain provides a humorous travelogue with commentary on Old World customs, Wagnerian opera, and the German language interlaced with American reminiscences. Following the equator (1897) chronicles Twain's 1895...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.4 Twain

Hurston, Zora Neale.

Contents: Mules and men -- Tell my horse -- Dust tracks on a road -- Selected articles.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.092 HUR

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