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Contents: My home is far away -- The locusts have no king -- The wicked pavilion -- The golden spur.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POWWilliams, Tennessee
Contents: Orpheus descending. Suddenly last summer. Sweet bird of youth. Period of adjustment. The night of the iguana. The eccentricities of a nightingale. The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. The mutilated. Kingdom of earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. Out cry. Vieux Carré. A lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: From A. Philip Randolph's defiant call in 1941 for African Americans to march on Washington to Alice Walker in 1973, Reporting civil rights presents firsthand accounts of the revolutionary events that overthrew segregation in the United States. This two-volume anthology brings together for the first time nearly 200 newspaper and magazine reports and book excerpts, and features 151 writers,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1196 REPSummary: From A. Philip Randolph's defiant call in 1941 for African Americans to march on Washington to Alice Walker in 1973, Reporting civil rights presents firsthand accounts of the revolutionary events that overthrew segregation in the United States. This two-volume anthology brings together for the first time nearly 200 newspaper and magazine reports and book excerpts, and features 151 writers,...
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1196 REPWilliams, Tennessee
Summary: Profiles the works of Tennessee Williams and provides information on his life and writing career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.54 WILSummary: Following its acclaimed three-volume edition of the novels of science fiction master Philip K. Dick, The Library of America now presents a two-volume anthology of nine groundbreaking works from the golden age of the modern science fiction novel, works by turns satiric, adventurous, incisive, and hauntingly lyrical. Long unnoticed or dismissed by the literary establishment, these visionary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMEPowell, Dawn.
Contents: Dance night -- Come back to Sorrento -- Turn, magic wheel -- Angels on toast -- A time to be born.
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POWSummary: A collection of forty-two stories of horror and fantasy from the 1940s to the present by a number of noted authors including Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Charles Beaumont, and Stephen King.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMEWilson, Edmund
Summary: A second volume of a two-part collection of essays and reviews by the literary critic features pieces from the 1930s and 1940s, including "The Triple Thinkers," "The Wound and the Bow," and "Classics and Commercials."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.52 WILThoreau, Henry David
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.3 THOTocqueville, 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 TOCHamilton, Alexander
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.73 HAMSummary: 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 AMEHammett, Dashiell
Summary: In the stories and novellas he wrote for Black Mask and other pulp magazines in the 1920s and 1930s, Dashiell Hammett took the detective story and turned it into a medium for capturing the jarring textures and revved-up cadences of modern American life. In this volume, The Library of America collects the finest of these stories: 24 in all, along with some revealing essays and an earlier version...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Roth, Philip.
Summary: A reader's edition of key writings by the acclaimed author includes the National Book Award-winning "Goodbye, Columbus" and the trenchant psychological portrait, "Letting Go."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTContents: v. 1. Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker -- v. 2. E.E. Cummings to May Swenson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811. 508 American 2000Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.508 AMERAlcott, 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 ALCBowles, Paul
Summary: Collects the author's short stories, a novella titled "Up Above the World," and a travel book first published in 1963.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOWDos Passos, John
Summary: "John Dos Passos traveled widely in Europe, the Middle East, Mexico, and the United States, witnessing many of the tumultuous political, social, and cultural events of the early 20th century and recording his changing response to them. This volume collects the vibrant and insightful travel books and essays he wrote at the same time he was publishing his fictional masterpieces Three Soldiers,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5208 DOSJohnson, James Weldon
Contents: The autobiography of an ex-colored man -- Along this way -- New York Age editorials -- Selected essays -- Black Manhattan -- Selected poems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.52 JOHSteinbeck, John
Summary: A final installment of a four-part collection of the classic American writer's works features his later novels, including "The Wayward Bus," "Burning Bright," "Sweet Thursday," and "The Winter of Our Discontent," in a volume that is complemented by his final published account, "Travels with Charley."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2007