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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 BISWilliams, 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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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 WILSteinbeck, 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
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEAgee, James
Contents: Agee on film :Rreviews and comments -- Uncollected film writing -- The night of the hunter -- Journalism and book reviews.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 AGEHearn, Lafcadio
Contents: Some Chinese ghosts -- Chita: a memory of last island -- Two years in the French West Indies -- Youma: the story of a West-Indian slave -- Selected journalism -- Letters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.52 HEARoth, Philip.
Contents: The counterlife -- The facts: a novelist's autobiography -- Deception -- Patrimony: a true story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSDreiser, Theodore
Summary: The author's classic vision of the dark side of American life looks at the failings of the American dream, in the story of the rise and fall of Clyde Griffiths, who sacrifices everything in his desperate quest for success.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Amer Fic DreiserCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRELeonard, Elmore
Summary: Four hardboiled novels from America's modern master of crime fiction, edited by Leonard's long-term employee, researcher and friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEOLiebling, A. J. (Abbott Joseph)
Contents: The road back to Paris -- Mollie and other war pieces -- Uncollected war journalism -- Normandy revisited.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.548 LIEHammett, Dashiell
Summary: Presents five novels by Dashiell Hamilton, all published between 1929 and 1934.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1999
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC HAMMECheever, John.
Contents: Goodbye, my brother -- The common day -- The enormous radio -- O city of broken dreams -- The Hartleys -- The Sutton Place story -- The summer farmer -- Torch song -- The pot of gold -- Clancy in the Tower of Babel -- Christmas is a sad season for the poor -- The season of divorce -- The chaste Clarissa -- The cure -- The superintendent -- The children -- The sorrows of gin -- O youth and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHESinger, Isaac Bashevis
Contents: A friend of Kafka & other stories -- A crown of feathers & other stories -- Passions & other stories -- Chronology -- Note on the texts -- Glossary and notes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SINChandler, Raymond
Summary: Later Novels and Other Writings begins with The Lady in the Lake (1943). Written during the war, the story takes Marlowe out of the seamy L.A. streets to the deceptive tranquility of the surrounding mountains, as the search for a businessman's missing wife expands into an elegy of loneliness and loss. The darker tone typical of Chandler's later fiction is evident in The Little Sister (1949), in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1995
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC CHANDSummary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1196 REPStein, Gertrude
Contents: Stanzas in meditation -- Lectures in America -- The geographical history of America -- Ida -- Brewsie and Willie -- Other works.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.52 STEContents: 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 AMERLongfellow, Henry Wadsworth
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.3 LONCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: SC Longfellow 2000Powell, Dawn.
Contents: Dance night -- Come back to Sorrento -- Turn, magic wheel -- Angels on toast -- A time to be born.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POWRoosevelt, 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 ROOBellow, Saul.
Summary: Celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of "The Adventures of Augie March," and reflects the mid-twentieth-century's psychological turmoil from more inhibited times in a volume that also includes "The Victim" and "Dangling Man."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2003