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African Americans Civil rights Press coverage Archer, Lew (Fictitious character) Fiction Civil rights movements Press coverage United States Civil rights movements United States History 20th century Sources Detective and mystery stories, American Journalism United States History 20th century Private investigators California, Southern Fiction United States Race relations Press coverage United States Race relations Sources World War, 1914-1918 Personal narratives, AmericanAnderson, Sherwood
Summary: Collects the complete works published by the author during his lifetime as well as a selection of previously uncollected and unpublished stories, in a volume that explores themes of small-town life, moments of change, and sexual awakening.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDSummary: A collection of letters, speeches, diary entries, newspaper and magazine articles, memoir excerpts, poems, sermons, songs, and military reports that provide a rich first-hand panorama of the War of 1812 as it was experienced by a wide range of participants: Americans, Britons, Canadians, and Indians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.52 HICAdams, Abigail
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 ADARoth, Philip.
Contents: The dying animal -- The plot against America -- Exit ghost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTSummary: "Published to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, this anthology charts America's long, heroic confrontation with its most poisonous evil."--Publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.362 AMEKerouac, Jack
Summary: Poetry was at the center of Jack Kerouac's sense of mission as a writer. This landmark edition brings together for the first time all Kerouac's major poetic works--Mexico City Blues, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity, Book of Blues, Poems All Sizes, Old Angel Midnight, Book of Haikus--along with a rich assortment of his uncollected poems, six published here for the first time. He wrote...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 KEREiseley, Loren C.
Summary: "A paleontologist with the spirit of a poet."--publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 EISJames, Henry
Summary: "This volume, the sixth and final in The Library of America's edition of the complete novels of Henry James, brings together two masterpieces of his extraordinary late period--The Ambassadors (1903) and The Golden Bowl (1904)--as well as his last extended narrative work, The Outcry (1911), a short comic novel of social manners."The idea for The Ambassadors came from James's friend William Dean...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMRoth, Philip.
Summary: "Published together for the first time as the author intended, Nemeses is a quartet of novels whose terrain is the human body and whose subject, the common experience that terrifies us all"--Publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTSwenson, May
Summary: The first comprehensive edition of May Swenson's work, gathering all of the poems she published in the collections Another Animal (1954), A Cage of Spines (1958), To Mix with Time (1963), Half Sun Half Sleep (1967), Iconographs (1970), New and Selected Things Taking Place (1978), and In Other Words (1987), as well as an extensive selection of previously uncollected poems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 SWEBowles, 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 BOWLeopold, Aldo
Summary: A Sand County almanac is often hailed as a foundational work of the modern environmental movement. Here, it is paired with over fifty other pieces by Leopold: uncollected articles, essays, speeches, and other writings that chart the evolution of his ideas over the course of three decades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.73 LEOLeonard, Elmore
Summary: "Inventor of a fast, funny, sharp, and tough style uniquely his own, Elmore Leonard is widely considered America's greatest modern crime writer. With this volume collecting the four Detroit novels that established his reputation, The Library of America inaugurates a three-volume edition of Leonard's greatest work, selected in consultation with the author shortly before his death. Fifty-Two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEOGoodis, 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 GOOSummary: 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 REPMacdonald, Ross
Summary: From his vantage point in Southern California—and through the eyes of his great creation, private eye Lew Archer—Ross Macdonald (the pseudonymn of Kenneth Millar) fashions a haunting, startlingly immediate vision of modern America: a swirling mix of sexual exploitation, intergenerational conflict, racial animosities, and ecological disaster. In Black Money, Archer is hired to find a wealthy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACSummary: Covers the Civil War from January 1862 to January 1863, describing the events of that year through messages, proclamations, newspaper articles, letters, diaries, and poems from people who lived through it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 CIVSummary: A collection of 127 first-person narratives by writers such as Richard Harding Davis, Edith Wharton, John Reed, Henry Morgenthau, Leslie Davis, Jane Addams, Emma Goldman, Victor Chapman, Edmond Genet, Hervey Allen, Ellen N. La Motte, Mary Borden, Carrie Chapman Catt, Oliver Wendell Holmes, W.E.B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and many more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library Of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4 WORAdams, 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 ADAJackson, Shirley
Summary: "In just two decades she died in 1965, at the age of 48 Shirley Jackson created a weird and distinctive world of fiction, one in which a grinning death's head lies just behind the smiling mask of so-called everyday life. She first displayed her genius for conjuring daylight demons in The Lottery, the classic collection whose world-famous title story is an allegory of bloodlust and blind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACLe Guin, Ursula K.
Summary: Gifts: When a young man in the Uplands blinds himself rather than use his gift of "unmaking"--a violent talent shared by members of his family--he upsets the precarious balance of power among rival, feuding families, each of which has a strange and deadly talent of its own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LE GLeonard, 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 LEOMacdonald, Ross
Summary: "The three novels collected in this second volume in the Library of America Ross Macdonald edition represent for many readers the summit of American crime writing. They remain thrilling for their searing psychological truth-telling, daring flights of narrative invention, and their keenly observed picture of the manners and morals of a particular time and place (Southern California in the early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2016