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American essays 20th century American fiction American fiction 20th century American literature 20th century Chinese Americans Fiction Families Fiction Hawaii Social life and customs Kingston, Maxine Hong Homes and haunts Hawaii Short stories, American Speeches, addresses, etc., AmericanSpencer, Elizabeth
Summary: Over the course of a career that spanned six decades, the southern novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Spencer established herself as one of the finest literary artists of a generation that included Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and Eudora Welty. This definitive volume brings together three remarkable novels: The Voice at the Back Door, her powerful masterpiece about racial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPEDidion, Joan
Summary: This second volume in Library of America's definitive Didion edition includes two novels and three remarkable essay collections with which she extended the compass of the extraordinary journalistic eye first developed in the celebrated books Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album. Gather here are Salvador, a searing look at terror and Cold War politics in the Central American civil war...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 DIDLardner, Ring
Summary: At the height of the Jazz Age, Ring Lardner was Americas most beloved humorist, equally admired by a popular audience and by literary friends like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edmund Wilson. A sports writer who became a sensation with his comic baseball bestseller, "You Know Me Al," Lardner had a rare gift for inspired nonsense and an ear attuned to the rhythms and hilarious oddities of American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LARUpdike, John.
Summary: Roger's version (1986): Roger Lambert, a middle-aged professor of divinity, is stuck in his office by Dale Kohler, a young computer scientist who believes that technical advances in computing shows evidence of God's existence. Then a theological-scientific debate ensues, and Roger employs wicked strategies to disembarrass Dale of his faith. But Dale's passion turns to his erotic attraction to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UPDMailer, Norman.
Summary: Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead is not just a monumental war novel but also a devastating antiwar novel, exposing the primal nature of power through the interplay of a platoon of soldiers on an impossible and ultimately pointless mission on an obscure island in the Pacific during World War II. Written just after the war ended, in the early days of the emerging Cold War, the novel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAIMurray, Albert
Summary: "Albert Murray (1916-2013) was one of the most provocative and original American thinkers of the twentieth century, writing with equal grace and power as an essayist and novelist."--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURPound, Ezra
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 POUStafford, Jean
Summary: Boston Adventure follows Sonia Marburg, the daughter of immigrant parents, as she seeks to escape her impoverished childhood by becoming the secretary-companion of the socially prominent Lucy Pride. The novel won praise for its perceptive satire of upper-class Boston society, while Stafford's portrayal of the inner life of her protagonist drew comparisons to Henry James and Marcel Proust. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STAStafford, Jean
Summary: This volume collects for the first time the complete stories of a Pulitzer Prize–winning master of the form, a writer acclaimed for her acute psychological insight, exacting eye for detail, and mordant sensibility. Set in New England, Colorado, New York, and Europe, Jean Stafford’s stories intimately examine the lives of women and men beset by restlessness, dislocation, and isolation. “The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 STALe 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 GBarthelme, Donald
Summary: "This comprehensive gathering highlights Barthelme's unique approach to fiction: his upside-down worlds that are nonetheless grounded in fundamental human truths; his scrambled visions of history that yield unexpected insights; and his genius for dialogue, parody, and collage, "the central principle of all art in the twentieth century"..."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARHenry, O.
Summary: "Texas troubadour, convicted embezzler, and adopted New Yorker William Sidney Porter--better known as O. Henry--was one of the world's great storytellers. A master of cunning plots and a gifted humorist, he is best known today for his beloved tale "The Gift of the Magi." But O. Henry's palette of moods and methods was as expansive as his exuberant imagination. This Library of America volume...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2021
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Summary: "This volume brings together work from the extraordinary period of 1918 to 1926, in which Hemingway's famous prose style became fully formed. It includes his work for the Toronto Star and Hearst's International News Service, the indelible stories of In Our Time (1925), The Torrents of Spring (1925), and his masterpiece, The Sun Also Rises (1926). Edited by Hemingway scholar Robert W. Trogdon,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2020
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Summary: This second volume in the Library of America DeLillo edition collects two extraordinary novels he published in the 1990s, the peak of his career. In the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning Mao II (1991), the celebrated novelist Bill Gray has withdrawn into seclusion, his everyday affairs managed by a pair of assistants. And yet within the protective solitude he has built for himself he still finds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2023
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Contents: Introduction: Perelman, the Pearl of Providence / by Adam Gopnik -- Sketches and Satires. Puppets of passion: a throbbing story of youth's hot revolt against the conventions -- Those charming people: the latest report on the Weinbloom reptile expedition -- Scenario -- Strictly from hunger -- The love decoy: a story of youth in college today-awake, fearless, unashamed -- Waiting for Santy: a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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Summary: As the spirit of experimentation swirled around him in the 1960s and '70s, John Williams, working in relative obscurity as an English professor, wrote finely crafted novels distinguished by precise form, powerful but restrained prose, and close attention to physical detail and its symbolic import. His three major works Butcher's Crossing (1960), Stoner (1965), and the National Book...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILDu Bois, W. E. B.
Summary: The suppression of the African slave-trade -- The souls of Black folk -- Dusk of dawn -- Essays and articles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 DUBRoosevelt, 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 ROOTarkington, Booth
Summary: Here are three indispensable works from the Pulitzer Prize-winning laureate of the American heartland, including the novels that inspired a classic film by Orson Welles and an Oscar-nominated performance by Katharine Hepburn. The Magnificent Ambersons depicts the fall from grace of George Minafer, scion of the once-unassailable Amberson family whose wealth and grandeur are in precipitous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TARUpdike, John.
Contents: Domestic life in America -- From the journal of a leper -- The fairy godfathers -- The egg race -- The parade -- The faint -- Guilt-gems -- Atlantises -- Morocco -- Trust me -- More stately mansions -- Still of some use -- The lovely troubled daughters of our old crowd -- Venezuela for visitors -- Pygmalion -- The city -- Learn a trade -- The ideal village -- Deaths of distant friends -- First...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UPDBellow, 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
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Summary: The pioneering naturalist's works exploring the Earth's oceans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2021
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.46 CARDouglass, 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 DOUFaulkner, William
Summary: Presents four complete novels from William Faulkner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2006