Mailer, 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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Summary: On April 30, 1971, a standing-room-only crowd of New York's intellectual elite packed the city's Town Hall theater to see Norman Mailer, fresh from the controversy over his essay 'The Prisoner of Sex' and the backlash it received from leaders of the women's movement, tangle with a panel of four prominent female thinkers and activists: Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Schultz, Kevin M.

Summary: "A lively chronicle of the 1960s through the incredibly contentious and surprisingly close friendship of its two most colorful characters. Norman Mailer and William F. Buckley, Jr., were towering figures who argued publicly about every major issue of the1960s: the counterculture, Vietnam, feminism, civil rights, the Cold War. Behind the scenes, the two were close friends and trusted confidantes...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2015

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Fuller, Kathleen

Summary: "Margaret Yoder can't seem to catch a break. Even though she's dedicated to her Amish faith, her wild Rumspringa won't stay in the past, and her mother keeps pressuring her to get married. To placate her mother and get away from former "friends," she decides to return to Birch Creek to visit family - and pretend to find a husband. Like Margaret, Owen Bontrager isn't looking for a spouse,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

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Hale, Nathan

Summary: Presents, in graphic novel format, the story of Korean War correspondent Marguerite Higgins, who risked her life in dangerous situations to provide eyewitness accounts of many of the major events of the war.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books 2021

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Summary: Professor Gates' journey continues as a weekly series that will look at an ever-widening spectrum of our nation's fascinating ethnic mixture.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2016

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Mailer, Norman.

Summary: Written in gritty, journalistic detail, the story follows a platoon of Marines who are stationed on the Japanese-held island of Anopopei.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1970

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Mackrell, Judith

Summary: "A gripping group portrait of six revolutionary women writers during World War II "I am going to Spain with the boys," Martha Gellhorn wrote. "I don't know who the boys are but I am going with them." On the front lines of the Second World War, the lives of six remarkable women intertwined: Lee Miller, the Vogue cover model and photographer who lived in Paris as Man Ray's lover before becoming a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021

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Knausgsård, Karl Ove

Summary: "Two world-class writers reveal themselves to be the ultimate soccer fans in these collected letters Karl Ove Knausgaard is sitting at home in Skåne with his wife, four small children, and dog. He is watching soccer on TV and falls asleep in front of the set. He likes 0-0 draws, cigarettes, coffee, and Argentina. Fredrik Ekelund is away, in Brazil, where he plays soccer on the beach and watches...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017

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Rilke, Rainer Maria

Summary: "The definitive bilingual version of Rilke's New Poems--faithful to the original German, with insightful commentary on every poem. Rainer Maria Rilke is one of the world's best-selling poets, and New Poems contains many of his most iconic pieces. Throughout, Rilke he is obsessed with shapes and different layers of physical containment--from an image held in a panther's eye to a cathedral...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 RIL

Conant, Jennet

Summary: "Marguerite Higgins was both the scourge and envy of the journalistic world. A longtime reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, she first catapulted to fame with her dramatic account of the liberation of Dachau at the end of World War II. Brash, beautiful, ruthlessly competitive, and sexually adventurous, she forced her way to the front despite being told the combat zone was no place for a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HIGGINS, MAGGIE CON

Yi, Kŭm-i

Summary: "'Your husband is a landowner,' they told her. 'Food and clothing is so plentiful, it grows on trees. 'You will be able to go to school.' Of the three lies the matchmaker told Willow before she left home as a picture bride in 1918, the third hurt the most. Never one to be deterred, Willow does all that she can to make the best of her unexpected circumstance. But it isn't long before her dreams...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2022

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Schlesinger, Arthur M. (Arthur Meier)

Summary: "Reveals the late historian's unvarnished views on the great issues and personalities of his time, from the dawn of the Cold War to the aftermath of September 11"--Dust jacket flap.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Gass, William H.

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Publisher / Publication Date: A. Knopf 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 831.912 GAS

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2000

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Bailey, John

Summary: Louisiana, 1843: a German immigrant thinks she recognizes a young slave girl as the long-lost daughter of her German friend, but the girl has no memory of such a past, and her owner refuses to free her. In novelistic detail, historian John Bailey reconstructs the exotic sights, sounds, and smells of mid-nineteenth-century New Orleans, an "infernal motley crew" of cotton kings, decadent river...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2005

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Summary: The history of the Normans is a chronicle of the roots of modern society, religion and politics. This landmark three-part series presents the epic story of the Normans as it has never been told before.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2008

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Summary: Based on the director's life, this film chronicles Malle's experiences during the German occupation of France in World War II.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion 2006

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Bailey, John

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005

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Corbett, Rachel

Summary: "The extraordinary story of one of the most fruitful friendships in modern arts and letters. Paris, 1902: Renowned sculptor Auguste Rodin has just completed The Thinker. Rainer Maria Rilke is a delicate young visitor from Prague, broke and suffering froma case of writer's block. When Rilke is commissioned to write a book about Rodin, everything changes. . . . You Must Change Your Life reveals...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2016

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Part, Arvo

Contents: Arbos -- An den Wassern zu Babel sassen wir und weinten -- Pari intervallo -- De Profundis -- Es sang vor langen Jahren -- Summa -- Arbos -- Stabat Mater.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: ECM 1987

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Buruma, Ian.

Summary: "A family history of surpassing beauty and power: Ian Buruma's account of his grandparents' enduring love through the terror and separation of two world wars. During the almost six years England was at war with Nazi Germany, Winifred and Bernard Schlesinger, Ian Buruma's grandparents, and the film director John Schlesinger's parents, were, like so many others, thoroughly sundered from each...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016

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