Mallon, Thomas.
Summary: From one of our most esteemed historical novelists, a remarkable retelling of the Watergate scandal, as seen through a kaleidoscope of its colorful perpetrators and investigators. For all the monumental documentation that Watergate generated—uncountable volumes of committee records, court transcripts, and memoirs—it falls at last to a novelist to perform the work of inference (and invention)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012
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Mallon, Thomas
Summary: Reimagines the turbulent second term and political relationships of a mercurial President George W. Bush from the perspectives of two West Texans with disparate ideological views.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2019
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Summary: A retelling of the Watergate scandal, as seen through a kaleidoscope of its colorful perpetrators and investigators.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2012
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Summary: "Up with the Sun is a fictional look back at the life of a little-known, C-list celebrity striver who met a bad end in New York City in the 1980s. Dick Kallman was an up-and-coming actor-until he wasn't. From co-starring in Broadway shows, to becoming part of Lucille Ball's historic Desilu workshop, and then finally landing his own short-lived primetime TV series, Dick's star was clearly on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1997
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Summary: "Captures the crusading ideologies, blunders, and glamour of the still-hotly-debated Reagan years, taking readers to the political gridiron of Washington, the wealthiest enclaves of Southern California, and the volcanic landscape of Iceland, where the president engages in two almost apocalyptic days of negotiation with Mikhail Gorbachev"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALTarkington, 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 TARMcCarthy, Mary
Summary: Seventy-five years ago Mary McCarthy provoked a scandal with her electrifying debut novel, The Company She Keeps (1942), announcing the arrival of a major new voice in American literature. A candid, thinly-veiled portrait of the late-1930s New York intellectual scene, its penetrating gaze and creative fusion of life and literature-"mutual plagiarism," she called it--became the hallmark of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCBurroughs, Edgar Rice
Summary: Born to noble parents marooned on the savage West African coast, the young lord Greystoke is orphaned in his first year of life. Named Tarzan by the great apes that raise him, he must learn the laws of the jungle to survive. He quickly matches the beasts around him in strength and agility, yet understands that he is different from them. In combining higher intelligence with his physical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BURMcCarthy, Mary
Summary: In the second volume of the definitive edition of her fiction, three novels by the witty and provocative writer who defined a generation, including the landmark classic The Group. In Mary McCarthy's most famous novel, The Group (1963), she depicts the lives of eight Vassar College graduates during the 1930s as they grapple with sex, sexism, money, motherhood, and family. McCarthy's final two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017
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Summary: "Blind Spots is a riveting crime novel with a speculative edge about what we really see with our own eyes. Seven years ago, a mysterious virus blinded everyone in the world in a matter of months. Technology helped people adjust to the new normal, creating a device that approximates vision, downloading visual data directly to people's brains. But what happens when someone finds a way to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023