O'Brien, Tim

Summary: Heroic young men carry the emotional weight of their lives to war in Vietnam in a patchwork account of a modern journey into the heart of darkness

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1998

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3 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OBR

O'Brien, Tim

Summary: An American Master returns: The author of The Things They Carried delivers his first new novel in two decades, a brilliant and rollicking odyssey, in which a bank robbery by a disgraced journalist sparks a cross-country chase through a nation corroded by delusion. At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode from his battered Buick LeSabre and entered Community National Bank...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: PA FIC O'BR

O'Brien, Tim

Summary: John Wade, a senatorial candidate, is accused of participating in a massacre during the Vietnam War. Hounded by the press, he flees with his wife to a cottage and his wife disappears. Did she desert him, or did he kill her? By the author of Going After Cacciato.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence 1994

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBR

O'Brien, Tim

Summary: Even as he plots revenge on his wife for abandoning him for another man Thomas Chippering, a professor of linguistics cannot free himself of his obsession with women. He makes a pass at a student who blackmails him into giving her good marks. A look at a womanizer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1998

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBR

O'Brien, Tim

Summary: "In the jungles of Indochina, Private Cacciato decides to lay down his rifle and embark on a quixotic walk to Paris, leaving in his wake a trail of M&M candies and a platoon intent on bringing him back to the war--and to reality. 'To call Going After Cacciato a novel about war is like calling Moby-Dick a novel about whales.' So wrote the New York Times of Tim O'Brien's now classic novel of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1999

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC O'BR

O'Brien, Tim

Contents: Kick me when I'm down -- River of blood -- One drop of rain -- When you come back down -- Out on the rolling sea -- I like the way you cook -- How come I ain't dead -- Love and laughter -- Love is pleasin' -- Think about last night -- Don't be surprised -- First days of fall -- When there's no one around.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Sugar Hill 1997

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY O'B

O'Brien, Tim

Summary: "Best-selling author Tim O'Brien shares wisdom from a life in letters, lessons learned in wartime, and the challenges, humor, and rewards of raising two sons"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 O'BRIEN, TIM O'BR

O'Brien, Tim

Summary: O'Brien's searing memoir of his years as a soldier in Vietnam takes readers with him through the ghostly ambiguities of manhood and morality in a war gone terribly wrong.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2013

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 959.704 O'Br

O'Brien, Tim

Summary: n O'Brien's dynamic first novel, a Vietnam vet and his brother vie for the same gal, a native of their dwindling Minnesota hometown. Culminating in a disastrous road trip which ends with the men skiing home through the wilderness, "Northern Lights" spawned themes that would become the author's hallmarks for future works.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1999

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBR

O'Brien, Tim

Summary: On a quest to settle a score with the man who destroyed his life, Boyd Halverson robs a bank and takes a hostage.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC O'BR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OBR

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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

O'Brien, Tim

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 1994

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O'Brien, Tim

Summary: At the age of forty-nine, William Cowling decides to dig a gigantic hole in his backyard in order to protect himself and his family from "the very real threat of nuclear annihilation that everyone evades and denies."--Cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1985

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBR

Contents: Uncle Penn (Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder) -- Cross eyed child (John Hartford) -- John Henry (the Del McCoury Band) -- Walkin' in Jerusalem (Connie Smith & the Whites) -- Raw hide (Marty Stuart w/the Del McCoury Band) -- Can't you hear me callin' (Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys) -- Rose of old Kentucky (Larry Sparks) -- Highway of sorrow (Tim O'Brien) -- Wicked path of sin (Jerry &...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Audium Records 2003

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY LEG

Contents: Wayfaring stranger / Jack White -- Like a songbird that has fallen / Reeltime Travelers -- I wish my baby was born / Tim Eriksen, Riley Baugus & Tim O'Brien -- The Scarlet tide / Alison Krauss -- The Cuckoo / Tim Eriksen & Riley Baugus -- Sittin' on top of the world / Jack White -- Am I born to die? / Tim Eriksen -- You will be my ain true love / Alison Krauss -- I'm going home / Sacred Harp...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music Soundtrax 2003

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC COL

Contents: Bling-blang (Arlo Guthrie) -- Bananaphone (Rhonda Vincent) -- Man gave names to all the animals (Tim O'Brien) -- Old MacDonald had a farm (Rufus Thomas) -- Love train (Keb' Mo) -- Don't you push me down (Taj Mahal) -- Red, red robin (Rosie Flores) -- Bushel and a peck (Dan Zanes and friends) -- Bellybutton song (Music for aardvarks & other mammals) -- Michael row the boat ashore (Eric Bibb) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Putumayo World Music 2004

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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JUV PUT

Dylan, Bob

Contents: Nashville skyline rag / (Earl Scruggs with Bob Dylan) -- Girl from the north country / (Country Gentlemen) -- Don't think twice, it's alright / (Waylon Jennings) -- It ain't me babe / (Johnny Cash) -- I'll be your baby tonight / (Hank Williams, Jr.) -- Love minus zero ; No limit / (Buck Owens) -- You ain't goin' nowhere / (The Byrds) -- If not for you / (Glen Campbell) -- Subterranean homesick...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2004

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY DYL

John Hartford Stringband

Contents: Three forks of Sandy -- M.I.S.I.P. -- Love grown cold -- Madison Tennessee -- Delta queen waltz -- For John -- Homer the roamer -- Bring your clothes back home -- Half past four -- Lorena -- You don't notice me ignoring you -- The girl I left behind me -- She's gone (and Bob's gone with her) -- Royal box waltz -- Fade out.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Records 2010

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY JOH

Contents: Drumbeats on the watchtower (3:49) -- A tiny broken heart (2:53) -- The true and trembling brakeman (3:16) -- The light in Carter Stanley's eyes (2:25) -- Let me love you one more time (2:44) -- Hills of Roane County (4:18) -- Take my ashes (3:49) -- Too late to cry (3:11) -- Alabama bound (2:16) -- Can't you hear me calling (3:48) -- Will you miss me (4:47) -- A crown he wore (2:44) -- Ridin'...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY ROW

Summary: A compilation of American traditional music, featuring twelve tracks by a variety of artists, including Alison Brown, Ruthie Foster, Mulehead, Old Crow Medicine Show, Josh Ritter, The Little Willies, and others.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Putumayo World Music 2007

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD WM Putumayo

Yonder Mountain String Band

Contents: Rambler's anthem (2:53) -- Easy as pie (3:57) -- Idaho (2:26) -- Loved you enough (2:47) -- Sorrow is a highway (3:53) -- Must've had your reasons (3:02) -- Wildewood Drive (4:40) -- New horizons (7:11) -- Check out time (3:15) -- To see you coming 'round the bend (3:23) -- Red tail lights (2:56) -- A father's arms (3:24) -- Hog potato (3:48) -- Peace of mind (9:21).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Frog Pad Records 2001

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY YON