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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARParini, Jay.
Summary: Describes the life and work of the twentieth-century author of "As I Lay Dying," who struggled to rise above such challenges as a difficult marriage and alcoholism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FAULKNER, WILLIAM PARParini, Jay
Summary: "A historical novel of the Apostle Paul, whose tireless and epic preaching of the message of Jesus brought Christianity into existence and changed human history. In relating Paul's epic journeys, both geographical and spiritual, the author unfolds a vivid panorama of the ancient world on the verge of epochal change, while in the alternating voice of the Gospel writer Luke, Paul's travel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Contents: Of Plymouth Plantation -- The Federalist papers -- The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin -- The journals of Lewis and Clark -- Walden-- Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- The souls of black folk -- The promised land -- How to win friends and influence people -- The common sense book of baby and child care -- On the road -- The feminine mystique -- 100 more books that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 011.7 PARFrost, Robert
Summary: "Poet and Frost biographer Jay Parini selects sixteen poems by Robert Frost to learn by heart. Each poem is accompanied by a short interpretative essay by Parini illuminating the poem's stylistic and imaginative features"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2024
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Summary: From the Publisher: Gore Vidal-novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialists-is America's premier man of letters. No other living writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality, and provocative mirth to the job of writing an essay. This long-needed volume comprises some twenty-four of his best-loved...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2008