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California, Southern Detective and mystery stories, American Los Angeles (Calif.) Fiction Marlowe, Philip (Fictitious character) Fiction Private investigators Private investigators California Los Angeles Fiction Russian American literature United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives United States Social life and customs FictionLewis, Sinclair
Summary: Two of Lewis' novels depict the hipocrisy and complacency of middle-class America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEWIrving, Washington
Summary: The author oberves with a sharp eye the lives and customs of English, German, and Spanish gentry and villagers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IRVAgee, James
Contents: Let us now praise famous men -- The morning watch -- A death in the family -- Stories: Death in the desert -- They that sow in sorrow shall reap -- A mother's tale.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.52 AGECatton, Bruce
Summary: An analysis of the Civil War focuses on Generals McClellan, Burnside, Hooker, Meade, and Grant, and discusses the final defeat of General Robert E. Lee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 CATChandler, Raymond
Summary: Pulp stories; The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; and The High Window.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1995
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC CHANDNabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovič
Summary: Volume three of a three volume set collecting the works of Russian author Vladimir Nabokov, written after his emigration to the United States, between 1969 and 1974. Includes "Ada," "Transparent Things," and "Look at the Harlequins!"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NABCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: SC NabokStein, Gertrude
Contents: Q.E.D. -- Three lives -- Portraits and other short works -- The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.52 STEParkman, Francis
Summary: Contains "The Oregon Trail," a collection of essays that first appeared in the "Knickerbocker Magazine," discussing Parkman's trip to Oregon in 1846, and "The Conspiracy of Pontiac," relating Ottawa leader Pontiac's attacks on British forts and settlements in the 1760s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 PARChandler, Raymond
Summary: Pulp stories; The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; and The High Window.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1995
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Contents: Psychology : briefer course -- The will to believe and other essays in popular philosophy -- Talks to teachers on psychology and to students on some of life's ideals -- Selected essays.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 150 JAMSherman, William T 1820-1891
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 SHECather, Willa
Summary: Here are some of the most powerful and enchanting works by this renowned Southern author, contrasting grace and old-world charm with a new generation
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CATO'Connor, Flannery.
Contents: Wise blood -- A good man is hard to find -- The violent bear it away -- Everything that rises must converge -- Stories and occasional prose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Amer Fic O'ConnorJames, Henry
Summary: Three major novels from James's early middle years: Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, and The Bostonians. These studies in the exercise of power between the sexes, classes, and cultures portray American women confronting crises of independence and possession. "James beginning to realize the height of his powers." $1 (BWall Street Journal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMEmerson, Ralph Waldo
Contents: Nature ; addresses, and lectures -- Essays, first and second series -- Representative men -- English traits -- The conduct of life -- Uncollected prose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the U.S. 1983
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 814 EMEAdams, Henry
Contents: Contains the last two parts of History of the United States of America during the first administration of James Madison, and History of the United States of America during the second administration of James Madison.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.46 ADACather, Willa
Summary: Presents a selection of writings by nineteenth-century American author Willa Cather, featuring the short story collection "The Troll Garden, " and four novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning "One of Ours."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the U.S. 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CATGrant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRANT, ULYSSES S.Irving, Washington
Contents: Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. -- Salmagundi -- A history of New York -- The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 IRVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Amer Fic IrvingThomson, Virgil
Summary: "For fourteen memorable years Virgil Thomson surveyed the worlds of opera and classical music as the chief music critic for the New York Herald Tribune. An accomplished composer who knew music from the inside, Thomson communicated its pleasures and complexities to a wide readership in a hugely entertaining, authoritative style, and his daily reviews and Sunday articles set a high-water mark in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780 THOSummary: This adventurous volume, with its companion devoted to the 1930s and 40s, presents a rich vein of modern American writing too often neglected in mainstream literary histories. Evolving out of the terse and violent hardboiled style of the pulp magazines, noir fiction expanded over the decades into a varied and innovative body of writing. Tapping deep roots in the American literary imagination,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRIAlcott, Louisa May
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALCCarson, Rachel
Summary: This deluxe Library of America volume presents one of the landmark books of the twentieth century together with rare letters, speeches, and other writings that reveal the personal courage and passionate commitment of its author, Rachel Carson. A huge bestseller when published in September 1962, Silent Spring led not only to many of the laws and government agencies that protect our air, land,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 CARFaulkner, William
Summary: Three novels include two from the Snopes trilogy, "The Town," and "The Mansion," which portrays the downfall of the rapacious, cruel dynasty, and a lesser-known comic novel "The Reivers," which is set around a Memphis brothel
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1999