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American essays 20th century American poetry 19th century Children's stories, American Detective and mystery stories, American Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Political career before 1861 Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 Presidents United States Biography Science fiction, American Southern States Social life and customs FictionEmerson, 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
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC FAULKMacdonald, Ross
Summary: From his vantage point in Southern California—and through the eyes of his great creation, private eye Lew Archer—Ross Macdonald (the pseudonymn of Kenneth Millar) fashions a haunting, startlingly immediate vision of modern America: a swirling mix of sexual exploitation, intergenerational conflict, racial animosities, and ecological disaster. In Black Money, Archer is hired to find a wealthy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACMelville, Herman
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1984
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MELWilder, Thornton
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.5 BARDreiser, Theodore
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1987
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC DreiserIrving, 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 IRVLewis, 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 LEWLincoln, Abraham
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 LINLincoln, Abraham
Summary: The President's writings trace his involvement in Illinois politics, his opposition to slavery, and his political debates with Stephen Douglas
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 LINWelty, Eudora
Summary: In a career spanning five decades, Eudora Welty has chronicled her own Mississippi with a depth and intensity matched only by William Faulkner. One of the most influential writers of the century, her novels and stories blend the storytelling tradition of the South with a modernist sensibility attuned to the mysteries and ambiguities of experience. Welty explores the complex abundance of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SC WELTYHolzer, Harold (EDT)
Summary: A volume of writings on the sixteenth president includes works of fiction, history, and poetry by figures ranging from Churchill and Grant to Tolstoy and Twain, in a collection that offers insight into the ways in which American history and culture have contributed to the sixteenth president's legendary persona.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM LINL'Engle, Madeleine
Summary: This second volume gathers the final four Kairos novels, in which Meg and Calvin's daughter Polly takes center stage. In The Arm of the Starfish, Polly disappears, and Calvin's research assistant is implicated in her kidnapping. In Dragons in the Waters, Polly and her brother Charles are on a steamer bound for Venezuela when they help solve a murder connected to a stolen portrait of Simon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LENMailer, Norman
Summary: "This volume contains thirty-six essays published by Norman Mailer from November 1960 to September 1969, along with the preface to his 1963 collection The Presidential Papers and two prefaces he wrote for paperback editions of that book" (Note; page 471).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2018