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Summary: A provocative and darkly comic meditation on the forces polarizing present-day American culture, as experienced by the members of a progressive multi-ethnic family, a philosophy professor and his wife, their adopted children, and sole biological child, and a Muslim family, headed by a psychiatrist who is treating one of their children.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HER

Summary: A celebration of the short story as it was popularized in America in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Features works by Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, Kate Chopin, O' Henry, Jack London, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald and more"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fall River Press, imprint of Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810 GRE

Agee, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.52 AGE

Burke, James Lee

Summary: "A boy and his father watch a German submarine sink an oil tanker as evil forces try to ruin their family. A girl is beaten up outside a bar as her father navigates new love and threats from a group of neo-Nazis. A pair of undercover union organizers are hired to break colts for a Hollywood actor, whose 'Western hero' facade hides darkness. An oil rig workers witnesses an attack on a local...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2024

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Jewett, Sarah Orne

Contents: Deephaven -- A country doctor -- The country of the pointed firs -- Dunnet Landing stories -- Selected stories and sketches.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1996

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JEW

Noble, Shelley

Summary: "Philomena Amesbury, Dowager Countess of Dunbridge, was not about to let a little thing like the death of her husband ruin her social life. She's come to New York City, ready to take the dazzling world of Gilded Age Manhattan by storm. She finds excitement when an early morning visitor arrives, begging for her help. After all, Lady Phil has been known to be useful in a crisis. Especially when...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2020

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC NOB

Maxwell, Alyssa

Summary: Responding to a frantic call from her cousin, Consuelo Vanderbilt, Emma Cross arrives at the Marble House mansion and learns Consuelo's mother, Alva, is forcing her into marriage with the Duke of Marlborough. Her mother has even called in a fortune teller to assure Consuelo of a happy future. But the future is short-lived for the fortune teller, who is found dead by her crystal ball, strangled...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2014

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Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1996

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAU

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)

Summary: "It was Gatsby that solidified his reputation as the chronicler of the Jazz Age and established him as one of the leading American novelists of his generation. Perhaps no other novel of the twentieth century makes a greater claim to being our Great American Novel--for its poetic prose, its exploration of the broad, intertwined themes of money, class, and American optimism (Daisy Buchanan's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIT

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