Abeel, Erica
Summary: "Three college friends from the 50's blaze their own path in love and work, braving the stifling conventions of the age, and anticipating the social thaw that would arrive ten years later. These 'wild girls' pay heavy penalties for living against the grain, but, over the years, rebound and re-set their course, drawing strength from their friendship. The novel follows them from an elite...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Texas Review Press 2016
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Summary: A collection of novellas explores the line between civilization and the "wild men."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION HARRISONKheiriyeh, Rashin
Summary: Rashin is an Iranian immigrant girl living in New York, excited by her first trip to Coney Island, and fascinated by the differences in the beach customs between her native Iran and her new home--but she misses the saffron flavored ice cream that she usedto eat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HERBachelder, Chris.
Summary: The Throwback Special is the story of twenty-two ordinary guys who gather each fall to reenact what ESPN has called the most shocking play in NFL history: the November 1985 play in which Joe Theismann of the Washington Redskins had his leg horribly broken by Lawrence Taylor of the New York Giants on Monday Night Football. (The play was known by the Redskins as the Throwback Special.) Over the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Bachelder 2016Prose, Francine
Summary: While working for an idealistic college professor, twenty-six-year old Lula, an Albanian trying to make a better life for herself in America, finds her life taking a complicated turn when her Albanian "brothers" return, in a novel set in the aftermath of 9/11.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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Summary: A husband sells property to a mysterious, temperamental stranger, and is hounded on social media when he publicly questions the man’s character. A couple grows concerned when an enigmatic family moves next door, and the children start sneaking over to beg for help. Two dangerous criminals kidnap an elderly couple and begin blackmailing their grandson, demanding that he pay back what he owes....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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Summary: Here are three indispensable works from the Pulitzer Prize-winning laureate of the American heartland, including the novels that inspired a classic film by Orson Welles and an Oscar-nominated performance by Katharine Hepburn. The Magnificent Ambersons depicts the fall from grace of George Minafer, scion of the once-unassailable Amberson family whose wealth and grandeur are in precipitous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TARFaulkner, William
Summary: This collection of Faulkner's best hunting stories was first published in 1958. Each of the stories is introduced by a prelude, and the final story is followed by an epilogue. Included is Faulkner's most famous story, "The Bear", in its original version.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction FaulknerSummary: 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"--
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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 GREHood, Ann
Summary: On the day John F. Kennedy is inaugurated, Claire, a young wife and mother obsessed with the glamour of Jackie, struggles over the decision of whether to stay in a loveless but secure marriage or to follow the man she loves and whose baby she may be carrying. Decades earlier in 1919, Vivien Lowe, an obituary writer, is searching for her lover who disappeared in the Great San Francisco...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003
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Contents: Commandos -- Traveling Einstein -- The trees growing up around us -- We are living in the future -- Therapy -- Perfect bass -- Mystery park -- As if we were prey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DELDoctorow, E. L.
Summary: An assortment of short fiction ranges across America, from Alaska to the District of Columbia, as it explores the complexities of modern life in such stories as "Jolene: a Life," "A House on the Plains," "Baby Wilson," and "Walter John Harmon."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOCHenry, O.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1993
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Summary: A collection of nineteen short works includes "Fire," in which a troubled wife has an affair; "Curly Red," in which a girl reveals a family secret; and "Three Girls," in which two students protect Marilyn Monroe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OATSaunders, George
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2000
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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 AGEContents: Mudlavia.--The brief history of the dead.--Golden era of heartbreak.--The hurt man.--The tutor.--Fantasy for eleven fingers.--The high divide.--Desolation.--A rich man.--Dues.--Speckle trout.--Sphinxes.--Grace.--Snowbound.--Tea.--Christie.--Refuge in London.--The drowned women.--The card trick.--What you pawn I will redeem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2005
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Contents: From The four million (1906). The gift of the Magi -- The cop and the anthem -- Springtime a la carte -- The green door -- After twenty years -- The furnished room -- From Heart of the west (1907). The pimienta pancakes -- From The trimmed lamp (1907). The last leaf -- From The voice of the city (1908). The voice of the city -- While the auto waits -- From Roads of destiny (1909). A retrived...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FICTION HenryJohnson, Denis
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1995