NEW TITLES NOVEMBER 2021-MARCH 2022
Sorted by Call Number / Author.
001.9 UFO
UFOs: Reference Shelf Armenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, 2022.
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Hammer, Joshua, 1957-. The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu : and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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Morton, Timothy, 1968-. Hyperobjects : philosophy and ecology after the end of the world. A Quake in Being: An Introduction to Hyperobjects -- Part I. What Are Hyperobjects? -- Viscosity -- Nonlocality -- Temporal Undulation -- Phasing -- Interobjectivity -- Part II. The Time of Hyperobjects -- The End of the World -- Hypocrisies -- The Age of Asymmetry. "Having set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the possibility of ecological catastrophe. But the environmental emergency is also a crisis for our philosophical habits of thought, confronting us with a problem that seems to defy not only our control but also our understanding. Global warming is perhaps the most dramatic example of what Timothy Morton calls "hyperobjects"--Entities of such vast temporal and spatial dimensions that they defeat traditional ideas about what a thing is in the first place. In this book, Morton explains what hyperobjects are and their impact on how we think, how we coexist with one another and with nonhumans, and how we experience our politics, ethics, and art. Moving fluidly between philosophy, science, literature, visual and conceptual art, and popular culture, the book argues that hyperobjects show that the end of the world has already occurred in the sense that concepts such as world, nature, and even environment are no longer a meaningful horizon against which human events take place. Instead of inhabiting a world, we find ourselves inside a number of hyperobjects, such as climate, nuclear weapons, evolution, or relativity. Such objects put unbearable strains on our normal ways of reasoning."-- Publisher's website.
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Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804. Ethical philosophy : the complete texts of Grounding for the metaphysics of morals and Metaphysical principles of virtue (part II of The metaphysics of morals).
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Moral philosophy : a reader. Fourth edition. Indianapolis, IN : Hackett Publishing Company, Inc, 2009. What is morally right conduct? -- Moral relativism vs. moral objectivism -- Ethics and egoism -- Value : What is the good? -- Utilitarian ethics -- Deontological ethics -- Virtue ethics -- Morality and religion -- Applied ethics. "This collection of classic and contemporary readings in ethics presents sharp, competing views on a wide range of fundamentally important topics: moral relativism and objectivism, ethical egoism, value theory, utilitarianism, deontological ethics, virtue ethics, ethics and religion, and applied ethics."--pub. desc.
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Prothero, Stephen R. Religious literacy : what every American needs to know--and doesn't. First HarperCollins Paperback edition. A nation of religious illiterates -- Religion matters -- Eden (what we once knew) -- The fall (how we forgot) -- Redemption (what to do?) -- A dictionary of religious literacy. A religious primer serves as an argument for why religion should become a mandatory subject in American public schools, contending that most Americans are not able to identify basic tenets of their faith and that key political challenges can be better met with faith-based resolutions.
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Goodall, Jane, 1934- author. The book of hope : a survival guide for trying times. First Edition: 2021.
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Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., author. The Black church : this is our story, this is our song. The freedom faith -- A nation within a nation -- Speakers of the word -- God will make a way -- Crisis of faith -- Epilogue. On the Holy Ghost : the beautiful and the sublime, the vision and the trance -- Appendix. Great voices in the African American preaching tradition. For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, residentially segregated West Virginia town, the church was a center of gravity--an intimate place where voices rose up in song and neighbors gathered to celebrate life's blessings and offer comfort amid its trials and tribulations. In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Gates takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries, from the intersection of Christianity and the transatlantic slave trade to today's political landscape. At road's end, and after Gates's distinctive meditation on the churches of his childhood, we emerge with a new understanding of the importance of African American religion to the larger national narrative--as a center of resistance to slavery and white supremacy, as a magnet for political mobilization, as an incubator of musical and oratorical talent that would transform the culture, and as a crucible for working through the Black community's most critical personal and social issues. In a country that has historically afforded its citizens from the African diaspora tragically few safe spaces, the Black Church has always been more than a sanctuary. This fact was never lost on white supremacists: from the earliest days of slavery, when enslaved people were allowed to worship at all, their meetinghouses were subject to surveillance and destruction. Long after slavery's formal eradication, church burnings and bombings by anti-Black racists continued, a hallmark of the violent effort to suppress the African American struggle for equality. The past often isn't even past--Dylann Roof committed his slaughter in the Mother Emanuel AME Church 193 years after it was first burned down by white citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, following a thwarted slave rebellion. But as Gates brilliantly shows, the Black church has never been only one thing. Its story lies at the heart of the Black political struggle, and it has produced many of the Black community's most notable leaders. At the same time, some churches and denominations have eschewed political engagement and exemplified practices of exclusion and intolerance that have caused polarization and pain. Those tensions remain today, as a rising generation demands freedom and dignity for all within and beyond their communities, regardless of race, sex, or gender. Still, as a source of faith and refuge, spiritual sustenance and struggle against society's darkest forces, the Black Church has been central, as this enthralling history makes vividly clear.
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Smith, Huston. The world's religions. 50th Anniversary edition. [San Francisco] : HarperSanFrancisco, c1991. Point of departure -- Hinduism -- Buddhism -- Confucianism -- Taoism -- Islam -- Judaism -- Christianity -- Primal religions -- Final examination.
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Bstan-Êơdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935- author. The book of joy : lasting happiness in a changing world. Arrival: We are fragile creatures -- Day 1: The nature of true joy -- Why are you not morose? -- Nothing beautiful comes without some suffering -- Have you renounced pleasure? -- Our greatest joy -- Lunch: The meeting of two mischievous people is wonderful -- Days 2 & 3: The obstacles to joy -- You are a masterpiece in the making -- Fear, stress, and anxiety: I would be very nervous -- Frustration and anger: I would shout -- Sadness and grief: The hard times knit us more closely together -- Despair: The world is in such turmoil -- Loneliness: No need for introduction -- Envy: That guy goes past yet again in his Mercedes-Benz -- Suffering and adversity: Passing through difficulties -- Illness and fear of death: I prefer to go to hell -- Meditation: Now I'll tell you a secret thing -- Days 4 & 5: The eight pillars of joy -- Perspective: There are many different angles -- Humility: I tried to look humble and modest -- Humor: Laughter, joking is much better -- Acceptance: The only place where change can begin -- Forgiveness: Freeing ourselves from the past -- Gratitude: I am fortunate to be alive -- Compassion: Something we want to become -- Generosity: We are filled with joy -- Celebration: Dancing in the streets of Tibet -- Departure: A final goodbye -- Joy practices. Nobel Peace Prize Laureates His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have survived more than fifty years of exile and the soul-crushing violence of oppression. Despite their hardships -- or, as they would say, because of them -- they are two of the most joyful people on the planet. In April 2015, Archbishop Tutu traveled to the Dalai Lama's home in Dharamsala, India, to celebrate His Holiness's eightieth birthday and to create what they hoped would be a gift for others. They looked back on their long lives to answer a single burning question: How do we find joy in the fact of life's inevitable suffering? They traded intimate stories, teased each other continually, and shared their spiritual practices. We get to listen as they explore the Nature of True Joy and confront each of the Obstacles of Joy -- from fear, stress, and anger to grief, illness, and death. They then offer us the Eight Pillars of Joy, which provide the foundation for lasting happiness. Throughout, they include stories, wisdom, and science. Finally, they share their daily Joy Practices that anchor their own emotional and spiritual lives.
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Rodin, Judith. The resilience dividend : being strong in a world where things go wrong. First edition. "New York. Athens. Boston. Tohoku. Newtown. Oslo. West. Wenzhou. New Orleans. Dhaka. Moore. Nairobi. These communities are just a few among the many that have been hit hard by one of the "wicked problems" of today's world: natural catastrophe, disease and contagion, systems or social collapse. If you haven't been directly touched by one of these disruptions yourself, you are sure to have been affected by them in some way. They harm people, destabilize communities, and threaten organizations and even whole societies. These problems have become such a part of our world that knowing how to prepare for them, how to respond when they happen, and how to recover from them should be essential skills of modern life for all of us. We have certainly made progress in this regard, especially in the years since 9/11, but we are still at greater risk than we should be. We can't anticipate every disruption that might come our way, but we can develop an overall approach for dealing with the wicked problems, and formulate specific plans for areas where we and our communities are particularly vulnerable. The Resilience Dividend is both timely and important important as both the severity and frequency of disruptions are increase. We face extreme weather events, rapid population shifts, and global interconnectedness that make us vulnerable to disruptions wherever they take place. What's more, the list of global risks that we face in the coming years is truly daunting: from cyber-attacks to food shortage crises to extreme volatility in energy price. We can no longer assume we are immune to the world's wicked problems, no matter who we are and where we live. It develops both a way of thinking and practical tools for taking action for protecting the world's people and communities and shows how to create a blueprint for change. "--.
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Singh, Anneliese A., author. The racial healing handbook : practical activities to help you challenge privilege, confront systemic racism & engage in collective healing. This handbook "offers powerful and practical tools to help you explore the history of racism, challenge stereotypes, and manage the stress and remorse that result from living in an unequal worlds. You'll understand your own racial identity, navigate daily and past experiences of racism, and examine ways racism affects all aspects of life-- from work to family to relationships. FInally, you'll discover how you can fight for racial justice, be an ally, and forge the building blocks needed to create a community of healing."--Cover.
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Reynolds, Jason, author. Stamped : racism, antiracism, and you. First edition. 1415-1728. The story of the world's first racist ; Puritan power ; A different Adam ; A racist wunderkind -- 1743-1826. Proof in the poetry ; Time out ; Time in ; Jefferson's notes ; Uplift suasion ; The great contradictor -- 1826-1879. Mass communication for mass emancipation ; Uncle Tom ; Complicated Abe ; Garrison's last stand -- 1868-1963. Battle of the Black brains ; Jack Johnson vs. Tarzan ; Birth of a nation (and a new nuisance) ; The mission is in the name ; Can't sing and dance and write it away ; Home is where the hatred is -- 1963-Today. When death comes ; Black power ; Murder was the case ; What war on drugs? ; The soundtrack of sorrow and subversion ; A million strong ; A bill too many ; A miracle and still a maybe. "The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. Racist ideas are woven into the fabric of this country, and the first step to building an antiracist America is acknowledging America's racist past and present. This book takes you on that journey, showing how racist ideas started and were spread, and how they can be discredited"--Dust jacket flap. "A history of racist and antiracist ideas in America, from their roots in Europe until today, adapted from the National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning"--.
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Winters, Mary-Frances, author. Black fatigue : how racism erodes the mind, body, and spirit. First edition. Introduction: Black fatigue runs deep -- My black fatigue -- Addressing sublime ignorance -- Then is now -- Racism literally makes you sick: It is a preexisting condition -- The many layers of Black fatigue -- Say her name: Black women's fatigue -- "I can't breath": Black men's fatigue -- Out of the mouths of babes: Black children's fatigue -- A clarion call for collective action to combat Black fatigue -- Conclusion: Reimagining a just world. This is the first book to define and explore Black fatigue, the intergenerational impact of systemic racism on the physical and psychological health of Black people--and explain why and how society needs to collectively do more to combat its pernicious effects. Black people, young and old, are fatigued, says award-winning diversity and inclusion leader Mary-Frances Winters. It is physically, mentally, and emotionally draining to continue to experience inequities and even atrocities, day after day, when justice is a God-given and legislated right. And it is exhausting to have to constantly explain this to white people, even--and especially--well-meaning white people, who fall prey to white fragility and too often are unwittingly complicit in upholding the very systems they say they want dismantled. This book, designed to illuminate the myriad dire consequences of living while Black, came at the urging of Winters's Black friends and colleagues. Winters describes how in every aspect of life--from economics to education, work, criminal justice, and, very importantly, health outcomes--for the most part, the trajectory for Black people is not improving. It is paradoxical that, with all the attention focused over the last fifty years on social justice and diversity and inclusion, little progress has been made in actualizing the vision of an equitable society. Black people are quite literally sick and tired of being sick and tired. Winters writes that my hope for this book is that it will provide a comprehensive summary of the consequences of Black fatigue, and awaken activism in those who care about equity and justice--those who care that intergenerational fatigue is tearing at the very core of a whole race of people who are simply asking for what they deserve. -- Provided by publisher. "This is the first book to define and explore Black fatigue, the intergenerational impact of systemic racism on the physical and psychological health of Black people--and explain why and how society needs to collectively do more to combat its pernicious effects." -- Amazon.com. Presents information about the intergenerational impact of systemic racism on the physical and psychological health of African Americans and explains why and how society needs to collectively do more to combat its pernicious effects.
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Leary, Joy DeGruy, author. Post traumatic slave syndrome : America's legacy of enduring injury and healing. Revised and updated edition. I don't even notice race -- Whole to three-fifths: dehumanization -- Crimes against humanity -- Post traumatic slave syndrome -- Slavery's children -- Healing. "In the 16th century, the beginning of African enslavement in the Americas until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment and emancipation in 1865, Africans were hunted like animals, captured, sold, tortured, and raped. They experienced the worst kind of physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual abuse. Given such history, isn't it likely that many of the enslaved were severely traumatized? And did the trauma and the effects of such horrific abuse end with the abolition of slavery? Emancipation was followed by one hundred more years of institutionalized subjugation through the enactment of Black Codes and Jim Crow laws, peonage, convict leasing, domestic terrorism and lynching. Today the violations continue, and when combined with the crimes of the past, they result in yet unmeasured injury. What do repeated traumas, endured generation after generation by a people produce? What impact have these ordeals had on African American today? The author answers these questions and more. WIth over thirty years of practical experience as a professional in the mental health field, the author encourages African Americans to view their attitudes, assumptions, and behaviors through the lens of history and so gain a greater understanding of how centuries of slavery and oppression has impacted people of African descent in America. This book helps to lay the necessary foundation to ensure the well-being and sustained health of future generations and provides a rare glimpse into the evolution of society's belief, feelings, attitudes and behavior concerning race in America." -modified from book jacket.
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Lukianoff, Greg, author. The coddling of the American mind : how good intentions and bad ideas are setting up a generation for failure. Three bad ideas -- Bad ideas in action -- How did we get here? -- Wising up. "Something has been going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and are afraid to speak honestly. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising--on campus as well as nationally. How did this happen? First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt show how the new problems on campus have their origins in three terrible ideas that have become increasingly woven into American childhood and education: What doesn't kill you makes you weaker; always trust your feelings; and life is a battle between good people and evil people. These three Great Untruths contradict basic psychological principles about well-being and ancient wisdom from many cultures. Embracing these untruths--and the resulting culture of safetyism--interferes with young people's social, emotional, and intellectual development. It makes it harder for them to become autonomous adults who are able to navigate the bumpy road of life. Lukianoff and Haidt investigate the many social trends that have intersected to promote the spread of these untruths. They explore changes in childhood such as the rise of fearful parenting, the decline of unsupervised, child-directed play, and the new world of social media that has engulfed teenagers in the last decade. They examine changes on campus, including the corporatization of universities and the emergence of new ideas about identity and justice. They situate the conflicts on campus within the context of America's rapidly rising political polarization and dysfunction. This is a book for anyone who is confused by what is happening on college campuses today, or has children, or is concerned about the growing inability of Americans to live, work, and cooperate across party lines"--.
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Diamandis, Peter H., author. Bold : how to go big, achieve success, and impact the world. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. Bold is a radical how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools to create extraordinary wealth while also positively impacting the lives of billions. A follow-up to the authors' Abundance (2012.
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Goldstein, Julia L. F., author. Material value : more sustainable, less wasteful manufacturing of everything from cell phones to cleaning products. First edition.
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U. S. national debate topic, 2021-2022. Water resources. Amenia, New York : Grey House Publishing, 2021.
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Chomsky, Noam, author. Climate crisis and the global green new deal : the political economy of saving the planet. The nature of climate change -- Capitalism and the climate crisis -- A global green new deal -- Political mobilization to save the planet -- Appendix: A framework for funding the global green new deal. "An inquiry into how to build the political force to make a global Green New Deal a reality"--.
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Jahren, Hope, author. The story of more : how we got to climate change and where to go from here. "Hope Jahren is an award-winning geobiologist, a brilliant writer, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. The Story of More is her impassioned open letter to humanity as we stand at the crossroads of survival and extinction. Jahren celebrates the long history of our enterprising spirit--which has tamed wild crops, cured diseases, and sent us to the moon--but also shows how that spirit has created excesses that are quickly warming our planet to dangerous levels. In short, highly readable chapters, she takes us through the science behind the key inventions--from electric power to large-scale farming and automobiles--that, even as they help us, release untenable amounts of carbon dioxide. She explains the current and projected consequences of greenhouse gases--from superstorms to rising sea levels--and the science-based tools that could help us fight back. At once an explainer on the mechanisms of warming and a capsule history of human development, The Story of More illuminates the link between our consumption habits and our endangered earth. It is the essential pocket primer on climate change that will leave an indelible impact on everyone who reads it"--.
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Gordon-Reed, Annette, author. On Juneteenth. First edition. "This, then, is Texas" -- A Texas town -- Origin stories : Africans in Texas -- People of the past and the present -- Remember the Alamo -- On Juneteenth. ""It is staggering that there is no date commemorating the end of slavery in the United States." -Annette Gordon-Reed. The essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth's integral importance to American history, as told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Texas native. Interweaving American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed, the descendant of enslaved people brought to Texas in the 1850s, recounts the origins of Juneteenth and explores the legacies of the holiday that remain with us. From the earliest presence of black people in Texas-in the 1500s, well before enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown-to the day in Galveston on June 19, 1865, when General Gordon Granger announced the end of slavery, Gordon-Reed's insightful and inspiring essays present the saga of a "frontier" peopled by Native Americans, Anglos, Tejanos, and Blacks that became a slaveholder's republic. Reworking the "Alamo" framework, Gordon-Reed shows that the slave-and race-based economy not only defined this fractious era of Texas independence, but precipitated the Mexican-American War and the resulting Civil War. A commemoration of Juneteenth and the fraught legacies of slavery that still persist, On Juneteenth is stark reminder that the fight for equality is ongoing"--.
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Evslin, Bernard. Hecate. New York : Chelsea House, 1988. Recounts the myth of the goddess of the underworld known for her witchcraft and black magic.
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Pugio Bruti. Latinitium.com, 2018. A Crime Story in Easy Latin.
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Caesar: : selections from his Commentarri De Bello Gallico. Revised translation: Hans-Friedrich Mueller. Mundelein, Illinois : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc, 2012; Reprint with corrections, 2013.
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Wilson, Edward O., author. Naturalist. First Island Press paperback edition: April 2006. Afterword: Edward O. Wilson, 2006. Washington, D.C. : Island Press. Daybreak in Alabama. Paradise Beach ; Send us the boy ; A light in the corner ; A magic kingdom ; To do my duty ; Alabama dreaming ; The hunters ; Good-bye to the South ; Orizaba -- Storyteller. The South Pacific ; The forms of things unknown ; The molecular wars ; Islands are the key ; The Florida Keys experiment ; Ants ; Attaining sociobiology ; The sociobiology controversy ; Biodiversity, biophilia.
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Attenborough, David, 1926- author. A life on our planet : my witness statement and a vision for the future. First American Edition. Introduction: Our greatest mistake -- My witness statement -- What lies ahead -- A vision for the future: how to rewild the world -- Conclusion: Our greatest opportunity. As a young man, Attenborough felt he was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world. But it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us, barely noticeable from day to day: the loss of our planet's wild places, its biodiversity. Here he shares his witness statement from a lifetime of wisdom. And he offers a hopeful vision for the future: how we can work to restore the wonderful world we inherited. -- adapted from jacket.
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Vaccinations. "While most Americans participate in vaccination, for a small number of Americans, vaccination is perceived as a threat and possibly even a conspiracy. This volume of The Reference Shelf looks at the history of vaccination as well as the regulation and administrative processes surrounding the creation and dissemination of vaccines. The cost and availability of vaccines in American communities is examined, as well as laws regarding childhood vaccination and access to schooling and other public facilities. Illnesses and other medical controversies related to the industry, and the emergence of the science skepticism/anti-vaccine movement that continues to influence American popular thought, is examined. This volume looks at how vaccines and the anti-vaccine movement have evolved with America and how this interplay of politics and personal liberty continues to impact American public health."--.
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Funny farm : my unexpected life with 600 rescue animals. First edition: 2021. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2021.
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Decline of the sea turtles : causes and prevention. Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1990.
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Ferber, Michael. Romanticism : a very short introduction. New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. The meaning of the word -- Sensibility -- The poet -- Religion, philosophy, and science -- The social vision of Romanticism -- The arts. The only short introduction to Romanticism that incorporates not only the English but the Continental movements, and not only literature but music, art, religion, and philosophy.-publisher description.
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Bechdel, Alison, 1960-. Fun home : a family tragicomic. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2007. This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's a father-daughter tale perfectly suited to the graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian house, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with male students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned 'fun home,' as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence, the denouement is swift, graphic, and redemptive.--From publisher description.
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Craft, Jerry, author, illustrator. New kid. First edition. New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, 2019. The War of Art -- The road to Riverdale : there and back again -- The Hungry Games : stop Mocking J -- Upper, upper West Side Story -- Cleats, Play, Gloves -- Jordan Banks : the non-winter soldier -- The Chinese food connection -- Straight Outta South Uptown -- A Kwanzaa Story -- The Socky Horror Picture Show -- Field of Screams -- Right Club -- The Farce Awakens -- Rad Men. Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of the few kids of color in his entire grade. As he makes the daily trip from his Washington Heights apartment to the upscale Riverdale Academy Day School, Jordan soon finds himself torn between two worlds--and not really fitting into either one. Can Jordan learn to navigate his new school culture while keeping his neighborhood friends and staying true to himself?.
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The singer's musical theatre anthology : Baritone/Bass. Teen's Edition. Milwaukee, WI : Hal Leonard Corporation.
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The singer's musical theatre anthology : Duets. v.3. Milwaukee, WI : Hal Leonard Corporation.
782 S
The singer's musical theatre anthology : Mezzo-Soprano/Alto/Belter. Teen's Edition. Milwaukee, WI : Hal Leonard Corporation.
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The singer's musical theatre anthology : Quartets. Milwaukee, WI : Hal Leonard Corporation.
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The singer's musical theatre anthology : Soprano. Teen's Edition. Milwaukee, WI : Hal Leonard Corporation.
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The singer's musical theatre anthology : Tenor. Teen's Edition. Milwaukee, WI : Hal Leonard Corporation.
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The singer's musical theatre anthology : Trios. Milwaukee, WI : Hal Leonard Corporation.
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The Good Place and philosophy. First edition, 2021. Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2021.
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The Method : how the twentieth century learned to act. New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.
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College sports. Where should America draw the line between professional and student athletes? This volume examines a variety of scandals and controversies in the college sports world, including admission scandals and the methods that recruiters and school administrators use to find, sign, and groom players. While some celebrate college sports and its role in producing players who go on to play at the professional level, others argue that college athletics denigrates the role that universities and colleges are supposed to play and that too often student athletes are exploited. Other critics argue that the entire college sports industry costs too much, resulting in rising tuition and college costs for students who receive little benefit from their institution's sporting activities. This volume also looks at whether or not college athletes deserve some portion of the more than $1 billion industry that they create. This volume begins with a preface; an overview of the debate including explanation of the risks and rewards of being a student athlete, as well as the challenges that college sports face. College Sports includes articles, documents, and other literary works that fall into five topics: Educational Environments, The Cost of College Athletics, Lives on the Line, Access to Athletics, Professionals and Amateurs. Together, this information provides thoughtful, comprehensive coverage of college sports and how the discussions surrounding it have come to be such pressing debates in modern times. - Publisher.
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Barrington, Judith. Writing the memoir : from truth to art. 2nd edition. Portland, Or. : Eighth Mountain Press, 1997; 2002. 1. What Is Memoir? -- 2. Who Cares? and Other Thoughts on Getting Started -- 3. Finding Form -- 4. The Truth: What, Why, and How? -- 5. Scene, Summary, and Musing -- 6. Moving Around in Time -- 7. Using Your Senses -- 8. Naming Names -- 9. Writing about Living People -- 10. Your Memoir and the World -- 11. Watch Out for the Myths -- 12. Getting Feedback on Your Work -- Appendix. Your Memoir and the Law. Acclaimed writing teacher Judith Barrington has written a lively, thoughtful, and encouraging book aimed at those aspiring to the highest literary standards, but useful, also, to those who simply want to record stories for family and friends. Here are chapters on getting started, finding form, telling the truth, using fictional techniques, expanding your language skills, developing sensory detail, writing about living people, placing your story in a larger context. getting feedback on your work, and steering clear of common pitfalls.
808.2 M
McKee, Robert. Story : substance, story, style and the principles of screenwriting. New York, NY : HarperCollins, 1997.
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Coming of age around the world : a multicultural anthology. New York : New Press :, 2007.
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Dabydeen, David. Turner : new and selected poems. 2010. Leeds : Peepal Tree Press, Ltd, 12010.
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Real Global Poets : Poetic conversation between students in Alabama and Somali refugee students living in Eastleigh, Nairobi, Kenya. Real Global Poets 2018 Team. Middletown, DE, : 2021. Includes poems by students of Indian Springs School, 2018: Rachael Murdock, Liz Jones, Bennett Atkins, Ada Cohen, Joey Cleverdon, Grace Brown.
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Auster, Paul, 1947-. The New York trilogy : City of glass, Ghosts, The locked room. New York : Penguin Books, 2006. City of glass -- Ghosts -- The locked room.
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The Longman anthology of detective fiction. New York : Pearson/Longman, c2005.
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940. The short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald. 1st Scribner classics ed. New York : Scribner, 1998.
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Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. The complete short stories of Ernest Hemingway. Finca Vigía ed. New York : Scribner's, 1991.
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African American poetry : 250 years of struggle & song. Across a turbulent history, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an imaginative response to them. One of the great American art forms, African American poetry encompasses many kinds of verse: formal, experimental, vernacular, lyric, and protest. The anthology opens with moving testaments to the power of poetry as a means of self-assertion, as enslaved people voice their passionate resistance to slavery. This volume captures the power and beauty of this diverse tradition and its challenge to American poetry and culture. Here are all the significant movements and currents: the nineteenth-century Francophone poets known as Les Cenelles, the Chicago Renaissance that flourished around Gwendolyn Brooks, the early 1960s Umbra group, and the more recent work of writers affiliated with Cave Canem and the Dark Noise Collective. Here too are poems of singular, hard-to-classify figures: the enslaved potter David Drake, the allusive modernist Melvin B. Tolson, the Cleveland-based experimentalist Russell Atkins. The volume also features biographies of each poet and notes that illuminate cultural references and allusions to historical events-- adapted from dust jacket.
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The best American essays 2019. Offers a selection of literary essays from the previous year which were originally published in American periodicals.
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Green, John, 1977- author. The Anthropocene reviewed : essays on a human-centered planet. "You'll never walk alone" -- Humanity's temporal range -- Halley's comet -- Our capacity for wonder -- Lascaux cave paintings -- Scratch 'n' sniff stickers -- Diet Dr Pepper -- Velociraptors -- Canada geese -- Teddy bears -- The hall of presidents -- Air-conditioning -- Staphylococcus aureus -- The internet -- Academic decathlon -- Sunsets -- Jerzy Dudek's performance on May 25, 2005 -- Penguins of Madagascar -- Piggly wiggly -- The Nathan's famous hot dog eating contest -- CNN -- Harvey -- The yips -- Auld lang syne -- Googling strangers -- Indianapolis -- Kentucky bluegrass -- The Indianapolis 500 -- Monopoly -- Super Mario kart -- Bonneville salt flats -- Hiroyuki Doi's circle drawings -- Whispering -- Viral meningitis -- Plague -- Wintry mix -- The hot dogs of B©Œjarins Beztu Pylsur -- The notes app -- The mountain goats -- The QWERTY keyboard -- The world's largest ball of paint -- Sycamore trees -- "New partner" -- Three farmers on their way to a dance -- Postscript. The Anthropocene is the current geologic age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, bestselling author John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale -- from the QWERTY keyboard and sunsets to Canada geese and Penguins of Madagascar. Funny, complex, and rich with detail, the reviews chart the contradictions of contemporary humanity. As a species, we are both far too powerful and not nearly powerful enough, a paradox that came into sharp focus as we faced a global pandemic that both separated us and bound us together. John Green's gift for storytelling shines throughout this masterful collection. The Anthropocene Reviewed is an open-hearted exploration of the paths we forge and an unironic celebration of falling in love with the world. -- dust jacket.
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Representative American speeches, 2020-2021. Commencement speeches of the year -- Covid and the mask debate -- Health and equity -- Hurricanes, flooding, and climate change -- September 11th and the Afghanistan conflict. As the New Year approached in 2020, millions of Americans shared internet memes reflecting the widespread hope that the new year would ease the chaos and fear of the COVID-19 pandemic. This, coupled with one of the most dramatic and contentious elections in American history, produced the sense that a new era was beginning. Nevertheless, 2021 proved just as challenging as the year that preceded it. Americans still faced a deadly disease that continued to kill thousands each month, while new variants expanded the danger to younger segments of the population. Efforts to combat the virus met with resistance, stalling progress and placing limits on Americans' daily lives. One record of this tumultuous year can be found in the speeches delivered by the most important and influential pop culture figures of the era. From new President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, who became the highest-ranking female politician in American history, to activists and celebrities, the speeches from America's most significant figures provide an important reflection of the kinds of things that Americans cared about, worried about, and argued about over the course of the year. In the increasingly noisy and crowded information environment of American culture, only the loudest voices and most provocative issues rise to the forefront of the public debate. However, because of digital media, a number of smaller, more esoteric issues were also able to capture the public imagination, if only for a few brief moments. - Preface. Selected from a diverse field of speakers and venues, this volume offers some of the most engaging American speeches of the year. Distinguished by its diversity, covering areas in politics, education, popular culture, as well as trending topics in the news, these speeches provide an interesting format to explore some of the year's most important stories.
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The Longman anthology of British literature / : The Victorian Age. 4th ed. New York : Longman, c2010-. v. 1. The Middle Ages / Christopher Baswell and Anne Howland Schotter. The early modern period / Clare Carroll and Andrew Hadfield. The Restoration and the 18th century / Stuart Sherman -- v. 2. The Romantics and their contemporaries / Susan Wolfson and Peter Manning. -- v. 2B. The Victorian age / Heather Henderson and William Sharpe. The twentieth century / Kevin J.H. Dettmar and Jennifer Wicke.
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William Shakespeare : the great comedies and tragedies. Wordsworth Editions Limited, 2005. Ware, Hertfordshire, Great Britain : Wordsworth Editions Limited, 2005.
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Gorsky, Susan Rubinow. Virginia Woolf. The Life of an artist -- Essays and criticism -- Beginnings -- People and characters -- Image and symbol -- Plot and pattern -- "Remember Ms. Woolf!". Unifies introduction to the critic, feminist, theoretician, personality, modernist and especially the novelist, addressing her importance and complexity, vision of despairjuxtaposed with affirmation and probing her themes and stylistic components.
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Ben-Zvi, Linda. Samuel Beckett.
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Quinones, Ricardo J. Dante Alighieri.
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Euripides. Euripides. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1998-<c1999 >. 1. Medea. Hecuba. Andromache. The Bacchae -- 2. Hippolytus. Suppliant women. Helen. Electra. Cyclops -- 3. Alcestis. Daughters of Troy. The Phoenician women. Iphigenia at Aulis. Rhesus. -- 4. Ion. Children of Heracles. The madness of Heracles. Iphigenia in Tauris. Orestes.
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Sophocles. Sophocles. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1998-<c1999 >. 1. Ajax / translated by Frederic Raphael and Kenneth McLeish. Women of Trachis / translated by Brendan Galvin. Electra / translated by Henry Taylor. Philoctetes / translated by Armand Schwerner -- v. 2. King Oedipus. Oedipus at Colonus. Antigone.
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Crime and punishment. Liveright paperback, 2019. New York, NY : NLiveright Publishing Corporation, 2018.
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The Author : Nuclear proliferation and the terrorist. Edition B. BookSurge, LLC, 2005.
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Kladstrup, Don. Wine and war : the French, the Nazis, and the battle for France's greatest treasure. 1st ed. New York : Broadway Books, c2001.
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Sledge, Eugene B. With the old breed at Peleliu and Okinawa. 2010 Presidio Press Trade Paperback Edition. New York, NY : Presidio Press - a division of Random House, Inc, 2007. 1981. 326p illus.
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Goodman, Ruth, 1963-. How to be a Victorian : a dawn-to-dusk guide to Victorian life. First American edition. Getting up -- Getting dressed -- A trip to the privy -- Personal grooming -- Morning exercise -- Breakfast -- The main business of the day -- Back at the house -- The midday meal -- The day's work resumes -- Meanwhile, for the young, there was school -- A few snatched hours of leisure -- The evening meal -- A bath before bed -- Behind the bedroom door. Drawing on her own adventures living in re-created Victorian conditions, Goodman serves as our bustling and fanciful guide to nineteenth-century life. Proceeding from daybreak to bedtime, she celebrates the ordinary lives of the most perennially fascinating era of British history. From waking up to the rapping of a "knocker-upper man" on the window pane to lacing into a corset after a round of calisthenics, from slipping opium to the little ones to finally retiring to the bedroom for the ideal combination of "love, consideration, control and pleasure," the weird, wonderful, and somewhat gruesome intricacies of Victorian life are vividly rendered.
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The Dark Queens. New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.
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The 1619 Project : a brief history. University Press, 2021.
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The 1619 Project : a new origin story. First edition. "The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric and unprecedented system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country's original sin, but it is more than that: It is the country's very origin. The 1619 Project tells this new origin story, placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are as a country. Orchestrated by the editors of The New York Times Magazine, led by MacArthur "genius" and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, this collection of essays and historical vignettes includes some of the most outstanding journalists, thinkers, and scholars of American history and culture--including Linda Villarosa, Jamelle Bouie, Jeneen Interlandi, Matthew Desmond, Wesley Morris, and Bryan Stevenson. Together, their work shows how the tendrils of 1619--of slavery and resistance to slavery--reach into every part of our contemporary culutre, from voting, housing and healthcare, to the way we sing and dance, the way we tell stories, and the way we worship. Interstitial works of flash fiction and poetry bring the history to life through the imaginative interpretations of some of our greatest writers. The 1619 Project ultimately sends a very strong message: We must have a clear vision of this history if we are to understand our present dilemmas. Only by reckoning with this difficult history and trying as hard as we can to undersand its powerful influence on our present, can we prepare ourselves for a more just future"--.
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Yocum, Sandra K., 1944- author. Black history, 1619-2019 : an illustrated and documented African-American history. "Black History 1619 - 2019: An Illustrated and Documented African-American History is dedicated to the restoration and preservation of the events which shaped the lives and contributions of African-Americans from the experience of the era of slavery until modern times. The book contains fourteen well-researched chapters starting with Chapter 1, Colonial Domestic Slave Trade (1619 - 1775), and ending with Chapter 14, Post-Civil Rights Movement (1967 - 2019). Each chapter is dedicated to revealing the truth and correcting misrepresentations about black history. Setting the record straight with black history using facts and primary sources and over 300 photographs and illustrations is the antidote to historical revisionism. This book was written to promote awareness, to preserve and disseminate information, and to restore the integrity of African-American history in the black community in the United States of America"--.
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Abraham Lincoln : speeches and writings. Edited by. New York : Library of America : 45; 46 :, 1989. [v.1] 1832-1858, Speeches, letters, and miscellaneous writings, the Lincoln-Douglas debates -- [v.2] 1859-1865, Speeches, letters, and miscellaneous writings, presidential messages and proclamations.
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Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885. Ulysses S. Grant : memoirs and selected letters. Sixteenth Printing. The Library of America - 50. New York : Library of America: Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Random House Inc, 1990.
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Roberts, Randy, 1951- author. Blood brothers : the fatal friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X. In 1962, boxing writers and fans considered Cassius Clay an obnoxious self-promoter, and few believed that he would become the heavyweight champion of the world. But Malcolm X, the most famous minister in the Nation of Islam--a sect many white Americans deemed a hate cult--saw the potential in Clay, not just for boxing greatness, but as a means of spreading the Nation's message. The two became fast friends, keeping their interactions secret from the press for fear of jeopardizing Clay's career. Clay began living a double life--a patriotic "good Negro" in public, and a radical reformer behind the scenes. Soon, however, their friendship would sour, with disastrous and far-reaching consequences. Based on previously untapped sources, from Malcolm's personal papers to FBI records, "Blood Brothers" is the first book to offer an in-depth portrait of this complex bond. Acclaimed historians Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith reconstruct the worlds that shaped Malcolm and Clay, from the boxing arenas and mosques, to postwar New York and civil rights-era Miami. In an impressively detailed account, they reveal how Malcolm molded Cassius Clay into Muhammad Ali, helping him become an international symbol of black pride and black independence. Yet when Malcolm was barred from the Nation for criticizing the philandering of its leader, Elijah Muhammad, Ali turned his back on Malcolm--a choice that tragically contributed to the latter's assassination in February 1965. Malcolm's death marked the end of a critical phase of the civil rights movement, but the legacy of his friendship with Ali has endured. We inhabit a new era where the roles of entertainer and activist, of sports and politics, are more entwined than ever before. "Blood Brothers" is the story of how Ali redefined what it means to be a black athlete in America--after Malcolm first enlightened him. An extraordinary narrative of love and deep affection, as well as deceit, betrayal, and violence, this story is a window into the public and private lives of two of our greatest national icons, and the tumultuous period in American history that they helped to shape.--Dust jacket.
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Gilbert, Martin, 1936-2015. Churchill : a life. First American edition. New York, NY : Henry Hold and Company, Inc, 1991. A biography of the hard facts of Churchill's public life and the intimate details of the private man.
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DeGaulle : the rebel 1890-1944. Translation from the French by Patrick O'Brian - First American edition, 1990. New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1990.
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Smiley, Jane. Charles Dickens. With the delectable wit, unforgettable characters, and challenging themes that have won her a Pulitzer Prize and national bestseller status, Jane Smiley finds a kindred spirit in the author of classics such as Great expectations and A Christmas carol. As "his novels shaped his life as much as his life shaped his novels," Smiley's Charles Dickens is at once a sensitive profile of the great master and a fascinating meditation on the writing life. Smiley evokes Dickens as he might have seemed to his contemporaries: convivial, astute, boundlessly energetic-and lionized. As she makes clear, Dickens not only led the action-packed life of a prolific writer, editor, and family man but, balancing the artistic and the commercial in his work, he also consciously sustained his status as one of the first modern "celebrities." Charles Dickens offers brilliant interpretations of almost all the major works, an exploration of his narrative techniques and his innovative voice and themes, and a reflection on how his richly varied lower-class cameos sprang from an experience and passion more personal than his public knew. Jane Smiley touches, too, on controversial details that include Dickens's obsession with money and squabbles with publishers, his unhappy marriage, and the rumors of an affair. Here is a fresh look at the dazzling personality of a verbal magician and the fascinating times behind the classics we read in school and continue to enjoy today.
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Thomas Jefferson & Alexander Hamilton : two lifelong rivals. Columbia, SC : Self-published, 2019.
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Ellmann, Richard, 1918-1987. James Joyce. New and revised edition. Dublin -- Pola, Rome, Trieste -- Zurich -- Paris -- Return to Zurich -- Notes -- Index. Upon its publication in 1959, this book was recognized as the definitive study of Joyce's life. In honor of the James Joyce Centenary in 1982, the author published a new edition, thoroughly revised and expanded. Ellmann's original research led him from Dublin to Joyce's haunts in Europe. In the process he discovered many people who served as partial models for Joyce's characters, networks of association in which they were placed, and he shows how Joyce converted this raw material into brilliant works of fiction. Ellmann gives a fascinating account of the literary milieu in which Joyce worked, and discusses his relationship with Yeats, Shaw, Eliot, Hemingway, Proust, Pound, Larbaud, and Fitzgerald. His dramatic portrait of Joyce as son, lover, husband. father, and artist provides the key to understanding Joyce's revolutionary writings. This new edition, for a new generation, Ellmann feels "may help to assuage some of the curiosity that still persists about this bizarre and wonderful creature who turned literature and language on its end."--Publisher description. The fresh material deals with most aspects of Joyce's life: his writings and his attitude towards them, his experiences of love and desire, his domestic travails, his political views.
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O'Brien, Edna. James Joyce. First American edition. Once Upon a Time -- Jesuits -- Inkpots -- Rebellion -- Orphans -- Revels -- Nora -- Exiles -- Manifesto -- Betrayal -- Buckets -- Obstacles -- Dalliance -- Ulysses -- Sirens -- Miss Beach -- Fame -- Miss Weaver.
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Dallek, Robert. An unfinished life : John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963. 1st ed. Boston : Little, Brown, and Co., c2003. Examines the life of John F. Kennedy, drawing from firsthand accounts and freshly discovered documents to discuss Kennedy's privileged youth, military service, marriage and infidelities, medical problems, and political career.
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Abraham Lincoln : the prairie years & the war years. One-Volume Edition. New York : Galahad Books: registered trademark of Budget Book Service, Inc. Published by arrangement with Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1993.
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Miller, Larry (Larry G.), author. Jump : my secret journey from the streets to the boardroom. First edition. The champ -- Homicide -- Juvenile justice -- The nation -- Armed and dangerous -- Learning to survive -- The graduate -- The climb -- Nike time -- Branding Jordan -- Jail blazers -- Blazing new trails -- Unburdening -- What took you so long? -- Community calls -- Epilogue: Back to prison. "One of the most successful Black businessmen in the country, who has led Nike's Jordan Brand from a $200M sneaker company to a $4B global apparel juggernaut, tells the remarkable story of his rise from gangland violence to the pinnacles of international business."--Amazon.
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Fido, Martin. Oscar Wilde. First American paperback edition. An illustrated biography of the Irish man of letters describing his career, the society of which he was a part, and his decline.
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The hero with a thousand faces. 2000. Audio Renaissance; a division of Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC, 2000.
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Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943-. Will in the world : [how Shakespeare became Shakespeare]. Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, p2004. Narrated by Peter Jay Fernandez.
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The dish. Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2001], c2000. Sam Neill, Kevin Harrington, Tom Long, Patrick Warburton, Bille Brown, Genevieve Moody, Tayler Kane. Based on a true story. This is how the biggest television event in history was almost not televised. Apollo 11 goes to the moon and the first step is to be televised around the globe. But right before the landing, the dish flatlines. Its up to the unconventional Aussie crew and the by-the-book NASA supervisor to work together to fix the dish before the landing occurs.
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Marshall. 2017. Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad, Kate Hudson, Dan Stevens, Sterling K. Brown, James Cromwell, Ahna O'Reilly. About a young Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career defining cases.
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The Marx Brothers collection. 2012. Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2012. [v. 1.] A night in Casablanca / David L. Loew ; directed by Archie Mayo -- [v. 2.] A night at the opera / directed by Sam Wood -- [v. 3.] A day at the races / directed by Sam Wood -- [v. 4.] Room service / produced by George Abbott ; directed by William A. Seiter ; At the circus / directed by Edward Buzzell -- [v. 5.] Go West / produced by Jack Cummings ; directed by Edward Buzzell ; Big store / produced by Louis K. Sidney ; directed by Charles Riesner. Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Charles Drake, Lois Collier, Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Maureen O'Sullivan, Lucille Ball, Ann Miller, Frank Albertson, Kenny Baker, Florence Rice, John Carroll, Diana Lewis, Tony Martin. Includes seven of the thirteen Marx Brother's films.
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Swing time. DVD special edition. Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore, Betty Furness, Georges Metaxa. "In this irresistible musical, the legendary dancing duo Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are at the pinnacle of their art as a feckless gambler and the shrewd dancing instructor in whom he more than meets his match. Director George Stevens laces their romance with humor and clears the floor for the movie's showstopping dance scenes, in which Astaire and Rogers take seemingly effortless flight in a virtuosic fusion of ballroom and tap styles. Buoyed by beloved songs by Dorothy Fields and Jerome Kern--including the Oscar-winning classic 'The Way You Look Tonight'--Swing Time is an exuberant celebration of its stars' chemistry, grace, and sheer joy in the act of performance"--Container.
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Power Strip / Surge Protectors. China : Mifasopower, 2021.
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Power Strip / Surge Protectors. China : Addtam, 2021.
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Barlow, Genevieve. Stories from Latin America = : Historias de Latinoam©♭rica. [Premium Third Edition]. McGraw-Hill Education, 2017. The gift of the moon goddess = El regalo de la diosa luna -- Poor fool! = ℗ŁPobre inocente! -- The toad's spots = Las manchas del sapo -- Corporal Mont©Ł©łez = El cabo Mont©Ł©łez -- Quetzal will never die = Quetzal no muere nunca -- Pedro de Cand©Ưa = Pedro de Cand©Ưa -- The adventures of Juan Bobo = Las aventuras de Juan Bobo -- The lame man of Olancho = El cojo de Olancho -- The empty boat = El barco vac©Ưo -- Margarita's slip = La camisa de Margarita -- The trees of white flowers = Los ©Łrboles de flores blancas -- Somersault Street = La calle de la Machincuepa -- Slayer of sharks = El matador de tiburones -- The diamond ring = La sortija de diamantes -- The inheritance = La herencia -- The origin of the nopal cactus = El origen del nopal.
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Barlow, Genevieve. Stories from Mexico = : Historias de México. Third Edition. New York, [N.Y.] : McGraw Hill, C. 2017. The sun and the moon = El sol y la luna -- The rabbit's ears = Las orejas del conejo -- The lion and the cricket = El léon y el grillo -- The sweethearts = Los novios -- The dwarf of Uxmal = El enano de Uxmal -- A bed of roses = Un lecho de rosas -- Atzimba, the princess = Atzimba, la princesa -- The Virgin of Guadalupe = La Virgen de Guadalupe -- The "China poblana" = La china poblana -- The friar and the scorpion = El fraile y el alacrán -- The little animal that sings = El animalito que canta -- The House of Tiles = La Casa de los Azulejos -- The mystery of Elm Grove Street = El misterio de la calle de Olmedo -- The lighthouse keeper's daughter = La hija del torrero -- Who is wise? = Quien es sabio? -- First prize = El premio gordo.
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Barlow, Genevieve, author. Stories from Spain = : Historias de Espa©ła. Premium third edition. Lemor of Ireland = L©♭more de Irlanda -- The gypsy's prophecy = La profec©Ưa de la gitana -- The ransom = Es rescate -- The lovers of Teruel = Los amantes de Teruel -- Aliatar's horse = El caballo de Aliatar -- The woman warrior = La mujer guerrera -- The old woman and the candlestick = La vieja del candelero -- The bridge of St. Martin in Toledo = El puente de San Mart©Ưn en Toledo -- Casilda's roses = Las rosas de Casilda -- The mysterious drawer = El caj©đn misterioso -- The student of Salamanca = El estudiante de Salamanca -- Pedro de Urdemalas = Pedro de Urdemalas -- Murillo, the famous painter = Murillo, pinto famoso -- The mercy dagger = El pu©łal de misericordia -- The mystery of the lost jewels = El misterio de las joyas perdidas -- The pirate's cave = La gruta del pirata -- The spirits = Las ©Łnimas -- The lady of stone = La dama de piedra. Presents eighteen tales from and about Spain, with Spanish and English text on facing pages to help with comprehension for intermediate English-speaking students of Spanish.
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Stories from Puerto Rico = : Historias de Puerto Rico. Chicago : McGraw-Hill, 2009. The death of Salcedo (1511) -- Guanina (1511) -- The miracles of Our Lady of Monserrate (1600) -- The snake's curve (1700) -- The Devil's sentry box (1790) -- Cofresi (1824-25) -- Carabali (1830) -- Lola of America (1858) -- Elena of the Holy Mountain (1900) -- Esperanza (1910) -- Guayama, Witch City (1940) -- The miraculous well (1953) -- The specter (1970) -- Extraterrestrials (1975) -- Foolish Jack -- Friend rabbit.
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Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888. Little women. N/A : N/A, N/A.
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Alvarez, Julia, author. Afterlife : a novel. First paperback edition. Prologue : broken English -- Here there be dragons -- Where is Burkina Faso? -- Rules of sisterhood -- To be missing is not a crime -- Dar a luz -- Who is the most important one? -- Objects in mirror are closer than they appear -- All it takes -- Air quotes -- Cuckoos in Kyoto -- As if -- Harvest -- Epilogue : Japanese repair technique. "A literature professor tries to rediscover who she is after the sudden death of her husband, even as a series of family and political jolts force her to ask what we owe those in crisis in our families, biological or otherwise"--. Antonia Vega has just retired from the college where she taught English when her beloved husband, Sam, suddenly dies. And then more jolts: her bighearted but unstable sister disappears, and Antonia returns home one evening to find a pregnant, undocumented teenager on her doorstep. Antonia has always sought direction in the literature she loves, but now she finds that the world demands more of her than words. Now she questions: How do we live in a broken world without losing faith in one another or ourselves? -- adapted from jacket.
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Berry, Flynn, 1986- author. Northern spy. "A producer at the Belfast bureau of the BBC, Tessa is at work one day when the news of another raid comes on the air. The IRA may have gone underground after the Good Friday agreement, but they never really went away, and lately, bomb threats, arms drops, and helicopters floating ominously over the city have become features of everyday life. As the anchor requests the public's help in locating those responsible for this latest raid - a robbery at a gas station - Tessa's sister appears on the screen. Tessa watches in shock as Marian pulls a black mask over her face. The police believe Marian has joined the IRA, but Tessa knows this is impossible. They were raised to oppose Republicanism, and the violence enacted in its name. They've attended peace vigils together. And besides, Marian is vacationing by the sea. Tessa just spoke to her yesterday. When the truth of what has happened to Marian reveals itself, Tessa will be forced to choose: between her ideals and her family, between bystanderism and action. Walking an increasingly perilous road, she fears nothing more than endangering the one person she loves more fiercely than her sister: her infant son. A riveting and exquisite novel about family, terror, motherhood, betrayal, and the staggering human costs of an intractable conflict, Northern Spy cements Flynn Berry's status as one of the most sophisticated and accomplished authors of crime and suspense novels working today"--.
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Cobbs, Elizabeth, author. The Hamilton affair : a novel.
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Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. Heart of darkness and other tales. Revised edition. An outpost of progress -- Karain : a memory -- Youth : a narrative -- Heart of darkness. Set in an atmosphere of mystery and menace, Heart of Darkness tells the story of Marlow's journey up the Congo River to meet the remarkable Mr. Kurtz. It reveals Conrad at the height of his powers as a writer of great vividness, intensity, and sophistication. An Outpost of Progress is also set in central Africa and offers a fiercely sardonic view of European imperialism. Karain, with its Malaysian setting, questions conventional ideas of the contrasts between races. Youth is a largely autobiographical account of an ill-fated voyage in which Marlow makes his first appearance. The four tales variously appraise the glamour, folly, and rapacity of imperial adventure. All are concerned with illusions and all, in their diverse ways, display the brilliance of Joseph Conrad, creator of exotic vistas, adventurous narratives, and acutely ironic insights into human nature and the bases of civilization. - Back cover.
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Cruz, Angie, author. Dominicana. First Flatiron Books paperback edition, 2020. Fifteen-year-old Ana Canci©đn never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City, she has to say yes. Their marriage is an opportunity for her entire close-knit family to eventually immigrate. So on New Year's Day, 1965, Ana leaves behind everything she knows and becomes Ana Ruiz, a wife confined to a cold six-floor walk-up in Washington Heights. Lonely and miserable, Ana hatches a reckless plan to escape. But at the bus terminal, she is stopped by C©♭sar, Juan's free-spirited younger brother, who convinces her to stay. As the Dominican Republic slides into political turmoil, Juan returns to protect his family's assets, leaving C©♭sar to take care of Ana. Suddenly, Ana is free to take English lessons at a local church, lie on the beach at Coney Island, see a movie at Radio City Music Hall, go dancing with C©♭sar, and imagine the possibility of a different kind of life in America. When Juan returns, Ana must decide once again between her heart and her duty to her family.
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Davis, Fiona, 1966- author. The lions of Fifth Avenue : a novel. First Dutton trade paperback, May 2021. "It's 1913, and on the surface, Laura Lyons couldn't ask for more out of life-her husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, allowing their family to live in an apartment within the grand building, and they are blessed with two children. But headstrong, passionate Laura wants more, and when she takes a leap of faith and applies to the Columbia Journalism School, her world is cracked wide open. As her studies take her all over the city, she finds herself drawn to Greenwich Village's new bohemia, where she discovers the Heterodoxy Club-a radical, all-female group in which women are encouraged to loudly share their opinions on suffrage, birth control, and women's rights. Soon, Laura finds herself questioning her traditional role as wife and mother. But when valuable books are stolen back at the library, threatening the home and institution she loves, she's forced to confront her shifting priorities head on . . . and may just lose everything in the process. Eighty years later, in 1993, Sadie Donovan struggles with the legacy of her grandmother, the famous essayist Laura Lyons, especially after she's wrangled her dream job as a curator at the New York Public Library. But the job quickly becomes a nightmare when rare manuscripts, notes, and books for the exhibit Sadie's running begin disappearing from the library's famous Berg Collection. Determined to save both the exhibit and her career, the typically risk-adverse Sadie teams up with a private security expert to uncover the culprit. However, things unexpectedly become personal when the investigation leads Sadie to some unwelcome truths about her own family heritage-truths that shed new light on the biggest tragedy in the library's history"--.
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Dray, Stephanie, author. America's first daughter : a novel. First edition. As Thomas Jefferson's oldest daughter, Patsy becomes his helpmate, protector, and constant companion in the wake of her mother's death. She travels with him when he becomes American minister to France. It is in Paris that Patsy learns about her father's liaison with Sally Hemings, a slave girl her own age. Meanwhile, Patsy has fallen in love with her father's prot©♭g©♭ William Short, a staunch abolitionist and ambitious diplomat. Her choices will follow her in the years to come, and as scandal, tragedy, and poverty threaten her family Patsy must decide how much she will sacrifice to protect her father's reputation.
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Jeffers, Honor©♭e Fanonne, 1967- author. The love songs of W.E.B. Du Bois : a novel. First edition. The great scholar, W.E.B. Du Bois, once wrote about what he called "Double Consciousness," a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive. From an early age, Ailey fights a battle for belonging that's made all the more difficult by a hovering trauma. To come to terms with her own identity, Ailey embarks on a journey through her family's past. In doing so Ailey must learn to embrace her full heritage, a legacy of oppression and resistance, bondage and independence, cruelty and resilience that is the story - and the song - of America itself.
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Engle, Margarita, author. Enchanted air : two cultures, two wings : a memoir. First edition. Love at first sight -- Magical travels -- Winged summer -- Strange sky -- Two wings -- Cold War time line. "In this ... memoir, Margarita Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War"--Amazon.com. In this poetic memoir Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War. Her heart was in Cuba, her mother's tropical island country, a place so lush with vibrant life that it seems like a fairy tale kingdom. But most of the time she lived in Los Angeles, lonely in the noisy city and dreaming of the summers when she can take a plane through the enchanted air to her beloved island. When the hostility between Cuba and the United States erupted at the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Engle's worlds collided in the worst way possible. Would she ever get to visit her beautiful island again?.
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the night. Scribner hardcover edition, June 2020. New York, NY : Scribner, 2020. A story of Americans on the French Riviera in the 1930s is a portrait of psychological disintegration as a wealthy couple supports friends and hangers-on financially and emotionally at the cost of their own stability.
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940. This side of paradise. Scribner hardcover edition. New York, NY : Scribner, 2020.
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Green, Hank, author. An absolutely remarkable thing. The Carls just appeared. Coming home from work at three a.m., twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship--like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor--April and her friend Andy make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube. The next day April wakes up to a viral video and a new life. News quickly spreads that there are Carls in dozens of cities around the world--everywhere from Beijing to Buenos Aires--and April, as their first documentarian, finds herself at the center of an intense international media spotlight...Now April has to deal with the pressure on her relationships, her identity, and her safety that this new position brings, all while being on the front lines of the quest to find out not just what the Carls are, but what they want from us.
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Green, Hank, author. A beautifully foolish endeavor : a novel. "The Carls disappeared the same way they appeared, in an instant. While they were on Earth, they caused confusion and destruction without ever lifting a finger. Well, that's not exactly true. Part of their maelstrom was the sudden viral fame and untimely death of April May: a young woman who stumbled into Carl's path, giving them their name, becoming their advocate, and putting herself in the middle of an avalanche of conspiracy theories. Months later, the world is as confused as ever. Andy has picked up April's mantle of fame, speaking at conferences and online about the world post-Carl; Maya, ravaged by grief, begins to follow a string of mysteries that she is convinced will lead her to April; and Miranda infiltrates a new scientific operation . . . one that might have repercussions beyond anyone's comprehension. As they each get further down their own paths, a series of clues arrive-mysterious books that seem to predict the future and control the actions of their readers; unexplained internet outages; and more-which seem to suggest April may be very much alive. In the midst of the gang's possible reunion is a growing force, something that wants to capture our consciousness and even control our reality. A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor is the bold and brilliant follow-up to An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. It's a fast-paced adventure that is also a biting social commentary, asking hard, urgent questions. How will we live online? What powers over our lives are we giving away for free? Who has the right to change the world forever? And how do we find comfort in an increasingly isolated world?"--.
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Grisham, John, author. The Judge's list. First edition. As an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct, Lacy Stoltz sees plenty of corruption among the men and women elected to the bench. In The Whistler, she took on a crime syndicate that was paying millions to a crooked judge. Now, in The Judge's List, the crimes are even worse. The man hiding behind the black robe is not taking bribes--but he may be taking lives"--. Lacy Stoltz is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct, and ready for a change. Then she meets Jeri Crosby, whose father was murdered twenty years earlier in a case that remains unsolved and that has grown stone cold. Jeri has a suspect whom she has become obsessed with, and has stalked for two decades. Along the way, she has discovered other victims. Suspicion is easy-- proof seems impossible. The man is brilliant, patient, and always one step ahead of law enforcement-- he is a judge in Florida-- under Lacy's jurisdiction. How can Lacy pursue him, without becoming the next name on his list? -- adapted from jacket.
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Habeeb, William Mark. Venice Beach : a novel. Montpelier, VT : Rootstock Publishing, 2021.
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Hammett, Dashiell, 1894-1961. The Maltese falcon. 1st Vintage crime/Black Lizard ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1992.
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Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961, author. The sun also rises. The Hemingway library edition. The novel -- Appendix I: Pamplona, July 1923 -- Appendix II: Early drafts -- Appendix III: The discarded first chapters -- Appendix IV: List of possible titles. A profile of the Lost Generation captures life among the expatriates on Paris' Left Bank during the 1920s, the brutality of bullfighting in Spain, and the moral and spiritual dissolution of a generation.
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Hesse, Hermann, 1877-1962. Siddhartha : an Indian poem. Modern Library ed. New York : Modern Library, 2006. Siddhartha chronicles the spiritual evolution of a man living in India at the time of the Buddha.
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Highsmith, Patricia, 1921-1995, author. The talented Mr. Ripley. Norton ed. The cunning schemes of a young American ne'er-do-well, who travels to Italy on an unusual assignment.
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The Turn of the Screw, the Aspern Papers, and Two Stories. Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003; Intro. and notes by David L. Sweet. New York, NY : Barnes & Noble, 2003.
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The Secret keeper of Jaipur. Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Mira (by arrangement with Harlequin Books S.A., 2021.
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Lefteri, Christy, 1980- author. The beekeeper of Aleppo : a novel. First edition. "Nuri is a beekeeper; his wife, Afra, an artist. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo--until the unthinkable happens. When all they care for is destroyed by war, they are forced to escape. But what Afra has seen is so terrible she has gone blind, and so they must embark on a perilous journey through Turkey and Greece towards an uncertain future in Britain. As Nuri and Afra travel through a broken world, they must confront not only the pain of their own unspeakable loss, but dangers that would overwhelm the bravest of souls. Above all, they must journey to find each other again. Moving, powerful, and beautifully written, The Beekeeper of Aleppo brings home the idea that the most ordinary of lives can be completely upended in unimaginable ways"--.
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Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937, author. Complete fiction of H. P. Lovecraft. Compilation and Introduction c.2016 by Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc. Collects the author's novel, four novellas, and fifty-three short stories. Written between the years 1917 and 1935, this collection features Lovecraft's trademark fantastical creatures and supernatural thrills, as well as many horrific and cautionary science-fiction themes. Includes such horror classics as The call of Cthulhu, At the mountains of madness, The Dunwich horror, The colour out of space, along with other works.
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McLain, Paula, author. When the stars go dark : a novel. First edition. "From the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife comes an atmospheric novel of intertwined fate and heart-wrenching suspense: A detective hiding away from the world. A series of disappearances that reach into her past. Can solving them help her heal? Anna Hart is a seasoned missing persons detective in San Francisco with far too much knowledge of the darkest side of human nature. When unspeakable tragedy strikes her personal life, Anna, desperate and numb, flees to the Northern California village of Mendocino. She spent summers there as a child with her beloved grandparents, and now she believes it might be the only place left for her to heal. Yet the day she arrives, she learns a local teenage girl has gone missing. Anna is in no condition to become involved with the search--until a childhood friend, now the village sheriff, pleads for her help. Then, just days later, a twelve-year-old girl is abducted from her home. The crimes feel frighteningly reminiscent of the most crucial time in Anna's childhood, when a string of unsolved murders touched Mendocino. As past and present collide, Anna realizes that she has been led to this moment. The most difficult lessons of her life have given her insight into how victims come into contact with violent predators. As Anna becomes obsessed with these missing girls, she must learn that true courage means getting out of her own way and learning to let others in. Weaving together true crime, trauma theory, and a hint of the metaphysical, this tense, affecting story is about fate, unlikely redemption, and what it takes, when the worst happens, to reclaim our lives--and our faith in one another"--.
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Miller, Madeline. The song of Achilles. 1st ed. New York : Ecco, c2012. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, follows Achilles into war, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they have learned, everything they hold dear. And that, before he is ready, he will be forced to surrender his friend to the hands of Fate. Set during the Trojan War.
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Moreno-Garcia, Silvia, author. Mexican Gothic. Del Rey trade paperback edition. "The acclaimed author of Gods of Jade and Shadow returns with a darkly enchanting reimagining of Gothic fantasy, in which a spirited young woman discovers the haunting secrets of a beautiful old mansion in 1950s Mexico"--.
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Orange, Tommy, 1982- author. There there. First Vintage books edition. Here is a story of several people, each of whom has private reasons for travelling to the Big Oakland Powwow. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life together after his uncle's death and has come to work at the powwow to honour his uncle's memory. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather, who has taught himself traditional Indian dance through YouTube videos and has come to the powwow to dance in public for the very first time. There will be glorious communion, and a spectacle of sacred tradition and pageantry. And there will be sacrifice, and heroism, and unspeakable loss.
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Orwell, George. 1984. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977.
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The Best of Poe : The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, The Cask of Amontillado, and 30 Others. Revised. 2015. Clayton, Delaware : Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classics, 2006; Revised 2015.
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Quinn, Daniel, author. Ishmael / : a novel. Bantam Books trade paperback edition. The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search for truth. He answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher looking for serious pupils, only to find himself alone in an abandoned office with a full-grown gorilla who is nibbling delicately on a slender branch. "You are the teacher?" he asks incredulously. "I am the teacher," the gorilla replies. Ishmael is a creature of immense wisdom and he has a story to tell, one that no other human being has ever heard. It is a story that extends backward and forward over the lifespan of the earth from the birth of time to a future there is still time save. Like all great teachers, Ishmael refuses to make the lesson easy; he demands the final illumination to come from within ourselves. Is it man's destiny to rule the world? Or is it a higher destiny possible for him-- one more wonderful than he has ever imagined?.
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Riordan, Rick. Percy Jackson & the Olympians :. Disney Hyperion paperback edition. Bk. 1. The lightning thief -- bk. 2. The sea of monsters -- bk. 3. The Titan's curse -- bk. 4. The battle of the labyrinth -- bk. 5. The Last Olympian. The five volumes of the popular series featuring demigod Percy Jackson and his friends from Camp Half-Blood.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. The tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Simon & Schuster paperback edition / An updated edition/ Folger Shakespeare Library. Machine generated contents note: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Text of the Play with Commentary. This edition includes freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play, with full explanatory notes, scene-by-scene plot summaries, and a key to famous lines and passages that make the Bard come to life for all readers.
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Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus : In three volumes. Reprint: The original 1818 text of Mary Shelley (200th Anniversary Collection Classics edition, #1). Independently published. Printed by Amazon, 2021.
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Slocumb, Brendan, author. The violin conspiracy. "Ray McMillian loves playing the violin more than anything, and nothing will stop him from pursuing his dream of becoming a professional musician. Not his mother, who thinks he should get a real job, not the fact that he can't afford a high-caliber violin, not the racism inherent in the classical music world. And when he makes the startling discovery that his great-grandfather's fiddle is actually a priceless Stradivarius, his star begins to rise. Then with the international Tchaikovsky Competition-the Olympics of classical music-fast approaching, his prized family heirloom is stolen. Ray is determined to get it back. But now his family and the descendants of the man who once enslaved Ray's great-grandfather are each claiming that the violin belongs to them. With the odds stacked against him and the pressure mounting, will Ray ever see his beloved violin again?"--.
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Thomas, Angie, author. The hate u give. First edition. "Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil's name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what Starr does or does not say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life"--.
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Towles, Amor, author. A gentleman in Moscow. ""In all ways a great novel, a nonstop pleasure brimming with charm, personal wisdom, and philosophic insight.this book more than fulfills the promise of Towles' stylish debut, Rules of Civility." - Kirkus Reviews (starred) From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility--a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel With his breakout debut novel, Rules of Civility, Amor Towles established himself as a master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction, bringing late 1930s Manhattan to life with splendid atmosphere and a flawless command of style. Readers and critics were enchanted; as NPR commented, "Towles writes with grace and verve about the mores and manners of a society on the cusp of radical change." A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him a doorway into a much larger world of emotional discovery. Brimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count's endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose"--.
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Towles, Amor, author. The Lincoln highway. "The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction-to the City of New York. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes"--.
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Slaughterhouse five. 2019 50th Anniversary Modern Library edition. New York : Modern Library: Imprint of Random House: division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2019.
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H.P. Lovecraft Collection. 2020. London: : Sirius Publishing, a division of Arcturus Publishing Ltd, 2020. v.1 Macabre stories; v.2 The Randolph Carter Stories; v.3 Stories of the Dreamlands; v.4 At the mountains of madness; v.5 The call of Cthulhu and other stories; v.6 The Dunwich horror.
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Murakami, Haruki, 1949-. The Elephant vanishes. 1st Vintage international ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1994.
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On Animals. First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition. October 2021. New York, NY : Avid Reader Press: imprint of Simon & Schuster, 2021.
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Scoggin, Nancy. Barron's AP music theory. New York, NY : Kaplan, Inc. d/b/a Barron's Educational Series, c. 2020.