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1) In our time
Author
Publisher
Mackin
Publication Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Collects six vignettes from Ernest Hemingway, originally commissioned to be written by him by the poet Ezra Pound. Includes twelve more short writings from Hemingway which he himself added later on.
2) On the road
Author
Publication Date
1976
Language
English
Description
This bible of the Beat Generation is a modern classic of the unforgettable exuberance, poignancy, and passion of the 1950s. It follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast. As he travels across 1950s America, aspiring writer Sal Paradise chronicles his escapades with the charismatic Dean Moriarty. Sal admires Dean's passion for experiencing as much as possible...
7) The sunroom
Author
Publication Date
1998
Language
English
Description
The wonderful story of a talented and passionate young pianist on the verge of adolescence who learns the devastating news of her mother''s critical illness. Heartbreak and joy are intertwined in this powerful gift book.
Author
Publication Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
’Tis the season! The Crown meets When Harry Met Sally in the latest heartwarming historical novel from Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb, bestselling authors of Last Christmas in Paris, Meet Me in Monaco, and Three Words for Goodbye. December 1952. While the young Queen Elizabeth II finds her feet as the new monarch, she must also find the right words to continue the tradition of her late father’s Christmas Day radio broadcast. But even...
Author
Publication Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Novelist Aaron Holland Broussard is shattered when his daughter Fannie Mae dies suddenly. As he tries to honor her memory by saving two young men from a life of crime amid their opioid-ravaged community, he is drawn into a network of villainy that includes a violent former Klansman, a far-from-holy minister, a biker club posing as evangelicals, and a murderer who has been hiding in plain sight. Aaron's only ally is state police officer Ruby Spotted...
Author
Publication Date
1993
Language
English
Description
In this darkly comic short story collection, Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. These twenty-two interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, and yet are filled with passion and affection, myth and dream. There is Victor, who as a nine-year-old...
16) Steps
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Publication Date
1997
Physical Desc
148 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Publication Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"By Xi Xi, part of the first generation of writers raised in Hong Kong, a wise and amiably written book of autobiographical fiction on the author's experience with breast cancer-from diagnosis to treatment to recovery-and her passage from a life lived through the mind into a life lived through the body. In 1990, the Hong Kong cult classic writer Xi Xi was diagnosed with breast cancer and began writing in order to make sense of her diagnosis and treatment....
19) Generations
Author
Publisher
Gauntlet Press
Publication Date
2012
Physical Desc
127, 11 p. : facsim. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Generations, an autobiographical novel by Richard Matheson, takes place at a gathering of the Matheson family after the funeral of Matheson's father. While this meeting didn't actually happen, Matheson uses the meeting to explore the many secrets and demons his family harbors."--P. [4] of cover.
20) Hyacinth girls
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Publication Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
pages ; cm
Language
English