Mailer, Norman
Summary: "This volume contains thirty-six essays published by Norman Mailer from November 1960 to September 1969, along with the preface to his 1963 collection The Presidential Papers and two prefaces he wrote for paperback editions of that book" (Note; page 471).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 MAIWalters, Wendy S.
Summary: "I have never been particularly interested in slavery, perhaps because it is such an obvious fact of my family's history. The fact that I am descended from slaves is hard to acknowledge on a day-to-day basis, because slavery does not fit with my self-image. Perhaps this is because I am pretty certain I would not have survived it." In the manner of Calvino's Invisible Cities, Wendy Walters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarabande Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 WALWood, Gordon S.
Summary: A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the American Revolution explains why it remains the most significant event in our history. In a series of elegant and illuminating essays, Wood explores the ideological origins of the revolution--from ancient Rome to the European Enlightenment--and the founders' attempts to forge an American democracy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.3 WOOMailer, Norman.
Summary: No writer plunged more wholeheartedly into the chaotic energies of the 1960s than Norman Mailer, as he fearlessly revolutionized literary norms and genres to capture the political, social, and sexual explosions of an unsettled era. Here, for the first time in one volume, are his unforgettable books of the 1960s: two disruptive and visionary novels, and two radically innovative journalistic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAIAngell, Harri
Summary: "Pilates for living contains over 70 simple and effective exercises, suitable for all levels and abilities, with clear explanations, tips and modification suggestions. You will also find expert osteopathic advice and motivational interviews"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Sport 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7 ANGSherman, Jake S.
Summary: "The startling inside story of Donald Trump's first two years, viewed from Capitol Hill, where lawmakers on both sides of the aisle jockeyed for advantage as American politics reached a fevered pitch. Taking readers into secret strategy calls and closed-door meetings from the House to the White House, Politico Playbook writers Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer trace the strategy and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2019
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Summary: "From the fearless defense attorney and civil rights lawyer who rose to fame with Netflix's The Staircase comes an essential examination of America's corrupt and abusive criminal justice system"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.73 RUDMailer, Norman
Summary: The first posthumous publication from this literary icon, "Mind of an Outlaw" collects Mailer's most important and representative work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 MAIWarren, Louis S.
Summary: In 1890, on Indian reservations across the West, followers of a new religion danced in circles until they collapsed into trances. In an attempt to suppress this new faith, the US Army killed over two hundred Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek. Louis Warren's God's Red Son offers a startling new view of the religion known as the Ghost Dance, from its origins in the visions of a Northern Paiute...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299 WARNorman, Elizabeth M
Summary: "In the winter of 1941, as Japanese bombs began to fall on Luzon, American Army and Navy nurses stationed in the Philippines suddenly found themselves caught in a fiery hell of war. Undaunted, they did everything in their power to aid the soldiers, setting up much needed field hospitals in the jungles of Bataan and the tunnels of Corregidor, where they tended to the most devastating injuries of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
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Summary: Cultivated from his many essays, articles, and letters, as well as his classic works, The Reading Life provides guidance and reflections on the love and enjoyment of books. Engaging and enlightening, this well-rounded collection includes Lewis' reflections on science fiction, why children's literature is for readers of all ages, and why we should read two old books for every new one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne / HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 028 LEWMaclean, Norman
Contents: The Custer writings. Edward S. Luce, Commanding General (retired), Department of the Little Bighorn ; From the unfinished Custer manuscript -- A Maclean sampler. This quarter I am taking McKeon--a few remarks on the art of teaching ; Billiards is a good game--gamesmanship and America's first nobel prize scientist ; Retrievers good and bad ; Logging and pimping and "Your pal, Jim" ; An incident...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5408 MACSmith, Carl S.
Summary: "Between October 8-10, 1871, much of the city of Chicago was destroyed by one of the most legendary urban fires in history. Incorporated as a city in 1837, Chicago had grown at a breathtaking pace in barely three decades, from just over 4,000 in 1840 to greater than 330,000 at the time of the fire. Built hastily, the city was largely made of wood. Once it began in the barn of Catherine and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2020