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Author
Publisher
Scribner Paperback Fiction
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st Scribner pbk. fiction ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 317 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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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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English
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"A towering classic of dystopian satire, BRAVE NEW WORLD is a brilliant and terrifying vision of a soulless society-and of one man who discovers the human costs of mindless conformity. Hundreds of years in the future, the World Controllers have created an ideal civilization. Its members, shaped by genetic engineering and behavioral conditioning, are productive and content in roles they have been assigned at conception. Government-sanctioned drugs...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six of America's finest writers: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever, and Raymond Carver. All six of these men were alcoholics, and the subject of drinking surfaces in some of their finest work, from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof to A Moveable Feast. Often, they did their drinking together:...
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English
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"William Golding's unforgettable classic of boyhood adventure and the savagery of humanity comes to Penguin Classics in a stunning Graphic Deluxe Edition with a new foreword by Lois Lowry As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary boys marooned on a coral island...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xx, 448 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Focusing primarily on the conflict between critics and supporters, the author explores the First World War. These activists included some veteran social reformers like the Pankhursts.
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Series
Language
English
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"Kate Atkinson's dazzling Life After Life explored the possibility of infinite chances and the power of choices, following Ursula Todd as she lived through the turbulent events of the last century over and over again. A GOD IN RUINS tells the dramatic story of the 20th century through Ursula's beloved younger brother Teddy--would-be poet, heroic pilot, husband, father, and grandfather--as he navigates the perils and progress of a rapidly changing...
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English
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Published to great acclaim and fierce controversy in 1866, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment has left an indelible mark on global literature and our modern world, and is still known worldwide as the quintessential Russian novel. Readers of all backgrounds have debated its historical, cultural, and spiritual dimensions, probing the moral and ethical dilemmas that Dostoevsky so brilliantly stages throughout his narrative. Yet, at its heart, this...
10) How music works
Author
Publisher
McSweeneys
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Revised and updated.
Physical Desc
374 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame inductee and co-founder of Talking Heads presents a celebration of music that offers insight into the roles of time, place and recording technology, discussing how evolutionary patterns of adaptations and responses to cultural and physical contexts have influenced music expression throughout history and culminated in the 20th century's transformative practices.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The literary sensation of the year, a book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. Here is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that...
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Language
English
Description
When U.S. troops occupy Germany, friends Jakob and Emmanuelle are saved from the terrible fate of so many in the camps. With the help of sponsors, they make their way to New York. In order not to be separated, they allow their friendship to blossom into love and marriage, and start a new life on the Lower East Side, working at grueling, poorly paid jobs. Decades later, through talent, faith, fortune, and relentless hard work, Jakob has achieved success...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Playwright Billy Gertz, having waited on 9/11 for news of her lover Gus, writes "The Lake Shore Limited," a play about a man waiting to hear whether his estranged wife has survived a terrorist bombing on a train that was just pulling into Chicago's Union Station, and finds the work has far-reaching effects, not just on her life, but on those of Gus's sister, the actor in the lead role, and a man who is attracted to Billy.
14) The Trial
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 75
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Kafka's final work was left unfinished at the time of his 1924 death, and the original 1925 and subsequent editions were edited according to the standards of the day. This edition endeavors to restore the text as closely as possible to the original manuscript. In addition to the text, this volume includes a bibliography and a chronology of the author's life.
16) Persuasion
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English
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Romance
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Anne Elliot lives at Kellynch Hall with her family, but when financial struggles set in they decide to move. Then her life is forever changed as she is reunited with Wentworth, a past fiancé who she never married. Through her journey, Anne may find that what she has been looking for was right in front of her the whole time.
17) Howards End
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English
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The self-interested disregard of a dying woman's bequest, an impulsive girl's attempt to help an impoverished clerk, and the marriage between an idealist and a materialist — all intersect at a Hertfordshire estate called Howards End. The fate of this beloved country home symbolizes the future of England itself in E. M. Forster's exploration of social, economic, and philosophical trends, as exemplified by three families: the Schlegels, symbolizing...
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English
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""A frank, smart and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs. Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents--artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs--Lisa Brennan-Jobs's childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa's father was a mythical figure who was rarely present in her life. As she grew older, her father took an interest in her, ushering her into a new world of mansions, vacations,...
20) You are enough
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xlviii, 283 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Questions, answers, and tricks to help you overcome body issues and eating disorders.
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