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Series
The Library of America volume 66-67
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1993
Physical Desc
2 v. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In nineteenth-century America, poetry was, part of everyday life, as familiar as a hymn, a love song, a patriotic exhortation. American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century reveals the vigor and diversity of a tradition embracing solitary visionaries and congenial storytellers, humorists and dissidents, songwriters and philosophers. These two volumes reassess America's poetic legacy with a comprehensive sweep that no previous anthology has attempted. This...
23) American wife
Author
Language
English
Description
On what might become one of the most significant days in her husband's presidency, Alice Blackwell considers the strange and unlikely path that has led her to the White House--and the repercussions of a life lived, as she puts it, "almost in opposition to itself." How can she both love and fundamentally disagree with her husband? How complicit has she been in the trajectory of her own life? What should she do when her private beliefs run against her...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A gripping tour de force of investigative journalism that takes us deep into the investigation behind one of the most frightening and enigmatic serial killers in modern American history, and into the ranks of a singular American police force: the Anchorage PD Most of us have never heard of Israel Keyes. But he is one of the most ambitious, meticulous serial killers of modern time. The FBI considered his behavior unprecedented. Described by a prosecutor...
Author
Publisher
Audio Editions
Pub. Date
p2007
Physical Desc
9 sound discs (ca. 74 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Presents an historical account of the twenty-eight years between the start of the War for Independence in 1775 and the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, focusing on significant people and events in the founding of the American nation.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
At a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking investigation into our dysfunctional healthcare system - and offers practical solutions to its myriad problems.
In these troubled times, perhaps no institution has unraveled more quickly and more completely than American medicine. In only a few decades, the medical system has been overrun by organizations seeking to exploit for profit the trust that vulnerable and sick Americans...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cora Cash had traveled abroad at the turn of the century to seek a titled husband and before she realized it, found herself Duchess of Wareham, married to the most eligible bachelor in England. But, her husband, Ivo, was withdrawn and secretive. Soon Cora would discover that money could not buy everything and would have to make a crucial decision about her life and her marriage.
Author
Publisher
Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
p2007
Edition
Library ed.
Physical Desc
6 sound discs (7 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Even the most devoted readers of nineteenth-century American literature often assume that the men and women behind the masterpieces were as dull and staid as the era's static daguerreotypes. Susan Cheever's latest work, however, brings new life to the well-known literary personages who produced such cherished works as The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, Walden, and Little Women. Rendering in full color the tumultuous, often scandalous lives of these volatile...
31) American traitor
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
449 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Pike Logan must pull two major world powers back from the brink of war in the latest pulse-pounding thriller from New York Times bestselling author and former Special Forces officer Brad Taylor"--
Author
Series
[Spanish love deception volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Rosie Graham has a problem. A few, actually. She just quit her well paid job to focus on her secret career as a romance writer. She hasn't told her family and now has terrible writer's block. Then, the ceiling of her New York apartment literally crumbles on her. Luckily she has her best friend Lina's spare key while she's out of town. But Rosie doesn't know that Lina has already lent her apartment to her cousin Lucas, who Rosie has been stalking--for...
33) American hustle
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Blu-ray + DVD.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 DVD videodisc (138 min. : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
The story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld, who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso. DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that's as dangerous as it is enchanting. Carmine Polito is the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator caught between the cons and Feds. Irving's unpredictable wife Rosalyn could be the one to...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An award-winning investigative journalist, he used his real name; there was no meaningful background check. Four months later, his employment came to an abrupt end. But he had seen enough, and in short order he wrote an expose about his experiences that won a National Magazine Award and became the most-read feature in...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fifty years after Michael Harrington published his groundbreaking book The Other America, in which he chronicled the lives of people excluded from the Age of Affluence, poverty in America is back with a vengeance. It is made up of both the long-term chronically poor and new working poor-the tens of millions of victims of a broken economy and an ever more dysfunctional political system. In many ways, for the majority of Americans, financial insecurity...
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
417 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A family fractures along the political fault lines of the 1960s, setting off a sequence of events ricocheting from anti-Vietnam activism to the Apollo program, in this sprawling multigenerational novel"--
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 493 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The long-awaited biography of the defining illustrator of the twentieth century by a celebrated art critic"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
350, 7 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Reimagines the life of American heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt as the reluctant and bullied bride of the Duke of Marlborough before she finds the inner strength to fight for women's equality.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 461 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The untold story of Hamilton’s―and Burr’s―personal physician, whose dream to build America’s first botanical garden inspired the young Republic.
On a clear morning in July 1804, Alexander Hamilton stepped onto a boat at the edge of the Hudson River. He was bound for a New Jersey dueling ground to settle his bitter dispute with Aaron Burr. Hamilton took just two men with him: his “second” for the duel, and Dr. David Hosack.
As historian...
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