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Summary: "When twenty-five-year-old Judith Jones began working as a secretary at Doubleday's newly opened Paris office in 1949, she was tasked with wading through manuscripts in the slush pile until one caught her eye. She read the book in one sitting, then begged her boss to consider publishing it. A year later, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl became a bestseller. It was the start of a culture...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JONES, JUDITH FRANSummary: Amy Tan is the author of several bestselling novels, including the The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, and the beloved Joy Luck Club, which has been translated into 35 languages and became a commercially successful film in 1993. Tan has said in the past that "books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable." In this TEDTalk, she speaks further on the human response...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: The Civil War. A nation torn apart. A war fought in great battles, and a war fought on a much smaller scale…within the minds and hearts of a nation’s young men. On a lonely bridge, a group of soldiers prepare for the somber task of hanging one of their countrymen, now an enemy, for sabotage. This classic retelling of Ambrose Bierce’s acclaimed story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1962
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Wachtell, Cynthia
Summary: Until now, scholars have portrayed America's antiwar literature as an outgrowth of World War I, manifested in the works of writers such as Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos. But in War No More, Cynthia Wachtell corrects the record by tracing the steady and inexorable rise of antiwar writing in American literature from the Civil War to the eve of World War I.-publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Louisiana State University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.9358 WACReading, Amy
Summary: "In the summer of 1925, Katharine Sergeant Angell White walked into THE NEW YORKER'S midtown office and left with a job as an editor. The magazine was only a few months old. Over the next thirty-six years, White would transform the publication into a literary powerhouse. This exquisite biography brings to life the remarkable relationships White fostered with her writers and how these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024
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Summary: Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm—these brilliant women are the central figures of Sharp. Their lives intertwine as they cut through the cultural and intellectual history of America in the twentieth century, arguing as fervently with each other as they did with the sexist attitudes of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 DEAParker, Dorothy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Press 1970
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813 PARPattee, Fred Lewis
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cooper Square Publishers 1968
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.9 PATSummary: Anthropologist, teacher, first black student to attend Barnard College, author associated with the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston is best known for her acclaimed novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. This program follows Hurston’s biography, beginning with her childhood in a subtropical paradise in the South that inspired her throughout her life. This documentary includes interviews with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: “One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.” And so we begin O. Henry’s best-known and timeless story. It’s a wonderful romantic tale of a young married couple who have little money to buy each other Christmas presents - with a charming surprise ending. Starring Rosemary Deleonardis, Kiah Gordon, David A. Silverstein, Linda Stiegler, and Adrienne Storrs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2001
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Kazin, Alfred
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Publisher / Publication Date: Syracuse University Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5 KAZSummary: In this introduction to Eugene O'Neill's life and work from the Famous Authors series, viewers are given a close look at O'Neill's theatrical family and mother who developed a morphine addiction. He struggled with this and his renouncement of Catholicism, a blow to his Irish parents, and escaped into reading voraciously. He went to Princeton, but was unfocused and left for a life of drinking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Franco, Jean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 860.998 FRASummary: This overview of the biography and writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald from the Famous Authors series traces Fitzgerald’s life and influences from his birth in St. Paul, Minnesota, to his university days at Princeton and literary celebrity and frivolity in New York, to his status as social purveyor of modernists in Paris, and his tumultuous marriage to the talented but troubled Zelda Sayre...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In this wide-ranging anthology, Beat scholar Ann Charters brings together more than seventy-five essays, reviews, memoirs, poems, and sketches that evoke the credos and the controversies surrounding the Beat generation writers of the 1950s. Charters includes discussions of all the major Beat figures-Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, Diane di Prima, Gary Snyder, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.9 BEASummary: It’s 1920 and romance is in bloom at the Biltmore Hotel under its famous clock. For Myra Harper, age 21, it’s time to stop “playing around” and find a husband - and the unsuspecting, handsome, shy, and quite wealthy Knowlton Whitney is the perfect target. Romance, it seems, will work quite well with Myra and Knowlton, for they fall in love… And then it’s time to meet his outrageously eccentric...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1984
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Summary: A small New York apartment was a favorite location for an O. Henry story. He is reported to have said, “I would like to live a lifetime in each street in New York. Every house has a drama in it.” Here, just around the corner from the turn of the century, in Greenwich Village, we find two young struggling artists who’ve become the best of friends only to have one stricken with deadly pneumonia....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2001
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Summary: Charley Tate (James Whitmore) is an old windbag, often a braggart, but somehow always lovable. Married more than 50 years to his ever-patient wife Lucy (Teresa Wright), the two of them are on their golden honeymoon in Florida. Everything goes perfectly until Lucy meets her former fiancée who’s also vacationing with his wife. Suddenly there’s a comic competition between Charley and the old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1980
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Summary: Flannery O’Connor is a writer with a keen sense of observation for the subtle cruelty that comes from fear of the unknown, and a case in point is her story “The Displaced Person.” Set in Georgia during the late 1940s, the displaced person is Mr. Guizac (Noam Yerushalmi), a Polish refugee who’s relocated by a priest (John Houseman) to work on Mrs. McIntyre’s (Irene Worth’s) farm. Quickly the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1976
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Summary: Traveling from town to town during the summer of 1919, young Andy (Ron Howard) has left his Ohio home in search of adventure and romance as a horse trainer on the country fair racing circuit. More than a little “wet behind the ears,” Andy learns a bittersweet lesson about life when he meets Lucy (Amy Irving,) the girl of his dreams, at the racetrack one day. Ashamed of his occupation, Andy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1976
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Summary: Lost in a world of fantasy, young working-class Paul dreams of escaping his dreary existence in turn-of-the-century Pittsburgh. As fate would have it Paul gets his chance by stealing some money and subsequently running off to glamorous New York City. Once there, Paul experiences everything he ever dreamed of, from a luxurious hotel suite to his first taste of champagne. However, when reality...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1980
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Summary: Abe Snopes (Tommy Lee Jones) is a Southern tenant farmer whose unrelenting and violent nature proves to be his undoing in William Faulkner’s Barn Burning. Snopes sets his employer’s barn on fire when he thinks he’s been treated unfairly, and his son, Sarty, is horrified. Snope escapes justice for lack of proof, but he and his family are told to move on. No sooner do they move than Snopes is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1980