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4) Patriots Day
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The story of Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis's actions in the events leading up to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the aftermath.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (368 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nearly 10 years after the original series ended, Gilmore Girls: a Year in the Life is here. Lorelai still runs the Dragonfly Inn, and now lives with Luke. Her daughter, Rory, now 32, juggles career complications and ex-boyfriends, while matriarch Emily adjusts to widowed life. In four memorable chapters studded with drop-ins by quirky Stars Hollow friends, the Gilmores confront long-standing unresolved issues, going head-to-head with passionate...
Pub. Date
1940.
Physical Description
3 pages, leaves, ix-xii, 438 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
65 short stories that appeared in the New Yorker from February, 1925 to September, 1940. Includes stories by Irwin Shaw, John O'Hara, James Thurber, Sherwood Anderson, Erskine Caldwell, E.B. White, Dorothy Parker, Thomas Wolfe, Paul Horgan, Christopher Isherwood, Marc Connelly, John Cheever, among others.
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Description
420 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
For the magazine's centenary celebration, an anthology of pieces from the early golden age of Vanity Fair. Editor Graydon Carter introduces these fabulous pieces written between 1913 and 1936, when the magazine published a murderers' row of the world's leading literary lights. It features great writers on great topics, including F. Scott Fitzgerald on what a magazine should be, Clarence Darrow on equality, D. H. Lawrence on women, e.e. cummings on...
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Description
420 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
For the magazine's centenary celebration, an anthology of pieces from the early golden age of Vanity Fair. Features great writers on great topics, including F. Scott Fitzgerald on what a magazine should be, Clarence Darrow on equality, D. H. Lawrence on women, e.e. cummings on Calvin Coolidge, John Maynard Keynes on the collapse in money value, Thomas Mann on how films move the human heart, Alexander Woollcott on Harpo Marx, Carl Sandburg on Charlie...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A "choral history" of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Last year marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first African presence in the Americas--and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Antiracism Institute of American University, and Keisha Blain,...
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Description
xvi, 352 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"This collection of 125 letters offers a never-before-seen glimpse of the events and people of history--the brightest and the best, the most notorious, and the endearingly everyday. Letters are not ordered chronologically or thematically, but are artfully arranged for a discovery-rich reading experience. Each entry includes a transcript of the letter; a short contextual introduction; and, in 100 cases, a facsimile of the letter itself"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The acid-tongued Dorothy Parker is back and haunting the halls of the Algonquin with her piercing wit, audacious voice, and unexpectedly tender wisdom. Heavenly peace? No, thank you. Dorothy Parker would rather wander the famous halls of the Algonquin Hotel, drink in hand, searching for someone, anyone, who will keep her company on this side of eternity. After forty years she thinks she's found the perfect candidate in Ted Shriver, a brilliant literary...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Description
xxx, 838 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Americans have been at war for most of our history as a people. Wars of conquest gave way to wars of empire, the Civil War to the World Wars, and the Cold War to the War on Terror. Our national anthem celebrates heroism under fire, and martial imagery permeates our politics and our pastimes. But at every turn in this history, Americans have questioned and resisted both particular wars and justifications for war in general. Taking up the pen instead...
17) Complete stories
Author
Language
English
Description
As this complete collection of her short stories demonstrates, Parker's talents extended far beyond brash one-liners and clever rhymes. Her stories not only bring to life the urban milieu that was her bailiwick but lay bare the uncertainties and disappointments of ordinary people living ordinary lives.
Author
Language
English
Description
The members of the legendary Algonquin Round Table become sleuths when they find the body of a competing theatre critic under their usual table. A new writer, Billy Faulkner, has just arrived in New York from Mississippi and immediately becomes the police's number one suspect. Dorothy Parker knows that is rubbish and, with the help of Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott and Robert Sherwood, sets out to clear the young man's name.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Known as the wittiest woman in America and a founder of the fabled Algonquin Round Table, Dorothy Parker was also one of the Jazz Age's most beloved poets. Her verbal dexterity and cynical humor were on full display in the many poems she published in Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Life and collected in her first book in 1926. Now available as a stand-alone edition, the famous humorist's debut collection--a runaway bestseller in 1926--ranges from...
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