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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Harry Mathews (1930-2017) was among the most inventive and unorthodox writers of his generation. His novels earned comparisons to Vladimir Nabokov and Thomas Pynchon and bear the mark of one who learned "never to settle for results that are merely reassuring." But Mathews was a poet first, and he prized poetry for its transformational and redemptive power. Collected Poems: 1946-2016 gathers seven prior collections, together with poems never before...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In engaging anecdotes, Carol discusses her remarkable friendships with stars such at Jimmy Stewart, Lucille Ball, Cary Grant, and Julie Andrews; her television show that won twenty-five Emmys in its remarkable eleven-year run; and the sorrows that she overcame with her irresistible humor.
185) A cabinet of philosophical curiosities: a collection of puzzles, oddities, riddles and dilemmas
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A Cabinet of Philosophical Curiosities is a colorful collection of puzzles and paradoxes, both historical and contemporary, by philosopher Roy Sorensen. Taking inspiration from Ian Stewart's Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities, which assembled interesting "maths" from outside the classroom into a miscellany of marvels, these puzzles are ready to be enjoyed independently but gain mutual support when read in clusters. The volume...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
"Sixth-grader Merci Suarez doesn't have a big house or take fancy vacations like the other kids at Seaward Pines Academy. She's a scholarship student who lives with her extended family in three little houses they call Las Casitas. But everything feels different this year -- and not just at school, where queen bee Edna Santos has set her sights on Merci's school-assigned Sunshine Buddy, Michael Clark. At home, Merci's beloved grandfather, Lolo, has...
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A follow-up to Before & After: Stories from New York is a volume of true essays, vignettes, and tales culled from the urban literary website Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, in an anthology that relates the experiences of such writers as a frequent patron of Manhattan sex clubs, a 47th Street diamond dealer, and an Upper East Side doorman.
Series
Library of America volume 250
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"What we were fighting for": North Carolina, April-May 1865 / Samuel T. Foster: Diary, April 18-May 4, 1865 -- "A thousand rumors": Georgia, May 1865 / Ellen Renshaw House: Diary, May 2, 1865 -- "He behaved so brave": Washington, D.C., May 1865 / Walt Whitman: from Specimen Days -- "Heroes of the sublimest conflict": May 1865 / New York Herald: The Grandest Military Display in the World, May 24, 1865 -- The Grand Review: Washington, D.C., May 1865...
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