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"December 1926: England unleashes the largest manhunt in its history. The object of the search is not an escaped convict or a war criminal, but the missing wife of a WWI hero, up-and-coming mystery author Agatha Christie. When her car is found wrecked, empty, and abandoned near a natural spring, the country is in a frenzy. Eleven days later, Agatha reappears, claiming amnesia. She provides no answers for her disappearance. That is...until she writes...
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2021.
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English
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"Disinformation. Trolling. Conspiracies. Social media pile-ons. Campus intolerance. On the surface, these recent additions to our daily vocabulary appear to have little in common. But together, they are driving an epistemic crisis: a multi-front challenge to America's ability to distinguish fact from fiction and elevate truth above falsehood. In 2016 Russian trolls and bots nearly drowned the truth in a flood of fake news and conspiracy theories,...
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English
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London, 1905. The city is alight with change and the Stephen siblings are at the forefront. Vanessa, Virginia, Thoby and Adrian are leaving behind their childhood home and taking a house in the leafy heart of avant-garde Bloomsbury. There they bring together a glittering circle of brilliant, artistic friends who will come to be known as the legendary Bloomsbury Group. And at the centre of the charmed circle are the devoted, gifted sisters: Vanessa,...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"From the award-winning novelist, a compact narrative that turns on the death of a vivid and particular woman, and becomes the occasion for a man's deeper examination of love, friendship, and biography. This beautiful, spare novel of platonic unrequited love springs into being around the singular character of the stoic, exacting Professor Elizabeth Finch. Neil, the narrator, takes her class on Culture and Civilization, taught not for undergraduates...
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FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2016]
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1 videodisc (73 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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It is the definitive discourse with Noam Chomsky, widely regarded as the most important intellectual alive, on the defining characteristic of our time, the deliberate concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a select few. Through interviews filmed over four years, Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented inequality, tracing a half-century of policies designed to favor the wealthiest...
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High Plains Press
Pub. Date
c2017
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xiv, 319 p. map ; 23 cm.
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English
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Nature writer, poet, and longtime leader in land stewardship, Linda M. Hasselstrom examines several generations of family diaries searching for an understanding of her ancestors and for direction in planning for the future of the plains ranch which has been in the family for over a century. Moving through the days of a year, she is never afraid to show the reader the most difficult thing of all, the truth of her life. The portrait that emerges is...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings-the dazzling handiwork of the city's skilled artists and architects. But equally important for the centuries to follow were geniuses of a different sort: Florence's manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars, and booksellers, who blew the dust off a thousand years of history and, through the discovery and diffusion of ancient knowledge, imagined a new and enlightened...
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Northland Pub
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c2001
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vii, 184 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 x 25 cm.
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English
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From the exploration of Lewis & Clark to the epic western of John Ford, Murray provides readers with a unique and entertaining tribute to the legends and dreamers who shaped America's imagination.
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Tin House
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2021.
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375 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Blending memoir and cultural criticism, Matthew Specktor explores family legacy, the lives of artists, and a city that embodies both dreams and disillusionment. In 2006, Matthew Specktor moved into a crumbling Los Angeles apartment opposite the one in which F. Scott Fitzgerald spent the last moments of his life. Fitz had been Specktor's first literary idol, someone whose own passage through Hollywood had, allegedly, broken him. Freshly divorced,...
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English
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In his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand offers a new intellectual and cultural history of the postwar years
The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense—economic and political, artistic and personal. In The Free World, the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar and critic Louis Menand tells the story of American culture in the pivotal years from the...
13) Edith Wharton
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
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viii, 869 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Delving into heretofore untapped sources, Hermione Lee does away with the image of the snobbish bluestocking and gives us a new Edith Wharton--tough, startlingly modern, as brilliant and complex as her fiction. Born in 1862, Wharton escaped the suffocating fate of the well-born female, traveled adventurously in Europe and eventually settled in France. After tentative beginnings, she developed a forceful literary professionalism and thrived in a luminous...
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Harper Collins
Pub. Date
2007
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xxxiii, 301 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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From Copernicus to Darwin, to current-day thinkers, scientists have always promoted theories and unveiled discoveries that challenge everything society holds dear; ideas with both positive and dire consequences. Many thoughts that resonate today are dangerous not because they are assumed to be false, but because they might turn out to be true. What do the world's leading scientists and thinkers consider to be their most dangerous idea? Through the...
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Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2016.
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254 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.
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English
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At twenty years old, Pete Fromm heard of a job babysitting salmon eggs, seven winter months alone in a tent in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness. Leaping at this chance to be a mountain man, with no experience in the wilds, he left the world. Thirteen years later, he published his beloved memoir of that winter, Indian Creek Chronicles ― Into the Wild with a twist. Twenty five years later, he was asked to return to the wilderness to babysit more fish...
16) Madame Bovary
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 27
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English
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Emma Bovary, bored by her provincial life, is drawn to a more sophisticated world that will demand a terrible price.
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Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
[1991]
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xiv, 242 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Full of politically charged, often enraged essays on such matters as urban growth ("The Blob Comes to Arizona"), the gentrification of the small-town West ("Telluride Blues--A Hatchet Job"), and wilderness preservation ("Let Us Now Praise Mountain Lions").
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2013
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960 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.
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English
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From Democracy to Cultural Revolution, Courtly Love to Survival of the Fittest, and Kant’s Enlightenment to the Oedipus Complex, here are the big ideas that have revolutionized our world. 1001 Ideas That Changed the Way We Think offers a wealth of stimulation and amusement for any reader with a curious mind, showing how once-radical propositions have become accepted truths. Besides the great, eternal questions (how was the universe created and what...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
℗♭2005
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xi, 293 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm.
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English
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"Illustrated with 370 color plates, Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre is the first major work to present the artist's oeuvre in the context of Montmartre's lively art scene from roughly 1885 to 1901. Accompanying an exhibition of the same name at the National Gallery of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago, the book features the important paintings, drawings, prints, and posters Toulouse-Lautrec made on Montmartre subjects. It also includes masterpieces...
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University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
c2007
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x, 165 p. : ill., col. maps ; 24 cm.
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English
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Robert Steensma has meticulously searched through archival photographs (many included her) and quotations from Stegner's writings, and has added his own interpretive essays in order to recreate the Salt Lake City of the 1920s and 1930s, the city of Stegner's youth and young adulthood. Two maps will help readers locate important Stegner landmarks. This is a book that will appeal to all who have been moved by Stegner's novels, nonfiction, or his urgent...
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