Catalog Search Results
1) Foster
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An international bestseller and one of The Times's "Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century," Claire Keegan's piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love, now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the US. It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas'...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order—all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine” (The New...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Language
English
Description
"From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue by one of the most decorated journalists of our time. 'I read everything he writes. Every time he writes a book, I read it. Every time he writes an article, I read it ... he's a national treasure.' - Rachel Maddow. Patrick Radden Keefe has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award to the...
Author
Publisher
Tim Duggan Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From a leading journalist in Moscow and a correspondent for The New Yorker, a groundbreaking portrait of modern Russia and the inner struggles of the people who sustain Vladimir Putin's rule"--
5) On animals
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
241 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A lifetime of musings, meditations, and in-depth profiles about animals"--
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A dazzling collection of short fiction, more than half of which have never been published before, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and Swing Time Zadie Smith has established herself as one of the most iconic, critically-respected, and popular writers of her generation. In her first short story collection, she combines her power of observation and inimitable voice to mine the fraught and complex experience of life in the modern world....
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 223 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From the best-selling author of Claire of the Sea Light and Brother, I'm Dying, a long-awaited return to fiction: a gorgeous collection of stories about community, family and love; about the forces that pull us together or drive us apart--a book rich with vividly imagined characters, hard-won wisdom, and humanity. In these eight stories by widely acclaimed, prizewinning author Danticat--some of which have appeared The New Yorker--a romance unexpectedly...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 177 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
-- The New Yorker Former vice president Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been called both the luckiest man and the unluckiest--fortunate to have sustained a fifty-year political career that reached the White House, but also marked by deep personal losses and disappointments that he has suffered. Yet even as Biden's life has been shaped by drama, it has also been powered by a willingness, rare at the top ranks of politics, to confront his shortcomings, errors,...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Margaret Atwood has established herself as a beloved cultural icon and one of the most visionary and canonical authors of her generation. In this collection comprised of fifteen extraordinary stories-some of which have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine-Atwood speaks to our times with her characteristic wit and intellect. Of special significance are the seven works revolving around the long-term married couple Tig and Nell....
10) Hiroshima
Author
Language
English
Description
First published in the "New Yorker" issue of August 31, 1946, this is an account of the ruin of a city and the wreck of human lives by one atomic bomb. The report focuses on six individuals who survived in that city.
11) Sisters
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
210 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"'One of her generation's most intriguing authors' (Entertainment Weekly), Daisy Johnson is the youngest writer to have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Now she returns with Sisters, a haunting story about two sisters caught in a powerful emotional web and wrestling to understand where one ends and the other begins. Born just ten months apart, July and September are thick as thieves, never needing anyone but each other. Now, following a...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The indisputable “queen of crosswords,” Anna Shechtman published her first New York Times puzzle at age nineteen, and later, spearheaded the The New Yorker’s popular crossword section. Working with a medium often criticized as exclusionary, elitist, and out-of-touch, Anna is one of very few women in the field of puzzle making, where she strives to make the everyday diversion more diverse.
In this fascinating work—part memoir, part cultural...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 149 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the universally acclaimed, best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: ten pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Here are six pieceswritten in 1968 from the "Points West" Saturday Evening Post column Joan Didion shared from 1964 to 1969 with her husband, John Gregory Dunne about: American newspapers; a session with Gamblers Anonymous;...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 343 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an eminent Dean of American journalism, a vital voice whose work chronicled the civil rights movement and so much of what has transpired since then. My People is the definitive collection of her reportage and commentary. Spanning datelines in the American South, South Africa and points scattered in between, her work constitutes a history of our time as rendered by the pen of a singular and indispensable black woman journalist....
15) The Witch Elm
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A brilliant new work of suspense from "the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years." (Washington Post) From the writer who "inspires cultic devotion in readers" (The New Yorker) and has been called "incandescent" by Stephen King, "absolutely mesmerizing" by Gillian Flynn, and "unputdownable" (People), comes a gripping new novel that turns a crime story inside out. Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who's dodged a scrape at work...
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
viii, 307 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As he was composing what was to become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White was obeying that oft repeated maxim: "Write what you know." Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats, White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favorite hours. Painfully shy his entire life, "this boy," White once wrote of himself, "felt for animals a kinship he never felt for people." It is all the more impressive,...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
196 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken-with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity-is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for generations, is mainstream; for Hua, a first-generation...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 725 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The inside story of the four years when Donald Trump went to war with Washington, from the chaotic beginning to the violent finale, told by revered journalists Peter Baker of The New York Times and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker--an ambitious and lasting history of the full Trump presidency that also contains dozens of exclusive scoops and stories from behind the scenes in the White House, from the absurd to the deadly serious"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
235 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called "The Oral History of Our Time." Joe Gould, a madman, believed he was the most brilliant historian of the twentieth century. So did some of his friends, a group of modernist writers and artists that included E. E. Cummings, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams,...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"You fall down. You get hurt. You get up again. You know Jennifer Weiner as many things: a bestselling author, a Twitter phenomenon, and "an unlikely feminist enforcer" (The New Yorker). She's also a mom, a daughter, and a sister; a former rower and current runner; a best friend and a reality TV junkie. Here, in her first foray into nonfiction, she takes the raw stuff of her personal life and spins it into a collection of essays on womanhood as uproariously...