Being here: poetry, 1977-1980

By Warren, Robert Penn

Publishing Date: c1980

Classification: 800

Call Number: 811.52 WAR

The stories that shape us: contemporary women write about the West : an anthology

Publishing Date: c1995

Classification: 800

Call Number: 814.5408

Over the past decade a rich chorus of women's voices has emerged from the West. The Stories That Shape Us is an extraordinary anthology of twenty-six personal essays by contemporary women writers, many being published here for the first time. Ranging widely across the cultures and the regions of the West, these women relate stories of family and community, of race and gender, of commitment and displacement, of grief and repair, of spirituality and connection to the earth. Against the story of the Winning of the West, of men in (and against) the natural world, these writers propose a revised narrative, one more appropriate to a world facing stark limits and ecological disaster. Their stories are not new, but until recently we have been unable to hear them. The voices in The Stories That Shape Us have been shaped by their particular regions and cultures, but they speak to the nation, and they demand attention because they tell us what we need in order to survive. The contributors to The Stories That Shape Us are as diverse as the regions they speak from. Some of them are well-established, even best-selling authors; others are new voices soon to be heard on the national scene. All are united by their passion to tell the truth about their land and their lives - to tell the stories that have shaped them and that can help shape us all.

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Representative American speeches 2011-2012

Publishing Date: 2013

Classification: 800

Call Number: 815.008

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Winter journal

By Auster, Paul

Publishing Date: 2012

Classification: 800

Call Number: 818.5403 AUS

Facing his sixty-third winter, novelist Auster sits down to write a history of his body and its sensations. He takes us from childhood to the brink of old age as he summons a universe of physical sensation, of pleasures and pains, moving from the awakening of sexual desire to the ever deepening bonds of married love; from meditations on eating and sleeping to an account of his mother's sudden death.

Without a map: a memoir

By Hall, Meredith

Publishing Date: c2007

Classification: 800

Call Number: 818.609 HAL

In 1965, Hall, called Meredy, becomes pregnant at 16. Four-and-a-half months later, maternal instincts kick in. She pauses before doing a somersault in gym class, and her secret is exposed. Expelled from school, she is shunned by her small New Hampshire community and turned away by her mother. Sent to live with her father and his chilly new wife, she hides upstairs while they have dinner parties, waiting out her pregnancy like a prison term. This rousing memoir tells the story of how Meredy was forced to give her baby up for adoption (was, in fact, drugged during labor to prevent any contact at all) and pushed into a vagabond existence. She lives on a boat, wanders penniless around the Middle East, and eventually settles in Maine. Divorced and raising two young children, she gets a phone call: her son is found. Written in spare, unsentimental prose, Without a Map is stunning; Meredy's reunion with her grown son (who was raised in poverty with an abusive father) is the highlight. Book groups, take note. --Emily Cook Copyright 2006 Booklist

Dickens on France

Publishing Date: 2007

Classification: 800

Call Number: 823.8

"Dickens on France brings together short stories, extracts from novels, travel writing, and journalism. Among its journalistic highlights are accounts of a train journey from London to Paris, a rough Channel crossing, the pleasures of Boulogne, and Parisian life in the 1850s and 1860s."--BOOK JACKET.

Anaïs Nin reader

By Nin, Anaïs

Publishing Date: [1973]

Classification: 800

Call Number: 848.91 NIN