The elements of style

By Strunk, William

Publishing Date: 2005

Classification: 800

Call Number: 808.042 STR

An enhanced edition of the classic writing manual features humorous art by a popular children's book illustrator and New Yorker cover artist, in a volume that provides visual and whimsical embellishments to the original instructive text.

The best-loved poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Publishing Date: 2001

Classification: 800

Call Number: 808.81

Caroline Kennedy shares her mother's favorite poems organized Caroline Kennedy shares her mother's favorite poems organized and love, refection, and two original poems by her mother.

Poems 1962-2012

By Glück, Louise

Publishing Date: 2013

Classification: 800

Call Number: 811.54 GLÜ

The collected works of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning writer explores her transfigured landscapes and offers insight into her unique form created to reflect the human drive to release the past in order to realize the yet-unimagined.

The beauty: poems

By Hirshfield, Jane

Publishing Date: 2017

Classification: 800

Call Number: 811.54 HIR

The Beauty, an incandescent new collection from one of American poetry's most distinctive and essential voices, opens with a series of dappled, ranging "My" poems--"My Skeleton," "My Corkboard," "My Species," "My Weather"--using materials sometimes familiar, sometimes unexpected, to explore the magnitude, singularity, and permeability of our shared existence. With a pen faithful to the actual yet dipped at times in the ink of the surreal, Hirshfield considers the inner and outer worlds we live in yet are not confined by; reflecting on advice given her long ago--to avoid the word "or"--she concludes, "Now I too am sixty. / There was no other life." Hirshfield's lines cut, as always, directly to the heart of human experience. Her robust affirmation of choice even amid inevitability, her tender consciousness of the unjudging beauty of what exists, her abiding contemplation of our moral, societal, and biological intertwinings, sustain poems that tune and retune the keys of a life. For this poet, "Zero Plus Anything Is a World." Hirshfield's riddling recipes for that world ("add salt to hunger"; "add time to trees") offer a profoundly altered understanding of our lives' losses and additions, and of the small and larger beauties we so often miss. -- Provided by publisher.

John Okada: the life & rediscovered work of the author of No-no boy

Publishing Date: [2018]

Classification: 800

Call Number: 813.54

No-No Boy, John Okada's only published novel, centers on a Japanese American who refuses to fight for the country that incarcerated him and his people in World War II and is cast out by his divided community. The novel faced a similar rejection until is was rediscovered and reissued in 1976, becoming a classic of American literature. As a result of Okada's untimely death at age forty-seven, the author's life and other works have remained obscure. This collection offers the first full-length examination of Okada's development as an artist, placing recently discovered writing by Okada alongside essays that reassess his legacy. Meticulously researched biographical details, insight from friends and relatives, and a trove of photographs illuminate Okada's life in Seattle, military service, and careers as a public librarian, technical writer, and ad man. This volume is an essential companion to No-No Boy--back cover.

Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the secret history of L.A

By Anolik, Lili

Publishing Date: 2019

Classification: 800

Call Number: 813.54 ANO

The quintessential biography of Eve Babitz (1943-2021), the brilliant chronicler of 1960s and 70s Hollywood hedonism and one of the most original American voices of her time.

She's not there: a life in two genders

By Boylan, Jennifer Finney

Publishing Date: 2003

Classification: 800

Call Number: 813.54 BOY

A memoir that tells the story of a person who changed genders chronicles the life of James, a critically acclaimed novelist, who eventually became Jenny, a happy and successful English professor.

Tony Hillerman's landscape: on the road with an American legend

By Hillerman, Anne

Publishing Date: 2009

Classification: 800

Call Number: 813.54 HIL

A photographic journey through the landscapes of beloved bestselling author Tony Hillerman's novels-- narrated by his daughter, Anne, with an introduction by the late author.

Capote's women: a true story of love, betrayal, and a swan song for an era

By Leamer, Laurence

Publishing Date: [2021]

Classification: 800

Call Number: 813.54 LEA

"'There are certain women,' Truman Capote wrote, 'who, though perhaps not born rich, are born to be rich.' Barbara 'Babe' Paley, Gloria Guinness, Marella Agnelli, Slim Hayward, Pamela Churchill, C. Z. Guest, Lee Radziwill (Jackie Kennedy's sister) -- they were the toast of midcentury New York, each beautiful and distinguished in her own way. These women captivated and enchanted Capote -- and at times, they infuriated him as well. He befriended them, received their deepest confidences, and ingratiated himself into their lives. Then, in one fell swoop, he betrayed them in the most surprising and shocking way possible. Bestselling biographer Laurence Leamer delves into the years following the acclaimed publication of Breakfast at Tiffany's in 1958 and In Cold Blood in 1966, when Capote struggled with a crippling case of writer's block. While enjoying all the fruits of his success -- including cultivating close friendships with the richest and most admired women of the era -- he was struck with an idea for what he was sure would be his most celebrated novel... one based on the remarkable, racy lives of his very, very rich friends. For years, Capote attempted to write what he believed would have been his magnum opus, Answered Prayers. But when he eventually published a few chapters in Esquire, the thinly fictionalized lives (and scandals) of his closest female confidantes were laid bare for all to see. The blowback incinerated his relationships and banished Capote from their high-society world forever... a world that was already crumbling, though none of them realized it yet. Laurence Leamer recreates in detail the lives of these fascinating swans, their friendships with Capote and one another, and the doomed quest to write what could have been one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century." --

Song of anger: tales of Tule Lake

By Shallit, Barney

Publishing Date: 2001

Classification: 800

Call Number: 813.54 SHA

Song of Anger: Tales of Tule Lake is part memoir, part history, part fiction -- and all profoundly stirring and illuminating. In this curious ensemble of "war stories," Barney Shallit evokes his World War II experiences and observations as a Jewish American social worker at northern California's Tule Lake Segregation Center.

One can think about life after the fish is in the canoe: and other coastal sketches

By Houston, James D

Publishing Date: 1985

Classification: 800

Call Number: 814.54 HOU

The crane wife: a memoir in essays

By Hauser, CJ

Publishing Date: [2022]

Classification: 800

Call Number: 814.6 HAU

"CJ Hauser expands on her viral essay sensation, "The Crane Wife," in a brilliant collection of essays that echo the work of Cheryl Strayed in their revelatory observations of romantic love. CJ Hauser uses her now-beloved title essay as an anchor around which to explore the narratives of romantic love we are taught and which we tell ourselves, and the need to often rewrite those narratives to find an accurate version of ourselves in them. Told with a late-night barstool directness, through the sort of giddy confidences that usually pass between friends, Hauser relates, in dark and often funny ways, the pain of feeling out of sync with the world when you're going through the motions of a life story that doesn't match your reality. With unlikely guides from Katharine Hepburn to Defense Department robots to whooping cranes to golden era SNL comedians to Special Agent Dana Scully, Hauser grapples with the art she loves to mine new understanding of what these sorts of narratives might have to offer as a way forward. These essays follow Hauser as she dismantles the narrative expectations she carried inside her, letting go of the roles she performed to make others comfortable, and seeking joy by tending relationships with community and chosen family--love stories in their own right. The essays capture the daily work of trying, if sometimes failing, to architect a new sort of life story, a new sort of family, a sort of home, to live in. The Crane Wife and Other Essays asks what more inclusive storytelling about family and love and growth might offer us all. A book for anyone who's ever been in love with love, anyone whose life doesn't look the way they thought it would, and anyone who ever wondered: am I doing this right?"--

Representative American speeches, 2022-2023

Publishing Date: 2023

Classification: 800

Call Number: 815.008

Writing with intent: essays, reviews, personal prose, 1983-2005

By Atwood, Margaret

Publishing Date: 2005

Classification: 800

Call Number: 818 ATW

"From one of our most passionately engaged global literary citizens comes Writing with Intent, the largest collection ever assembled of Margaret Atwood's nonfiction, spanning 1983-2005. The fifty-eight essays compiled here are written in a bracing voice that is provocative, witty, often colloquial, and always accessible. Comprised of autobiographical essays, cultural commentary, book and film reviews, eulogies, introductions written for great works of literature, and literary excursions that explore the writing of several of her own novels, this is Atwood's first essay collection in more than two decades, showing that whether writing fiction or nonfiction, she is one of the most probing thinkers in the world of letters today." "Compiled here are the Booker Prize-winning author's reviews of books by John Updike, Italo Calvino, Toni Morrison, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Elmore Leonard, Angela Carter, Beryl Bainbridge, Dashiell Hammett, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Alice McDermott, as well as essays in which she recalls reading Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse at age nineteen, and a piece that examines the influence of George Orwell's work on The Handmaid's Tale. Here is Atwood's New York Times Book Review piece that helped make Orhan Pamuk's Snow a bestseller in 2004, a look back at a family trip to Afghanistan just before the Soviet invasion, and her "Letter to America," written after September 11, 2001"--Jacket.

Fart proudly: writings of Benjamin Franklin you never read in school

By Franklin, Benjamin

Publishing Date: 2003

Classification: 800

Call Number: 818.102 FRA

There is a side to Benjamin Franklin we were not exposed to in school. There was a bawdy, scurrilous dimension to Franklin's character that was all too eager to ingnite the flames of controversy -- and keep them burning. This book is a testament to the satirical rogue that lived peaceably inside the philosopher and statesman. It is also tribute to the ideal of a free press in the United States.

Hole in the sky: a memoir

By Kittredge, William

Publishing Date: 1992

Classification: 800

Call Number: 818.54 KIT

An account of Kittredge's family who came to the West as pioneers, established a massive ranch, and the end of a way of life.

Hottest heads of state: the American presidents

By Dobson, J. D.

Publishing Date: [2018]

Classification: 800

Call Number: 818.6 DOB

A bipartisan parody of a teen magazine featuring past U.S. presidents as unlikely heartthrobs. Includes funny and educational outlines of these handsome and mysterious men, and thoughtful analysis of which ones would make good boyfriends. Learn centuries' worth of cocktail party-worthy trivia and become slightly more prepared to take the AP U.S. History exam.

Songs of innocence & of experience

By Blake, William

Publishing Date: 2006

Classification: 800

Call Number: 821.7 BLA

‘Every page is a window open in Heaven … interwoven designs companion the poems, and gold and yellow tints diffuse themselves over the page like summer clouds. The poems [of Song of Innocence] are the morning song of Blake's genius.' – W.B. Yeats‘Blake sang of the ideal world, of the truth of the intellect, and of the divinity of imagination … The only writer to have written songs for children with the soul of a child … he holds, in my view, a unique position because he unites intellectual sharpness with mystic sentiment.' – James JoyceSong of Innocence and of Experience is a rare and wonderfu.

A year in the life of William Shakespeare, 1599

By Shapiro, James

Publishing Date: 2006, 2005

Classification: 800

Call Number: 822.33 SHA

1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England. Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous plays: Henry the Fifth, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and, most remarkably, Hamlet; Elizabethans sent off an army to crush an Irish rebellion, weathered an Armada threat from Spain, gambled on a fledgling East India Company, and waited to see who would succeed their aging and childless queen. James Shapiro illuminates both Shakespeare's staggering achievement and what Elizabethans experienced in the course of 1599, bringing together the news and the intrigue of the times with a wonderful evocation of how Shakespeare worked as an actor, businessman, and playwright. The result is an exceptionally immediate and gripping account of an inspiring moment in history.

The Alice behind wonderland

By Winchester, Simon

Publishing Date: 2011

Classification: 800

Call Number: 823.8 WIN

"In the summer of 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church in Oxford, Charles Dodgson--better known by his pseudonym Lewis Carroll--dressed the six-year-old Alice Liddell in ragamuffin's clothes, and then snapped the camera's shutter. In The Alice Behind Wonderland, Simon Winchester uses the famous photograph of Alice as the launching pad for an appreciative energetic and penetrating look at the inspiration behind, and the making of, one of the greatest classics of children's literature. Indeed, Winchester shows that Dodgson's love of photography deeply influenced his view of the world, helping to transform this shy and half-deaf mathematician into one of the world's best-loved observers of childhood. Much like the fictional Alice's world, as the photograph is subject to closer examination, 'Alice Liddell as The Beggar Maid' becomes curiouser and curiouser, capturing a moment during a golden afternoon that would endure forever. 'Alice Liddell as The Beggar Maid' was, in short, the muse that would inspire the creation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Deftly engaging with Dogson's published writings, private diaries, and photography, Winchester weaves together the poignant, turbulent, and entirely fascinating story behind Lewis Carroll and the making of his Alice. Acclaim for Simon Winchester "An exceptionally engaging guideat home everywhere, ready for anything, full of gusto and seemingly omnivorous curiosity."--Pico Iyer, The New York Times Book Review "A master at telling a complex story compellingly and lucidly."--USA Today "Extraordinarily graceful."--Time "Winchester is an exquisite writer and a deft anecdoteur."--Christopher Buckley "A lyrical writer and an indefatigable researcher." --Newsweek"--