Search Results: Returned 19 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 19
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1987., Delacorte Call No: YOUNG ADULT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, an abstract expressionist artist, who acquired the largest collection of abstract expressionist paintings in private hands.
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1988., Dell Call No: Literature FIC VONNEGUT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Karabekian is a failed abstract expressionist painter (he used a paint that peeled from the canvas mere years after it dried) who yet became a wealthy man through selling pictures his celebrated colleagues gave him to repay debts. His rise to fortune despite his failure is just one of the excruciating Vonnegutian ironies that stud the story. Karabekian recounts both a bemusingly adventurous life crowded with contradictory characters and the events of the summer of 1987 during which he writes.
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[1998], c1963., Dell Pub Call No: YOUNG ADULT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the year 2000, a young man discovers ice-nine, which can set off a chain reaction more deadly than a nuclear bomb, and a new prophet whose teachings sweep the world.
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Ã1963., Dell Pub Call No: Science fiction FIC VONNEGUT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the year 2000, a young man discovers ice-nine, which can set off a chain reaction more deadly than a nuclear bomb, and a new prophet whose teachings sweep the world.
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By Gordon, Richard. Special delivery Trollope, Anthony. O'Conors of Castle O'Conor Ustinov, Peter. When in Rome Runyon, Damon. Butch minds the baby Jerome, Jerome K. Linguistic experiment Allen, Woody. Whore of Mensa Gibbons, Stella. Introduction to cold comfort Warner, Charles Dudley. How I killed a bear Milligan, Spike. Day in the life of a Milligan Mencken, H. L. Adventures of a1987., Gallery Books Call No: Humor FIC COMEDY Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Humorous short stories by well known authors.
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[2017]., Seven Stories Press Call No: REALISTIC F VON Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The complete short fiction of Kurt Vonnegut has been assembled for the first time. Organized thematically, these ninety-eight stories were written from 1941 to 2007, and include those Vonnegut published in magazines or collected in Welcome to the Monkey House, Bagombo Snuff Box, and other books. Also included are five previously unpublished stories, as well as a handful of others that were published online.
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c1985., Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence Call No: YOUNG ADULT Edition: 1st trade ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
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-- God bless you, Doctor Kevorkianc1999., Seven Stories Press Call No: YOUNG ADULT Edition: A Seven Stories 1st Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A collection of approximately thirty brief fictional interviews with people who have crossed over to the Afterlife, conducted by the author while in the midst of controlled near-death experiences.
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c1979., Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence Call No: YOUNG ADULT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Walter Starbuck relfects on various aspects of American life as he has seen it during his sixty-six years.
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1966., Dell Publishing Call No: Historical fiction FIC VONNEGUT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An American playwright living in pre-World War II Berlin becomes an allied spy within the Nazi Party. After the war, when he goes back to America, he is confronted by both Nazi haters and sympathizers.
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c1980., Dell Call No: DYSTOPIA Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes a future America in which computers solve all your problems, machines give you everything you need, and you are taken care of from cradle to grave by an industrial society.
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1991, c1969., Dell Call No: Science fiction FIC VONNEGUT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Unstuck in time, Billy Pilgrim, survivor of the Dresden bombing, relives his life over and over again under the gaze of aliens; he comes at last to some understanding of the human comedy.
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-- Slaughterhouse-5[2020]., Adolescent, Archaia Call No: GN VON Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The first-ever graphic novel adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world's great anti-war books. Billy Pilgrim has read Kilgore Trout; opened a successful optometry business; built a loving family; witnessed the firebombing of Dresden; traveled to the planet Tralfamadore; met Kurt Vonnegut; come unstuck in time. Billy Pilgrim's journey is at once a farcical look at the horror and tragedy of war where children are placed on the frontlines and die (so it goes), and a moving examination of what it means to be fallibly human.
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-- Children's crusade1991, c1969., Bantam Doubleday Dell Call No: Classic FIC VON Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A fourth-generation German-American is tortured by his memories of the firebombing of Dresden in 1944 which he witnessed while a prisoner of war.
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-- Children's crusadec1994., Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence Call No: 813 .54 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
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-- Children's crusadec1969., Dell Call No: 813 .54 Availability:10 of 10 At Location(s) Summary Note: A fourth-generation German-American is tortured by his memories of the firebombing of Dresden in 1944 which he witnessed while a prisoner of war.
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1971, c1969]., Dell Pub. Co Call No: FIC VON Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Dell book
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-- Slaughterhouse-fivec1994., Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence Call No: YOUNG ADULT Edition: 25th anniversary ed Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A fourth-generation German-American is tortured by his memories of the firebombing of Dresden in 1944 which he witnessed while a prisoner or war.