Search Results: Returned 11 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 11
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2000., Modern Library Call No: Romance FIC Tolstoy Edition: Modern Library pbk. ed. Genre: Classic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The Modern Library classicsSummary Note: In nineteenth-century Russia, the wife of an important government official loses her family and social status when she chooses the love of Count Vronsky over a passionless marriage. Includes an introduction by Mona Simpson, commentary, and a reading group guide.
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2002, c1939., Penguin Books Call No: Historical FIC Steinbeck Edition: John Steinbeck centennial ed. (1902-2002). Genre: Classic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The story of a farm family's Depression-era journey from the Dustbowl of Oklahoma to the California migrant labor camps in search of a better life.
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[2019]., Ten Speed Press Call No: GN Jungle Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Explores the difficult conditions faced by immigrants in Chicago during the early 1900s though a graphic novel adaptation of Upton Sinclair's novel. Focused on the deplorable working conditions of the meat industry of the era and the hopeless, poverty the workers experienced.
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2001., Modern Library Call No: Adventure FIC Cooper Edition: 2001 Modern Library pbk. ed., 1st ed. Genre: Classic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Modern Library Classics.Summary Note: Hawkeye and his loyal Mohican friends Chingachgook and Uncas become embroiled in the bloody battles of the French and Indian War.
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c1984., Reader's Digest Association Call No: Adventure FIC Cooper Edition: Reader's digest ed. Genre: Classic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The World's best reading
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2004., Juvenile, Vintage Books Call No: Adventure FIC Richter Edition: First Vintage Books edition. Genre: Classic Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: As part of a peace treaty between the Delaware Indians and British settlers in 1764, a young man who had been kidnapped and raised by the Indians is returned to the whites, but has difficulty adjusting.
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2003, c1932., Little, Brown Call No: FIC NORDHOFF Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fictionalizes the mutiny of the British war vessel "Bounty" in 1789.
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2003, c1959., Scribner Call No: Historical FIC Knowles Edition: 1st Scribner trade pbk. ed. Genre: Classic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Gene Forrester looks back fifteen years to a World War II year in which he and his best friend Phineas were roommates in a New Hampshire boarding school. Their friendship is marred by Finny's crippling fall, an event for which Gene is responsible and one that eventually leads to tragedy.
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2012., Ecco Call No: Fantasy Fic Miller Edition: First Ecco paperback edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: A retelling of the legend of Achilles follows Patroclus and Achilles, the golden son of King Peleus, as they lay siege to Troy after Helen of Sparta is kidnapped--a cause that tests their friendship and forces them to make the ultimate sacrifice.
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2010., Anchor Click to access OverDrive digital title. Summary Note: Things Fall Apart tells two intertwining stories, both centering on Okonkwo, a "strong man" of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first, a powerful fable of the immemorial conflict between the individual and society, traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world. The second, as modern as the first is ancient, concerns the clash of cultures and the destruction of Okonkwo's world with the arrival of aggressive European missionaries. These perfectly harmonized twin dramas are informed by an awareness capable of encompassing at once the life of nature, human history, and the mysterious compulsions of the soul.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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By Lee, Harper[1982], c1960., Warner Call No: FIC LEE Edition: Warner Books ed. Availability:4 of 4 At Location(s) Summary Note: Scout Finch, the young daughter of a local attorney in the Deep South during the 1930s, tells of her father's defense of an African-American man charged with the rape of a white girl.
