Go to sleep, Daisy by Simmons, Jane

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Book of medicines : poems by Hogan, Linda

Table of Contents: “…The history of red -- The history of red -- Hunger -- Fat -- Hunger -- Bear fat -- Return: Buffalo -- Harvesters of night and water -- Bear -- Mountain lion -- Crossings -- Breaking -- Crow law -- Skin -- Salt -- Shelter -- Bamboo -- Map -- Drought -- Naming the animals -- The fallen -- The ritual life of animals -- Travelers -- Tracking -- Milk -- The book of medicines -- The alchemists -- The grandmother songs -- Tear -- chambered nautilus -- Sickness -- Carry -- Glass -- The bricks -- Drum -- Skin dreaming -- Partings -- Gather -- Two -- Nothing -- Gate -- The direction of light -- Great measures -- Other, sister, twin -- Flood: the sheltering tree -- The origins of corn.…”


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Patricia Highsmith : selected novels and short stories by Highsmith, Patricia, 1921-1995

Table of Contents: “…Highsmith country: an intrduction by Joan Schenkar -- Strangers on a train -- A mighty nice man -- The still point of the turning world -- Where the door is always open and the welcome mat is out -- Quiet night -- In the plaza -- The great cardhouse -- The baby spoon -- The price of salt -- Oona, the jolly cave woman -- Two disagreeable pigeons -- Not one of us -- Woodrow Wilson's necktie -- The terrors of basket-weaving -- The trouble with Mrs. …”


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Reconstructing Woody : art, love, and life in the films of Woody Allen by Nichols, Mary P.

Table of Contents: “…The interpreter and the artist -- The hero and the klutz (Play it again, Sam) -- The anhedonist and the Singer (Annie Hall -- The interior decorator and the vulgarian (Interiors) -- The director and the fan (Stardust memories) -- The empiricist and the image maker (A midsummer night's sex comedy) -- The changing man and the psychiatrist (Zelig) -- The actor and the character (The purple rose of Cairo) -- The eavesdropper and the patient (Another woman) -- The ophthalmologist and the filmmaker (Crimes and misdemeanors) -- The detectives (Manhattan murder mystery) -- The murderer and the playwright (Bullets over Broadway) -- The sportswriter and the whore (Mighty Aphrodite) -- The comic.…”


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Covering catastrophe : broadcast journalists report September 11

Table of Contents: “…Prelude : "A clear blue sky" -- "We have breaking news" : the first plane -- "We're being attacked" : the second plane -- "This is all so unbelievable" : the Pentagon and the fall of the South Tower -- "Fright and fear" : Pennsylvania and the fall of the North Tower -- "High alert" : the nation shuts down -- "This dark feeling" : the aftermath -- "Sleep wouldn't come" : nighttime and late-night thoughts -- Epilogue.…”


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The complete works of John M. Synge. by Synge, J. M. (John Millington), 1871-1909

Table of Contents: “…The playboy of the western world -- Riders to the sea -- In the shadow of the glen -- The well of the saints -- The tinker's wedding -- Deirdre of the sorrows -- Poems and translations: Poems ; Translations from Petrarch -- The Aran Islands -- In Wicklow: An autumn night in the hills ; The vagrants of Wicklow -- In west Kerry -- In the congested districts: From Galway to Gorumna ; Between the bays of Carraroe ; Among the relief works ; The ferryman of Dinish Island ; The kelp makers ; The boat builders ; The homes of the harvest men ; The smaller peasant proprietors ; Erris ; The inner lands of Mayo ; The small town ; Possible remedies -- Under ether.…”


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Amelia and Eleanor go for a ride : based on a true story by Ryan, Pam Muñoz

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Red light, green light by MacDonald, Golden, 1910-1952

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Turn the beat around : the secret history of disco by Shapiro, Peter, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…The rotten apple -- "I'm just and outlaw, my name is desire" : disco and sexuality -- "Like clones and robots that we are" : automating the beat -- "Zippin' up my boots, going back to my roots" : disco and the soul continuum -- Prisoners of the night : the disco craze -- "So why should I be ashamed?" …”


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All that is : a novel by Salter, James

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Marianne dreams by Buffini, Moira

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Cinema and evil : moral complexities and the "dangerous" film by Waldron, Dara

Table of Contents: “…Trying to see darkness: a geneaology of evil from Manicheanism to Bataille -- The discourse of evil in Fritz Lang's M and Orson Welles's Touch of evil -- Pasolini and the Remnants of neorealism: towards an immeasurable evil -- Strike dear mistress and cure his heart: Evil and the law in Liliana Cavani's The night porter -- Barbarism begins at home: Augustinian evil in Haneke's Benny's video -- Doli incapax? …”


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Titanic : a new musical by Yeston, Maury

Table of Contents: “…-- There she is -- I must get on that ship -- Godspeed Titanic (Sail on) -- Barrett's song -- What a remarkable age -- To be a captain -- Lady's maid -- The proposal -- The night was alive -- Doing the latest rag -- I have danced -- No moon -- Autumn -- We'll meet tomorrow -- Still.…”


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The celery stalks at midnight by Howe, James, 1946-

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The enemy : a book about peace by Calì, Davide, 1972-

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Bagombo snuff box : uncollected short fiction by Vonnegut, Kurt

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Feliciana Feydra LeRoux : a Cajun tall tale by Thomassie, Tynia

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Pleasure Factory

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The comedians by Greene, Graham, 1904-1991

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The wolf by Herrick, Steven

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