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61) Bucking the sun
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Not since Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath has there been a family saga as powerful as Bucking the Sun or a family as compellingly strife-torn as the one at its center. Driven by drought from their Montana farm to "relief work" building the Fort Peck Dam, the Duff family spans the extremes of the times, from the eldest son Owen, who has made his way through college to an engineer's job on the dam to young Bruce, his antithesis, a risk-taker who works...
63) John Steinbeck
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John Steinbeck's novels, including The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden, have been read by students around the world, and they often provide a strong starting point for learning about the devastating effects of the Great Depression. This connection between history and literature is waiting for readers to discover as they take in the fascinating details of Steinbeck's life and closely examine one of his most famous works, Of Mice and Men. Featuring...
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Henry Holt and Company
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"Imagine keeping a record of every book you ever read. What would those titles say about you? With humor and warmth, the editor of The New York Times Book Review shares the stories that have shaped her life. For twenty-eight years, Pamela Paul has been keeping a diary that records the books she reads, rather than the life she leads. Or does it? Over time, it's become clear that this Book of Books, or Bob, as she calls him, tells a much bigger story....
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“Never Summer” is about my family, mother, father and three sisters who for a period of 13 years spent the entire summer months as migrant fruit harvesters in the Pacific Northwest, traveling in old Chevy's equipped with a car-top camper unit in which we lived on and off throughout the summer season. The book is a reflection of those years and the 70 some years hence with some social analysis of societal expectations and comparisons to current...
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When John Steinbeck published "The Grapes of Wrath"in 1939- -- it generated a whirlwind of controversy . Some -- including J.Edgar Hoover and his FBI - -believed Steinbeck was a communist. The FBI files, many meaningless, cost Steinbeck a commission as an officer in the Army during World War Two. By the 1940s, John Steinbeck believed the FBI was following him --but he could not prove it --during his lifetime. FBI documents de-classified after Steinbeck's...
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A 25th anniversary history and celebration of The Shawshank Redemption, one of the most cherished American films of the late twentieth century and one of the finest movies made from a Stephen King story. The movie not only boasts a great story, it has a great backstory, starting with the dollar deal that eventually led King and co-stars Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman to put their trust in a largely untested director making his first feature film....
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"A witty and unexpected take on the zombie genre" in which half-human, half-zombie fights to end the war between the living and the dead (Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels).
Subtitled "A Zombie Memoir," Brains looks at America's favorite walking-dead flesh-eaters from an audaciously original and deliciously gruesome new perspective. Debut author Robin Becker blazes new ground...
Subtitled "A Zombie Memoir," Brains looks at America's favorite walking-dead flesh-eaters from an audaciously original and deliciously gruesome new perspective. Debut author Robin Becker blazes new ground...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by John Steinbeck. Titles in this study guide include The Grapes of Wrath, The Pearl, Of Mice and Men, Cannery Row, East of Eden, and The Winter of our Discontent.
As an author of the Civil Rights Era, Steinbeck effectively writes symbolic structures and conveys social criticism in a progressively idealistic tone. Moreover, his proletarian themes strike...
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A new critical edition of the acknowledged best Canadian novel of the 1930s. Irene Baird's Waste Heritage is a groundbreaking work of Canadian fiction based on the dramatic and violent labour disputes that took place in British Columbia in 1938. The story follows the progress of two friends, Matt Striker, a 23-year-old from Saskatchewan, and his simple-minded companion Eddy, as they travel from Vancouver to Victoria following the occupation of the...
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In 1878, Charles Erskine Scott Wood, builder of the Cats Estate, wrote "Good citizens are the riches of a city." From its beginning, Los Gatos has suffered no shortage of hardworking, inventive, entrepreneurial, and gifted people. Early orchardists found the land unbelievably productive, but their crops were threatened with disease and pesky infestations of gophers. John Bean and Zephyr Macabee provided solutions. Louise Van Meter was an unconventional...
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"Frye Gaillard has given us a deeply personal history, bringing his keen storyteller's eye to this pivotal time in American life. He explores the competing story arcs of tragedy and hope through the political and social movements of the times - civil rights, black power, women's liberation, the Vietnam War and the protests against it. But he also examines the cultural manifestations of change--music, literature, art, religion, and science--and so...
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Throughout his forty-five-year career, Henry Fond, a stable, reassuring archetype of the American male, never gave a bad performance, immortalizing himself in such films as “Young Mr. Lincoln”, “The Grapes of Wrath’, and ‘Mister Roberts”. The torments of his introverted private life vied with his on-screen dilemmas. Personal dramas included five wives (two of whom committed suicide) and involvements in many of the seminal events (including...
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An attack in London left Ann Walmsley unable to walk alone down the street and shook her belief in the fundamental goodness of people. A few years later, when a friend asked her to participate in a bold new venture in a men's medium-security prison, Ann had to weigh her curiosity and desire to be of service against her anxiety and fear.
But she signed on, and for eighteen months went to a remote building at Collins Bay, meeting a group of heavily...
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"A biography of one of America's most popular and misunderstood authors, John Steinbeck. This first full-length biography of the Nobel Laureate to appear in a quarter century explores John Steinbeck's long apprenticeship as a writer struggling through the depths of the Great Depression, and his rise to greatness with masterpieces such as The Red Pony, Of Mice and Men, and The Grapes of Wrath. His most poignant and evocative writing emerged in his...
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Discovering Film volume 13
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Henry Jaynes Fonda was an American film and stage actor
Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor and his Hollywood debut in 1935, and his career took off when after his Academy Award-nominated performance as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, a 1940 adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel. Throughout six decades in Hollywood, Fonda cultivated a strong, appealing screen image in such classics as The Ox-Bow Incident, Mister Roberts and 12 Angry Men....
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The definitive guide to pairing two of the world's most beloved pastimes: reading and drinking. A bubbly, boozy French 75 with The Great Gatsby. Trappist beer with Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose. Old vine California Zinfandel with The Grapes of Wrath. And don't you dare open Bram Stoker's Dracula on a Sunday morning without a Bloody Mary near at hand. Want to know what to pour when your book club meets to discuss the latest literary sensation?...
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Thomas C. Foster, acclaimed author of the phenomenal bestseller How to Read Literature Like a Professor, returns with a hugely entertaining appreciation of twenty-five works of literature that have greatly influenced the American identity. In a delightfully informative, often wry manner, Twenty-Five Books that Shaped America looks closely at important literary classics that are true national treasures. From The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin,...
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"From Missouri's Abbylee Motel to the hamlet of Yukon, Oklahoma, The Route 66 Encyclopedia is a formidable A-to-Z guide to the Mother Road. So much of America had traveled on, been built along, or exists because of Route 66, from the Phillips Petroleum Company's "Phillips 66" service stations to the famed La Posada hotel in Winslow, Arizona. You can learn about the five different paths of Route 66 in Los Angeles and Chicago's forerunner of Route 66,...
80) Jumping the Line
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In 1965, Congress ends the practice of bringing Mexican workers to the United States to Harvest crops, but Miguel Hernandez still needs work. Despite border patrols, taunts, and, "coyotes", Miguel jumps the line. Returning to his country makes little difference. He continues to cross. And, farmers continue to hire him, despite American farmworkers being available.
Over the years, laws change, but the demand for Mexican workers increases. Ignoring...