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Jazz

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Description: In Harlem, 1926, Joe Trace, a door-to-door salesman in his fifties, kills his teenage lover. At the funeral, his wife Violet slashes the dead girl's face and then desperately searches to find why Joe was unfaithful. The profound love story is immersed in the sights and sounds of Black urban life during the Jazz Age.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1992.
Call number: 633856
Creator: Morrison, Toni (1931-2019)(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 9780679411673; 0679411674
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The Life and travels of Josiah Mooso : a life on the frontier among Indians and Spaniards, not seeing the face of white woman for fifteen years

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Mooso was of a Canadian family, and came to the U.S. in the thirties. The greater part of the book relates to his adventures on the western frontier in the forties and early fifties. Settled in Cowley Co., Kan., about 1870

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The doomsters

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"When Archer opened the door to the tall young man who was afraid of the light, he was letting the Doomsters in. Who were the Doomsters? Carl certainly knew them--that was why Archer found him on the doorstep in a bad state of exhaustion and desperately in need of help. Zinnie knew them, though you wouldn't expect her to be haunted by memories--or conscience; Zinnie was pseudo-Hollywood, expensive and not very new, but a nice machine for all that. Mildred certainly knew them and that was more understandable, with her grave innocence and the loneliness that made her seem vulnerable. And Dr. Grantland had his fill of them--he was a good doctor suffering from a bad case of lack of integrity. There was the red-headed woman, too, who drank time under the table; she knew them. But Archer didn't, until he got talked into helping Carl, and found himself a lap behind the next murder"--Dust jacket.

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Halliday, Clive. 5 letters (1940-1942) to Lady Agnes Adams, Edinburgh, Scotland; London, England; Pernambuco, Brazil

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They return to England when the war starts and describe the boat crossing as well as his first impressions of life in London. He gives amusing descriptions of life in a boarding house. They were eventually sent to Brazil where they describe the sights and sounds.

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Banker

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When young investment banker Tim Ekaterin becomes involved in the cutthroat world of thoroughbred racing, he finds his life in business blown to smithereens. For suddenly the multimillion-dollar loan he arranges to finance the purchase of a champion racehorse is threatened by an apparent defect in the animal. Then as Tim desperately searches for answers, he falls headlong into a deadly deal of violence and murder.

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The Ballad of Soames Bantry and other stories from the fabled life and New York years of photographer, painter and poet Saul Leiter

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Recognized as a pioneer of color photography, Leiter was also an immensely prolific and ingenious painter. The Ballad of Soames Bantry brings together the diversity of his artistic expression in a suite of images which amplify the autobiographical narrative and celebrate a personal vision described by Anders Goldfarb as "riveting and profound, soulful and spirited."--Publishers description.

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Interiors 1973-1974

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"Robert Adams recently came across a group of 24 pictures he made in Denver in the early 1970s. These photographs, which informed his later work, are published here for the first time. They offer new insight into the photographer’s way of seeing and thinking about the human condition, the profound influences of which are still being felt generations later"--Publisher's description.

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