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Glass Castle
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
Book description
Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. …
Gilead: A Novel
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Happy New Year from Special Collections and the Sabatini Gallery!
Our 2008 exhibit schedule will bring visions of hell, bug machines, bingo-playing seniors, a national contemporary print competition, impressions of Kansas from TSCPL's permanent collection and recent developments in the field of book arts.
First up is Dante's Inferno: Interpretations by Edward Navone and Robert Rauschenberg opening Friday, January 25. The last time I made contact with Mr. Alighieri's Commedia was junior year of high school, 1986, between Canturbury Tales and Wycherley's Country Wife, none of which I can resurrect in conversation without help. So, I refreshed my memory here and with the help of this and this, and came away thinking the Inferno was kind-of like a 14th-century roast of who's who in western civilization (but without the laughs).
Fast Food Nation: the Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Book description
Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That’s …
Empire Rising
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