Books

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Annie Dillard Reader, An Annie Dillard Reader, An Annie Dillard Annie Dillard -- "one of the most distinctive voices in American letters today" (Boston Globe) -- collects her favorite selections from her own writings in this compact volume. A perfect introduction… OL14857909W
The writing life The writing life Annie Dillard A meditative reflection in anecdote and vignette on Annie Dillard's writing process. Beautiful and vivid prose. Annie Dillard has written eleven books, including the memoir of her parents, An Amer… OL14857915W
Living by Fiction Living by Fiction Annie Dillard Living by Fiction is written for--and dedicated to--people who love literature. Dealing with writers such as Nabokov, Barth, Coover, Pynchon, Borges, Garcia Marquez, Beckett, and Calvino, Annie Dilla… OL14857916W
The Maytrees The Maytrees Annie Dillard Toby Maytree first sees Lou Bigelow on her bicycle in postwar Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her laughter and loveliness catch his breath. Maytree is a Provincetown native, an educated poet of thirty. … OL14857918W
An American childhood An American childhood Annie Dillard A book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, An American Childhood is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in t… OL14857922W
The Living The Living Annie Dillard This New York Times bestselling novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard is a mesmerizing evocation of life in the Pacific Northwest during the last decades of the 19th century. OL14857924W
Words of Ages Words of Ages Steffens, Lincoln,O'Sullivan, John L.,Bret Harte,Carl Sandburg,John Dos Passos,Sloan Wilson,Jonathan Edwards,William Bradford,Anne Moody,Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston,Elizabeth Cady Stanton,John Greenleaf Whittier,Taggard, Genevieve,John Woolman,Mark Twain,Ralph Waldo Emerson,Upton Sinclair,Dorothy Parker,Leon Uris,Denise Levertov,Henry David Thoreau,Washington Irving,Anne Bradstreet,Edith Wharton,Elie Wiesel,Annie Dillard,George Fitzhugh,Henry James,Robert Beverley,Jack Kerouac,Arthur Miller,Hamlin Garland,E. E. Cummings,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Abraham Cahan,Willa Cather,Meridel Le Sueur,Zora Neale Hurston,Tom Wolfe,Walt Whitman,Martin Luther King Jr.,John Hershey,Philip A. Roth,Rudyard Kipling,Stephen Crane,Tim O'Brien,John Steinbeck,Benjamin Franklin,John Jay,Frederick Douglass,John Smith,Langston Hughes,W. E. B. Du Bois,Harriet A. Jacobs,Bob Dylan,Louisa May Alcott,Nathaniel Hawthorne,John Adams,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Mary Crow Dog,Herman Melville,Close Up Foundation,William Tecumseh Sherman,Philip Morin Freneau,David Halberstam,E. B. White,Robert Olen Butler,Toni Morrison,Thomas Paine,Jose De Diego,Ralph Ellison,Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman,James D. Houston,Meriwether Lewis,Margaret Fuller,James Fenimore Cooper,Abigail Adams,Countee Cullen,Nat Love,Winthrop, John,Thomas Jefferson,Black Elk,Ernest Howard Crosby,Sandra Cisneros,Hart Crane,Rebecca Harding Davis,Martha Gellhorn,Olaudah Equiano,Clifford Odets,Malcolm X,Juan Nepomuceno Seguín,Francis E. Watkins Harper,Judy Brady,Booker T. Washington,Angelina Weld Grimké,William Clark Explorers and early settlers -- The general history of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles / John Smith -- The history and present state of Virginia / Robert Beverley -- Of Plymouth Planta… OL14876177W
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition Edward Rowe Snow,Phyllis McGinley,John N. Morris,Sarah Kemble Knight,J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur,James Russell Lowell,Robert Frost,Edwin Arlington Robinson,T. S. Eliot,Carl Sandburg,Margaret Walker,Elinor Wylie,Sidney Lanier,Jonathan Edwards,Richard Eberhart,William Bradford,William Cullen Bryant,Oliver Wendell Holmes,Ernest Hemingway,Archibald MacLeish,Teresa Palomo Acosta,Katherine Anne Porter,Elizabeth Cady Stanton,Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer,John Greenleaf Whittier,Sara Teasdale,Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson,Mark Twain,Ralph Waldo Emerson,Cotton Mather,Gary Soto,Dorothy Parker,Emily Dickinson,Denise Levertov,Ezra Pound,Henry David Thoreau,Washington Irving,Abraham Lincoln,Anne Bradstreet,Mollie Dorsey Sanford,Kurt Vonnegut,Edith Wharton,Lewis Thomas,James Thurber,Annie Dillard,Henry James,Ambrose Bierce,Paul Laurence Dunbar,William Faulkner,William Carlos Williams,E. E. Cummings,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Carson McCullers,Adrienne Rich,Willa Cather,Maxine Kumin,Walt Whitman,Bernard Malamud,Arna Wendell Bontemps,Ray Bradbury,Leslie Silko,Gwendolyn Brooks,Randall Jarrell,David Wagoner,Claude McKay,Stephen Crane,Amiri Baraka,Sherwood Anderson,Richard Wilbur,John Steinbeck,N. Scott Momaday,Benjamin Franklin,Frederick Douglass,Langston Hughes,W. E. B. Du Bois,William Least Heat Moon,Robert E. Lee,Louisa May Alcott,Nathaniel Hawthorne,John Updike,Wallace Stevens,William Stafford,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Chief Joseph,Tennessee Williams,James E. Miller, Jr.,Edgar Allan Poe,Howard Nemerov,Elizabeth Bishop,Amy Lowell,Francis Wright,Philip Morin Freneau,Jean Toomer,Thomas Paine,Galway Kinnell,Eudora Welty,Robert Hayden,Ralph Ellison,Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,Richard Wright,Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman,James Weldon Johnson,Isaac Asimov,Flannery O'Connor,Kate Chopin,James Masao Mitsui,James Baldwin,Margaret Fuller,James Fenimore Cooper,Karl Jay Shapiro,Patrick F. McManus,May Swenson,Edgar Lee Masters,Jim Wayne Miller,Robert Anderson,Countee Cullen,Sylvia Plath,Seattle Chief,Lorraine Hansberry,Louise Bogan,Edna St. Vincent Millay,Thomas Jefferson,Robert Lowell,Sabine R. Ulibarrí,Marianne Moore,Lawson Fusao Inada,Phillis Wheatley,Vern Rutsala,Kerry M. Wood,Eugenia Collier,John Smith,William Byrd II,James W. C. Pennington,Satanta,Lillian Hellman,Mona Van Duyn,Richard Rodriguez,Mari Evans,Theodore Roethke,John Crowe Ransom,Taylor, Edward,Robinson Jeffers Selections include: ... - [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W/Young_Goodman_Brown) by Nathaniel Hawthorne ... - [An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibra… OL15164554W
Teaching a stone to talk Teaching a stone to talk Annie Dillard See https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14857923W/Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk OL16071598W
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard What is the true nature of Nature? Is it a harmonious, interconnected system, operating according to the principles of co-dependence and benevolence? Or is it red in tooth and claw, an unfeeling, unt… OL23709639W
Prentice Hall Literature--Bronze Prentice Hall Literature--Bronze Jade Snow Wong,Alfred Noyes,Phyllis McGinley,Alan Feinstein,Robert Frost,James Stephens,Carl Sandburg,Raymond R. Patterson,Ernest Hemingway,Kyorai,Isaac Bashevis Singer,Teresa Palomo Acosta,William Saroyan,Mary O'Neill,James Ramsey Ullman,Anne Terry White,Dorothy De Wit,Gary Soto,Rod Serling,Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings,Mary Austin,Emily Dickinson,Paul Annixter,Washington Irving,Joan Aiken,James Dickey,James Thurber,Annie Dillard,O. Henry,Barbara Mahone,Oliver Herford,Will Hobbs,Margery Facklam,Alice Walker,Amy Tan,Lewis Carroll,E. E. Cummings,Arthur W. Ryder,Walt Whitman,Olivia E. Coolidge,H. N. Levitt,William Jay Smith,Nikki Giovanni,Ray Bradbury,Leslie Silko,Gwendolyn Brooks,Rudyard Kipling,Edwin Way Teale,Charles Dickens,Richard Lederer,Aesop,Piri Thomas,Langston Hughes,Jack Finney,Quentin Reynolds,Inea Bushnaq,Yao-Wen Li,Wilson Rawls,Lucille Clifton,Sam Selvon,Mildred D. Taylor,Edgar Allan Poe,Denise Chavez,Chief Dan George,Vachel Lindsay,Andrew A. Rooney,James Herriot,Josephine Preston Peabody,Blanche L. Serwer-Bernstein,Pura Belpré,Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,Carol Kendall,Alexander McCall Smith,Israel Horovitz,Isaac Asimov,Hernando Tellez,Pearl S. Buck,James Whitcomb Riley,Courlander, Harold,Edna St. Vincent Millay,Ekkehart Malotki,Buson Taniguchi,Robert Service,Mari Sandoz,Shel Silverstein,Wendy Rose,Edward D. Hoch,Ernesto Galarza,Mai Vo-Dinh,Sarah Ann Leuthner,Naomi Cornelia Long Madgett,Juliet Piggott,Russell Baker,Theodore Roethke,Sumner Braunstein,Basho,Otsuji,William Shakespeare Grades 7-9 OL24558115W