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After losing both her parents and her aunt, Zorrie is cat into the perilous realities of rural Depression-era Indiana. Drifting west, surviving on odd jobs, Zorrie finds a position at a radium processing plant. When Indiana calls Zorrie home, she finds the love and community that has always eluded her in and around the small town of Hillisburg, but discovers that her trials have only begun. -- adapted from jacket
2) The great quake: how the biggest earthquake in North America changed our understanding of the planet
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"In the tradition of Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm, a riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in recorded history in North America--the 1964 Alaskan earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and obliterated the coastal village of Chenega--and the scientist sent to look for geological clues to explain the dynamics of earthquakes, who helped to confirm the then controversial theory of plate tectonics. On March 27, 1964, at 5:36 p.m., the biggest...
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Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of...
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"This meditation on cinema's past from Decasia director Bill Morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s. Located just south of the Arctic Circle, Dawson City was settled in 1896 and became the center of the Canadian Gold Rush that brough 100,000 prospectors to the area. It was also the final stop for a distribution chain that sent prints and newsreels to the Yukon. The...
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Scope and content: Records of the Greater Nashville Association of Realtors (GNAR) (1996-present) and its predecessor organizations, the Nashville Real Estate Board (1907-1967); and the Nashville Board of Realtors (1967-1996). The collection documents the real estate industry̹Ñ₂Ø♭s growth and professionalization in the twentieth century, covering the years 1923 through 2011. The bulk of the collection runs from 1950 to 2002, and is therefore...
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Scope and content: A variety of materials concerning the 2008 Town Hall Presidential Debate between Republican candidate John McCain and Democratic candidate Barack Obama held at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. on Oct. 7, 2008. Items include numerous materials relating to the university and city's roles in hosting and promoting the debate, including reports, programs, special events, publicity materials, corporate sponsorships, community engagement,...
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Tree Hill is a small town. Half-brothers Lucas and Nathan Scott have the same father, but live two very different lives. Nathan is the golden boy, Lucas the abandoned illegitimate son. They are both on the same high school basketball team. Chronicles the heartbreak, challenges, lies and loves that erupt from the fateful new relationship between Lucas and Nathan. Given their pasts, the boys would have a hard enough time working together. Add in the...
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Scope and content: Radio scripts for the "Ham and Eg" (sometimes spelled Egg) show; the "Ape and Ex" show (sponsored by Apex Oil Co.) and one script entitled "The Malones Never Quit." The first two programs are comedies with characters intended to be African-American, who speak in a caricature of black dialect. The third program is a drama about a district attorney who fights gangsters, his father who is a railroad engineer, and the son's love interest....
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"This memoir is an unflinching look at the life experience of a woman struggling with identity and isolation. In harrowing yet lyrical prose, Pauline Leader assails her poverty and Jewish heritage and longs to fit in with her "American" peers. Born in 1908, she describes her home life as the daughter of Polish immigrants who run a butcher's market and boarding houses in a small New England town. Frequent beatings and sinister remarks issued by her...
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