The Key West Literary Seminar @ the Library
An exhibit of books available at the Monroe County Public Library by speakers
of the Key West Literary Seminar: Historical Fiction and the Search for Truth
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For more information about the KWLS, visit their website and blog here
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Wild Nights!: Stories about the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway
by Joyce Carol Oates
Published 2008 by Ecco
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A wonderfully bizarre new collection of short stories by Oates, "Wild Nights!" reimagines the final days of five major American writers--Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Henry James, and Ernest Hemingway. More...
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People of the Book
by Geraldine Brooks
Published 2008 by Viking Books
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "March" comes a novel--inspired by a true story--that traces the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war. More...
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Clouds and Eclipses: The Collected Short Stories
by Gore Vidal
Published 2006 by Carroll & Graf Publishers
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Celebrated for more than 50 years as a world-renowned novelist, essayist, and political figure and commentator, Vidal's short fiction offers a portrait of the young artist in the 1940s and 1950s. More...
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Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend
by Peter Matthiessen
Published 2008 by Modern Library
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This landmark one-volume reworking of Matthiessen's Watson trilogy--"Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man's River," and "Bone by Bone"--reveals one of America's finest writes at the peak of his career. More...
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The Welsh Girl
by Peter Ho Davies
Published 2007 by Houghton Mifflin Company
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During World War II, the British held German POWs in camps in remote Wales. This beautifully written novel imagines the unexpected and perilous romance that blossoms between a secretive local girl and a German prisoner, and explores the indelible bonds of love and duty that hold us to family, country, and ultimately our fellow man. More...
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The Worst Thing I've Done
by Ursula Hegi
Published 2007 by Touchstone Books
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From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Stones from the River" comes this stunning, sexy novel of friendship and love--and of one horrible choice that changes everything. More...
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The Invention of Everything Else
by Samantha Hunt
Published 2008 by Houghton Mifflin Company
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Hunt's novel is a wondrous imagining of an unlikely friendship between theeccentric inventor Nikola Tesla and a young chambermaid in the Hotel New Yorker, where Tesla lived out his last days. More...
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The Last Empress
by Anchee Min
Published 2007 by Houghton Mifflin Company
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Min offers a powerful revisionist portrait based on extensive research of one of the most important figures in Chinese history. "The Last Empress" is the story of Orchid's dramatic transition from a strong-willed, instinctive young woman to a wise and politically savvy leader. More...
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The Commoner
by John Burnham Schwartz
Published 2008 by Nan A. Talese
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It is 1959 when Haruko marries the Crown Prince of Japan. Thirty years later, now Empress herself, she plays a crucial role in persuading another young woman to accept the marriage proposal of her son, with consequences both tragic and dramatic. More...
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The Air We Breathe
by Andrea Barrett
Published 2007 by W. W. Norton & Company
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The National Book Award-winning author of "Ship Fever" delivers her eagerly anticipated new novel, set in 1916, in an isolated town in the Adirondacks, far from the war raging in Europe. More...
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