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1st Floor
- Reference books e.g., encyclopedias, dictionaries, manuals, etc.
- 'Reese Reserves' Collection: Kept behind the Information (Info) Desk. See an Info Desk staff member. Includes books and other items that are placed on Reserve for your course.
-DVD Collection: Kept behind Info Desk. See an Info Desk staff member.
2nd Floor
- Hard copy journals, shelved in alphabetical order
- Government Documents
- Reese Room special collection, inside the Reese Room. You may view it by request at the Information Desk on the 1st Floor.
3rd Floor
- Print books for loan, shelved according to the Library of Congress Classification (LCC) System
- Special Collections
- Richmond County Historical Society (RCH)

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CliffsNotes on Cather's My Antonia by Kubicek
Call Number: Online

ISBN: 082207138X

Publication Date: 1999

In CliffsNotes on My Antonia, you follow the story of Jim, an orphaned boy who travels to Nebraska to live with his grandparents. Upon arriving, Jim meets the uplifting, spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family that plans to farm on nearby, untamed land. Honoring and celebrating the immigrant settlers of the American plains, Willa Cather's novel also succeeds as one of the finest romantic stories written in the United States. Other features that help you figure out this important work include: Life and background of the author; Analyses of a large cast of characters; A brief synopsis of the novel; Critical essays; and more.
Cormac McCarthy All the pretty horses, No country for old men, The road by Sara L. Spurgeon (Editor)
ISBN: 1283122790

Publication Date: 2011-01-01

A collection of original, stimulating interpretations of key texts by Cormac McCarthy, designed for students and edited and written by leading scholars in the field.
Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence by Harold Bloom
Call Number: Online

ISBN: 058525740X

Publication Date: 1999
Fahrenheit 451 by Salem Press Editors (Editor); Rafeeq O. McGiveron (Editor)
ISBN: 9781619252240

Publication Date: 2013

An exploration of the most up-to–date collection of scholarly thinking on Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 from all standard critical perspectives.
Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby by Nicolas Tredell
Call Number: Online

ISBN: 144115826X

Publication Date: 2007

The Great Gatsby (1925) is a classic of modern American literature and is often seen as the quintessential novel of 'the jazz age'. This is the ideal guide to the text, setting The Great Gatsby in its historical, intellectual and cultural contexts, offering analyses of its themes, style and structure, providing exemplary close readings, presenting an up-to-date account of its critical reception and examining its afterlife in literature, film and popular culture. It includes points for discussion, suggestions for further study and an annotated guide to relevant reading.
Herman Melville's Moby-Dick by Harold Bloom
Call Number: Online

ISBN: 0585251819

Publication Date: 1996

Includes a brief biography of the author, thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas.
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest : Notes by Thomas Richard Holland; James Lamar Roberts
ISBN: 0764572520

Publication Date: 2004
Reading Hemingway's the Sun Also Rises by H. R. Stoneback
Call Number: Online

ISBN: 1631010670

Publication Date: 2014

Designed as an exercise in close reading, this first volume in the series is grounded in narrative and aesthetic concerns, addressing history, local knowledge, actual and symbolic landscape and inscape, and every aspect of the seven-eighths of the story that lies beneath the surface - the submerged iceberg of the fiction. Author H. R. Stoneback equips the reader to sound its depths and take full measure of the novel's allusiveness, indirection, and understatement. Navigating the labyrinthine text of The Sun Also Rises, Stoneback negotiates its intricate, complex, and interconnected passages and leads the reader ultimately to the center of Hemingway's vision.
Salinger's the Catcher in the Rye by Sarah Graham
ISBN: 1441143106

Publication Date: 2007

J. D. Salinger's 1951 novel, The Catcher in the Rye, is the definitive coming-of-age novel and Holden Caulfield remains one of the most famous characters in modern literature. This jargon-free guide to the text sets The Catcher in the Rye in its historical, intellectual and cultural contexts, offering analyses of its themes, style and structure, and presenting an up-to-date account of its critical reception.
Steinbeck's the Pearl by Eva Fitzwater
Call Number: Online

ISBN: 0544183223

Publication Date: 2007-08-20

In CliffsNotes on Steinbeck's The Pearl, you'll meet a simple family brought to a tragic end. Their pearl is supposed to bring their child out of darkness; he will be able to learn to read and write, and he will then be able to help all of the natives. Instead, the pearl becomes the direct instrument of the child's death. This concise supplement to Steinbeck's The Pearl helps you appreciate the novel on an aesthetic, ecological, or sociological vein.
Student Companion to Ernest Hemingway by Lisa Tyler
Call Number: Online

ISBN: 9780313007026

Publication Date: 2001

This work introduces students to both the man and his fiction, exploring how Hemingway confronted in his own life the same moral issues that would later create thematic conflicts for the characters in his novels.
Toni Morrison's Beloved and the Apotropaic Imagination by Kathleen Marks
Call Number: Online

ISBN: 9780826262783

Covers: Introduction : dynamics of the apotropaic
- Sethe's apotropaic imagination
- Beloved as apotrope
- An apotropaic clearing
- The art of memory : situating Morrison
- The afterlife of Beloved.
Herman Melville's Moby-Dick by Harold Bloom (Introduction by)
ISBN: 9781555460105

Publication Date: 1986-01-01

A collection of eight critical essays on Melville's novel Moby Dick arranged in chronological order of publication.
CliffsNotes on Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop by Mildred R. Bennett
ISBN: 9780822072652

Publication Date: 1999

Death Comes for the Archbishop is Willa Cather's best-known novel, a narrative whose spare beauty achieves epicaOCoaand even mythicaOCoaqualities as it recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. This concise supplement to Willa Silbert Cather's "Death Comes for the Archbishop" helps students understand the overall structure of the work, actions and motivations of the characters, and the social and cultural perspectives of the author."

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