Every two weeks, the St. Cloud campus has a book display. If you go to a different GU/MSB campus, you are always free to check out our books through the school's inter-campus loan system.
The current book display is themed "Great American Writers."
The Coup / by Ernest Hemingway
813.54 UPD
Kush--the imaginary African nation of John Updike's wildly inventive tale--is a large, land-locked, drought-ridden territory whose ruler, one Colonel Hakim Félix Ellelloû, has four wives, a silver Mercedes, and a fanatic aversion to all things American. The United States, however, won't leave Kush alone, which annoys the good colonel no end--and makes for a novel off extraordinary humor and passion, a brilliant work of the imagination from one of our finest storytellers. -- Publisher
Meridian / by Alice Walker
813.54 WAL
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Meridian is a poignant and powerful story of the American South in the 1960s and of one woman who risks her life for the people she loves.
Meridian Hill, a courageous young activist, creates peace and understanding by dedicating herself heart and soul to her civil rights work, touching the lives of all those she meets even when her health begins to deteriorate. With the old rules of Southern society collapsing around her, Meridian fights a lonely battle to reaffirm her own humanity--and that of all her people. -- Publisher
Across the River and into the Trees / by Ernest Hemingway
813.52 HEM
In the fall of 1948, Ernest Hemingway made his first extended visit to Italy in thirty years. His reacquaintance with Venice, a city he loved, provided the inspiration for
Across the River and into the Trees, the story of Richard Cantwell, a war-ravaged American colonel stationed in Italy at the close of the Second World War, and his love for a young Italian countess. A poignant, bittersweet homage to love that overpowers reason, to the resilience of the human spirit, and to the worldweary beauty and majesty of Venice,
Across the River and into the Trees stands as Hemingway's statement of defiance in response to the great dehumanizing atrocities of the Second World War. -- Publisher
Modest Gifts / by Norman Mailer
811.54 MAI
Modest Gifts is full of what the author calls "casual pleasures"--witty, naughty, and surprisingly tender verse and art. Lust, seduction, betrayal, jealousy, and even the banality of cocktail party chatter are depicted with humor, affection, and above all, honesty. Here is an aspect of Norman Mailer unknown to many: lighthearted, prankish, whimsical, and often gentle, playfully sketching the intimate urban world that surrounds us. Modest, funny, and true, each poem and drawing shows a new side of one of the greatest writers of our time. -- Publisher
by Brent Schauer
There are two exciting developments in online historical images I'd like to share with you.
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