Americana

Americana refers to artifacts, or a collection of artifacts, related to the history, geography, folklore and cultural heritage of the United States.

New Releases Tagged "Americana"

Shadow Ticket
La muy catastrófica visita al zoo
Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance
Dream State
The Rest of Our Lives
Shadow Ticket
The Shards
Crossroads
The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
Baumgartner
The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne
The Heart in Winter
The Silence
City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)
City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3)
The Great Gatsby
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Catcher in the Rye
Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath
On the Road
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
East of Eden
American Pastoral
Stoner
In Cold Blood
The Secret History
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
The Road
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwaySlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.On the Road by Jack KerouacSag Harbor by Colson WhiteheadMain Street by Sinclair Lewis
The American Experience
26 books — 1 voter
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainForty-Ninth by Boris PronskyThe Help by Kathryn Stockett
Americana Fiction
62 books — 52 voters

Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann BurnsAt Home in Mitford by Jan KaronThe All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie FlaggThe Blue Castle by L.M. MontgomeryThe House of a Thousand Lanterns by Victoria Holt
Vintage Fiction
39 books — 10 voters


Arturo Uslar Pietri
La condición americana, en lo esencial, es la de tener poca sensibilidad para el pasado. No nos sentimos prisioneros del pasado. Estamos como más libres, sueltos y ágiles para afrontar los requerimientos del presente y del mañana. En el fondo de toda verdadera conciencia europea hay la noción de que el ayer es más importante que el hoy. En el fondo de toda conciencia verdaderamente americana está activa la noción de que el hoy y el mañana son más importantes que el ayer. No tenemos cómo vivir de ...more
Arturo Uslar Pietri, El globo de colores

It was like hundreds of roads he'd driven over - no different - a stretch of tar, lusterless, scaley, humping toward the center. On both sides were telephone poles, tilted this way and that, up a little, down... Billboards - down farther an increasing clutter of them. Some road signs. A tottering barn in a waste field, the Mail Pouch ad half weathered away. Other fields. A large wood - almost leafless now - the bare branches netting darkly against the sky. Then down, where the road curved away, ...more
George A. Zorn, Shock!

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