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Southwest Branch will be closed on Monday, March 25 and Tuesday, March 26 for replacement of the HVAC unit. The book drop will remain open and we plan to resume normal operating hours on Wednesday, March 27.

Presidential Preference Primary Election Early Voting at Select Library Locations
Ten OCLS Branch locations will host early voting for the 2024 Early Voting Primary Election from Monday, March 4 to Sunday, March 17 (10 a.m. – 6 p.m.): Alafaya, Chickasaw, Fairview Shores, Hiawassee, South Creek, Southeast, Southwest, Washington Park, West Oaks, and Winter Garden. Learn more about early voting at select library locations >

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100 1  Taylor, Yuval,|eauthor. 
245 10 Zora and Langston :|ba story of friendship and betrayal /
       |cYuval Taylor. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bW.W. Norton & Company,|c[2019] 
300    xii, 302 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
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440  0 Spence collection 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Introduction. Lovingly yours -- Spring 1925. Opportunity -
       - 1891/1924. I laugh, and grow strong -- Summer 1926. The 
       Niggerati -- Spring 1927. Enter godmother -- Summer 1927. 
       The company of good things -- Fall 1927. A deep well of 
       the spirit -- Winter 1928/winter 1930. This is going to be
       big -- Spring 1930. The bone of contention -- Winter 1931.
       A miasma of untruth -- 1932/1960. The aftermath -- 
       Conclusion. The legacy. 
520    "Hurston and Hughes, two giants of the Harlem Renaissance 
       and American literature, were best friends--until they 
       weren't. Zora Neale Hurston (Their Eyes Were Watching God)
       and Langston Hughes ('The Negro Speaks of Rivers,' 'Let 
       America Be America Again') were collaborators, literary 
       gadflies, and close companions. They traveled together in 
       Hurston's dilapidated car through the rural South 
       collecting folklore, worked on the play Mule Bone, and 
       wrote scores of loving letters to each other. They even 
       had the same patron: Charlotte Osgood Mason, a wealthy 
       white woman who insisted on being called 'Godmother.' 
       Paying them lavishly while trying to control their work, 
       Mason may have been the spark for their bitter falling-
       out. Was the split inevitable when Hughes decided to be 
       financially independent of their patron? Was Hurston 
       jealous of the woman employed as their typist? Or was the 
       rupture over the authorship of Mule Bone? Yuval Taylor 
       answers these questions while illuminating Hurston's and 
       Hughes's lives, work, competitiveness and ambition"--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Hurston, Zora Neale. 
600 10 Hughes, Langston,|d1902-1967. 
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