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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
How did a kid whose dad lived in the poorhouse become the most successful storyteller in the world?
On the morning he was born, he nearly died. His dad grew up in the Pogey– the Newburgh, New York, poorhouse. He worked at a mental hospital in Massachusetts, where he met the singer James Taylor and the poet Robert Lowell. While he toiled in advertising hell, James wrote the ad jingle line “I’m a Toys ‘R’ Us Kid.” He once watched James...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Physical Desc
465 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
Over the last forty years, Stuart Woods has written more than ninety novels of suspense and intrigue, beginning with the award-winning Chiefs. Featuring iconic crime-fighting and jet-setting leads, the plots are masterfully conceived and wonderfully escapist.
What many readers don’t know is that Woods's very own life was filled with similar stories of adventure. Born in Georgia, Woods worked in advertising in New York, served in the US Air Force,...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"You fall down. You get hurt. You get up again. You know Jennifer Weiner as many things: a bestselling author, a Twitter phenomenon, and "an unlikely feminist enforcer" (The New Yorker). She's also a mom, a daughter, and a sister; a former rower and current runner; a best friend and a reality TV junkie. Here, in her first foray into nonfiction, she takes the raw stuff of her personal life and spins it into a collection of essays on womanhood as uproariously...
Author
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays"--
"'Any story that starts will also end.' As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart. At the center of These Precious...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 21
Physical Desc
315 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the personal crisis the author endured after the death of her mother and a painful divorce, which prompted her ambition to undertake a dangerous 1,100-mile solo hike that both drove her to rock bottom and helped her to heal.
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Series
Publisher
Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
112 p. : ill. (some col.), portraits ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This biography examines the life of Harper Lee. Readers will learn about Lee's family background, childhood, education, and time as a Pulitzer Prize-Winning author.
Author
Language
English
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Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again.
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose,...
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Sara is terrified. She's doing the one thing she cannot afford to do: fall in love with former pro-football player Adam Black, a man everyone knows. Sara's been hidden away in the witness protection program, her safety dependent on staying invisible-and loving Adam could get her killed! Introducing the O'Malleys, an inspirational group of seven, all abandoned or orphaned as teens, who have made the choice to become a loyal and committed family. They...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xiii, 182 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this irresistible memoir, Anna Quindlen, bestselling author, writes about her life and the lives of women today, looking back and ahead--and celebrating it all--as she considers marriage, girlfriends, our mothers, faith, loss, all that stuff in our closets, and more.
Author
Publisher
South Dakota Historical Society Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wilder's never-before-published autobiography reveals the true stories of her pioneering life. Pioneer Girl re-introduces readers to the woman who defined the pioneer experience for millions of people around the world.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 537 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For the first time, the edited journals of Alice Walker are gathered together to reflect the complex, passionate, talented, and acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winner of The Color Purple. She intimately explores her thoughts and feelings as a woman, a writer, an African-American, a wife, a daughter, a mother, a lover, a sister, a friend, a citizen of the world. In an unvarnished and singular voice, she explores an astonishing array of events: marching in...
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (7.5 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
Delia Ephron tried to disconnect her late husbands landline and crashed her internet. After a prolonged battle with Verizon, she did what she always does. She wrote about it, channeling her grief and frustration into a New York Times op ed. Months later, she got an email to commiserate from a man shed had two dates with while in college, 54 years ago. She didnt remember him but he remembered her. After three weeks of mutually passionate emails and...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
The authors describe their introspective journeys to Greece and France, during which they reconnected while Sue grappled with midlife challenges and writer's block and Ann struggled with heartbreak and post-college career questions.
18) Class: a memoir
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Stephanie Land set out to write her memoir Maid, she never could have imagined what was to come. Handpicked by President Barack Obama as one of the best books of 2019, it was called "an eye-opening journey into the lives of the working poor" (People). Later it was adapted into the hit Netflix series Maid, which was viewed by 67 million households and was Netflix's fourth most-watched show in 2021, garnering three Primetime Emmy Award nominations....
Author
Series
Landmark books volume 21
Publisher
ABDO Publishing
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24p illus. 22 cm.
Language
English