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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
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.
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
x, 356 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a memoir written with his brother, the popular author describes how the two of them dealt with their grief over the untimely deaths of their parents and only sister by embarking on a three-week odyssey around the world.
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
With Charley, his French poodle, Steinbeck drives the interstates and the country roads, dines with truckers, encounters bears at Yellowstone and old friends in San Francisco. He reflects on the American character, on racial hostility, on a particular form of American loneliness he finds almost everywhere, and on the unexpected kindness of strangers.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A tale inspired by the marriage of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald follows their union in defiance of her father's opposition and her abandonment of the provincial finery of her upbringing in favor of a scandalous flapper identity that gains her entry into the literary party scenes of New York, Paris and the French Riviera.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Relates the story of the American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris in the nineteenth century, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned there.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"The Newbery Honor-winning author of Hatchet and Dogsong shares surprising true stories about his relationship with animals, highlighting their compassion, intellect, intuition, and sense of adventure. Gary Paulsen is an adventurer who competed in two Iditarods, survived the Minnesota wilderness, and climbed the Bighorns. None of this would have been possible without his truest companion: his animals. Sled dogs rescued him in Alaska, a sickened poodle...
13) El deafo
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The author recounts in graphic novel format her experiences with hearing loss at a young age, including using a bulky hearing aid, learning how to lip read, and determining her "superpower."
"Going to school and making new friends can be tough. But going to school and making new friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid strapped to your chest? That requires superpowers! In this funny, poignant graphic novel memoir, author/illustrator Cece Bell chronicles...
14) On the come up
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Bri hopes to become a great rapper, and after her first song goes viral for all the wrong reasons, must decide whether to sell out or face eviction with her widowed mother.