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By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East L.A. gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests, then watched with increasing fear as that culture claimed friends and family members. Before long, Rodriguez saw a way out of the barrio through education and successfully broke free from years of violence and desperation. Achieving success as an award-winning poet, he was sure...
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
970.0049 GANSWO 2020
1 available
970.0049 GANSWO 2020
1 available
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"The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside." Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
797.32 FINNEG 2015
1 available
797.32 FINNEG 2015
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
797.32 FINNEG 2015
1 available
797.32 FINNEG 2015
1 available
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Describes the author's experiences as a lifelong surfer, from his early years in Honolulu through his culturally sophisticated pursuits of perfect waves in some of the world's most exotic locales.
4) Black boy
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD BIO WRIGHT 1998 UNABRIDGED
1 available
CD BIO WRIGHT 1998 UNABRIDGED
1 available
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A special 75th anniversary edition of Richard Wright's powerful and unforgettable memoir, with a new foreword by John Edgar Wideman and an afterword by Malcolm Wright, the author's grandson.
When it exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, Black Boy was both praised and condemned. Orville Prescott of the New York Times wrote that "if enough such books are written, if enough millions of people read them maybe, someday, in
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In Processing - Adult Nonfiction
781.6409 MOORER 2019
1 available
781.6409 MOORER 2019
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
781.6409 MOORER 2019
1 available
781.6409 MOORER 2019
1 available
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The Grammy- and Academy Award- nominated singer-songwriter's haunting, lyrical memoir, sharing the story of an unthinkable act of violence and ultimate healing through art. Mobile, Alabama, 1986. A fourteen-year-old girl is awakened by the unmistakable sound of gunfire. On the front lawn, her father has shot and killed her mother before turning the gun on himself. Allison Moorer would grow up to be an award-winning musician, with her songs likened...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
791.4502 NOAH 2016
1 available
791.4502 NOAH 2016
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
791.4502 NOAH 2016
1 available
791.4502 NOAH 2016
1 available
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD BIO NOAH 2016
1 available
CD BIO NOAH 2016
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD BIO NOAH 2016
1 available
CD BIO NOAH 2016
1 available
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5 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
5 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"Trevor Noah's unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents' indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO FULLER 2001
2 available
BIO FULLER 2001
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO FULLER 2001
1 available
BIO FULLER 2001
1 available
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO WESTOVER 2018
3 available
BIO WESTOVER 2018
3 available
Senior Center Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO WESTOVER 2018
1 available
BIO WESTOVER 2018
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO WESTOVER 2018
2 available
BIO WESTOVER 2018
2 available
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Gerlach Community Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD BIO WESTOVER 2018
1 available
CD BIO WESTOVER 2018
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD BIO WESTOVER 2018
2 available
CD BIO WESTOVER 2018
2 available
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print Shelf
LP BIO WESTOVER 2018
2 available
LP BIO WESTOVER 2018
2 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print Shelf
LP BIO WESTOVER 2018
1 available
LP BIO WESTOVER 2018
1 available
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University. Book Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times. “A coming-of-age memoir reminiscent of The Glass Castle.”O: The Oprah Magazine. “Tara Westover is living proof that some people are flat-out, boots-always-laced-up indomitable.”USA Today....
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
741.5 BECHDE 2006
1 available
741.5 BECHDE 2006
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
741.5 BECHDE 2007
1 available
741.5 BECHDE 2007
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
741.5 BECHDE 2006
1 available
741.5 BECHDE 2006
1 available
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This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's a father-daughter tale perfectly suited to the graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian house, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out,...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO WALLS 2005
1 available
BIO WALLS 2005
1 available
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5 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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In the tradition of Mary Karr's "The Liars' Club" and Rick Bragg's "All Over But the Shouting," Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric and severely misguided family. The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors...
11) hole in my life
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO JOLLETT 2020
1 available
BIO JOLLETT 2020
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO JOLLETT 2020
1 available
BIO JOLLETT 2020
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO JOLLET 2020
1 available
BIO JOLLET 2020
1 available
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD BIO JOLLETT 2020
1 available
CD BIO JOLLETT 2020
1 available
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"HOLLYWOOD PARK is a remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life. Mikel Jollett was born into one of the country's most infamous cults, and subjected to a childhood filled with poverty, addiction, and emotional abuse. Yet, ultimately, his is a story of fierce love and family loyalty told in a raw, poetic voice that signals the emergence of a uniquely gifted writer. We were never young. We were just too afraid of ourselves. No one told us who we were or...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
818.54 ANGELO 1970
2 available
818.54 ANGELO 1970
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
818.54 ANGELO 1970
1 available
818.54 ANGELO 1970
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
818.54 ANGELO 1970
1 available
818.54 ANGELO 1970
1 available
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3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
813.6 MACHAD 2019
1 available
813.6 MACHAD 2019
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
813.6 MACHAD 2019
1 available
813.6 MACHAD 2019
1 available
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties. In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machados engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
811.54 KARR 1995
1 available
811.54 KARR 1995
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
811.54 KARR 1995
2 available
811.54 KARR 1995
2 available
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD 811.54 KAR 1998 UNABRIDGED
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CD 811.54 KAR 1998 UNABRIDGED
1 available
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"The Texas refinery town of Leechfield, perched on the swampy rim of the Gulf, is famous for mosquitoes and the manufacture of Agent Orange - a place where the only bookstores are religious ones and the restaurants serve only fried food. A handful of the Leechfield oil workers gather regularly at the American Legion Bar to drink salted beer and spin long, improbable tales. They're the Liars' Club. And to the girl whose father is the club's undisputed...
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"The acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden's raw and redemptive debut is a memoir about coming of age as a queer, biracial teenager within the fierce contradictions of Boca Raton, Florida, a place where cult-like privilege, shocking social and racial disparities, rampant white-collar crime, and powerfully destructive standards of beauty hide in plain sight. As a child in Florida, T Kira Madden lived a life of extravagance--from her exclusive private...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
811.6 TRETHE 2020
1 available
811.6 TRETHE 2020
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
811.6 TRETHE 2020
1 available
811.6 TRETHE 2020
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
811.6 TRETHE 2020
1 available
811.6 TRETHE 2020
1 available
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The former U.S. poet laureate shares a personal memoir about the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and how this profound experience of loss shaped her as an adult and an artist.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO JULIEN 2017
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BIO JULIEN 2017
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A memoir by a therapy specialist in manipulation and psychological control describes her harrowing upbringing by fanatic parents who raised her in isolation through traumatic disciplinary exercises designed to "eliminate weakness," recounting how she eventually escaped with the help of an outsider.
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO RUTA 2013
1 available
BIO RUTA 2013
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO RUTA 2013
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BIO RUTA 2013
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Domenica Ruta grew up in a working-class, unforgiving town north of Boston, in a trash-filled house on a dead-end road surrounded by a river and a salt marsh. Her mother, Kathi, a notorious local figure, was a drug addict and sometimes dealer whose life swung between welfare and riches, and whose highbrow taste was at odds with her hardscrabble life. And yet she managed, despite the chaos she created, to instill in her daughter a love of stories....
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
818.603 DIAZ 2019
1 available
818.603 DIAZ 2019
1 available
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"Jaquira Díaz writes an unflinching account of growing up as a queer biracial girl searching for home as her family splits apart and her mother struggles with mental illness and addiction. From her own struggles with depression and drug abuse to her experiences of violence to Puerto Rico's history of colonialism, every page vibrates with music and lyricism"--