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Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Following a rancorous split from New York’s upper-class society, newly divorced Wendy and her three sons are exiled from the East Coast elite circle. Wendy’s middle son, Kirk, is eight when she moves the family to her native Bermuda, leaving the three young boys to fend for themselves as she chases after the highs of her old life: alcohol, a wealthy new suitor, and other indulgences. A fascinating window into the life of extreme privilege and...
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English
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"Eighteen months before her beloved father died, Kathryn Schulz met Casey, the woman who would become her wife. Lost & Found weaves together their love story with the story of losing Kathryn's father in a brilliant exploration of the way families are lost and found and the way life dispenses wretchedness and suffering, beauty and grandeur all at once. Schulz writes with painful clarity about the vicissitudes of grieving her father, but she also writes...
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Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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"For fans of Enchanted Air by Margarita Engle and Life in Motion by Misty Copeland, this middle grade memoir in verse chronicles a young girl and her family who must start over after losing their home. In the early 2000s, thirteen-year-old Katie Van Heidrich has moved more times that she can count, for as long as she can remember. There were the slow moves where you see the whole thing coming. There were the fast ones where you grab what you can in...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the ever looming absence of her incarcerated father and the path we must take to both honor and overcome our origins. For as long as she could remember, Ashley has put her father on a pedestal. Despite having only vague memories of seeing him face-to-face, she believes he's the only person in the entire world who...
Author
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The daughter of the reality television star "Dog" the bounty hunter recounts her difficult journey through childhood, suffering through divorce, physical abuse, and teen pregnancy before finding her faith and reconciling with her parents.
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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A funny, moving memoir of a sweet and awkward misfit who loses her battle with puberty but somehow grows into a tall, dapper adult with great hair, a cartoonish sex life, and an unlikely relationship with George Michael, Handsome will make you laugh; make you cry; and make you want to buy better hair products.
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English
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"The spellbinding story of Chris McCandless, who gave away his savings, hitchhiked to Alaska, walked into the wilderness alone, and starved to death in 1992, fascinated not just New York Times bestselling author Jon Krakauer, but also the rest of the nation. Krakauer's book, Into the Wild, became an international bestseller, translated into thirty-one languages, and Sean Penn's inspirational film by the same name further skyrocketed Chris McCandless...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"If Only You People Could Follow Directions is a spellbinding debut by Jessica Hendry Nelson. In linked autobiographical essays, Nelson has reimagined the memoir with her thoroughly original voice, fearless writing, and hypnotic storytelling. At its center, the book is the story of three people: Nelson's mother Susan, her brother Eric, and Jessica herself. These three characters are deeply bound to one another, not just by the usual ties of blood...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
To understand my daughters and their sisterhood, you have to know the women, and sisters, who came before. In the Country of Women is a valuable social history and a personal narrative that reads like a love song to America and indomitable women. In inland Southern California, near the desert and the Mexican border, Susan Straight, a self-proclaimed book nerd, and Dwayne Sims, an African American basketball player, started dating in high school. After...
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Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
An honest, unfiltered memoir about a girl with an unconventional family. “The story everyone wants to hear isnt the story I want to tell.” Lara Lillibridge grew up with two momsan experience that shaped and scarred her at the same time. Told from the perspective of “Girl,” Lillibridges memoir is the no-holds-barred account of childhood in an atypical household. Personally less concerned with her mothers sexuality and more with how she fits...
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"John and Abigail Adams sired the first dynasty to shape American politics, but they would not witness their family's calamitous fall from grace. When President John Quincy Adams died in 1848, so began the slow death of the family's political legacy -- a decline that mirrored the fall of the Republican Party. The Adamses would abandon their forefather's enlightened republicanism, yielding to the temptation of oligarchy and personal spoils. In Heirs...
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Publisher
BenBella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Seen by the media in 2015 as a white woman who had knowingly been passing as black, the author shares her nuanced and complex story, from being a child of white evangelical parents to an NAACP chapter president and respected educator and activist who identified as black, forcing readers to reconsider race and identity,"--NoveList.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"A brilliant literary memoir of chosen family and chosen heritage, told against the backdrop of Chicago’s North and South Sides As a multiracial household in Chicago’s North Side community of Rogers Park, race is at the core of Francesca T. Royster and her family's world, influencing everyday acts of parenting and the conception of what family truly means. Like Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts, this lyrical and affecting memoir focuses...
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