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Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Okey Ndibe's funny, charming, and penetrating memoir tells of his move from Nigeria to America, where he came to edit the influential--but forever teetering on the verge of insolvency--African Commentary magazine. It recounts stories of Ndibe's relationships with Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, and other literary figures; examines the differences between Nigerian and American etiquette and politics; recalls an incident of racial profiling just 13 days...
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. It is his classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, filled with irreverent portraits of other expatriate luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein; tender memories of his first wife, Hadley; and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft. It is a literary feast, brilliantly evoking the exuberant mood of Paris...
123) Patrimony
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
In a moving elegy, one of America's most powerful writers recreates his father's ordeal as, suffering from a brain tumor, he battles with the ignominy and helplessness of old age
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Series
Publisher
Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A memoir about a daughter trying to understand her father's genius, mental illness, violence, and past. Touches on Japanese culture, immigration, racism, WWII, and the Asian American experience"--
126) My losing season
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
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Conroy recalls his career as a basketball player at the Citadel.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Formats
Description
Growing up in the Bronx, Mary Higgins Clark knew she wanted to be a writer. While Growing up in the depression, her father dies and her mother opens up the house for boarders and places a discreet sign next to the front door that reads, "Furnished Rooms, Kitches Privileges." The family struggles to make ends meet, through lifes hard lessons she begins writing stories at the kitchen table--all these experiences figure into Kitchen Privileges.
128) Paradise
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"In 1999 Larry McMurtry, whose wanderlust had been previously restricted to the roads of America, set off for a trip to the paradise of Tahiti and the South Sea Islands in an old-fashioned tub of a cruise boat, at a time when his mother was slipping toward a paradise of her own. Opening up to her son in her final days, his mother makes a stunning revelation of a previous marriage and sends McMurtry on a journey of an entirely different kind." "McMurtry...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
Based upon actual love letters and telegrams, describes fictionalized accounts of the lives and thoughts of each of Ernest Hemingway's four wives, describing what it was like to be loved by the dashing, adventurous novelist and member of the zLost Generation.y.
132) Omega farm: a memoir
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A long-awaited memoir from an award-winning novelist-a candid, riveting account of her complicated, bohemian childhood and her return home to care for her ailing mother. In March 2020, Martha McPhee, her husband, and their two almost-grown children set out for her childhood home in New Jersey, where she finds herself grappling simultaneously with a mother slipping into severe dementia and a house that's been neglected of late. As Martha works to...
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Language
English
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Description
When Desert Solitaire was first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude and sensitive. Thought-provoking and mystical. Angry and loving. Both Abbey and this book are all of these and more. Here, the legendary author of The Monkey Wrench Gang, Abbey's Road and many other critically acclaimed books vividly captures the essence of his life during three seasons as a park ranger in southeastern Utah. This is a rare view of a quest...
138) On Sunset: a memoir
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Stunning... This is Kathryn Harrison in top form." --Augusten Burroughs. In the tradition of The Hare with Amber Eyes and Running in the Family, a memoir of the author's upbringing by her grandparents in a fading mansion above Sunset Boulevard -- a childhood at once privileged and unusual, filled with the mementos and echoes of their impossibly exotic and peripatetic lives. Kathryn Harrison always understood that her family was beyond eccentric --...
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Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Little Person author Zoe Zola believes that one of the unluckiest things in life is to receive an invitation--in the form of a letter edged in black--to an Agatha Christie symposium at an old Upper Peninsula hunting lodge. Her reluctance dissipates when she learns that the organizer is named Emily Brent--the name of a character poisoned by cyanide in Christie's And Then There Were None. As a dreary rain soaks the U.P., Zoe and nine other Christie...
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