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781) Welcome to Marwencol
Author
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
After being brutally attacked outside a bar and recovering from a coma and extensive physical injuries, Mark Hogancamp suffered brain damage and nearly total memory loss. Unable to afford therapy he spent the next few years building a scale model, World War II-era town, Marwencol, populated with dolls, where he lived out his fantasy life, and which he documented in photographs. When his photographs were discovered by an art magazine, a New York gallery...
782) When Rabbit howls
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
This is a journey through the fragmented world of the multiple personality of Truddi Chase.
783) Trowbridge Road
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Struggling with her mother’s advancing mental illness in the months after her father’s death from complications of AIDS, a girl in the 1983 Boston suburbs befriends an imaginative boy with his own troubles before threats to her safety force her to make a difficult choice.
784) Sail me away home
Author
Series
Show Me a Sign volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"As a young teacher on Martha’s Vineyard, Mary Lambert feels restless and adrift. So when a league of missionaries invite her to travel abroad, she knows it’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Paris is home to a pioneering deaf school where she could meet its visionary instructors Jean Massieu and Laurent Clerc―and bring back their methods to America! But the endeavor comes at a cost: The missionaries’ plan to “save”...
786) A common struggle: a personal journey through the past and future of mental illness and addiction
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Patrick J. Kennedy, the former congressman and youngest child of Senator Ted Kennedy, details his personal and political battle with mental illness and addiction, exploring mental health care's history in the country alongside his and every family's private struggles. On May 5, 2006, the New York Times ran two stories, 'Patrick Kennedy Crashes Car into Capitol Barrier' and then, several hours later, 'Patrick Kennedy Says He'll Seek Help for Addiction.'...
Author
Series
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Redefining the American experience for a new generation of readers, this brilliant collection of writings from one of the giants of Latino literature captures the richness and complexity of history, community, and place in the American Southwest.
Rediscover Rudolfo Anaya: mythmaker, master storyteller, American original “The godfather and guru of Chicano literature.” —Tony Hillerman A writer powerfully attuned to the land and history of his...
788) Bloom: a memoir
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Recounts the story of the first year of Kelle Hampton's daughter Nella who has Down syndrome and celebrates the beauty found in the unexpected, the strength of a mother's love and the power of perspective.
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"From journalist Robert Timberg, a memoir of the struggle to reclaim his life after being severely burned as a Marine lieutenant in Vietnam. In January 1967, Robert Timberg was a short-timer, counting down the days until his combat tour ended. He had thirteen days to go when his vehicle struck a Viet Cong land mine, resulting in third-degree burns of his face and much of his body. He survived, barely, then began the arduous battle back, determined...
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A graphic novel memoir recounting one parent's unique and wrenching journey caring for a child with a terminal diagnosis. When Rick and Emily's infant son Ronan is diagnosed with Tay-Sachs, an incurable neurological disorder, they are faced with the practical and emotional hurdles of parenting and loving their son--despite the shadow of inevitable loss. Rick Louis narrates this original graphic memoir, with illustrator Lara Antal translating the...
792) Punkzilla
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Punkzilla" is on a mission to see his older brother "P", before "P" dies of cancer. Still buzzing from his last hit of meth, he embarks on a days-long trip from Portland, Ore. to Memphis, Tenn., writing letters to his family and friends. Along the way, he sees a sketchier side of America and worries if he will make it to see his brother in time.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The author's daughter was born with a very rare genetic syndrome and faced a daunting prognosis: she would be a fraction of normal size, have innumerable physical and mental difficulties and likely a shortened lifespan. Now, at age eight she is attending standard public school classes. This is the story of her family's journey"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"cademy Award–nominated actor Richard E. Grant’s memoir about finding happiness in even the darkest of days. Richard E. Grant emigrated from Swaziland to London in 1982, with dreams of making it as an actor. Unexpectedly, he met and fell in love with a renowned dialect coach Joan Washington. Their relationship and marriage, navigating the highs and lows of Hollywood, parenthood, and loss, lasted almost forty years. When Joan died in 2021, her...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Overton, an anesthesiologist, recounts how she survived a brain aneurysm, an acrimonious divorce, bad dates, a broken heart, and the loss of four close friends within a year. Through all of this, and while giving comfort to those suffering around her, she came to understand herself as a caretaker who refused to take care of herself.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In this memoir in graphic novel form, the author relates his friendship with an HIV-positive AIDS activist while they were roommates during the filming of the MTV show "Real World: San Francisco". As a speaker and educator, a guest on many talk shows (including Oprah), and when his tragic death received front-page coverage in the press, Pedro taught a generation that AIDS was not a punishment for moral defects or a mere killer that reduced humans...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The inspiring memoir of a young doctor and former college athlete who became a champion for people suffering from rare, under-researched diseases--all while battling his own. A former Georgetown quarterback nicknamed "The Beast," David Fajgenbaum was also a force in medical school, where he was known for his unmatched mental stamina. But things changed dramatically when he began suffering from inexplicable fatigue. In a matter of weeks, his organs...
799) The broken boy
Author
Publisher
OR Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A personal memoir of the last great polio epidemic, affecting 50,000 people, and of the author’s own experience of polio; a portrait of his parents, both radicals; and the story of the epidemic in Cork, Ireland, where the author and his family lived in the mid 1950s. "--
Author
Publisher
The Censored Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"With Peter Glanting's powerful illustrations, author Adam Bessie, an English professor and graphic essayist, uses the unique historical moment of the COVID-19 pandemic as a catalyst to explore the existing inequalities and student struggles that plague the public education system. This graphic memoir chronicles the reverberations from the onset of the pandemic in 2020 when students and educators left their physical classrooms for remote learning....
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