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Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Still Waters in a Storm is an after-school program held in a small room in Bushwick, Brooklyn; it is a place for kids to practice reading and writing in English, Spanish, and Latin. For the students, many living in constant fear of deportation, Still Waters is a refuge. For Stephen Haff, a former public-school teacher, it is the sanctuary he built following a breakdown caused by bipolar depression. At Still Waters, all agreed that there would only...
62) A life in parts
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A memoir and meditation on creativity by the star of "Breaking Bad" chronicles his theatrical childhood and recommitment to acting in the aftermath of his father's disappearance, describing his early acting jobs and the performances that earned him Tony and Emmy Awards.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Atria books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
215 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
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"Common believes that the phrase "let love have the last word" is not just a declaration; it is a statement of purpose, a daily promise. Love is the most powerful force on the planet and ultimately, the way you love determines who you are and how you experience life. Courageous, insightful, brave, and characteristically authentic, Let Love Have the Last Word shares Common's own unique and personal stories of the people and experiences that have led...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
"'When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.' So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland...Frank...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 309 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, color ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"Legendary musician Richard Marx offers an enlightening, entertaining look at his life and career"--
His self-titled 1987 album went triple platinum and made him the first male solo artist to have four singles from their debut crack the top three on the Billboard Hot 100. His follow-up, 1989's Repeat Offender, went quadruple platinum and landed two singles at number one. Marx takes a straight-talking look back on his life and career. In doing so...
66) Find a way
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"On September 2, 2013, at the age of 64, Diana Nyad emerged onto the shores of Key West after completing a 110 mile, 53 hour, record-breaking swim through shark-infested waters from Cuba to Florida. Her memoir shows why, at 64 she was able to achieve what she couldn't at 30 and how her repeated failures contributed to her success"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir on her life as a writer, her childhood, and the symbiotic relationship between fiction and emotional memory"--
"In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan is at her most intimate, revealing the truths and inspirations that underlie her extraordinary fiction. By delving into vivid memories of her traumatic childhood, confessions of...
Author
Language
English
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Description
The author's first encounter with a racialized America came at age seven, when her parents told her they named her Austin to deceive future employers into thinking she was a white man. She grew up in majority-white schools, organizations, and churches, and has spent her life navigating America's racial divide as a writer, a speaker, and an expert helping organizations practice genuine inclusion. While so many institutions claim to value diversity...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"This book contains some stories from my life: the awkward growing-up years, the confusing dating years, the fulfilling work years, and what it was like to be asked to play one of my favorite characters again. Also included: tales of living on a houseboat, meeting guys at awards shows, and that time I was asked to be a butt model. A hint: all three made me seasick. -- Lauren Graham" --
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
Tate had just been named the top student in her law school class and finally had her eating disorder under control. Why then was she envisioning putting an end to the isolation and sadness that still plagued her despite her achievements? Enter Dr. Rosen, a therapist who calmly assured her that if she joins one of his psychotherapy groups, he can transform her life. All she has to do is show up and be honest. About everything: her eating habits, childhood,...
Author
Publisher
Dey Street, an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 257 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Radio show host Bobby Bones delivers an inspirational and humorous collection of stories about his biggest misses in life and how he turned them into lessons and wins.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Haunted and haunting, Jones's memoir tells the story of a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears. Through a series of vignettes that chart a course across the American landscape, Jones draws readers into his boyhood and adolescence--into tumultuous relationships with his mother and grandmother, into passing flings with lovers,...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Jimmy Carter, thirty-ninth President, Nobel Peace Prize winner, international humanitarian, fisherman, reflects on his full and happy life with pride, humor, and a few second thoughts. At ninety, Carter reflects on his public and private life with a frankness that is disarming. He adds detail and emotion about his youth in rural Georgia that he described in his earlier memoir An Hour Before Daylight. He writes about racism and the isolation of the...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller How to Do the Work comes this paradigm-shifting guide to healing your relationships, beginning with the one you have with yourself." --
"In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected Republican officials, intentionally breached their oath to the Constitution: they ignored the rulings of dozens of courts, plotted to overturn...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 292 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An expert ultrarunner describes how he set out to break the speed record for the Appalachian Trail, a 2,189 mile journey that took an unforeseen physical and emotional toll, but also offered him unexpected rewards.
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