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Ahmedi, Farah The Story of My Life: An Afghan Girl On the Other Side of the Sky Ahmedi was born just as the war between the mujahideen and the Soviets reaches its peak in Afghanistan. The sounds of gunfire and fighter planes were as normal to her as the sounds of traffic or children playing are to a schoolgirl in America. When she stepped on a land mine on her way to school, she began to learn--slowly--that ordinary people, often strangers, have immense power to save lives and restore hope. 2005 Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography) |
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Alvarez, Julia A Wedding in Haiti : the Story of a Friendship The popular author talks about three of her most personal relationships--with her parents, with her husband, and with a young Haitian boy known as Piti. 2012 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Bartels, Peggielene King Peggy : an American Secretary her Royal Destiny and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village "King Peggy" is the charming real-life fairy tale of an American secretary who discovers she has been chosen king of an impoverished fishing village on the west coast of Africa. 2012 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Bartok, Mira The Memory Palace A gorgeous memoir about the 17 year estrangement of the author and her homeless schizophrenic mother, and their reunion. 2011 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Bechdel, Alison Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic This graphic novel chronicles the author's childhood and youth in rural Pennsylvania, USA, focusing on her complex relationship with her father. The book addresses themes of sexual orientation, gender roles, suicide and the role of literature in understanding oneself and one's family. 2006 Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography) |
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Bugan, Carmen Burying the Typewriter : a Memoir "Burying the Typewriter" is Bugan's childhood memoir of her exasperating father and his arrest and persecution during Romania's Ceausescu years. Winner of the Bakeless Prize for Nonfiction, this debut memoir is a poignant reminder of a dramatic moment in Eastern European history. 2012 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Caldwell, Gail Let's Take the Long Way Home : a Memoir of Friendship Pulitzer Prize-winning author Caldwell reflects on her own coming-of-age in midlife, as she learns to open herself to the power and healing of sharing her life with a best friend. 2010 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Cash, Rosanne Composed : a Memoir Cash writes compellingly about her upbringing in Southern California as the child of country legend Johnny Cash, and of her relationships with her mother and her famous stepmother, June Carter Cash, and her own development as an artist. 2010 Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography) |
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Ciezadlo, Annia Day of Honey : a Memoir of Food Love and War Ciezadlo presents a beautifully written, fiercely intelligent memoir exploring the heightened meaning of cooking during wartime. 2011 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Conley, Susan The Foremost Good Fortune Susan Conley, her husband, and their two young sons say good-bye to their friends, family, and house in Maine for a two-year stint in a high-rise apartment in Beijing, prepared to embrace the inevitable onslaught of new experiences that such a move entails. But Susan can't predict just how much their lives will change. 2011 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Conway, Jill K. The Road from Coorain Jill Ker Conway's memoir takes us from her girlhood in the Australian Outback, to university life in Sydney during the 1950s, and finally to her appointment as the first female president of Smith College. 1989 Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography) |
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Dana, Rebecca Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde : A True Story The ultimate fish-out-of-water tale . . . the author made it from Pittsburgh to Yale to the Big Apple and the hot media job of her dreams. Then it all came crashing down, and she found herself apartment hunting on Craigslist. She ended up in Brooklyn, amid the largest Lubavitch community in the world, rooming with a 30-year-old Russian rabbi named Cosmo who, as the title suggests, was adept at jujitsu. She faces the fact that her religion--the books, magazines, TV shows, and movies that made New York seem like salvation--has failed her. As she shuttles between the world of religious extremism and the world of secular excess, she goes on a search for meaning. 2013 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Fuller, Alexandra Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood Magnificently original and affecting, Fuller's memoir of a childhood dominated by the Rhodesian civil war of 1971-1979 captures the fascinating life of a white family living in one of the most remote regions of Africa. The author sensitively and lovingly conveys the frightening aspects of wartime, her family's personal struggles, and her parents' own racism, all the while retaining a bittersweet sense of humor. 2001 Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography) |
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Gelman, Rita Golden Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World At the age of forty-eight, on the verge of a divorce, the author left an elegant life in L.A. to follow her dream of connecting with people in cultures all over the world. In 1986 she sold her possessions and became a nomad, living in a Zapotec village in Mexico, sleeping with sea lions on the Galapagos Islands, and residing everywhere from thatched huts to regal palaces. She has observed orangutans in the rain forest of Borneo, visited trance healers and dens of black magic, and cooked with women on fires all over the world. 2001 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Graham, Katharine Personal History In this critically acclaimed memoir, the woman who piloted the "Washington Post" through the crises of the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, and a pressmen's strike and turned it into a great newspaper, tells her story. 1997 Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography) Other formats available |
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Grealy, Lucy Autobiography of a Face At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. In this strikingly candid memoir, Grealy tells her story of great suffering and remarkable strength without sentimentality and with considerable wit. --Back cover. 2003 Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography) |
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Hamilton, Gabrielle Blood Bones & Butter : the Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef Before Hamilton opened her acclaimed New York restaurant Prune, she spent 20 fierce, hard-living years trying to find purpose and meaning in her life. Above all she sought family, particularly the thrill and the magnificence of the one from her childhood that, in her adult years, eluded her. 2011 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Harjo, Joy Crazy Brave : a Memoir A memoir from the Native American poet describes her youth with an abusive stepfather, becoming a single teen mom, and how she struggled to finally find inner peace and her creative voice. 2012 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Humbert, Agnes Resistance: A Woman's Journal of Struggle and Defiance in Occupied France Agnes Humbert was an art historian in Paris during the German occupation in 1940. Though she might well have weathered the oppressive regime, Humbert was stirred to action by the atrocities she witnessed. In an act of astonishing bravery, she joined forces with several colleagues to form an organized resistance--very likely the first such group to fight back against the occupation. (In fact, their newsletter, Resistance, gave the French Resistance its name.) --From publisher description. 2008 Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography) |
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Janzen, Rhoda Mennonite in a Little Black Dress : a Memoir of Going Home A hilarious and moving memoir--in the spirit of Anne Lamott and Nora Ephron--about a woman who returns home to her close-knit Mennonite family after a personal crisis. 2009 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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