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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells the amazing story of a woman who, having escaped an abusive marriage but having no home to live in, enlisted the help of a small bank loan and a work crew consisting only of her and her four children to build a family home from the ground up, in the amazing story of the healing of a broken family.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The sixth (and last) wife of Norman Mailer, Norris Church Mailer, met the late writer in 1975, when she was 26 and he twice her age; they were married for 33 years. Her memoir is, among other things, the story of a series of emancipations: from the constraints of her loving but limiting parents and the claustrophobic moralism of her Arkansas hometown; from her first marriage to a man she quickly outgrew; and from her inhibitions about writing and...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
An account of the 1963 death of the author's father against a backdrop of JFK's assassination describes how her mother, three sisters and she were financially dependent on her father's wages and how their loss and Catholic faith resonated the experiences of the nation.
Author
Publisher
The University of Wisconsin Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This beloved American memoir is about a farm and its people, recollections of a boyhood in Wisconsin's Driftless region. Ben Logan grew up on Seldom Seen Farm with his three brothers, father, mother, and hired hand Lyle. The boys discussed and argued and joked over the events around their farm, marked the seasons by the demands of the land, and tested each other and themselves.
Author
Publisher
Forefront Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Peggy Rowe has been writing writing all of her adult life. In fact, she doesn’t know how not to write—even through those years of constant rejection from publishing houses. But between her tenacity and the encouragement of her family, Peggy’s breakthrough finally came—at the age of eighty! Vacuuming in the Nude is most likely her funniest prose to date as she shares her journey of attending myriad writers’ conferences and honing her ability...
15) West of sunset
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"A novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald's last years in Hollywood--a sympathetic and deeply personal portrait of a flawed man who never gave up in the end, even as his every wish and hope seemed thwarted"-- Provided by publisher.
17) One man show
Author
Series
Publisher
R.C. Owen
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this autobiographical account an author and illustrator of children's books shares his life, daily activities, and creative process, and shows how all are intertwined.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In this follow-up to his previous volume of diaries, Theft by Finding, the award-winning humorist chronicles the years 2003-2020, charting the years of his rise to fame with his trademark misanthropic charm and wry wit.
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