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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the life of the gregarious and eccentric author and illustrator whose dark and whimsically morbid art filled over a hundred books and illustrated the works of Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot, Edward Lear, John Updike, and Bram Stoker.
22) El Deafo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
The author recounts in graphic novel format her experiences with hearing loss at a young age, including using a bulky hearing aid, learning how to lip read, and determining her "superpower."
23) Mom & me & mom
Author
Language
English
Description
The celebrated author shares the intimate story of her relationship with her mother, relating the events that prompted her mother to send young Angela to Arkansas to live with her grandmother and the complicated fallout that shaped their family life.
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
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The story of a street-smart city girl who must adapt to a new life on an apple farm after she falls in love with Adrian Curtis, the pride of a prominent local family whose lives and orchards are said to be cursed. Married after only three months, young Theresa finds life with Adrian on the farm far more difficult and dangerous than she expected. Rejected by her husband's family as an outsider, she slowly learns about the isolated world of farming...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In this brilliant, fierce, and funny memoir of transformation, Jami Attenberg reveals the defining moments that pushed her to create a life, and voice, she could claim for herself. As the daughter of a traveling salesman in the Midwest, Attenberg was drawn to a life on the road. Her wanderlust led her across the country and eventually on travels around the globe. Through it all she grapples with questions of mortality, otherworldliness, and what we...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
A literary tale set in mid-nineteenth-century New England reimagines the emotionally volatile, intimate relationship between debt-ridden Herman Melville and passionate Nathaniel Hawthorne to explore how their connection shaped the writing of "Moby Dick."
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Language
English
Formats
Description
Documents the award-winning writer's experiences of living, working, and raising twin sons in Rome during the year following his receipt of a prestigious Rome Prize stipend, a period during which he attended the vigil of the dying John Paul II, brought his children on a snowy visit to the Pantheon, and befriended numerous locals.
31) Stray: a memoir
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An intimate, searingly honest memoir of growing up the child of addicts, of how that turbulent, often harrowing experience has affected her at every stage of her life, and of how she has struggled to transcend this unwanted legacy.
32) Tell me a story
Author
Series
Publisher
Richard C. Owen Publishers
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The author of "Froggy Gets Dressed" and other Froggy tales discusses his life, his daily activities, where he gets his ideas, and how he writes.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A classic memoir that's gripping, funny, and ultimately unforgettable from the bestselling former National Ambassador of Books for Young People. A strong choice for summer reading—an engaging and powerful autobiographical exploration of growing up a so-called "bad boy" in Harlem in the 1940s.
As a boy, Myers was quick-tempered and physically strong, always ready for a fight. He also read voraciously—he
...Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In this poetic memoir, Margarita Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of growing up in two cultures during a time of hostility between nations. This almost-war shaped a sensitive young girl into an award-winning poet who enriches the world with words of a far more hopeful kind.
Author
Language
English
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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...
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