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Language
English
Description
"The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays"--
""Any story that starts will also end." As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart. At the center of These Precious...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"After escaping an abusive marriage, Cara Brookins had four children to provide for and no one to turn to but herself. In desperate need of a home but without the means to buy one, she did something incredible. Equipped only with YouTube instructional videos, a small bank loan and a mile-wide stubborn streak, Cara built her own house from the foundation up with a work crew made up of her four children. It would be the hardest thing she had ever done....
4) Shelter
Author
Publisher
Borealis Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
One midnight when I was about sixteen and watching the late movie with Dad, I started to nod off. He rocked my shoulder. "Listenup," he said, pointing to the screen. I propped up to peer past the bowl of old maids to see Mr. O'Hara, redder than usual, lecturing Scarlett. ". . . land is the only thing in the world worth workin' for, worth fightin' for, worth dying for, because land is the only thing that lasts!" Sarah Stonich's family had once owned...
Author
Publisher
Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In this memoir-in-essays, New York Times bestselling author Erica Bauermeister renovates a trash-filled house in the eccentric town of Port Townsend, WA, and in the process takes readers on a journey into the ways our spaces subliminally affect us, ultimately showing us how to make our houses (and lives) better"--
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A follow-up to "The Language of Baklava" continues the story of the author's struggles with cross-cultural values and how they shaped her coming of age and her culinary life, tracing her three marriages, her literary ambitions, and her midlife decision to become a parent.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Bird Cloud" is the name the author gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four hundred foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky. She also saw pelicans, bald eagles, golden eagles, great blue herons, ravens, scores of bluebirds, harriers, kestrels, elk, deer and a dozen antelope. She fell in love with the land, then owned by the Nature Conservancy,...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Like many six-year-olds, Mira Jacob's half-Jewish, half-Indian son, Z, has questions about everything. At first they are innocuous enough, but as tensions from the 2016 election spread from the media into his own family, they become much, much more complicated. Trying to answer him honestly, Mira has to think back to where she's gotten her own answers: her most formative conversations about race, color, sexuality, and, of course, love."--Amazon.com....
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Describes how the author, who had escaped an abusive marriage but had no home to live in, used a small bank loan, You Tube instructional videos, and a work crew consisting only of herself and her four children to build a family home from the ground up.
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In middle age, Ehrenreich came across the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence and set out to reconstruct that quest, which had taken her to the study of science and through a cataclysmic series of uncanny-or as she later learned to call them, "mystical"-experiences. A staunch atheist and rationalist, she is profoundly shaken by the implications of her life-long search. Part memoir, part philosophical and spiritual inquiry, LIVING...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
An unusual and uncommonly moving family memoir, with a twist that give new meaning to hindsight, insight, and forgiveness. The author is face blind--that is, she has prosopagnosia, a rare neurological condition that prevents her from reliably recognizing people's faces. Growing up, unaware of the reason for her perpetual confusion and anxiety, she took what cues she could from speech, hairstyle, and gait. But she sometimes kissed a stranger, thinking...
Author
Publisher
Bunker Hills Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Caroline Bunker Rosdahl shares a lifetime of personal stories and experiences that illustrate how the nursing profession can be highly rewarding and interesting. Her long career showcases the history and evolution of nursing. Rosdahl is a leader in nursing education, having authored Textbook of Basic Nursing, now in its 11th edition.
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Castle and The Girls of Atomic City comes the fascinating story of America's national day of thanks and of the tenacious and inspiring Sarah Josepha Hale, a nineteenth-century woman who made establishing this holiday her life's mission-one brought to fruition by the wise support of Abraham Lincoln"--
From Ancient Rome through 21st-century America, bestselling author Denise Kiernan brings us...
Author
Publisher
SpringJoy Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Thorstad's memoir is set mostly in the barren prairie of western North Dakota, where hardship and heartbreak are mirrored in the landscape. Via letters to her sister, Knapp shows us how living with loss, abuse, divorce, poverty, and domestic violence can give us life lessons. After each letter, Knapp relates stories about living in twenty different houses in her first twenty-one years. This is a meditation on what it means to love, lose, accept, and...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A fresh, fierce, and timely meditation on data, pain, time, and the limited capacity of literature to comprehend life and death in a sensate and vulnerable body." --
When Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer, the illness was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness. Here she explores the experience of illness as mediated by digital screens, weaving in...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A moving memoir from an award-winning author. A mother cat and her kittens, shot with a pellet gun. A poacher illegally stalking a bear. Peg Kehret tells these true stories and more as she invites readers into her life on a small wildlife sanctuary. She writes about animal rescue while providing facts about the animals and birds she meets. Mrs. Kehret also shares the tragedy of her husband's sudden death, and the pain of losing Pete, the shelter cat...
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