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Wild : from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail / by Strayed, Cheryl,1968-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]).LSC
Subjects: Strayed, Cheryl, 1968-; Authors, American;
© 2013, c2012., Vintage Books,
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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Deliberate cruelty : Truman Capote, the millionaire's wife, and the murder of the century / by Montillo, Roseanne,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Describes how author Truman Capote became obsessed with the true crime story of a Manhattan socialite who shot her banking heir husband in 1955, and discusses how publication of his book led to her suicide and his own scandalous downfall.
Subjects: Biographies.; True crime stories.; Personal narratives.; Capote, Truman, 1924-1984.; Woodward, Ann, -1975.; Authors, American.; Murder; Socialites;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Dav Pilkey / by Hicks, Kelli L.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Presents the life and career of Dav Pilkey, including his childhood, education, and milestones as a best selling children's author"--Provided by publisher."RL: 1-2, IL: 1-3"--P. [4] of cover.LSC
Subjects: Pilkey, Dav, 1966-; Authors, American; Children's stories;
© c2014., Capstone Press,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Why didn't you tell me? : a memoir / by Wong, Carmen Rita,author.;
A DNA test and an immigrant mothers long-held secrets upend her daughters understanding of her family, identity and place in the world, in this powerful and dramatic memoir.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Wong, Carmen Rita.; Authors, American; Internet personalities; Television personalities;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Quietly hostile : essays / by Irby, Samantha,author.;
"Beloved writer Samantha Irby has returned to the printed page for her much-anticipated, sidesplitting fourth book following her 2020 breakout, Wow, no thank you, a Vintage Books Original. The success of Irby's career has taken her to new heights. She fields calls with job offers from Hollywood and walks the red carpet with the iconic ladies of Sex and the City. Finally, she has made it. But, behind all that new-found glam, Irby is just trying to keep her life together as she always had. Her teeth are poisoning her from inside her mouth, and her diarrhea is back. She gets turned away from a restaurant for wearing ugly clothes, she goes to therapy and tries out Lexapro, gets healed with Reiki, explores the power of crystals, and becomes addicted to QVC. Making light of herself as she takes us on an outrageously funny tour of all the details that make up a true portrait of her life, Irby is once again the relatable, uproarious tonic we all need"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Essays.; Personal narratives.; Irby, Samantha.; African American comedians; African American women authors; American wit and humor.; Authors, American; Bloggers; Comedians;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The last fire season : a personal and pyronatural history / by Martin, Manjula,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."H Is for Hawk meets Joan Didion in the Pyrocene in this arresting combination of memoir, natural history, and literary inquiry that chronicles one woman's experience of life in Northern California during the worst fire season on record. Told in luminous, perceptive prose, The Last Fire Season is a deeply incisive inquiry into what it really means--now--to live in relationship to the elements of the natural world. When Manjula Martin moved from the city to the woods of Northern California, she wanted to be closer to the wilderness that she had loved as a child. She was also seeking refuge from a health crisis that left her with chronic pain, and found a sense of healing through tending her garden beneath the redwoods of Sonoma County. But the landscape that Martin treasured was an ecosystem already in crisis. Wildfires fueled by climate change were growing bigger and more frequent: each autumn, her garden filled with smoke and ash, and the local firehouse siren wailed deep into the night. In 2020, when a dry lightning storm ignited hundreds of simultaneous wildfires across the West and kicked off the worst fire season on record, Martin, along with thousands of other Californians, evacuated her home in the midst of a pandemic. Both a love letter to the forests of the West and an interrogation of the colonialist practices that led to their current dilemma, The Last Fire Season, follows her from the oaky hills of Sonoma County to the redwood forests of coastal Santa Cruz, to the pines and peaks of the Sierra Nevada, as she seeks shelter, bears witness to the devastation, and tries to better understand fire's role in the ecology of the West. As Martin seeks a way to navigate the daily experience of living in a damaged body on a damaged planet, she comes to question her own assumptions about nature and the complicated connections between people and the land on which we live"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Martin, Manjula.; Human beings; Wildfires; Women authors, American;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Shockaholic [sound recording] / by Fisher, Carrie.;
Read by the author.
Subjects: Fisher, Carrie.; Audiobooks.; Authors, American; Motion picture actors and actresses;
© p2011., Simon & Schuster Audio,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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I'm mostly here to enjoy myself : one woman's pursuit of pleasure in Paris / by MacNicol, Glynnis,1974-author.;
"An intimate, insightful, powerful, and endlessly pleasurable memoir of an intensely lived experience whose meaning and insight expands far beyond the personal narrative"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; MacNicol, Glynnis, 1974-; Americans; Pleasure.; Women authors, American;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Slave narratives / by Tackach, James.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-181) and index.
Subjects: Slaves; African Americans in literature.; American prose literature; Slaves' writings, American.; Slavery in literature.;
© c2001, Greenhaven
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Orphan bachelors : a memoir : on being a confession baby, Chinatown daughter, baa-bai sister, caretaker of exotics, literary balloon peddler, and grand historian of a doomed American family / by Ng, Fae Myenne,1956-author.;
"From the bestselling, award-winning author of novels Bone and Steer Toward Rock, Fae Myenne Ng's Orphan Bachelors is a singular memoir of her beloved San Francisco's Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. Beloved by readers for her "incantatory" (New York Times) novels and their luminous depictions of Chinatown, Fae Myenne Ng's new memoir is a personal, timely portrait of the same storied place. In pre-Communist China, Ng's father memorized a book of lies and gained entry to the United States as a stranger's son, evading the Exclusion Act, an immigration law which he believed was meant to extinguish the Chinese American family. During the McCarthy era, he entered the Confession Program only to have his citizenship revoked. Ng was her parents' precocious firstborn. A child raised by a seafaring father and a seamstress mother, by Chinatown and its legendary Orphan Bachelors--men without wives or children, exclusion's living legacy. Exclusion's shadow followed Ng from the back alleys of Chinatown in the sixties, to Manhattan in the eighties, to the high desert of California in the nineties, until her return home in the 2000s when the deaths of her youngest brother and her father devastated the family. As a child, Ng believed her father's lies; as an adult, she returned to her childhood home to write his truth. Orphan Bachelors weaves together the history of one doomed family; an elegy for brothers estranged and for elders lost; and insights into writing between languages and teaching between generations. In this powerful remembrance, Ng gives voice to her ancestors, her Orphan Bachelors, and her own inner self, howling in Cantonese, impossible to translate but determined to be heard"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Ng, Fae Myenne, 1956-; Chinese American authors; Chinese American families;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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