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Baldwin : a love story / by Boggs, Nicholas,1973-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Baldwin: A Love Story tells the overlapping stories of Baldwin's most sustaining intimate and artistic relationships: with his mentor, the Black American painter Beauford Delaney; with his lover and muse, the Swiss painter Lucien Happersberger; and with his collaborators, the famed Turkish actor Engin Cezzar and the iconoclastic French artist Yoran Cazac"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Baldwin, James, 1924-1987.; Baldwin, James, 1924-1987; African American authors; African American gay people; Authors, American;
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Pure joy : the dogs we love / by Steel, Danielle.;
Presents an endearing love letter to the pet dogs who have enriched the author's life, in a volume that celebrates the laugh-inducing moments, poignant exchanges, and heartfelt farewells shared by her family.
Subjects: Steel, Danielle; Steel, Danielle.; Authors, American.; Dog owners.; Dogs.; Human-animal relationships.;
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Stray : a memoir / by Danler, Stephanie,author.;
"From the author of the best-selling Sweetbitter comes 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. When Sweetbitter was published to great success, the author knew she should be happy, but she felt incapable of it, emotionally shut down. She knew too that the roots of her inability to feel were deep in her childhood. With some hope of finally facing down her past--of looking clearly at her parents and what she did and did not inherit from them--she returned to California after a decade away, a decade in which she'd honed the practice of apathy. Stray is an account of that remarkable emotional journey. We meet her mother: a depressed alcoholic, now mentally and physically handicapped by a tragic brain aneurysm and living in squalor; and her father: once a successful businessman, now a constantly relapsing crystal meth addict living in halfway homes and shelters. And we are with the author as she remembers and relives the most difficult events of the ten years since she left "home"--betrayals and infidelities, her own problems with drinking, an affair with a married man whose darkness mirrored her own--and as she discovers the bounds of forgiveness, of her parents, but especially of herself"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Danler, Stephanie.; Authors, American; Women authors, American; Children of alcoholics; Children of drug addicts;
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Spinster : making a life of one's own / by Bolick, Kate.;
Includes bibliographical references."A single woman considers her life, the life of the bold single ladies who have gone before her, and the long arc of slowly changing attitudes towards women"--Provided by publisher.LSC
Subjects: Bolick, Kate.; Authors, American; Single women;
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Gertrude Stein : an afterlife / by Wade, Francesca,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Drawing on never-before-seen interviews, a richly researched, sweeping examination of one of the most influential and mythologized literary figures of the 20th century and her partner's emergence from the shadows after her death, in the decades-long fight to ensure her legacy"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946.; Toklas, Alice B.; Authors, American; Lesbian authors; Women authors, American;
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Goodbye to clocks ticking : how we live while dying : a memoir / by Monninger, Joseph,author.;
"After thirty-two years of teaching, Joe Monninger, an avid outdoorsman in robust health, was looking forward to a long retirement with the love of his life in a cabin beside a New England estuary. Three days after his last class, however, he's diagnosedwith terminal lung cancer, even though he has not smoked for more than 30 years. It was May, and he might be dead by early fall. Soon Joe learned, however, that he was a genetic match for treatment with a drug that could not cure his cancer, but could prolong his life. With this temporary reprieve, he sets out to live life to the fullest and to write about the year of grace that follows, from his cancer treatments to his innermost thoughts"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Monninger, Joseph; Authors, American; Authors, American; Cancer; Terminally ill;
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My beloved monster : Masha, the half-wild rescue cat who rescued me / by Carr, Caleb,1955-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Caleb Carr has had special relationships with cats since he was a young boy in a turbulent household, famously peopled by the founding members of the Beat Generation, where his steadiest companions were the adopted cats that lived with him both in the city and the country. As an adult, he has had many close feline companions, with relationships that have outlasted most of his human ones. But only after building a three-story home in rural, upstate New York did he enter into the most extraordinary of all of his cat pairings: Masha, a Siberian Forest cat who had been abandoned as a kitten, and was languishing in a shelter when Caleb met her. She had hissed and fought off all previous carers and potential adopters, but somehow, she chose Caleb as her savior. For the seventeen years that followed, Caleb and Masha were inseparable. Masha ruled the house and the extensive, dangerous surrounding fields and forests. When she was hurt, only Caleb could help her. When he suffered long-standing physical ailments, Masha knew what to do. Caleb's life-long study of the literature of cat behavior, and his years of experience with previous cats, helped him decode much of Masha's inner life. But their bond went far beyond academic studies and experience. The story of Caleb and Masha is an inspiring and life-affirming relationship for readers of all backgrounds and interests--a love story like no other."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Carr, Caleb, 1955-; Authors, American; Authors, American; Cat owners; Cats; Human-animal relationships.;
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The genius of Judy : how Judy Blume rewrote childhood for all of us / by Bergstein, Rachelle,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."An intimate and expansive look at Judy Blume's life, work, and cultural impact, focusing on her most iconic -- and controversial -- young adult novels, from Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret to Blubber"--Dust jacket flap.
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Blume, Judy; Authors, American; Children's literature.;
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Dogtripping : 25 rescues, 11 volunteers, and 3 RVs on our canine cross-country adventure / by Rosenfelt, David,author.;
Subjects: Rosenfelt, David.; Authors, American; Dog adoption.; Dogs; Human-animal relationships.;
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The shapeless unease : a year of not sleeping / by Harvey, Samantha,1975-author.;
"In 2016, Samantha Harvey began to lose sleep. She tried everything to appease her wakefulness: from medication to therapy, changes in her diet to changes in her living arrangements. Nothing seemed to help. The Shapeless Unease is Harvey's darkly funny and deeply intelligent anatomy of her insomnia, an immersive interior monologue of a year without one of the most basic human needs. Original and profound, and narrated with a lucid breathlessness, this is a startlingly insightful exploration of memory, writing and influence, death and the will to survive, from "this generation's Virginia Woolf" (Telegraph)"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Harvey, Samantha, 1975-; Women authors, American; Insomniacs; Insomnia.;
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