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Hillbilly Elegy A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis [electronic resource] : by Vance, J. D..aut; cloudLibrary;
Hillbilly Elegy recounts J.D. Vance’s powerful origin story…. From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate now serving as a U.S. Senator from Ohio and the Republican Vice Presidential candidate for the 2024 election, an incisive account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America’s white working class.  THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  "You will not read a more important book about America this year."—The Economist "A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal "Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York Times Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Poverty & Homelessness; State & Local; Rural; 21st Century; Personal Memoirs;
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Jennie's boy : a Newfoundland childhood / by Johnston, Wayne,author.;
"Consummate storyteller and bestselling novelist Wayne Johnston reaches back into his past to bring us a sad, tender and at times extremely funny memoir of a Newfoundland boyhood few thought he would survive, including him. For six months between 1966 and 1967, Wayne Johnston and his family lived in a wreck of a house across from his grandparents in Goulds, Newfoundland, which was not so much a place as a scattering of houses along an unpaved road. At seven, Wayne was sickly and skinny, unable to keep food down, unable to sleep, plagued with a relentless cough that no doctor could diagnose, though they had already removed his tonsils, adenoids and appendix. Heart murmur, pleurisy, a tapeworm? All were suspected, and none confirmed. To the community he was known as "Jennie's boy," and his tiny, ferocious mother felt judged for Wayne's condition at the same time as worried he might not grow up to be his own man. While his brothers went off to school, and his parents to work, trying to stave off the next eviction, Wayne spent his days with his witty, religious, deeply eccentric maternal grandmother, Lucy, who kept a statue of the Blessed Virgin in one of her bedrooms along with a photo of her son Leonard, who had died at seven. During these six months of Wayne's childhood, he and Lucy faced two life-or-death crises, and only one of them lived to tell the tale. Jennie's Boy is Wayne's tribute to a family and a community that were simultaneously fiercely protective of him and fed up with having to make allowances for him: grandparents, parents and siblings, aunts and uncles, and the people of the Goulds, whose pet and nuisance he was. He recalls a boyhood full of pain, yes, but also laughter, tenderness, and the kind of wit that is peculiar to Newfoundlanders. By that wit, and by their love for each other--so often expressed in the most unloving ways--he, and they, survived."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Johnston, Wayne; Johnston, Wayne; Johnston, Wayne.; Families.; Authors, Canadian (English);
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Abueloasaurio / by Walliams, David,1971-; Stower, Adam.;
Ha llegado la hora de irse a la cama. La abuela lee un cuento y apaga la luz. ¡Hasta mañana! Pero este pequeño no se quiere dormir y, al escuchar ruidos, decide bajar a explorar. Cuál no será su sorpresa cuando descubre a un montón de dinosaurios bailando como locos en el salón. ¿Será que su abuela es en realidad... un abuelasaurio? = One night, Spike creeps downstairs in his pajamas to find that his granny has turned into a dinosaur -- GRANNYSAURUS! There are dinosaurs BOOGYING in the living room. With Brontosaurus, Stegosaurus, and Giganotosaurus, it's a DINO DISCO! Spike wants to stay up and party too! How will Grannysaurus ever get him back to bed? Perhaps her next guest, Tyrannosaurus Rex, can help?
Subjects: Picture books.; Dinosaurs; Grandparents; Dreams; Imagination; Spanish language materials.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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La aventura más grande / by Piedra, Tony.; Berriz, Abel.;
Eliot's grandfather, El Capitán, has retired from the sea, and after listening to his grandfather's stories, Eliot is ready for an adventure--so they set out together to find one they can share.LSC
Subjects: Hispanic American boys; Grandfathers; Grandparent and child; Sailing;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Le guide des grands-mamans pour les petits / by Clarke, Jane,1954-; Fleming, Lucy.; Allard, Isabelle.;
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Subjects: Grands-mères; Grands-parents et enfants; Grandmothers; Grandparent and child;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Maxime va à la pêche / by Smith, Annette.; Hoit, Richard,1970-;
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Subjects: Histoires de pêche.; Fishing stories.; Grands-pères; Grands-parents et enfants; Grandfathers; Grandparent and child;
© c2002., Groupe Beauchemin,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Une surprise pour Vincent / by Giles, Jenny.; Hoit, Richard,1970-;
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Subjects: Grands-parents; Bicyclettes; Pistes cyclables; Grandparents; Bicycles; Bicycle trails;
© c2003., Groupe Beauchemin,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Des lunettes pour Maxime / by Smith, Annette.; Hoit, Richard,1970-;
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Subjects: Grands-pères; Grands-parents et enfants; Lunettes; Grandfathers; Grandparent and child; Eyeglasses;
© c2002., Groupe Beauchemin,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Au bord de la mer / by Jarden, Joan.; Rigby, Susy Boyer.;
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Subjects: Grands-mères; Grands-parents et enfants; Rivage; Grandmothers; Grandparent and child; Seashore;
© c2002., Groupe Beauchemin,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Maxime et les oiseaux / by Smith, Annette.; Hoit, Richard,1970-;
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Subjects: Grands-pères; Grands-parents et enfants; Mangeoires d'oiseaux; Grandfathers; Grandparent and child; Bird feeders;
© c2002., Groupe Beauchemin,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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