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Dangerous Memory : Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed. by Angus, Charlie.;
The 1980s is remembered with nostalgia as a harmless decade of big hair, colourful clothes, and catchy pop songs. It was anything but. In 'Dangerous Memory', Charlie Angus undertakes a major rethink of the cultural and political shifts of an era that unleashed an unprecedented looting of the economy, the environment, and the common good that continue to haunt North Americans today. Angus lives in Cobalt, ON. From the author of 'Cobalt'.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Commentary & Opinion; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Corruption & Misconduct; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity;
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Bite by bite : nourishments & jamborees / by Nezhukumatathil, Aimee,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.In 'Bite by Bite', poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil explores the way food and drink evoke our associations and remembrances - a subtext or layering, a flavour tinged with joy, shame, exuberance, grief, desire, or nostalgia. From shave ice to lumpia, mangoes to pecans, rambutan to vanilla, she investigates how food marks our experiences and identities, the boundaries between heritage and memory, and the ethics and environmental pressures around gathering and consuming food.
Subjects: Creative nonfiction.; Essays.; American essays; Food writing.;
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The Armenian Friend : A Novel. by Makine, Andreï.;
'The Armenian Friend' is a heart-wrenching novel that is at once an indelible portrait of friendship, a coming-of-age tale, and a dive into the memory of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire. Andrei Makine conjures a double nostalgia: that of an isolated Armenian community for their native country, and of boy for his childhood friend. From the author of 'Dreams of My Russian Summers', winner of the Goncourt Prize and the Medicis Prize, the two highest literary awards in France.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Coming of Age; FICTION / Friendship; FICTION / Historical / General; FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Political;
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Night and Day. by Connolly, John.;
John Connolly returns with a shivery collection of supernatural tales. 'Night and Day' takes us from a bunker deep beneath the earth where scientists seek revenge on old Nazis to an English marsh haunted by a mother and her son, and to a country house where a widower finds comfort from a most unlikely source. Concluding with the authors account of how an obscure horror film brought him closer to his lost father, and how nostalgia can help to keep us sane, this is a collection that will move, entertain, and keep you reading late into the night.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology; FICTION / Ghost; FICTION / Literary;
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In case you missed it / by Kelk, Lindsey,author.;
When Ros steps off a plane after four years away she's in need of a job, a flat and a phone that actually works. And, possibly, her old life back. Because everyone at home has moved on, her parents have reignited their sex life, she's sleeping in a converted shed and she's got a bad case of nostalgia for the way things were. Then her new phone begins to ping with messages from people she thought were deleted for good. Including one number she knows off by heart: her ex's. Sometimes we'd all like the chance to see what we've been missing.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Chick lit.; Single women; Homecoming; First loves; Man-woman relationships;
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How do I draw these memories? [graphic novel] / by Joshua, Jonell,author,illustrator.;
"Jonell Joshua spent her childhood shuttling back and forth between Savannah and New Jersey-living in grandparents' homes during the times her mother, struggling with mental illness, could not take care of her and her brothers. Together the family found a way to keep going even in the darkest of times. How Do I Draw These Memories? is a graphic novel memoir about nostalgia, faith, the preciousness of life, and unconditional love. From Jonell's devastatingly brilliant pen as a writer and an artist, it plumbs the depths of what family can be, and how joy and hope can be found in the most ordinary and extraordinary moments"--
Subjects: Biographical comics.; Nonfiction comics.; Autobiographical comics.; Graphic novels.; Personal narratives.; Joshua, Jonell; Joshua, Jonell; African American families; Cartoonists; Families; Families; Illustrators;
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The best of Adam Sharp / by Simsion, Graeme C.,author.;
"On the cusp of turning fifty, Adam Sharp likes his life. He's happy with his partner Claire, he excels in music trivia at quiz night at the local pub, he looks after his mother, and he does the occasional consulting job in IT. But he can never quite shake off his nostalgia for what might have been: his blazing affair more than twenty years ago with an intelligent and strong-willed actress named Angelina Brown who taught him for the first time what it means to find--and then lose--love. How different might his life have been if he hadn't let her walk away? And then, out of nowhere, from the other side of the world, Angelina gets in touch. What does she want? Does Adam dare to live dangerously?"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Marriage; Married people;
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Me & Patsy kickin' up dust : my friendship with Patsy Cline / by Lynn, Loretta,author.; Russell, Patsy Lynn,author.; Parton, Dolly,writer of foreword.;
Loretta Lynn and the late Patsy Cline are legends-- country icons and sisters of the heart. For the first time ever Loretta tells their story: a celebration of their music and their relationship up until Patsy's tragic and untimely death. Full of laughter and tears, this eye-opening, heartwarming memoir paints a picture of two stubborn, spirited country gals who'd be damned if they'd let men or convention tell them how to be. Set in the heady streets of the 1960s South, this nostalgia ride shows how Nashville blossomed into the city of music it is today. Tender and fierce, Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust is an up-close-and-personal portrait of a friendship that defined a generation and changed country music indelibly-- and a meditation on love, loss and legacy.
Subjects: Biographies.; Lynn, Loretta.; Cline, Patsy, 1932-1963.; Country musicians; Country music.; Female friendship.;
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Me & Patsy kickin' up dust [sound recording] : my friendship with Patsy Cline / by Lynn, Loretta,author.; Parton, Dolly,writer of foreword.; Russell, Patsy Lynn,author,narrator.; Hachette Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Patsy Lynn Russell.Loretta Lynn and the late Patsy Cline are legends-- country icons and sisters of the heart. For the first time ever Loretta tells their story: a celebration of their music and their relationship up until Patsy's tragic and untimely death. Full of laughter and tears, this eye-opening, heartwarming memoir paints a picture of two stubborn, spirited country gals who'd be damned if they'd let men or convention tell them how to be. Set in the heady streets of the 1960s South, this nostalgia ride shows how Nashville blossomed into the city of music it is today. Tender and fierce, Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust is an up-close-and-personal portrait of a friendship that defined a generation and changed country music indelibly-- and a meditation on love, loss and legacy.
Subjects: Biographies.; Audiobooks.; Cline, Patsy, 1932-1963.; Lynn, Loretta.; Country music.; Country musicians; Female friendship.;
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The most fun thing : dispatches from a skateboard life / by Beachy, Kyle,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."In the tradition of Barbarian Days, THE MOST FUN THING is a memoir in essays of Kyle Beachy's decade-long quest to uncover the hidden meaning of skateboarding--a search that unearthed fresh insights on marriage, love, loss, and American invention. In January 2012, creative writing professor and novelist Kyle Beachy published one of his first essays on skate culture, an exploration of how Nike's corporate strategy successfully gutted the once-mighty independent skate shoe market. For a decade and counting, Beachy has been skate culture's freshest, most illuminating, at times most controversial voice, writing candidly about the increasingly popular and fast-changing pastime Beachy first picked up as a young boy and has continued to practice well into adulthood. What is skateboarding? What does it mean to continue skateboarding after forty, four decades after the kickflip was invented? How does one live authentically as an adult while staying true to a passion cemented in childhood? How does skateboarding shape one's understanding of contemporary American life? Of growing old and getting married? Answering these questions and more, Beachy offers a deep exploration of a pastime, often overlooked, regularly maligned, whose seeming simplicity conceals universal truths. THE MOST FUN THING is both a rich account of a hobby and a life and collection of the varied lessons skateboarding has taught Beachy-what it continues to teach him as he struggles to find space for it as an adult, a professor, and a husband"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Essays.; Beachy, Kyle.; Skateboarders; Skateboarding;
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