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The bell jar / by Plath, Sylvia;
Subjects: Depression, Mental; Women college students; Suicidal behavior; Autobiographical fiction; Psychological fiction;
© 1996, c1971., HarperCollins,

The life and times of Hannah Crafts : the true story of The Bondwoman's Narrative / by Hecimovich, Gregg A.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from the biographer who solved the mystery of her identity, with a preface by Henry Louis Gates Jr. In 1857, a woman escaped enslavement on a North Carolina plantation and fled to a farm in New York. In hiding, she worked on a manuscript that would make her famous long after her death. The novel, The Bondwoman's Narrative, was first published in 2002 to great acclaim, but the author's identity remained unknown. Over a decade later, Professor Gregg Hecimovich unraveled the mystery of the author's name and, in The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts, he finally tells her story. In this remarkable biography, Hecimovich identifies the novelist as Hannah Bond “Crafts.” She was not only the first known Black woman to compose a novel but also an extraordinarily gifted artist who honed her literary skills in direct opposition to a system designed to deny her every measure of humanity. After escaping to New York, the author forged a new identity--as Hannah Crafts--to make sense of a life fractured by slavery. Hecimovich establishes the case for authorship of The Bondwoman's Narrative by examining the lives of Hannah Crafts's friends and contemporaries, including the five enslaved women whose experiences form part of her narrative. By drawing on the lives of those she knew in slavery, Crafts summoned into her fiction people otherwise stolen from history. At once a detective story, a literary chase, and a cultural history, The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts discovers a tale of love, friendship, betrayal, and violence set against the backdrop of America's slide into Civil War."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Crafts, Hannah.; African American women novelists; Enslaved women; Fugitive slaves; Autobiographical fiction, American;

Woman at sea / by Poulain, Catherine,author.; translation of:Poulain, Catherine.Grand marin.English.;
Subjects: Sea fiction.; Autobiographical fiction.; Man-woman relationships; Women fishers; Young women; Fishing boats;

Shantaram / by Roberts, Gregory David,author.;
Subjects: Autobiographical fiction.; Action and adventure fiction.; Australians; Fugitives from justice; Australians; Criminals; Clinics;

Suzanne / by Barbeau-Lavalette, Anaïs,1979-author.; Mullins, Rhonda,1966-translator.; translation of:Barbeau-Lavalette, Anaïs,1979-Femme qui fuit.English.;
Subjects: Autobiographical fiction.; Grandmothers; Granddaughters; Artists;

The grip / by Stroman, Marcus,1991-; Thornhill, Samantha.;
Marcus, a young baseball pitcher, learns that perfect games only come with a lot of practice--and some strikeouts.Ages 8-12.
Subjects: Autobiographical fiction.; Sports fiction.; Pitching (Baseball); Self-confidence; Friendship;

Hippie / by Coelho, Paulo,author.; Becker, Eric M. B.,translator.; translation of:Coelho, Paulo.Hippie.English.;
Subjects: Autobiographical fiction.; Coelho, Paulo; Man-woman relationships; Voyages and travels;

On the road / by Kerouac, Jack,1922-1969,author.;
The classic novel that epitomizes the "Beat Generation." Portrays a spontaneous and wandering way of life founded on jazz and drugs.
Subjects: Autobiographical fiction.; Beat generation;

Hippie [sound recording] / by Coelho, Paulo,author.; Halstead, Graham,narrator.; Becker, Eric M. B.,translator.; translation of:Coelho, Paulo.Hippie.English[sound recording].; Random House Audio Publishing,publisher.; Books on Tape, Inc.,publisher.;
Read by Graham Halstead.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Autobiographical fiction.; Coelho, Paulo; Man-woman relationships; Voyages and travels;

The mountain shadow / by Roberts, Gregory David,author.;
Australian fugitive Lin continues his search for love and faith in a Bombay that has come under the rule of a new generation of mafia dons and where Lin becomes trapped by his married soulmate and an increasingly violent mission.
Subjects: Adventure stories.; Autobiographical fiction.; Australians; Fugitives from justice; Organized crime;

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