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Jennie's Boy A Newfoundland Childhood [electronic resource] : by Johnston, Wayne.aut; Johnston, Wayne.nrt; cloudLibrary;: NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CBC WINNER OF THE 2023 LEACOCK MEDAL FOR HUMOUR 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 his Newfoundland boyhood. 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. At seven, Wayne was sickly and skinny, unable to keep food down, plagued with insomnia and a relentless cough that no doctor could diagnose, though they had already removed his tonsils, adenoids and appendix. To the neighbours, he was known as “Jennie’s boy,” a backhanded salute to his tiny, ferocious mother, who felt judged for Wayne’s condition at the same time as worried he might never grow up. Unable to go to school, Wayne spent his days with his witty, religious, deeply eccentric maternal grandmother, Lucy. 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. His boyhood was full of pain, yes, but also tenderness and Newfoundland wit. By that wit, and through love—often expressed in the most unloving ways—Wayne survived.; Subjects: Audiobooks.; Social Classes; Personal Memoirs; Literary;; © 2022., Penguin Random House,
The parents' concise guide to childhood vaccinations : practical medical and natural ways to protect your child / by Feder, Lauren.; Hoang, LeTrinh.;: Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.LSC; Subjects: Vaccination of children.; Immunization of children.; Vaccination of children; Vaccines;
Nowhere girl : a memoir of a fugitive childhood / by Diamond, Cheryl,author.;: "In this memoir that spans dozens of countries worldwide, a young girl and her family adopt one new identity after another and run from both the law and the secrets that will eventually catch up to all of them"--; Subjects: Diamond, Cheryl.; Fugitives from justice; Missing persons; Exiles; Impersonation.; Family secrets.;
Crushmore : essays on love, loss, and coming-of-age / by Badgley, Penn,1986-author.; Ansari, Sophie,author.; Kavelin, Nava,author.;: "In the debut essay collection from the hosts of the hit podcast Podcrushed, Penn Badgley, Sophie Ansari, and Nava Kavelin explore what it means to come of age at every stage of our lives. Known for spotlighting your favorite artists' tween stories of self-discovery on their podcast, Penn, Sophie, and Nava turn inward to share their own experiences for the first time. Penn, a twelve-year-old, Discman-toting introvert, starts in the solitude of his only-child household where he danced like no one was watching (because no one was watching) before embarking on a neon-lit journey to Hollywood. Sophie takes us to her middle school in Beijing where she had to ward off rumors of a boob job, and to the moment loosening her chokehold on love brought her husband straight into her living room. Nava traces the emotional aftershocks of losing her mother and guides us through the whimsical world of an imaginationship, where nothing is ever as it seems. With compassion, humor, and insight, Crushmore charts the often cringey, sometimes luminous path from adolescence to adulthood. Together, these essays remind us that we can find healing-and even inspiration-from our awkward adolescent selves long after we thought we left them behind"--; Subjects: Biographies.; Anecdotes.; Essays.; Personal narratives.; Badgley, Penn, 1986-; Kavelin, Nava; Ansari, Sophie; Adolescence; Coming of age; Preteens;
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);
Tessa & Scott : our journey from childhood dream to gold / by Virtue, Tessa,author.; Milton, Steve,author.; Moir, Scott,author.; Wilson, Tracy,writer of foreword.;: Subjects: Biographies.; Moir, Scott.; Virtue, Tessa.; Figure skaters;
Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood / by Noah, Trevor,1984-author.;: "One of the comedy world's fastest-rising stars tells his wild coming of age story during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. Noah provides something deeper than traditional memorists: powerfully funny observations about how farcical political and social systems play out in our lives. Trevor Noah is the host of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, where he gleefully provides America with its nightly dose of serrated satire. He is a light-footed but cutting observer of the relentless absurdities of politics, nationalism and race--and in particular the craziness of his own young life, which he's lived at the intersections of culture and history. In his first book, Noah tells his coming of age story with his larger-than-life mother during the last gasps of apartheid-era South Africa and the turbulent years that followed. Noah was born illegal--the son of a white, Dutch father and a black Xhosa mother, who had to pretend to be his nanny or his father's servant in the brief moments when the family came together. His brilliantly eccentric mother loomed over his life--a comically zealous Christian (they went to church six days a week and three times on Sunday), a savvy hustler who kept food on their table during rough times, and an aggressively involved, if often seriously misguided, parent who set Noah on his bumpy path to stardom. The stories Noah tells are sometimes dark, occasionally bizarre, frequently tender, and always hilarious--whether he's subsisting on caterpillars during months of extreme poverty or making comically pitiful attempts at teenage romance in a color-obsessed world; whether's he's being thrown into jail as the hapless fall guy for a crime he didn't commit or being thrown by his mother from a speeding car driven by murderous gangsters."--; Subjects: Biographies.; Noah, Trevor, 1984-; Apartheid; Comedians; South African wit and humor.;
Mister Roger and me / by Lavoie, Marie-Renée,1974-; Grady, Wayne.; Lavoie, Marie-Renée,1974-Petite et le vieux.English.;: Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Childhood; Children and older people; Community;; © 2012., House of Anansi Press,

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