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2561) Spilt milk: memoirs
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Zoffness relives her childhood anxiety disorder as she witnesses it manifest in her firstborn; endures brazen sexual advances by a student in her class; grapples with the implications of her young son's cop obsession; and challenges her Jewish faith. What role does a mother play, she asks, in raising thoughtful, generous children? Where is the line between privacy and secrecy? And how do the stories we tell inform who we become?.
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Pub. Date
[2022].
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, an utterly original memoir-in-essays that is as deeply moving as it is hilariously funny. Growing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Chicago in the nineties, Erika Sánchez was a self-described pariah, misfit, and disappointment— a foul-mouthed, melancholic rabble-rouser who painted her nails black but also loved comedy, often laughing so hard with her...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Captain Doug Chamberlain's book details the stark reality, daily agonies, and constant vigilance of commanding a company of Marines in combat in the Vietnam War in 1967 and 1968. "Skipper" Chamberlain "tells the truth" about the traumatic life-changing tragedy of being ordered to bury a U.S. Marine KIA, who had been left behind by another unit."--
Author
Series
(Mary Margaret),Share of summer volume 1st pt
Pub. Date
[1990]
Description
A captivating work of memory that recalls the author's youth in India and recreates in affectionate detail an India long gone.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"You might recognize firecracker JoJo Siwa from Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition, or maybe you fell in love with her on Dance Moms. JoJo's nonfiction middle-grade debut is the next generation's version of a real life Cinderella story: Nebraska girl becomes Hollywood's belle of the ball, thanks to her spunky attitude and creative drive. Through the lens of JoJo's personal experience and playful voice, she digs into themes such as finding your passion,...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"A book of essays spanning the author's career a[nd] reflecting upon the various homes she's lived in around the world"--
"From the beloved author of The House on Mango Street: a richly illustrated compilation of true stories and nonfiction pieces that, taken together, form a jigsaw autobiography: an intimate album of a literary legend's life and career. From the Chicago neighborhoods where she grew up and set her groundbreaking The House on Mango...
2569) What a year
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
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Description
Tomie has an eventful first grade year with his sixth birthday party, his first Halloween trick-or-treating followed by Thanksgiving, his first Christmas pageant, and a late night New Year's celebration.
2572) Una tierra prometida
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"En este extraordinario primer volumen de sus esperadas memorias presidenciales, Barack Obama narra la historia de su sorprendente evolución de ser un joven en busca de su identidad a convertirse en líder del mundo occidental, describiendo con increíble detalle tanto su formación política como los momentos cumbre del primer período de su histórica presidencia--una época de una gran conmoción y de profunda transformación." --
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Description
"John Nichols was raised among naturalists and nurtured by a family as American as the Stars and Stripes. His great (times five) grandfather signed the Declaration of Independence for New York State. Nichols sailed happily through a top-notch private school education and sold his first novel, The Sterile Cuckoo, a best-seller, at age twenty-three. He considered himself "a child blessed by the culture and fated for delirious success." But then a short...
2574) Unfinished: a memoir
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"A remarkable life story rooted in two different worlds, Unfinished offers insights into Priyanka Chopra Jonas’s childhood in India; her formative teenage years in the United States; and her return to India, where against all odds as a newcomer to the pageant world, she won the national and international beauty competitions that launched her global acting career. Whether reflecting on her nomadic early years or the challenges she has faced as she...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"I was born at a crossroads: a crossroads in history, a crossroads in culture, and a geographical crossroads in North Houston County in East Texas. Born in 1945, Ruth J. Simmons grew up the twelfth child of sharecroppers. Her first home had no running water, no electricity to light the two crowded rooms, no books to read. Yet despite this-or, in her words, because of it-Simmons would become one of America's preeminent educators. The former president...
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
A memoir in which Pat Schroeder recalls her twenty-four years as a member of the House of Representatives, discussing her struggle to balance her family life and career; telling of the presidents, House speakers, and other high-profile people she served with; and reviewing some of the important issues she championed.
2579) Ladyparts: a memoir
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Pub. Date
[2021].
Description
"Breasts. Uterus. Cervix. Heart. Vagina. The source of life, right? Well, for writer and photographer Deborah Copaken, it turned out to be just the opposite--almost. Between escaping from an abusive marriage, facing down the challenge of single-parenthood, and attempting to find love again, getting her bearings after everything she knew fell to pieces proved more slippery than she ever could have anticipated. From a Fourth of July health scare that...
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"Can it ever get better? This is the question Benjamin Watson is asking. In a country aflame with the fallout from the racial divide - in which Ferguson, Charleston, and the Confederate flag dominate the national news, daily seeming to rip the wounds open ever wider - is there hope for honest and healing conversation? For finally coming to understand each other on issues that are ultimately about so much more than black and white? An NFL tight end...