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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The acclaimed and beloved author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets--a real-time exploration of the staggering discovery she made last year about her father, and her struggle to piece together the hidden the story of her own life"--
"In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA, Dani Shapiro received the astonishing news that her beloved deceased...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A long-awaited memoir from an award-winning novelist--a candid, riveting account of her complicated, bohemian childhood and her return home to care for her ailing mother. In March 2020, Martha McPhee, her husband, and their two almost-grown children set out for her childhood home in New Jersey, where she finds herself grappling simultaneously with a mother slipping into severe dementia and a house that's been neglected of late. As Martha works to...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Celebrate the seasons with the folks from Fool's Gold
New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery invites you to taste the local cuisine of her beloved fictional town and share in a year's worth of deliciously seasonal recipes.
Fool's Gold is known as the Land of Happy Endings, but it's also the land of hearty appetites. Throughout the series, the residents of Fool's Gold have found joy, comfort and good times through food. Now two local...
New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery invites you to taste the local cuisine of her beloved fictional town and share in a year's worth of deliciously seasonal recipes.
Fool's Gold is known as the Land of Happy Endings, but it's also the land of hearty appetites. Throughout the series, the residents of Fool's Gold have found joy, comfort and good times through food. Now two local...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds, and about the accretion, over time, of both sorrow and love. Hourglass is an inquiry into how marriage is transformed by time--abraded, strengthened, shaped in miraculous and sometimes terrifying ways by accident and experience. With courage...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Family stories grow to be bigger than the experiences themselves," writes Judy Goldman in her memoir, Losing My Sister. "They become home to us, tell us who we are, who we want to be. Over the years, they take on more and more embellishments and adornments until they eclipse the actual memory. They become our past-just as a snapshot will, at first, enhance a memory, then replace it." As she remembers it now, Goldman's was an idyllic childhood, charmed...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Named among the 25 most influential Hispanics in the U.S. by Time, best-selling author Alisa Valdes has also been hailed as one of the top feminist writers by Ms. Magazine. In her engrossing memoir The Feminist and the Cowboy, Valdes reveals how falling in love with a conservative cowboy forced her to rethink the feminist beliefs she's always held dear.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Strike fast, strike hard-whether it's scoring a homerun or front-page news, Diane K. Shah, former sports columnist, knows how to grab the best story. In her memoir A Farewell to Arms, Legs, and Jockstraps, follow Diane's escapades, from interviews with atipsy Mickey Mantle, to sneaking into off limits Republican galas, dining with Frank Sinatra, flying a plane with Dennis Quaid, and countless other adventures where she wields her tape recorder and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
""A punk rock Scheherazade" (Margaret Cho) shares the zigzagging path that took her from harem member to PTA member... In her younger years, Jillian Lauren was a college dropout, a drug addict, and an international concubine in the Prince of Brunei's harem, an experience she immortalized in in her bestselling memoir, SOME GIRLS. In her thirties, Jillian's most radical act was learning the steadying power of love when she and her rock star husband...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The nationally bestselling author of Good Hair and The Itch pens her first book of nonfiction, a "momoir" about her own journey caring for aging parents, raising children, being married, plunging to the depths of depression, and climbing her way out. My mother was gone. I never thought I would survive her death. A major bestselling novelist and former magazine editor, long married to a handsome and successful stockbroker with whom she has a beautiful...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"A fiction writer learns to reconnect with God in this memoir about a trip to Israel"--
Austin was struggling with spiritual dryness in a season of loss and unwanted change. Tracing her travels throughout Israel, she weaves events and insights from the Word-- and in doing so finds a renewed passion for prayer and encouragement for her spirit.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on unprecedented access to Rand's private papers and the original, unedited versions of Rand's journals, Jennifer Burns offers a groundbreaking reassessment of this key cultural figure, examining her life, her ideas, and her impact on conservative political thought.
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