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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A memoir details the haunting and redemptive events of the author's life, covering such topics as his con-man father's betrayal, the murder-suicide of a houseguest, and his decade spent in the Arctic as a translator of Inuit tales.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An artist's solitude needs to be guarded from the chaos of the world, but within its quiet also lies loneliness and self-doubt. Humphreys provides a meditation on the benefits of dogs to the creative life. She discusses the dogs of well-known writers from history, portraits of all the dogs from the author's life, and the arrival and raising of her new puppy. -- adapted from jacket
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
380 pages : illustrated ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this powerful memoir, bestselling author Alison Pick (nominated for the Man Booker Prize) channels Karen Armstrong and Anne Lamott as she explains the shocking family secret that eventually led to her mid-life conversion to Judaism--exploring powerful, provocative questions about family, faith, and the burdens of inheritance"--
Series
Dictionary of literary biography volume 53
Publisher
Gale Research Co
Pub. Date
[1986]
Physical Desc
445 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
White Pine Pictures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
The film explores Atwood's 'backstory,' her early days in the Canadian wilderness and as a poet. Atwood's novels are explored, including her latest, The Testaments, the sequel to The Handmaid's Tale. Personal stories are shared by friends, family, and, of course, directly by Atwood herself.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 431 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Philosopher and novelist Martin (How to Sell) delivers a disturbing and transfixing dissection of suicide and its circumstances. Toggling between the personal and the analytical, Martin presents a patient, chilling consideration of “what it’s like to want to kill yourself, sometimes on a daily basis, yet to go on living,” as well as his “own particular good reasons for doing so.” In three sections, Martin addresses societal conceptions of...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"A writer's search for inspiration, beauty, and solace leads her to birds in this intimate and exuberant meditation on creativity and life--a field guide to things small and significant. When it comes to birds, Kyo Maclear isn't seeking the exotic. Rather she discovers joy in the seasonal birds that find their way into view in city parks and harbors, along eaves and on wires. In a world that values big and fast, Maclear looks to the small, the steady,...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Once upon a time, there was a girl named Maud who adored stories. When she was fourteen years old, Maud wrote in her journal, "I love books. I hope when I grow up to be able to have lots of them." Not only did Maud grow up to own lots of books, she wrote twenty-four of them herself as L. M. Montgomery, the world-renowned author of Anne of Green Gables. For many years, not a great deal was known about Maud's personal life. Her childhood was spent with...
20) Born naked
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
256 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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