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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Richard Paul Evans was a young boy being raised by a suicidal mother and dealing with relentless bullying. He could not fathom what the future held for him. Now, in this collection of personal essays, Evans shares his journey from childhood to beloved author. He offers the insightful lessons he's learned and advice about everything from marriage to parenthood and even facing near-death experiences.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 509 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Told through letters from his late teens to his ninth decade, this collection shows the iconic author's progression through life as he knew it, illuminating his enduring legacy as a storyteller, novelist and space-age visionary whose works turned into popular adaptations for stage, film and television.
3) Mark Twain
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 225 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Recounts Mark Twain's life told primarily through his own words. Includes interviews with Hal Holbrook, Arthur Miller, William Styron and many others.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In her first memoir, Leslie Jamison turns her unrivaled powers of perception on some of the most intimate relationships of her life: her consuming love for her young daughter, a ruptured marriage once swollen with hope, and the shaping legacy of her own parents’ complicated bond. In examining what it means for a woman to be many things at once—a mother, an artist, a teacher, a lover—Jamison places the magical and the mundane side by side in...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Stephanie Land set out to write her memoir Maid, she never could have imagined what was to come. Handpicked by President Barack Obama as one of the best books of 2019, it was called "an eye-opening journey into the lives of the working poor" (People). Later it was adapted into the hit Netflix series Maid, which was viewed by 67 million households and was Netflix's fourth most-watched show in 2021, garnering three Primetime Emmy Award nominations....
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
222 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In her memoir, Minda casts her gimlet eye on her past relationships and the complicated dynamics of consent culture, gender, sexuality, race, and class. Remembering the promise and disappointments of her twenties with wisdom and compassion, this is Minda’s story of a Black woman coming into herself and changing her own world with resilience and bracing independence" --
Author
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xi, 201 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
This is the first complete biography of acclaimed children's author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats (1916-1983). Drawing extensively from his unpublished autobiography and letters, it covers the breadth of Keats's life, taking readers through his early years as the child of immigrant parents, his introduction to illustration and writing, and the full arc of his remarkable career. This volume presents a time capsule of the political, social, and economic...
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Graphic, an imprint of Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
201 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"The graphic novel biography of the legendary Stan Lee, co-creator of many of Marvel's beloved superheroes."--
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 412 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"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."--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A personal evocation of the glory of nature, our vexed position in the animal kingdom, and the difficulty of adoring what we destroy. Acclaimed novelist Lydia Millet's first work of nonfiction, We Loved It All, is a genre-defying tour de force that makes an impassioned argument for people to see their emotional and spiritual lives as infinitely dependent on the lives of nonhuman beings. Drawing on a quarter-century of experience as an advocate for...
Author
Publisher
The New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
205 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A compelling celebration of the power of the essay, this collection of 47 writings offers a glimpse into the mind of a modern-day Montaigne as he reflects on the miscellany of daily life—movies and art, friends and family—over the course of a single year.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 224 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
These essays examine the author's youth in California, the lives of his refugee parents, his intimate friendships, loss, pop culture, and more.
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
One World trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
355 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Like many six-year-olds, Mira Jacob's half-Jewish, half-Indian son, Z, has questions about everything. At first they are innocuous enough, but as tensions from the 2016 election spread from the media into his own family, they become much, much more complicated. Trying to answer him honestly, Mira has to think back to where she's gotten her own answers: her most formative conversations about race, color, sexuality, and, of course, love. Written with...
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