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1) Red Azalea
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
xiv, 306 pages ; 21 cm
Description
A woman who grew up in China during its Cultural Revolution describes the grueling physical labor she endured on Red Fire Farm, her forced segregation from men, her sexual relationship with her platoon leader, and her introduction to acting.
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
viii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"One day Heidi Julavits sees her son silhouetted by the sun and realizes he is at the threshold of what she calls "the end times of childhood." When did this happen, she asks herself. Who is my son becoming, and who am I as a mother? What comes next, Heidi realizes, suddenly starts to feel like uncharted waters. As her son continues to grow up, rape allegations rock the university campus where she teaches. She begins to wonder how she can prepare...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xiv, 283 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Embarking on another journey into uncharted territory: the past, the author, world-famous crossing 1,700 miles of Australian desert in 1977, presents the story of a mother and daughter through time: of their despair and survival, and their unbreakable bond with a landscape that would define, scar and heal them.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xii, 257 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Description
"Situado durante los extraordinarios eventos del 6 de enero del 2021, este libro de memorias de Aquilino Gonell tiene como base las luchas y alegrias de la experiencia migrante las cuales han definido el experimento norteamericano"--
"Aquilino Gonell came to the United States from the Dominican Republic as a young boy. Although he spoke no English, he dedicated himself to his adopted land, striving for the American dream. Determined to be a success...
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Publisher
Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
399 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"When Silvia's mother called her home to Peru, she knew something finally had to give. A Latinx hero in the elite macho tech world of Silicon Valley, privately, she was hanging by a thread. She was deep in the throes of alcoholism, hiding her sexuality from her family, and repressing the abuse she'd suffered as a child. Her visit to Peru would become a turning point in her life. Silvia started climbing. Something about the brute force required for...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
viii, 279 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Amber A'Lee Frost came to New York City from her home state of Indiana as a working class activist (and member of then-unknown Cold War hold-out, Democratic Socialists of America), just before the first major movement for economic justice of the millennium, Occupy Wall Street. Of course, Occupy went bust, then Bernie Sanders went boom, and she threw herself into the campaign with everything she had. Frost has been one of the foremost evangelists...
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"For Julie, an elementary school librarian and mother of two boys, there was no time for debilitating anxiety. Yet the terrifying aftershocks of her first panic attack left her grappling with questions about the causes of her mental health crisis and where it would lead next. What follows is a hopeful, honest account of love and loss, a husband who can't read minds, disastrous family outings, and finding a path (with help from loved ones and a few...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
A world-renowned model, advocate, entrepreneur and wife of the late Hugh Hefner provides a fascinating look behind-the-scenes at a powerful cultural icon and brand, revealing the objectification and misogyny of the Playboy mansion and sharing her transformative journey to a person who finally recognized her true worth.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Espanol
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
viii, 247 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Elio Morillo tenia cuatro anos cuando una serie de dificultades economicas y familiares obligaron a su madre a abandonar Ecuador con el. En Nueva York, y mas tarde en Puerto Rico, gracias a los sacrificios y el apoyo incondicional de su mama, Elio descubrio el poder transformador de la educacion y el esfuerzo, asi como de la amistad y la ayuda desinteresada de los desconocidos. Su determinacion lo llevo a trabajar en el Laboratorio de Propulsion a...
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From an international drag superstar and pop culture icon comes his most revealing and personal work to date-a deeply intimate memoir of growing up black, poor and queer in a broken home and discovering the power of performance, found family and self-acceptance.
13) The light room
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Zambreno offers her most profound and affecting work yet: a candid chronicle of life as a mother of two young daughters in a moment of profound uncertainty about public health, climate change, and the future we can expect for our children. Moving through the seasons, returning often to parks and green spaces, Zambreno captures the isolation and exhaustion of being home with a baby and a small child, but also small and transcendent moments of beauty...
15) Everywhere an oink oink: an embittered, dyspeptic, and accurate report of forty years in Hollywood
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet shares scandalous and laugh-out-loud tales from his four decades in Hollywood where he worked with some of the biggest names in movies. David Mamet went to Hollywood on top-a super successful playwright summoned west in 1980 to write a vehicle for Jack Nicholson. He arrived just in time to meet the luminaries of old Hollywood and revel in the friendship of giants like Paul Newman,...
Author
Publisher
Zest Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"From relationships and makeup to divorce and disordered eating, Laurie Boyle Crompton recounts the humor and heartbreak of her coming of age in rural Pennsylvania and New York City during the 1970s and '80s"--
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