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Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"In Scream, her first memoir, Janowitz recalls the quirky literary world of young downtown New York in the go-go 1980s and reflects on her life today far away from the city indelible to her work. As in Slaves of New York and A Certain Age, Janowitz turns a critical eye towards life, this time her own, recounting the vagaries of fame and fortune as a writer devoted to her art. Here, too, is Tama as daughter, wife, and mother, wrestling with aging,...
Author
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
xiv, 225 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Using mostly short entries organized from A to Z, many of which are cross-referenced, Rosenthal captures in wonderful and episodic detail the moments, observations, and emotions that comprise a contemporary life. Start anywhere -- preferably at the beginning -- and see how one young woman's alphabetized existence can open up and define the world in new and unexpected ways.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
x, 580 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Alice Adams: Portrait of a Writer has the heartbeat of one American woman's life in the twentieth century. It tells an intimate story of how Alice Adams-white, privileged, talented-endured a lonely childhood as a child in the racially distressed South and came of age during the Great Depression and World War II. Always a rebel in good-girl's clothing, Adams used her education, sexual and emotional curiosity, and uncompromising artistic ambition to...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
256 pages
Description
"In this memoir, celebrated author, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit relates how she found her voice as a writer and as a feminist during the 1980s in San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. Then in her early twenties, Solnit tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city, which became her great teacher; of the small apartment she found, which became a home in which...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
283 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
A writer, performer, and contributing editor to "The Atlantic" humorously chronicles her experiences going through menopause while dealing with the end of her marriage, her preteen daughters, and the hijinks of her eighty-nine-year-old father.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Formats
Description
"While Frances Mayes is known for her travels, she has always sought a sense of home wherever she goes. In this poetic testament to the power of place in our lives, Mayes reflects on "home," from the earliest imprint of four walls to the startling discoveries of feeling the strange ease of homes abroad, friends' homes, and even momentary homes that spark desires for other lives. Her musings are all the more poignant after so many have spent their...
Author
Series
Fairy tale girl volume 1
Publisher
Spring Street Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
288 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"Based on the diaries Susan has kept since she was in her 20s, THE FAIRY TALE GIRL is book one of a two part series. Together the books are an illustrated memoir, charmingly designed in Susan's style with her whimsical watercolors and personal photographs. It's an enchanting story of love and loss, mystery and magic that begins in a geranium-colored house in California, and ends up, like any good fairy tale, on the right side of the rabbit hole,...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
175 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"In 2016, Samantha Harvey began to lose sleep. She tried everything to appease her wakefulness: from medication to therapy, changes in her diet to changes in her living arrangements. Nothing seemed to help. The Shapeless Unease is Harvey's darkly funny and deeply intelligent anatomy of her insomnia, an immersive interior monologue of a year without one of the most basic human needs. Original and profound, and narrated with a lucid breathlessness,...
Author
Publisher
U.S. distributor, Dufour Editions
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
164 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Formats
Description
"Ella Young (1867-1956), an Irish storyteller of Celtic heroes and magic curses, had a fascinating, overlooked life story. She guarded weapons hidden under floorboards for Dublin rebels during the 1920s, hobnobbed with W.B. Yeats, shared a flat with Maud Gonne, talked to spirits in the windswept dunes of California's Pacific Coast, and lectured to overflow crowds at the University of California at Berkeley. A mystical, whimsical woman, she gathered...
Author
Description
"Bird Cloud" is the name the author gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four hundred foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky. She also saw pelicans, bald eagles, golden eagles, great blue herons, ravens, scores of bluebirds, harriers, kestrels, elk, deer and a dozen antelope. She fell in love with the land, then owned by the Nature Conservancy,...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
304 pages
Description
"A Fran Lebowitz-esque comic exploration of a year in the life of "imaginatively twisted and fearless" (Los Angeles Times) bestselling writer. In a half-changed America, "liberated" women have had to wear fifteen different hats to make everyday life work-while putting themselves second. As the self-appointed spokeswoman for the forgotten generation of Gen-X women-those who came of age in the 1980s and 1990s, neither First Wave Bella Abzug feminists...
Author
Publisher
Delphinium Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
217 pages ; 22 cm
Description
This memoir takes readers around the world, from New York to Nigeria, exploring a life illuminated by novels. As a child in music class, Kathleen Hill comes upon Willa Cather's Lucy Gayheart, and the novel prepares her for a drowning death that soon occurs in her own life. Later, recently married and working as a teacher in a newly independent Nigeria, Hill assigns Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart to her students, which leads to learning from them...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
Delia Ephron had struggled through several years of heartbreak. She?d lost her sister, Nora, and then her husband, Jerry, both to cancer. Several months after Jerry?s death, she decided to make one small change in her life?she shut down his landline, which crashed her internet. She ended up in Verizon hell. She channeled her grief the best way she knew: by writing a New York Times op-ed. The piece caught the attention of Peter, a Bay Area psychiatrist,...
Author
Series
Fairy tale girl volume 2
Publisher
Spring Street Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
386 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Description
"Funny, observant, touching, and addictive (you are not going to want this book to end), based on the diaries she has kept all her life, Susan Branch relates her inspirational tale of lost love and self discovery, her search for roots, purpose, and destiny with laugh-out-loud honesty. A road map for overcoming loss, following your heart, and making dreams come true, charmingly hand-lettered and watercolored in Susan's inimitable style, there are diary...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
192 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Appears on list
Description
"In this ... memoir, Margarita Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War"--Amazon.com.
In this poetic memoir Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War. Her heart was in Cuba, her mother's tropical island country, a place so lush with vibrant life that it seems like a fairy tale kingdom....
17) Adam
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Adam is a handsome but intriguing young man who has Asperger's syndrome and has led a sheltered existence. Then he meets his new neighbor, Beth. She is a beautiful, cosmopolitan young woman who pulls him into the outside world, with funny, touching and entirely unexpected results. Their implausible and enigmatic relationship reveals just how far two people from different realities can stretch in search of an extraordinary connection.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little Bigfoot, an imprint of Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Description
"A beautifully illustrated children's biography of Beverly Cleary, from her roots in Portland to her years as a librarian and an eventual children's book writer. The debut book in Little Bigfoot's new Growing to Greatness series of notable people from thePacific Northwest"--
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