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81) Citizen Jane
Author
Publisher
Crossroad Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
"The true story of Jane Alexander, who spent 13 years tracking down and putting away the man who murdered her 88-year old aunt, and then went on to help solve 20 murders, igniting a national victim's rights movement."--
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 online resource (225 p.)
Language
English
Description
"A riveting tale of sickness and survival from the first female author on the Punk Planet Books imprint that brought you the indie hit Hairstyles of the Damned. Diagnosed with cancer at age twelve and perilously pregnant at eighteen, surviving surgeries and violent accidents: sometimes you can't believe Bee Lavender is still alive; sometimes you think nothing could kill her. Lessons in Taxidermy is Lavender's fierce and expressive search for truth...
83) Orphanage
Author
Publisher
Baraka Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (102 pages)
Language
English
Description
"The story of a public personality-the possible future mayor of Montreal-this memoir recounts how Richard Bergeron and his four brothers lived in an orphanage for five years in the 1960s. Set in a small city in Northern Quebec, surrounded by bush and industry, this account describes the five floors of dormitories with 50 children on each floor, the daily routine, and the nuns who ran the orphanage. This short and moving story of how Richard began...
Author
Publisher
Booktrope
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource (186 p.)
Language
English
Description
"Authors Tess Hardwick and Tracey Hansen, inspired by the myriad voices in the world, compile a melting pot of life paths from over a dozen unique individuals, each exploring the four timeless questions we've all pondered: - What do you miss about being 5 years old? - What would you tell your 20-year-old self? - What, at this point in your life, do you want, wish and dream of for your life going forward? - What would you want said about you on your...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource (256 p.)
Language
English
Description
"For Julia Pandl, the rite of passage into young-adulthood included mandatory service at her family's restaurant, where she watched as her father-who was also the chef-ruled with the strictness of a drill sergeant. At age twelve, Julie was initiated into the rite of the Sunday brunch, a weekly madhouse at her father's Milwaukee-based restaurant, where she and her eight older siblings before her did service in a situation of controlled chaos, learning...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 online resource (112 p.)
Language
English
Description
"Ilene Beckerman's first book "illuminates the experience of an entire generation of women," wrote the New York Times Book Review in a full page of praise for Love, Loss, and What I Wore. It became a bestseller and inspired the hit Off-Broadway play by the same name. Now, Gingy returns with her fifth illustrated treasure, The Smartest Woman I Know-a tribute to the insightful woman who raised her. It's been said there's nobody as smart as an old...
88) Horse Girl
Author
Publisher
John Blake
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (288 pages)
Language
English
Description
The astonishing true story of Beverli Rhodes, child victim of a sick, high-profile pedophilia ring and, years later, of the London Tube bombings, who rebuilt her life with the help of one very special animal--the horse. Horses saved Beverli Rhodes's mind, and life. As a child, her world consisted of overlapping layers, in which sexually abusive men and her beautiful savior horses were distinguished only by levels of pain or joy. She survived to make...
Author
Publisher
IWP Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (164 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Recounting the civil rights era from the perspective of an African American wife and mother, this memoir travels from growing up in the segregated South before World War II to postwar family life in California. Told with humor and homespun wisdom, this is the story of an ordinary woman living through extraordinary times. Through the bad and the good, this account shows a family and the people they encounter-black and white-stumbling toward a more...
Author
Publisher
Seren
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (220 pages)
Language
English
Description
The story of Owain Hughes's childhood in the 1940s and 1950s, Everything I Have Always Forgotten chronicles the author's time spent in boarding schools, his family's large but dilapidated house, and on the banks and waters of the Dyfi estuary. His stories of boating, horse riding, and walking amid the landscape of north Wales culminate in the three-day hike through Snowdonia by 12-year-old Owen and a friend--a hike which led to their being stranded...
91) Sparrow Garden
Author
Publisher
University of Queensland Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (256 pages)
Language
English
Description
With his classic Immigrant Chronicle, Peter Skrzynecki harnessed the universal language of poetry. Now, in his powerful memoir The Sparrow Garden, he travels from the Displaced Persons camps of Germany to the suburban battlegrounds of outer Sydney and taunts of "reffo" and "dago". In unforgettable style, he leads us on a bracing rollercoaster of emotions and boyhood adventures. The Sparrow Garden is also the deeply personal story of one man's complex,...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 online resource (304 p.)
Language
English
Description
"Nothing Left to Burn is a remarkable memoir that looks into the life of a family that has spent years harboring secrets, both dark and volatile. It eloquently tells the story of a son's relationship with his father, the fire chief and a local hero, and his grandfather, a serial arsonist. When Jay Varner, fresh out of college, returns home to work for the local newspaper, he knows that he will have to deal with the memories of a childhood haunted...
Author
Publisher
University of Queensland Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (288 pages)
Language
English
Description
Born from a secret liaison between a British mother and an Icelandic father, Kari GIslason was the subject of a promise: a promise elicited by his father not to reveal his identity in order to spare his wife and five other children. At the age of 27, Kari decides to break the pact between his parents by contacting his father's family; what follows makes for a riveting journey over landscapes, time, and memory. From the shark net at Sydney's Balmoral...
Author
Publisher
Victoria University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (360 pages)
Language
English
Description
In How Does It Hurt?, acclaimed poet and biographer Stephanie de Montalk tells the story of the chronic pain that has invaded her life for more than 10 years. She considers how her early experiences have been cast into fresh relief by what she has endured, then goes back in time to investigate the lives and works of three writers who also lived with and wrote about pain: "the consolator," English social theorist Harriet Martineau (1802-1876), "the...
Author
Publisher
Jacana Media
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (295 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Searching for something more than her high-flying life as an information technology executive, Sharon Pincott traded her privileged First World existence to start a new life with the Presidential Elephants of Zimbabwe: the country's flagship clan of over 450 wild elephants. This biography follows the passionate wildlife conservationist from her home in Australia to the new one she discovers in Africa and chronicles her daily life, from cherishing...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (320 pages)
Language
English
Description
A unique and honest account of the author's childhood spent on a commune in rural Virginia. Nethers, as the commune came to be called, was the creation of Eugster's idealistic and headstrong mother, Carla. The narrative accurately depicts communal living in all its complexities. An array of colorful characters drifted into the commune, and Eugster writes sensitively about being a child in the midst of all of this. A fascinating memoir with many moments...
Author
Publisher
Jacana Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (228 pages)
Language
English
Description
To celebrate her 14-year clean and sober birthday, Ferguson organises to take a R3.2 million Ferrari California out on a test drive for the day. Twenty minutes before she returns the car, she is involved in a spectacular car crash, during which she experiences a near-death collision. The crash is a catalyst for a series of life-changing events. Over the following months her long-term relationship implodes in a heart-ripping showdown of betrayal and...
Author
Publisher
Crossroad Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
"Meeting the Black is a powerful and emotional piece written by Tom Piccirilli describing what he was going through, both mentally and physically, before and after his recent operation. 100% of the sales amounts of this and his other Crossroad Press titles, both eBook and audiobook, will continue to go to Tom to assist with his medical bills associated with his cancer treatment."--
Author
Publisher
Allen and Unwin
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (232 pages)
Language
English
Description
"The inspiring story of David Nyuol Vincent, a Sudanese refugee who survived famine, wars, and fifteen years in camps to find a new life in Australia. David Nyuol Vincent was a little boy when he fled southern Sudan with his father, as war raged in their country. He left behind his distraught mother and sisters, his village, and his childhood and he would never return. For months David and his father walked across southern Sudan, barefoot, desperately...
100) Ship in the Harbor
Author
Series
Mother and me volume pt. 2
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (204 pages)
Language
English
Description
In this powerful and absorbing sequel to Mother and Me: Escape from Warsaw 1939 (ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Autobiography 2006), the author recalls his flight from the Nazis in Hungary as an 8-year-old boy with his resourceful and determined mother, Barbara.--Provided by the publisher.
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