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Author
Series
Author and you volume no. 5
Publisher
Libraries Unlimited
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1971, ©1968
Language
English
Description
Edward Abbey lived for three seasons in the desert at Moab, Utah, and what he discovered about the land before him, the world around him, and the heart that beat within, is a fascinating, sometimes raucous, always personal account of a place that has already disappeared, but is worth remembering and living through again and again.
Author
Publisher
Marysue Rucci Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Genevieve (Gwen) Kingston's mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer when Gwen was just three years old. Defying the odds, she lived another eight years, during which time she filled a chest with gifts and letters to Gwen and her brother, Jamie, for every major milestone and birthday through age thirty. The day Gwen got her driver's license. The day she graduated from high school. Gwen is now in her thirties and, when Did I Ever Tell You? begins,...
Author
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Born and raised in rural West Virginia, Jonathan Corcoran was the youngest and only son of three siblings in a family balanced on the precipice of poverty. His mother, a traditional, evangelical, and insular woman who had survived abuse and abandonment,was often his only ally. Together they navigated a strained homelife dominated by his distant, gambling-addicted father and shared a seemingly unbreakable bond. When Corcoran left home to attend Brown...
648) Spoilage
Publisher
spoilagedsm.com]
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Includes fiction, poetry, essays, and cartoons.
653) The attic: a memoir
Author
Series
Publisher
Iowa State University Press
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
At sixty-six, Lorenzo Carcaterra finds it easier to reflect on the past than ruminate on the future. "By the time you reach my age," he writes, "you have witnessed too much loss to not be aware of what lies ahead." This turn to the past inspired a poignant memoir about the women who made him the man he is today. His Italian grandmother, Nonna Maria, gave him his first taste of a loving home during the summers he spent with her as a teenager on Ischia,...
659) Cross Creek
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
The author relates her experiences on a seventy-two acre orange grove in a small Florida village that she called home for thirteen years.
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