Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay • Finalist for the Southern Book Prize
A New York Times Critics' Best Books of the Year • An NPR Best Book of the Year • A NYLON Best Nonfiction Book of the Year • A Buzzfeed Best Nonfiction Book of the Year • An Entrophy Magazine Best Non-Fiction
...Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A memoir of unblinking honesty and poignant, laugh-out-loud humor, BLACKOUT is the story of a woman stumbling into a new kind of adventure--the sober life she never wanted. Shining a light into her blackouts, she discovers the person she buried, as well as the confidence, intimacy, and creativity she once believed came only from a bottle. Her tale will resonate with anyone who has been forced to reinvent or struggled in the face of necessary change....
Author
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the author's harrowing experience giving birth to her premature daughter, this book combines memoir with rigorous reporting to tell the story of neonatology. This is a field in which humanity, ethics, and science collide in dramatic and deeply personal ways as parents, doctors, and nurses grapple with sometimes unanswerable questions: When does life begin? When and how should life end? And what does it mean to be human?
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Carolyn Haines's Independent Bones is the next novel in the series that Kirkus Reviews characterizes as "Stephanie Plum meets the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" featuring sassy Southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney. When Dr. Alala Diakos, a visiting professor of Greek literature, comes to teach at Ole Miss in Oxford, Mississippi, it doesn't take long for controversy to follow. With her fervent feminist ideals and revolutionary leanings, she quickly...
Author
Publisher
Published by Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Following the bestselling success of Sarah Style, HGTV star and design queen Sarah Richardson invites readers into the homes she's most proud of designing-her own! Renowned designer Sarah Richardson guides readers through a variety of houses-from urban spaces, to secluded farmland getaways, to the islands of cottage country-that all showcase her signature style of casual elegance and nature-inspired design. In addition to the hundreds of design tips...
Author
Series
Sarah Agnes Prine novels volume 1
Publisher
Regan Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Frontier life through the eyes of Sarah Agnes Prine, a rancher's wife in Arizona who has to deal with Indians and outlaws, rifle in hand. Stuck in a loveless marriage, her romantic life picks up when her husband dies and she meets an army captain. Told in the form of a diary and based on a real-life person.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores memory and the dialogue between her past and her present. These are the most dangerous stories of my life. The ones I have avoided, the ones I haven't told, the ones that have kept me awake on countless nights. As these stories found echoes in my adult life, and then went another, better way than they did in childhood, they became lighter and easier to...
12) The star garden
Author
Series
Sarah Agnes Prine novels volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
13) The yellow house
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sarah M. Broom's [memoir] The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America's most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother's struggle against a house's entropy, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina."--
Author
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Bessey helps us grapple with core Christian issues by sharing her own wrestlings with core issues, such as who Jesus is, what place the Church has in our lives, how to disagree yet remain within a community. In doing so, she teaches us how to be as comfortable with uncertainty as we are with solid answers, in order to discover new depths of faith that will remain secure even through the storms of life.
15) Greedy bones
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
From feuding scientists to ailing locals, Sarah Booth Delaney finds no shortage of bad blood coursing through the little town of Zinnia, Mississippi, as she drops everything to stop an outbreak of boll weevils and save the only place she's ever been able to call home.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Tracking down a porn star-turned-psychic who has promised to reunite an eccentric billionaire with her dead child, a suspicious Sarah Booth goes undercover as a maid at the billionaire's estate, where she discovers multiple murders and a host of suspects.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Part coming-of-age story, part psychological thriller, part philosophical investigation, this unforgettable memoir traces the ramifications of a series of lies that threaten to derail the author’s life—exploring the line between truth and deception, fact and fiction, and reality and conspiracy.
19) Playing to the gods: Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse, and the rivalry that changed acting forever
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Audiences across Europe and the Americas clamored to see the divine Sarah Bernhardt swoon--and she gave them their money's worth. The world's first superstar, she traveled with a chimpanzee named Darwin and a pet alligator that drank champagne, shamelessly supplementing her income by endorsing aperitifs and beef bouillon, and spreading rumors that she slept in a coffin to better understand the macabre heroines she played. Eleonora Duse shied away...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Prism
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Suffering from information overload and unable to sleep, acclaimed journalist Sarah Sands tried countless strategies to de-stress, only to find temporary relief. Searching for something different, something lasting, Sands went on a quest to uncover ancient and proven wisdom for a happier, quieter, and more compassionate life. In this insightful and beautifully written book, Sands takes us along on her pilgrimage to ten monasteries around the world....
Interlibrary Loan Request
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Des Moines Public Library can be requested from other libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? If the item was published recently, submit a purchase suggestion. Submit Request