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Dear Dad: letters from an adult child
By Louie Anderson. 1989
Stand-up comic Louie Anderson's letters to his deceased father are an effort to exorcize the demons of a childhood spent…
with an alcoholic father. For Anderson, a member of Adult Children of Alcoholics, his letters were a journey of self-discovery in which he came to understand that his own addiction to food stemmed from his father's addiction to alcohol. Some strong languageRashad: Vikes, mikes, and something on the backside
By Peter Bodo, Ahmad Rashad. 1988
Ahmad Rashad, formerly Bobby Moore, was an outstanding high school football player in Tacoma, Washington, and attracted national attention in…
the late 1960s at the University of Oregon. After an unhappy stint with the St. Louis Cardinals, he became an All-Pro wide receiver with the Minnesota Vikings before going into TV sports broadcastingJohn McGraw
By Charles Alexander, Charles C Alexander. 1988
The story of John McGraw, born in 1873, is also the story of baseball's evolution from the rough-and-tumble sport of…
the 1890s to the big business it became after World War I. Fiery, tough McGraw, whose umpire- baiting was legendary, won ten National League pennants in his forty-year careerLeo Africanus
By Amin Maalouf. 1989
Written as a memoir, this tale of Arab geographer Hasan al-Wazzan chronicles his loves and adventures as he travels the…
world, crossing the paths of such people as Columbus, Martin Luther, and the Medicis. He began his travels as a young man going through North Africa to Cairo, eventually reaching Rome where he was taken as a gift to Pope Leo and christened Leo AfricanusBob Knight: his own man
By Joan Mellen. 1988
Portrait of the successful and sometimes controversial Indiana University basketball coach. Written with Knight's cooperation, the book emphasizes Knight's methods…
which, at times, may appear offensive or inexplicable. The author insists that Knight always has the best interests of his players and friends at heart. Some strong language. Bestseller 1988The drowned and the saved
By Primo Levi, Raymond Rosenthal. 1988
An exploration of the meaning of the Holocaust by an Italian writer and Holocaust survivor who committed suicide in 1987.…
Examining the mentality of the victims, survivors, and oppressors as well as the nature of memory, the author voices his fear that the lessons of the Holocaust will be lost as events fade into the pastLe jardin de cendres (La Reine oubliée)
By Françoise Chandernagor. 2022
Avec ses grottes sombres, ses mosaïques noires, et ses statues fantomatiques, le « jardin de Cendres » évoque les mères…
endeuillées de la mythologie grecque. C'est là que Séléné, fille de Cléopâtre et reine de Maurétanie, a trouvé refuge après la mort de trois de ses enfants. Pourtant, elle ne renonce pas à engendrer de nouveau un fils, capable de venger des Romains sa famille assassinée. Délaissant son jardin de Césarée, elle fait le tour des sanctuaires propices à la fécondité : Grèce, Asie Mineure, Syrie, Palestine... Partout, Rome domine, opprime et crucifie. Quand naît enfin Ptolémée, l'héritier tant attendu, elle tremble d'abord pour lui. Mais lorsque, succédant au roi Juba son père, le jeune homme est couronné, c'est vers le nouvel empereur romain qu'elle tourne ses espoirs : Caius n'est-il pas le cousin de son fils ? Il n'a que vingt-quatre ans et, depuis l'enfance, on le surnomme affectueusement Caligula... Avec cette évocation magistrale de l'Empire romain, Françoise Chandernagor achève la saga de Séléné. Après Les Enfants d'Alexandrie, Les Dames de Rome et L'Homme de Césarée, elle fait revivre les mœ urs sanglantes de la société impériale sous Tibère et Caligula. Entre splendeurs et cruauté, une fresque puissanteIke the soldier: as they knew him
By Merle Miller. 1987
A voluminous record of Dwight D. Eisenhower's military career. The author describes Ike from his Kansas boyhood to his position…
as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe during World War II. Relying on scores of interviews with persons who knew Eisenhower in a variety of ways, unpublished diaries, memoirs, letters, and a wealth of published sources, the author presents a fresh portrait of Ike the soldierCatching the moon: the story of a young girl's baseball dream
By Crystal Hubbard. 2005
A picture-book biography highlighting a pivotal event in the childhood of African American baseball player Marcenia "Toni Stone" Lyle Alberga,…
the woman who broke baseball's gender barrier by becoming the first female roster member of a professional Negro League team. 2005. For grades 2-4Never the same again: a rock 'n' roll gothic
By Jesse Sublett, Jessie Sublett. 2004
The autobiography of famed punk band member and crime novelist Jesse Sublett, covering his first love's tragic murder, his music…
career, and his struggle with cancer. Adult. Some descriptions of sex. Some violence. Strong languageMargaret Sanger: a biography of the champion of birth control
By Madeline Gray. 1979
Covers the life of American social activist Margaret Sanger who founded the birth-control movement. In the striking factories of Lowell…
and the anarchist meetings of Emma Goldman, in her relationships with her husbands and lovers, Sanger was determined to live fully and intensely. 1979The enormous room
By E. E. Cummings, E. E Cummings, E E Cummings, George J. Firmage. 1978
Satirical account of the poet's experiences in a French prison camp during World War I. Volunteering as an ambulance driver…
in France, he is arrested for his association with another American who is his best friend. 1934Anyone's daughter
By Shana Alexander. 1979
A well-known journalist covers the Patty Hearst abduction and also focuses on her public trial for bank robbery. The author…
discusses the mores of our day, our system of justice, our notions of fame, and our assumptions about American democracy. Some strong languageThe Bobbsey twins' visit to the Great West (Bobbsey Twins Ser.)
By Laura Lee Hope. 1966
Miss Alcott's e-mail: yours for reforms of all kinds : a bio-memoir
By Kit Bakke. 2006
Kit Bakke imagines an exchange of emails with Louisa May Alcott that discuss life and society. She compares the radical…
politics of her youth and career as a nurse with Louisa's progressive beliefs and experiences as a Civil War nurse. Adult. UnratedHedy & her amazing invention (Amazing Women)
By Jan Wahl, Morgana Wallace. 2019
Covers the pioneering scientific work and inspiring courage of Hedy Lamarr, the famous Hollywood actress who fought against old-fashioned parents,…
a domineering husband, prejudice, and stereotypes to become an accomplished inventor whose work helped pave the way for many of the communications technologies we enjoy today. For grades 2-4. 2019The Silver Baron's wife
By Donna Baier Stein. 2016
Yam uas zoo nkauj tshaj plaws
By Kao Kalia Yang, Khoa Le. 2021
Zaj dab neeg sov siab thiab hmov tshua uas muaj tseeb hais txog ib tug ntxhais hluas uas pom qhov…
kev zoo nkauj los ntawm qhov uas nws ib txwm xav tias yuav ntsia. Muab los ntawm tus neeg sau Kao Kalia Yang lub keeb neej me nyuam yaus tam li yog ib tug neeg Hmoob tawg rog, phau ntawv muaj duab no piav qhia txog ib tsev neeg uas tsis muaj nyiaj ntau thiab muaj txoj kev hlub loj heev. Kev muab Kalia zaj dab neeg hais txog ntawm nws pog tus nws hmov tshua los sib sau ua ke, phau ntawv no pib hais txij ntua thaum tseem nyob rau hav zoov hav tsuag tim Nplog Teb los mus txog rau lub neej thaum tsev neeg nyuam qhuav tuaj txog hauv Teb Chaws Meskas no. Thaum Kalia rais los mus tsis muaj kev zoo siab txog qhov yuav tsum tau ua yam tsis muaj thiab txiav txim siab tias nws xav zawm kaus hniav los pab kho kom nws luag zoo nkauj, uas yog nws pog uas tau pab ua kom nws pom tias qhov kev zoo nkauj tiag-tiag yuav pom tau ntawm cov uas peb hlub tshaj plaws. For grades K-3. UnratedBachelor girl (Little House Sequel)
By Dan Andreasen, Roger Lea MacBride. 1999
Early twentieth century. Nineteen-year-old Rose leaves her parents' Missouri farm to become a telegraph operator in Kansas City, planning someday…
to marry her sweetheart, Paul. She transfers to San Francisco, where thousands of "bachelor girls" support themselves. Sequel to On the Banks of the Bayou (RC 65100). For grades 5-8. 1999Little town in the Ozarks (Little House Sequel)
By David Gilleece, Roger Lea MacBride. 1996
After the disasters they experienced in On the Other Side of the Hill (RC 63178), eleven-year-old Rose Wilder and her…
family move from Rocky Ridge Farm into a house near the railroad tracks in Mansfield, Missouri. They have a hard time adjusting to town life. For grades 4-7. 1996