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The pigman & me
By Paul Zindel. 1991
Paul Zindel, author of The Pigman (RC 23431, BR 9275), Pigman's Legacy (RC 23260, BR 6309), writes of the angst,…
humor, and mishaps that fill the year he spends with his mother and sister on Staten Island. Lacking funds but able to talk a mile a minute, his mother arranges to buy a house with Connie, a single mother with money and a set of zesty twins. Connie's father becomes Zindel's own pigman. For junior and senior high readersAlex Haley's Queen: the story of an American family
By Alex Haley. 1993
Completed by David Stevens, this is the final work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Roots (RC 9409/BR 3234). Alex…
Haley tells the story of his father's family, beginning with James Jackson, his white great-great-grandfather, who came from Ireland. When James's son falls in love with a slave named Easter, their daughter Queen, the grandmother of the author, resultsTaking hold: my journey into blindness
By Sally Alexander. 1994
Sally Hobart was twenty-four when she began to lose her sight. At first she saw a thin black line that…
disappeared after a few minutes. But the line returned, and Sally realized after visits to many specialists that she would soon be totally blind. She tells of her frustrations, the loss of her fiance, the support of family and friends, and the help she got in adjusting to her new world. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 1994The story of San Michele
By Axel Munthe. 1957
Although this is the autobiography of a Swedish-born physician with a fashionable practice in Paris, it is as much about…
the lives of his patients and friends, his beloved animals, and the people he meets in his travels. Those journeys often include Italy, where he is so taken with Capri that he builds himself a house on the island on the site of a ruined chapel--a structure that by all accounts becomes "one of the best-loved houses in the world."A girl from Yamhill: a memoir
By Beverly Cleary. 1988
The popular children's author has written an account of her own early years. Beverly was transplanted to city life in…
Portland, Oregon, when the family farm failed. There, her father, who loved the outdoors, spent years as a bank guard while her demanding and difficult mother devoted herself to Beverly. For grades 6-9 and older readersThe life of Benjamin Banneker
By Silvio Bedini. 1972
Biography of the self-taught eighteenth-century black astronomer, mathematician, surveyor, and almanac maker. Also deals with the economy of eighteenth-century Maryland,…
contributions of the Ellicott family to the area, and the surveying of the District of ColumbiaColumbus and the world around him
By Milton Meltzer. 1990
Meltzer, in this meticulously researched account, moves beyond Columbus's skills as a navigator to paint a picture of an arrogant,…
obsessive dreamer. Driven by greed for wealth and power and by a dubious interest in converting "the heathens," Columbus, like his comtemporaries, saw non-Europeans as inferior being ripe for enslavement, and their lands ripe for European exploitation. For grades 6-9 and older readersCasey: from the OSS to the CIA
By Joseph Persico. 1990
When William Casey was born in 1913, his Irish-American Catholic parents expected him to rise to a higher position than…
his father, but no one thought it would happen so quickly, Persico, granted exclusive access to Casey's personal papers, traces Casey's careers as a lawyer, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author, government official, and head of the CIA during the Iran-Contra affair. Some strong languageFunny business: an outsider's year in Japan
By Gary Katzenstein. 1989
Katzenstein, chosen as one of fifteen Americans to be Luce Scholars, spent a year studying in Japan. With degrees in…
business and computer science, he felt well equipped to work at Sony. However, with no first-hand knowledge of Asia, he found a world so totally different from America that he made a cross-cultural mess of things. Sony gave up on him, but with ingenuity he found another job in JapanThe upstairs room
By Johanna Reiss. 1972
Based on the author's experience as a Jewish child in Holland during World War II. After being separated from their…
parents, she and her sister hid from the Nazis in the upstairs room of a farmers's home for more than two years. The story shows the constant friction between the two pent-up sisters andf the nervous courage of the family that hid them. For grades 6-9 and older readers. Followed by "The Journey Back."When summer's in the meadow
By Niall Williams. 1989
Christine and Niall have settled into their new lives in Ireland and are ready to start a family. But they…
are bitterly disappointed when they learn they cannot have children. What follows is a year of waiting to adopt a baby, a year in which they continue their pastoral lives--farming, tending livestock, and sharing a community spirit with neighbors. Sequel to "O Come Ye Back to Ireland"1312 raisons d'abolir la police (Instinct de liberté #38)
By Gwenola Ricordeau. 2023
D'où vient l'idée d'abolir la police et que recouvre-t-elle au juste? Si la police ne nous protège pas, à quoi…
sert-elle? Comment dépasser la simple critique de la police pour enfin en finir avec elle?Seven western writers who are eighty years old or more share what it was like growing up on the prairies…
or in the mountains during the early part of the century. An introduction about the writer precedes each reminiscenceThe journey back
By Johanna Reiss. 1976
World War II is over and Annie and her sister Sini emerge from the dark, tiny room in which they…
have spent the last three years hiding from the Nazis. They can finally return home to be reunited with their father and older sister Rachel, who, unlike millions of other Jews in Europe, have survived. The author writes of the joys and sorrows inherent in the rebuilding of her family and her country. Sequel to "The Upstairs Room." For grades 5-8An old woman's reflections (Oxford paperbacks)
By Peig Sayers. 1962
Following the Gaelic story-telling tradition, Peig Sayers recounts the way of life on Great Blasket Island from her childhood to…
her old age, describing traditions and close ties among families in the small fishing villagePerformance
By Simon Liberati. 2023
Performance, ou la rencontre explosive entre un romancier en perdition, sa ravissante belle-fille et les Rolling Stones de la première…
époque. Un écrivain de 71 ans, déserté par l'inspiration après un AVC et menacé d'interdit bancaire, se voit proposer une série télévisuelle sur les débuts des Stones, de leur arrestation pour usage de stupéfiants en 1967 à la mort de Brian Jones en 1969. Voilà qui va lui permettre de vivre son histoire d'amour scandaleuse et passionnée avec Esther, dont un demi-siècle le sépare. Tous deux le savent, leur amour est condamné : elle a la beauté du diable, lui approche du terme fixé par le diable de Faust, de Don Juan, de Dracula. Mais la grâce de la jeunesse perdue fait miraculeusement ressurgir de l'abîme Marianne Faithfull, Anita Pallenberg et Brian Jones. Ce roman au souffle éblouissant met en scène la dernière aventure d'un écrivain qui vampirise l'innocence d'un amour réprouvé pour insuffler vie à ses personnagesO come ye back to Ireland: our first year in County Clare
By Niall Williams. 1987
In 1985, after several years of contemplation, this husband and wife left their New York City jobs and headed for…
Ireland, where Nial would write and Christine would paint. But it was soon apparent that they would have to do much more in order to survive in the village of Kilmihil, where there is almost constant rain and there are no phones, cinemas, restaurants, or city soundsI hope
By Raisa Gorbacheva. 1991
In her introduction, the wife of Michail Gorbachev states that her book is not an autobiography but rather a story…
about herself, past and present, and her reactions to historical events. In a series of five interviews held with Georgi Pryakhin, and translated by David Floyd, Raisa Gorbachev describes the role she came to play as the Soviet Union's first ladyMaeve rising: Coming out trans in corporate america
By Maeve DuVally. 2023
When Maeve DuVally came out as a transgender woman while working as a corporate communications manager at Goldman Sachs, she…
knew she couldn't do it quietly. DuVally intimately documents her struggle to be herself in this environment, initially keeping her identity a secret with wardrobe changes in the lobby bathroom after work. Eventually she declares herself and, to her surprise, Goldman Sachs embraces the effort. Surgery follows. When DuVally finally takes those first steps on heels through the corridors of this institution on the way to her first meeting as a woman, the listener cheers. A New York Times story helped her realize she could become a role model for other transgender people and branded Goldman Sachs as a model for corporations assisting their transitioning employees. Before she found her courage, DuVally's life was mired in depression and unconscious struggle. Raised in an Irish Catholic family with a sadistic pathologist father, her upbringing dropped her into an adulthood plagued by alcoholism. At Goldman Sachs, she ascends to a top communications position before her drinking begins to encroach upon her work. Finally, DuVally hits bottom, becoming sober after a lifetime in and out of AA and rehab. Clear at last, she begins to understand the source of her lifelong struggle and takes the bold step to become the woman she is nowSans filtre
By Mélina Roberge. 2023
La nouvelle a fait le tour du monde. Mélina Roberge, une Granbyenne âgée de 22 ans, est épinglée pour trafic…
de drogue sur un luxueux navire de croisière alors qu'il accostait à Sydney en Australie. Deux autres Québécois, une jeune femme et un homme plus âgé, sont arrêtés au même moment par les autorités australiennes. Six ans après les faits, Mélina Roberge revient sur les événements qui ont mené à son arrestation. Dans ce livre, elle revisite les choix qu'elle a faits et l'engrenage dans lequel elle s'est laissé prendre