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By George McGovern. 1996
A former senator and onetime presidential candidate's anguished story of his daughter's unhappy life and alcohol-related death. He tries to…
understand and explain her steady, uncontrolled descent into depression and alcoholism, concluding that genetic vulnerability was a key factorBy Edie Clark. 1995
As her marriage was ending, writer Edie Clark became attracted to the carpenter working with her husband. A quiet, gentle…
man who lived with his father, Paul Bolton had a reputation in the community as being odd. Edie describes their unusual courtship and the happy early days of their marriage. Then Paul is diagnosed with cancer, and the couple spends the next few years fighting the disease. Some strong languageBy Laura Wilder. 1935
A family moves westward from Wisconsin in a covered wagon and builds a cabin on the Kansas prairie right in…
Indian territory. Sequel to Little House in the Big Woods (BR 4442). For grades 4-7By Anne Purdy. 1976
Autobiography of Anne Hobbs as told to the author. In 1927 the nineteen-year-old woman went to teach in a one-room…
schoolhouse in the former gold-rush settlement of Chicken, Alaska. "Tisha" is the Indian children's pronunciation of "teacher." For junior and senior high and older readersBy Tom Higgins. 1995
Tom Higgins, a translator, and his doctor wife, Sue, dream of owning an English restaurant in Lyon, an area noted…
for its fine French cuisine. Higgins describes the trials and tribulations of dealing with the French, who considered English fare a bad joke. The restaurant, which opened in 1986, proved a great success. Includes several recipesBy Pat Brack. 1990
When Pat Brack is diagnosed with breast cancer, her youngest son, Ben, is ten years old. Mother and son alternately…
talk about their reactions to Pat's illness and treatment, and Ben's initial anger when the cancer recurs three years laterBy Martha Kendall. 1994
Biography of a man called the father of the computer age. When Wozniak was a boy, he was very good…
at math and electronics. He later dropped out of college to work in the field of computers and at twenty-six founded a computer company called Apple, which produced a "small, easy-to-use, and affordable home computer." The now very wealthy Wozniak volunteers to teach children about computers. For grades 6-9By Bill Henderson. 1995
Henderson, editor of the Pushcart Prize series and owner of Pushcart Press, tells of promising his dying mother he would…
marry and have a baby. That promise was not easy to keep--the future mother of his child was over forty with only one ovary, and his relationship with her was shaky at best. He describes how his playboy drinking ways were replaced by a family lifestyle with the birth of his daughter, Holly. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sexBy Sterling North. 1963
Although his life is full with a Saint Bernard, a family of skunks, a raucous crow, and an unfinished canoe,…
Sterling is captivated by a tiny raccoon kit he names Rascal. The ingenious animal quickly takes over the house and Sterling's heart but also makes enemies by stealing corn and raiding chicken coops. Until he gets too big, Rascal shares many adventures with Sterling in the Wisconsin countryside. For grades 4-7By Megan Fox. 2023
Megan Fox showcases her wicked humor throughout a heartbreaking and dark collection of poetry. Over the course of more than…
seventy poems Fox chronicles all the ways in which we fit ourselves into the shape of the ones we love, even if it means losing ourselves in the process. "These poems were written in an attempt to excise the illness that had taken root in me because of my silence. I've spent my entire life keeping the secrets of men, my body aches from carrying the weight of their sins. My freedom lives in these pages, and I hope that my words can inspire others to take back their happiness and their identity by using their voice to illuminate what's been buried, but not forgotten, in the darkness," says Fox. Pretty Boys Are Poisonous marks the powerful debut from one of the most well-known women of our time. Turn the page, bite the apple, and sink your teeth into the most deliciously compelling and addictive books you'll read all yearBy Denise Chong. 1994
At seventeen, May-ying is told she must move from China to Canada to be a concubine for Chan Sam, twenty…
years her senior. Chan Sam has an At Home wife back in his Chinese village, but no sons. Author Chong, May-ying's granddaughter, explains how May-ying's two eldest daughters were raised in China by the wife, while Chong's mother grew up in Canada. Chong arranged the sisters' eventual first meetingBy Charles Chesnutt. 1993
These diaries cover eight years in the life of Chesnutt, an African American who became a lawyer, a businessman, and…
an author. Beginning as a student in 1874, he records the details of his daily life along with his love of education, his hopes for a career, and his frustration with the lack of opportunity for educated blacks in the South during the ReconstructionBy Rosemary McNatt. 1995
Born in 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia, Martin Luther King Jr. became a minister and a civil rights leader. His nonviolent…
opposition to racial segregation included marches, boycotts, sit-ins, and speeches. For grades 2-4Weidt recounts Geisel's life from his early days in Springfield, Massachusetts, through his death in 1991 at the age of…
eighty-seven. She describes the problems Geisel had getting his first book published, his marriage to Helen Palmer whom he met at Oxford University, and his charitable activities. For grades 3-6 and older readersBy Susan Aller. 1994
Barrie, who was born in Scotland in 1860, loved to play games and write stories. He knew he didn't want…
a "hum-dreadful-drum profession" and decided to become a writer. He moved to London and at twenty-eight had his first real publishing success. With a friend's family of boys as inspiration, Barrie went on to write the play Peter Pan, which has been popular since it first opened in 1904. For grades 5-8By Max Apple. 1994
From three generations living under the same roof in Michigan, young Max chose his grandfather, Rocky, for a roommate. A…
Jewish baker from Lithuania, Rocky finally accepted the sad fact that Max was not cut out to be a rabbi. In graduate school, Max again shared his apartment with feisty, widowed, ninety-three-year-old Rocky. A woman broke the duo up, but until Rocky died at 106, he remained a central figure in Max's life. Some strong languageBy David Lewis. 1993
Scholar, activist, pan-Africanist, W.E.B. Du Bois was a founder of the NAACP and the first black American to receive a…
doctorate from Harvard. He died an expatriate in Ghana at ninety-five. In this biography, based partly on newly available personal papers, Lewis analyzes the first fifty years of Du Bois's life with the backdrop of race relations and the racial ideologies and conflicts of the period. Pulitzer PrizeBy Charles Gaines. 1994
Writer Charles Gaines and his wife Patricia had once before healed their marriage by traveling to Nova Scotia and temporarily…
escaping their fast-paced lives. When the relationship again hits troubled times, Charles and Patricia purchase a remote parcel of Nova Scotia land and call upon their now-grown children to help them build a cabin and rebuild the family in this "last best place." Some strong languageBy Peter Singer. 1980
Introductory biography of the nineteenth-century philosopher. In an effort to explain the central vision of Marx's thought, Singer discusses Marx's…
early writings and his materialist concept of history and economic theory of capital. He also assesses Marx's relevance in the late twentieth centuryBy Jean Fritz. 1992
A biography of Mary Ball Washington, the strong-willed mother of the first president. Mary married Augustine Washington, a widower with…
two children, at the age of twenty-one (considered late at that time). George was their first child. Mary, who preferred living on a farm without close neighbors, never condoned George's soldiering, remained loyal to King George, smoked a pipe, and died at age eighty-one. For grades 2-4