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The glass castle: A Memoir
By Jeannette Walls. 2006
Reporter for MSNBC.com looks back on her unsettled life. Describes growing up in a dysfunctional family, which was always on…
the move. She recalls her father's dream of building a "glass castle," and relates how she and her siblings escaped to make lives of their own. Bestseller. 2006.Philomena: the true story of a mother and the son she had to give away
By Martin Sixsmith. 2013
Journalist chronicles the life of Philomena Lee, an Irish unwed mother who was forced to give her young son up…
for adoption in 1955, then spent fifty years trying to find him. 2013. Uniform title: Lost child of Philomena LeeMy family and other animals
By Gerald Durrell. 1980
When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what any sensible family…
would do: sell their house and relocate to the sunny Greek isle of Corfu. 1980.Marley et moi: mon histoire d'amour avec le pire chien du monde
By John Grogan, Carole Delporte. 2007
Si le chien est le meilleur ami de l'homme, il peut parfois être le pire. C'est ce que vont découvrir…
John et Jenny Grogan, quand ils décident d'acheter un labrador peu de temps après leur mariage, afin de tester leurs capacités parentales. D'adorable petite boule de poils, Marley se transforme en un mastodonte de quarante-cinq kilos, qui détruit tout sur son passage, dévore quantité de nourriture et d'objets en tout genre, et témoigne d'une affection aussi débordante qu'envahissante envers ses maîtres. 2007. Titre uniforme: Marley & me.Life on the Mississippi (Modern Library)
By Mark Twain. 1994
Memoir of Twain's career as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River in his youth before the Civil War. Twenty-one…
years later he returns for a trip from St. Louis to New Orleans, reminiscing about the changes and the cities he encounters. Includes a history of the river. Originally published in 1883. 1994.Eat, pray, love: one woman's search for everything
By Elizabeth Gilbert. 2007
Elizabeth Gilbert, in her thirties, settles into a large a house with a husband who wants to start a family.…
But she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and determined to find what she's missing. So she begins her quest. In Rome, she indulges herself and gains nearly two stone. In India, she finds enlightenment through scrubbing temple floors. Finally in Bali, a toothless medicine man reveals a new path to peace, leaving her ready to love again. 2007.Cheaper by the dozen
By Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, Frank B Gilbreth. 1948
An amusing account of happy family life in the 1920's. The author's father, an efficiency expert, believes in living fully,…
and has some unconventional ideas about raising his many children. 1948.A tale of love and darkness
By Amos Oz, N. R. M De Lange. 2005
The author takes us on a journey through his childhood and adolescence, along Jerusalem's war-torn streets in the 1940s and…
'50s. Oz's story dives into 120 years of family history and paradox, the saga of a Jewish love-hate affair with Europe that sweeps from Vilna and Odessa, via Poland and Prague, to Israel. 2005. Uniform title: Sipour Al Ahava Vehoshekh.War
By Sebastian Junger. 2010
For one year, in 2007-2008, Sebastian Junger accompanied a single platoon of thirty men from the storied 2nd battalion of…
the U.S. Army, as they fought their way through a remote valley in Eastern Afghanistan. Over the course of five trips, Junger was in more firefights than he can count, men he knew were killed or wounded, and he himself was almost killed. War is a narrative about combat: the fear of dying, the trauma of killing and the love between platoon-mates who would rather die than let each other down. Violence and strong language. Bestseller. 2010.An "oral biography" consisting of interviews with people who recall Capote's work and personality, beginning with his childhood in Monroeville,…
Alabama. Discussions of his nonfiction "novel" "In cold blood," the social event dubbed the "black-and-white ball," and his whirl on the celebrity circuit. Some strong language. 1997.The "Oxford English Dictionary" took seventy years to complete and drew upon the minds of thousands of scholars for its…
content. One of its most prolific contributors was Dr. William Chester Minor, an American surgeon who had served in the civil war. The fact that Dr. Minor was insane, and a murderer, was not known to the editor of the dictionary for almost twenty years. 1998.The invisible woman: the story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens
By Claire Tomalin. 1991
From 1857 until his death in 1870, Charles Dickens had a close relationship with the actress Ellen Ternan. The author…
looks at this and other aspects of the affair and her book aims to show that Ellen was a fascinating person in her own right. 1991.Jamais sans ma fille
By Betty Mahmoody, William Hoffer, Marie-Thérèse Cuny. 1988
Une américaine accompagne son mari Iranien pour des vacances dans le pays d'origine de ce dernier. Dès leur arrivée, il…
lui annonce qu'elle ne quittera jamais plus le pays. Elle va se battre pendant deux ans avant de s'enfuir... avec sa petite fille. 1988. Titre uniforme: Not without my daughter.My dog Skip
By Willie Morris. 1995
The author tells how he grew up in a small southern town in the 1940s with a dog that could…
run football patterns and, it was believed, drive a car. The author demonstrates his evocative storytelling skills in this tribute to his dog, Skip. 1995.Margin released: a writer's reminiscences and reflections
By J. B Priestley. 1962
Out of Africa (The Modern library of the world's best books)
By Isak Dinesen. 1952
An account of the author's life on a Kenyan coffee plantation, of the natives and their festivals, of big game,…
and of Lulu, the gazelle who came to live on the farm. 1952.Angela's ashes: a memoir (The frank Mccourt Memoirs Ser.)
By Frank McCourt. 1996
Frank McCourt recollects his "miserable Irish Catholic childhood" in the squalor of Limerick. Absent any support from his glib, but…
shiftless, alcoholic father, the family suffered hunger, cruelty, disease, and the death of children. McCourt recounts his story without rancour. Strong language. Winner of the 1998 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. Pulitzer Prize Winner. 1996.This boy's life: a memoir
By Tobias Wolff. 1989
Searching for Bobby Fischer: the world of chess, observed by the father of a child prodigy
By Fred Waitzkin. 1988
The story of child prodigy Josh Waitzkin and his relationship with his father. Along with an inside look at the…
world of chess, Waitzkin reveals the psychological and emotional roller coaster ride he experienced because of his son's involvement with chess. 1988.Not without my daughter: A True Story
By Betty Mahmoody, William Hoffer. 1987
When an American woman married to an Iranian doctor goes with her husband and their young daughter to visit his…
native country in 1984, culture shock turns to personal tragedy as the husband reveals a secret plan to remain with his family in Iran. Mahmoody describes how she and her four-year-old daughter were kept against their will until they were smuggled over the Turkish border in 1986. c1987.