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Coal dust in my blood: the autobiography of a coal miner (Heritage record. #9.)
By Bill Johnstone. 1980
The author began mining in England in 1921, at age thirteen. After moving to Canada, he farmed on the Prairies,…
enduring the Depression, and later mastered mining, even studying engineering and becoming a coal mine Superintendent near Cumberland, B.C. The book presents a unique picture of the life of coal miners. 1980. (Heritage record; 9)Collected letters, 1944-1967
By Dave Moore, Neal Cassady. 2004
Neal Cassady was that happening, hard-living, hard-loving hero of the Beat culture, part raw sexuality, part inspiration for Kerouac and…
Ginsberg, part arrogant con man, and part insecure drifter. Cassady's letters reveal a sometimes manic yet insightful and electric mind, and a man so charged with emotion for life and open to his urges that he seemed unable to settle anywhere (including within his various selves) for very long. 2004.Close encounters: Mike Wallace's Own Story
By Mike Wallace, Gary Paul Gates. 1984
Autobiography of one of America's most visible television journalists. Gives the real stories behind his interviews with such people as…
Ronald Reagan, the Ayatollah Khomeini, Richard Nixon, and Menachem Begin. c1984.Casanova: the man who really loved women
By Lydia Flem. 1997
A psychoanalyst examines the life and memoirs of the self-professed great lover. Describes Giacomo Casanova's pleasure in reliving his experiences…
as he wrote twelve volumes of his reflections. Analyzes his amorous pursuit of women. Some descriptions of sex. c1997. Uniform title: Casanova, ou, L'exercise du bonheur.Belonging: home away from home
By Isabel Huggan. 2003
In these memoirs, Isabel Huggins describes her various homes in Ontario, and then around the world as her husband was…
relocated for work. Finally settling in France, she ponders the meaning of home and of belonging, deciding that her most valued home is the togetherness she shares with her husband Bob. Added to the book are three short fictional stories, on the same theme. 2003.Canada, a portrait in letters, 1800-2000: A Portrait In Letters, 1800-2000
By Charlotte Gray. 2003
200 years of Canadian letters, including Sara Riel, writing to her brother Louis in 1871, expressing her belief in his…
divine destiny; Lucy Maud Montgomery's 1907 letter, sharing news of her literary breakthrough; and a young French-Canadian soldier describing the horror of watching his comrades die in the 1916 battle at the Somme. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2003.Bring me a unicorn: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1922-1928 (A helen And Kurt Wolff Bk.)
By Anne Morrow Lindbergh. 1972
Diary entries and letters from 1922-1928 when the author was a schoolgirl and later a student at Smith College. She…
recounts her emotional involvement with her famous husband-to-be and her struggles to become a writer. 1972.Berlin diary: the journal of a foreign correspondent, 1934-1941
By William L Shirer. 1941
Between gods: A Memoir
By Alison Pick. 2014
In her teenage years, Alison Pick made a discovery that instantly changed her understanding of her family, and her vision…
for her own life. She learned that her Pick grandparents, who had escaped from the Czech Republic during WWII, were Jewish - and that most of this side of the family had died in concentration camps. In her early thirties, engaged to be married to her longtime boyfriend but struggling with a crippling depression, Alison slowly but doggedly began to research and uncover her Jewish heritage. Eventually she came to realize that her true path forward was to reclaim her history and identity as a Jew. c2014.Baseballissimo: my summer in the Italian minor leagues
By Dave Bidini. 2004
In the spring of 2002, Bidini and family set off for Nettuno, Italy, the baseball capital of Italy since 1944,…
when the game was introduced by American GIs. Bidini wanted to spend time in a town where everyone is as nuts about the game as he is. During his six months of following the fortunes of the Serie B Peones, Bidini, who had spent his youth vigorously ignoring his Italianness, also learned much about his own heritage. 2004.Apron strings: navigating food and family in France, Italy, and China
By Jan Wong. 2017
Jan Wong knows food is better when shared, so when she set out to write a book about home cooking…
in France, Italy, and China, she asked her 22-year-old son, Sam, to join her. While he wasn't keen on spending excessive time with his mom, he dreamed of becoming a chef. Ultimately, it was an opportunity he couldn't pass up. On their journey, Jan and Sam live and cook with locals, seeing how globalization is changing food, families, and cultures. In southeast France, they move in with a family sheltering undocumented migrants. From Bernadette, the housekeeper, they learn classic French family fare such as blanquette de veau. In a hamlet in the heart of Italy's Slow Food country, the locals teach them how to make authentic spaghetti alle vongole and a proper risotto with leeks. In Shanghai, they cook firecracker chicken and scallion pancakes with the nouveaux riches and their migrant maids, who are part of the biggest demographic shift in world history. Along the way, mother and son explore their sometimes-fraught relationship, uniting--and occasionally clashing--over their mutual love of cooking. 2017.Any given day: the life and times of Jessie Lee Brown Foveaux
By Jessie Lee Brown Foveaux. 1997
Jessie Lee Foveaux, who wrote this memoir when she was eighty years old, records memories of an idyllic childhood spent…
in the early-twentieth-century rural United States. Foveaux tells how she survived illnesses, the depression, two world wars, and marriage to an alcoholic while raising eight children. c1997.Rachel Carson, author of "The silent spring" (DC19143) and pioneer of the environmental movement, did not write an autobiography. She…
did leave the letters she exchanged with her Maine summer neighbour, Dorothy Freeman. About 750 letters are collected here, which reveal the events of the two women's family lives, and include details of Carson's research and writing and her fatal fight with cancer. 1995.Afterglow: a dog memoir
By Eileen Myles. 2017
In 1990, Myles chose Rosie from a litter on the street, and their connection instantly became central to the writer's…
life and art. During the course of their sixteen years together, Myles was madly devoted to the dog's well-being, especially in Rosie's final days. Starting from the emptiness following Rosie's death, this memoir investigates the true nature of the bond between pet and pet owner. Through this lens, we witness Myles' experiences with intimacy and spirituality, celebrity and politics, alcoholism and recovery, fathers and family history, as well as the fantastical myths we spin to get to the heart of grief. 2017.A stone of hope: a memoir
By Jon Sternfeld, Jim St. Germain. 2017
Born into poverty in Haiti, Jim St. Germain moved as a young boy to Brooklyn's Crown Heights with his alcoholic…
father. He quickly adapted to street life and began stealing, joining gangs, and dealing drugs. By the time he was arrested for dealing crack, he'd been cuffed more than a dozen times. But instead of prison, St. Germain, was placed in "Boys Town," a non-secure detention facility designed for rehab, where he slowly found his way. 2017.A strong west wind (Lone Star audio)
By Gail Caldwell. 2007
Caldwell was born in Texas in 1951; in a land of plains so vast they frightened her. Caldwell's mother was…
a clandestine lover of books; her father was a master sergeant in World War II. These personalities shaped Caldwell; during the passionate rebellions of the 1960s, she was one of the "children who once made life hell for 'the Greatest Generation' and in the process turned out pretty great themselves" (Russell Baker, author). Turning to books for each poignant change in her life, Caldwell eventually became what her mother could not: a writer. 2007.A schoolteacher in old Alaska: the story of Hannah Breece
By Jane Jacobs, Hannah Breece. 1995
Hannah Breece set out for Alaska in 1904 at the age of 45. With 24 years of teaching experience, her…
assignment was to bring education to the new state and its native inhabitants. After 14 years, she moved back to the mainland United States, and after she retired, assembled her notes and diaries into these memoirs, published for the first time since they were written nearly sixty years ago. 1995.A prison diary: Volume 3, North Sea Camp - heaven (A prison diary series #Vol. 3)
By Jeffrey Archer. 2004
The final volume of Jeffrey Archer's prison diaries covers the period of his transfer from Wayland to his eventual release…
on parole in July 2003. It includes a shocking account of the traumatic time he spent in the notorious Lincoln jail and the events that led to his incarceration there. It also throws light on a system that is close to breaking point. Sequel to "Volume 2, Wayland - Purgatory" (DC31729). Strong language. 2004.A prison diary: Volume 1, Belmarsh - hell (A prison diary series #Vol. 1)
By Jeffrey Archer. 2002
Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years' imprisonment in 2001. Within six hours, Prisoner FF8282, as he is now known,…
was on suicide watch in the medical wing of Belmarsh top security prison in South London. This, he discovered, is standard procedure for first-time offenders on their first night in jail. Jeffrey Archer's diary of his first three weeks imprisonment is a raw account of life in a top-security jail in Britain. Followed by "Volume 2, Wayland - Purgatory" (DC31729). 2002.A prison diary: Volume 2, Wayland - purgatory (A prison diary series #Vol. 2)
By Jeffrey Archer. 2004
On 9 August 2001, twenty-two days after Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in prison for perjury, he was…
transferred from HMP Belmarsh, a double-A Category high-security prison in south London, to HMP Wayland, a Category C establishment in Norfolk. He served sixty-seven days in Wayland and during that time, as this account testifies, encountered not only the daily degradations of a dangerously overstretched prison service, but the spirit and courage of his fellow inmates. Sequel to "Volume 1, Belmarsh - hell" (DC31728). Followed by "Volume Three, North Sea Camp - Heaven" (DC31730). 2004.