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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.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.A new model: what confidence, beauty, and power really look like
By Ashley Graham. 2017
In this collection of insightful, provocative essays, Ashley shares her perspective on how ideas around body image are evolving--and how…
they aren't; the fun--and torture--of a career in the fashion world; her life before modeling; and her path to accepting her size without limiting her dreams--defying rigid industry standards and naysayers who told her it couldn't be done. As she talks about her successes and setbacks, Ashley offers support for every woman coming to terms with who she is, helps her bolster her self-confidence, and motivates her to be her strongest, healthiest, and most beautiful self. 2017.A Newfoundlander in Canada: Always Going Somewhere, Always Coming Home
By Alan Doyle. 2017
Great Big Sea front man Alan Doyle describes leaving Newfoundland and discovering Canada for the first time. He turns his…
perspective outward from Petty Harbour toward mainland Canada, reflecting on what it was like to venture away from the comforts of home and the familiarity of the island. Often in a van, sometimes in a bus, occasionally in a car with broken wipers "using Bob's belt and a rope found by Paddy's Pond" to pull them back and forth, Alan and his bandmates charted new territory, and he constantly measured what he saw of the vast country against what his forefathers once called the Daemon Canada. In a period punctuated by triumphant leaps forward for the band, deflating steps backward and everything in between, Alan's few established notions about Canada were often debunked and his own identity as a Newfoundlander was constantly challenged. Touring the country, he also discovered how others view Newfoundlanders and how skewed these images can sometimes be. Bestseller. 2017.A garden in Lucca: finding paradise in Tuscany
By Paul Gervais. 2000
When the author moved with his friend Gil from California to an Italian villa in 1982, he knew little about…
gardening. He writes of becoming a knowledgeable gardener and transforming an old, half-abandoned garden into an acclaimed stop on a horticultural tour. Some strong language. c2000.A freewheelin' time: a memoir of Greenwich Village in the sixties
By Suze Rotolo. 2009
'I met Bob Dylan in 1961 when I was 16 years old and he was 20 ' Thus begins Suze…
Rotolo's memoir of her life with Dylan in New York during the tumultuous early years of the Sixties, revealing the wonderfully romantic story of their sweet but sometimes wrenching love affair. This is a narrative of a place and time when art, culture and politics all seemed to be conspiring to make America freer, better and more equitable. 2009.84, Charing Cross Road
By Helene Hanff, Marie-Anne de Kisch, Thomas Simonnet. 2001
Échanges épistolaires entre une Américaine bibliophile et un libraire londonien. Une passionnée, un peu fauchée, réclame à un libraire des…
livres introuvables pour assouvir son insatiable soif de découverte. Cette correspondance entamée depuis plus de 20 ans qui se poursuit toujours rappelle avec une délicatesse infinie toute la place que prennent, dans nos vies, les livres et les librairies. Roman porté au grand écran. 2001.