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Knowing Jesse: a mother's story of grief, grace, and everyday bliss
By Marianne Leone. 2010
Jesse Cooper was an honor-roll student who loved to windsurf and write poetry. He also had severe cerebral palsy and…
was quadriplegic, unable to speak, and wracked by seizures. He died suddenly at age seventeen. In fiercely honest, surprisingly funny, and sometimes heartbreaking prose, Jesse's mother, Marianne Leone, chronicles her transformation by the remarkable life and untimely death of her child. 2010.Knock wood
By Candice Bergen. 1984
Daughter of the famed Edgar Bergen, chronicles her fairy-tale life, along with its dark sides, from her childhood to the…
present. She tells about always living in the limelight and her childhood rivalry with Charlie McCarthy, her wooden "brother." 1984.Know the night: a memoir of survival in the small hours
By Maria Mutch. 2014
As a baby, Gabriel’s first words and affinity for sign language enthralled his adoring parents. When these words fell away,…
and his medical diagnoses multiplied, Maria Mutch committed herself entirely to her son’s care. Then, for about two years, Gabriel slept very little, drawing mother and son into a nocturnal existence of almost constant wakefulness. Here Maria shares the intensely personal challenges and revelations brought about by this period. As Gabriel’s sleeping hours dwindled, care took place within an isolated, often frightening world, in which Maria’s desire for connection and meaning expanded. Maria illuminates a search for love, understanding and comfort against the terrors of the unknown that will resonate with anyone who has lain awake in the dark, or longed to protect a loved one. 2014.Kathleen and Frank
By Christopher Isherwood. 1971
A portrait of the author's parents and their late Victorian romance, based on Kathleen's diary and Frank's letters. This story…
of a happy marriage is interspersed with the author's comments, which reveal not only his parents' characters and times but also much of his own personality. 1971.Kabbalah works: secrets for purposeful living (Your coach in a box)
By David Aaron. 2006
Rabbi Aaron shares the divine knowledge of Jewish mystical tradition to offer practical guidance for modern times. He shows how…
you can achieve success in every aspect of your life--love, happiness, creativity, and more--when you unlock your natural self-knowledge and reclaim the abundance within you! 2006.Just let me look at you: on fatherhood
By Bill Gaston. 2018
Sons clash with fathers, particularly with towering, authoritarian figures like Gaston Senior. Fairly or unfairly, sons look for reasons to…
rebel, particularly against boring suburban fathers who seem to prize conformity above all else. And fairly or unfairly, sons judge their fathers when they can't handle their booze. But even a father and son as doomed to clash as Gaston and his father could fish together. When Gaston's father dies, this is the memory of his father that he keeps alive. In the years that follow, however, he learns more about his father's realtionship with his father. It too was marked by heavy drinking, though it took a much darker turn. What Gaston comes to realize is that the man his younger self had been so eager to judge was in fact capable of near-heroic feats of self-mastery. And as a father of grown sons himself, he acutely feels the wounds he must have inflicted years before by withholding so much he now knows that fathers long for. 2018.Journey to my father, Isaac Bashevis Singer
By Barbara Harshav, Israel Zamir. 1995
Profile of Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer by his son, Israel Zamir. Abandoned by his father in 1935, Zamir initiates…
contact with Singer twenty years later in New York. Slowly and with much difficulty, father and son forge a relationship despite profound differences in philosophy, spirituality, and politics. Zamir eventually agrees to translate his father's works from Yiddish to Hebrew. 1995. Uniform title: Avi, Yitsḥaḳ Bashevis-Zinger.Dear current occupant: a memoir (Essais Ser. #5)
By Chelene Knight. 2018
From Vancouver-based writer Chelene Knight, a creative nonfiction memoir about home and belonging set in the 80s and 90s of…
Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Using a variety of forms including letters, essays and poems, Knight reflects on her childhood through a series of letters addressed to all of the current occupants now living in the twenty different houses she moved in and out of with her mother and brother. From blurry non-chronological memories of trying to fit in with her own family as the only mixed East Indian/Black child, to crystal clear recollections of parental drug use, Knight draws a vivid portrait of memory that still longs for a place and a home. Peering through windows and doors into intimate, remembered spaces now occupied by strangers, Knight writes to them in order to deconstruct her own past. From the rubble of memory she then builds a real place in order to bring herself back home. 2018.In search of kinship: modern pioneering on the western landscape
By Page Lambert. 1996
A woman chronicles her family's harsh, yet fulfilling, life on a Wyoming ranch. Celebrates their connection with the land and…
nature, while lamenting the passing of family traditions in the modern world. 1996.James Herriot's animal stories
By James Herriot. 1997
Ten of James Herriot's stories about the creatures in the world of his veterinary practice. The characters include Herbert the…
orphan lamb, Dorothy the goat, and the incomparable Tricki Woo, Esq. 1997.Ithaka: a daughter's memoir of being found
By Sarah Saffian. 1998
New York journalist shares her feelings about being contacted by her birthmother at the age of twenty-four. The letters between…
Saffian and her birthparents, who had eventually married each other and had three more children, illustrate her initial reluctance to embrace this new family and her journey to being reunited with them. 1998.Ireland's eye: travels
By Mark Anthony Jarman. 2002
On August 28, 1922, thousands of Dubliners came to pay respects to Michael Collins, the martyred Irish revolutionary, while elsewhere…
in the same city on the same afternoon, Michael Lyons, a cooper who worked for Guinness and author Jarman's grandfather, inexplicably drowned in the Grand Canal. These events became the seed for this combination of memoir, history, and travelogue, which relates the events of author Jarman's visits to Ireland, his family's past, and Ireland's bloody political history. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2002.In my father's house: elegy for an obsessive love
By Miranda Seymour. 2008
'Dear Thrumpton, how I miss you tonight,' wrote George Seymour in 1944, when he was aged twenty-one. But the object…
of his affection was not a young woman, but a house -- ownership of which was then a distant dream. But he did eventually acquire Thrumpton, a beautiful country house in Nottinghamshire, and it was in this idyllic home that Miranda Seymour grew up. But her upbringing was far from idyllic, as life revolved around her father's capriciousness. The House took priority, and everything else was secondary, even his wife. 2008.In my father's house: the years before "The Hiding Place"
By Corrie Ten Boom, Carole C Carlson. 1976
I had a father: a post-modern autobiography
By Clark Blaise. 1993
In 73 years, the author's father collected 4 wives, a police record and a string of bad debts. Blaise weaves…
together family history and memories of childhood as he portrays a man who was a drinker, boxer, singer and sociopath.Another place at the table
By Kathy Harrison. 2003
For 13 years, Harrison, along with her husband, three biological sons, and three adopted daughters, has fostered abandoned infants, runaway…
teens, disabled preschoolers, and children discharged from psychiatric hospitals. Harrison describes the process social workers use to place children, the horrifying circumstances of the children involved, the training required of foster parents, and a social service system that is overburdened and occasionally negligent itself. Some descriptions of sex. 2003.Detachment: an adoption memoir
By Maurice Mierau. 2014
Mierau probes not only the process of adoption but what comes after - the challenges of becoming a family, the…
strain on his marriage. While one of his sons acts out and gets in trouble at school, Maurice feels removed, detached, thinking instead about his own emotionally distant father. Also born in Ukraine, Maurice’s father has a traumatic and mysterious past of his own. If Maurice can come to understand his father's life, perhaps he can start to make sense of his new sons. Winner of the 2015 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-fiction. 2014.Horses in her hair: a granddaughter's story
By Rachel Manley. 2008
Briton Edna Manley came to Jamaica in 1922 with her husband, son, a set of sculpting tools and an insatiable…
curiosity about the island of her mother's birth. As the wife of a National Hero and mother to the island's fifth prime minister, Edna's life was inextricably linked with Jamaican politics. But she was destined to leave her own mark on her adopted country in the island's art, sculpture, painting, poetry and prose. Some strong language. Companion to "Drumblair" (DC15826) and "Slipstream" (DC21374). 2008.Extended families: a memoir of India
By Ven Begamudré. 2017
The work begins with the story of the author's grandfather and from there tells the story of much of his…
extended family on both sides of his family, though the focus is primarily on his father's side. The story continually comes back to the author's relationship with his parents: their fights and separation (first in India and then in Canada and the United States), his father's anger and constant need to move to new places, and his mother's depression, which culminates in her eventual suicide in India. Interspersed in this personal history are stories of Hindu gods - many of whom the extended family (and Ven's immediate family) are named after, and fictional accounts of family stories that have been passed down from generation to generation. 2017.Born Trump: inside America's first family
By Emily Jane Fox. 2018
As a writer at Vanity Fair covering the Trump family, Emily Jane Fox has spent the last year doing a…
deep dive into the lives of the President's children. This book explores what it was like to grow up Trump and what this reveals about living in Trump's America, in turn painting an intimate portrait of the forty-fifth president of the United States from the perspective of his most inner circle. 2018.