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Joseph Pulitzer II and the Post-Dispatch: a newspaperman's life
By Daniel W Pfaff. 1991
When blindness forced Joseph Pulitzer to relinquish control of his newspaper empire, he turned the New York World over to…
his two most promising sons. The paper folded. He put his fun-loving namesake at the helm of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, but this son assembled a fine staff and developed a distinguished paper. Pfaff relates the father-son relationship and career of the son who was to continue the legacy. 1991.Times to remember
By Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. 1974
Tales my father never told (New York State Series)
By Walter Dumaux Edmonds. 1995
The author of "Drums along the Mohawk" and other historical novels and children's books writes about his own childhood, spent…
alternately in New York City and at the family dairy farm in the Adirondacks. The author tells anecdotes illustrating his uneasy relationship with his strong-willed father, who was fifty-three years old when Edmonds was born in 1904. 1995.Jack and Jackie: portrait of an American marriage
By Christopher P Andersen. 1996
Andersen examines the relationship between John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, revealing details about their courtship, Jackie's difficult pregnancies,…
John's rumoured liaisons with numerous celebrities, and the impact of children on their marriage. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. c1996.Little Britches: Father and I were ranchers
By Ralph Moody. 1950
In the early 1900s, when his family moves to Colorado for his father's health, 8-year-old Ralph takes over most of…
the workload. He describes ranch life and his relationship with his father. Prequel to "Man of the family". Grades 3-6 and older readers. 1962, c1950.Mrs. Ike: memories and reflections on the life of Mamie Eisenhower
By Susan Eisenhower. 1996
A granddaughter's memoir of the first lady of the 1950s. Portrays a confident and independent woman devoted to family and…
American values, whose life as an army wife was "no bed of roses." Affirms the integrity of her marriage with Ike and dismisses the rumour that he philandered during World War II. 1996.My own Cape Cod
By Gladys Bagg Taber. 1971
A former "summer person" invites the reader to share her life as a full-time resident of the Cape - someone…
who has crossed the bridge for good. Taber delights in the many kinds of people she enjoys knowing, the days worth celebrating, the pace that rests the spirit, the flora and fauna that exist in this natural setting, and even the recipes to follow in preparing the wonderful seafood that is easily found. 1971.A child called "it": an abused child's journey from victim to victor
By David J Pelzer. 1995
A man recounts the years of torture and starvation that he experienced as a child at the hands of his…
alcoholic mother. Chronicles the incidents of maltreatment, his ultimate rescue from the abusive home, and his recovery. Violence. For junior and senior high readers. Followed by "Lost boy" (DC37135). 1995.The royals
By Kitty Kelley. 1997
This unauthorized biography covers the lives of the members of England's House of Windsor from 1917, when the family name…
was changed to conceal its German roots, to the 1990s and the divorce of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. Kelley interviewed past and present Crown employees, royal friends and relatives, and members of Parliament. c1997.Mark Twain made me do it & other Plains adventures
By Bryan Jones. 1997
A teacher reminisces about growing up in 1950s Nebraska as the son of a preacher. Jones writes of the boyhood…
pranks and adventures he and his friends enjoyed in this fond remembrance of the way it was. Essays that evoke typical concerns of the times include "Baseball," "Pot Roast Every Sunday," and "Polio." c1997.My brother
By Jamaica Kincaid. 1997
The author returns to her childhood home in Antigua after learning that her youngest half-brother is dying of AIDS. Kincaid…
left home when her brother was three and is surprised that she loves him, bringing him drugs from the U.S. to slow down his dying. While in Antigua, Kincaid reviews her life and her struggles as a poor, black bookworm of a girl at odds with her mother. 1997.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.Outside passage: a memoir of an Alaskan childhood
By Julia Scully. 1998
A woman's coming-of-age memoir recalls the two years she and her sister spent in an orphanage, her impoverished youth in…
a remote Alaskan town, and her teenage years during World War II, working in her widowed mother's roadhouse that served a rough trade of gold miners. 1998.My 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.The music of light: the extraordinary story of Hikari and Kenzaburo Oe
By Lindsley Cameron. 1998
Biography of the Japanese classical music composer Hikari Oe and his devoted father, Kenzaburo Oe, winner of the Nobel Prize…
for Literature. Discusses Hikari's physical disabilities and musical gifts and his close relationship with the father who began writing to give his son a voice. c1998.The day John died
By Christopher P Andersen. 2000
Calling this the final book in his Kennedy family trilogy, the author of "Jackie after Jack" discusses the life and…
untimely death of John Kennedy Jr. in 1999. Thirty-eight-year-old John, his wife, Carolyn, and her sister died in a plane John was piloting. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2000.Where she came from: a daughter's search for her mother's history
By Helen Epstein. 1997
Helen Epstein tells the story of three generations of women in her family. These women were all Czech-Jewish and lived…
during a time of prejudice and persecution. She begins with the story of her great-grandmother. When she took her own life her daughter, Helen's grandmother, was forced to make her own way and began her own business. She also tells of her mother's struggles to survive during World War Two, and of the difficulties she had picking up the pieces of her life once the war had ended. 1997.Don't let's go to the dogs tonight: an African childhood
By Alexandra Fuller. 2001
Fuller's recollections of growing up white in civil-war-torn Rhodesia in the 1970s. She recounts her family's tragedies, including the deaths…
of children and the dispossession of their home, and their struggles with racism, revolutionary politics, and survival. Strong language. Bestseller. 2001.Einstein in love: a scientific romance
By Dennis Overbye. 2000
A biographical portrait of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, focusing on his productive, youthful years in the first two decades of…
the 1900s. Provides a detailed treatment of Einstein's romantic and family affairs while discussing his scientific theories. Based on correspondence and documents that became available in the 1990s. 2000.Rain of gold
By Victor Villaseñor. 1991
The non-fiction saga of Villasenor's family, focusing on three generations. Their cultural and spiritual roots are in Mexico, but their…
future is in California; their story is the all-American story of overcoming poverty and prejudice to achieve success. Violence and strong language