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Tremblement de mère: récit
By Diane Lavoie. 2013
J'ai adopté une petite Haïtienne dans le désastre du séisme. Elle est arrivée à trois ans, encore endeuillée de la…
vie qu'elle avait perdue, presque sans transition entre sa famille et moi, la nouvelle mère catastrophée, blanche de peur et de peau. Parce que l'adoption est fragile et que nous n'avons choisi ni le moment ni les circonstances, les premiers mois ont été plus éprouvants qu'un atterrissage d'avion sans pneus. Une longue glissade à nous écorcher le ventre, le sien et le mien. Je n'écris pas pour de vrai. Mais devant ses trois premières années de vie enfouies sous les ruines de son pays, j'ai voulu écrire des racines à ma fille. Devant le chaos tellement brutal de notre rencontre, j'ai voulu me justifier et comprendre, pour lui expliquer comment sa peine a réveillé la mienne. 2013.Shards of glass
By C. W Seymore. 2013
"Were you ever raped?" That question was the catalyst to what you are now about to experience in revisiting my…
most vivid memories of childhood abuse. How I endured, coped, survived and healed from my past. This journey is one of pain, terror and an emotional roller coaster, but it is also a story of faith, resilience, hope, forgiveness and the magnificent blessing of healing and thriving. 2013.House rules: a memoir
By Rachel Sontag. 2008
Traces the author's journey of recovery after a childhood marked by her mentally ill father, a respected suburban doctor with…
an obsessive need for control that caused him to torture his wife and children about the most minute details of their lives. 2008.Four rooms, upstairs: a psychotherapist's journey into and beyond her mother's mental illness
By Linda Appleman Shapiro. 2008
Psychotherapist Linda Appleman Shapiro tells her story as an immigrant daughter who grew up on the top floor of a…
small home in 1940s Brooklyn and struggled to understand her mentally ill mother. 2008.On the outskirts of normal: forging a family against the grain (Lone Star audio #No. 1)
By Debra Monroe. 2011
In this memoir, the soon-to-be divorced Debra buys a dilapidated Texas cabin miles from her teaching job. While waiting to…
adopt a child, she refurbishes and expands the rude dwelling. She soon finds herself in the strange new world of single motherhood, complicated by her being white and her adopted daughter being black. 2011.Heart in the right place
By Carolyn Jourdan. 2008
Carolyn Jourdan spent many years as a congressional lawyer in Washington, D.C. Then she was called home to fill in…
for her mother as receptionist at her father's rural Tennessee doctor's office - assured it would only be for a few days. 2008.Pride of family: four generations of American women of color (Griot audio)
By Carole Ione. 2005
Psychotherapist and writer Ione was raised jointly by her mother, grandmother, and grandaunt, strong, successful women who lived, for the…
most part, unencumbered by men. Discovery of her great-grandmother’s diary gave Ione an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses passed through the female side of her family, a pattern she illustrates in the women’s life stories. 2005.Projection: encounters with my runaway mother
By Priscila Uppal. 2013
This brutally honest memoir takes a probing look at a very unusual and turbulent mother-daughter relationship. In 2002, Priscila Uppal…
summoned the courage to contact her mother, who had abandoned her family two decades earlier. The emotional reunion was alternately shocking, hopeful, humorous, and devastating. c2013.Cocktail hour under the tree of forgetfulness
By Alexandra Fuller. 2011
Following her memoir about her African childhood, “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight”, Fuller describes her Scottish mother and…
English father’s origins and farm life in Kenya, Rhodesia, and finally Zambia. Covers multiple civil wars and highlights struggles with racism and personal tragedies. 2011.The beautiful struggle: A Father, Two Sons, And An Unlikely Road To Manhood (Griot audio)
By Ta-Nehisi Coates. 2008
Son of Vietnam vet and black awareness advocate Paul Coates - a poor man who set out to publish lost…
classics of black history - Ta-Nehisi drifts toward salvation at Howard University, while his ominous brother Big Bill finds his own rhythm hustling. 2008.Redneck Riviera: armadillos, outlaws, and the demise of an American dream
By Dennis Covington. 2004
Redneck Riviera is the true story of Covington's bizarre encounters with a lawless band of gun-toting swamp-dwellers in Central Florida…
who've illegally claimed the two-and-a-half acres of land he inherited from his father. 2004.Rosina, the midwife
By Jessica Kluthe, Linda Goyette. 2013
Between 1870 and 1970, millions of Italians left their homeland and traveled to places like Canada, Australia and the United…
States, in search of work. Against this historic backdrop comes the story of Rosina Russo. She was the only member of the Russo family to remain in Italy after the mass migration of the 1950s. Rosina had to say farewell, one by one, to the persons she loved the most. c2013.Gonville: a memoir
By Peter Birkenhead. 2010
Jamais je ne t'oublierai: récit
By Miriam Toews, Paul Gagné, Lori Saint-Martin. 2013
« Rien accompli. » Je ne sais pas ce que mon père voulait dire quand il a prononcé ces mots.…
La veille du jour où il s'est enlevé la vie, je lui avais demandé à quoi il pensait, et c'est ce qu'il m'avait répondu. Deux mots désespérés, dits à voix basse par un homme qui croyait avoir échoué sur tous les plans. Dans ce livre, je veux tenter de lui prouver qu'il se trompait. 2013. Titre uniforme: Swing low.Nocturne: on the life and death of my brother
By Helen Humphreys. 2013
Helen Humphreys’ younger brother Martin was gone before she could come to terms with the fact that he had terminal…
cancer. Diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at the age of forty-five, he died just four months later. Martin was an accomplished pianist who debuted at the Royal Festival Hall in London at the age of twenty, later becoming a senior examiner at the Royal Conservatory of Music. The two siblings, though often living far apart, were bonded on many levels. This is an offering not only to the memory of Martin but to all those who are living through the death of family and friends. 2013.Albert, my consort
By Margaret Powell. 1975
The McLarty family of Pinjarra: the story of a Western Australian pioneering family
By Ronald Richards. 2003
The girl in the painted caravan: memories of a Romany childhood
By Eva Petulengro. 2011
Born into a Romany gypsy family in 1939, Eva Petulengro's childhood seemed to her to be idyllic in every way.…
She would travel the country with her family in their painted caravan and spend evenings by the fire as they sang and told stories of their past. She didn't go to school or visit a doctor when she was unwell. Instead her family would gather wild herbs to make traditional remedies, hunt game and rabbits, and while the men tended horses to make a living, the young girls would join the women in reading palms. But Eva's perfect world would be turned upside down as the countryside became increasingly hostile to all travellers. 2011.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.Hellfire and herring: a childhood remembered
By Christopher Rush. 2008
Christopher Rush grew up in a small fishing village on the east coast of Scotland in the 1940s and 50s.…
In this memoir he brings back to life a world now vanished, creating a tale of folklore and fishing, fathers and sons, motherly love, church and school. 2007.