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Anna and the King of Siam
Par Margaret Landon. 1943
Anna Leonowens, a Welsh widow hired in 1862 to be governess to the children and concubines of the king of…
Siam, found the contrasts between the exotic Orient and Victorian Great Britain striking. Landon recounts Leonowen's five years of adventures and confrontations. This book inspired the Broadway musical The King and IAre you somebody: the accidental memoir of a Dublin woman
Par Nuala O'Faolain. 1998
An unmarried, childless Irish woman reviews her life and examines its meaning. She recalls her deprived childhood, her years at…
boarding school and university, and her career in broadcast and print journalism. Approaching sixty, she takes stock of her accomplishments and her solitary lifeLeon's story
Par Leon Tillage. 1997
An autobiographical account of an African American sharecropper's son growing up in rural North Carolina during the 1940s and 1950s.…
Tillage recalls the racial cruelties he experienced--the worst was seeing his father run down by a white youth. Finally he tells how the freedom marches affirmed his identity. Some violence. For junior and senior high readersThe night trilogy
Par Elie Wiesel. 1985
"Night" is the story of a Jewish boy who is deported with his family and community from Hungary to the…
horrors of the infamous Auschwitz. In "Dawn," Elisha, the sole survivor of his family, becomes a Jewish terrorist in Palestine and is ordered to execute an Englishman. In "The Accident," a concentration camp survivor tries to rebuild his life in New York City. Some violence and some descriptions of sexLost in place: growing up absurd in suburbia
Par Mark Salzman. 1995
The author's memoir of his offbeat teenage years spent in conventional suburban Connecticut. He describes his early fascination with things…
oriental--the Chinese language, martial arts, and Zen--and recounts his adolescent foibles. Depicts his troubled relationship with his curmudgeonly father. Strong languageBound feet and Western dress
Par Pang-Mei Natasha Chang. 1996
The author tells the story of her great aunt, whose life combined traditional Chinese and Western cultures. Born near Shanghai…
in 1900, Chang Yu-i rebelled against having her feet bound, but entered an arranged marriage at fifteen. Although she bore him two sons, Yu-i's husband, poet Hsu Chih-mo, divorced her. In China, where "a woman is nothing," Yu-i managed to become a successful bankerThis wild darkness: the story of my death
Par Harold Brodkey. 1996
A novelist chronicles his passing life and the indignities of his infirmity as he lies dying with AIDS. He ponders…
his youthful experiences with homosexuality, his devotion to his wife, his love for his writing career, and his "passage into nonexistence." Strong languageNot exactly what I had in mind: an incurable love story
Par Rosemary Breslin. 1997
At thirty-two, New York journalist Breslin developed a serious illness that baffled the medical community, and a couple of years…
later, she fell in love with Tony Dunne. Her description of their relationship and of her ongoing medical crisis is peopled with famous characters including her father, columnist Jimmy Breslin. Some strong languageDivided to the vein: a journey into race and family
Par Scott Minerbrook. 1996
A writer for U.S. News & World Report examines his family history. Growing up in the North with a black…
father and a white mother in the fifties, Minerbrook recalls incidents of prejudice from both races. Having never felt completely accepted, in middle age Minerbrook travels to rural Missouri to confront his white relatives. Some strong language and some violenceIn the huddle with-- Steve Young
Par Matt Christopher. 1996
In this biography of Steve Young, quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers, the author emphasizes that the athlete had to…
struggle throughout his career to be number one. Through hard work and determination, Young eventually became the starting quarterback while earning a law degree in the off season. For junior and senior high readersFragments: memories of a wartime childhood
Par Binjamin Wilkomirski. 1996
A man's memoir of his early boyhood experiences in Nazi death camps. Recounts his father's cruel death, his separation from…
family, the terror and suffering of his internment, and his deliverance to a Swiss orphanage. ViolenceThe air down here: true tales from a South Bronx boyhood
Par Gil Alicea. 1995
A collection of short autobiographical ruminations by a sixteen-year-old from New York's South Bronx. Gil discusses issues and problems that…
he confronts in his stressful urban environment: drugs, violence, gangs, parents with HIV, and the deaths of his mother and sister. For junior and senior high readersStay here with me: a memoir
Par Robert Olmstead. 1996
The author's coming-of-age reminiscence of being an eighteen-year-old on his grandfather's New England farm. Recounts the critical experiences of his…
father's fall to alcoholism and his grandfather's to cancer, his first love affair, and leaving home. Strong languageSwimming the channel
Par Sally Friedman. 1996
Scenic artist and marathon swimmer tells of meeting and falling in love with her husband, Paul. Shortly after they married,…
Paul began helping her train for her goal swim--the English Channel. On the day she was to fly to England, Paul was hit by a truck and killed. Swimming helped her get through the long grieving processAn American requiem: God, my father, and the war that came between us
Par James Carroll. 1996
Memoir by a former priest and Vietnam war resister of his conflict with his father, a general in the military,…
during the 1960s. Recounts the events, struggles of conscience, and decisions that would divide his family and alter their lives foreverMy own two feet: a memoir
Par Beverly Cleary. 1995
This sequel to A Girl from Yamhill (RC 29704, BR 9166), covers the children's author's life from the time she…
began college until shortly after her first book, Henry Huggins (RC 35642, BR 7178), was published. Although money was tight, Cleary went away to college in California where she met her future husband, Clarence, then to Washington where she learned to be a children's librarian. For junior and senior high and older readersTerry: my daughter's life-and-death struggle with alcoholism
Par George McGovern. 1996
A former senator and onetime presidential candidate's anguished story of his daughter's unhappy life and alcohol-related death. He tries to…
understand and explain her steady, uncontrolled descent into depression and alcoholism, concluding that genetic vulnerability was a key factorThe place he made
Par Edie Clark. 1995
As her marriage was ending, writer Edie Clark became attracted to the carpenter working with her husband. A quiet, gentle…
man who lived with his father, Paul Bolton had a reputation in the community as being odd. Edie describes their unusual courtship and the happy early days of their marriage. Then Paul is diagnosed with cancer, and the couple spends the next few years fighting the disease. Some strong languageTisha: the story of a young teacher in the Alaska wilderness
Par Anne Purdy. 1976
Autobiography of Anne Hobbs as told to the author. In 1927 the nineteen-year-old woman went to teach in a one-room…
schoolhouse in the former gold-rush settlement of Chicken, Alaska. "Tisha" is the Indian children's pronunciation of "teacher." For junior and senior high and older readersSpotted Dick, s'il vous plait: an English restaurant in France
Par Tom Higgins. 1995
Tom Higgins, a translator, and his doctor wife, Sue, dream of owning an English restaurant in Lyon, an area noted…
for its fine French cuisine. Higgins describes the trials and tribulations of dealing with the French, who considered English fare a bad joke. The restaurant, which opened in 1986, proved a great success. Includes several recipes