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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 ISpineless wonders: strange tales from the invertebrate world
Par Richard Conniff. 1996
Explores the bizarre world of invertebrates--spineless creatures that make up more than ninety-nine percent of all animals. Offers factual and…
humorous observations on flies, fire ants, leeches, worms, moths, calamari, and more. Describes the devoted people who study these creaturesAre 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 lifeArletty (Tournant)
Par Pierre Monnier. 1998
Elle a tourné avec les plus grands réalisateurs français, joué avec les plus grands comédiens ; elle s'est confiée à…
Pierre Monnier, quelques années avant sa disparition. Elle lui a parlé de ses rencontres, de l'amitié, de ses films, de sa jeunesse, de sa famille, du temps qui passe.Leon'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 languageThe man who listens to horses
Par Monty Roberts. 1997
A portrait of Monty Roberts, the horse trainer who discovered a humane technique for taming wild horses. Appalled by traditional…
methods of "breaking" horses that he witnessed in his youth, Roberts developed a gentle procedure for "joining-up" with a horse through a process of man-animal communication. BestsellerBound 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 readersJames Herriot's favorite dog stories
Par James Herriot. 1996
Herriot has collected ten of his favorite stories from his previous books about his years as a veterinarian in Yorkshire.…
Includes stories about Tricki Woo, Jock, and Roy as well as the dogs' owners. BestsellerFragments: 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 foreverla reine d'une ère nouvelle (Elizabeth II #1)
Par Robert Hardman. 2022
Elizabeth Windsor n'était pas née pour être reine. Pourtant, depuis son accession au trône en 1952 à l'âge de 25…
ans, elle s'est révélée une figure astucieuse, déterminée, menant sa famille et son peuple à travers plus de sept décennies de changements sociaux sans précédent