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The 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 recipesMoms don't get sick
Par Pat Brack. 1990
When Pat Brack is diagnosed with breast cancer, her youngest son, Ben, is ten years old. Mother and son alternately…
talk about their reactions to Pat's illness and treatment, and Ben's initial anger when the cancer recurs three years laterHer father: a memoir
Par Bill Henderson. 1995
Henderson, editor of the Pushcart Prize series and owner of Pushcart Press, tells of promising his dying mother he would…
marry and have a baby. That promise was not easy to keep--the future mother of his child was over forty with only one ovary, and his relationship with her was shaky at best. He describes how his playboy drinking ways were replaced by a family lifestyle with the birth of his daughter, Holly. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sexPretty boys are poisonous: Poems
Par Megan Fox. 2023
Megan Fox showcases her wicked humor throughout a heartbreaking and dark collection of poetry. Over the course of more than…
seventy poems Fox chronicles all the ways in which we fit ourselves into the shape of the ones we love, even if it means losing ourselves in the process. "These poems were written in an attempt to excise the illness that had taken root in me because of my silence. I've spent my entire life keeping the secrets of men, my body aches from carrying the weight of their sins. My freedom lives in these pages, and I hope that my words can inspire others to take back their happiness and their identity by using their voice to illuminate what's been buried, but not forgotten, in the darkness," says Fox. Pretty Boys Are Poisonous marks the powerful debut from one of the most well-known women of our time. Turn the page, bite the apple, and sink your teeth into the most deliciously compelling and addictive books you'll read all yearThe concubine's children: portrait of a family divided
Par Denise Chong. 1994
At seventeen, May-ying is told she must move from China to Canada to be a concubine for Chan Sam, twenty…
years her senior. Chan Sam has an At Home wife back in his Chinese village, but no sons. Author Chong, May-ying's granddaughter, explains how May-ying's two eldest daughters were raised in China by the wife, while Chong's mother grew up in Canada. Chong arranged the sisters' eventual first meetingThe journals of Charles W. Chesnutt
Par Charles Chesnutt. 1993
These diaries cover eight years in the life of Chesnutt, an African American who became a lawyer, a businessman, and…
an author. Beginning as a student in 1874, he records the details of his daily life along with his love of education, his hopes for a career, and his frustration with the lack of opportunity for educated blacks in the South during the ReconstructionRoommates: my grandfather's story
Par Max Apple. 1994
From three generations living under the same roof in Michigan, young Max chose his grandfather, Rocky, for a roommate. A…
Jewish baker from Lithuania, Rocky finally accepted the sad fact that Max was not cut out to be a rabbi. In graduate school, Max again shared his apartment with feisty, widowed, ninety-three-year-old Rocky. A woman broke the duo up, but until Rocky died at 106, he remained a central figure in Max's life. Some strong languageW.E.B. DuBois: biography of a race, 1868-1919
Par David Lewis. 1993
Scholar, activist, pan-Africanist, W.E.B. Du Bois was a founder of the NAACP and the first black American to receive a…
doctorate from Harvard. He died an expatriate in Ghana at ninety-five. In this biography, based partly on newly available personal papers, Lewis analyzes the first fifty years of Du Bois's life with the backdrop of race relations and the racial ideologies and conflicts of the period. Pulitzer PrizeA family place: a man returns to the center of his life
Par Charles Gaines. 1994
Writer Charles Gaines and his wife Patricia had once before healed their marriage by traveling to Nova Scotia and temporarily…
escaping their fast-paced lives. When the relationship again hits troubled times, Charles and Patricia purchase a remote parcel of Nova Scotia land and call upon their now-grown children to help them build a cabin and rebuild the family in this "last best place." Some strong languageMarx
Par Peter Singer. 1980
Introductory biography of the nineteenth-century philosopher. In an effort to explain the central vision of Marx's thought, Singer discusses Marx's…
early writings and his materialist concept of history and economic theory of capital. He also assesses Marx's relevance in the late twentieth centuryAgainst all opposition: Black explorers in America
Par James Haskins. 1992
Collective biography of black men who have "left their footprints in the soil of the Americas." Through the lives of…
such men as Matthew Henson, codiscoverer of the North Pole; Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, founder of Chicago; and Guion Stewart (Guy) Bluford Jr., the first black American to travel in space, Haskins demonstrates how goals, ideals, and hard work can lead to discovery. For junior and senior high readersSaved by the light: the true story of a man who died twice and the profound revelations he received
Par Dannion Brinkley. 1994
On September 17, 1975, Brinkley was struck by lightning and appeared to die, in spite of efforts to save him.…
He describes going through a tunnel and coming face to face with thirteen angelic "Beings of Light," who showed him his past and his future and told him what he must do upon returning to life. A second near-death experience was in 1989. BestsellerThe idea factory: learning to think at MIT
Par Pepper White. 1991
After obtaining a master of science from the prestigious technological school, White describes how MIT teaches students to think. He…
explores how engineers struggle to develop the intuitive and the analytical sides of their minds. He includes human interest stories--mixed with philosophy, problem solving, and warnings--to create an image of MIT's high-pressure environment. Some strong languageThe same river twice: a memoir
Par Chris Offutt. 1993
The author traces his steps from Appalachian Kentucky, on which he turns his back at nineteen, through a decade of…
shunting across America. Aspiring to become an actor, a painter, a playwright, and a poet, he runs through a series of odd jobs and relationships. Through it all he confronts self-doubts and society's low expectations of him until he awaits the birth of his first son. Strong language and some descriptions of sexAlex Haley's Queen: the story of an American family
Par Alex Haley. 1993
Completed by David Stevens, this is the final work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Roots (RC 9409/BR 3234). Alex…
Haley tells the story of his father's family, beginning with James Jackson, his white great-great-grandfather, who came from Ireland. When James's son falls in love with a slave named Easter, their daughter Queen, the grandmother of the author, resultsThe story of San Michele
Par Axel Munthe. 1957
Although this is the autobiography of a Swedish-born physician with a fashionable practice in Paris, it is as much about…
the lives of his patients and friends, his beloved animals, and the people he meets in his travels. Those journeys often include Italy, where he is so taken with Capri that he builds himself a house on the island on the site of a ruined chapel--a structure that by all accounts becomes "one of the best-loved houses in the world."The life of Benjamin Banneker
Par Silvio Bedini. 1972
Biography of the self-taught eighteenth-century black astronomer, mathematician, surveyor, and almanac maker. Also deals with the economy of eighteenth-century Maryland,…
contributions of the Ellicott family to the area, and the surveying of the District of ColumbiaCasey: from the OSS to the CIA
Par Joseph Persico. 1990
When William Casey was born in 1913, his Irish-American Catholic parents expected him to rise to a higher position than…
his father, but no one thought it would happen so quickly, Persico, granted exclusive access to Casey's personal papers, traces Casey's careers as a lawyer, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author, government official, and head of the CIA during the Iran-Contra affair. Some strong language