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Slow motion: a true story
Par Dani Shapiro. 1998
The author describes dropping out of college to become the mistress of her roommate's wealthy stepfather and turning her life…
around a few years later after her parents are in a serious accident. Shapiro stops drinking, leaves her lover, and returns to school at Sarah Lawrence to become a writer. Strong language and some descriptions of sexThe dissident: Alexey navalny: profile of a political prisoner
Par David Herszenhorn. 2023
A news-driven biography of Vladimir Putin's nemesis Alexey Navalny— lawyer, blogger, anti-corruption crusader, protest organizer, political opposition leader, mayoral and…
presidential candidate, campaign strategist, provocateur, poisoning victim, dissident, and now, prisoner of conscience and anti-war crusader. THE DISSIDENT is the story of how one fearless man, offended by the dishonesty and criminality of the Russian political system, mounted a relentless opposition movement and became President Vladimir Putin's most formidable rival—so despised that the Russian leader makes a point of never uttering Navalny's name. There's an old saying that Russia without corruption isn't Russia. Alexey Navalny refuses to accept this proposition. His stubborn insistence that Russians can defy the stereotype and create an entirely different country made him such a threat to Putin that the Kremlin wanted him exiled—or dead—and now seems intent on keeping him locked in a prison colony for decades. International correspondent David M. Herszenhorn, weaves together the threads of Navalny's remarkable life and work: The assassination attempt with a military- grade nerve agent by an FSB hit squad in Siberia, his recovery, and the vigilante-style investigation with news outlet Bellingcat to identify and confront his own would-be killers; Navalny's personal biography as part of the generation that straddled the end of the Soviet Union and birth of the Russian Federation, including childhood summers with his Ukrainian grandparents near Chernobyl, and his fellowship at Yale University, which spurred conspiracy theories about his ties to the U.S.; His anti-corruption investigations that exposed billions in graft at Russia's biggest state-owned companies and vast bribe-taking by top Russian officials, including his blockbuster revelations about Putin's Black Sea Palace; His political activism, including huge street protests, his bid for Moscow mayor in 2013, renegade run for president in 2017, his controversial views on nationalism, gun rights and Crimea, his transformation into a prisoner of conscience bravely denouncing Putin's war of aggression in Ukraine, and more. Riveting and complex, THE DISSIDENT introduces readers to modern Russia's greatest agitator, a man willing to sacrifice his freedom—and even his own life—to build the decent, democratic country he wants to live in and hopes to pass on to his childrenBitter winds: a memoir of my years in China's Gulag
Par Hongda Wu. 1994
Personal account by a survivor of nineteen years in Chinese labor reform camps. Wu recalls his childhood in Shanghai, his…
arrest in 1960, and the physical and mental hardships of his imprisonment. Describes the plight and reactions of fellow prisonersIn the wilderness: coming of age in unknown country
Par Kim Barnes. 1996
A poet describes her happy childhood in the Idaho timberlands, where her father was a logger, and her rebellious adolescence…
after her parents joined a fundamentalist religion. She recalls changes in the environment and in her interior landscape as she matured. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 1996Going solo
Par Roald Dahl. 1999
Autobiographical account of British writer's experiences as a young man working in East Africa and his adventures as a fighter…
pilot for the Royal Air Force in World War II. Sequel to Boy: Tales of Childhood (BR 11563). For junior and senior high and older readersThe things I want most: the extraordinary story of a boy's journal to a family of his own
Par Richard Miniter. 1998
With the youngest of their six children in high school, the author reluctantly agrees to his wife's request that they…
become foster parents. They are offered an eleven-year-old boy with a daunting file. His note asking for "a family, a fishing pole, a family" sways them to accept. Some strong languageHarvest son: planting roots in American soil
Par David Masumoto. 1998
Sequel to Epitaph for a Peach (BR 10551). Japanese American farmer describes life and work on his family's orchard in…
California's Central Valley. Explores his cultural heritage by visiting his ancestral village in Japan and by recounting the arduous existence of his forebears, including those interned during World War II. 1998The pleasure of their company
Par Doris Grumbach. 2000
As the author composes a guest list for her eightieth birthday party, she recalls family and friends, both living and…
dead. She discusses favorite books, comments on fellow authors, reflects on relationships, and meditates on the approach of death. 2000The bend for home
Par Dermot Healy. 1996
Poet and novelist recalls his childhood in a small Irish village and the family's move to a town where his…
mother and aunt managed a bakery. Reminisces about his father, a policeman plagued with ill health. Includes diary entries from Healy's teenage years and how he cared for his aging mother. Some strong languageAnna 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 IBig top boss: John Ringling North and the circus
Par David Hammarstrom. 1992
Biography of the showman-entrepreneur who folded the tents and moved the circus indoors in 1956. Describes North's flamboyant career and…
his management style in the context of labor and social issues of the mid-twentieth century. Incorporates several decades of American circus historyEnergy follows thought: The stories behind my songs
Par Willie Nelson. 2023
For the first time ever, and to help celebrate his 90th birthday in 2023, American icon Willie Nelson provides the…
stories behind the lyrics of 160 of his favorite songs. From his earliest work in the 1950s to today, Willie looks back at the songs that have defined his career, from his days of earning $50 each to his biggest hits, from his less well-known songs (but incredibly meaningful to him) to his concept albums. Along the way, he also shares the stories of his guitar Trigger, his family and "family," as well as the artists he collaborated with, including Patsy Cline, Waylon Jennings, Ray Charles, Merle Haggard, Ray Price, Dolly Parton, and many others. Willie is disarmingly honest—what do you have to lose when you're about to turn 90? —meditating on the nature of songwriting and finding his voice, and the themes he's explored his whole life—relationships, infidelity, love, loss, friendship, life on the road, and particularly poignant at this juncture of his life: mortality. Revealing, funny, whimsical, and wise, this book is an enduring tribute to Willie Nelson's legacyTruth: four stories I am finally old enough to tell
Par Ellen Douglas. 1998
Still publishing under her pen name, the author recalls four troublesome episodes from her earlier years. While some details were…
incorporated in her previous works, here she tries to record the "truth" as factually as possible. In "Grant" she describes residing with a dying uncle, but remaining emotionally distant from him. 1998House of steps: finding the path home
Par Amy Blackmarr. 1999
Essayist describes living alone in an odd rental house in rural Kansas while completing a fellowship at the University of…
Kansas. She talks of spiders and wasps, mailbox destruction, multiple dogs, mowing the huge lawn, and coming to feel at homeBrown boy: A memoir
Par Omer Aziz. 2023
An uncompromising portrait of identity, family, religion, race, and class that "cuts to the bone" ( Publishers Weekly , starred…
review) told through Omer Aziz's incisive and luminous prose. In a tough neighborhood on the outskirts of Toronto, miles away from wealthy white downtown, Omer Aziz struggles to find his place as a first-generation Pakistani Muslim boy. He fears the violence and despair of the world around him, and sees a dangerous path ahead, succumbing to aimlessness, apathy, and rage. In his senior year of high school, Omer quickly begins to realize that education can open up the wider world. But as he falls in love with books, and makes his way to Queen's University in Ontario, Sciences Po in Paris, Cambridge University in England, and finally Yale Law School, he continually confronts his own feelings of doubt and insecurity at being an outsider, a brown-skinned boy in an elite white world. He is searching for community and identity, asking questions of himself and those he encounters, and soon finds himself in difficult situations—whether in the suburbs of Paris or at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Yet the more books Omer reads and the more he moves through elite worlds, his feelings of shame and powerlessness only grow stronger, and clear answers recede further away. Weaving together his powerful personal narrative with the books and friendships that move him, Aziz wrestles with the contradiction of feeling like an Other and his desire to belong to a Western world that never quite accepts him. He poses the questions he couldn't have asked in his youth: Was assimilation ever really an option? Could one transcend the perils of race and class? And could we—the collective West—ever honestly confront the darker secrets that, as Aziz discovers, still linger from the past? In Brown Boy , Omer Aziz has written an eye-opening book that eloquently describes the complex process of creating an identity that fuses where he's from, what people see in him, and who he knows himself to beA Dublin girl: growing up in the 1930's
Par Elaine Crowley. 1996
Biography of a childhood spent poor but happy in the slums of Dublin. Because her father has tuberculosis, Elaine Crowley,…
her mother, and two siblings live hand-to-mouth in a one-room dwelling in their ancestral neighborhood. At fourteen, Elaine leaves school to help support the familyThe autobiography of a Tibetan monk
Par Palden Gyatso. 1997
Memoir of a Tibetan born in 1933 who became a Buddhist monk at age ten. His peaceful life ended in…
1950 when the Chinese invaded Tibet. Describes his arrest with other monks at Gadong monastery in 1959 and the starvation, torture, and reeducation sessions during his thirty years in prison. After his release, he escaped to India to inform the Dalai Lama and the world of Chinese abuse of Tibetan prisonersAddie
Par Mary Settle. 1998
Memoir centered around the author's grandmother Addie from Cedar Grove, West Virginia. Describes the social and economic life of the…
Kanawha Valley in pioneer days, during the War between the States, and later when the coal mines were developedMan flies: the story of Alberto Santos-Dumont, master of the balloon, conqueror of the air
Par Nancy Winters. 1998
Biography of the Brazilian aviation pioneer. Describes his experiments with maneuvering air balloons in Paris in the late 1890s and…
early 1900s. Explains why Santos-Dumont has been eclipsed in history by the Wright brothers but why his reputation deserves resurrectionPaper daughter: a memoir
Par M. Mar. 1999
Born in southern China in 1966, the author moved to Hong Kong and then, at five, to Denver with her…
family to live with an aunt. Before leaving for Harvard, Mar struggled with classmates' cruelty and having to live within two cultures. Some explicit descriptions of sex and some strong language. 1999