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42) The Coalwood way
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
xii, 318 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Continuing the story of the Rocket Boys of Coalwood, West Virginia, the author recounts his senior year in high school, while the forces of change bring Coalwood to a difficult crossroads and strain threatens to tear apart the Hickam home.
43) Sky of stone
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
xii, 365 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author continues the story of his life with an account of the summer of 1961, which marked the end of his first year of college and the beginning of his dreams to leave his hometown of Coalwood behind.
Author
Series
Prison diary volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2006, c2004
Edition
1st St. Martin's Griffin ed.
Physical Desc
473 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 357 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author recounts his paternal relationships, as well as his own experiences of parenthood, in a memoir that describes his father's abandonment, the abuse of his stepfather, and his fostering of a troubled Native American boy.
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From bestselling author of She's Not There, New York Times opinion columnist, and human rights activist Jennifer Finney Boylan, Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs, a memoir of the transformative power of loving dogs. This is a book about dogs: the love we have for them, and the way that love helps us understand the people we have been. It's in the love of dogs, and my love for them, that I can best now take the measure of the child I once was, and the...
52) Books: a memoir
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
259 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author recounts his lifelong love affair with books, from his largely "bookless" boyhood and discovery of literature as a young man, to the evolution of his writing career and his passion as a book collector who opens bookstores of rare and collectible volumes.