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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher. Someone older who understood you when you were young and searching, who helped you see the world as a more profound place, and gave you advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of your mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn't...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st Vintage Books ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Physical Desc
xlv, 437 : port. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
At age 22 Eggers became an orphan and "single mother" when his parents died within months of each other from cancer. He is appointed unofficial guardian of his 8 year old brother, Christopher, whom he parents by very unconventional methods.
Author
Publisher
Plough Publishing House
Pub. Date
c2017
Physical Desc
179 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Melissa Ohden was fourteen when she learned she was the survivor of a botched abortion. In this memoir she details her search for her biological parents, and her own journey from anger and shame to faith and empowerment.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In a powerful and intimate memoir, Jackie Hance shares her story of unbearable loss, darkest despair, and -- slowly, painfully, and miraculously -- her cautious return to hope and love after the death of her three young daughters in a traffic accident.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
432 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An examination of the Unabomber case projects Ted Kaczynski's life against a backdrop of the Cold War, emerging from an unhappy adolescence to attend Harvard University, where he adopted the ideas that would lead to his violent behavior.
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
This vital memoir will change how we look at the opioid crisis and how the media talks about it. A deeply moving and emotional read, STRUNG OUT challenges our preconceived ideas of what addiction looks like.' Stephanie Land, New York Times bestselling author of MaidIn this deeply personal and illuminating memoir about her fifteen-year struggle with heroin, Khar sheds profound light on the opioid crisis and gives a voice to the over two million people...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
177 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Recounts the death of the author's parents and his self-reflection on how to carry on after their passing, detailing how he struggled to find the silver lining in the end of two lives.
Author
Publisher
Clarkson Potter/Publishers
Language
English
Formats
Description
All her life, Mitchell had eaten lustily and mindlessly. Food was her babysitter, her best friend, her confidant, and it provided a refuge from her fractured family. But when she stepped on the scale on her twentieth birthday and it registered a shocking 268 pounds, she knew she had to change the way she thought about food and herself: her life was at stake. She tells us how she discovered balance in an off-kilter world, finding beauty in acceptance...
12) The last lecture
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Chantha Nguon recounts her life as a Cambodia refugee who lost everything and everyone--her house her country, her parents, her siblings, her friends--everything but the memories of her mother's kitchen, the tastes and aromas of the foods her mother made before the dictator Pol Pot tore her country apart"--
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"The funny, defiant memoir of Sarah Ramey's years-long battle with a mysterious illness that doctors thought was all in her head--but wasn't. A revelation and an inspiration for millions of women whose legitimate health complaints are ignored. In her darkly funny and courageous memoir, Sarah Ramey recounts the decade-long saga of how a seemingly minor illness in her senior year of college turned into a prolonged and elusive condition that destroyed...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The riveting story of a mother who is separated from her newborn son and husband when committed to an involuntary psychiatric ward in New Jersey after a harrowing bout of postpartum psychosis"--
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Builds on the author's popular food-centric blog to recount her unconventional upbringing and her unusually happy and occasionally sorrowful life of literary and culinary sensuality.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant, funny, generation-defining memoir about the double bind of crafting perfect adversity narratives for highly selective institutions, while fumbling through the far murkier reality of actual life in foster care and inpatient mental health treatment. As a child, Emi Nietfeld was caught between a hoarder mother who got her put on antipsychotic medication, but was also the only person to believe she was exceptional, and a state system exemplified...
20) The next Everest: surviving the mountain's deadliest day and finding the resilience to climb again
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A dramatic account of the deadly avalanche on Everest-and a return to reach the summit. On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8-magnitude earthquake released avalanches all around him and his team, destroying their only escape route and trapping them at nearly 20,000 feet. It was the largest earthquake in Nepal in eighty-one years and killed nearly 8,900 people. That day also became the deadliest in the history of Everest,...