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Author
Publisher
Spring Street Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
386 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An illustrated memoir based on the diaries the author has kept since she was in her twenties describes her decision to move from California to Martha's Vineyard and her adjustment to the New England lifestyle.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 260 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the year that the author and her family lived in Paris, describing her walking tours of the city, her school-age children's attempts to navigate foreign language schools, and her thoughts on the pleasures and eccentricities of French living.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 461 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the adventurous life of the great American author, who spent time as a hobo, a sailor, a gold prospector, and an oyster pirate before penning such classics as "The Call of the Wild" and "White Fang."
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 314 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Documents the story of 1970s Alabama serial killer Willie Maxwell and the true-crime book on the Deep South's racial politics and justice system that consumed Harper Lee in the years after "To Kill a Mockingbird."
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"You fall down. You get hurt. You get up again. You know Jennifer Weiner as many things: a bestselling author, a Twitter phenomenon, and "an unlikely feminist enforcer" (The New Yorker). She's also a mom, a daughter, and a sister; a former rower and current runner; a best friend and a reality TV junkie. Here, in her first foray into nonfiction, she takes the raw stuff of her personal life and spins it into a collection of essays on womanhood as uproariously...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
483 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A portrait of Theodor Geisel, best known as American icon Dr. Seuss, shares insights into his successful early career as a radical political cartoonist and the complicated genius that informed his beliefs on such subjects as empathy and environmentalism.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 21
Physical Desc
315 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the personal crisis the author endured after the death of her mother and a painful divorce, which prompted her ambition to undertake a dangerous 1,100-mile solo hike that both drove her to rock bottom and helped her to heal.
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
257 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Carrie Fisher recently discovered the journals she had kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved--plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naivete, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. Today her fame as an author, actress, and pop-culture icon is indisputable, but in 1976, Carrie Fisher was just a teenager with an all-consuming crush on her costar. With these...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"The Newbery Honor-winning author of Hatchet and Dogsong shares surprising true stories about his relationship with animals, highlighting their compassion, intellect, intuition, and sense of adventure. Gary Paulsen is an adventurer who competed in two Iditarods, survived the Minnesota wilderness, and climbed the Bighorns. None of this would have been possible without his truest companion: his animals. Sled dogs rescued him in Alaska, a sickened poodle...