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Bragg, Rick

Summary: Presents a food memoir, cookbook, and tribute to the author's mother, sharing classic family recipes--many of them pre-dating the Civil War--and preparation secrets for such traditional fare as short ribs, biscuits, and perfect mashed potatoes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 BRA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: 641.59 BRA

Bragg, Rick

Summary: "Speck is not a good boy. He is a terrible boy, a defiant, self-destructive, often malodorous boy, a grave robber and screen door moocher who spends his days playing chicken with the FedEx man, picking fights with thousand-pound livestock and rolling in donkey manure and his nights howling at the moon. He has been that way since the moment he appeared on the ridgeline behind Rick Bragg's house....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 636.7 BRA

Bragg, Rick.

Summary: A haunting memoir about growing up dirt-poor in the Alabama hills--and about moving on but never really being able to leave. The extraordinary gifts for evocation and insight and the stunning talent for story- telling that earned Rick Bragg a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 1996 are here brought to bear on the wrenching story of his own family's life. It is the story of a war-haunted,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1997

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRAGG, RICK BRA

Bragg, Rick.

Summary: Rick Bragg closes his circle of family stories with a tale of fathers and sons inspired by his own relationship with his ten-year-old stepson. Having married a mother, he discovers that he is unsuited to fatherhood, to this boy in particular, a boy accustomed to love and affection rather than violence and neglect--a boy wholly unlike the child Rick once was. With the weight of this new boy...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRAGG, RICK BRA

Bragg, Rick

Summary: "Speck is not a good boy. He is a terrible boy, a defiant, self-destructive, often malodorous boy, a grave robber and screen door moocher who spends his days playing chicken with the Fed Ex man, picking fights with thousand-pound livestock, and rolling in donkey manure, and his nights howling at the moon. He has been that way since the moment he appeared on the ridgeline behind Rick Bragg's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 BRA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B BRAGG BRA

Bragg, Rick

Summary: "Keenly observed and written with his insightful and deadpan sense of humor, [Rick Bragg] explores enduring Southern truths about home, place, spirit, table, and the regions' varied geographies, including his native Alabama, Cajun country, and the Gulf Coast. Everything is explored, from regional obsessions from college football and fishing, to mayonnaise and spoon bread, to the simple beauty...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxmoor House 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975 BRA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 975 BRA

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 975 BRA

Bragg, Rick.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 BRAGG, RICK BRA

Krall, Dan

Summary: By not covering his mouth or washing his hands, Simon spreads his cold to his teacher and classmates, much to the delight of three germs named Virus, Protozoa, and Bacteria.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KRA

Berkin, Carol.

Summary: In the life stories of three "accidental heroes"--women whose marriages provided them with position and perspective they would not otherwise have had--one of the nation's premier historians offers a unique understanding of the tumultuous social and political landscape of their time.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7082 BER

Marcus, Amy Dockser

Summary: "Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Amy Dockser Marcus shows what happened when a group of parents joined forces with doctors and researchers to try to save children's lives. Parents whose children had been diagnosed with the rare and fatal genetic condition Niemann-Pick Type C disease recognized there would never be a treatment in time to save their children if things stayed the same, so the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.92 MAR

Flynn, Nick

Summary: "Nick Flynn met his father when he was twenty-seven years old, working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. As a teenager he'd received letters from this stranger father, a self-proclaimed poet and con man doing time in federal prison for bank robbery. Nick, his own life precariously unsettled (his mother committed suicide when he was in his late teens), was living alternatively in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FLYNN, NICK FLY

Collins, Leigh Guillory

Summary: Parents get sick. Their lives change radically, and quickly. This book offers immediate, practical and experienced advice for adult family members and others responsible for the wellbeing of children when one parent has a serious illness. The authors are both clinical social workers with years of training and time spent with children and families in crisis. They establish a clear and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hohm Press 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 COL

Díaz, Jaquira

Summary: "Jaquira Díaz writes an unflinching account of growing up as a queer biracial girl searching for home as her family splits apart and her mother struggles with mental illness and addiction. From her own struggles with depression and drug abuse to her experiences of violence to Puerto Rico's history of colonialism, every page vibrates with music and lyricism"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DIAZ, JAQUIRA DIA

Agresta, Valerie Strong.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Author 1993

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-Gen 929.2 STRONG Agresta

Sumner Johnson, Janet

Summary: "Hope Smith can’t stand rich people—the dictionary magnate family the Wintertons most of all. Not since she and her twin brother, Gordon, learned that their dad was one. So when Gordon enters the family into the Winterton’s charity spelling bee, Hope wants nothing to do with it. But with their mom losing her job and the family facing eviction from the motel where they live, they desperately...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pixel+Ink 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SUM

Lesley, Craig.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 LES

Rice, Condoleezza

Summary: This is the story of Condoleezza Rice-- her early years growing up in the hostile environment of Birmingham, Alabama; her rise in the ranks at Stanford University to become the university's second-in-command and an expert in Soviet and Eastern European Affairs; and finally, in 2000, her appointment as the first Black woman to serve as Secretary of State.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RICE, CONDOLEEZZA RIC

Haydu, Corey Ann.

Summary: "Four sisters rely on each other--and a bit of mysterious magic--to cope with their mother's illness"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HAY

Summary: Follows the lives of the Robertson family who managed to become multimillionaires with their thriving business selling handmade duck calls in the Louisiana bayou.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD DUC

Cole, Henry

Summary: In pictures without words, the reader follows the journey of one brown paper bag from a tree in the forest through the years it is used by three generations of one family until eventually the old bag becomes the container in which a new tree is planted.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COL

Mullally, Megan

Summary: At last, the full story behind the Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman's epic romance, sharing stories, portraits, and the occasional puzzle, all telling the smoldering tale that has fascinated Hollywood for over a decade.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920 MUL

Summary: With its alluring tales of Gothic mystery and supernatural intrigue, this television program became one of the most popular daytime series of all time. In these episodes, when Victoria Winters searches the Old House for David Collins, she is abducted and held captive by Matthew Morgan, the Collinses' fugitive caretaker who is hiding following the death of family friend Bill Malloy. A massive...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DAR

Rivera, Adriana Erin

Summary: Told through diary entries, twelve-year-old Paloma and her family must navigate changes they cannot control and hope for a better future when United States soldiers invade Spanish controlled Puerto Rico in 1898.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC RIV

Rice, Condoleezza

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2010

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 327.73 RIC

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