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Birkerts, Sven. Gerber, Alyson Karr, Mary. Smith, Lee Teuton, Christopher B. Walls, Jeannette.Teuton, Christopher B.
Summary: Collection of recorded conversations with Cherokee storytellers that include tales, and discussions of the nature of tale-telling and Cherokee life in general.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.2 TEUKarr, Mary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 KARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 818.54 KARRWalls, Jeannette.
Summary: In the tradition of Mary Karr's "The Liars' Club" and Rick Bragg's "All Over But the Shouting," Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric and severely misguided family. The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2006
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WALLS, JEANETTE WALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio WallsBirkerts, Sven.
Summary: "In The Art of Time in Memoir, critic, editor, and memoirist Sven Birkerts examines the human impulse to write about the self. "Memoir is, for better and often for worse, the genre of our times," Birkerts writes. But what makes one memoir memorable and another self-serving? What determines the difference between graceful disclosure and sensational self-exposure? Birkerts argues that the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.93592 BIRSmith, Lee
Summary: Evenly divided between a book about Smith’s process and her life, first as a Southern mountain child and, later, as the parent of a schizophrenic child, this book is interesting and compelling. Despite being surrounded by loving family and being blessed with an active imagination, Lee copes with a mentally ill mother. Later, her son’s mental illness and early death brings her to the breaking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMITH, LEE SMICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B SMITH SMIGerber, Alyson
Summary: "Weatherby is a fish out of water. When she lands a scholarship to the prestigious Boston School, she's excited to be in the same world as her dad, whom she's never met, and make real friends. But Weatherby has a secret she'll risk everything to protect, one that could destroy her new life. Every member of Jack's wealthy and privileged family has made their mark at the Boston School. Everyone,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024