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Summary: Avery dragged her three-year-old brother behind a boxwood bush and listened for footsteps in the brittle leaves. She couldn't be sure which was louder, the person on their trail or her own heart, galloping like a stallion in her ears. With one hand over Henry's mouth, Avery looked down at the nicest dress she owned. Not only had she torn the ruffles and destroyed the hem, but the white linen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shiloh Run Press, an imprint of Barbour Publishing 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION PRILarson, Brie
Summary: A coming-of-age story of a girl living in a dysfunctional family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GLACopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GLAWalls, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WALCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WALLS, JEANETTE WALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B WALLS WALWalls, Jeannette.
Summary: Journalist Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary and their four children lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary painted...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 362.82 WALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 WALLS, JEANNETTE WALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD B WALLSSummary: A new enemy is born in the form of Kaguya, who plans to shroud the world in eternal darkness. Determined to stop her, Inuyasha, Kagome, Miroku, Sango, and Shippo join forces and prepare to fight.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ 2002
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME INUWeir, Andy
Summary: What happens to Alice when she comes back from Wonderland? Wendy from Neverland? Dorothy from Oz? The three meet here, at Cheshire Crossing -- a boarding school where girls like them learn how to cope with their supernatural experiences and harness their magical world-crossing powers. But the trio -- now teenagers, who've had their fill of meddling authority figures -- aren't content to sit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Priebe, Trisha White
Summary: In this delightful sequel to The Glass Castle, The Ruby Moon opens as preparations begin for the upcoming Olympiads. When Avery learns that a male runner is needed for an important race, she volunteers so she can get close to the action. . .but can she hide her own identity? One slip-up could mean a trip to the dungeon--or worse. Much is at stake while the kingdom enjoys the greatest games on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shiloh Run Press 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION PRIMurray, Liz.
Summary: In the vein of The Glass Castle, Breaking Night is the stunning memoir of a young woman who, despite living on the streets at age fifteen, made it into Harvard.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 362.74 MURRAY, LIZ MurFelt (Musical group).
Contents: Rain of crystal spires -- Down but not yet out -- September lady -- Grey streets -- All the people I like are those that are dead -- Gather up your wings and fly -- A wave crashed on rocks -- Hours of darkness have changed my mind -- Declaration -- Silver plane -- She lives by the castle -- Stained-glass windows in the sky -- Riding on the equator -- Dark red birds.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rough Trade 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FELDiFranco, Ani.
Contents: Little plastic castle -- Fuel -- Gravel -- As is -- The little girls -- Deep dish -- Loom -- Pixie -- Swan dive -- Glass house -- Independence day -- Pulse.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Righteous Babe Records 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DIFMaas, Sarah J.
Summary: In a land without magic, where the king rules with an iron hand, an assassin is summoned to the castle. She comes not to kill the king, but to win her freedom. If she defeats twenty-three killers, thieves, and warriors in a competition, she is released from prison to serve as the king's champion. Her name is Celaena Sardothien. The Crown Prince will provoke her. The Captain of the Guard will...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MAAMyer, Caitlin
Summary: "A literary memoir of one woman's journey from wife to warrior, in the vein of breakout hits like Cheryl Strayed's Wild and Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle. At thirty-six years old, Caitlin Myer is ready to start a family with her husband. She has leftbehind the restrictive confines of her Mormon upbringing and early sexual trauma and believes she is now living her happily ever after . . ....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pubilshing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MYER, CAITLIN MYECai, Chongda
Summary: "An unprecedented and heartfelt memoir that illuminates the lives of rural Chinese workers, offering a portrait of generational strife, family, love, and loss that crosses cultures and time. Cai Chongda spent his childhood in a rural fishing village in Fujian province. When his father-a former communist gang leader turned gas station owner-has a stroke that partially paralyzes him, his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CAI, CHONGDA CAIHarding, Debora
Summary: "For readers of Educated and The Glass Castle, a harrowing, redemptive and profoundly inspiring memoir of childhood trauma and its long reach into adulthood. One Omaha winter day in November 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knifepoint from a church parking lot. She was thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ransom, and then left to die as an ice storm descended...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARDING, DEBORA HARMestyanek Young, Daniella
Summary: "In the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle, Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured is more than a memoir about an exceptional upbringing, but about a woman who, no matter the lack of tools given to her, is determined to overcome. Behind the tall, foreboding gates of a commune in Brazil, Daniella Mestyanek Young was raised in the religious cult The Children of God, also known as The Family, as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Linkin Park (Musical group)
Contents: Lost in the echo -- In my remains -- Burn it down -- Lies greed misery -- I'll be gone -- Castle of glass -- Victimized -- Roads untraveled -- Skin to bone -- Until it breaks -- Tinfoil -- Powerless.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LINSolo, Hope.
Summary: The Glass Castle meets A League of Their Own in Solo , a candid and moving memoir about family, loss, and reconciliation from Hope Solo, the supremely talented, headline-making goalkeeper for the U.S. women's national soccer team. During the 2011 Women's World Cup, Solo became an idol, role model, and sex symbol to a new generation of young American sports enthusiasts, inspiring the kind of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins US 2012
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Grant, Helen
Summary: When seventeen-year-old Lin and her family move to an ancient German castle for a year while her medievalist father searches for the famed Allerheiligen glass--lost stained glass windows that are said to be haunted by a terrifying demon--she becomes involved in a horrific murder mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAGildiner, Catherine
Summary: ""Catherine Gildiner is nothing short of masterful-as both a therapist and writer. In these pages, she has gorgeously captured both the privilege of being given access to the inner chambers of people's lives, and the meaning that comes from watching themgrow into the selves they were meant to be." -Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone In this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 GILGuerrero, Jean
Summary: "In the tradition of parent-child memoirs from The Liar's Club to The Glass Castle, here is the haunting story of a daughter's quest to understand her father, to save him from his own demons and to save herself from following his self-destructive path. Marco Antonio was born in Mexico but as a teenager migrated with his large family north to California, where he met Jean's mother, a young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GUERRERO, JEAN GUEMcCulloch, Jeanne
Summary: "The Glass Castle meets The Nest in this stunning debut, an intimate family memoir that gracefully brings us behind the dappled beachfront vista of privilege, to reveal the inner lives of two wonderfully colorful, unforgettable families. On a mid-August weekend, two families assemble for a wedding at a rambling family mansion on the beach in East Hampton, in the last days of the area's quietly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCCULLOCH, JEANNE MCCDougherty, Nancy
Summary: "A biography of Reinhard Heydrich and his wife, Lina von Osten Heydrich"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEYDRICH, REINHARD DOUNorth Castle (N.Y.)
Contents: v. 1. Colonial history & minutes of town meetings, 1736-1791; also maps, patents, census lists.--v. 2. Minutes of town meetings, 1791-1850; maps, census, and cemetery lists, with a pictorial history of the town and an introduction to the records.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Town of North Castle 1975
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3747 LeeGlass, Philip
Contents: Opening (6:09) -- Truman Sleeps ("The Truman Show") (2:40) -- The Poet Acts (4:01) -- Morning Passages (6:10) -- How Now (29:52) -- Something She Has To Do (3:59) -- I'm Going To Make A Cake (3:20) -- Olympian: Lighting Of The Torch (3:32) -- Mad Rush (16:17) -- Dead Things (4:41) -- Tearing Herself Away (5:14) -- Wichita Sutra Vortex (7:22) -- Escape! (4:34) -- Choosing Life (4:42) -- The...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2015