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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spike 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 WallsWalls, 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 WALLSWalls, Jeannette.
Summary: Abandoned by their artist mother at the age of twelve, Bean and her older sister, Liz, are sent to live in the decaying antebellum mansion of their widowed uncle, where they learn the truth about their parents and take odd jobs to earn extra money beforean increasingly withdrawn Liz has a life-shattering experience.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WALWalls, Jeannette.
Summary: Two motherless sisters--Bean and Liz--are shuttled to Virginia, where their Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying mansion that's been in their family for generations. When school starts in the fall, Bean easily adjusts and makes friends, and Liz becomes increasingly withdrawn. Then something happens to Liz and Bean is left to challenge the injustice of the adult world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WALWalls, Jeannette.
Summary: Two motherless sisters--Bean and Liz--are shuttled to Virginia, where their Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying mansion that's been in their family for generations. When school starts in the fall, Bean easily adjusts and makes friends, and Liz becomes increasingly withdrawn. Then something happens to Liz and Bean is left to challenge the injustice of the adult world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALWalls, 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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Summary: Jeannette Walls unfolds the story of Lily Casey Smith. Born tough, Lily shoed her first horse at age six, moved to the western frontier at age fifteen, and soon learned to drive a car and fly an airplane. Always filled with adventure, Lily's life held witness to several disasters, heartbreaks, and wars.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audioworks 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WALWalls, Jeannette.
Summary: A true-life novel about Lily Casey Smith (the author's grandmother) who at age six helped her father break horses, at age fifteen left home to teach in a frontier town, and later as a wife and mother who runs a vast ranch in Arizona where she survived tonadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy--but despite a life of hardscrabble drudgery still...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009