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Anecdotes. Autobiographies. bibliography Biographies. biography Biography. essay Essays. Humor. Travel writing.Summary: A collection of letters--to ancestors, to children five generations from now, to strangers in grocery lines, to any and all who feel weary and discouraged--written by award-winning novelists, poets, political thinkers, and activists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 816 RADHunter-Gault, Charlayne
Summary: "Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an eminent Dean of American journalism, a vital voice whose work chronicled the civil rights movement and so much of what has transpired since then. My People is the definitive collection of her reportage and commentary. Spanning datelines in the American South, South Africa and points scattered in between, her work constitutes a history of our time as rendered by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.48 HUNFinch, Charles (Charles B.)
Summary: "A writer and literary critic's diary of the year 2020, beginning with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and spanning the protests for racial justice and the chaos of the U.S. presidential election"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 FINTóibín, Colm
Summary: "From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a collection of essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 824 TOIFebos, Melissa
Summary: "When her body began to change at eleven years old, Febos understood immediately that her meaning to other people had changed with it. By her teens, she defined herself based on these perceptions and by the romantic relationships she threw herself into headlong. Over time, Febos increasingly questioned the stories she'd been told about herself and the habits and defenses she'd developed over...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Essay FebosSmiley, Jane
Summary: "Essays that show how Smiley draws inspiration from across literary history to invigorate her own writing. Among the authors she examines are Marguerite de Navarre, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Willa Cather, Franz Kafka, Halldor Laxness, and Jessica Mitford"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heyday 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 813 SMICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 SMIBusby, Jill Louise
Summary: A cultural commentator presents this memoir-in-essays in which she provides a deeply personal, razor-sharp critique of white fragility, respectability politics, and all the places where fear masquerades as progress. Jill Louise Busby spent years speaking at academic institutions, businesses, and detention centres on the topics of Race, Power, and Privilege. In 2016, fed up with what passed as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 BUSEllis, Helen
Summary: "The bestselling author of American Housewife and Southern Lady Code returns with a viciously funny collection of literary essays on love, family, and friendship among grown-ass women"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 ELLRoth, Philip
Summary: "Throughout a unparalleled literary career that includes two National Book Awards (Goodbye, Columbus, 1959 and Sabbath's Theater, 1995), the Pulitzer Prize in fiction (American Pastoral, 1997), the National Book Critics Circle Award (The Counterlife, 1986), and the National Humanities Medal (awarded by President Obama in 2011), among many other honors, Philip Roth has produced an extraordinary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 ROTThomson, Virgil
Summary: "In this second volume in the Library of America's definitive Virgil Thomson edition, Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic Tim Page collects for the first time the great composer's four witty, incisive, and compulsively readable full-length works. Written with authority and élan, these classic books offer an engrossing tour of the tumultuous twentieth-century musical scene and Thomson's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780 THOIrby, Samantha
Summary: "Beloved writer Samantha Irby has returned to the printed page for her much-anticipated, sidesplitting fourth book following her 2020 breakout, Wow, no thank you, a Vintage Books Original. The success of Irby's career has taken her to new heights. She fields calls with job offers from Hollywood and walks the red carpet with the iconic ladies of Sex and the City. Finally, she has made it. But,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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4 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 IRBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 IRBIrby, Samantha
Summary: "Samantha Irby explodes onto the printed page with her debut collection of brand-new essays about trying to laugh her way through failed relationships, being black, taco feasts, bouts with Crohn's disease, and more. Every essay is crafted with the same scathing wit and poignant candor thousands of loyal readers have come to expect from visiting her notoriously hilarious blog,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Curbside Splendor Publishing 2013
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 IRBCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 IRBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 814 IRBSummary: Celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of the classic--and, back in the day--controversial book, today's leading feminist thinkers and writers pay homage to Brown's original work and reinterpret it for a new generation, validating women's sexual lives and individual eras of singlehood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.81 SEXPollack, Eileen
Summary: "Pollack shares with poignant humor and candid language the trials of being smart and female in a world that is just learning to imagine equality between the sexes. Maybe It's Me is a question all smart women have asked themselves. Pollack's autobiographical essays take us on a roller-coaster ride from gratifyingly humorous street-level stories of innocent curiosity to the calculated meanness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delphinium Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POLLACK, EILEEN POLPatchett, Ann
Summary: "The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 PATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 PATMiranda, Lin-Manuel
Summary: Lin-Manuel Miranda gives readers an extraordinary inside look at "In the Heights," his breakout Broadway debut, written with Quiara Alegria Hudes, soon to be a Hollywood blockbuster. Miranda offers untold stories, perceptive essays, and the lyrics to his songs. Features newly commissioned portraits and never-before-seen photos from backstage, the movie set, and productions around the world....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.6 MIRSothen, John von
Summary: "Americans love to love Paris. We buy books about how the French parent, why French women don't get fat, and how to be Parisian wherever you are. While our work hours increase every year, we think longingly of the six weeks of vacation the French enjoy, imagining them at the seaside in stripes with plates of fruits de mer. John von Sothen fell in love with Paris through the stories his mother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SOTHEN, JOHN VON SOTCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Wit SothenKingston, Maxine Hong
Summary: "The largest and most comprehensive edition of our foremost Asian American writer: three classic books and additional writings, many rare, that together offer a vivid and searching portrait of immigrant experience and American dreams"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 KINSummary: This new look at Founding Fathers such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton goes beyond their common depictions as American saints to expose the sometimes selfish motives behind their actions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Fitzgerald, Isaac
Summary: "Isaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives. He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, a biker, a prince of New England. But before all that, he was a bomb that exploded his parents' lives--or so he was told. In Dirtbag, Massachusetts, Fitzgerald, with warmth and humor, recounts his ongoing search for forgiveness, a more far-reaching vision of masculinity, and a more expansive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B FITZGERALD FITMurakami, Haruki
Summary: "The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet: Here are photographs of Murakami's extensive and personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely seen by the public. Considered "the world's most popular cult novelist" (The Guardian), Haruki Murakami's books have galvanized millions around the world. Many of his fans know about his 10,000...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 895.6 MURMayes, Frances
Summary: "A lyrical and evocative collection of personal stories from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, in which the queen of wanderlust reflects on the comforts of home. While Frances Mayes is known for her travels, she has always sought a sense of home wherever she goes. In this poetic testament to the power of place in our lives, Mayes reflects on "home," from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAYES, FRANCES MAYJacobson, Abbi
Summary: When Broad City star Abbi Jacobson announced that she planned to drive across the country alone, she was met with lots of questions and opinions. Why wasn't she going with friends? Wouldn't it be incredibly lonely? The North route is better! Was it safe for a woman? The Southern route is the way to go! You should bring mace! And a common one: Why? But Abbi had always found comfort in solitude...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 814 JACLahiri, Jhumpa
Summary: "In 2016, the novelist Jhumpa Lahiri published In Other Words, the story of her quest to learn Italian, which involved moving with her family to Italy to immerse herself fully in her adopted language. The book builds on that account through eight essays that reflect her early career as a translator. One essay uses her teaching of the Echo and Narcissus myth to reflect on the meaning of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022