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Autobiographies. bibliography biography Book reviews. essay Essays. Humor. Novels. Romans. Science fiction.Brunson, Quinta
Summary: "From comedian Quinta Brunson comes a deeply personal and funny collection of essays about trying to make it when you're broke, overcoming self-doubt and depression, and how she's used humor to navigate her career in unusual directions"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 BRUButeau, Michelle
Summary: Buteau's humorous essays reflect on growing up Caribbean, Catholic, and thick in New Jersey, going to college in Miami (where everyone smells like pineapple), her many friendship and dating disasters, working as a newsroom editor during 9/11, getting started in standup opening for male strippers, marrying into her husband's Dutch family, IVF and surrogacy, motherhood, chosen family, and what it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUTEAU, MICHELLE BUTSummary: This book is a plea to America to understand what life post-slavery remains like for many African Americans, who are descended from people whose unpaid labor built this land, but have had to spend the last century and a half carrying the dual burden of fighting racial injustice and rising above the lowered expectations and hateful bigotry that attempt to keep them shackled to that past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 BURSummary: In this candid look at our relationships with our mothers, fifteen authors write about subjects that they wish they had talked to their mothers about. While some of the writers in this book are estranged from their mothers, others are extremely close. Topics vary widely: from growing up with a deaf mother, to seeking a conversation that won't be interrupted, to relationships affected by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 306.874 WHALe Guin, Ursula K.
Summary: "Here together for the first time are all five remarkable standalone novels by the writer who transformed American speculative fiction."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LE GLe Guin, Ursula K.
Summary: This collection of Ursula K. Le Guin's recent talks, essays, introductions is the best manual we have for exploring the worlds explored in recent fiction; the most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Small Beer Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 LEGLe Guin, Ursula K.
Summary: "From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, a collection of thoughts--always adroit, often acerbic--on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017