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Summary: Presents a humorous account of the author's deranged adolescence that explores the concept of cause and effect. It is a cautionary tale in essay form.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2006
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 813.6 BURDruckerman, Pamela
Summary: Author Pamela Druckerman leads us on a quest for wisdom, self-knowledge and the right pair of pants. A witty dispatch from the front lines of the forties, There Are No Grown-ups is a (midlife) coming-of-age story, and a book for anyone trying to find their place in the world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DRUCKERMAN, PAMELA DRUGreenfeld, Karl Taro
Summary: A brother of an autistic child profiled in the trilogy that began with A Boy Called Noah describes the challenges he faced growing up in his brother's shadow, in an account that interweaves the social history of autism and its related research with the author's sideline experiences in childhood and adulthood.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GREENFELD, KARL TAROGREHitchens, Christopher.
Summary: "The life story of one of the most admired and controversial public intellectuals of our time"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HITCHENS, CHRISTOPHER HITMcClure, Tori Murden.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Collins 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCCLURE, TORI MCCSavage, Roz
Summary: Offers an inspirational story of how one woman traded an unhappy job and marriage for a 103-day solo voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, powered only by muscle, grit, and determination, in an account by the first woman to ever row from California to Hawaii.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SAVAGE, ROZ SAVSilver, Charlotte.
Summary: Infectious, charming, and at times wistful, Charlotte au Chocolat is a celebration of the magic of a beautiful presentation and the virtues of good manners, as well as a loving tribute to the author's mother-a woman who always showed her best face to the world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 SILBard, Elizabeth.
Summary: This a memoir about a young American woman caught up in two passionate love affairs--one with her new beau, Gwendal, the other with French cuisine. Bard packs her bags to begin a new life in the most romantic of cities. She finds that the deeper she immerses herself in French cuisine, the more Paris itself begins to translate.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 944.361 BARDCaldwell, Gail
Summary: In this gorgeous, moving memoir, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Caldwell reflects on her own coming-of-age in midlife, as she learns to open herself to the power and healing of sharing her life with a best friend.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 070.92 CALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CALDWELL, GAIL CALGilman, Susan Jane.
Summary: In 1986, fresh out of college, Susan Jane Gilman and her friend Chloe dreamed of hitting the road as modern-day female Kerouacs. Inspired by a placemat at the International House of Pancakes, they mapped out a trip circling the globe, then headed west--to China. At that point in time, the People's Republic had been open to backpackers for barely ten minutes. But Susan and Chloe relished the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 915.104 GILKilmer-Purcell, Josh
Summary: "Michael Perry meets David Sedaris in this follow-up to Josh Kilmer-Purcell's beloved and bestselling debut memoir, I Am Not Myself These Days--another riotous, moving, and entirely unique story of his attempt to tackle the next phase of life with his partner on a goat farm in upstate New York"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KILMER-PURCELL, JOSH KILKreamer, Anne
Summary: A provocative evaluation of modern issues related to aging describes the author's decision to stop fighting the aging process and discusses interviews and experiments she conducted to address key questions about midlife sexuality and age discrimination.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Lifestyle KreamerOllestad, Norman.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Survival OllestadScott-Heron, Gil
Summary: A personal account by the late musician and poet traces the story of his life, career, and history-making 1981 tour at the side of Stevie Wonder to raise support for the establishment of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCOTT-HERON, GIL SCOVincent, Norah.
Summary: From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Self-Made Man" comes this eye-opening, emotionally wrenching, and at time very funny work that exposes the state of mental healthcare in America from the inside out.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VINCENT, NORAH VINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: B Vincent VinBourdain, Anthony.
Summary: Tracking his own strange and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-traveling professional eater and drinker, and even to fatherhood, Bourdain takes no prisoners as he dissects what he's seen, pausing along the way for a series of confessions, rants, investigations, and interrogations of some of the most controversial figures in food.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco Press 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.509 BOUCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 BOUKobabe, Maia
Summary: "In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 KOBRoss, Tracy.
Summary: The author explains how her love for the outdoors--and her journeys to natural landscapes in Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming and Alaska--became her only source of redemption after suffering sexual abuse from her stepfather for more than six years.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROSS, TRACY ROSSSales, Nancy Jo
Summary: "A raw and funny memoir about love and sex in the digital age intertwined with a brilliant and original investigative deep-dive from the New York Times bestselling author of American Girls, Nancy Jo Sales, which explores our epidemic addiction to dating apps and exposes how Big Dating disrupts romance in the modern world"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SALES, NANCY JO SALSarah
Summary: The author documents a low period in her life and how she found strength in her struggles with adversity and eventually regained her sense of purpose for her life with the help of friends and several celebrity experts.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SARAH, DUCHESS OF YORK SARWallace, Danny.
Summary: As he nears 30, Wallace can't help wondering about his best childhood friends, whose names he finds in a long-forgotten address book. Acting on impulse, the author travels the world, risking rejection and ridicule, to show up on his old buddies' doorsteps.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WALBell, Laura
Summary: In 1977, Laura Bell, at loose ends after graduating from college, leaves her family home in Kentucky for a wild and unexpected adventure: herding sheep in Wyoming's Big Horn Basin. By turns cattle rancher, forest ranger, outfitter, masseuse, wife and mother, Bell vividly recounts her struggle to find solid earth in which to put down roots.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BELL, LAURA BELClegg, Bill.
Summary: In this stark memoir, a follow-up to Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man, literary agent and author Clegg describes his struggle to stay clean.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: R to R CleggDeLucie, John.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2009