Richards, Susan

Summary: A memoir about the life-giving power of caring for an animal. One day, after waking up hung-over for nine years, Susan Richards realized she was an alcoholic. Here, she chronicles how her horse, Georgia, kept her steady and focused as she slowly overcame her urge to drink and learned how to love again.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2010

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 RICHARDS, SUSAN Ric

Bruder, Jessica

Summary: In a secondhand vehicle she christens "Van Halen," Bruder hits the road to get to know her subjects--transient older Americans who call themselves "workampers." From campground toilet cleaning to warehouse product scanning to desert reunions and the dangerous work of beet harvesting, Bruder tells a compelling, eye-opening tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy--one that foreshadows...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 331.3 BRU

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 331.3

Link, Mardi.

Summary: Poignant, irreverent, and hilarious: the memoir of a woman who, after ending her nineteen-year marriage, staves off a perpetually empty bank account, saves her century-old farmhouse from foreclosure with the help of her three young sons, and reclaims her life.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2013

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 630.92 LIN

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LINK, MARDI JO Lin

Allen, Sarah Addison.

Summary: Josey Cirrini is sure of three things: winter is her favorite season, she's a sorry excuse for a Southern belle, and sweets are best eaten in the privacy of her closet. For while Josey has settled into an uneventful life in her mother's house, her one consolation is the sugary treats and paperback romances she escapes to each night. Until she finds her closet harboring Della Lee Baker, a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2008

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALL

Sellers, Heather

Summary: At her twentieth high school reunion, author and creative writing professor Heather Sellers discovered that she had inherited illness: face-blindness. In a normal brain, a series of processes in the fusiform face area allow people to recognize old faces. But in Sellers' case, these processes do not occur. Here, Sellers recounts how she has coped with her condition.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2010

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 Sellers 2010