St. Clair, Chip.
Summary: The child of an abusive parent learns that his "father" is a wanted child murderer and that everything he has been told about his past is false, thus sending him on a quest for justice and identity.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications 2007
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ST.CLAIR StCMiller, Chanel
Summary: Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting "Emily Doe" on Stanford's campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on BuzzFeed, where it instantly went viral, was translated globally, and read on the floor of Congress. It inspired changes in California law and the recall of the judge in the case. Now Miller reclaims her identity to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2019
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MILLER, CHANEL MILKrosoczka, Jarrett
Summary: The powerful, unforgettable graphic memoir from Jarrett Krosoczka, about growing up with a drug-addicted mother, a missing father, and two unforgettably opinionated grandparents. A National Book Award Finalist! In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 KORMcGill, Joseph
Summary: "In this enlightening personal account, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sleep overnight in former slave dwellings that still stand across the country--revealing the fascinating history behind these sites and shedding light on larger issues of race in America. Joseph McGill Jr., a historic preservationist and Civil War reenactor, founded the Slave Dwelling Project in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.362 MCGWang, Esmé Weijun
Summary: "Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the 'collected schizophrenias' but to those who wish to understand it as well. Opening with the journey toward her diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder, Wang discusses the medical community's own disagreement about labels and procedures for diagnosing those with mental illness, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2019
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Knisley, Lucy
Summary: "If you work hard enough, if you want it enough, if you're smart and talented and "good enough," you can do anything. Except get pregnant. Her whole life, Lucy Knisley wanted to be a mother. But when it was finally the perfect time, conceiving turned out to be harder than anything she'd ever attempted. Fertility problems were followed by miscarriages, and her eventual successful pregnancy...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2019
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.2 KniRubin, Kathy Kleiner
Summary: "In January 1978, I slept in my bed at the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University as Ted Bundy stalked nearby. He grabbed an oak log from a stack of firewood, slipped through a back door with a broken padlock, and headed upstairs.He began twisting doorknobs. Room 9 was open, and he quietly and quickly killed one of my sleeping sorority sisters. Across the hall, he found another...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Shapiro, Dani
Summary: "In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA, Dani Shapiro received the astonishing news that her beloved deceased father was not her biological father. Over the course of a single day, her entire history--the life she had lived--crumbled beneath her. In just a few hours of Internet sleuthing, she was able to piece together the story of her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHAPIRO, DANI SHACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B SHAPIRO SHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio ShapiroAgar, Johnny
Summary: "The incredible story of Johnny Agar, born with cerebral palsy and who doctors thought would never walk, overcoming the odds to participate in long-distance endurance races with his dad pushing him, until the final mile when he walks across the finish line." - provided by publisher
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dexterity 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AGAR, JOHNNY AGACahalan, Susannah.
Summary: One day in 2009, twenty-four-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. A wristband marked her as a "flight risk," and her medical records, chronicling a monthlong hospital stay of which she had no memory at all, showed hallucinations, violence, and dangerous instability. Only weeks earlier, Susannah had been on...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2012
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.832 CAHOlivares, Efrén C.
Summary: "The principles that ostensibly bind America together-mutual respect for the Constitution and its institutions, and reciprocal adherence to principles such as freedom, the rule of law, due process, and equality under the law-fall apart at our borders. As those values dissolve at our country's frontiers, they allow for otherwise impermissible cruelty towards those who are considered outsiders....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OLIVARES, EFRAEN C. OLISundquist, Josh
Summary: "Social media star and comedian Josh Sundquist takes readers on his hilarious journey to the fringes of viral stardom to discover if it's possible to be both very famous and very happy"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SUNJefferson, Margo
Summary: "Stunning for her daring originality, the author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperamental autobiography," comprised of visceral, intimate fragments that fuse criticism and memoir. Margo Jefferson constructs a nervous system with pieces of different lengths and tone, conjoining arts writing (poem, song, performance) with life writing (history, psychology). The book's structure is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JEFFERSON, MARGO JEFNguyen, Bich Minh
Summary: "From the award-winning author of Stealing Buddha's Dinner, a powerful memoir of a mother-daughter relationship fragmented by war and resettlement. At the end of the Vietnam War, when Beth Nguyen was eight months old, she and her father, sister, grandmother, and uncles fled Saigon for America. Beth's mother stayed--or was left--behind, and they did not meet again until Beth was nineteen. Over...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NGUYEN, BICH MINH NGUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B NGUYEN NGUBeals, Melba
Summary: A member of the Little Rock Nine shares her memories of growing up in the South under Jim Crow.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BEALS BEAGay, Heather
Summary: "Straight off the slopes and into the spotlight, Heather Gay is known to dish God's honest truth. Whether as a businesswoman, mother, or television personality, Heather is unafraid to blaze a new trail; even if at the isolation of her family, friends, and church. Heather was born and bred Mormon. Growing up in Utah, not even the snow-capped mountains could draw attention from the state's most...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GAY, HEATHER GAYRice, Susan E.
Summary: Recalling pivotal moments from her dynamic career on the front lines of American diplomacy and foreign policy, Susan E. Rice, who served as National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, delivers an account of a life in service to family and country.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 RICE, SUSAN E. RICGeter, Hafizah
Summary: "Hafizah Augustus Geter disrupts the myths of America's origins and contemporary America through her experiences as the queer Nigerian-born daughter of a Muslim Nigerian woman and a Black American man from a Southern Baptist family in Jim Crow Alabama. A unique combination of gripping memoir and Afrofuturist thought, The Black Period follows Hafizah on a journey that tells her at every turn...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 GETHsu, Hua
Summary: "From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken-with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity-is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HSU, HUA HSUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B HSU HSUMehra, Nishta
Summary: Essays describe how the author's experiences as an Indian American, the wife of a white Christian woman, and the mother of an adopted black son have been challenged by rigid cultural family norms.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MEHRA, NISHTA MEHFaust, Drew Gilpin
Summary: "Drew Gilpin Faust writes about coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B FAUST FAUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio FaustCargle, Rachel Elizabeth
Summary: "A deeply personal and illuminating approach to antiracism and allyship, revealing the power of imagination and action to dismantle oppressive systems and build liberating ones, from a highly lauded lecturer, public academic, writer, and activist. In A Renaissance of Our Own, Rachel Cargle details the seminal event that put her on the map--her viral 2017 Women's March appearance that thrust her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARGLE, RACHEL ELIZABETH CARIrving, Debby
Summary: For twenty-five years, Debby Irving sensed inexplicable racial tensions in her personal and professional relationships. As a colleague and neighbor, she worried about offending people she dearly wanted to befriend. As an arts administrator, she didn't understand why her diversity efforts lacked traction. As a teacher, she found her best efforts to reach out to students and families of color...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Elephant Room Press 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 IRVING, DEBBY IRVShakur, Prince
Summary: "After immigrating from Jamaica to the United States, Prince Shakur's family is rocked by the murder of Prince's biological father in 1995. Behind the murder is a sordid family truth, scripted in the lines of a diary by an outlawed uncle hell-bent on avenging the murder of Prince's father. As Shakur begins to unravel his family's secrets, he must navigate the strenuous terrain of coming to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2022