Caldwell, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 070.92 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 915.104 GILWallace, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WALGarner, James.
Summary: The revered actor and quintessential self-made man recalls "trying to decipher" William Wyler with Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine, breaking Doris Day's ribs, having a "heart-to-heart and eyeball-to-eyeball" with Steve McQueen, being "a card-carrying liberal--and proud of it," and much more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GARNER, JAMES GARBell, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010