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biographyBrown, James
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 BROMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: Larry McMurtry chronicles the experiences he had while traveling through Tahiti and the South Sea Islands and shares what he learned about his parents' relationship along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCMURTRY, LARRY MCMTan, Amy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 TANDidion, Joan.
Summary: ""Life changes fast. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends." These were among the first words Joan Didion wrote in January 2004. Her daughter was lying unconscious in an intensive care unit, a victim of pneumonia and septic shock. Her husband, John Gregory Dunne, was dead. The night before New Year's Eve, while they were sitting down to dinner, he suffered a massive and fatal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 813.54 DIDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 813.54 DidBurroughs, Augusten.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 CLARK, MARY HIGGINS CLACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 ClarkDonleavy, J. P. (James Patrick)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.708 DONGaines, Charles
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 GAIBuechner, Frederick
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 285.13 BUEWakefield, Dan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 WAKBrown, Larry
Summary: The author "aims for nothing short of ruthlessly capturing the truth of the geography that shaped him and his art [and] ... what it's like to be constantly compared with William Faulkner, a writer with whom he shares the undeniable inspiration of the Mississippi land."--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813 BURHemingway, Ernest
Summary: Hemingway's classic memoir of Paris in the 1920's. It is a literary feast that includes tender memories of his first wife, Hadley and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HEMHickam, Homer H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 HICNichols, John Treadwell
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peregrine Smith Books 1987
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 818.54 NICClark, Mary Higgins.
Summary: In a memoir of growing up in the Bronx during the Depression, the author recalls her father's death in 1939, her family's financial woes, and her mother's creation of a rooming house, bringing in tenants who would change their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 CLAGilman, Dorothy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1978
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 GILHickam, Homer H.
Summary: In the summer of '61, Homer "Sonny" Hickam, a year of college behind him, is dreaming of sandy beaches and rocket ships. But before Sonny can reach the seaside fixer-upper where his mother is spending the summer, a telephone call sends him back to the place he thought he had escaped, the gritty coal-mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia. There, Sonny's father, the mine's superintendent, has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 HICLamott, Anne.
Summary: The author and her son chronicle his first year as a teenage father and her journey as a mother and new grandmother, describing their respective experiences with changing roles, the baby's mother, and poignant family losses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LAMOTT, ANNE LAMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem LamottLesley, Craig.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2005