Didion, 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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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 BRODidion, Joan.
Summary: Blue nights opens on July 26, 2010, as Didion thinks back to Quintana's wedding in New York seven years before. Today would be her wedding anniversary. This fact triggers vivid snapshots of Quintana's childhood, in Malibu, in Brentwood, at school in Holmby Hills. Reflecting on her daughter but also on her role as a parent, Didion asks the candid questions any parent might about how she feels...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 TANGordon, Mary
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 GORWilliams, Alicia
Summary: Zora was a girl who hankered for tales like bees for honey. Now, her mama always told her that if she wanted something, "to jump at de sun", because even though you might not land quite that high, at least you'd get off the ground. So Zora jumped from place to place, from the porch of the general store where she listened to folktales, to Howard University, to Harlem. And everywhere she jumped,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HURShapiro, Dani
Summary: "The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds, and about the accretion, over time, of both sorrow and love. Hourglass is an inquiry into how marriage is transformed by time--abraded, strengthened, shaped in miraculous and sometimes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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Summary: "The first and definitive biography of one of the great American novelists of the postwar era, Robert Stone"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1978
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 GILEllison, Ralph
Summary: "An autobiography through the previously unpublished letters of the renowned author of Invisible Man, with insights into the riddle of American identity, the writer's craft, and his own life and work. Over six decades (1933 to 1993), Ralph Ellison's extensive and revealing correspondence remarkably details his aspirations and anxieties, confidence and uncertainties throughout his personal and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELLISON, RALPH ELLHemingway, Ernest
Summary: The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 3: 1926-1929, featuring many previously unpublished letters, follows a rising star as he emerges from the literary Left Bank of Paris and moves into the American mainstream. Maxwell Perkins, legendary editor at Scribner's, nurtured the young Hemingway's talent, accepting his satirical novel Torrents of Spring (1926) in order to publish what would become a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2015
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Summary: In this warm collection of personal essays and recipes, best-selling author Ann Hood nourishes both our bodies and our souls. From her Italian American childhood through singlehood, raising and feeding a growing family, divorce, and a new marriage to food writer Michael Ruhlman, Ann Hood has long appreciated the power of a good meal. Growing up, she tasted love in her grandmother's tomato sauce...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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Summary: William Faulkner emerged from the ravaged South--half backwoods, half defeated empire--transforming his corner of Mississippi into the fictional Yoknapatawpha County and bestowing on the world some of the most revolutionary and enduring literature of the twentieth century. The personal story behind the work has fascinated readers nearly as much as the great novels, but Faulkner has remained...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Virginia Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FAULKNER, WILLIAM ROLDonleavy, 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 DONWakefield, 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 WAKCrichton, Michael
Summary: The author recounts his worldwide travels and psychic experiments, beginning with his first year at Harvard Medical School in 1965.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1988
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Summary: Recounts the author's efforts to rebuild in the face of a failing literary career and his wife's abandonment for another man, describing how his love for his young son inspired the confrontation of his own painful childhood memories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harvest 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANASTAS, BENJAMIN ANABuechner, Frederick
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 285.13 BUEBurroughs, Augusten.
Summary: A collection of personal tales features the author's wry observations about such topics as eBay addiction, gay personal ads, and Santa Claus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2006
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Summary: The author reflects on the place of sports in his life, describing his love of basketball, the role of the athlete for young men searching for their own identity, his education at the Citadel, and his journey to best-selling writer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.323 CONDaugherty, Tracy
Summary: "In The Last Love Song, Tracy Daugherty, the critically acclaimed author of Hiding Man (a New Yorker and New York Times Notable book) and Just One Catch, delves deep into the life of distinguished American author and journalist Joan Didion in this, the first printed biography published about her life. Joan Didion lived a life in the public and private eye with her late husband, writer John...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DIDION, JOAN DAUErdrich, Louise.
Summary: For two decades Louise Erdrich has been creating a spellbinding fictional portrait of Native American life. Now the author brings us a lovely and meditative account of a recent trip she took through the lakes and islands of Southern Ontario with her new baby and the baby's father, an Ojibwe spiritual leader and guide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2003