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Authors, American 20th century Biography Authors, American 20th century Family relationships Authors, American 21st century Family relationships Authors, American Family relationships Bonicelli, Lucia Spada Grandmothers United States Biography Grandparent and child United States Hemingway, Ernest 1899-1961 Family Italian American women Biography Women Conduct of lifeEnsler, Eve
Summary: "Like millions of women, Eve Ensler has been waiting much of her lifetime for an apology. Sexually and physically abused by her father, Eve has struggled her whole life from this betrayal, longing for an honest reckoning from a man who is long dead. After years of work as an anti-violence activist, she decided she would wait no longer; an apology could be imagined, by her, for her, to her. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 ENSTóibín, Colm
Summary: A collection of essays explores the sources of intimate family dynamics in prominent works of literature, from the relationship between W. B. Yeats and his father to the complicated ties between Thomas Mann and his children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 TOIFrangello, Gina
Summary: "Gina Frangello is a long-married fortysomething devoted mom when her life is turned upside down by the sudden death of her closest friend. Worn down from years of caregiving both her elderly parents and three kids, Gina starts to interrogate her own mortality and what she once longed for as a younger woman : a kind of sexual, romantic and artistic intensity radically at odds with her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRANGELLO, GINA FRATrigiani, Adriana.
Summary: "The beloved New York Times bestselling author shares a treasure trove of insight and guidance from her two grandmothers-time-tested common sense advice on the most important aspects of a woman's life, from childhood to old age"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 813.54 TRITrigiani, Adriana.
Summary: "The beloved New York Times bestselling author shares a treasure trove of insight and guidance from her two grandmothers-time-tested common sense advice on the most important aspects of a woman's life, from childhood to old age"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 TRISimon, Rachel
Summary: A woman spends a year with her mentally challenged sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B SIMON SIMTóibín, Colm
Summary: "Colm Tóibín begins his incisive, revelatory Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know with a walk through the Dublin streets where he went to university--a wide-eyed boy from the country--and where three Irish literary giants also came of age: Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce. Elegant, profound, and riveting, Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know illuminates not only the complex relationships between three of the greatest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 820 TOICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 TOIHogan, Linda.
Summary: In this book, the author recounts her difficult childhood as the daughter of an army sergeant, her love affair at age fifteen with an older man, the legacy of alcoholism, the troubled history of her adopted daughters, and her own physical struggles since a recent horse accident. She shows how historic and emotional pain are passed down through generations, blending personal history with stories...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 Hogan 2001Scieszka, Jon.
Summary: How did Jon Scieszka get so funny? He grew up as one of six brothers with Catholic school, lots of comic books, lazy summers at the lake with time to kill, babysitting misadventures, TV shows, and jokes told at family dinner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SCIHemingway, Valerie
Summary: Irish reporter Valerie Hemingway chronicles the years she spent as a personal secretary and confidante to Ernest Hemingway and his wife, Mary, and her eventual marriage to Hemingway's estranged son, Gregory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 813.52 HEMNaipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred Knopf 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.914 NAISteel, Danielle.
Summary: The author relates her son's struggle with manic depression, describing the early signs of his illness, the diagnosis and treatment that bought some time, and the final tragedy of his suicide at age nineteen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1998
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 616.89 STEArnold, Gaynor.
Summary: "In creating my [the author's] own story of Alfred and Dorothea Gibson, I have taken a novelist's liberties as I explored an imaginative path through their relationship. . . . Inspired by "threads of Dickens's own preoccupations with things strange, romantic, and melodramatic rather than realistic ... at times, characters from his novels make a transmuted appearance as characters in his life....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARNIrving, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: E. P. Dutton 1978
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Summary: Beth is a spirited woman with mental retardation, who spends nearly every day riding the buses in Philadelphia. The drivers, a lively group, are her mentors; her fellow passengers are her community. When Beth asks her sister Rachel to accompany her on the buses for one year, they take a transcendent journey together that changes Rachel's life in incredible ways and leads her to accept her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SIMKimmel, Haven
Summary: A continuation of the memoir "A Girl Named Zippy" follows the story of her mother, Delonda, who reinvents her life by returning to college and losing fifty pounds, while Zippy continues to work out the dynamic of their nuclear family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.6 KIMSpiegelman, Nadja
Summary: "A memoir of mothers and daughters -- and mothers as daughters -- traced through four generations, from Paris to New York and back again. For a long time, Nadja Spiegelman believed her mother was a fairy. More than her famous father, Mauscreator Art Spiegelman, and even more than most mothers, hers -- French-born New Yorker art director Françoise Mouly -- exerted a force over reality that was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SPIEGELMAN, NADJA SPIAllende, Isabel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALLENDE, ISABEL ALLGresham, Douglas H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.2 GREConroy, Pat
Summary: A powerful and intimate memoir by the beloved best-selling author of The Prince of Tides about his father, the inspiration for The Great Santini, and a re-affirmation that love can conquer even the meanest of men.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 CONROY, PAT CONPardlo, Gregory
Summary: "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, his first work of prose: a deeply felt memoir of a family's bonds and a meditation on race, addiction, fatherhood, ambition, and American culture The Pardlos were an average, middle-class African American family living in a New Jersey Levittown: charismatic Gregory Sr., an air traffic controller, his wife, and their two sons, bookish Greg Jr. and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PARDLO, GREGORY PARHarrison, Kathryn
Summary: In essays written over the course of more than a decade, Kathryn Harrison has created a beautifully detailed and rigorously honest family album. With tenderness and wisdom, compassion and humor, Harrison writes about the things we don’t always discuss, casting light on what lurks beneath the surface of everyday life, sifting through the artifacts of memory to find what haunts and endures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 HARHemingway, Leicester
Summary: A biography of Ernest Hemingway written by his brother and first published in 1962, providing insights into the life and career of the famous writer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pineapple Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST HEMLaPlante, Eve.
Summary: A great niece and cousin of Louisa May Alcott draws on newly uncovered family papers to present a revisionist portrait of Louisa's relationship with her mother, discussing how Abigail May served as the intellectual and emotional center of Louisa's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2012