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Authors, American 20th century Biography Authors, American 20th century Family relationships Authors, American 21st century Family relationships Bonicelli, Lucia Spada Grandmothers United States Biography Grandparent and child United States Italian American women Biography Large type books Trigiani, Yolanda Perin Women Conduct of lifeScieszka, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008
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2 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 813.52 HEMHogan, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 Hogan 2001Buckley, Christopher
Summary: Bestselling author Buckley's most personal and transcendent work--the tragicomic true story of the year in which he lost both of his parents. The author offers consolation, wit, and warmth to those coping with the death of a mother or father.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: B BUCKLEY BUCConroy, 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PARDLO, GREGORY PARTrigiani, 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"--
Format: text
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"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 813 TRICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 TRIHarrison, 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.
Format: text
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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pineapple Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST HEMTrillin, Calvin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1998
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Summary: Bestselling author Buckley's most personal and transcendent work--the tragicomic true story of the year in which he lost both of his parents. The author offers consolation, wit, and warmth to those coping with the death of a mother or father.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 BUCKLEY, CHRISTOPHER BUCOates, Joyce Carol
Summary: Joyce Carol Oates shares her struggle to comprehend a life absent of the partnership that had sustained and defined her for nearly half a century.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Self H Greif OatesBuscaglia, Leo F.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: SLACK 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 BUSBlew, Mary Clearman
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BLESimon, Rachel
Summary: A woman spends a year with her mentally challenged sister.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2013