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The bright hour : a memoir of living and dying

Riggs, Nina

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Summary: "Built on her wildly popular Modern Love column, 'When a Couch is More Than a Couch' (9/23/2016), a breathtaking memoir of living meaningfully with 'death in the room' by the 38 year old great-great-great granddaughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson, mother to two young boys, wife of 16 years, after her terminal cancer diagnosis"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RIGGS, NINA RIG

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio Riggs

Body language : writers on identity, physicality, and making space for ourselves

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Summary: "A kaleidoscopic anthology of essays published by Catapult magazine about the stories our bodies tell, and how we move within--and against--expectations of race, gender, health, and ability. Bodies are serious, irreverent, sexy, fragile, strong, political, and inseparable from our experiences and identities as human beings. Pushing the dialogue and confronting monolithic myths, this collection...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.4 BOD

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