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Authors, American Authors, American 20th century Biography Children's stories Authorship Juvenile literature Large type books Relations with women Wilder, Laura Ingalls 1867-1957 Women authors, American Women authors, American 20th century Biography Women authors, American 20th century Biography Juvenile literature Women authors, American 21st century BiographyConrad, Vicki
Summary: "A beautifully illustrated children's biography of Beverly Cleary, from her roots in Portland to her years as a librarian and an eventual children's book writer. The debut book in Little Bigfoot's new Growing to Greatness series of notable people from the Pacific Northwest"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bigfoot, an imprint of Sasquatch Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CLEEphron, Delia
Summary: The bestselling, beloved writer of romantic comedies like You've Got Mail tells her own late-in-life love story in her "resplendent memoir," complete with a tragic second act and joyous resolution. Delia Ephron had struggled through several years of heartbreak. She'd lost her sister, Nora, and then her husband, Jerry, both to cancer. Several months after Jerry's death, she decided to make one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EPHRON, DELIA EPHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B EPHRON EPHMayes, Frances
Summary: "A lyrical and evocative collection of personal stories from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, in which the queen of wanderlust reflects on the comforts of home. While Frances Mayes is known for her travels, she has always sought a sense of home wherever she goes. In this poetic testament to the power of place in our lives, Mayes reflects on "home," from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAYES, FRANCES MAYBradford, Richard
Summary: "Made famous by the great success of her psychological thrillers, The Talented Mr Ripley and Strangers on a Train, Patricia Highsmith is lauded as one of the most influential and celebrated modern writers. However, there has never been a clear picture of the woman behind the books. The relationship between Highsmith's lesbianism, her fraught personality - by parts self-destructive and malicious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Caravel 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HIGHSMITH, PATRICIA BRAMoser, Benjamin
Summary: "Benjamin Moser's Sontag, a biography of Susan Sontag, is a portrait of the iconoclastic and prolific essayist, novelist, and critic and her role in the history of American intellectualism" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SONTAG, SUSAN MOSShulman, Alix Kates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 SHUHotchner, A. E.
Summary: "In June of 1961, A.E. Hotchner visited an old friend in the psychiatric ward of St. Mary's Hospital. It would be the last time they spoke: a few weeks later, Ernest Hemingway was released home, where he took his own life. Their final conversation was also the final installment in a story whose telling Hemingway had spread over nearly a decade. Hemingway divulged the details of the affair that...
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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 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST HOTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B HEMINGWAY HOTHeilbrun, Carolyn G.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 HEIQuindlen, Anna.
Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and bestselling author Anna Quindlen uses the mastery of the medium in which she works to send an utterly compelling message as she explores the importance of books in her life and their vital role in society. THE LIBRARY OF CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT is a groundbreaking series where America's finest writers and most brilliant minds tackle today's most provocative,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Pub. Group 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 Quindlen, Anna QuindlenPolacco, Patricia.
Summary: An autobiography of the well-known author and illustrator.
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Publisher / Publication Date: R.C. Owen 1994
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB POLACCO POLWadsworth, Ginger.
Summary: Examines Laura Ingalls Wilder's life as a pioneer girl and her work as a writer describing that life for others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WILHotchner, A. E.
Summary: "This memoir puts you in the room with Hemingway as he remembers the definitive years that set the course for the rest of his life and stayed with him until the end of his days"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LARGE PRINT 813 HEMINGWAYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST HOTSlater, Lauren.
Summary: "Lauren Slater's rocky childhood left her cold to the idea of ever creating a family of her own, but a husband, two dogs, two children, and three houses later, she came around to the challenges, trials, and unexpected rewards of playing house. Boldly honest, these biographical pieces reveal Slater at her wittiest and most deeply personal. She describes her journey from fiercely independent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SLATER, LAUREN SLAEngle, Margarita
Summary: "In this follow-up to her award-winning memoir Enchanted Air, Margarita Engle details her teenage years in Los Angeles against the turbulent backdrop of the Vietnam War. In vulnerable verse, she addresses the notions of peace, civil rights, freedom of expression, and environmental protection that are once again under threat. Despite these circumstances, young Margarita was able to find solace...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 ENGNin, Anais
Contents: v. 1. 1931-1934.--v. 2. 1934-1939.--v.3 1939-1944.--v.4 1944-1947.--v.5 1947-1955.--v.6 1955-1966.--v. 7. 1966-1974.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Swallow Press 1966
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.52 NIN, ANAIS NINOlsen, Tillie.
Summary: A collection of works, both fictional and non-fictional, gathered together here for the first time --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Univ of Nebraska Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 OLSThomas, Abigail
Summary: In her new memoir, Abigail Thomas ruminates on aging during the confines of COVID-19 with her trademark mix of humor and wisdom, including valuable, contemplative writing tips along the way. As she approaches eighty, what she herself calls old age, Abigail Thomas accepts her new life, quieter than before, no driving, no dancing, mostly sitting in her chair in a sunny corner with three dogs for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Aging ThomasWilder, Laura Ingalls
Summary: Presents Laura Ingalls Wilder's unedited, and unpublished, draft of her autobiography that was written for an adult audience and eventually served as the foundation for her popular Little House on the Prairie series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: South Dakota Historical Society Press 2014
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: 921 WILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILDER, LAURA INGALLS WILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B WILDER HILSheehy, Gail.
Summary: Relating the story of her unconventional life, the author of the self-help classic "Passages" recounts her challenges and victories as a groundbreaking female journalist in the 1960s, reflects on ambition, and shares her own major life passages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow & Co. 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHEEHY, GAIL SHEHeilbrun, Carolyn G.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Aging HeilbrunRoiphe, Anne Richardson
Summary: "Widowed novelist, near seventy, ex-Park Avenue girl, ex-beatnik, ex-many other things too complicated to list here, loves big parties, summers at the beach, grandchildren, seeks interesting man for dinner and a movie." Anne Roiphe was not quite seventy years old when her husband of nearly forty years unexpectedly passed away. But it was not until her daughters placed a personal ad in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 813.54 ROIShulman, Alix Kates.
Summary: Alix Kates Shulman discusses the experiences she had after returning home to care for her aging parents during the last years of their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHULMAN, ALIX KATES SHUSolnit, Rebecca
Summary: "In this memoir, celebrated author, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit relates how she found her voice as a writer and as a feminist during the 1980s in San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. Then in her early twenties, Solnit tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city, which became her great teacher; of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SOLNIT, REBECCA SOLSummary: Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957) finished her autobiography, Pioneer Girl, in 1930 when she was sixty-three years old. Throughout the 1930s and into the early 1940s, she drew upon her original manuscript to write a successful series of books for young readers. Wilder's vision of life on the American frontier in the last half of the nineteenth century continues to draw new generations of readers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: South Dakota Historical Society Press 2017