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Rare Good
Essays on Art, Autism, and Astonishment
Häftad, 2026
246 kr
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Now I saw that I was more than who I thought I was—more than who I had been told I was. There wasn't anything the diagnosis didn't touch. In time, even how I thought about being a writer changed.Steve Edwards was diagnosed with autism in his mid-thirties, altering his relationship to writing and …
Pat Boone Fan Club
My Life As a White Anglo-Saxon Jew
Häftad, 2014
234 kr
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Gentile reader, and you, Jews, come too. Follow Sue William Silverman, a one-woman cultural mash-up, on her exploration of identity among the mishmash of American idols and ideals that confuse most of us-or should. Pat Boone is our first stop. Now a Tea Party darling, Boone once shone as a …
Opa Nobody
Av Sonya Huber
Inbunden, 2008
368 kr
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It had come to this: breast-feeding her screaming three-month-old while sitting on the cigarette-scarred floor of a union hall, lying to her husband so she could attend yet another activist meeting, and otherwise actively self-destructing. Then Sonya Huber turned to her long-dead grandfather, the …
Yellowstone Autumn
A Season of Discovery in a Wondrous Land
Inbunden, 2009
415 kr
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Although Yellowstone is our oldest, most iconic, and most popular national park, it is perhaps, in W. D. Wetherell's words, "America's least-known best-known place." Wetherell, arriving at the park on the eve of his fifty-fifth birthday, feels the need to examine where life's mileage has brought …
Pieces from Life's Crazy Quilt
Häftad, 2008
173 kr
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Part memoir and part urban social history, Pieces from Life's Crazy Quilt is an African American woman's personal account of her life during a racially turbulent period in a northern American city. Raised in a black neighborhood in urban Detroit, Marvin V. Arnett begins her book with her birth …
Searching for Tamsen Donner
Inbunden, 2009
368 kr
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Tamsen Donner. For most the name conjures the ill-fated Donner party trapped in the snows of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1846–47. Others might know Tamsen as the stoic pioneer woman who saw her children to safety but stayed with her dying husband at the cost of her own life. For Gabrielle …
Driving with Dvorak
Essays on Memory and Identity
Av Fleda Brown
Inbunden, 2010
399 kr
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All our lives are made of moments, both simple and sublime, all of which in some way partake of the cultural moment. Fleda Brown is that rare writer who, in narrating the incidents and observations of her life, turns her story, by wit and insight and a poet's gift, into something more. This is an …
Hannah and the Mountain
Notes Toward a Wilderness Fatherhood
Inbunden, 2005
309 kr
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Longing for a home in big, wild country that would keep them passionate and young, Jonathan Johnson and his wife, Amy, set out to build a log cabin on his family's land in a remote and beautiful corner of Idaho. But what began as a doable dream for the two of them suddenly looks quite different …
Just Breathe Normally
Häftad, 2009
203 kr
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Just Breathe Normally opens with a traumatic accident. Shattered perceptions and shards of narrative recount the events, from wreck through recovery and beyond. In lyric prose, the stories spiral back through generations to touch on questions of mortality and family, immigration and migration, …
Bigger Than Life
A Murder, a Memoir
Av Dinah Lenney
Inbunden, 2007
368 kr
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Nelson Gross led an outsized life—one in which he played many roles: father, brother, husband, politician, entrepreneur. When he was killed by a couple of teenagers in a botched abduction and robbery, the murder shook his family in predictable and terrible ways. For his daughter, Dinah Lenney, …
Between Panic and Desire
Häftad, 2010
173 kr
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"Insouciant" and "irreverent" are the sort of words that come up in reviews of Dinty W. Moore's books—and, invariably, "hilarious." Between Panic and Desire, named after two towns in Pennsylvania, finds Moore at the top of his astutely funny form. A book that could be named after one of its …
My Ruby Slippers
The Road Back to Kansas
Av Tracy Seeley
Häftad, 2011
188 kr
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Sure, there's no place like home—but what if you can't really pinpoint where home is? By the time she was nine, Tracy Seeley had lived in seven towns and thirteen different houses. Her father's dreams of movie stardom, stoked by a series of affairs, kept the family on edge, and on the move, until …
Turning Bones
Av Lee Martin
Inbunden, 2003
256 kr
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Farmers and pragmatists, hardworking people who made their way west from Kentucky through Ohio and Indiana to settle at last in southern Illinois, Lee Martin's ancestors left no diaries or journals or letters; apart from the birth certificates and gravestones that marked their comings and goings, …
Bigger Than Life
A Murder, a Memoir
Av Dinah Lenney
Häftad, 2011
294 kr
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Nelson Gross led an outsized life—one in which he played many roles: father, brother, husband, politician, entrepreneur. When he was killed by a couple of teenagers in a botched abduction and robbery, the murder shook his family in predictable and terrible ways. For his daughter, Dinah Lenney, …
Searching for Tamsen Donner
Häftad, 2011
234 kr
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Tamsen Donner. For most the name conjures the ill-fated Donner party trapped in the snows of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1846–47. Others might know Tamsen as the stoic pioneer woman who saw her children to safety but stayed with her dying husband at the cost of her own life. For Gabrielle …
Such a Life
Av Lee Martin
Häftad, 2012
203 kr
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Lee Martin tells us in his memoir, "I was never meant to come along. My parents married late. My father was thirty-eight, my mother forty-one. When he found out she was pregnant, he asked the doctor, 'Can you get rid of it?'" From such an inauspicious beginning, Martin began collecting impressions …
Descanso for My Father
Fragments of a Life
Av Harrison Candelaria Fletcher
Häftad, 2012
188 kr
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When his father died, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher wasn't quite two. His mother packed up his father's belongings, put the boxes in a hall closet, and closed the door. The "man in a box" remained a mystery, hardly mentioned, and making only rare appearances in stories when Fletcher or his siblings …
Body Geographic
Häftad, 2013
264 kr
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A memoir from the award-winning author of My Lesbian Husband, Barrie Jean Borich's Body Geographic turns personal history into an inspired reflection on the points where place and person intersect, where running away meets running toward, and where dislocation means finding oneself. One coordinate …
In Rooms of Memory
Essays
Häftad, 2012
253 kr
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This mature, exquisite collection of personal essays by Hilary Masters offers a rare pleasure. Here are meditations and reflections distilled in fine prose from a long and varied life—musings that, in the distinguished tradition of essays carried on since the days of Montaigne, articulate the …
Works Cited
An Alphabetical Odyssey of Mayhem and Misbehavior
Häftad, 2013
201 kr
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“Doing things by the book” acquires a whole new meaning in Brandon R. Schrand’s memoir of coming of age in spite of himself. The “works cited” are those books that serve as Schrand’s signposts as he goes from life as a hormone-crazed, heavy-metal wannabe in the remotest parts of working-class Idaho …
Fortune Teller's Kiss
Häftad, 2012
264 kr
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There was always the incantation: "Whoever wishes you harm, may harm come to them!" And just in case that didn't work, there were garlic and cloves to repel the Evil Eye—or, better yet, the dried foreskin from a baby boy's circumcision, ground to a fine powder. But whatever precautions Brenda …
Days Are Gods
Av Liz Stephens
Häftad, 2013
264 kr
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"I called the bishop of the local ward, and he put the date of your move into the church bulletin, and these gentlemen came to help," Brady, the real estate agent, says. Welcome to Wellsville, Utah. Good-bye, L.A. Liz Stephens has come from Los Angeles to Utah for graduate school, and her brief …
Weeds
A Farm Daughter's Lament
Häftad, 2013
279 kr
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In Thomas Jefferson's day, 90 percent of the population worked on family farms. Today, in a world dominated by agribusiness, less than 1 percent of Americans claim farm-related occupations. What was lost along the way is something that Evelyn I. Funda experienced firsthand when, in 2001, her …
This Is not the Ivy League
A Memoir
Häftad, 2013
234 kr
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Mary Clearman Blew’s education began at home, on a remote cattle ranch in Montana. She graduated to a one-room rural school, then escaped, via scholarship, to the University of Montana, where, still in her teens, she met and married her first husband. This Is Not the Ivy League is her account of …
Get Me Through Tomorrow
A Sister's Memoir of Brain Injury and Revival
Häftad, 2015
224 kr
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On August 4, 2004, Jason Crigler was onstage in a New York City nightclub when a blood vessel burst in his brain. The thirty-four-year-old guitarist, a fixture in the downtown music scene who had played with Marshall Crenshaw, Linda Thompson, and John Cale, narrowly survived the bleed. A string of …
Songs from the Black Chair
A Memoir of Mental Interiors
Häftad, 2007
211 kr
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Title essay "Songs from the Black Chair" won the 2005 Pushcart Prize."An amazing book. . . . Barber is a gifted writer, and the work he has produced is an important addition to the literature of both mental health and New York City."- The Village Voice."Imaginative and beautifully written, with …
Out of Joint
A Private and Public Story of Arthritis
Häftad, 2007
211 kr
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She begins, in the morning, by casing her joints: Can her ankles take the stairs? Will her fingers open a jar? Peel an orange? But it was not always this way for Mary Felstiner, who went to bed one night an active professional and healthy young mother, and woke the next morning literally out of …
Falling Room
Av Eli Hastings
Häftad, 2006
218 kr
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Coming of age poor in spirit in the America of plenty is an old story that is yet endlessly new, beginning afresh every time a confused teenager tries to make sense of his privileged place in the world. Eli Hastings got a head start on this when his idealistic, permissive parents divorced, and he …
Solace of Stones
Finding a Way Through Wilderness
Av Julie Riddle
Häftad, 2016
234 kr
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Everything changes when Julie Riddle’s parents stumble across the wilderness survival guide How to Live in the Woods on Pennies a Day. In 1977, when Riddle is seven years old, she and her family-fed up with the challenges of city life-move to the foot of the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness in …
Local Wonders
Seasons in the Bohemian Alps
Av Ted Kooser
Häftad, 2004
218 kr
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Ted Kooser describes with exquisite detail and humor the place he calls home in the rolling hills of southeastern Nebraska—an area known as the Bohemian Alps. Nothing is too big or too small for his attention. Memories of his grandmother's cooking are juxtaposed with reflections about the …
