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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher. Someone older who understood you when you were young and searching, who helped you see the world as a more profound place, and gave you advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of your mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn't...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st Vintage Books ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Physical Desc
xlv, 437 : port. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
At age 22 Eggers became an orphan and "single mother" when his parents died within months of each other from cancer. He is appointed unofficial guardian of his 8 year old brother, Christopher, whom he parents by very unconventional methods.
Author
Publisher
Plough Publishing House
Pub. Date
c2017
Physical Desc
179 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Melissa Ohden was fourteen when she learned she was the survivor of a botched abortion. In this memoir she details her search for her biological parents, and her own journey from anger and shame to faith and empowerment.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In a powerful and intimate memoir, Jackie Hance shares her story of unbearable loss, darkest despair, and -- slowly, painfully, and miraculously -- her cautious return to hope and love after the death of her three young daughters in a traffic accident.
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
This vital memoir will change how we look at the opioid crisis and how the media talks about it. A deeply moving and emotional read, STRUNG OUT challenges our preconceived ideas of what addiction looks like.' Stephanie Land, New York Times bestselling author of MaidIn this deeply personal and illuminating memoir about her fifteen-year struggle with heroin, Khar sheds profound light on the opioid crisis and gives a voice to the over two million people...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Author
Publisher
Clarkson Potter/Publishers
Language
English
Formats
Description
All her life, Mitchell had eaten lustily and mindlessly. Food was her babysitter, her best friend, her confidant, and it provided a refuge from her fractured family. But when she stepped on the scale on her twentieth birthday and it registered a shocking 268 pounds, she knew she had to change the way she thought about food and herself: her life was at stake. She tells us how she discovered balance in an off-kilter world, finding beauty in acceptance...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"The funny, defiant memoir of Sarah Ramey's years-long battle with a mysterious illness that doctors thought was all in her head--but wasn't. A revelation and an inspiration for millions of women whose legitimate health complaints are ignored. In her darkly funny and courageous memoir, Sarah Ramey recounts the decade-long saga of how a seemingly minor illness in her senior year of college turned into a prolonged and elusive condition that destroyed...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The riveting story of a mother who is separated from her newborn son and husband when committed to an involuntary psychiatric ward in New Jersey after a harrowing bout of postpartum psychosis"--
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant, funny, generation-defining memoir about the double bind of crafting perfect adversity narratives for highly selective institutions, while fumbling through the far murkier reality of actual life in foster care and inpatient mental health treatment. As a child, Emi Nietfeld was caught between a hoarder mother who got her put on antipsychotic medication, but was also the only person to believe she was exceptional, and a state system exemplified...
14) The next Everest: surviving the mountain's deadliest day and finding the resilience to climb again
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
408 p.
Language
English
Description
A dramatic account of the deadly avalanche on Everest-and a return to reach the summit. On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8-magnitude earthquake released avalanches all around him and his team, destroying their only escape route and trapping them at nearly 20,000 feet. It was the largest earthquake in Nepal in eighty-one years and killed nearly 8,900 people. That day also became the deadliest in the history of Everest,...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
228 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
An inspiring memoir of life, love, loss, and new beginnings by the widower of bestselling children's author and filmmaker Amy Krouse Rosenthal, whose last of act of love before her death was setting the stage for her husband's life without her in the viral New York Times Modern Love column, 'You May Want to Marry My Husband. -- . On March 3, 2017, Amy Krouse Rosenthal penned an op-ed piece for the New York Times-- 'Modern Love-- column --&'You May...
17) In the shadow of a badge: a memoir about Flight 93, a field of angels, and my spiritual homecoming
Author
Publisher
Hay House
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 168 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lillie Leonardi, a former law enforcement professional, gives her gripping personal account of the 12 days she spent acting as an FBI liaison between the law enforcement and social service agencies at the crash site of Flight 93 on September 11, 2001. She also discusses the spiritual side of the events that affected her.
18) Small fry
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A frank, smart and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs. Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents--artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs--Lisa Brennan-Jobs's childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa's father was a mythical figure who was rarely present in her life. As she grew older, her father took an interest in her, ushering her into a new world of mansions, vacations,...
Publisher
Howard Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
ix, 275 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes the devasting accident and case of mistaken identity that left one family grieving for the young woman they thought was their daughter while the wrong family cared for the lone survivor, and describes the healing journey of survivor Whitney Cerak.