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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Isaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives. He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, a biker, a prince of New England. But before all that, he was a bomb that exploded his parents' lives-or so he was told. In Dirtbag, Massachusetts, Fitzgerald, with warmth and humor, recounts his ongoing search for forgiveness, a more far-reaching vision of masculinity, and a more expansive definition of family and self. Fitzgerald's memoir-in-essays...
Author
Language
English
Description
Hillbilly Elegy shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author who is a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past.
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In early 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy ventured deep into the heart of Eastern Kentucky to gauge the progress of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. Author Matthew Algeo meticulously retraces RFK's tour of the region, visiting the places he visited and meeting with the people he met, and explains how and why the region has changed since 1968, and why it matters for the rest of the country.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
"A debut memoir of grit and tenacity, as one young woman returns to the conservative hometown she always longed to escape to earn a living in the steel mill that casts a shadow over Cleveland. Steel is the only thing that shines in the belly of the mill... To ArcelorMittal Steel Eliese is known as #6691: Utility Worker, but this was never her dream. Fresh out of college, eager to leave behind her conservative hometown and come to terms with her Christian...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Nujood Ali's childhood came to an abrupt halt in 2008 when her father arranged at age 10 for her to be marrried to a man three times her age. Nujood tells of abuse at her husband's hand and of her daring escape. Nujood's courageous defiance of both Yemeni customs and her own family has inspired other young girls in the Middle East to challenge their marriages.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the "me too" movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about her own journey to saying those two simple yet infinitely powerful words-metoo-and how she brought empathy back to an entire generation in one of the largest cultural events in American history. Tarana didn't always have the courage to say "me too." As a child, she reeled...
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Spiegel & Grau trade pbk. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
xiv, 250 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes the various sociocultural factors that influenced him as well as another man of the same name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
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Description
A memoir that examines rural poverty and the lingering strains of racism in the South from the viewpoint of the author, an African American woman who lost five young men dear to her through drugs, accidents and suicide. "Men We Reaped" explores the racism and economic struggle that fostered drug addiction and the dissolution of family relationships which ultimately led to the death of these young men and how it affected her life.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
278 pages
Language
English
Description
True is a probing, richly-detailed, unique biography of Jackie Robinson, one of baseball's-and America's-most significant figures. For players, fans, managers, and executives, Jackie Robinson remains baseball's singular figure, the person who most profoundly extended, and continues to extend, the reach of the game. Beyond Ruth. Beyond Clemente. Beyond Aaron. Beyond the heroes of today. Now, a half-century since Robinson's death, letters come to his...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
Like nearly all the boys he knew, John Musgrave grew up looking forward to the day he could enlist in the Marine Corps and serve his country as his father had done. In this memoir, Musgrave renders his wartime service with intimacy and immediacy: from the rude awakening of boot camp to daily life in the Vietnam jungle to the chest wound that nearly killed him. Musgrave also describes the difficulty of returning home to a society rife with antiwar...
Author
Language
English
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Description
This memoir, moving in its frankness, is a relentless tale of a resilient spirit who took on the worst of contemporary urban life and survived it with a furious wit and unyielding determination. Cupcake Brown discusses her experiences with the death of a parent, childhood abuse, rape, drug addiction, miscarriage, alcoholism and homelessness along with other difficult issues.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
xv, 382 pages ; illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Mott Street follows Chinese American writer Ava Chin, who grew up estranged from her father, as she seeks the truth about her family history-and uncovers a legacy of exclusion and resilience that speaks to the American experience past and present. Chin's ancestors became lovers, classmates, sworn enemies, and, eventually, through her birth, kin-all while converging at a single Chinatown address.