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Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The spellbinding story of Chris McCandless, who gave away his savings, hitchhiked to Alaska, walked into the wilderness alone, and starved to death in 1992, as told by his beloved and trusted sister.
"The ... story of Chris McCandless, who gave away his savings, hitchhiked to Alaska, walked into the wilderness alone, and starved to death in 1992, fascinated not just ... Jon Krakauer, but also the rest of the nation. Krakauer's book, Into the Wild,...
4) Vanderbilt
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
CNN anchor and New York Times bestselling author Anderson Cooper chronicles the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty: his mother's family, the Vanderbilts.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"War Ends, Love Endures The lives and stories of two WWII veterans and their baby boomer children show that love and marriage are able not only to endure but can thrive in shared happiness. Ron and Crystal's anecdotes of humorous and moving childhood incidents, coming of age stories, falling in love moments, wartime separation, and cultural differences are as entertaining as they are practical. Among the more somber yet crucial memories are witness...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
A writer for Salon and The Advocate reflects on how his newly divorced mother moved her family to her native Bermuda, leaving him and his young brothers home to fend for themselves while she chased nightlife and suitors.
7) Brown, white, black: an American family at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and religion
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Essays describe how the author's experiences as an Indian American, the wife of a white Christian woman, and the mother of an adopted black son have been challenged by rigid cultural family norms.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Eighteen months before her beloved father died, Kathryn Schulz met Casey, the woman who would become her wife. Lost & Found weaves together their love story with the story of losing Kathryn's father in a brilliant exploration of the way families are lost and found and the way life dispenses wretchedness and suffering, beauty and grandeur all at once. Schulz writes with painful clarity about the vicissitudes of grieving her father, but she also writes...
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
It was the 1950s, a time of calm, a time when all things were new and everything seemed possible. A few years before, a noble war had been won, and now life had returned to normal. For one little boy, however, life had become anything but "normal." To all appearances, he and his family lived an almost idyllic life. The father was a respected professor, the mother a witty and elegant lady, someone everyone loved. They were parents to three bright,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"After being evicted from their home, thirteen-year-old Katie Wingate and her family move into an Extended Stay America Motel where she tries to lead a normal life, all the while wondering if things would be easier living with her father"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The debut memoir by Marra B. Gad, a mixed-race Jewish woman who chooses to help her racist, abusive, estranged Great-Aunt Nette after she develops Alzheimers, a disease that slowly erases Nette's prejudices, allowing Marra to develop at last a relationship with the woman who shunned her in youth.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Seen by the media in 2015 as a white woman who had knowingly been passing as black, the author shares her nuanced and complex story, from being a child of white evangelical parents to an NAACP chapter president and respected educator and activist who identified as black, forcing readers to reconsider race and identity"--NoveList.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"John and Abigail Adams sired the first dynasty to shape American politics, but they would not witness their family's calamitous fall from grace. When President John Quincy Adams died in 1848, so began the slow death of the family's political legacy -- a decline that mirrored the fall of the Republican Party. The Adamses would abandon their forefather's enlightened republicanism, yielding to the temptation of oligarchy and personal spoils. In Heirs...
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