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Best American travel writing: 2013 (Best American series)
Par Elizabeth Gilbert, Jason Wilson. 2013
Author of Eat, Pray, Love (DB 61789) edits nineteen previously published travel essays infused with a sense of marvel and…
wonder. In "The Way I've Come" author Judy Copeland describes backpacking along the border of Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. 2013The boy detective: a New York childhood
Par Roger Rosenblatt. 2013
While teaching a class on memoir writing in 2011, Rosenblatt, the author of Making Toast (DB 72799) and Kayak Morning…
(DB 76815), strolled through his childhood neighborhood of Gramercy Park. He reminisces about his obsession of becoming a detective in 1950s New York City and ponders life and memory. 2013Mom & me & mom
Par Maya Angelou. 2013
Author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (DB 57200) chronicles her relationship with her mother. Discusses being raised…
by her grandmother from ages three to thirteen and recounts her growing adoration of her mother during Angelou's teen years. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2013Literary rogues: a scandalous history of wayward authors
Par Andrew Shaffer. 2013
Profiles of twenty-five writers featuring their more salacious exploits. Includes Ernest Hemingway's and Dorothy Parker's alcohol abuse, William S. Burroughs's…
and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's drug addictions, and Sylvia Plath's and Anne Sexton's mental illnesses. Strong language, some violence, and some descriptions of sex. 2013My heart is boundless: writings of Abigail May Alcott, Louisa's mother
Par Abba May Alcott. 2012
LaPlante compiles the letters and diaries of Abigail May Alcott (1800-1877), the mother of Louisa, the inspiration for Marmee in…
Little Women (BR 11778), and LaPlante's great aunt. Abigail's writings, organized by topic and chronology, detail her thoughts on everything from marriage and motherhood to slavery and suffrage. 2012Dogtripping: 25 rescues, 11 volunteers, and 3 RVs on our canine cross-country adventure
Par David Rosenfelt. 2013
Mystery writer Rosenfelt explains the reasons why he and his wife began saving dogs and describes the ordeal of moving…
their twenty-five rescued dogs from California to Maine in 2011--with the much-needed help of volunteering friends and readers. Some strong language. 2013Country girl: a memoir
Par Edna O'Brien. 2013
Author of Byron in Love (BR 18514) and The Light of Evening (BR 17137) reminisces about growing up in Ireland.…
Describes her childhood in County Clare, apprenticeship at a pharmacist's shop in Dublin, and literary high life in London and New York in the 1960s. Bestseller. 2012Paris: a love story : a memoir
Par Kati Marton. 2012
Former news correspondent recounts relocating to her favorite city, Paris, after the 2010 death of her diplomat husband Richard Holbrooke.…
Describes arriving in the French capital in 1957 as a Hungarian refugee, meeting second husband Peter Jennings there in the 1970s, and finding happiness with Holbrooke in the 1990s. 2012The great northern express: a writer's journey home
Par Howard Frank Mosher. 2011
Author recounts the cross-country road trip and book tour he took in 2007 in his twenty-year-old Loser Cruiser to celebrate…
his sixty-fifth birthday and the end of his prostate-cancer treatments. Contemplates decisions he has made, relationships he has developed, and the ways they have affected his life. 2012Chaucer: Ackroyd's Brief Lives (Ackroyd's brief lives)
Par Peter Ackroyd. 2005
Brief account of fourteenth-century poet Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales (BR 13235). Discusses Chaucer's royal service to the…
Duke of Clarence and Edward III and his legal problems. Examines Chaucer's poem Troilus and Criseyde, which is considered the first modern work of English literature. 2004Speak, memory: an autobiography revisited (Vintage International Ser.)
Par Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov. 1989
Autobiographical sketches chronicle the author's upper-class childhood in Russia, the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution that forced his family into exile in…
Europe, and his 1940 move to the United States. First published in 1951 under the title Conclusive Evidence and revised in 1966. 1947An extravagant hunger: the passionate years of M.F.K. Fisher
Par Anne Zimmerman. 2011
Portrays Fisher (1908-1992) at a time when her life revolved around fine dining and wine and romance, and her magazine…
articles and books established her as queen of the new genre of food writing. Covers her years in Europe, her marriages, and her culinary opinions. 2011Some assembly required: a journal of my son's first son
Par Anne Lamott. 2012
In this sequel to Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year (BR 10274), the author recounts unexpectedly becoming…
a grandmother after her unwed, college student son and his girlfriend have a baby. Lamott describes the problems and happiness that arose from the situation. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2012Award-winning journalist examines the twenty-first-century social landscape of America, reflects on its past, and ponders its future. Provides profiles of…
Americans he calls "unconventional thinkers and doers," including the wife of a seriously wounded soldier, an inner-city school principal, a major league baseball pitcher, and others. Bestseller. 2011The longest way home: one man's quest for the courage to settle down
Par Andrew McCarthy. 2012
Actor and travel writer McCarthy discusses the impact his travels have had on his psyche. Describes climing Mt. Kilimanjaro; visiting…
Baltimore, Maryland; and boating on the Amazon. Details the ways the trips helped him grow up, learn about himself, and better relate to others. 2012The hard way around: the passages of Joshua Slocum
Par Geoffrey Wolff. 2010
Biography of sailor and adventurer Joshua Slocum (1844-1908), the first man to circumnavigate the globe solo. Discusses his years at…
sea, beginning at age sixteen; his marriage to a woman who shared his love of the seafaring life; and his famous 1895 voyage and subsequent book. 2010Mortality
Par Christopher Hitchens. 2012
Hitchens (1949-2011), author of Why Orwell Matters (DB 74336), chronicles his battle with esophageal cancer, which began with his diagnosis…
in June 2010. Describes accepting the inevitability of death and the questions of faith he dealt with as an avowed atheist. Includes afterword by Hitchens's widow Carol Blue. Bestseller. 2012Somewhere towards the end: A Memoir
Par Diana Athill. 2009
Diana Athill, noted eighty-nine-year-old British book editor and author of Stet (BR 13794), discusses growing old or "falling away." Describes…
past love affairs, including one that evolved into a platonic friendship as roommates. Childless and unmarried, Athill admits she has few regrets and no lessons to pass on. 2008Let's take the long way home: a memoir of friendship
Par Gail Caldwell. 2010
The author, a Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic for the Boston Globe, pens a memoir about her friendship with columnist Caroline…
Knapp. Describes their mutual enjoyment of sports, dogs, and life after alcohol. Also discusses Knapp's diagnosis of lung cancer at age forty-two and the last weeks they shared. 2010How did you get this number: essays
Par Sloane Crosley. 2010
In this companion to I Was Told There'd Be Cake (BR 17792), Crosley provides nine more autobiographical comedic essays. In…
"Off the Back of a Truck" she describes entering an arrangement with a stockman at a posh furniture store to furnish her studio apartment illegally. Some strong language. 2010