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James Herriot's animal stories
Par James Herriot. 1997
Ten of James Herriot's stories about the creatures in the world of his veterinary practice. The characters include Herbert the…
orphan lamb, Dorothy the goat, and the incomparable Tricki Woo, Esq. 1997.Ithaka: a daughter's memoir of being found
Par Sarah Saffian. 1998
New York journalist shares her feelings about being contacted by her birthmother at the age of twenty-four. The letters between…
Saffian and her birthparents, who had eventually married each other and had three more children, illustrate her initial reluctance to embrace this new family and her journey to being reunited with them. 1998.Ireland's eye: travels
Par Mark Anthony Jarman. 2002
On August 28, 1922, thousands of Dubliners came to pay respects to Michael Collins, the martyred Irish revolutionary, while elsewhere…
in the same city on the same afternoon, Michael Lyons, a cooper who worked for Guinness and author Jarman's grandfather, inexplicably drowned in the Grand Canal. These events became the seed for this combination of memoir, history, and travelogue, which relates the events of author Jarman's visits to Ireland, his family's past, and Ireland's bloody political history. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2002.In my father's house: elegy for an obsessive love
Par Miranda Seymour. 2008
'Dear Thrumpton, how I miss you tonight,' wrote George Seymour in 1944, when he was aged twenty-one. But the object…
of his affection was not a young woman, but a house -- ownership of which was then a distant dream. But he did eventually acquire Thrumpton, a beautiful country house in Nottinghamshire, and it was in this idyllic home that Miranda Seymour grew up. But her upbringing was far from idyllic, as life revolved around her father's capriciousness. The House took priority, and everything else was secondary, even his wife. 2008.In my father's house: the years before "The Hiding Place"
Par Corrie Ten Boom, Carole C Carlson. 1976
I had a father: a post-modern autobiography
Par Clark Blaise. 1993
In 73 years, the author's father collected 4 wives, a police record and a string of bad debts. Blaise weaves…
together family history and memories of childhood as he portrays a man who was a drinker, boxer, singer and sociopath.Another place at the table
Par Kathy Harrison. 2003
For 13 years, Harrison, along with her husband, three biological sons, and three adopted daughters, has fostered abandoned infants, runaway…
teens, disabled preschoolers, and children discharged from psychiatric hospitals. Harrison describes the process social workers use to place children, the horrifying circumstances of the children involved, the training required of foster parents, and a social service system that is overburdened and occasionally negligent itself. Some descriptions of sex. 2003.Detachment: an adoption memoir
Par Maurice Mierau. 2014
Mierau probes not only the process of adoption but what comes after - the challenges of becoming a family, the…
strain on his marriage. While one of his sons acts out and gets in trouble at school, Maurice feels removed, detached, thinking instead about his own emotionally distant father. Also born in Ukraine, Maurice’s father has a traumatic and mysterious past of his own. If Maurice can come to understand his father's life, perhaps he can start to make sense of his new sons. Winner of the 2015 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-fiction. 2014.Horses in her hair: a granddaughter's story
Par Rachel Manley. 2008
Briton Edna Manley came to Jamaica in 1922 with her husband, son, a set of sculpting tools and an insatiable…
curiosity about the island of her mother's birth. As the wife of a National Hero and mother to the island's fifth prime minister, Edna's life was inextricably linked with Jamaican politics. But she was destined to leave her own mark on her adopted country in the island's art, sculpture, painting, poetry and prose. Some strong language. Companion to "Drumblair" (DC15826) and "Slipstream" (DC21374). 2008.Extended families: a memoir of India
Par Ven Begamudré. 2017
The work begins with the story of the author's grandfather and from there tells the story of much of his…
extended family on both sides of his family, though the focus is primarily on his father's side. The story continually comes back to the author's relationship with his parents: their fights and separation (first in India and then in Canada and the United States), his father's anger and constant need to move to new places, and his mother's depression, which culminates in her eventual suicide in India. Interspersed in this personal history are stories of Hindu gods - many of whom the extended family (and Ven's immediate family) are named after, and fictional accounts of family stories that have been passed down from generation to generation. 2017.Born Trump: inside America's first family
Par Emily Jane Fox. 2018
As a writer at Vanity Fair covering the Trump family, Emily Jane Fox has spent the last year doing a…
deep dive into the lives of the President's children. This book explores what it was like to grow up Trump and what this reveals about living in Trump's America, in turn painting an intimate portrait of the forty-fifth president of the United States from the perspective of his most inner circle. 2018.Driving Miss Norma: one family's journey saying "yes" to living
Par Ramie Liddle, Tim Bauerschmidt. 2017
When Miss Norma was diagnosed with uterine cancer at the age of ninety, shortly after the death of her husband…
of nearly seven decades, she was advised to undergo surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. But instead of confining herself to a hospital bed for what could be her last stay, Norma rose to her full height of five feet and told her doctor, "I'm ninety years old. I'm hitting the road." Norma took off on an unforgettable cross-country journey with three professional nomads--her retired son Tim, his wife Ramie, and their Standard Poodle Ringo--in a thirty-six-foot RV. Describes Norma as she tries regional foods for the first time, zip-lines through a former stranger's yard, and even reaches for the clouds in a hot air balloon. With each passing mile (and one educational visit to a cannabis dispensary), Miss Norma's health improves and conversations that had once been taboo begin to unfold. 2017.Between them: remembering my parents
Par Richard Ford. 2017
From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Richard Ford, a memoir in two parts on the lives of…
his parents--a meditation on memory, connection, and love, asking how we can better understand ourselves by knowing the ones who made us. When do we start considering our parents as real, whole people, with lives that stretch beyond our own? Describes the lives of the author's parents in the Depression-era South, exploring their motivations and dreams, his traveling salesman father's early death, and the family's transient lives in a series of hotels. 2017.Born on the bayou: a memoir (Southern voices)
Par Blaine Lourd. 2016
Gonville: a memoir
Par Peter Birkenhead. 2010
Four rooms, upstairs: a psychotherapist's journey into and beyond her mother's mental illness
Par Linda Appleman Shapiro. 2008
Psychotherapist Linda Appleman Shapiro tells her story as an immigrant daughter who grew up on the top floor of a…
small home in 1940s Brooklyn and struggled to understand her mentally ill mother. 2008.House rules: a memoir
Par Rachel Sontag. 2008
Traces the author's journey of recovery after a childhood marked by her mentally ill father, a respected suburban doctor with…
an obsessive need for control that caused him to torture his wife and children about the most minute details of their lives. 2008.Heart in the right place
Par Carolyn Jourdan. 2008
Carolyn Jourdan spent many years as a congressional lawyer in Washington, D.C. Then she was called home to fill in…
for her mother as receptionist at her father's rural Tennessee doctor's office - assured it would only be for a few days. 2008.Forgiveness: a gift from my grandparents
Par Mark Sakamoto. 2014
The heart-rending true story of two families on either side of the Second World War, and a moving tribute to…
the nature of forgiveness. Bestseller. Winner of Canada Reads 2018. 2014.Growing up Bin Laden: Osama's wife and son take us inside their secret world
Par Najwa Bin Laden, Omar Bin Laden, Jean P Sasson. 2009
A true story that few ever believed would come to light, "Growing Up bin Laden" uncovers startling revelations and hidden…
secrets carefully guarded by the most wanted terrorist of our lifetime, Osama bin Laden. 2009.