Fitzgerald, Isaac
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B FITZGERALD FITSpooner, James
Summary: "Scene: Apple Valley, California, in the late eighties, a thirsty, miserable desert. Teenage James Spooner hates that he and his mom are back in town after years away. The few Black kids here seem to be gangbanging, and the other kids fall on a spectrum of microaggressors to future neo-Nazis. Mixed-race and acutely aware of his Blackness, James doesn't know where he fits until he meets Ty, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SPOHsu, Hua
Summary: "From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken-with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity-is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HSU, HUA HSUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B HSU HSUWhite, Emma
Summary: "Violet Underground is a sentimental snapshot of a 15-year-old's journey to find independence and adventure. She faces the inescapable trials of self-confidence and sexuality as she fumbles through the beginning stages of her first relationship. Set in New London, Wisconsin in 2010. Based entirely on real events"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emma White 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 WHIDamm, Peter L.
Summary: Stories of a young boy's journey to adulthood in small town rural Upper Midwest in the 1950s and 60s. A funny, poignant, moving and beautifully written memoir about the challenges, mischief, fears and lessons of growing up as the youngest of five brothers and one sister, Catholic education, the natural world, trying to understand religious and adult mysteries, honor, family, truth and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: O'Brien & Whitaker 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAMM, PETER DAMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B DAMM DAMAijazuddin, Komail
Summary: "What do you do when you’re too gay for Pakistan, too Pakistani to be gay in America, and you’re ashamed of your body everywhere? How can you find happiness despite years of humiliation, physical danger, and a legion of Brooklyn hipsters who know you only as a queer from Whereveristan? How do you summon the courage to be yourself no matter where you are? Even as a young child in Lahore, Komail...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrmas Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AIJAZUDDIN, KOMAIL AIJCarrière, Alice
Summary: Alice Carrière tells the story of her unconventional upbringing in Greenwich Village as the daughter of a remote mother, the renowned artist Jennifer Bartlett, and a charismatic father, European actor Mathieu Carrière. From an early age, Alice is forced to navigate her mother's recovered memories of ritualized sexual abuse, which she turns into art, and her father's confusing attentions. Her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel and Grau 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARRIERE, ALICE CARFunk, Carla
Summary: "A funny and whip-smart memoir about a feisty young woman's quest for independence in an isolated Mennonite community. Carla Funk is a teenager with her hands on the church piano keys and her feet edging ever closer to the flames. Coming of age in a remote and forested valley--a place rich in Mennonites, loggers, and dutiful wives who submit to their husbands--she knows her destiny is to marry,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FUNK, CARLA FUNSmith, Tracy K.
Summary: "A memoir about the author's coming of age as she grapples with her identity as an artist, her family's racial history, and her mother's death from cancer"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMITH, TRACY K SMIMeans, Brittany
Summary: "I can't write a story about myself as the sad, quiet child of two drug addicts. That's not how it was, even when it was. To me, sleeping in the car was normal. Better, it was comfy and fun. I loved my bed made of clothes inside a trash bag that I sank into slowly like Uncle Fester from the Addams Family movie... I loved the motels and their swimming pools and trashy daytime TV channels......
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zibby Books LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MEANS, BRITTANY MEAFebos, Melissa
Summary: "When her body began to change at eleven years old, Febos understood immediately that her meaning to other people had changed with it. By her teens, she defined herself based on these perceptions and by the romantic relationships she threw herself into headlong. Over time, Febos increasingly questioned the stories she'd been told about herself and the habits and defenses she'd developed over...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FEBOS, MELISSA FEBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Essay FebosGutierrez, Jess H.
Summary: "A frank, raucous, and bawdy collection of essays about coming of age through the oddest jobs, misadventures in queer love, and endearing parenting fails This is a perfect book for a very imperfect generation. Millennials were the kids who wore slap bracelets and jeans so low rise they could see one another's colons, and they are now adults wondering, Is everyone else as messed up as I am? In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiny Reparations Books, Penguin Random House 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.2 GUTMurphy, Frank D.
Summary: ""In the pursuit of authenticity, of accurate history and undeniable courage, no words matter more than, 'I was there.' Read Luck of the Draw and the life of Frank Murphy and ponder this: how did those boys do such things?" -Tom Hanks The epic true story of an American hero who flew during WWII, soon to be featured in the upcoming Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks TV Series, Masters of the Air....
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MURPHY, FRANK D. MURTreuer, Anton
Summary: Today's Ojibwe people have maintained a dazzling array of deep, beautiful, adaptive ways of connecting to the spiritual, natural, and human beings around them. Variations in Ojibwe cultural practices are, of course, as diverse as their homelands, which stretch across the Great Lakes, Canadian shield, pine forests, and prairie potholes of four US states and three Canadian provinces. And Ojibwe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minnesota Historical Society Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.897 TREFaust, Drew Gilpin
Summary: "Drew Gilpin Faust writes about coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FAUST, DREW GILPIN FAUCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio FaustHollander, Nicole
Summary: A coming-of-age memoir and a chronicle of a Chicago community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOLLeary, Ann
Summary: "Having arrived at a certain age (her prime), Ann Leary casts a wry backward glance at a life spent trying -- and often failing -- to be nice. With wit and surprising candor, Leary recounts the bedlam of home bat invasions, an obsession with online personality tests, and the mortification of taking ballroom dance lessons with her actor husband. She describes hilarious red-carpet fiascos and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marysue Rucci Books Scr 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 LEACastle, Jiordan
Summary: "Moving and evocative, this YA memoir-in-verse follows author Jiordan Castle's coming-of-age as her family reckons with the aftershocks of her father's imprisonment"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 CASFisher, Joely
Summary: Actress Joely Fisher shares her unconventional coming-of-age and stories of the family members and costars dearest to her heart, while stripping bare her own misadventures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: "The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed, "--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House 2019
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT 921 NOADavis, Viola
Summary: In this memoir, award-winning actress Viola Davis shares her story, in her own words, from her coming-of-age in Rhode Island to the present day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 DAVIS VIOLA DAVFritz, Ian
Summary: "A powerful, timely memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming-of-age in a war that is lost."--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRITZ, IAN FRIMargulies, Megan
Summary: A finely wrought coming-of-age memoir about the author's relationship with her beloved grandfather Joe Simon, cartoonist and co-creator of Captain America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MARMorley, Anders
Summary: "A coming-of-middle-age story in which the author skis across Canada in winter"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mountaineers Books 2020