Frangello, Gina

Summary: "Gina Frangello is a long-married fortysomething devoted mom when her life is turned upside down by the sudden death of her closest friend. Worn down from years of caregiving both her elderly parents and three kids, Gina starts to interrogate her own mortality and what she once longed for as a younger woman : a kind of sexual, romantic and artistic intensity radically at odds with her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRANGELLO, GINA FRA

Kirby, Robert

Summary: "A graphic memoir exploring the author's personal and political feelings about his decision to marry his longtime partner when same-sex marriage became legal"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Mundi 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KIRBY, ROBERT KIR

Chabon, Michael.

Summary: The author questions what it means to be a man today in a series of interlinked autobiographical reflections, regrets, and reexaminations, each sparked by an encounter, in the present, that holds some legacy of the past.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHABON, MICHAEL CHA

Myer, Caitlin

Summary: "A literary memoir of one woman's journey from wife to warrior, in the vein of breakout hits like Cheryl Strayed's Wild and Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle. At thirty-six years old, Caitlin Myer is ready to start a family with her husband. She has leftbehind the restrictive confines of her Mormon upbringing and early sexual trauma and believes she is now living her happily ever after . . ....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pubilshing 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MYER, CAITLIN MYE

Gorrindo, Simone

Summary: When her new husband joins an elite Army unit, Simone Gorrindo is uprooted from New York City and dropped into Columbus, Georgia--a town so foreign she might as well have landed on the moon. With her husband frequently deployed, Simone is left to find her place in this new world, alone--until she meets the wives. Gorrindo gives us an intimate look into the inner lives of a remarkable group of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2024

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GORRINDO, SIMONE GOR

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Wall, Elissa.

Summary: Elissa Wall details her life growing up in the polygamous Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints religious sect, being forced into an unwanted marriage at the age of 14, and her courage to testify against FLDS leader Warren Jeffs.--From publisher description.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WALL, ELISSA WAL

Musser, Rebecca

Summary: A gripping account of Rebecca Musser's struggle to escape the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints led by Rulon Jeffs and his son, Warren, and her subsequent decision to take the witness stand against the new prophet of the FLDS in order to protect her little sisters and other young girls from being forced to marry at shockingly young ages.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MUSSER MUS

Clark, Alexis

Summary: "The love story of Elinor Powell, an African American army nurse, and Frederick Albert, a German prisoner of war. The two met when black army nurses were put in regular contact with German POWs who were detained in the United States during World War II, an unlikely and little-discussed circumstance during one of the most documented periods in history"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio Clark

Jeffs, Rachel

Summary: The daughter of the self-proclaimed prophet of the FLDS Church describes the abusive patriarchal culture in which she was raised by sister wives and dominating men and discusses how her father remains a powerful influence on his followers.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

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Singular, Stephen.

Summary: As the self-proclaimed prophet of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints, a sect of Mormonism based in southern Utah, Warren Jeffs held sway over thousands of followers for nearly a decade. In addition to coercing young girls into polygamous marriages with older men, Jeffs reputedly took scores of wives himself. The media were shunned, creating a hidden community where polygamy was prized above...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289.33 SIN

Melton, Glennon Doyle

Summary: Traces the author's journey of self-discovery after the dissolution of her marriage, revealing how she found healing by rejecting gender standards and refusing to settle for a "good-enough" life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MEL

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MELTON MEL

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation Melton

Trillin, Calvin.

Summary: In a tribute to his late wife, Alice, and their relationship, the author celebrates the life of a remarkable woman who played a vital role in his life.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006

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Jeffs, Rachel

Summary: "In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the FLDS Church, takes you deep inside the secretive polygamist Mormon fundamentalist cult run by her family and how she escaped it. Born into the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Rachel Jeffs was raised in a strict patriarchal culture...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harperluxe 2017

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Fairley, Kim

Summary: "Kim Fairley was twenty-four when she fell in love with and married a man who was fifty-seven. Something about Vern -- his quirkiness, his humor, his devilish smile -- made her feel an immediate connection with him. She quickly became pregnant, but instead of the idyllic interlude she'd imagined as she settled into married life and planned for their family, their love was soon tested by the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FAIRLEY, KIM FAI

Weissman, Michaele

Summary: "When the author's Latvia-born husband, John, opens a company marketing rye bread, the author embarks on a European journey in search of John's origins, excavating poignant stories of war, privation, and resilience"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WEISSMAN, MICHAELE WEI

Berkin, Carol.

Summary: In the life stories of three "accidental heroes"--women whose marriages provided them with position and perspective they would not otherwise have had--one of the nation's premier historians offers a unique understanding of the tumultuous social and political landscape of their time.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7082 BER

Mullally, Megan

Summary: The popular comedic couple trace the story of their relationship, sharing anecdotes, family photos, and secrets that reveal how they overcame considerable social differences through their shared values and mutual love of music and laughter.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2018

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Somers, Suzanne

Summary: The popular actress and best-selling author of Sexy Forever draws on the examples of her half-century marriage to Alan Hamel to counsel readers on how to mold and shape a healthy, lasting relationship without sacrificing individual strengths.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SOM

Persico, Joseph E.

Summary: In Franklin and Lucy, acclaimed author and historian Joseph E. Persico explores FDR's romance with Lucy Rutherfurd (which was far deeper and lasted much longer than was previously acknowledged). Persico also shows how FDR's infidelity as a husband contributed to Eleanor's eventual transformation from a repressed Victorian to perhaps the greatest American woman of her century; how the shaping...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 PER

Schefter, Adam

Summary: "On September 11, 2001, Joe Maio went to work in the north tower of the World Trade Center. He never returned, leaving behind a wife, Sharri, and 15-month old son, Devon. Five years later, Sharri remarried, and Devon welcomed a new dad into his life. For thousands, the whole country really, 9/11 is a day of grief. For Adam and Sharri Maio Schefter and their family it's not just a day of grief,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHEFTER, ADAM SCH

L'Engle, Madeleine.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1989

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 LEN

Zijl, Annejet van der

Summary: Born to a pioneering family in Upstate New York in the late 1800s, Allene Tew was beautiful, impetuous, and frustrated by the confines of her small hometown. At eighteen, she met Tod Hostetter at a local dance, having no idea that the mercurial charmer she would impulsively wed was heir to one of the wealthiest families in America. But when he died twelve years later, Allene packed her bags for...

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Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TEW, ALLENE ZIJ

Levy, Ariel

Summary: "In 2012, at age 38, when she left on a reporting trip to Mongolia, Ariel Levy thought she had figured it out: she was married, pregnant, successful on her own terms, financially secure. A month later, none of that was true. 'People have been telling me since I was a little girl that I was too fervent, too forceful, too much. I thought I had harnessed the power of my own strength and greed and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEVY, ARIEL LEV