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African American women authors 21st century Biography American wit and humor Authors, American Authors, American 20th century Biography Authors, American 21st century Biography Comedians United States Biography Irby, Samantha United States Women authors, American 21st century Biography Écrivains américains 21e siècle BiographiesCrompton, Laurie Boyle
Summary: "From relationships and makeup to divorce and disordered eating, Laurie Boyle Crompton recounts the humor and heartbreak of her coming of age in rural Pennsylvania and New York City during the 1970s and '80s"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zest Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 CROIrby, Samantha
Summary: Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. She has left her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic, has published successful books and has been friendzoned by Hollywood, left Chicago, and moved into a house with a garden that requires repairs and know- how with her wife in a Blue town in the middle of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2020
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 IRBCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 IRBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Wit IrbyThomas, Abigail
Summary: In her new memoir, Abigail Thomas ruminates on aging during the confines of COVID-19 with her trademark mix of humor and wisdom, including valuable, contemplative writing tips along the way. As she approaches eighty, what she herself calls old age, Abigail Thomas accepts her new life, quieter than before, no driving, no dancing, mostly sitting in her chair in a sunny corner with three dogs for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "From the author of the best-selling Sweetbitter comes an intimate, searingly honest memoir of growing up the child of addicts, of how that turbulent, often harrowing experience has affected her at every stage of her life, and of how she has struggled totranscend this unwanted legacy. When Sweetbitter was published to great success, the author knew she should be happy, but she felt incapable of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DANLER, STEPHANIE DANAttenberg, Jami
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling memoir about unlocking and embracing her creativity-and how it saved her life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ATTENBERG, JAMI ATTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ATTENBERG ATTRowe, Peggy
Summary: "Peggy Rowe is at it again--this time giving a hilarious inside look at her writing career."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forefront Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROWCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROWE, PEGGY ROWJarrar, Randa
Summary: A gay, Muslim, overweight, Arab-American woman describes her road trip from California to Connecticut to reclaim her autonomy and explore everything she has survived in life, schooling a rest-stop racist and destroying Confederate flags in the desert along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JARRAR, RANDA JARMayes, Frances.
Summary: "A lyrical and evocative memoir from Frances Mayes, the Bard of Tuscany, about coming of age in the Deep South and the region's powerful influence on her life. The author of three beloved books about her life in Italy, including Under the Tuscan Sun and Every Day in Tuscany, Frances Mayes revisits the turning points that defined her early years in Fitzgerald, Georgia. With her signature style...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAYES, FRANCES MAYStuart, Sarah Payne.
Summary: "A wryly comic memoir that examines the pillars of New England WASP culture-class, history, family, money, envy, perfection, and, of course, real estate-through the lens of mothers and daughters. At eighteen, Sarah Payne Stuart fled her mother and all the other disapproving mothers of her too perfect hometown of Concord, Massachusetts, only to return years later when she had children of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STUART, SARAH PAYNE STUEdim, Glory
Summary: "An inspiring memoir of family, community, and resilience, and an ode to the power of books to help us understand ourselves, from the renowned founder of Well-Read Black Girl. 'She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.'--Toni Morrison. For Glory Edim, that 'friend of my mind' is books. Edim, who grew up in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EDIM, GLORY EDISánchez, Erika L.
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, an utterly original memoir-in-essays that is as deeply moving as it is hilariously funny"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SANCHEZ, ERIKA L. SANIrby, Samantha
Summary: "Beloved writer Samantha Irby has returned to the printed page for her much-anticipated, sidesplitting fourth book following her 2020 breakout, Wow, no thank you, a Vintage Books Original. The success of Irby's career has taken her to new heights. She fields calls with job offers from Hollywood and walks the red carpet with the iconic ladies of Sex and the City. Finally, she has made it. But,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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5 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 IRBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 IRBIrby, Samantha
Summary: "Samantha Irby explodes onto the printed page with her debut collection of brand-new essays about trying to laugh her way through failed relationships, being black, taco feasts, bouts with Crohn's disease, and more. Every essay is crafted with the same scathing wit and poignant candor thousands of loyal readers have come to expect from visiting her notoriously hilarious blog,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Curbside Splendor Publishing 2013
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 IRBCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 814 IRBPatterson, James
Summary: James Patterson tells his life story, a rags-to-riches account, from almost dying at birth to stints as an ad copywriter and psychiatric aid and more, before becoming the most successful storyteller in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD B PATTERSONCrews, Nina
Summary: "A lyrical picture book biography that tells the story of one of America's most celebrated children's book authors, Virginia Hamilton, the first African American to win the Newbery Medal"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HAMButler, Blake
Summary: "Blake Butler and Molly Brodak instantly connected, fell in love, married and built a life together. Both writers with deep roots in contemporary American literature, their union was an iconic joining of forces between two major and beloved talents. Nearly three years into their marriage, grappling with mental illness and a lifetime of trauma, Molly took her own life. In the days and weeks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archway Editions 2023
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Summary: "A memoir in essays from the writer and filmmaker, Priyanka Mattoo, about growing up in India, England, and Saudi Arabia; motherhood; and going to school in the US"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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Summary: "The late Anthony Veasna So's debut story collection, Afterparties, was a landmark publication, hailed as a "bittersweet triumph for a fresh voice silenced too soon" (Fresh Air). And he was equally known for his comic, soulful essays, published in n+1, the New Yorker, and The Millions. Songs on Endless Repeat gathers those essays together, along with previously unpublished fiction. Written with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 SORodriguez, Deborah.
Summary: "Deborah Rodriquez's memoir of her journey of self-discovery and renewal after she was forced to flee Afghanistan in 2007"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 RODRIGUEZ, DEBORAH RODSothen, John von
Summary: "Americans love to love Paris. We buy books about how the French parent, why French women don't get fat, and how to be Parisian wherever you are. While our work hours increase every year, we think longingly of the six weeks of vacation the French enjoy, imagining them at the seaside in stripes with plates of fruits de mer. John von Sothen fell in love with Paris through the stories his mother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SOTHEN, JOHN VON SOTKimmel, Haven
Summary: A continuation of the memoir "A Girl Named Zippy" follows the story of her mother, Delonda, who reinvents her life by returning to college and losing fifty pounds, while Zippy continues to work out the dynamic of their nuclear family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.6 KIMRodriguez, Deborah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RODRIGUEZ, DEBORAH RODV
Summary: "The newest book from V (formerly Eve Ensler), Reckoning invites you to travel the journey of a writer's and activist's life and process over forty years, representing both the core of ideas that have become global movements and the methods through which V survived abuse and self-hatred. Seamlessly moving from the internal to the external, the personal to the political, Reckoning is a moving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 VSlate, Jenny
Summary: "What happened was this: Jenny Slate was a human mammal who sniffed the air every morning hoping to find another person to love who would love her, and in that period there was a deep dark loneliness that she had to face and befriend, and then we are pleased to report that she did fall in love, and in that period she was like chimes, or a flock of clean breaths, and her spine lying flat was the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company