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Children of alcoholics United States Biography Children of alcoholics West Virginia Welch Biography Dysfunctional families Drama Dysfunctional families United States Case studies Dysfunctional families United States Drama Dysfunctional families West Virginia Welch Case studies Homeless persons Family relationships New York (State) New York Poor West Virginia Welch Biography United States Walls, JeannetteWalls, Jeannette.
Summary: Journalist Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary and their four children lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary painted...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 362.82 WALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD B WALLSSummary: In 1973, TV viewers watched dramatic life events unfold in the home of the William C. Loud family of Santa Barbara, California, in The WNET Group's groundbreaking documentary series An American Family. Chronicling the lives of its seven members, the television series made parents Pat and Bill Loud and their five children instant celebrities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AMEMeans, 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......
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Zibby Books LLC 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MEANS, BRITTANY MEAKrosoczka, Jarrett
Summary: The powerful, unforgettable graphic memoir from Jarrett Krosoczka, about growing up with a drug-addicted mother, a missing father, and two unforgettably opinionated grandparents. A National Book Award Finalist! In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 KORWalls, Jeannette.
Summary: In the tradition of Mary Karr's "The Liars' Club" and Rick Bragg's "All Over But the Shouting," Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric and severely misguided family. The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2006
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WALCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WALLS, JEANETTE WALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B WALLS WALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio WallsSummary: When Margot and her son, Claude, come to attend the wedding of her sister, Pauline, it seems as if a family rift is being mended. Despite their best efforts, Margot and Pauline revert to their most dysfunctional selves. It does not help that Pauline's fianc ǐs woefully depressed. Margot's lover is as narcissistic as she is. Margot's estranged husband can't seem to recognize that Margot cringes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MARSummary: To an outsider, the Taylors are the very picture of the successful American family. But the day their matriarch is due to graduate from college, decades after leaving to raise her children, a devastating accident will bring the family's history and relationships to light.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FIRSt. John, Linda
Summary: A memoir by a celebrated "outsider" artist details how her dirt-poor childhood, her strange family, and her father's illness shaped her into the person she is today.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ST. JOHN, LINDA STJNelson, Julie.
Summary: Introduces young readers to the ways that families might change, including those times when a sibling is gained, when parents leave, or when a child joins an adoptive or foster family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Spirit Pub. 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 362.73 NELPlymale, Stephanie Thornton
Summary: The founder of the Heritage Home Foundation nonprofit documents her secret abuse-marked childhood in and out of foster care and what she discovered while investigating the story of her mother's own harrowing past.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PLYMALE, STEPHANIE THORNTON PLYSummary: After the loss of their unborn baby, Kate and John Coleman decide to adopt a child as a way to bring some joy and normalcy into their lives. The couple is drawn to Esther, a 9-year-old orphan and they welcome her into their home. As soon as Esther moves in, a series of events begins to unfold, leading Kate to believe that there's something wrong with Esther--this seemingly angelic little girl...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ORPSummary: For his first studio picture, John Waters took advantage of his biggest budget yet to allow his muse Divine to sink his teeth into a role unlike any he had played before: Baltimore housewife Francine Fishpaw. Blessed with a keen sense of smell and cursed with a philandering pornographer husband, a parasitic mother, and a pair of delinquent children, the long-suffering Francine turns to the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY POLSummary: There's nothing tiny about this huge and hilarious collection of episodes (fourteen are even uncensored), in which Brian and Stewie shrink down to microscopic size, Peter becomes the new White House press secretary (no comment), Meg devours internet fame, and Lois uncovers shocking secrets while providing DVD commentary.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019