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Chavez, Julie

Summary: "For Julie, an elementary school librarian and mother of two boys, there was no time for debilitating anxiety. Yet, the aftershocks of her first panic attack left her grappling with questions about the causes of her mental health crisis and where it would lead next. What follows is a hopeful, honest account of love, loss, a husband who isn't a mindreader, disastrous family outings, and finding...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Zibby Books 2024

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAVEZ, JULIE CHA

González, Rigoberto

Summary: Standing over two graves, Rigoberto González studies the names “Ramon” and “María” under the family name “González.” “She was María Carrillo, not María González,” he thinks. His grandmother is missing. So begins González’s memoir, a journey to recover a more complete picture of his grandmother, who raised him following his mother’s death. González travels to his abuela’s birthplace, Michoacán,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Wisconsin Press 2022

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

Hargrove, Nikkya

Summary: "A rare and timely parenting memoir by a queer Black mother, Mama follows the impact of incarceration on a family, exploring the generational trauma and pulling back the curtain on the foster care system"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARGROVE, NIKKYA HAR

Emery, Sharon

Summary: "Sharon Emery struggled with the losses and limits she faced but couldn't change - no matter how hard she tried. And she did try. First with her incurable severe stutter, then with the death of her daughter, Jessica, and the too-early deaths of her own younger siblings. Meanwhile, her "broken" voice meant her long career in communications was regularly a battle. Emery wrote this memoir to help...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EMERY, SHARON EME

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B EMORY EME

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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI 921 Emery

Rojas Contreras, Ingrid

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in the Colombia of the 1980's and 1990's in a house where "what did you dream?" was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy and violence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROJAS CONTRERAS, INGRID ROJ

Song, Hyeseung

Summary: A daughter of Korean immigrants, Hyeseung Song spends her earliest years in the cane fields of Texas where her loyalties are divided between a restless father in search of Big Money, and a beautiful yet domineering mother whose resentments about her own life compromises her relationship with her daughter. With her parents at constant odds, Song learns more words in Korean for hatred than for...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024

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Kingston, Genevieve

Summary: Genevieve (Gwen) Kingston's mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer when Gwen was just three years old. Defying the odds, she lived another eight years, during which time she filled a chest with gifts and letters to Gwen and her brother, Jamie, for every major milestone and birthday through age thirty. The day Gwen got her driver's license. The day she graduated from high school. Gwen is now...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Marysue Rucci Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC 2024

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KINGSTON, GENEVIEVE KIN

Shapiro, Kitt

Summary: In this unique combination of memoir and cultural history, we come to know one of the greatest stars the world has ever seen--Eartha Kitt--as revealed by the person who knew her best: her daughter.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021

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

Ito, Susan

Summary: "A memoir about one woman's search for her birth parents, exploring complicated relationships with family, the legacy of WWII internment on generations of Japanese Americans, and the challenges adoptees often face in learning their own histories"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press 2023

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

Ernaux, Annie

Summary: "A Woman's Story is Annie Ernaux's "deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age, and dreams and reality" (Kirkus Reviews). Upon her mother's death from Alzheimer's, Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time, as she seeks to "capture the real woman, the one who existed independently from me, born on the outskirts of a small Normandy town, and who died in the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2003

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Means, 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 MEA

Yang, Kao Kalia

Summary: "In the 1960s when Kalia's mother, Chue, was born, the US was actively recruiting Hmong Laotians to assist with CIA efforts in Laos's Secret War. By the time Chue was a teenager, the US had completely vacated Laos, and the country erupted into genocidal attacks on the Hmong people, who were perceived as traitorous for their involvement. Notably, from 1964-1973, Laos became victim to the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2024

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 YANG, CHUE YAN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B YANG YAN

Presley, Lisa Marie

3 holds on 7 copies

Summary: Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Elvis's daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, tells her whole story for the first time in a memoir faithfully completed by her daughter, Riley Keough, after Lisa Marie's death.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024

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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

Raboteau, Emily

Summary: "A powerfully moving meditation on race, climate, environmental justice--and what it takes to find shelter"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RABOTEAU, EMILY RAB

Loewinsohn, Briana

Summary: "Ephemera is a poetic and dreamlike take on a graphic memoir set in a garden, a forest, and a greenhouse. The story drifts among a grown woman, her early memories as a child, and the gossamer existence of her mother. A lyrical entry in the field of graphic medicine, Ephemera is a story about a daughter trying to relate to a parent who struggles with mental illness. Gorgeously illustrated in a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books Inc. 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOEWINSOHN, BRIA LOE

Jamison, Leslie

Summary: From the New York times best-selling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveting story of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage--an exploration of motherhood, art and new love.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JAMISON, LESLIE JAM

Maxwell, Abi

Summary: "A fiery, heartbreaking, riveting memoir that follows one New Hampshire family over the course of three years, unspooling a story of gender identity, poverty, trans youth, and a child caught in the riptide of America's culture wars. Abi Maxwell grew up in rural New Hampshire, one of eight children in a poor town abutting the wealthier lakeside village of Gilford. As a young couple, Maxwell and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAXWELL, ABI MAX

Oomen, Anne-Marie

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: "Writer Pam Houston once summed it up, "Nice mother-daughter stories are a dime a dozen; pain-in-the ass mother-daughter stories are the ones that grab us." As Long as I Know You makes a compelling read for any adult grappling with a living elder who might also be a pain in the ass, particularly, any reader who wants a tender take on the lethal combination of dementia and defiance. As Long as I...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Georgia Press 2022

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1 available in Local Author, Call number: 920 OOM
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 OOM
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 920 OOM

Summary: "Celebrate singing and songwriting with Beyoncé and Blue Ivy. Save frontline soldiers with Marie Curie and Irene Joliot-Curie. And swim across the English Channel with Leena and Bhakti Sharma. 'Rebel Girls Powerful Pairs' showcases many of the wonderful ways mothers and daughters work together to make the world a better, healthier, and more vibrant place"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Rebel Girls, Inc. 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 REB

Galbraith, Megan Culhane

Summary: "A hybrid memoir-in-essays with photographs that confronts the realities of growing up as an adoptee born before Roe v. Wade, searching for birth records, examining the Domecon baby experiments, and interrogating the idea of traumatic memory itself"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Cooper, Anderson

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Summary: "A charming, intimate and fascinating collection of correspondence between broadcaster and #1 New York Times bestselling author Anderson Cooper and his mother, the celebrated Gloria Vanderbilt"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2016

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

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 COO

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B COOPER COO

Fink, Orenda

Summary: "From indie musician Orenda Fink, a memoir of a tumultuous childhood growing up with a mother who may have borderline personality disorder. Orenda Fink was raised by a darkly charismatic mother who insisted that they were both MAGIC. In The Witch's Daughter, Orenda chronicles her years spent navigating this ominous power, alongside her mother's substance abuse and hyper-controlling, often...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2024

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Alvi, Aaisha

Summary: "A powerful exploration of postpartum psychosis and motherhood — and a call to end the stigma and blame. Early motherhood is supposed to be joyous, but for Aaisha Alvi those early days were ruined by terrifying thoughts about her baby and family. Her experience was the antithesis of everything she had ever been told about motherhood, far beyond the trials of breastfeeding or putting her baby to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dundurn Press 2024

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALVI, AAISHA ALV

Hulls, Tessa

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "Tessa Hulls delves into her own family history and the intergenerational trauma caused by mental illness and political strife"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 HULLS, TESSA HUL

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