Model Number: BBHC0060775343DLDA
Author: Hornbacher, Marya
Why would a talented young girl go through the looking glass and step into a netherworld where up is down and food is greed, where death is honor and flesh is weak? Why enter into a love affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Marya Hornbacher sustains both anorexia and bulimia through five lengthy ...more »
Model Number: BBSS0743217225DLDA
Author: Dudman, Martha Tod
A single parent, Martha Tod Dudman wants the perfect life for her children. But when Augusta turns fifteen, she is drawn into a whirling vortex of troubled adolescence, hurting herself and her mother, who would do anything to save her. This daring book will be admired for its lyricism, applauded for ...more »
Model Number: BBR158836139XDLDA
Author: RICH, FRANK
There is a superstition that if an emptied theater is ever left completely dark, a ghost will take up residence. To prevent this, a single ghost light is left burning at center stage after the audience and all of the actors and musicians have gone home. Frank Rich's eloquent and moving boyhood memoir ...more »
Model Number: BBR0375507000DLDA
Author: CARHART, THAD
Thad Carhart never realized there was a gap in his life until he happened upon Desforges Pianos, a demure little shopfront in his Pairs neighborhood that seemed to want to hide rather than advertise its wares. Like Alice in Wonderland, he found his attempts to gain entry rebuffed at every turn. An accidental ...more »
Model Number: BBSS0743245709DLDA
Author: Eire, Carlos
In 1962, at the age of eleven, Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Cuba, his parents left behind. His life until then is the subject of Waiting for Snow in Havana, a wry, heartbreaking, intoxicatingly beautiful memoir of growing up in a privileged Havana household -- and of being ...more »
Model Number: BBSS0743249534DLDA
Author: Liftin, Hilary
As a seven-year-old child, Hilary Liftin poured herself a glass (or two) of powdered sugar. Those forbidden cups soon escalated to pound bags of candy corn and multiple packets of dry cocoa mix, launching the epic love affair between Hilary and all things sweet. In Candy and Me: A Love Story, Liftin ...more »
Model Number: BBR0676806546DLDA
Author: BOTTOMS, GREG
My brother saw the face of God. You never recover from a trauma like that. So begins Angelhead , a taut, powerful memoir of the madness and crime that rips a family apart. I didn't see God, of course, but I saw my brother seeing God; I saw how petrified he was, how convinced. Set in Tidewater, Virginia ...more »
Model Number: BBR0385507194DLDA
Author: CALEY, KATE YOUNG
Fusing an intimate memoir with an outspoken critique of organized religion's failure to welcome all into its community, The House Where the Hardest Things Happened is the moving story of one woman's search for a sense of belonging. Growing up in a small town in New Hampshire, Kate Young Caley attends ...more »
Model Number: BBSS0743267214DLDA
Author: Lopez, George
In this eagerly awaited autobiography, comedian and prime-time television star George Lopez tells the heartbreaking yet humorous story of his inspirational rise from dead-end kid in the Valley to giving a command performance before the president of the United States. It is a rare story that touches us ...more »
Model Number: BBSS1416500049DLDA
Author: Rioux, Terry Lee
In the forty-year history of Star Trek, none of the television show's actors are more beloved than DeForest Kelley. His portrayal of Leonard Bones McCoy, the southern physician aboard the Starship Enterprise, brought an unaffected humanity to the groundbreaking space frontier series. Jackson DeForest ...more »
Model Number: BBR0553897314DLDA
Author: Angelou, Maya
The culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that began more than thirty years ago with the appearance of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings . A Song Flung Up to Heaven opens as Maya Angelou returns from Africa to the United States to work with ...more »