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Author
Publisher
[Self-published]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Have you ever lost someone dear? Have you ever felt alone or thought what do I do now? In What Ronnie Sue Knew, Stacey Tirro takes the opportunity to share a list of lessons she learned from Ronnie Sue over the course of her lifetime, inspiring an impromptu interview that unlocked a wealth of memories and recollections. Snapshots of a lifetime flashed across her laptop screen, and a tapestry of personal connections emerged. When the magic of her...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In this award-winning memoir, two sisters reckon with the convalescence and death of their outlandishly tyrannical mother and the care of their psychologically terrorized father, all relayed with dark humor and brutal honesty. When Vicki and her sister learn their mother has been hospitalized for a broken hip, they return to their parents' home in Alberta to put things back in order. Though their parents disowned them years before, the sisters now...
Author
Publisher
Graymalkin Media
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The Black Dahlia Murder is near-legend in the annals of true crime. But behind the shocking case of a young actress's gruesome slaying lies the story of another woman. Was Fauna Hodel the child of incest, and the catalyst for a sensational trial that left her well-to-do family scarred by scandal, even as the accused sexual predator walked free? Taken as an infant from her teenage mother, Fauna was placed in the care of a working-class black woman,...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"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 the clouds. As a young girl, Rojas Contreras eavesdropped...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A compelling memoir of a gay Catholic woman struggling to find balance between being a daughter and a mother raising her son with a loving partner in the face of discrimination. From the time she was born, Michelle Theall knew she was different. Comingof age in the Texas Bible Belt, a place where it was unacceptable to be gay, Theall found herself at odds with her strict Roman Catholic parents, bullied by her classmates, abandoned by her evangelical...
Author
Publisher
[Self-published]
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Before email or Facetime, when snail mail was the only way to communicate across oceans, the author's mother and her French pen pal created a family legacy. Their writings to one another, starting when they were teenagers and ending in their 80’s, preserve a precious time in the past, while inspiring generations of the future. This is the inspiring opening of the book that author Judith Umlas wrote, based on the packet of letters given to her by...
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An award-winning, candid, and compelling story of an adoptive father's search for the truth about his teenage daughter's suicide: "Rarely have the subjects of suicide, adoption, adolescence, and parenting been explored so openly and honestly" (John Bateson, Former Executive Director, Contra Costa Crisis Center, and author of The Final Leap: Suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge). Early one Tuesday morning John Brooks went to his teenage daughter's room...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"When the women behind the popular blog Three Many Cooks gather in the busiest room in the house, there are never too many cooks in the kitchen. Now acclaimed cookbook author Pam Anderson and her daughters, Maggy Keet and Sharon Damelio, blend compelling reflections and well-loved recipes into one funny, candid, and irresistible book. Together, Pam, Maggy, and Sharon reveal the challenging give-and-take between mothers and daughters, the passionate...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial USA, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
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Description
La autora de La fruta del borrachero nos entrega una deslumbrante historia caleidoscópica que recupera el legado místico de su familia. A Ingrid Rojas Contreras la magia le corre por las venas. No era una niña fácil de sorprender: creció en medio de la violencia política de los años ochenta y noventa en Colombia, en una casa siempre atestada de gente que venía a que su madre le leyera el futuro. Su abuelo materno, Nono, era un curandero de...