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121) This is only a test
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xiv, 164 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of short essays in which the author meditates on natural disasters and fatherhood.
122) Meaty: essays
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"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, bitchesgottaeat.com"--Page 4 of cover.
123) Kate DiCamillo
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Simple text and full-color photographs introduce readers to Kate DiCamillo. Developed by literacy experts for students in second through fifth grade"--
124) Jeff Kinney
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Simple text and full-color photographs introduce readers to Jeff Kinney. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
125) Jeff Kinney
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Presents the life and career of Jeff Kinney, including his childhood, education, and milestones as a best selling children's author"--Provided by publisher.
126) Veronica Roth
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
127) Jason Reynolds
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents information about the author who grew up not wanting to read to becoming a best-selling author who now writes books urban readers can relate to.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
168 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this funny and intensely personal collection of essays, Butler chronicles her experience moving from aging to old, remembering and forgetting all the wrong things, feeling frustrated with technology, keeping up with the avalanche of cultural and political news, mothering two middle-aged daughters, surveying her old body, and ultimately, preparing for her death... Old women are cast aside in white American culture, Butler argues, and it's both...
129) The Christmas plains
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
vii, 212 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Joseph Bottum takes us on his own journey to the boyhood Christmases spent on the harsh but always captivating South Dakota landscape."
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
x, 262 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This is a book about a young girl who moves to a new town every couple of years; a misfit teenager who finds solace in a local music scene; an adrift twenty-something who drops out of college to pursue her dream of making cheesecake on a stick a successful business franchise (ah, the ideals of youth). Alone in a new city, she summons her inner strength as she holds the hand of a dying stranger. Davies is a woman who finds humor in difficult pregnancies...
133) Mean
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
175 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Myriam Gurba's debut is the bold and hilarious tale of her coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. Blending radical formal fluidity and caustic humor, Mean turns what might be tragic into piercing, revealing comedy. This is a confident, funny, brassy book that takes the cost of sexual assault, racism, misogyny, and homophobia deadly seriously. We act mean to defend ourselves from boredom and from those who would cut off our breasts. We act...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Gilded Razor is the true story of a double life. By the age of seventeen, Sam Lansky was an all-star student with Ivy League aspirations in his final year at an elite New York City prep school. But a nasty addiction to prescription pills spiraled rapidly out of control, compounded by a string of reckless affairs with older men, leaving his bright future in jeopardy. After a terrifying overdose, he tried to straighten out. Yet as he journeyed...
135) Sugarhouse: a memoir
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"'You're married, you're getting older, and your parents are looking more and more like the grandparents they are pestering you to make them. It's getting embarrassing. Your pathetic renter's mailbox--the one with three former tenants' names crossed out--is stuffed with your friends' baby shower invitations. Just a few months ago, right after my grandmother died, five different people mentioned the word Ultrasound to me on the same day. It was both...
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