Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Adult Winter Reading Challenge
Best of 2023: Adult Non-Fiction
NYT - Audio Nonfiction
¡Léelo en Inglés o en Español!
Best of 2023: Adult Non-Fiction
NYT - Audio Nonfiction
¡Léelo en Inglés o en Español!
Description
"In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice--her truth--was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey--and the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history. Written with remarkable candor and humor, Spears's groundbreaking book illuminates...
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1908 John Neihardt (1881—1973) and two companions traveled the Missouri River—about two thousand miles—in a twenty-foot canoe. Originally published in Outing Magazine as a series of articles, The River and I describes their adventures on that wild waterway before it was dammed by the Army Corps of Engineers and points out storied sites along the shore. The result transcends journalism, Neihardt does for the Missouri what Twain did for the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Free Refills is the harrowing tale of a Harvard-trained medical doctor run horribly amok through his addiction to prescription medication, and his recovery.
Dr. Peter Grinspoon seemed to be a total success: a Harvard-educated M.D. with a thriving practice; married with two great kids and a gorgeous wife; a pillar of his community. But lurking beneath the thin veneer of having it all was an addict fueled on a daily boatload of prescription meds. When...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
On his deathbed, Dr. Joanne Intrator's father poses two unsettling questions:
"Are you tough enough? Do they know who you are?"
Joanne soon realizes that these haunting questions relate to a center-city Berlin building at 16 Wallstrasse that the Nazis ripped away from her family in 1938. But a decade is to pass before she will fully come to grasp why her father threw down the gauntlet as he did.
Repeatedly, Joanne's restitution quest brings...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things--her follow-up memoir to the NYT bestselling The Mighty Queens of Freeville--America's most popular advice columnist, "Ask Amy," shares her journey of family, second chances, and finding love.
By peeling back the curtain of her syndicated advice column, Amy Dickinson reveals much of the inspiration and motivation that has fueled her calling. Through a series of linked essays, this moving narrative picks up where...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 2009 Cristina Nehring's brilliant first book, A Vindication of Love, was featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review. An important new voice had appeared in American letters. Just as suddenly, Nehring seemed to disappear-only to reemerge like a bolt from the blue. "Now unexpectedly, writes California poet laureate Dana Gioia, "from Paris comes a heartbreaking and tender memoir, The Child Who Never Spoke, that explains her years of silence....
Author
Language
English
Description
Get the Summary of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Be Useful in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The world's greatest bodybuilder. The world's highest-paid movie star. The leader of the world's sixth-largest economy. That these are the same person sounds like the setup to a joke, but this is no joke. This is Arnold Schwarzenegger. And this did not happen by accident.
Arnold's stratospheric success...
Author
Language
English
Description
A retired Texas lawman shares stories of serial killers, labor strikes, and more, in this sequel to the runaway bestselling memoir One Ranger.
“No Texas Ranger” memoir has captured the public's imagination like Joaquin Jackson's “One Ranger”. Readers thrilled to Jackson's stories of catching criminals and keeping the peace across a wide swath of the Texas-Mexico border and clamored for more. Now in “One Ranger Returns”, Jackson reopens...
Author
Language
English
Description
Her friendships with two Annies made the adventures of a lifetime possible! From working at a circus to riding the milk cans at the creamery to jumping on-board a local train. Exploring new things yet holding onto the old traditions like hanging May baskets on doorknobs. Daring to walk the alleys after dark yet remembering the safety of home. Sharing these stages of childhood with close friends and classmates made for the best of memories. Knowing...
Author
Language
English
Description
Shortlisted, Adelaide Festival Literary Awards.
The sourcebook for the film Hemingway in Spain, this hybrid work melds several Hemingway "voices", the author, the "Hemingway Hero", and the author projecting the Hemingway consciousness and aesthetic on a contemporary Spanish landscape.
"The poems stitch you into a tapestry...with loose threads left hanging just to trip you up if you become complacent." Bev Braune, Australian Book Review.
Hemingway...
Author
Language
English
Description
Dive deep into a saga that blurs the lines between fiction and reality, spanning a century from the 1850s to 1950s. This tale, inspired by true events, unravels the intricate tapestry of a family I was adopted into – a lineage rife with hedonism, deceit, and dark desires.
Each character in this sprawling family epic is a study in contrasts: driven by their insatiable passions, they navigate a world laden with amorality, neuroses, and intense eroticism....
Author
Language
English
Description
Arthur Hailey's wife, Sheila, delivers an affectionate and deliciously candid account of her marriage to the #1-bestselling author of such popular classics as Airport and Hotel "To stay happily married to anyone for twenty-five years is an achievement. To stay happily married for that length of time to a writer is a miracle." With wit and rare candor, Sheila Hailey shares the story of life with her famous husband-from the first time she heard his...
Author
Language
English
Description
The cover of this autobiography shows I.R. Dujon at the time of publication mothering her younger, 6-year-old self.
I Will Protect Her details the adolescent years in which Ingrid was subject to tragic child abuse, while the people in charge of her welfare and safety neglected their most basic responsibilities at every point possible. This led to a prolonged period of suffering for her and for so many others. After years of fighting, a full criminal...
14) Sentenced
Author
Language
English
Description
This true story follows the remarkable and unlikely friendship that develops between two strangers – a London housewife bringing up four children and a British prisoner incarcerated in Thailand.
As they begin to exchange letters, each tells a personal story of being sentenced – Vicky in a desperate and loveless marriage; Andy within the walls of one of the world's most notorious prisons.
What unfolds is a moving tale about entrapment and freedom,...
Author
Language
English
Description
The essence of my book
I lost my mind
And got it back with time
My mind is a complex thing
Only I know what it is like within
Concealed in my skull
It's anything but dull
I tried to keep it sane
But it has its own brain
I lost control and got it back
But it's that trust I lack
Not knowing what comes next
I converted my thoughts to text
To try and understand
Before I'm buried in the sand
I kind of know how you tick
But to society I...
Author
Language
English
Description
Working as a Christian doctor in a place controlled by the Macau Mafia, Dr. Bill Swan was in constant danger of being discovered as an underground Christian missionary. Using Macau as a base, he smuggled Bibles into China and slipped through the net of the Chinese Communist government. He established medical clinics and staffed them with Christian nurses, doctors, and teachers who set up underground churches. They were always in danger of being discovered....
17) Transitional
Author
Language
English
Description
In this thought-provoking, timely book, model and activist Munroe Bergdorf reflects on individuality, evolution, and the ever-changing nature of identity, revealing how they have shaped her own lived experience and how society shapes—and is shaped by—each.
“Sometimes, not often, but sometimes, I ask myself this question: what if I'd just done nothing?”
When Munroe Bergdorf began to transition in 2009, her only goal was blending in. She...
Author
Language
English
Description
As I review my general surroundings, I am somewhat confused. The children of today are being bombarded and consumed by the continual assault of cyber technology, and I have this worrisome feeling that they are progressing to oblivion. Let us hope that I am wrong and their childhoods were and will be as simple and happy as mine.
Dominic is a retired educator and resides in Arizona. This is his first book.
Author
Language
English
Description
The classic memoir of life as a Crip, written in solitary confinement.
After pumping eight blasts from a sawed-off shotgun at a group of rival gang members, twelve-year-old Kody Scott was initiated into the L.A. gang the Crips. He quickly matured into one of the most formidable Crip combat soldiers, earning the name "Monster" for committing acts of brutal violence that repulsed even his fellow gang members.
When the inevitable jail term confined...
Author
Language
English
Description
Why would an honor student who loves books vandalize a public library, leaving shattered glass all over? Why would a man who barely survived a horrific motorcycle crash insist that his recovery was due to a mysterious falcon that flew over to his bedside every night and assured him the world could not afford to lose him? What could make a brilliant Harvard-bound young man suddenly abandon all career plans , lock himself in a basement to set up "the...
Borrow from another library
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Darien Library can be requested from other libraries via our interlibrary loan system (ILL).