Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
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
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
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
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
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
In this memoir of a lost America, Hal Borland tells the story of his family's migration to eastern Colorado as homesteaders at the turn of the twentieth century. On an unsettled and unwelcoming prairie landscape, the Borlands build a house, plant crops, and eke out a meager existence. While life is difficult-and self-reliance is necessary with no neighbors for miles-the experience brings the family close and binds them closer to the terrible and beautiful...
Author
Language
English
Description
What if you finally built a home that fit you, to find it one day violated?
What if you finally built a life to suit you, only to have it crumble?
When all you thought you were is stripped away, how do you find yourself once more? Well, if you're Stephanie Wilson, you sell all your earthly possessions and set sail around the world for 115 days seeking answers. But big adventures often end with bigger questions, and sometimes truly finding yourself...
Author
Language
English
Description
This is a powerful dynamic story of the twists and turns of this courageous savvy author's life's experiences. Stacie provokes passion, pain and compassion with an intense exemplification of power and fortitude. She taps into the depth of our souls and keeps us hanging on page after page with her audacious exuberance. The voracity of Stacie's story is not only tenacious, but it is also a superb example of how she tapped into the moments of her greatest...
Author
Language
English
Description
This action-packed thrilling adventure story, based on the author's own experiences, is triggered by a gang of arsonists setting fire to the Amazon rainforest while blackmailing governments to stop them doing so. This results in the Major, a ruthless mercenary, being employed by Bob, a multibillionaire, to help him tackle climate change head on. But the task almost ends in disaster when his aircraft is brought down into the blazing forest by an arsonist's...
Author
Language
English
Description
First Darling of the Morning is the powerful and poignant memoir of bestselling author Thrity Umrigar, tracing the arc of her Bombay childhood and adolescence from her earliest memories to her eventual departure for the United States at age twenty-one. It is an evocative, emotionally charged story of a young life steeped in paradox; of a middle-class Parsi girl attending Catholic school in a predominantly Hindu city; of a guilt-ridden stranger in...
14) Raising Atlantis
Author
Language
English
Description
Raising Atlantis picks up where both Umma Dawn and BioHazard left off…Biohazard is the natural history of Earth and Umma Dawn the cultural history of Earth… while Raising Atlantis is the real history of Earth… Ever since Atlantis was first mentioned it has been feeding the dreams and fuelling the feuds of adventurers and historians…What was Atlantis ? Where was Atlantis ? What happened to Atlantis ? Where did Atlantis go ? Where did Atlantis...
Author
Language
English
Description
Ken Budd's The Voluntourist is a remarkable memoir about losing your father, accepting your fate, and finding your destiny by volunteering around the world for numerous worthy causes: Hurricane Katrina disaster relief in New Orleans, helping special needs children in China, studying climate change in Ecuador, lending a hand-and a heart-at a Palestinian refugee camp in the Middle East, to name but a few. Ken's emotional journey is as inspiring and...
Author
Language
English
Description
In February 2016, Ahmed Naji was sentenced to two years in prison for "violating public modesty," after an excerpt of his novel Using Life reportedly caused a reader to experience heart palpitations. Naji ultimately served ten months of that sentence, in a group cell block in Cairo's Tora Prison.
Rotten Evidence is a chronicle of those months. Through Naji's writing, the world of Egyptian prison comes into vivid focus, with its cigarette-based economy,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Join Gordon on a journey through the world of professional cycling, from following in the footsteps of Tom Simpson on a journey to Saint-Brieuc, Brittany, to building a successful financial services business and organizing popular training camps in Mallorca, which helped make the island the top destination for serious cyclists. Along the way, discover the amusing characters and incidents that defined Gordon's career, as well as the challenges and...
18) So, Tell Me
Author
Language
English
Description
Have you ever wondered what a life of travel was like at a young age? Have you ever wondered how it would be meeting new people all the time growing up? Could you imagine strangers helping to watch you while your mother was sick? Can you fathom never making friends because you knew those relationships wouldn't last? How grown up was a child expected to be or not be? Feelings of adventure, fear, sadness, and pure love all wrapped into this real-life...
Author
Language
English
Description
A true story of sex, seduction and the pursuit of pleasure.
Welcome to a world where women make - and break - the rules. An underground club notorious for parties wilder than 50 Shades of Grey; a place where, behind elegant masks, your innermost desires can be unleashed...
Emma Sayle is an ordinary girl: raised in a stable home, she had a happy childhood and has a steady boyfriend. She runs a business organizing parties. But Emma has a naughty...
20) Circles
Author
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Harding's life.
"Times I fell down, times I got back up and the knowledge and answers I found in the Three Circles. The Circles made my life so clear to me. Gave me the answers to all the "why's" I had always had in my life.
Whatever place and situation you are going through in your life journey right now the Circles will help you as you walk your path in life.
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).