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2 copies on order.
Brookline - Adult
MEMOIR MCCURDY Jennette 2022
7 available
MEMOIR MCCURDY Jennette 2022
7 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
MEMOIR MCCURDY Jennette 2022
2 available
MEMOIR MCCURDY Jennette 2022
2 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
MCCURDY Jennette 2022
1 available
MCCURDY Jennette 2022
1 available
Description
A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor - including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother - and how she retook control of her life. --
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Brookline - Adult
MEMOIR WESTOVER Tara 2018
5 available
MEMOIR WESTOVER Tara 2018
5 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
BIOG WESTOVER Tara 2018
2 available
BIOG WESTOVER Tara 2018
2 available
On Shelf
Brookline - Large Print
LGTYPE MEMOIR WESTOVER Tara 2018
1 available
LGTYPE MEMOIR WESTOVER Tara 2018
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Large Print
LGTYPE BIOG WESTOVER Tara 2018
1 available
LGTYPE BIOG WESTOVER Tara 2018
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Large Print
LGTYPE MEMOIR WESTOVER Tara 2018
1 available
LGTYPE MEMOIR WESTOVER Tara 2018
1 available
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Brookline - Audiovisual
BkOnCD BIOG WESTOVER Tara
1 available
BkOnCD BIOG WESTOVER Tara
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Audiovisual
BkOnCD BIOG WESTOVER Tara
1 available
BkOnCD BIOG WESTOVER Tara
1 available
Description
Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse....
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Brookline - Adult
MEMOIR PAGE Elliot 2023
2 available
MEMOIR PAGE Elliot 2023
2 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
MEMOIR PAGE Elliot 2023
1 available
MEMOIR PAGE Elliot 2023
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
MEMOIR PAGE Elliot 2023
1 available
MEMOIR PAGE Elliot 2023
1 available
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"The Oscar-nominated star who captivated the world with his performance in Juno finally shares his truth. "Can I kiss you?" It was two months before the world premiere of Juno, and Elliot Page was in his first ever queer bar. The hot summer air hung heavy around him as he looked at her. And then it happened. In front of everyone. A previously unfathomable experience. Here he was on the precipice of discovering himself as a queer person, as a trans...
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"Young, searching, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed fifty dollars from his father and launched a company with one simple mission: import high-quality, low-cost running shoes from Japan. Selling the shoes from the trunk of his Plymouth Valiant, Knight grossed eight thousand dollars that first year, 1963. Today, Nike's annual sales top $30 billion. In this Age of Startups, Knight's Nike is the gold standard, and its swoosh is more...
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1 copy, 6 people are on the wait list.
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"In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to...
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Brookline - Adult
MEMOIR MAILHOT Terese 2018
1 available
MEMOIR MAILHOT Terese 2018
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
MEMOIR MAILHOT Terese 2018
1 available
MEMOIR MAILHOT Terese 2018
1 available
eAudiobook
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"Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. The triumphant result is Heart Berries, a memorial for...
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Brookline - Adult
MEMOIR MACHADO Carmen 2019
2 available
MEMOIR MACHADO Carmen 2019
2 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
MEMOIR MACHADO Carmen 2019
1 available
MEMOIR MACHADO Carmen 2019
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
MEMOIR MACHADO Carmen 2019
1 available
MEMOIR MACHADO Carmen 2019
1 available
eAudiobook
Available Online
Checked Out
8 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
8 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Description
The author's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming.
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"Nicky Flynn met his father when he was working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. As a teenager he'd received letters from this stranger father, a self-proclaimed poet and con man doing time in federal prison for bank robbery. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City tells the story of the trajectory that led Nick and his father onto the streets, into that shelter, and finally to each other."--Back cover.
9) Lab girl
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66 copies available. 1 copy on order.
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
MEMOIR JAHREN Hope 2017
1 available
MEMOIR JAHREN Hope 2017
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
BIOG JAHREN Hope 2016
1 available
BIOG JAHREN Hope 2016
1 available
Description
An illuminating debut memoir of a woman in science; a moving portrait of a longtime friendship; and a stunningly fresh look at plants that will forever change how you see the natural world. Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first book is a revelatory treatise on plant life but it is also so much more. "Lab Girl" is a book about work, love, and the mountains that...
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49 copies available. 1 copy on order.
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
MEMOIR KAYSEN Susanna 1993
1 available
MEMOIR KAYSEN Susanna 1993
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
MEMOIR KAYSEN Susanna 1994
1 available
MEMOIR KAYSEN Susanna 1994
1 available
Checked Out
3 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
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In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles--as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror...
11) The ugly cry
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Brookline - Adult
MEMOIR HENDERSON Danielle 2021
1 available
MEMOIR HENDERSON Danielle 2021
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
MEMOIR HENDERSON Danielle 2021
1 available
MEMOIR HENDERSON Danielle 2021
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
MEMOIR HENDERSON Danielle 2021
1 available
MEMOIR HENDERSON Danielle 2021
1 available
Description
"A sharp, hilarious memoir about a nontraditional upbringing and growing up Black in a predominantly white community"--
Abandoned at ten by a mother who chose her drug-addicted, abusive boyfriend, Henderson was raised by grandparents. She grew up Black, weird, and overwhelmingly uncool in a predominantly white town in upstate New York, which created its own identity crises. Here she shares how she found the strength and smarts to save herself, as...
12) Girl in a band
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A founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon and role model for a generation of women, now tells her story--a memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence and as one of the first women of rock and roll.
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3 copies on order.
Brookline - Adult
MEMOIR NOAH Trevor 2016
4 available
MEMOIR NOAH Trevor 2016
4 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
MEMOIR NOAH Trevor 2016
2 available
MEMOIR NOAH Trevor 2016
2 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Teen
TEEN FAMOUS LIVES NOAH Trevor 2016
1 available
TEEN FAMOUS LIVES NOAH Trevor 2016
1 available
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Brookline - Audiovisual
BkOnCD BIOG NOAH Trevor
1 available
BkOnCD BIOG NOAH Trevor
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Audiovisual
BkOnCD BIOG NOAH Trevor
2 available
BkOnCD BIOG NOAH Trevor
2 available
Description
"The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed,"--Amazon.com.
Noah's path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother, at the time such a union was punishable by five years in prison. As he struggles to find himself in a...
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Brookline - Adult
MEMOIR BOURDAIN Anthony 2007
1 available
MEMOIR BOURDAIN Anthony 2007
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
BIOG BOURDAIN Anthony 2018
1 available
BIOG BOURDAIN Anthony 2018
1 available
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Brookline - Audiovisual
BkOnCD BIOG BOURDAIN Anthony
1 available
BkOnCD BIOG BOURDAIN Anthony
1 available
Description
A new, deluxe edition of Kitchen Confidential to celebrate the life of Anthony Bourdain. The book will feature a brand new introduction, a Q&A with Ecco publisher and Bourdain's long-time editor Daniel Halpern. Interior pages are hand-annotated by Anthony Bourdain himself. The interior will also feature a brand new drawing by Ralph Steadman. Almost two decades ago, the New Yorker published a now infamous article, "Don't Eat before You Read This,"...
15) The yellow house
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Brookline - Adult
MEMOIR BROOM Sarah 2019
3 available
MEMOIR BROOM Sarah 2019
3 available
Brookline - Adult
MEMOIR BROOM Sarah 2020
1 available
MEMOIR BROOM Sarah 2020
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
MEMOIR BROOM Sarah 2019
1 available
MEMOIR BROOM Sarah 2019
1 available
eBook
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"A book of great ambition, Sarah M. Broom's The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America's most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother's struggle against a house's entropy, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina. The Yellow House expands...
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Brookline - Adult
MEMOIR STRAYED Cheryl 2012
1 available
MEMOIR STRAYED Cheryl 2012
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
BIOG STRAYED Cheryl 2012
1 available
BIOG STRAYED Cheryl 2012
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
BIOG STRAYED Cheryl 2012
1 available
BIOG STRAYED Cheryl 2012
1 available
On Shelf
Brookline - Large Print
LGTYPE MEMOIR STRAYED Cheryl 2013
1 available
LGTYPE MEMOIR STRAYED Cheryl 2013
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Large Print
LGTYPE MEMOIR STRAYED Cheryl 2013
1 available
LGTYPE MEMOIR STRAYED Cheryl 2013
1 available
Description
The story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again.
In the wake of her mother's death, Strayed's family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. With nothing to lose, she made an impulsive decision: to hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail, from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State. And she would do it alone. This is...
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Brookline - Adult
MEMOIR AGASSI Andre 2010
1 available
MEMOIR AGASSI Andre 2010
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
MEMOIR AGASSI Andre 2009
1 available
MEMOIR AGASSI Andre 2009
1 available
Checked Out
7 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
5 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
5 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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A candid memoir by the tennis champion covers his Grand Slam wins, establishment of a charitable foundation for underprivileged children, and marriage to Stefanie Graf.
18) Orr: my story
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"One of the greatest sports figures of all time breaks his silence in a memoir as unique as the man himself. He has never written a memoir, authorized a biography, or talked to journalists about his past, but now he is finally ready to tell his story. Bobby Orr is often referred to as the greatest ever to play the game of hockey. From 1966 through the mid-seventies, he could change a game just by stepping on the ice. No defenseman had ever played...
19) Just kids
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eAudiobook
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4 copies, 56 people are on the wait list.
eBook
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In this memoir, singer-songwriter Patti Smith shares tales of New York City : the denizens of Max's Kansas City, the Hotel Chelsea, Scribner's, Brentano's and Strand bookstores and her new life in Brooklyn with a young man named Robert Mapplethorpe--the man who changed her life with his love, friendship, and genius.
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2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's a father-daughter tale perfectly suited to the graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian house, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out,...