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Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
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Description
Born into the middle of World War II, Gary Paulsen's turbulent childhood provided plenty of subject matter for his bestselling novels, and the librarians in his life gave him the inspiration and support to explore the world through books. As a soldier himself, his storytelling technique developed, and for the first time he shares his own.
His name is synonymous with high-stakes wilderness survival stories. Now, beloved author Gary Paulsen portrays...
Author
Publisher
New World Library
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
282 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Autobiography addressing the author's childhood experience of inner spiritual vision after becoming blind as a boy, his forming a boys' resistance group in occupied Paris at age seventeen (which later merged with Défense de la France), and his imprisonment in the Buchenwald concentration camp"--
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
199 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book is a collection of vignettes that depict the antics of a young boy growing up in rural southern Minnesota during the 1940s and '50s. Poignant, humorous, and filled with adventure, these stories recall a time of innocence and freedoms lost" -- page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xviii, 171 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Drawing on her own experiences, the author of the critically acclaimed memoir "Whip Smart" discusses how to confront the emotional, psychological, and physical work of writing about our most intimate lives.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In The Double Life of Fidel Castro, one of Castro's soldiers of 17 years breaks his silence and shares his memoir of years of service, and eventual imprisonment and torture for displeasing the notorious dictator, and his dramatic escape from Cuba. Responsible for protecting the Lider maximo for two decades, Juan Reinaldo Sánchez was party to his secret life - because everything around Castro was hidden. From the ghost town in which guerrillas from...
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xii, 298 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Shortly before he passed away, on January 4, 2015, Stuart Scott completed work on this memoir. It was both a labor of love and a love letter to life itself. Not only did Stuart relate his personal story -- his childhood in North Carolina, his supportive family, his athletic escapades, his on-the-job training as a fledgling sportscaster, his being hired and eventual triumphs at ESPN -- he shared his intimate struggles to keep his story going. Struck...
Author
Publisher
Winner's Circle
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
ix, 245 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When arriving in Rio, the position and the company had collapsed. Without any knowledge of the Portuguese language, no personal or business connections or prospects for employment, we were immediately destitute. We were ejected from our hotel with only the clothes we wore. For a time, we lived secretly in an office building which was illegal to be in after dark. What food we ate was pilfered off of left over plates at outdoor cafes, or taken from...
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xv, 236 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Anthony Trollope was among the most prolific, popular, and richly diverse writers of the mid-Victorian period, with forty-seven novels and a variety of other writings to his name. Both a serial and series writer whose novels traversed Ireland, England, Australia and New Zealand, and genres from realism to science fiction, Trollope also published criticism, short fiction, travel writing and biography. The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope provides...