Category: autobiography
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Raising my Frequency
So I’ve been listening to an awesome book – You are a Badass at Making Money by Jen Sincero. I love this author and everything she has to say. I’ve checked out the book from the library and have been listening to it as much as I can while in the car – commuting, running errands,…
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Just Kids
By Patti Smith Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Harper Collins, 2010 Genres: Nonfiction, autobiography, biography, memoir ISBN: 9780066211312 Audience: Adults Number of pages: 279 Settings: Mostly New York City – Manhattan & Brooklyn – but also Paris & Charleville, France & Camden, NJ Time period: The bulk of the story is set between 1969…
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Nobody’s son: notes from an American life
By Luis Alberto Urrea Place: Publisher & Year: Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998 Genres: Non-fiction, autobiography, memoir Series: Camino del Sol ISBN: 9780816518654 Audience: Adults Number of pages: 189 Setting: Various locations in Mexico and the US, including Tijuana and San Diego Time period: late 1950s – 1990s Description: Urrea describes key moments of…
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Warriors Don’t Cry: The Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High
By Melba Pattillo Beals Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Simon Pulse, c1995, 2007 Genres: Non-fiction, autobiography, memoir ISBN: 9781416948827 Intended audience: Young adult Number of pages: 226 Setting: Little Rock, Arkansas Time period: 1950’s – most of the story takes place during the school year of 1957-58 (includes an epilogue from 1987 and an…
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Sastun: My Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer
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By Rosita Arvigo with Nadine Epstein and Marilyn Yaquinto Place: Publisher & Year: San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994 Genres: Non-fiction, ethnobotany, anthropology, autobiography, biography, traditional medicine ISBN: 9780062502551 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 190 Setting: San Ignacio, Belize Time period: 1980’s (1981- 1993, most of the book’s story is 1981-1987) Plot summary: When Rosita moves…
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Cancer Vixen: A True Story
By Marisa Acocella Marchetto Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006 Genres: Non-fiction, autobiography Format: Graphic novel ISBN: 9780676978247 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 212 Setting: NYC- lower Manhattan Time period: 2001- 2005 Plot summary: “What happens when a shoe-crazy, lipstick-obsessed, wine-swilling, pasta-slurping, fashion-fanatic, single-forever, about-to-get married big-city girl cartoonist with…
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