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Infertile ground : surviving an alcoholic parent / by Patton, Michael L.,author.;
"In this haunting memoir, Michael L. Patton shares stories of his challenging childhood. It is the story of his determination and struggle to overcome growing up with an alcoholic, abusive father. The author paints a heartwarming and terrifying picture while sharing hard-earned lessons in life. He instinctively searches for guidance outside of the chaos, finding positive mentors, and promising himself that life can be different, even while witnessing physical and mental abuse at the hands of his father. Sweet stories of childhood innocence help balance his father's outbursts and violence to make this memoir the triumph that it is. As the last surviving member of his family, he offers his family's tragic story before it's lost forever" --
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Creative nonfiction.; Patton, Michael L.; Adult children of alcoholics; Adult children of alcoholics, Writings of.; Alcoholics;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The price of admission : embracing a life of grief and joy / by Petrone, Liz,author.;
Prologue: The decorative apple -- Everything is not going to be okay -- Please, God, let us know what we are doing -- Objects in the mirror -- Trapped in the elevator -- Sometimes just breathing is a victory -- Sometimes you just want to come home -- The gift of sisterhood -- A letter to my mother about my daughter -- In between the black and white -- The butterfly and the box of teeth -- The happiest day of my life -- The witching hour -- If it was only ever this -- A letter to my daughters -- Sleepless nights -- The boy on the couch -- Better than we ever were before -- Epilogue: Dog person -- A letter from me to you.On the surface Petrone had it all: a family, a budding writing career, a successful marriage. But she was desperately lonely, and dealing with the life and death of her alcoholic mother and the ghosts of her own suicidal past. Here she takes us on her journey from loss into renewed life. Writing from a universally understood place of struggle, Petrone provides a timeless reminder to world-weary readers that, just as birth follows death, light does indeed follow darkness. Often it is because of our pain-- and not despite it-- that we grow, survive, and thrive.--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Petrone, Liz.; Self-actualization (Psychology) in women.; Adult children of alcoholics.; Mothers; Loss (Psychology); Grief.; Mothers.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Notes to self : essays / by Pine, Emilie,author.(CARDINAL)814904;
Notes on intemperance -- From the baby years -- Speaking/Not speaking -- Notes on bleeding & other crimes -- Something about me -- This is not on the exam.Emilie Pine speaks to the events that have marked her life--those emotional disruptions for which our society has no adequate language, at once bittersweet, clandestine, and ordinary. She writes on the unspeakable grief of infertility, on caring for an alcoholic parent, on taboos around female bodies and female pain, on sexual violence and violence against the self. Notes to Self is an exploration of what it feels like to be alive, and a daring act of rebellion against a society that is more comfortable with women's silence.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Pine, Emilie.; Women; Infertility.; Children of alcoholics; Rape victims; Women; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The prize winner of defiance, ohio [videorecording]. by Dern, Laura.(CARDINAL)340083; Harrelson, Woody.(CARDINAL)347754; Moore, Julianne.;
Julianne Moore, Laura Dern, Woody Harrelson.Based on Terry Ryan's book about her mother Evelyn Ryan, who struggled to raise ten children while dealing with an alcoholic husband. Evelyn begins writing jingles and entering contests to pull her family through hard times."A spirited comic drama."--Hollywood Reporter."It's a winner all the way."--E! Online."Smiling through adversity, Moore is the heart and soul of 'Prizewinner' and worthy of prize consideration come Oscar time."--San Francisco Chronicle.DVD.
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Tightrope [large print] : Americans reaching for hope / by Kristof, Nicholas D.,1959-author.(CARDINAL)733240; WuDunn, Sheryl,1959-author.(CARDINAL)383118;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-478) and index.With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America." The authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the children with whom Kristof grew up, in rural Yamhill, Oregon, an area that prospered for much of the twentieth century but has been devastated in the last few decades as blue-collar jobs disappeared. About one-quarter of the children on Kristof's old school bus died in adulthood from drugs, alcohol, suicide, or reckless accidents. And while these particular stories unfolded in one corner of the country, they are representative of many places the authors write about, ranging from the Dakotas and Oklahoma to New York and Virginia. But here too are stories about resurgence, among them: Annette Dove, who has devoted her life to helping the teenagers of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, as they navigate the chaotic reality of growing up poor; Daniel McDowell, of Baltimore, whose tale of opioid addiction and recovery suggests that there are viable ways to solve our nation's drug epidemic. Taken together, these accounts provide a picture of working-class families needlessly but profoundly damaged as a result of decades of policy mistakes. With their superb, nuanced reportage, Kristof and WuDunn have given us a book that is both riveting and impossible to ignore.
Subjects: Large print books.; Poor; Working class;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Life is not a stage [sound recording] : from Broadway baby to a lovely lady and beyond / by Henderson, Florence,author,narrator.(CARDINAL)356887; Brokaw, Joel,author.(CARDINAL)396314;
For millions of people around the world, Carol Brady is synonymous with motherhood, but growing up as the youngest of ten children in rural Indiana in the aftermath of the Great Depression, Florence Henderson lived a life quite different from that of the quintessential TV mom she later played on television. Florence's father was a dirt-poor tobacco tenant farmer who was nearly fifty years old when he married Florence's twenty-five-year-old mother, and was nearly seventy when Florence was born. Florence's childhood was full of deprivation and abandonment. Her father was an alcoholic at a time when there was no rehab or help for the disease. Their home rarely had electricity or running water. When she was twelve, Florence's mother left the family to work in Cleveland and never returned.Florence opens up about her childhood, as well as the challenges she's faced as an adult, including stage fright, postpartum depression, her extramarital affairs, divorce, her hearing loss, and heart problems. She writes with honesty and wisdom of how her faith and ability to survive has brought her through rough times to a life of profound joy and purpose.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Henderson, Florence.; Television actors and actresses; Singers;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Women's work : a reckoning with work and home / by Stack, Megan K.,author.(CARDINAL)497831;
When Megan Stack was living in Beijing, she left her prestigious job as a foreign correspondent to have her first child and work from home writing a book. She quickly realized that caring for a baby and keeping up with the housework while her husband went to the office each day was consuming the time she needed to write. This dilemma was resolved in the manner of many upper-class families and large corporations: she availed herself of cheap Chinese labor. The housekeeper Stack hired was a migrant from the countryside, a mother who had left her daughter in a precarious situation to earn desperately needed cash in the capital. As Stack's family grew and her husband's job took them to Dehli, a series of Chinese and Indian women cooked, cleaned, and babysat in her home. Stack grew increasingly aware of the brutal realities of their lives: domestic abuse, alcoholism, unplanned pregnancies. Hiring poor women had given her the ability to work while raising her children, but what ethical compromise had she made?
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Stack, Megan K.; Child care workers; Child care workers; Working mothers; Americans; Americans;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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Escaping Hell : inspired by true events / by Ramsey, Cindy Horrell.(CARDINAL)281278;
Sonya Gail Taylor faces a life-altering decision when her secret past threatens her idyllic present. A successful attorney, wife, and mother living in Georgia with her husband and three teenage children, Sonya thought she was safe from the terrifying childhood she bled onto the pages of a senior writing project trying to leave the pain and fear in her past when she left for college on a basketball scholarship. But thirty years later, her high school English teacher from back home in Mississippi unexpectedly shows up in Sonya's new life teaching her teenage son and assigning that same senior project to his class. Sonya feels threatened by the only person who knows every sordid detail of her abusive childhood. She fears that the truth could destroy the life she has worked so hard to build and must decide whether to share the facts about her biological parents' abuse, alcoholism, and drug addiction with her own teenage children or risk alienating them if the truth is revealed by someone else.
Subjects: Abuse; Parents and children; Attorneys;
© 2024., Loggerhead Press,
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A dream called home : a memoir / by Grande, Reyna,author.(CARDINAL)476825;
From bestselling author Reyna Grande-whose remarkable memoir The Distance Between Us has become required reading in schools across the country-comes an inspiring account of one woman's quest to find her place in America as a first-generation Latina university student and aspiring writer determined to build a new life for her family one fearless word at a time. When Reyna Grande was nine-years-old, she walked across the US-Mexico border in search of a home, desperate to be reunited with the parents who had left her behind years before for a better life in the City of Angels. What she found instead was an indifferent mother, an abusive, alcoholic father, and a school system that belittled her heritage. With so few resources at her disposal, Reyna finds refuge in words, and it is her love of reading and writing that propels her to rise above until she achieves the impossible and is accepted to the University of California, Santa Cruz. Although her acceptance is a triumph, the actual experience of American college life is intimidating and unfamiliar for someone like Reyna, who is now once again estranged from her family and support system. Again, she finds solace in words, holding fast to her vision of becoming a writer, only to discover she knows nothing about what it takes to make a career out of a dream. Through it all, Reyna is determined to make the impossible possible, going from undocumented immigrant of little means to ٢a fierce, smart, shimmering light of a writer٣ (Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild); a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist ٢speak[ing] for millions of immigrants whose voices have gone unheard٣ (Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street); and a proud mother of two beautiful children who will never have to know the pain of poverty and neglect. Told in Reyna's exquisite, heartfelt prose, A Dream Called Home demonstrates how, by daring to pursue her dreams, Reyna was able to build the one thing she had always longed for: a home that would endure.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Grande, Reyna.; University of California, Santa Cruz; University of California, Santa Cruz; Mexican Americans; Mexican American women authors; Teachers; Mexican Americans;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Godshot : a novel / by Bieker, Chelsea,1987-author.(CARDINAL)833032;
Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen-year-old Lacey May and her alcoholic mother live was once an agricultural paradise. Now it's an environmental disaster, a place of cracked earth and barren raisin farms. In their desperation, residents have turned to a cult leader named Pastor Vern for guidance. He promises, through secret "assignments," to bring the rain everybody is praying for. Lacey has no reason to doubt the pastor. But then her life explodes in a single unimaginable act of abandonment: her mother, exiled from the community for her sins, leaves Lacey and runs off with a man she barely knows. Abandoned and distraught, Lacey May moves in with her widowed grandma, Cherry, who is more concerned with her taxidermy mouse collection than her own granddaughter. As Lacey May endures the increasingly appalling acts of men who want to write all the rules and begins to uncover the full extent of Pastor Vern's shocking plan to bring fertility back to the land, she decides she must go on a quest to find her mother no matter what it takes. With her only guidance coming from the romance novels she reads and the unlikely companionship of the women who knew her mother, she must find her own way through unthinkable circumstances. Possessed of an unstoppable plot and a brilliantly soulful voice, Godshot is a book of grit and humor and heart, a debut novel about female friendship and resilience, mother-loss and motherhood, and seeking salvation in unexpected places. It introduces a writer who gives Flannery O'Connor's Gothic parables a Californian twist and who emerges with a miracle that is all her own.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Social problem fiction.; Teenage girls; Abandoned children; Mother and child; Female friendship; Cults; Women's friendships.;
Available copies: 28 / Total copies: 30
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