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c1993., Adult, W. Morrow Call No: BIOG 387.7 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Biography of American writer Jonathan Bach telling of his search for his father, Richard Bach, who left his family when he was two years old.
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c1993., Young Adult, W. Morrow Call No: FIC HAL Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The saga of Haley's father's family, sequel to Roots.
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By Meacham, Jon2009., Adult, Random House Trade Paperbacks Call No: BIOG 973.5 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A thought-provoking study of Andrew Jackson chronicles the life and career of a self-made man who went on to become a military hero and seventh president of the United States, critically analyzing Jackson's seminal role during a turbulent era in history, the political crises and personal upheaval that surrounded him, and his legacy for the modern presidency.
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[2016]., Adults, Blue Rider Press Call No: BIOG 306.874 Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to view Summary Note: "From one of the country's most recognizable journalists: How becoming a grandmother transforms a woman's life. After four decades as a reporter, Lesley Stahl says the most vivid and transforming experience of her life was not covering the White House, interviewing heads of state, or any other of her stories at 60 Minutes. It was becoming a grandmother. She was hit with a jolt of joy so intense and unexpected, she wanted to "investigate" it--as though it was a news flash! And so, using her 60 Minutes skills, she explores how grandmothering changes a woman's life, interviewing her friends like Whoopi Goldberg, her colleagues like Diane Sawyer, and the proverbial woman next door. On top of these personal accounts, she interviews scientists and doctors about physiological changes in women when they have grandchildren, anthropologists about why there are grandmothers in evolutionary terms, and psychiatrists about the therapeutic effects of grandchildren on both grandmothers and grandfathers. All through the book Stahl shares her stories about her own life now with two granddaughters, Jordan and Chloe, how her relationship with her daughter Taylor has changed, and how being a grandfather has affected her husband, Aaron. In an era when Baby Boomers are becoming grandparents in droves, when young parents need all the help they can get raising their children--and with a grandmother in the running to be our next US President--Stahl's book is a timely and affecting read that redefines a cherished relationship"--
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-- At head of title: Focus on the Familyc2007., Adults, Tyndale House Publishers Call No: BIOG 362.73092 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Focus on the familySummary Note: "Abandoned by his parents when he was just three years old, Rob Mitchell began his journey as one the last "lifers" in an American orphanage. As Rob's loneliness and rage grew his hope shrank. Would he ever find a real family or a place to call home? Heartbreaking, heartwarming, and ultimately triumphant, this true story shows how, with faith, every person can leave the past behind and forge healthier, happier relationships." --from back cover.
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2012., Adults, Howard Books Call No: BIOG 791.45 Edition: First Howard books trade paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Presents a behind-the-scenes look at the Robertson family, documenting the teenage romance and marriage of Willie and Korie Robertson, their success as a multi-million dollar hunting equipment business, and their rise to stardom on reality television.
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[2018]., Adults, Random House Call No: BIO 270.092 Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to view Summary Note: 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. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when an older brother became violent. When another brother got himself into college and came back with news of the world beyond the mountain, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. She taught herself enough mathematics, grammar, and science to take the ACT and was admitted to Brigham Young University. There, she studied psychology, politics, philosophy, and history, learning for the first time about pivotal world events like the Holocaust and the Civil Rights Movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home.
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[2019]., Adults, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: BIOG 362.73 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Bestselling author Mitch Albom returns to nonfiction for the first time in more than a decade in this poignant memoir that celebrates Chika, a young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart. Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in a landscape of extreme poverty, and when her mother died giving birth to a baby brother, Chika was brought to The Have Faith Haiti Orphanage that Albom operates in Port Au Prince. With no children of their own, the forty-plus children who live, play, and go to school at the orphanage have become family to Mitch and his wife, Janine. Chika's arrival makes a quick impression. Brave and self-assured, even as a three-year-old, she delights the other kids and teachers. But at age five, Chika is suddenly diagnosed with something a doctor there says, "No one in Haiti can help you with." Mitch and Janine bring Chika to Detroit, hopeful that American medical care can soon return her to her homeland. Instead, Chika becomes a permanent part of their household, and their lives, as they embark on a two-year, around-the-world journey to find a cure. As Chika's boundless optimism and humor teach Mitch the joys of caring for a child, he learns that a relationship built on love, no matter what blows it takes, can never be lost. Told in hindsight, and through illuminating conversations with Chika herself, this is Albom at his most poignant and vulnerable. Finding Chika is a celebration of a girl, her adoptive guardians, and the incredible bond they formed--a devastatingly beautiful portrait of what it means to be a family, regardless of how it is made."--provided by publisher.
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2004, Miramax Films Call No: DVD VID Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Well-known playwright James Barrie finds his career at a crossroads when his latest play flops and doubeters question his future.
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By Hamner, Earlc2006., Adult, Cumberland House Call No: BIOG 813.54 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Earl Hamner, creator of the television show "The Waltons", describes the ways nearly thirty women, including his mother, his wife, his daughter, teachers, colleagues, and others, have shaped his life.
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1998, Feature films for families Call No: DVD VID Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The early life of Charles Dickens and the events that led to his inspiration to write his greatest story.
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2006, c2005., Adult, Scribner Call No: BIOG 362.82 Edition: 1st Scribner trade pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The author recalls her life growing up in a dysfunctional family with an alcohol father and distant mother and describes how she and her siblings had to fend for themselves until they finally found the resources and will to leave home.
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-- True story of love, loss, and a heaven-sent miracle2016., Adults, Howard Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Call No: BIOG 362.19699 40092 Edition: First Howard Books hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2013., Adults, Howard Books Call No: BIOG 791.4502 Edition: First Howard Books hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to view Summary Note: "This no-holds-barred autobiography chronicles the remarkable life of Phil Robertson, the original Duck Commander and Duck Dynasty star, from early childhood through the founding of a family business.Life was always getting in the way of Phil Robertson's passion for duck hunting. An NFL-bound quarterback, Phil made his mark on Louisiana Tech University in the 1960s by playing football and completing his college career with a master's degree in English. But Phil's eyes were not always on the books or the ball; they were usually looking to the sky. Phil grew up with the dream of living the simple life off the land like his forebears, but he soon found himself on a path to self-destruction--leasing a bar, drinking too much, fighting, and wasting his talents. He almost lost it all until he gave his life to God. And then everything changed. Phil's incredible story tells how he followed a calling from God and soon after invented a duck call that would begin an incredible journey to the life he had always dreamed of for himself and his family. With great love for his country, his family, and his maker, Phil has finally found the ingredients to the "good life" he always wanted"--
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By Doig, Ivan2006, c1993., Young Adult, Harcourt Call No: BIOG 813.54 Edition: 1st Harvest ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Harvest bookSummary Note: Author's memoir of his family's journey from a housing project in boomtime Arizona to the high country of their Montana origins.
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By Vance, J. D.[2016]., Adults, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: BIOG 305.562 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.'s grandparents were "dirt poor and in love," and moved north from Kentucky's Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually their grandchild (the author) would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that this is only the short, superficial version. Vance's grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother, struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, and were never able to fully escape the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America.
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[2018]., Adults, W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson Call No: BIOG 200 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Bart Millard, award-winning recording artist and lead singer of MercyMe, shares how his dad’s transformation from abusive father to man of God sparked a divine moment in music history.
