Author: Wingate, Lisa, author.
Published: 2019 2005
Call Number: F WINGATE
Format: Books
Summary: After Karen Sommerfield is suddenly forced to deal with the threat of cancer at the same time her company downsizes her, she returns to the rural Missouri Ozarks and her grandmother's old farm on an odyssey to find herself. Karen Sommerfield has been hiding from big questions--the emotional distance in her marriage, her inability to have children, and her bout with cancer. Getting lost in her high-powered career gives her purpose--until the day she's downsized out of her job and the doctor tells her the cancer may be back. It's a double blow that would send anyone reeling. --adapted from back cover
Author: O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972- author.
Published: 2018
Call Number: B OFARRELL
Format: Books
Summary: We are never closer to life than when we brush up against the possibility of death. I Am, I Am, I Am is Maggie O'Farrell's astonishing memoir of the near-death experiences that have punctuated and defined her life. The childhood illness that left her bedridden for a year, which she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. An encounter with a disturbed man on a remote path. And, most terrifying of all, an ongoing, daily struggle to protect her daughter -- for whom this book was written -- from a condition that leaves her unimaginably vulnerable to life's myriad dangers. Seventeen discrete encounters with Maggie at different ages, in different locations, reveal a whole life in a series of tense, visceral snapshots. In taut prose that vibrates with electricity and restrained emotion, O'Farrell captures the perils running just beneath the surface, and illuminates the preciousness, beauty, and mysteries of life itself.
Author: Wingate, Lisa, author.
Published: 2018 2001
Call Number: F WINGATE
Format: Books
Summary: When Kate and her husband and baby son move to her grandmother's Missouri farm in an effort to influence the grandmother to move to a nursing home, Kate is helped by the discovery of her grandmother's journal. When Kate Bowman temporarily moves to her grandmother's Missouri farm with her husband and baby son, she learns that these lessons that most enrich our lives often come unexpectedly. Kate has to convince Grandma Rose, who has become stubborn and forgetful, that she should move off her beloved land and into a nursing home. But Kate knows such a change would break her grandmother's heart. --adapted from back cover
Author: Wingate, Lisa, author.
Published: 2018 2003
Call Number: F WINGATE
Format: Books
Summary: Twenty-one-year-old Jenilee Lane and her elderly neighbor, Eudora Gibson, learn how to face the future and the past, respectively, when Jenilee rescues Eudora after a tornado and then embarks on another rescue: collecting photos, letters, and other fragments scattered from her neighbors' houses during the storm. Twenty-one-year-old Jenilee Lane's dreams are as narrow as the sky is wide. A tornado has ripped across the Missouri farmland where she's made her home. She takes action to rescue her elderly neighbor, Eudora Gibson, from the cellar that she's trapped in. She must go to the nearby town, Poetry, where the townspeople have gathered in their last building left standing. Jenilee Lane is compelled to collect items that have been strewn about in the tornado's wake: letters, photographs, and mementos that might mean something to people who have lost everything. --adapted from back cover
Author: Twitty, Michael, 1977- author.
Published: 2017
Call Number: 641.59
Format: Books
Summary: "Culinary historian Michael W. Twitty brings a fresh perspective to our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry--both black and white--through food, from Africa to America and from slavery to freedom. Southern food is integral to the American culinary tradition, yet the question of who "owns" it is one of the most provocative touchpoints in our ongoing struggles over race. In this unique memoir, Twitty takes readers to the white-hot center of this fight, tracing the roots of his own family and the charged politics surrounding the origins of soul food, barbecue, and all Southern cuisine. Twitty travels from the tobacco and rice farms of colonial times to plantation kitchens and backbreaking cotton fields to tell of the struggles his family faced and how food enabled his ancestors' survival across three centuries. He sifts through stories, recipes, genetic tests, and historical documents, and visits Civil War battlefields in Virginia, synagogues in Alabama, and black-owned organic farms in Georgia. As he takes us through his ancestral culinary history, Twitty suggests that healing may come from embracing the discomfort of the South's past. Along the way, he reveals a truth that is more than skin deep--the power of food to bring the kin of the enslaved and their former slaveholders to the table, where they can discover the real America together."--Jacket.
Author: Norton, Graham, 1963- author. Evernden, Clym, illustrator.
Published: 2015 2014
Call Number: B NORTON
Format: Books
Summary: Graham Norton has been entertaining audiences and having fun with some of the world's biggest stars for nearly twenty years. He is loved across the nation for his delight in the peculiar and for his ability to find humor and a common ground in all that life brings. The Life and Loves of a He Devil is Graham's funny and honest memoir on the theme of love. As he shows, it's really the things you love that make you who you are and so Graham tells his story from his Irish childhood to the present day, describing just what and who he loved - and sometimes lost - as a young boy, and his new loves and obsessions - big and small - as he's grown older. It's been ten years since his last book and being a decade older Graham has come to realize that what makes a life interesting is less what happens to you and more what inspires and drives you, what you love. From Dolly Parton and dogs to wine and Ireland, Graham tells of his life and loves with characteristic humor and outrageous candor.
Author: Cantero, Edgar, 1981- author.
Published: 2014
Call Number: F CANTERO
Format: Books
Summary: Inheriting an eerie estate in the Virginia woods, a skeptical man wonders about his family member's suicide and realizes that the house harbors both ghosts and terrible secrets, in a story told through journal entries, scrawled notes, and security footage.
Author: Chapman, Vannetta, author.
Published: 2012
Call Number: F CHAPMAN
Format: Books
Summary: There's more to the quaint northern Indiana town of Shipshewana than handcrafted quilts, Amish-made furniture, immaculate farms and close-knit families. When a dead girl is found floating in a local pond, murder is also afoot. And Reuben Fisher is in jail as the suspect. --adapted from back cover
Author: Leckie, Robert, 1920-
Published: 2010 1957
Call Number: B LECKIE
Format: Books
Summary: Leckie provides one of the most riveting first-person accounts ever to come out of WWII. Follow his odyssey, from basic training to the raging battles in the Pacific.
Author: Lee, Harper.
Published: 1999
Call Number: LEE HSF
Format: Books
Author: Gabaldon, Diana, author.
Published: 1991
Call Number: F GABALDON
Format: Books
Summary: Hurtled back through time more than two hundred years to Scotland in 1743, Claire Randall finds herself caught in the midst of an unfamiliar world torn apart by violence, pestilence, and revolution and haunted by her growing feelings for James Fraser, a young soldier. "The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach--an 'outlander'--in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of Our Lord...1743." --Front jacket flap.
Author: Johnson, James P., 1937-
Published: 1987
Call Number: 974.9 J
Format: Books
Call Number: 133.122
Format: Books
Call Number: 641.8654 ATK
Format: Books
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