Rosalind Reisner

Read On...Life Stories

Reading Lists for Every Taste

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Scores of appeal-based reading lists cover topics you'll never find in the library catalog-from extraordinary women and overcoming adversity to sports talk, spiritual journeys, and luminous prose. With the genre of memoirs filled with so many titles and from such a variety of authors, it is hard to grasp what's available and what's worth reading. For all those who love delving into the lives of others, this Read On. volume offers help. Read On.Life Stories: Reading Lists for Every Taste offers brief descriptions of nearly 450 published memoirs, from classics like The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, to recent bestsellers like John Grogan's Marley and Me and Julie Andrews' Home. Titles are grouped together by their appeal to readers, and there is something for everyone: humorous memoirs, thrilling adventure stories, chatty celebrity reminiscences, cathartic dramas of family dysfunction, fascinating career retrospectives, and insightful stories of family and personal lives in many eras and places.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Libraries Unlimited
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 310g
• ISBN-13: 9781591587668
• ISBN-10: 1591587662
• Artikelnr.: 26872491

Autorenporträt

Rosalind Reisner is a writer, speaker, and librarian who presents programs and writes about books, reading, and readers' advisory services.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword Introduction Chapter One: Character Beating the Odds:
Survivors of Awful Childhoods Behind the Scenes: Celebrities' Lives Being
Different: Introspective Memoirs Breaking Free: Overcoming Adversity Caught
in the Crossfire: People in Danger Crossing Borders: Making a Life in a New
Country Extraordinary Women's Lives Fathers and Sons Fractured
Families: From Adversity to Insight Identity Papers: Discovering Our True
Selves Insiders: People Who Made History Marching to Their Own Drum: Unique
Individuals Mothers and Daughters, Mothers and Sons Passage to Adulthood:
Coming-of-Age Memoirs Then There Were Two: Love and Marriage Who Goes
There? Struggling with Mental Illness Chapter Two: Story Crooked Lives:
People Behaving Badly Dishing: Stories from the Kitchen Faultlines:
Difficult Family Relationships Four Seasons: Memoirs of One Year In Harm's
Way: Lives at Risk Living to Tell the Tale: Near-Death Experiences Moments
of Truth: Stories of Turning Points Off the Beaten Path: Unusual Adventures
Pet Projects: The Animals in Our Lives Relativity: Unusual Family
Experiences Rooting Around: Searching for Family Origins Sports Talk Under
Fire: Stories of War Chapter Three: Setting Eureka! Scientists at Work Far
Out: Travel to Unusual Places Foreign Exchange: Encountering Other Cultures
A Hard Day's Night: Life in the Music Business Life Support: Memoirs from
the Medical World Orient Express: Travel to the Far East and Oceania
Outside the Box: Interesting Occupations The Passing Scene: Road Trips
Primal Scenes: Vivid Childhood Memoirs Small Is Beautiful: Life in Rural
America Under African Skies Chapter Four: Language The Definite Article:
Writers on Their Lives Depth of Field: Insightful Writers Full Disclosure:
Writing from the Heart The Great Outdoors: Communing with Nature Loud and
Clear: Unique Voices Luminous Prose: Elegant Memoirs Private Worlds:
Diaries Short and Sweet: Under 200 Pages Chapter Five: Mood A Backward
Glance: Nostalgic Memoirs Growing Up Absurd: Unusual Childhoods Laugh
Lines: Memoirs on the Lighter Side Renewal: Life-Altering Experiences
Taking It On Faith: Spiritual Journeys The Ties that Bind: Bittersweet
Family Stories Undertow: Edgy, Dark Memoirs Index