family

A family memoir in which author Mary Lee Settle reflects upon the life of her grandmother Addie, and discusses how the choices and circumstances of her ancestors affected her own life.

"The stories of the children whose families were torn apart as a result of a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in 1944"--.

Looks at the life of Jeremy Iverster who came out as transgender, and emerged as an advocate for the transgender community.

"On a hot July night on Cape Cod, at the age of 14, Brodeur became a confidante to her mother's affair with her husband's closest friend. Malabar came to rely on her daughter to help, but when the affair had calamitous consequences for everyone involved, Brodeau was driven into a precarious marriage of her own, and then into a deep depression. In her memoir she examines how the people close to us can break our hearts simply because they have access to them, and the lies we tell in order to justify the choices we make"--OCLC.

Memoir of Randy Lindsay about his family and the things he discovered while researching his family tree, which he began doing after experiencing dreams where deceased relatives urged him to complete the family tree. Taking a DNA test, Randy finds a possible genetic match to a sister he never knew about, which launched him on a quest to find his real, biological family.

"Mike Birbiglia never wanted to be a father. In fact, there are seven very specific reasons he never wanted a kid, including his aversion to sticky surfaces and his less-than-ideal genes: he's had Lyme Disease, a bladder tumor, diabetes, and dangerous sleepwalking, to name a few. Not to mention the fact that Mike generally doesn't think people (including himself) are really all that great. Then Mike's wife, poet Jen Hope Stein, becomes infected with the contagion 'baby fever' and convinces him she'll do all of the parenting and that their lives don't have to change because of future baby Oona. Yes, he bought that line. In a hilarious memoir about the trials and tribulations of parenting, Mike Birbiglia shares anecdotes all parents can relate to, including laugh-out-loud observations on the lead up to being a parent, the birth of the baby, and the very messy aftermath of bringing this new one home...for a forever stay! Borne out of and based on his Broadway show The New One, and entirely expanded upon with at least 50% new material for this book, new dad Birbiglia will have you crying from laughter and smiling with joy as he falls in love with baby Oona, despite how smelly she is! Mike's candid thoughts on his reluctance about becoming a dad, what he describes as being the 'pudgy milkless vice president of his family,' laced with Stein's poetry combine to form a heartfelt and hilarious book"--.

Michele Norris tells the story of her experiences after setting out to discover what she calls the "hidden conversation on race" taking place in the U.S. since the election of Barack Obama as president--a quest that became intensely personal when she uncovered facts about her own family's history of encounters with racism.

"[Kao Kalia Yang presents a] memoir of her family's harrowing escape from war in Laos ... a troubling portrait of the consequences of U.S. interventions in Southeast Asia; and a firsthand account of the little-seen exodus of the Hmong people, first to refugee camps in Thailand and then, for many, to new homes in Minnesota"--Back cover.

The author shares her experience growing up during 1963, an important year of the civil rights movement.

"The late Civil Rights attorney and activist shares a poignant moment from her childhood beside her wise grandmother, who taught Dovey Johnson Roundtree the values of self-worth, strength and justice that inspired the co-author's boundary-breaking career"--Provided by publisher.