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Jeannette Walls
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| Pub. Date | Edition | Phys Desc. | Availability | |
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| c2005 | 288 p. ; 24 cm. |
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| 2006. | First Scribner trade paperback edition. | 288, [11] pages : portraits ; 21 cm. | On Shelf
Oliver La Farge - Adult BIO WALLS, J |
| Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| p2010 | Simon & Schuster | 8 sound discs (ca. 9 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Southside - Media CD spoken 362.82 Wal |
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In the tradition of Mary Karr's "The Liars' Club" and Rick Bragg's "All Over But the Shouting," Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric, and severely misguided family. The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors...
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Oliver La Farge - Adult
Fiction Walls, J
Southside - Adult
Fiction Walls, J
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2009 | 1st Scribner hardcover ed. | Scribner | 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
Oliver La Farge - Adult Fiction Walls, J Southside - Adult Fiction Walls, J |
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CD spoken Fiction Walls, J
Southside - Media
CD spoken Fiction Walls, J
| Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| p2009 | Recorded Books | 8 sound discs (8 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Main Library - Media CD spoken Fiction Walls, J Southside - Media CD spoken Fiction Walls, J |
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A true-life novel about Lily Casey Smith (the author's grandmother) who at age six helped her father break horses, at age fifteen left home to teach in a frontier town, and later as a wife and mother runs a vast ranch in Arizona where she survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy--but despite a life of hardscrabble drudgery still remains a woman of indomitable spirit.
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| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2013 | 1st Scribner hardcover ed. | Scribner | 269 p. ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Library - Adult has 2 Fiction Walls, J |
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2013. | Large print edition. | Thorndike Press | 395 pages ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
Oliver La Farge - Large Type Fiction Walls, J |
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Two motherless sisters, Bean and Liz, are shuttled to Virginia, where their Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying mansion that's been in their family for generations. When school starts in the fall, Bean easily adjusts and makes friends, and Liz becomes increasingly withdrawn. Then something happens to Liz and Bean is left to challenge the injustice of the adult world.
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4) Dish
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Gossip. It's more than just hearsay, society columns, and supermarket tabloids. It has, like it or not, become a mainstay of American pop culture. In Dish, industry insider Jeannette Walls gives this provocative subject its due, offering a comprehensive, serious exploration of gossip and its social, historical, and political significance. Examining the topic from the inside out, Walls looks at the players; the origins of gossip, from birth of People...
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| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2010 | 1. ed. | Suma de letras | 467 p. ; 23 cm. | Español | On Shelf
Southside - Adult / Spanish Fiction Walls, J |
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| Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2017] | Lions Gate Entertainment | 1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. | English |
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Chronicling the adventures of an eccentric, resilient and tight-knit family. A remarkable story of unconditional love. A young woman who, influenced by the joyfully wild nature of her deeply dysfunctional father, found the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms.
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The Cold War is the first test for the new superpower. The Challenger disaster and 9/11 are tragedies that challenge the nation. From the television to the credit card and the personal computer, technology drives America into the 21st Century.
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