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MEMOIRSGrade 10
2013-2014
LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE
WALDEN ON WHEELS BY KEN ILGUNAS
"In this frank and witty memoir, Ken
Ilgunas lays bare the existential terror of graduating from the
University of Buffalo with $32,000 of
student debt. Ilgunas set himself an
ambitious mission: get out of debt as
quickly as possible. Inspired by the
frugality and philosophy of Henry David Thoreau, Ilgunas undertook
a 3-year transcontinental journey,
working in Alaska as a tour guide, garbage picker, and night cook to
pay off his student loans before
hitchhiking home to New York.”296 pages
AMERICAN SHAOLIN BY MATTHEW POLLY
“Growing up a 98-pound weakling tormented by bullies in the
schoolyards of Kansas, Matthew Polly dreamed of one day journeying to the Shaolin
Temple in China to become the toughest fighter in the world,
like Caine in his favorite 1970s TV series Kung Fu….The story of
the 2 years Matthew spent in China living, studying, and performing with the Shaolin monks. The Chinese term for
tough training is chi ku (‘eating bitter’) and Matthew quickly
learned to appreciate the phrase.”
366 pages
“An account of the author's existence, observations and
reflections, as a seasonal park ranger in southeast
Utah.”337 pages
DESERT SOLITAIRE: A SEASON IN THE WILDERNESS BY EDWARD ABBEY
ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL BY JAMES HERRIOT
Delve into the magical,
unforgettable world of
James Herriot, the
world's most beloved
veterinarian, and his
menagerie of
heartwarming, funny,
and tragic animal
patients.
499 pages
A BIG LITTLE LIFE: A MEMOIR OF A JOYFUL DOG NAMED TRIXIE BY DEAN KOONTZ
The author presents a
tribute to his late golden
retriever, Trixie, that
describes his family's
adoption of the retired
service animal, the
numerous lessons he
learned throughout their
relationship, and the
family's grief upon her
passing.
271 pagesInterlibrary Loan at
Voorheesville Public Library
THUNDER DOG: THE TRUE STORY OF A BLIND MAN, HIS GUIDE DOG, AND THE TRIUMPH OF TRUST AT GROUND ZERO BY MICHAEL HINGSON
Interlibrary Loan at the Voorheesville Public Library
232 pages
MY LIFE IN FRANCE BY JULIA CHILD
The legendary food expert describes her years in Paris, Marseille, and Provence and her
journey from a young woman who could not
cook or speak any French to the publication
of her cookbooks and becoming "The French
Chef.“
317 pages
HOW STARBUCKS SAVED MY LIFE: A SON OF PRIVILEGE LEARNS TO LIVE LIKE EVERYONE ELSE BY MICHAEL GATES GILL
In his 50’s, Michael Gates Gill had it all. By the time he turned 60, he had lost everything. Then as he sat in a
Manhattan Starbucks, the manager, half
joking, offered him a job. With nothing to lose, he took it, and went from a Brooks
Brothers suit to serving coffee in a green
uniform. 265 pages
JOURNALS BY KURT COBAIN
Kurt Cobain filled dozens ofnotebooks with lyrics,drawings, and writings
about his plans for Nirvanaand his thoughts about
fame, the state of music,and the people who bought
his music….his journalsreveal an artist who loved
records, who knew thehistory of rock, and wasdetermined to define his
place in that history.294 pages
CLAPTON: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
“One of the very bestrock autobiographies
ever.”343 pages
Available at the Voorheesville Public Library
921 CLAPTON
PINK BOOTS AND A MACHETE: MY JORUNEY FROM NFL CHEERLEADER TO NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORER BY MIREYA MAYOR
301 pages
GROWING UP AMISH: A MEMOIR BY IRA WAGLER
One fateful starless
night, 17-year-old Ira
Wagler got up at 2 AM,
left a scribbled note
under his pillow, packed
all of his earthly
belongings into in a
little black duffel bag,
and walked away from
his home in the Amish
settlement of
Bloomfield, Iowa.
271 pages
TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE BY MITCH ALBOM
Recounts his weeklyvisits with a dyingteacher who years
beforehad set him straight.
“A wonderful book, astory of the heart told
bya writer with soul.”
192 pages
LOST IN PLACE BY MARK SALZMAN
The oldest child in a middle class
household in Connecticut, the son
of a piano teacher and a social
worker, by age six the author was
an eccentric with enormous
aspirations – none of them ever
fulfilled – who stood out not only
from his more conventional parents
and brother and sister but from
everyone else in his suburban
neighborhood. A hilarious memoir.
269 pages
TRUE NOTEBOOKS: A WRITER’S YEAR AT JUVENILE HALL BY MARK SALZMAN
In 1997, the author paid areluctant visit to a writing
Class at L.A.’s CentralJuvenile Hall, a lockup forviolent teenage offenders,
many of them chargedwith murder. What he found so moved and
astonished him that he began to teach there
regularly.330 pages
THE HUNGRY OCEAN: A SWORDBOAT CAPTAIN’S JOURNEY BY LINDA GREENLAW
She's smart, hard-working and good at
what she does, though sometimes she
wishes she had a life. Greenlaw is
captain of the Hannah Boden, sister
ship to the Andrea Gail, the sword-
fishing boat whose disappearance was
described with agonizing verisimilitude
in Sebastian Junger's bestseller, The
Perfect Storm. Greenlaw tells a
comparatively quotidian tale, "the true
story of a real, and typical, sword-
fishing trip, from leaving the dock to
returning.“ 258 pages
A WALK IN THE WOODS: REDISCOVERING AMERICA ON THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL BY BILL BRYSON
After living for many years in England, Bill Bryson moved
back to the United States and decided to reacquaint himself with his country by taking to this uninterrupted "hiker's
highway." Before long, Bryson and his infamous
walking companion, Stephen Katz, are stocking up on
insulated long johns, noodles and manuals for avoiding
bear attacks as they prepare to set off on a walk that is
both amusingly ill-conceived and surprisingly adventurous.
276 pages
PILGRIMAGE ON A STEEL RIDE: A MEMOIR ABOUT MEN AND MOTORCYCLES BY GARY PAULSEN
At 57, with heart
disease and a bad case
of wanderlust, Gary
Paulsen decided to get
himself the motorcycle
of his dreams and take
it to Alaska from his
home in New Mexico.
This is his story.
179 pages
A GIRL NAMED ZIPPY: GROWING UP SMALL IN MOORELAND, INDIANA BY HAVEN KIMMEL
When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed
"Zippy" for the way she would bolt around the house, this
small girl was possessed of big eyes and even bigger ears. In
this witty and lovingly told memoir, Kimmel takes readers
back to a time when small-town America was caught in the amber of the innocent
postwar period-people helped their neighbors, went to church on Sunday, and kept barnyard
animals in their backyards.
Available at the Voorheesville Public Library
921 KIMMEL
ROCKET BOYS BY HOMER HICKAM, JR.
14-year-old Homer Hickam
decided in 1957 to build his
own rockets. They were his
ticket out of Coalwood, West
Virginia, a mining town
that everyone knew was
dying…He grew up to be
a NASA engineer and his
memoir of the bumpy
ride.
368 pages
IDENTICAL STRANGERS: A MEMOIR OF TWINS SEPARATED & REUNITED BY ELYSE SCHEIN
Elyse had always known she was adopted, but it
wasn't until her mid-thirties that she searched for her biological mother. She was not prepared for the life-changing news: she had an identical
twin sister.270 pages
WILD: FROM LOST TO FOUND ON THE PACIFIC CREST TRAIL BY CHERYL STRAYED
Facing down rattlesnakes & black bears, intense heat
& snowfalls, beauty & loneliness, Strayed pieces
her life back together again.
315 pages
Available at the Voorheesville Public Library
921 STRAYED
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X BY MALCOLM X
If there was any one man who
articulated the anger, the
struggle, and the beliefs of
African Americans in the 1960s,
that man was Malcolm X. His
“Autobiography” is the result of a
unique collaboration between
Alex Haley and Malcolm X,
whose voice and philosophy
resonate from every page, just as
His experience and his
intelligence continue to speak to
millions. 500 pages
Available at the Voorheesville Public Library
921 X
“By turns shocking and lyrical, unblinking and raw,
the searingly honest memoirs of Eldridge
Cleaver are a testament to his unique place in
American history. Cleaver writes in Soul on Ice, "I'm perfectly aware that I'm in prison, that I'm a Negro,
that I've been a rapist, and that I have a Higher Uneducation." What
Cleaver shows us, on the pages of this now classic
autobiography, is how much he was a man.”
242 pages
SOUL ON ICEBY ELDRIDGE CLEAVER
“In 1959, Griffin headed to New Orleans, darkened his skin and immersed himself
in black society, then traveled to several states until he could no longer
stand the racism, segregation and degrading
living conditions.”200 pages
BLACK LIKE ME BY JOHN HOWARD GRIFFIN
COLORED PEOPLE BY HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR.
America's most celebrated black scholar reminisces to his
daughters about his boyhood in the polluted, dying Allegheny Mountains' papermill town of
Piedmont, West Virginia.…a world shifting from segregation to
integration and from colored to Negro to black, Gates evokes a bygone time and place as he
moves from his birth in 1949 to 1969, when he goes off to Yale University after a year at West
Virginia's Potomac State College…. a story of boyhood,
family, segregation, the pre-Civil Rights era, and the era when Civil
Rights filtered down from television to local reality. 216
pages
Available at the Voorheesville Public Library
921 GATES
“A fiercely honest autobiography of growing up Chinese-American in
California chronicles Kingston's struggle to
balance the “ghosts'' of her Chinese tradition with her new American values.”
209 pages
THE WOMAN WARRIOR: MEMOIRS OF A GIRLHOOD AMONG GHOSTS BY MAXINE HONG KINGSTON
HOLE IN MY LIFE BY JACK GANTOS
Just 20 years old, Gantos was in a medium security prison for his
participation in a get rich-quick drug scam. Scared silly by the violence he saw around him
daily, Gantos's only lifeline was a battered copy of The Brothers
Karamazov, which he painstakingly turned into an
impromptu journal by scratching his own thoughts into the tiny
spaces between the lines.200 pages
THIS BOY’S LIFE BY TOBIAS WOLFF
“His experiences are at once
poignant and comical, and
Wolff does a masterful job of
re-creating the frustrations
and cruelties of adolescence.
His various schemes –
running away to Alaska,
forging checks, and stealing
cars - lead eventually to an
act of outrageous self-
invention that releases him
into a new world of possibility.”
288 pages
COMING OF AGE IN MISSISSIPPI BY ANNE MOODY
The story of a black girl growing
up in the desperate poverty ofrural Mississippi….To read her
book is to know what it is to have grown up
black in Mississippi in the forties and fifties -- and to have survived with pride and courage intact.
In this now classic autobiography,
She details the sights, smells, and
suffering of growing up in a racist
society and candidly reveals the
soul of a black girl who had the courage to challenge it.
384 pages
MEN WE REAPED BY JESMYN WARD
Jesmyn Wardwrites of the deaths of 5 young men in her life. “The cause of
each death was different, but she sees them all as connected to being poor and black in the rural South: Her younger brother, Joshua, was
19 when he was killed by a drunken driver who smashed into his car…Over the next 4 years, her friend
Demond was murdered after agreeing to testify against the
alleged shooter in a drug-related case; another friend committed suicide; a third died of a heart
attack at 23, probably brought on by cocaine & other drugs; & her cousin was killed when his car
collided with a train on the tracks.
256 pages
THE BONE LADY: LIFE AS A FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGIST BY MARY MANHEIN
When a skeleton is all that's
left to tell the story of a
crime, Mary H. Manhein,
otherwise known as "the bone
lady," is called in. For almost
two decades, Manhein has
used her expertise in forensic
pathology to help law
enforcement agents--locally,
nationally, and
internationally--solve their
most perplexing mysteries.
137 pages
ON WIRITNG: A MEMOIR OF THE CRAFT BY STEPHEN KING
The author shares hisinsights into the craft of
writing and offers a humorous perspective on his own experience as a
writer.291 pages
A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS BY DAVE EGGERS
A compelling voice for Generation X, Eggers
here recounts his early 20s, caring for his younger
brother after their parents'
unexpected deaths and his
endeavors in a variety of media.
437 pages