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Biography and Memoir September 2019
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| Juniper: The Girl Who Was Born Too Soon by Kelley and Thomas FrenchWhat it's about: After their "micro-preemie" Juniper was born at 23 weeks, parents Kelley and Thomas French spent a frantic seven months at the hospital as she struggled to survive.
Is it for you? Don't worry -- this heartwarming memoir has a "healthily-ever-after" ending, though the French family encounters several speed bumps along the way.
What sets it apart: the Frenches are Pulitzer-lauded journalists, sharing incisive prose in alternating chapters. |
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| Raising Ryland: Our Story of Parenting a Transgender Child with No Strings Attached by Hillary Whittington with Kristine GasbarreWhat it is: Hillary Whittington's emotional account of parenting her transgender son Ryland, whose transition was famously chronicled in a 2014 viral YouTube video and a 2015 CNN documentary short.
For fans of: Amy Ellis Nutt's Becoming Nicole and Lori Duron's Raising My Rainbow.
Reviewers say: "An uplifting testimonial to the power of unconditional familial love and acceptance" (Kirkus Reviews). |
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Cat & Nat's mom truths : embarrassing stories and brutally honest advice on the extremely real struggle of motherhood
by Catherine Belknap
What it's about: Being a mom is the hardest job out there, with a tyrant boss and no HR to complain to. Cat and Nat tell never-before-told stories about the stress, guilt, joy, and laundry (oh the laundry!) of being a mom. With seven kids between them, they get real about the parts of parenting, walking you from pregnancy to the toddler years and beyond. They dole out ridiculously honest advice, and ssure you that you're already doing a great job.
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The Bold World: A Memoir of Family and Transformation
by Jodie Patterson
What it's about: Activist Jodie Patterson finds her mettle tested when her third child, three-year-old Penelope, announces, "I'm a boy."
Read it for: Patterson's candid reflections on black womanhood and parenting a transgender child.
For fans of: Nishta J. Mehra's Brown White Black and other moving family memoirs that address issues of intersectionality.
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Let Her Fly: A Father's Journey
by Ziauddin Yousafzai with Louise Carpenter
What it's about: In this intimate and sincere memoir, Pakistani education rights activist Ziauddin Yousafzai shares his life story and the lessons he has learned from his daughter, Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai (who wrote the book's foreword).
Want a taste? "I come from a family in which my gender made me special. But I did not want to be special for this reason."
What sets it apart: Rather than recounting his life story chronologically, Yousafzai does so based on the most important relationships in his life.
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Glitter and glue : a memoir
by Kelly Corrigan
What it's about: The author of the best-selling The Middle Place presents an account of her perspectives on motherhood, which have been shaped by her job as a nanny for a grieving Australian family and her character-testing experiences with her daughters.
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Nanaville : adventures in grandparenting
by Anna Quindlen
What it's about: The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and best-selling author of Object Lessons and the memoir, Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, presents a heartwarming ode to grandparenthood that celebrates her transitioning family roles and her bonds with her grandchildren.
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See Sam run : a mother's story of autism
by Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe
What it's about: Thousands of children are diagnosed with autism each year, with a rate of occurrence of 1 in 150 births, compared to 5 per 10,000 just two decades ago. This astounding escalation has professionals scrambling to explain why the devastating neurological disorder, which profoundly affects a person's language and social development, is on the rise. Are we simply getting better at diagnosing autism, or is a modern health crisis unfolding before us?
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Central Mississippi Regional Library System
100 Tamberline Street
Brandon, Mississippi 39042
601-825-0100
http://www.cmrls.lib.ms.us
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