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Central - Adult Nonfiction
814 PATCH
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814 PATCH
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Columbia Pike - Adult Nonfiction
814 PATCH
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814 PATCH
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Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction
814 PATCH
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814 PATCH
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""Any story that starts will also end." As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart. At the center of These Precious Days is the title essay, a surprising and moving meditation on an unexpected friendship that explores "what it means to be seen, to find someone...
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Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction
248.32 LAMOT
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248.32 LAMOT
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Westover - Recently Returned
248.32 LAMOT
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248.32 LAMOT
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Cherrydale - Adult Audiobooks
CD 248.32 LAMOT
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CD 248.32 LAMOT
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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Lamott has coalesced everything she knows about prayer to three simple fundamentals. Asking for assistance from a higher power, appreciating what we have that is good, and feeling awe at the world around us-- that can get us through the day and can show us the way forward. Lamott recounts how she came to these insights, explains what they mean to her and how they have helped, and explores how others have embraced these same ideas.
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Collects the author's recent essays exploring motherhood as an older mom, her life as a reader, her relationships with her parents, her newspaper career, and her experiences as a novelist.
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In this poignant and inciting collection of literary essays, Megan Stielstra tells stories to ward off fears both personal and universal as she grapples toward a better way to live. In her titular piece "The Wrong Way To Save Your Life," she answers the question of what has value in our lives-a question no longer rhetorical when the apartment above her family's goes up in flames. "Here is My Heart" sheds light on Megan's close relationship with her...
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Delve into the stories from Amy Tan's life that inspired bestselling novels like The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan has touched millions of readers with haunting and sympathetic novels of cultural complexity and profound empathy. With the same spirit and humor that characterize her acclaimed novels, she now shares her insight into her own life and how she escaped the curses of her past to make a future of her own. She takes us on...
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Central - Adult Nonfiction
814 EPHRO
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814 EPHRO
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Columbia Pike - Adult Nonfiction
814 EPHRO
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814 EPHRO
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A whopping big celebration of the work of the late, great Nora Ephron, America's funniest-- and most acute-- writer, famous for her brilliant takes on life as we've been living it these last forty years.-
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Cherrydale - Adult Audiobooks
CD 813 PATCH
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CD 813 PATCH
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3 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
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Blending literature and memoir, Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder, Run, and Bel Canto, examines her deepest commitments-to writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husband-creating a resonant portrait of a life in This is the Story of a Happy Marriage. This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage takes us into the very real world of Ann Patchett's life. Stretching from her childhood to the present day, from a disastrous early marriage to a...