<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[subject results for "Novelists, American — 20th century — Biography."]]></title><description><![CDATA[subject results for "Novelists, American — 20th century — Biography."]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/ottawa/rss/search?query=%22Novelists%2C%20American%20%E2%80%94%2020th%20century%20%E2%80%94%20Biography.%22&amp;searchType=subject&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 02:42:06 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[The Year of Magical Thinking]]></title><description><![CDATA["Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later - the night before New Year's Eve - the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma. This ... book is Didion's attempt to make sense of the "weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness ... about marriage and children and memory ... about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself."--Dust jacket.]]></description><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C429360</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C429360</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Didion, Joan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/429360026</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781400043149/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=L</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Year of Magical Thinking]]></title><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C630441</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C630441</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Didion, Joan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/630441026</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780307279729/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=C</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[True Crime]]></title><description><![CDATA["Patricia Cornwell is best known for her international bestselling thriller series about forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta. Every story comes from somewhere, and Scarpetta's began when Patricia Cornwell embedded herself in a morgue. In this ... memoir, Cornwell excavates her own life, detailing her traumatic childhood being raised by neglectful parents, her father abandoning the young family on Christmas day, her mother being institutionalized twice, an abusive foster family, and developing a parental relationship with evangelist Billy Graham's wife Ruth. Cornwell depicts a harrowing hospitalization and near-death car accident. She unflinchingly shares overcoming obstacles that later gave her the ambition to become an award-winning police reporter. From there it was research in a medical examiner's office that would turn into a full-time job. She would become a forensic expert and worldwide publishing phenomenon. Cornwell leaves no stone unturned in this deeply candid account of her life, offering inspiring insight into what made her into the international sensation she is today"--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1709654</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1709654</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cornwell, Patricia Daniels]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1709654026</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781538778449/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=C</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ghost Stories]]></title><description><![CDATA["Ghost Stories is an intimate meditation on grief, memory, and enduring love, written after the death of Siri Hustvedt’s husband, Paul Auster. The book includes personal, never-before-seen writing by Auster—letters and notes to Siri and his last unfinished book addressed to his grandson, Letters to Miles. The memoir is both an elegy and a reckoning, a chronicle of personal loss that also bears witness to the sorrows of recent years—the tragic deaths of Hustvedt’s stepson and granddaughter. Hustvedt explores how grief unmoors time, how the intimacy of a shared life continues to mark the everyday, and how the body experiences the absence of love as a presence. She reflects on the things and papers Auster left behind, the forty-three years they spent together, the rituals of mourning, and the nature of language, memory, and the self."--Publisher.]]></description><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1709613</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1709613</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hustvedt, Siri]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1709613026</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668218945/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=C</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Notes to John]]></title><description><![CDATA["In November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had 'a rough few years.' She described the sessions in a journal she created for her husband, John Gregory Dunne. For several months, Didion recorded conversations with the psychiatrist in meticulous detail. The initial sessions focused on alcoholism, adoption, depression, anxiety, guilt, and the heartbreaking complexities of her relationship with her daughter Quintana. The subjects evolved to include her work, which she was finding difficult to maintain for sustained periods. There were discussions about her own childhood--misunderstandings and lack of communication with her mother and father, her early tendency to anticipate catastrophe--and the question of legacy, or, as she put it, 'what it's been worth.' The analysis would continue for more than a decade. ... [This is] an ... intimate account that reveals sides of her that were unknown, but the voice is unmistakably hers--questioning, courageous, and clear in the face of a wrenchingly painful journey"--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1643062</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1643062</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Didion, Joan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1643062026</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593803677/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1511311902</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cormac McCarthy]]></title><description><![CDATA["Cormac McCarthy is hailed as one of America's greatest novelists, often compared to Melville and Faulkner, and his epic western Blood Meridian is widely considered a masterpiece of historical fiction. In his body of work, the nation's story is told in incomparably vivid shades of violence, greed, and love. Early in life, McCarthy chose to devote himself almost exclusively to his literary pursuits. Cormac McCarthy: A Legacy Revisited movingly details what this choice cost him in his family relationships, his marriages, and his friendships. Mentally and physically restless, often solitary and yet gregarious and charming, McCarthy lived as wildly, complexly, and close to the bone as any of his characters, journeying often to remote locations, communing deeply with the natural world, and traversing intricate emotional and psychological terrain. In his novels, he reported wisdom hard-learned through harsh experience and intense observation.... [This book] recounts his story from poverty to riches, obscurity to worldwide acclaim."--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1732017</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1732017</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Daugherty, Tracy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1732017026</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Legacy Revisited</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250348722/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1563985044</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to Lose your Mother]]></title><description><![CDATA["From the political writer and podcaster, a ferociously honest and disarmingly funny memoir about her elusive mother's encroaching dementia and a reckoning with her complicated childhood"--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1657946</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1657946</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jong-Fast, Molly]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1657946026</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>A Daughter&apos;s Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593656488/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=eBook-3936315-AH</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to Lose your Mother]]></title><description><![CDATA["From the political writer and podcaster, a ferociously honest and disarmingly funny memoir about her elusive mother's encroaching dementia and a reckoning with her complicated childhood"--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1642935</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1642935</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jong-Fast, Molly]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1642935026</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Daughter&apos;s Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593656471/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1473798070</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Moveable Feast]]></title><description><![CDATA[Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. It is his classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, filled with irreverent portraits of other expatriate luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein; tender memories of his first wife, Hadley; and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft. It is a literary feast, brilliantly evoking the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the youthful spirit, unbridled creativity, and unquenchable enthusiasm that Hemingway himself epitomized. Since Hemingway's personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined the changes made to the text before publication. Now, this special restored edition presents the original manuscript as the author prepared it to be published. Featuring a personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway, Ernest's sole surviving son, and an introduction by grandson of the author, Seán Hemingway, editor of this edition.]]></description><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C556605</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C556605</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hemingway, Ernest]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/556605026</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Restored Edition</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781416591313/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=C</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small Victories]]></title><description><![CDATA["Anne Lamott writes about community, family and faith in essays that are wise, irreverent, funny and poignant - a style that has become her trademark. Now in Small Victories, Lamott has once again written a brilliant and insightful book that offers a message of hope that celebrates the triumph of light over the darkness in our lives. Our victories over hardships and pain may be small, they may be infrequent, but they keep us going and they often come from the most unexpected places: within ourselves. Lamott shows how we can forgive thoughtless family members; spotlights the value of turning toward love even in the most hopeless situations (the death of a loved one, a cancer diagnosis), and shows how to find the joy in getting lost in traffic while racing to the aid of a sick friend. Insightful and irreverent, the stories in Small Victories are proof that the human spirit is resilient and irrepressible"--]]></description><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C846987</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C846987</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lamott, Anne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/846987026</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781410473462/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=C</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small Victories]]></title><description><![CDATA["Anne Lamott writes about community, family and faith in essays that are wise, irreverent, funny and poignant - a style that has become her trademark. Now in Small Victories, Lamott has once again written a brilliant and insightful book that offers a message of hope that celebrates the triumph of light over the darkness in our lives. Our victories over hardships and pain may be small, they may be infrequent, but they keep us going and they often come from the most unexpected places: within ourselves. Lamott shows how we can forgive thoughtless family members; spotlights the value of turning toward love even in the most hopeless situations (the death of a loved one, a cancer diagnosis), and shows how to find the joy in getting lost in traffic while racing to the aid of a sick friend. Insightful and irreverent, the stories in Small Victories are proof that the human spirit is resilient and irrepressible"--]]></description><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C778396</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C778396</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lamott, Anne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/778396026</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781594486296/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=C</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philip Roth Unmasked]]></title><description><![CDATA[Explore the life of Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning novelist Philip Roth. He steadily earned his reputation as a man of letters, commanding ownership of the Jewish-American novel and making Newark, New Jersey, a literary destination, while practically inventing the genre of factual-fictional autobiography.]]></description><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C741209</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C741209</guid><category><![CDATA[DVD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/741209026</comments><format>DVD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781608838691/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=C&amp;upc=841887018722</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some Assembly Required]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here, Anne Lamott enters a new and unexpected chapter of her own life: grandmotherhood. Stunned to learn that her son, Sam, is about to become a father at nineteen, Lamott begins a journal about the first year of her grandson Jax's life. In careful and often hilarious detail, Lamott and Sam--about whom she first wrote so movingly in Operating Instructions--struggle to balance their changing roles with the demands of college and work, as they both forge new relationships with Jax's mother, who has her own ideas about how to raise a child. Lamott writes about the complex feelings that Jax fosters in her, recalling her own experiences with Sam when she was a single mother. Over the course of the year, the rhythms of life, death, family, and friends unfold in surprising and joyful ways. This is the true story of how the birth of a baby changes a family.--From publisher description.]]></description><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C652947</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C652947</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lamott, Anne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/652947026</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Journal of My Son&apos;s First Son</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781594488412/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=C</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kitchen Yarns]]></title><description><![CDATA["From childhood to singledom, raising a family, divorce and marriage to Michael Ruhlman, Ann Hood has long appreciated the power of a good meal. Growing up, she tasted love in her grandmother’s tomato sauce and dreamed of her mother’s Fancy Lady Sandwiches. Hood cooked roast pork to warm her first apartment, found hope in her daughter’s omelette and fell in love—with her husband and his chicken stock. Hood tracks her lifelong journey in the kitchen with twenty-seven essays, each accompanied by a recipe (or a few). In “Carbonara Quest”, searching for the perfect spaghetti helped her cope with lonely nights as a flight attendant. In the award-winning “The Golden Silver Palate”, she recounts the history of her fail-safe dinner party recipe for Chicken Marbella and how it failed her. Hood’s simple, comforting recipes include meatballs, Beef Stew, Fried Chicken, grilled cheese and a peach pie."--]]></description><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1159937</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1159937</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hood, Ann]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1159937026</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Notes on Life, Love, and Food</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780393249507/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=C</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kitchen Yarns]]></title><description><![CDATA[In this warm collection of personal essays and recipes, Ann Hood nourishes both our bodies and our souls. From her Italian American childhood through singlehood, raising and feeding a growing family, divorce, and a new marriage to food writer Michael Ruhlman, Ann Hood has long appreciated the power of a good meal. With Hood's signature humor and tenderness, Kitchen Yarns spills tales of loss and starting from scratch, family love and feasts with friends, and how the perfect meal is one that tastes like home.]]></description><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1154363</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1154363</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hood, Ann]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1154363026</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>Notes on Life, Love, and Food</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781432860448/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=C</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Uptown Local]]></title><description><![CDATA["As an aspiring novelist in his early twenties, Cory Leadbeater was presented with an opportunity to work for a well-known writer whose identity was kept confidential. Since the tumultuous days of childhood, Cory had sought refuge from the rougher parts of life in the pages of books. Suddenly, he found himself the personal assistant to a titan of literature: Joan Didion. In the nine years that followed, Cory shared Joan's rarefied world, transformed not only by her blazing intellect but by her generous friendship and mentorship. Together they recited poetry in the mornings, dined with Supreme Court justices, attended art openings, smoked a single cigarette before bed. But secretly, Cory was spiraling. He reeled from the death of a close friend. He spent his weekends at a federal prison, visiting his father as he served time for fraud. He struggled day after day to write the novel that would validate him as a real writer. And meanwhile, the forces of addiction and depression loomed large.... The Uptown Local explores the fault lines of class, family, loss, and creativity. It is a love letter to a cultural icon--and a moving testament to the relationships that sustain us in the eternal pursuit of a life worth living."--Publisher.]]></description><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1569349</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1569349</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Leadbeater, Cory]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1569349026</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Joy, Death, and Joan Didion : A Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780063371576/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=C</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somehow]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Somehow: Thoughts on Love, Lamott explores the transformative power that love has in our lives: how it surprises us, forces us to confront uncomfortable truths, reminds us of our humanity, and guides us forward. "Love just won't be pinned down," she says. "It is in our very atmosphere" and lies at the heart of who we are. We are, Lamott says, creatures of love. --]]></description><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1565766</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1565766</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lamott, Anne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1565766026</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>Thoughts on Love</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593862292/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1424879311</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somehow]]></title><description><![CDATA["In Somehow: Thoughts on Love, Lamott explores the transformative power that love has in our lives: how it surprises us, forces us to confront uncomfortable truths, reminds us of our humanity, and guides us forward. "Love just won't be pinned down," she says. "It is in our very atmosphere" and lies at the heart of who we are. We are, Lamott says, creatures of love. In each chapter of Somehow, Lamott refracts all the colors of the spectrum. She explores the unexpected love for a partner later in life. The bruised (and bruising) love for a child who disappoints, even frightens. The sustaining love among a group of sinners, for a community in transition, in the wider world. The lessons she underscores are that love enlightens as it educates, comforts as it energizes, sustains as it surprises. Somehow is Anne Lamott's twentieth book, and in it she draws from her own life and experience to delineate the intimate and elemental ways that love buttresses us in the face of despair as it galvanizes us to believe that tomorrow will be better than today."--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1548407</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1548407</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lamott, Anne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1548407026</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Thoughts on Love</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593714416/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=C</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mad at the World]]></title><description><![CDATA["This first full-length biography of the Nobel Laureate to appear in a quarter century explores John Steinbeck's long apprenticeship as a writer struggling through the depths of the Great Depression, and his rise to greatness with masterpieces such as The Red Pony, Of Mice and Men, and The Grapes of Wrath. His most poignant and evocative writing emerged in his sympathy for the Okies fleeing the dust storms of the Midwest, the migrant workers toiling in California's fields, and the laborers on Cannery Row, reflecting a social engagement--paradoxical for all of his natural misanthropy--radically different from the writers of the so-called Lost Generation. A man by turns quick-tempered, contrary, compassionate, and ultimately brilliant, Steinbeck took aim at the corrosiveness of power, the perils of income inequality, and the growing urgency of ecological collapse, all of which drive fierce public debate to this day"--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1250964</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1250964</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Souder, William]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1250964026</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Life of John Steinbeck</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780393292268/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=C</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private Investigations]]></title><description><![CDATA["In Private Investigations, twenty fan-favorite mystery writers share their first-person stories of grappling with mysteries they've personally encountered, at home and in the world. Caroline Leavitt regales us with a medical mystery, a time when she lost her voice and doctors couldn't find a cure; Martin Limon travels back to his military stint in Korea to grapple with the chaos of war; Anne Perry ponders the magical powers of stories conjured from writers' imaginations, and more"--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1224968</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1224968</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1224968026</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Mystery Writers on the Secrets, Riddles, and Wonders of Their Lives</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781580059213/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=C</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inheritance]]></title><description><![CDATA["The acclaimed and beloved author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets--a real-time exploration of the staggering discovery she made last year about her father, and her struggle to piece together the hidden the story of her own life"--]]></description><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1131637</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1131637</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shapiro, Dani]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1131637026</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781524732714/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=C</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inheritance]]></title><description><![CDATA["In the spring of 2016, a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis gave Dani Shapiro the stunning news that her father was not her biological father. Her entire history, the life she had lived, crumbled beneath her. Inheritance is a book about secrets--secrets within families, kept out of shame or self-protectiveness; secrets we keep in the name of love. It is about a woman's urgent quest to unlock the story of her own identity, which was scrupulously hidden from her for more than fifty years."--Back cover.]]></description><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1161850</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1161850</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shapiro, Dani]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1161850026</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781432861803/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=C</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inheritance]]></title><description><![CDATA["The acclaimed and beloved author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets--a real-time exploration of the staggering discovery she made last year about her father, and her struggle to piece together the hidden the story of her own life"--]]></description><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1158545</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1158545</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shapiro, Dani]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1158545026</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781524732721/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=eBook-1403235-AH</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Art of Becoming A Citizen]]></title><description><![CDATA["'He just had the presidency stolen from him.' Gail Godwin first heard these words in November 1960, one of a crush of reporters eagerly awaiting the first postelection meeting between Kennedy and Nixon. Hearing an uncanny echo in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Godwin embarks on a project to reflect on that long-ago moment and offset a mounting pressure of dread about the looming election ahead. In looking back at her life as a young woman--her travels abroad, early marriage, friendships with Kurt Vonnegut and John Irving--juxtaposed with the lead-up to the recent election, she discovers an understory that surprises her. She asks herself, 'What, at this late date, did I still want to become?'"--Publisher.]]></description><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1717290</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1717290</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Godwin, Gail]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1717290026</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781639738748/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1545495176</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[True Nature]]></title><description><![CDATA["Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), a visionary writer and thinker, was a person of myriad contradictions. After his teenage demand that his name be removed from the Social Register, Matthiessen nonetheless attended Yale and cut his teeth in postwar Paris, working for the CIA and founding the now famous literary magazine The Paris Review with George Plimpton; he then made his living as a fisherman on Long Island while becoming a writer, whose promising early fiction (garnering him invitations to drinks with top New York editors) soon existed alongside such works as his now-classic Wildlife in America (1959), arguably the first significant "environmental writing," before that movement and category even existed (with its damning of white colonizers, too, before that was the norm). His pursuit of spiritual and cultural understandings took him to the far-flung and diverse horizons, from his famous "Snow Leopard" journey in the Himalayas to his travels with biologists in the Serengeti, his canoeing through rapids in the Amazon in search of a Miocene-epoch fossil, his embedding with the Hadza people in Tanzania, his lifelong battle to get justice for the wrongly accused Native American prisoner Leonard Peltier. Meanwhile, Matthiessen, a sensitive champion of people's rights, was a philanderer and an inattentive father; he was an ever unsatisfied seeker yet a devoted practitioner and teacher of Zen. Episodes in this amazing life are given page-turning immediacy by ... Lance Richardson, who reveals throughout the ways that Matthiessen's uncanny gifts and drive toward his subject matter allowed him to discover deeper connections between ecological decline, racism, and labor exploitation, between the Vietnam war and political corruption-to see clearly, so far ahead of his time and ours, that "in a damaged human habitat, all problems merge.""--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1669093</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C1669093</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Richardson, Lance]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1669093026</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781524748319/MC.GIF&amp;client=ottap&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=C</image_url></item></channel></rss>