<?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 "Women authors, American — Biography."]]></title><description><![CDATA[subject results for "Women authors, American — Biography."]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/sandiego/rss/search?query=%22Women%20authors%2C%20American%20%E2%80%94%20Biography.%22&amp;searchType=subject&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:52:09 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[All the Way to the River]]></title><description><![CDATA["An essential, universally resonant new memoir from the #1 bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and Big Magic"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1916658</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1916658</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gilbert, Elizabeth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1916658161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Love, Loss, and Liberation</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9780593540985&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judy Blume]]></title><description><![CDATA["The definitive biography of one of the world's most beloved literary voices, showcasing a life as triumphant and inspiring as the stories she crafted"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1965584</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1965584</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Oppenheimer, Mark]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1965584161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Life</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9780593714447&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Small and the Mighty]]></title><description><![CDATA["From America's favorite government teacher, a heartfelt, inspiring portrait of twelve ordinary Americans whose courage formed the character of our country. In The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn't make it into the textbooks. Not the presidents, but the telephone operators. Not the aristocrats, but the schoolteachers. Through meticulous research, she discovers history's unsung characters and brings their rich, riveting stories to light for the first time.  You'll meet a woman astride a white horse riding down Pennsylvania Ave, a young boy detained at a Japanese incarceration camp, a formerly enslaved woman on a mission to reunite with her daughter, a poet on a train, and a teacher who learns to work with her enemies. More than one thing is bombed, and multiple people surprisingly become rich. Some rich with money, and some wealthy with things that matter more.This is a book about what really made America - and Americans - great. McMahon's cast of improbable champions will become familiar friends, lighting the path we journey in our quest to make the world more just, peaceful, good, and free." -- Publisher's website.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1822446</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1822446</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McMahon, Sharon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1822446161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, From the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9780593541678&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[These Precious Days]]></title><description><![CDATA["The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1620697</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1620697</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patchett, Ann]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1620697161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Essays</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9780063136847&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[These Precious Days]]></title><description><![CDATA[In this collection of essays, Patchett turns her writer's eye on her own experiences and transforms the private into the universal, providing us all a way to look at our own worlds anew.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1680062</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1680062</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patchett, Ann]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1680062161</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>Essays</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9780063118034&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hasta la orilla del río]]></title><description><![CDATA["En el año 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert conoció a Rayya. Se hicieron amigas, luego mejores amigas, y finalmente inseparables. Cuando la tragedia irrumpió en sus vidas, la verdad salió a la luz: ambas estaban enamoradas. También eran adictas, en una trayectoria descendente hacia la catástrofe. ¿Qué pasaría si tu historia de amor más hermosa se convirtiera en tu peor pesadilla? ¿Qué pasaría si la querida amiga que te enseñó tanto sobre tus tendencias autodestructivas se convirtiera en la pareja inestable con quien las repitieras todas, con resultados desastrosos? ¿Y qué pasaría si tu desamor más devastador abriera el camino hacia tu mayor despertar? «Hasta el río» es una memoria fundamental que resonará con cualquiera que haya sido cautivo del amor --o de cualquier otra pasión, sustancia o deseo-- y que anhele, por fin, liberarse." -- Cataloger's translation.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1942787</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1942787</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[spa]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gilbert, Elizabeth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1942787161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>amor, pérdida y liberación</subtitle><language>spa</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9798890985132&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself]]></title><description><![CDATA[After New York City emptied out in March 2020, Glynnis MacNicol, aged forty-six, unmarried with no children, spent sixteen months alone in her tiny Manhattan apartment. The isolation was punishing. A year without touch. Women are warned of invisibility as they age, but this was an extreme loneliness no one can prepare you for. When the opportunity to sublet a friend's apartment in Paris arose, MacNicol jumped on it. Leaving felt less like a risk than a necessity. What follows is a decadent, joyful, unexpected journey into one woman's pursuit of radical enjoyment. The weeks in Paris are filled with friendship and food and sex. There is dancing on the Seine; a plethora of gooey cheese; midnight bike rides through empty Paris; handsome men; afternoons wandering through the empty Louvre; nighttime swimming in the ocean off a French island. And yes, plenty of nudity. In the spirit of Nora Ephron and Deborah Levy (think Colette . . . if she'd had access to dating apps), I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself is an intimate, insightful, powerful, and endlessly pleasurable memoir of an intensely lived experience whose meaning and insight expand far beyond the personal narrative. MacNicol is determined to document the beauty, excess, and triumph of a life that does not require permission. The pursuit of enjoyment is a political act, both a right and a responsibility. Enjoying yourself--as you are--is not something the world tells you is possible, but it is. Here's the proof.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1804193</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1804193</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[MacNicol, Glynnis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1804193161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>One Woman&apos;s Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9780593655757&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Little Donkey]]></title><description><![CDATA[A collection of searching, curious, and surprising essays catalyzed by the author's move in her sixties to a small Italian village, exploring selfhood, coincidence, inheritance, and the impermanence of identity In 2021, in her mid-sixties, Martha Cooley moved with her husband from the United States to Castiglione del Terziere, a village in...]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1944526</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1944526</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cooley, Martha]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1944526161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>And Other Essays</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9781646223022&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the Way to the River]]></title><description><![CDATA["In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert met Rayya. They became friends, then best friends, then inseparable. When tragedy entered their lives, the truth was finally laid bare: The two were in love. They were also a pair of addicts, on a collision course toward catastrophe. What if your most beautiful love story turned into your biggest nightmare? What if the dear friend who taught you so much about your self-destructive tendencies became the unstable partner with whom you disastrously reenacted every one of them? And what if your most devastating heartbreak opened a pathway to your greatest awakening? All the Way to the River is a landmark memoir that will resonate with anyone who has ever been captive to love--or to any other passion, substance, or craving -- and who yearns, at long last, for liberation."--Back cover.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1945844</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1945844</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gilbert, Elizabeth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1945844161</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>Love, Loss, and Liberation</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9798217168927&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the Way to the River]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert met Rayya. They became friends, then best friends, then inseparable. When tragedy entered their lives, the truth was finally laid bare: The two were in love. They were also a pair of addicts, on a collision course toward catastrophe.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1943749</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1943749</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gilbert, Elizabeth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1943749161</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle>Love, Loss, and Liberation</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9798217288472&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hysterical]]></title><description><![CDATA["Equal parts medical mystery, cultural criticism, and rallying cry, writer Elissa Bassist shares her journey to reclaim her authentic voice in a culture that doesn't listen to women. Between 2016 and 2018, Elissa Bassist saw over twenty medical professionals for a variety of mysterious ailments. Bassist had what millions of American women had: pain that didn't make sense to doctors, a body that didn't make sense to science, a psyche that didn't make sense to mankind. But then an acupuncturist suggested some of her physical pain could be caged fury finding expression, and that treating her voice would treat the problem. It did. Growing up, Bassist's family, boyfriends, school, work, and television had the same expectation for a woman's voice: less is more. She was called dramatic and insane for speaking her mind; she was accused of overreacting and playing victim for having unexplained physical pain; she was ignored or rebuked like women throughout history for using her voice "inappropriately" by expressing sadness or suffering or anger or joy. Because of this, she said "yes" when she meant "no"; she didn't tweet #MeToo; and she never spoke without fear of being "too emotional." So, she felt rage, but like a good woman, repressed it. In Hysterical, Bassist explains how girls and women internalize and perpetuate directives about their voice, making it hard to emote or "just speak up" and "burn down the patriarchy." But her silence hurt more than anything she could ever say. Hysterical is a memoir of a voice lost and found, and a primer on new ways to think about a woman's voice, where it's being squashed and where it needs amplification. Bassist breaks her own silences and calls on others to do the same-to unmute their voice, listen to it above all others, and use it again without regret"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1696115</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1696115</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bassist, Elissa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1696115161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9780306827372&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Undying]]></title><description><![CDATA["A fresh, fierce, and timely meditation on data, pain, time, and the limited capacity of literature to comprehend life and death in a sensate and vulnerable body." -- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1263049</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1263049</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Boyer, Anne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1263049161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9780374279349&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mothers and Other Fictional Characters]]></title><description><![CDATA["Best American Essayist Nicole Graev Lipson breaks through the ready-made stories of womanhood, rescuing truth from the fiction that infiltrates our lives"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1872325</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1872325</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lipson, Nicole Graev]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1872325161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Memoir in Essays</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9781797228563&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[World Without End]]></title><description><![CDATA["For fans of Margaret Renkl and Lisa Wells's Believers, World Without End circles the connections between climate change and faith in the fear and fascination of the end of the world. When Martha Park's father announced he was retiring from the ministry after forty-two years, she moved home to Memphis to attend his United Methodist church for his last year in the pulpit. She hoped to encounter a more certain sense of herself as secular or religious. Instead, she became increasingly compelled by uncertainty itself, curious about whether doubt could be a kind of faith, one that more closely echoed the world itself, one marked by loss, beauty, and constant change. In illustrated essays, World Without End: Essays on Apocalypse and After explores the intersections of faith, motherhood, and the climate crisis across the South, from man-made wetlands in Arkansas to conservation cemeteries in South Carolina; from a full-scale replica of Noah's Ark in Kentucky to the reenactment of the Scopes Monkey Trial. Park chronicles how the faith she was raised in now seems like an exception to the rule and explores this divide with compassion and empathy. World Without End considers the ways religion shapes how we understand and interact with the world-and how faith can compel us all to work to save the places we love"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1896787</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1896787</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Park, Martha]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1896787161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Essays on Apocalypse and After</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9798885740487&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did I Ever Tell You?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Genevieve (Gwen) Kingston's mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer when Gwen was just three years old. Defying the odds, she lived another eight years, during which time she filled a chest with gifts and letters to Gwen and her brother, Jamie, for every major milestone and birthday through age thirty. The day Gwen got her driver's license. The day she graduated from high school. Gwen is now in her thirties and, when Did I Ever Tell You? begins, three unopened boxes remain: engagement, marriage, and first baby. Two decades after her passing, Gwen's mother's extraordinary efforts created a lifelong conversation beyond the grave.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1791518</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1791518</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kingston, Genevieve]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1791518161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9781668006290&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bomb Shelter]]></title><description><![CDATA["A poignant and powerful new memoir-in-essays that tackles the big questions of life, death, and existential fear with humor and hope"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1665782</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1665782</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Philpott, Mary Laura]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1665782161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Love, Time, and Other Explosives</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9781982160784&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Miss You When I Blink]]></title><description><![CDATA["Mary Laura Philpott thought she'd cracked the code: Always be right, and you'll always be happy. But once she'd completed her life's to-do list (job, spouse, house, babies--check!), she found that instead of feeling content and successful, she felt anxious. Lost. Stuck in a daily grind of overflowing calendars, grueling small talk, and sprawling traffic. She'd done everything "right," but she felt all wrong. What's the worse failure, she wondered: smiling and staying the course, or blowing it all up and running away? And are those the only options? In this memoir-in-essays full of spot-on observations about home, work, and creative life, Philpott takes on the conflicting pressures of modern adulthood with wit and heart. She offers up her own stories to show that identity crises don't happen just once or only at midlife; reassures us that small, recurring personal re-inventions are both normal and necessary; and advises that if you're going to faint, you should get low to the ground first. Most of all, Philpott shows that when you stop feeling satisfied with your life, you don't have to burn it all down and set off on a transcontinental hike (unless you want to, of course). You can call upon your many selves to figure out who you are, who you're not, and where you belong. Who among us isn't trying to do that? Like a pep talk from a sister, I Miss You When I Blink is the funny, poignant, and deeply affecting book you'll want to share with all your friends, as you learn what Philpott has figured out along the way: that multiple things can be true of us at once--and that sometimes doing things wrong is the way to do life right"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C570399</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C570399</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Philpott, Mary Laura]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/570399161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Essays</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9781982102807&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Talk]]></title><description><![CDATA["Like many six-year-olds, Mira Jacob's half-Jewish, half-Indian son, Z, has questions about everything. At first they are innocuous enough, but as tensions from the 2016 election spread from the media into his own family, they become much, much more complicated. Trying to answer him honestly, Mira has to think back to where she's gotten her own answers: her most formative conversations about race, color, sexuality, and, of course, love. Written with humor and vulnerability, this deeply relatable graphic memoir is a love letter to the art of conversation--and to the hope that hovers in our most difficult questions" -- publisher's description.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C564941</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C564941</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jacob, Mira]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/564941161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Memoir in Conversations</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9780399589041&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[She Made Me Laugh]]></title><description><![CDATA["Nora Ephron, one of the most famous writers, film makers, and personalities of her time is captured by her long-time and dear friend in a hilarious, blunt, raucous, and poignant recollection of their decades-long friendship. Nora Ephron (1941-2012) was a phenomenal personality, journalist, essayist, novelist, playwright, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, and movie director (Sleepless in Seattle; You've Got Mail; When Harry Met Sally; Heartburn; Julie & Julia). She wrote a slew of bestsellers (I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman; I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections; Scribble, Scribble: Notes on the Media; Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women). She was celebrated by Hollywood, embraced by literary New York, and adored by legions of fans throughout the world. Award-winning journalist Richard Cohen, wrote this about his "third-person memoir": "I call this book a third-person memoir. It is about my closest friend, Nora Ephron, and the lives we lived together and how her life got to be bigger until, finally, she wrote her last work, the play, Lucky Guy, about a newspaper columnist dying of cancer while she herself was dying of cancer. I have interviewed many of her other friends--Mike Nichols, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Meryl Streep, Arianna Huffington--but the book is not a name-dropping star turn, but an attempt to capture a remarkable woman who meant so much to so many other women.""-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C374986</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C374986</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cohen, Richard M.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/374986161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>My Friend Nora Ephron</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9781476796123&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living With A Wild God]]></title><description><![CDATA["In middle age, Ehrenreich came across the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence and set out to reconstruct that quest, which had taken her to the study of science and through a cataclysmic series of uncanny-or as she later learned to call them, "mystical"-experiences. A staunch atheist and rationalist, she is profoundly shaken by the implications of her life-long search. Part memoir, part philosophical and spiritual inquiry, LIVING WITH A WILD GOD brings an older woman's wry and erudite perspective to a young girl's uninhibited musings on the questions that, at one point or another, torment us all. Ehrenreich's most personal book ever will spark a lively and heated conversation about religion and spirituality, science and morality, and the "meaning of life." Certain to be a classic, LIVING WITH A WILD GOD combines intellectual rigor with a frank account of the inexplicable, in Ehrenreich's singular voice, to produce a true literary achievement"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C277108</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C277108</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ehrenreich, Barbara]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/277108161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Nonbeliever&apos;s Search for the Truth About Everything</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9781455501762&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living With A Wild God]]></title><description><![CDATA[In middle age, Ehrenreich came across the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence. She set out to reconstruct that quest, which had taken her to the study of science and through a cataclysmic series of mystical experiences. A staunch atheist and rationalist, she is profoundly shaken by the implications of her life-long search.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C285203</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C285203</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ehrenreich, Barbara]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/285203161</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>A Nonbeliever&apos;s Search for the Truth About Everything</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9781455585908&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sloppy]]></title><description><![CDATA["From the irreverent author of Tacky, a warts-and-all tour of the bad habits that make Rax King who she is. With Rax King's brash and crass humor and trademark millennial self-loathing, comes a new collection of personal essays, each unpacking bad behavior. In "Proud Alcoholic Stock," she examines her parents' unwavering dedication to Alcoholics Anonymous and the texture her family history has lent to her own poorly executed sobriety. "Shoplifting from Brandy Melville" is a lighthearted look at, what else?, shoplifting from Brandy Melville-one of Rax's few remaining indulgences now that she doesn't drink. From being a bad waitress to taking uppers, from an obsession with Neopets to lying for no discernable reason, these seventeen essays approach debauchery with emotional intelligence, kindness and-most importantly-humor."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1921086</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1921086</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[King, Rax]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1921086161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Or: Doing It All Wrong</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9780593688458&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trauma Plot]]></title><description><![CDATA["In the thick of lockdown, 2020, poet, critic, and memoirist Jamie Hood published her debut, how to be a good girl, an interrogation of modern femininity and the narratives of love, desire, and violence yoked to it. The Rumpus praised Hood's "bold vulnerability," and Vogue named it a Best Book of 2020. In Trauma Plot, Hood draws on disparate literary forms to tell the story that lurked in good girl's margins-of three decades marred by sexual violence and the wreckage left behind. With her trademark critical remove, Hood interrogates the archetype of the rape survivor, who must perform penitence long after living through the unthinkable, invoking some of art's most infamous women to have played the role: Ovid's Philomela, David Lynch's Laura Palmer, and Artemisia Gentileschi, who captured Judith's wrath. In so doing, she asks: What do we as a culture demand of survivors? And what do survivors, in turn, owe a world that has abandoned them? Trauma Plot is a scalding work of personal and literary criticism. It is a send-up of our culture's pious disdain for "trauma porn," a dirge for the broken promises of #MeToo, and a paean to finding life after death"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1854662</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1854662</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hood, Jamie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1854662161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Life</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9780593700976&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holding]]></title><description><![CDATA["At age 20, Karleigh Brogan and her boyfriend, Dale, moved into his parents' home. The young couple hid their heroin addiction and promised they would only be there temporarily. What started as a two-week stopgap became two years of habitation. Karleigh and Dale's mother, Glorianne, developed a complex relationship that was both toxic and tender. Glorianne became a stand-in for Karleigh's mother, whose affection and trust Karleigh had always longed for. Simultaneously, Glorianne, an adoptee, searched for the birth mother she never knew. In Holding, Karleigh Brogan brings the reader into her life before, during, and after her time with Dale and his parents, following the road that led from her endless lies to her family and herself, along the long, crooked, path to breaking the chains of her addiction so she could dream again of achieving the life--and the relationship with her own mother--she longed for."--Publisher.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1921609</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1921609</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brogan, Karleigh Frisbie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1921609161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Memoir About Mothers, Drugs, and Other Comforts</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9781586424121&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Tell Ourselves Stories]]></title><description><![CDATA[In this riveting cultural biography, New York Times film critic Alissa Wilkinson examines Joan Didion's influence through the lens of American mythmaking. As a young girl, Didion was infatuated with John Wayne and his on-screen bravado, and was fascinated by her California pioneer ancestry and the infamous Donner Party. The mythos that preoccupied her early years continued to influence her work as a magazine writer and film critic in New York, offering glimmers of the many stories Didion told herself that would come to unravel over the course of her career. But out west, show business beckoned.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1856205</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1856205</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Wilkinson, Alissa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1856205161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9781324092612&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item></channel></rss>