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Read On…Life Stories: Reading Lists for Every Taste de Rosalind Reisner

Read On…Life Stories: Reading Lists for Every Taste: Read On Series

Autor Rosalind Reisner
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 sep 2009 – vârsta până la 17 ani
Scores of appeal-based reading lists cover topics you'll never find in the library catalog-from extraordinary women and overcoming adversity to sports talk, spiritual journeys, and luminous prose.With the genre of memoirs filled with so many titles and from such a variety of authors, it is hard to grasp what's available and what's worth reading. For all those who love delving into the lives of others, this Read On. volume offers help.Read On.Life Stories: Reading Lists for Every Taste offers brief descriptions of nearly 450 published memoirs, from classics like The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, to recent bestsellers like John Grogan's Marley and Me and Julie Andrews' Home. Titles are grouped together by their appeal to readers, and there is something for everyone: humorous memoirs, thrilling adventure stories, chatty celebrity reminiscences, cathartic dramas of family dysfunction, fascinating career retrospectives, and insightful stories of family and personal lives in many eras and places.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781591587668
ISBN-10: 1591587662
Pagini: 196
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Libraries Unlimited
Seria Read On Series

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Nearly 450 brief descriptions of memoirs, categorized to help readers find the life stories that intrigue them most

Notă biografică

Rosalind Reisner is a writer, speaker, and librarian who presents programs and writes about books, reading, and readers' advisory services.

Cuprins

Series ForewordIntroductionChapter One: CharacterBeating the Odds: Survivors of Awful ChildhoodsBehind the Scenes: Celebrities' LivesBeing Different: Introspective MemoirsBreaking Free: Overcoming AdversityCaught in the Crossfire: People in DangerCrossing Borders: Making a Life in a New CountryExtraordinary Women's LivesFathers and SonsFractured Families: From Adversity to InsightIdentity Papers: Discovering Our True SelvesInsiders: People Who Made HistoryMarching to Their Own Drum: Unique IndividualsMothers and Daughters, Mothers and SonsPassage to Adulthood: Coming-of-Age MemoirsThen There Were Two: Love and MarriageWho Goes There? Struggling with Mental IllnessChapter Two: StoryCrooked Lives: People Behaving BadlyDishing: Stories from the KitchenFaultlines: Difficult Family RelationshipsFour Seasons: Memoirs of One YearIn Harm's Way: Lives at RiskLiving to Tell the Tale: Near-Death ExperiencesMoments of Truth: Stories of Turning PointsOff the Beaten Path: Unusual AdventuresPet Projects: The Animals in Our LivesRelativity: Unusual Family ExperiencesRooting Around: Searching for Family OriginsSports TalkUnder Fire: Stories of WarChapter Three: SettingEureka! Scientists at WorkFar Out: Travel to Unusual PlacesForeign Exchange: Encountering Other CulturesA Hard Day's Night: Life in the Music BusinessLife Support: Memoirs from the Medical WorldOrient Express: Travel to the Far East and OceaniaOutside the Box: Interesting OccupationsThe Passing Scene: Road TripsPrimal Scenes: Vivid Childhood MemoirsSmall Is Beautiful: Life in Rural AmericaUnder African SkiesChapter Four: LanguageThe Definite Article: Writers on Their LivesDepth of Field: Insightful WritersFull Disclosure: Writing from the HeartThe Great Outdoors: Communing with NatureLoud and Clear: Unique VoicesLuminous Prose: Elegant MemoirsPrivate Worlds: DiariesShort and Sweet: Under 200 PagesChapter Five: MoodA Backward Glance: Nostalgic MemoirsGrowing Up Absurd: Unusual ChildhoodsLaugh Lines: Memoirs on the Lighter SideRenewal: Life-Altering ExperiencesTaking It On Faith: Spiritual JourneysThe Ties that Bind: Bittersweet Family StoriesUndertow: Edgy, Dark MemoirsIndex

Recenzii

Like others in the series, this is a readers'-advisory title that could be handed off to patrons to browse on their own-if you can get it away from the librarian. With both a detailed table of contents and an excellent index, this is a must-have tool for public libraries.
Useful as a reference for readers' advisors in public and school libraries, this work offers brief descriptions of about 450 published memoirs, from classic to recent bestsellers. Titles are grouped together by their emphasis on character, story, setting, language, and mood, and further divided into sections on topics such as unusual childhoods, coming of age, life-altering experiences, life in rural America, various occupations, travel, spiritual journeys, family relationships, and struggling with mental illness. The book is indexed by author, title, location, era, profession, ethnicity, and genre. Reisner is a librarian specializing in readers' advisory services.
Award-winning author Reisner, drawing on her experience and familiarity with the genre, provides with this annotated bibliography an especially useful addition to Libraries Unlimited's readers' advisory series Read On. . . . a good resource for public libraries of all sizes for both reference and collection development.