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Interesting Stories for Outdoor Enthusiasts
Posted about 1 month ago by Katie M
Posted in eBooks and Audiobooks, Nonfiction, Outdoors, Sports and Travel and Wellness: Fitness, Health and Spirituality | Tagged with adventure, adventurers, biographies, climbing, drama, hermits, hiking, memoirs, mountaineers, nature, outdoors, solitude, survival stories, true crime and unsolved mysteries
From living secluded in a tent for almost three decades, to climbing a 3,200 foot wall without ropes, this list highlights some of my favorite titles where people do some really incredible (and maybe a few ill-advised) things outside.
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Posted 2 months ago by April S
Posted in eBooks and Audiobooks, New: Books and Movies and Nonfiction | Tagged with aging, anecdotes, autobiographies, best books of 2018, Best Books of the Year, biographies, essays, farmers, Humor, memoirs, mortality, notable books, personality tests, psychology, reading recommendations, slavery, slaves and wit
Biographies, autobiographies, essays and memoirs from famous and not so famous, but very interesting people sharing intimate details of their lives.
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Posted 6 months ago by Amy H
Posted in Children and Parenting, eBooks and Audiobooks and History and Politics | Tagged with families, friendship, Love Stories, memoirs, personal narratives, picture books, reading suggestions, relationships and Valentine's Day - Fiction
Stories celebrating the power of love and human connections.
Continue Reading: Love is in the AirThe Steinem Sisters Collection: Feminism at TLCPL
Posted 8 months ago by Rebecca S
Posted in Culture and Diversity and History and Politics | Tagged with feminism, feminist, memoirs, sexism, Steinem Sisters, women, women - social conditions and women authors
Have you heard our exciting news?! TLCPL is now the home of the only public library feminist collection in Ohio.
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Posted about 1 year ago by Sarah H
Posted in Children and Parenting, Cooking, Garden and Home, eBooks and Audiobooks, History and Politics and Wellness: Fitness, Health and Spirituality | Tagged with adventure travel, ambition, autobiographies, compulsive hoarding, goals, gratitude, happiness, housekeeping, Humor, inspiration, journeys, memoirs, motivation, personal growth, personal narratives, relationships, self-actualization, self-confidence, self-discovery, self-improvement, year long memoir projects and year-long projects
How much can one person accomplish in the span of a year - continue reading to find out.
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Posted about 1 year ago by Jennifer D
Posted in eBooks and Audiobooks and History and Politics | Tagged with American History, discrimination, memoirs, personal narratives, rock musicians - biography, United States - Race Relations and women rock musicians
As I first started reading Patti Smith’s work, M Train, I was torn. Torn because I loved to get lost in her world, and also upset because she had the luxury of being lost in it on a daily basis, and well, I didn’t.
Continue Reading: Obsessed with Living in a DreamGraphic Novel Memoirs
Posted about 1 year ago by Katie M
Posted in Arts, Crafts and Hobbies, eBooks and Audiobooks, Fiction, Graphic Novels and Poetry and History and Politics | Tagged with cartoonists, comic books, graphic memoirs, graphic novels and memoirs
Weaving together art and words, these graphic novel memoirs are sure to expand your literary horizons.
Continue Reading: Graphic Novel Memoirs20 Memoirs to Celebrate Women’s History Month
Posted about 1 year ago by Katie M
Posted in eBooks and Audiobooks, Fiction, Graphic Novels and Poetry, History and Politics, Movies and Music and Outdoors, Sports and Travel | Tagged with biographies, memoirs, personal narratives, women, women authors and Women's History Month
This Women’s History Month, get to know some outstanding women by browsing our list of 20 must-read memoirs!
Continue Reading: 20 Memoirs to Celebrate Women’s History MonthBest Nonfiction Books of 2015
Posted over 3 years ago by April S
Posted in Arts, Crafts and Hobbies, Business and Investing, Fiction, Graphic Novels and Poetry, History and Politics, Nonfiction, Outdoors, Sports and Travel and Wellness: Fitness, Health and Spirituality | Tagged with Best Books of the Year, biographies, book recommendations, booklists, books to read, Business, history, leadership and memoirs
The best nonfiction books of 2015 - biography, business, history, poetry and general nonfiction.
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