Overview

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.

Full Product Details

Author:   Rosalind Reisner ,  Barry Trott
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Libraries Unlimited Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.907kg
ISBN:  

9781591587668

ISBN 10:   1591587662
Pages:   196
Publication Date:   23 September 2009
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Primary & secondary/elementary & high school ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Educational: Primary & Secondary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Series Foreword Introduction Chapter One: Character Beating the Odds: Survivors of Awful Childhoods Behind the Scenes: Celebrities' Lives Being Different: Introspective Memoirs Breaking Free: Overcoming Adversity Caught in the Crossfire: People in Danger Crossing Borders: Making a Life in a New Country Extraordinary Women's Lives Fathers and Sons Fractured Families: From Adversity to Insight Identity Papers: Discovering Our True Selves Insiders: People Who Made History Marching to Their Own Drum: Unique Individuals Mothers and Daughters, Mothers and Sons Passage to Adulthood: Coming-of-Age Memoirs Then There Were Two: Love and Marriage Who Goes There? Struggling with Mental Illness Chapter Two: Story Crooked Lives: People Behaving Badly Dishing: Stories from the Kitchen Faultlines: Difficult Family Relationships Four Seasons: Memoirs of One Year In Harm's Way: Lives at Risk Living to Tell the Tale: Near-Death Experiences Moments of Truth: Stories of Turning Points Off the Beaten Path: Unusual Adventures Pet Projects: The Animals in Our Lives Relativity: Unusual Family Experiences Rooting Around: Searching for Family Origins Sports Talk Under Fire: Stories of War Chapter Three: Setting Eureka! Scientists at Work Far Out: Travel to Unusual Places Foreign Exchange: Encountering Other Cultures A Hard Day's Night: Life in the Music Business Life Support: Memoirs from the Medical World Orient Express: Travel to the Far East and Oceania Outside the Box: Interesting Occupations The Passing Scene: Road Trips Primal Scenes: Vivid Childhood Memoirs Small Is Beautiful: Life in Rural America Under African Skies Chapter Four: Language The Definite Article: Writers on Their Lives Depth of Field: Insightful Writers Full Disclosure: Writing from the Heart The Great Outdoors: Communing with Nature Loud and Clear: Unique Voices Luminous Prose: Elegant Memoirs Private Worlds: Diaries Short and Sweet: Under 200 Pages Chapter Five: Mood A Backward Glance: Nostalgic Memoirs Growing Up Absurd: Unusual Childhoods Laugh Lines: Memoirs on the Lighter Side Renewal: Life-Altering Experiences Taking It On Faith: Spiritual Journeys The Ties that Bind: Bittersweet Family Stories Undertow: Edgy, Dark Memoirs Index

Reviews

<p> 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. - <p>Reference & Research Book News

<p> 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. - <p>Catholic Library World

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

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