- memoirs
- westerns
By Carole King
BIO KING 2012
This book is a memoir by the iconic singer-songwriter chronicling her story from her beginnings in Brooklyn through her remarkable success as one of the world's most acclaimed musical talents, to her present day as a leading performer and activist.
By Ree Drummond
BIO DRUMMOND 2011
American blogger and food writer Ree Drummond relates the real life story of how she met and married her "Marlboro Man." Her stories about her husband, family, and country living paint a warm and touching picture of life on an Oklahoma ranch.
By Jeannette Walls
BIO WALLS 2005
The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities.
By Annie Proulx
F PROULX
Annie Proulx is an award winning author and a journalist. Her "westerns" are not typical at all--nevertheless they are evocative and beautifully written stories of the West featuring compelling characters, bleak landscapes, and interesting storylines.
By Cormac McCarthy
F MCCARTHY
McCarthy is a literary Western author whose psychological stories focus on characters. The stories are invariably set in the Southwest and are often both picturesque and bleak. This story features John Grady Cole and a friend who head across the Texas border into Mexico looking for adventure.
By Charles Frazier
F FRAZIER
Frazier skillfully captures the landscapes and mindset of 19th-century America, with evocative details of the mountains, farmland, and frontier wilderness of rural North Carolina and its inhabitants' rough, melodic speech. This story, winner of the 1997 National Book Award, tells of Inman, a Civil War soldier who escapes from a war hospital in 1864 and starts walking to Cold Mountain.
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