Cambridge Springs Public Library

Traces the personal crisis the author endured after the death of her mother and a painful divorce, which prompted her ambition to undertake a dangerous 1,100-mile solo hike that both drove her to rock bottom and helped her to heal.

A black woman recalls the anguish of her childhood in Arkansas teenage days in northern slums

"A woman who once made it her goal in life to marry and rear a family finds her priorities suddenly shifting in Ryan Murphy and Jennifer Salt's adaptation of author Elizabeth Gilbert's best-selling memoir. In the eyes of many, Liz Gilbert (Julia Roberts) was a woman who had it all, a loving husband, a great career, and a weekend home, but sometimes one realizes too little too late that they haven't gotten what they truly wanted from life. On the heels...

Ted Geisel loved to doodle from the time he was a kid, and he had an offbeat, fun-loving personality. He donned quirky hats when thinking up ideas for books like his classic The Cat in the Hat. This biography, with black-and-white illustrations throughout, brings an amazingly gifted author/illustrator to life.

A biography of the author of the "Little House" books, including the years of her marriage to Almanzo Wilder.

The well-known author and illustrator relates the story of his life and work.

Here, in high style, is the story of a wisecracking adventurer who came of age in the untamed West. A rebel who surprised himself by becoming the most famous American of his time.

The rediscovered writings

"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...