Tag: memoir
2024 Adult Reading Challenge! September
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2024/09/14/2024-adult-reading-challenge-september/
Adults! Welcome to year 3 of our year-long reading challenge. Explore different genres, discover new authors and be entered to win prizes. To complete the challenge, read just one book in each category by midnight on December 31st, 2024. Earn bigger prizes by reading...
Summer Reading 2022!
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2022/06/20/summer-reading-2022/
Summer 2022 is all about Fairfield! What do you love about your town? How can you share your story? Learn something new, get creative, and have fun while earning points toward our community goal! We challenge Fairfielders of all ages to reach 1 million...
Popular Digital Biographies and Memoirs
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2020/04/03/popular-digital-biographies-and-memoirs/
Why not step into someone else’s life for a while by reading or listening to a biography or memoir while you’re staying home and staying safe? Here are a few suggestions that you can download from Overdrive with your Fairfield Public Library card. A...
What is the Best Book You Read Over the Summer?
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2017/10/24/what-is-the-best-book-you-read-over-the-summer/
Thank you to everyone who participated in our end-of-the-summer raffle “What is the Best Book You’ve Read This Summer”. We received several entries and great book suggestions from our patrons. Congratulations to our raffle prize winners and be on the lookout for another chance to...
Girl in the Dark
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2015/11/19/girl-in-the-dark/
Title: Girl in the Dark Author: Anna Lindsey Publisher: Doubleday, 2015 Summary/review: This is the story of a young woman who finds herself becoming sensitive to the glow of her computer screen at work. Her condition worsens to the point where she cannot tolerate...
Chanel Bonfire
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/04/25/chanel-bonfire/
Title: Chanel Bonfire Author: Wendy Lawless Publisher: Gallery Books, 2013 Summary/Review: Growing up with an alcoholic, narcissistic, and mentally ill mother was by no means easy for Wendy and her younger sister Robin. Keeping the severe dysfunction hidden behind closed doors was even harder....
When We Were the Kennedys
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2012/08/23/when-we-were-the-kennedys/
Title: When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico Maine Author: Monica Wood Publish: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012 Summary/Review: When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico Maine by Monica Woods is an endearing memoir told from the voice of a nine...
Home Game
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2009/06/17/home-game/
Title: Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood Author: Michael Lewis Publisher: W.W. Norton, May 2009 Summary: When Michael Lewis had his first child, he knew exactly how he should feel. You know, in awe of the miracle of life and forever changed and...