Adult Challenged Books


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Book cover for "Down these mean streets"
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Book cover for "Dreaming in Cuban"
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2.5 stars
Book cover for "The glass castle"
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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
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. In the tradition of Mary Karr's "The Liars' Club" and Rick Bragg's "All Over But the Shouting," Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric and...
Book cover for "Go tell it on the mountain"
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3.9 stars
Description:
The story of John, a fourteen-year-old boy whose stepfather is a Pentecostal minister in Harlem in 1935, as he struggles to discover his own identity.