Ruby Sisson Library

The author, having spent several summers working to restore the villa she purchased in Tuscany, shares her ongoing love affair with her home and the country, and discusses her joyous experience of the spring season in Italy.

The popular actor looks back to reassess the meaning of his own life and the paths he has taken, from the turbulent 1960s to the tragedy of September 11, and to answer such questions as "What do I value?" and "What, exactly, is the good life?"

Shares the author's frank observations about her daughter as well as her own thoughts and fears about having children and growing old, in a personal account that discusses her daughter's wedding and her feelings of failure as a parent.

We are never closer to life than when we brush up against the possibility of death.I Am, I Am, I Am is Maggie O'Farrell's astonishing memoir of the near-death experiences that have punctuated and defined her life. The childhood illness that left her bedridden for a year, which she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. An encounter with a disturbed man on a remote path. And, most terrifying of all,...

"Award-winning actress Drew Barrymore shares funny, insightful, and profound stories from her past and present told from the place of happiness she's achieved today. Wildflower is a portrait of Drew's life in stories as she looks back on the adventures, challenges, and incredible experiences of her earlier years. It includes tales of living on her own at 14 (and how laundry may have saved her life), getting stuck in a gas station overhang on a cross...

Steinbeck recounts the experience of taking his car and his dog Charley to travel through the United States, to rediscover the country and its people.

"More than a rock star, Eric Clapton is an icon, a living embodiment of the history of rock music. Well known for his reserve in a profession marked by self-promotion, flamboyance, and spin, he now chronicles, for the first time, his remarkable personal and professional journeys." "Born illegitimate in 1945 and raised by his grandparents, Eric never knew his father and, until the age of nine, believed his actual mother to be his sister. In his early...

Caine shares the spectacular story of his life, from his humble upbringing in London's poverty-stricken Elephant and Castle to his military service and lively adventures to legendary meetings with fellow stars and his glittering five-decade career.

Clay Evans can't quite put his finger on exactly what made him decide to become a cowboy -- after all, growing up in Boulder, Colorado, he'd been keener on Batman than Roy Rogers -- but, at the age when other young men were off to college, he was clearly bitten by the cowboy bug. Attracted by the stern Marlboro Man resolve, the cowboy's rigid independence, the oft-ignored connection to the earth, Evans eventually found work on ranches in Montana,...

Ambulance Girl is an honest, moving, and very funny account of a woman's journey into the world of EMS, into the heart of her town and into self-discovery.