A Little Me

A Little Me
Author: Amy Roloff
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2019-05-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1948080982

From the star of TLC’s hit reality show Little People BIG World comes a revelatory memoir that will inspire those who have long followed the Roloff’s and newcomers alike. “A Little Me by Amy Roloff is a feel-good, inspirational memoir about a remarkable woman who addresses challenges head-on with a positive outlook and deep faith.” – New York Journal of Books Whatever package you come in, life isn’t easier or harder than another’s because you are different physically. There may be more challenges, but still, everyone has challenges. “God doesn’t make mistakes.” For Amy Roloff, star of TLC’s hit reality show Little People, BIG World, her father’s words would repeatedly serve as an anchor, reminding her of her inherent worth and purpose, whenever feelings of insecurity and inadequacy surfaced and threatened to overwhelm her. In A Little Me, Amy shares what it was like growing up with achondroplasia dwarfism, how she struggled to overcome obstacles both physical and emotional—navigating the average-size world as a little person, dealing with a serious illness as a young girl, bullying, and issues of body image and unachievable beauty ideals—while learning, as we all must, to accept herself for who she is. Finally allowing herself to be vulnerable enough to open up to others, she learned that it’s worth risking possible rejection for a chance at genuine relationships. Amy’s memoir is an inspiring and at times heart-wrenching account of resilience and the strength of the human spirit to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles.

Rome Reframed

Rome Reframed
Author: Amy Bearce
Publisher: North Star Editions, Inc.
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2021-02-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1631635174

Lucas is on the trip of a lifetime, traveling through Europe, but he wants nothing more than to be home in Austin, Texas, with his friends. When his teachers tell him to either turn in a phenomenal last project or fail the eighth grade, Lucas has to decide whether to give up or give in to the mystery of Rome.

When We Were Ghouls

When We Were Ghouls
Author: Amy E. Wallen
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2018-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1496205383

When Amy E. Wallen's southern, blue-collar, peripatetic family was transferred from Ely, Nevada, to Lagos, Nigeria, she had just turned seven. From Nevada to Nigeria and on to Peru, Bolivia, and Oklahoma, the family wandered the world, living in a state of constant upheaval. When We Were Ghouls follows Wallen's recollections of her family who, like ghosts, came and went and slipped through her fingers, rendering her memories unclear. Were they a family of grave robbers, as her memory of the pillaging of a pre-Incan grave site indicates? Are they, as the author's mother posits, "hideous people?" Or is Wallen's memory out of focus? In this quick-paced and riveting narrative, Wallen exorcizes these haunted memories to clarify the nature of her family and, by extension, her own character. Plumbing the slipperiness of memory and confronting what it means to be a "good" human, When We Were Ghouls links the fear of loss and mortality to childhood ideas of permanence. It is a story about family, surely, but it is also a representation of how a combination of innocence and denial can cause us to neglect our most precious earthly treasures: not just our children but the artifacts of humanity and humanity itself.

Amy Moves in

Amy Moves in
Author: Marilyn Sachs
Publisher: Backinprint.com
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1964
Genre: Aunts
ISBN: 9780595175895

The first in a series of highly praised books about a poor, Jewish family living in the Bronx in the 1940’s. Amy moves into a new neighborhood, and learns to choose the right kind of friends, and the consequences of lying.

Laura's Luck

Laura's Luck
Author: Marilyn Sachs
Publisher: Dissertation.com
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001-01-20
Genre: Camps
ISBN: 9780595175901

In the second of three books about a poor family living in the Bronx in the 1940’s, Laura, the older sister, has to cope with the pleasures and pains of going off to camp.