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Billie Jean King
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Summary: Billie Jean King was only seven years old when she told her mother, I'm going to do something great with my life someday. But the world she wanted did not exist yet, so she set out to create it. In...
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Call #: B KING
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Trevor Noah
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Summary: "The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed." -- Amazon.com.
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Call #: BK CLUB B NOAH
Locations: Adult Biographies, Book Club Sets
copies in: 20 of 21
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Brandi Carlile
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Summary: Brandi Carlile was born into a musically gifted, impoverished family on the outskirts of Seattle and grew up in a constant state of change, moving from house to house, trailer to trailer, fourteen...
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Call #: B CARLILE
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Erin French
(8,299)
Summary: Long before The Lost Kitchen became a world dining destination with every seating filled the day the reservation book opens each spring, Erin French was a girl roaming barefoot on a 25-acre farm, a...
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Call #: B FRENCH
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Lynsey Addario , photographer
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Summary: Lynsey Addario was just finding her way as a young photographer when September 11 changed the world. One of the few photojournalists with experience in Afghanistan, she gets the call to return and...
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Call #: B ADDARIO
Location: Adult Biographies
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Bernardine Evaristo
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Summary: A vibrant and inspirational account of Evaristo's life and career as she rebelled against the mainstream and fought over several decades to bring her creative work into the world. With her...
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Call #: B EVARISTO
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Stassi Schroeder
(10,680)
Summary: Fans of the Bravo TV show Vanderpump Rules and podcast listeners know Stassi Schroeder not only for her no-holds-barred comments but also as a major defender of Basic Bitch rights. She knows that...
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Call #: B SCHROEDER
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Adrienne Brodeur
(26,301)
Summary: A daughter's tale of living in the thrall of her magnetic, complicated mother, and the chilling consequences of her complicity. On a hot July night on Cape Cod when Adrienne was 14, her mother,...
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Call #: B BRODEUR
Location: Adult Biographies
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