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Action Bronson
(1,404)
Summary: A brutally honest memoir about struggles with weight, food addiction, and the journey to self-acceptance. In his signature voice, Action Bronson shares all that he|s learned in the past decade to...
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Call #: B ACTION
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Madeleine Korbel Albright
(2,944)
Summary: In 2001, when Madeleine Albright was leaving office as America's first female secretary of state, interviewers asked her how she wished to be remembered. "I don't want to be remembered," she...
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Call #: B ALBRIGHT
Location: Adult Biographies
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Gary Weiss
(580)
Summary: A biography of the spectacular rise and fall of Eddie Antar, better known as "Crazy Eddie," whose home electronics empire changed the world even as it turned out to be one of the biggest business...
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Call #: B ANTAR
Location: Adult Biographies
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Carmelo Anthony
(1,229)
Summary: For a long time, Carmelo Anthony's world wasn't any larger than the view of the hoopers and hustlers he watched from the side window of his family's first-floor project apartment in Red Hook,...
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Call #: B ANTHONY
Location: Adult Biographies
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Jeff Bauman
(3,828)
Summary: A survivor of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, who helped to set off one of the biggest manhunts in the country's history, discusses his experiences that day and his ongoing mission to walk again...
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Call #: B BAUMAN
Location: Adult Biographies
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John Suchet
(773)
Summary: llluminates Beethoven's difficult childhood, his struggle to find a wife, his ungovernable temper, his emotional volatility, his tendency to push away those trying to help him, and in middle age his obsessive compulsion to control his nephew's life.
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Call #: B BEETHOVEN
Location: Adult Biographies
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Alison Weir
Series:
Six Tudor Queens Series
(10,025)
Summary: Presents a historical profile of Henry VIII's mistress and the sister of Anne Boleyn, examining her affair with Francis I of France, rise and fall in the Tudor court, and obscure later years after she married for love.
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Call #: B BOLEYN
Location: Adult Biographies
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Noel Vietmeyer
(157)
Summary: Norman Borlaug's work in breeding wheat is a large part of the reason the world has not yet run out of food. This is the story of his life and his struggles.
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Call #: B BORLAUG
Location: Adult Biographies
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Laurie Woolever
(4,561)
Summary: When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018, fans around the globe came together to celebrate the life of an inimitable man who had dedicated his life to traveling nearly everywhere (and eating nearly...
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Call #: B BOURDAIN
Location: Adult Biographies
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Thomas Buergenthal
(9,508)
Summary: "Thomas Buergenthal was not quite six years old when he and his parents were forced into a Jewish ghetto in Poland. Four years later, they were placed on a train bound for Auschwitz, where Thomas was...
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Call #: B BUERGENTHAL
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Kyle Carpenter
(1,766)
Summary: November 21, 2010. U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Kyle Carpenter was posted atop a building in violent Helmand Province, Afghanistan, when an enemy grenade skittered toward him and fellow Marine Nick...
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Call #: B CARPENTER
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
William Souder
(856)
Summary: Rachel Carson, founder of the modern environmental movement, began work on her seminal book Silent Spring in the late 1950s, when a dizzying array of synthetic pesticides had come into use. Leading...
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Call #: B CARSON
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Julian E Zelizer
(511)
Summary: An examination of Carter's presidency and his emergence as an important voice for international diplomacy and negotiation.
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Call #: B CARTER
Location: Adult Biographies
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Laura Thompson
(2,437)
Summary: It has been one hundred years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. A brilliant and award winning biographer, Laura Thompson now turns her sharp eye...
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Call #: B CHRISTIE
Location: Adult Biographies
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Ellis Nassour
(248)
Summary: Earthy, sexy, and vivacious, the life of beloved country singer, Patsy Cline, who soared from obscurity to international fame to tragic death in just thirty short years, is explored in colorful and...
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Call #: B CLINE
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Anderson Cooper
(23,516)
Summary: A charming, intimate and fascinating collection of correspondence between broadcaster Anderson Cooper and his mother, the celebrated Gloria Vanderbilt.
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Call #: B COOPER
Location: Adult Biographies
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Harry Crews
(2,019)
Summary: This memoir by Harry Crews captures the first six years of his life among impoverished tenant farmer families in rural southern Georgia. Crews shares details of farm life, his father's death, his...
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Call #: B CREWS
Location: Adult Biographies
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Bob Thompson
(238)
Summary: As with all great legends, Davy Crockett's has been retold many times. One could argue that there are three distinct Crocketts: the real David as he was before he became famous; the celebrity...
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Call #: B CROCKETT
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
T. J. Stiles
(1,663)
Summary: Historian T.J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, demonstrating how much of Custer's legacy has been ignored. He refutes Custer's historical caricature,...
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Call #: B CUSTER
Location: Adult Biographies
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Laura Dern
(106)
Summary: Award-winning actresses and mother-daughter duo Laura Dern and Diane Ladd are the kind of women who draw strength from their lifelong friendships with other women, and most of all, from each other....
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Call #: B DERN
Location: Adult Biographies
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Alison Weir
(2,311)
Summary: "From ... acclaimed historian Alison Weir comes the first biography of Lady Mary Douglas, the beautiful, cunning niece of Henry VIII of England, who used her sharp intelligence and covert power to...
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Call #: B DOUGLAS
Location: Adult Biographies
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Ainsley Earhardt
(759)
Summary: Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt reminisces about growing up with a father who loved his children unconditionally, how her Christian faith has shaped her life, and the journalism career that has made...
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Call #: B EARHARDT
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Tom Wicker
Summary: An American hero at the close of World War II, General Dwight Eisenhower rode an enormous wave of popularity into the Oval Office seven years later. Though we may view the Eisenhower years through a...
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Call #: B EISENHOWER
Location: Adult Biographies
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Tom Felton
(54,556)
Summary: Tom Felton's adolescence was anything but ordinary. His early rise to fame in beloved films like The Borrowers catapulted him into the limelight, but nothing could prepare him for what was to come...
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Call #: B FELTON
Location: Adult Biographies
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Richard Snow
(618)
Summary: An account of Henry Ford's invention of the Model-T offers insight into his mechanical talents and pioneering work in internal combustion, describing his impact on American culture and the perplexing subsequent changes in his personality.
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Call #: B FORD
Location: Adult Biographies
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Call #: B FRANKLIN
Location: Adult Biographies
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
(22,763)
Summary: My Own Words is a selection of writings and speeches by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on wide-ranging topics, including gender equality, the workways of the Supreme Court, on being...
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Call #: B GINSBURG
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Rickson Gracie
(2,977)
Summary: From legendary Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and MMA master Rickson Gracie comes a riveting, insightful memoir that weaves together the story of Gracie's stunning career with the larger history of the Gracie...
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Call #: B GRACIE
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Kevin Hart
(32,239)
Summary: Actor and comedian Kevin Hart grew up in North Philadelphia. His father was a drug addict who was in and out of jail. His brother was a crack dealer and petty thief. And his mother was overwhelmingly...
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Call #: B HART
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
John Taliaferro
(702)
Summary: John Hay was both witness and author of many of the most significant chapters in American history--from the birth of the Republican Party, the Civil War, and the Spanish-American War, to the prelude...
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Call #: B HAY
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Hans Louis Trefousse
Summary: An American icon and hero faces a nation--and a world--in transition, as seen in this retrospective of the popular president's career.
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Call #: B HAYES
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Jeffrey Toobin
Summary: Examines the life of Patty Hearst who suffered an unimaginable trauma and then made the stunning decision to join her captors' crusade.
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Call #: B HEARST
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Kirk Herbstreit
(1,079)
Summary: A powerfully intimate, plain-spoken memoir about fathers and sons, fortitude, and football from the face and voice of college football. Kirk Herbstreit is a reflection of the sport he loves; a...
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Call #: B HERBSTREIT
Location: Adult Biographies
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