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Jinger Vuolo
(12,164)
Summary: Growing up in the public eye -- a reality star in the Duggar family documentaries -- Vuolo grew up believing the Bible was primarily a rulebook and that faith was about executing God's laws to...
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Call #: B VUOLO
Locations: Adult Biographies, Hot Picks
copies in: 3 of 3
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Goldie Taylor
(449)
Summary: An acclaimed journalist and human rights activist shares the harrowing yet deeply hopeful story of her troubled childhood in East St. Louis -- a memoir of family, faith and the power of books.
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Call #: B TAYLOR
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Max Wallace
(25)
Summary: Raised in Alabama, she sent shockwaves through the South when she launched a public broadside against Jim Crow and donated to the NAACP. She used her fame to oppose American intervention in WWI. She...
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Call #: B KELLER
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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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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Rachel Louise Snyder
Summary: A memoir of survival, self-discovery, and forgiveness. For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues that impact women's lives. This is her own...
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Call #: B SNYDER
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Lucinda Williams
Summary: Lucinda Williams' rise to fame was anything but easy. Raised in a working-class family in the Deep South, she moved from town to town each time her father -- a poet, a textbook salesman, a professor,...
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Call #: B WILLIAMS
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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D. J. Taylor
Summary: An award-winning Orwellian biographer and scholar, drawing on new sources available for the first time, shows how the way we look at a writer and his canon has changed over the course of the last two...
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Call #: B ORWELL
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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J. Randy Taraborrelli
Summary: Based on hundreds of interviews with friends, family, and lovers over a thirty-year period -- as well as previously unreleased material from the JFK Library -- Kennedy historian J. Randy Taraborrelli...
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Call #: B KENNEDY
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Bernie Taupin
Summary: This is the memoir music fans have been waiting for. Half of one of the greatest creative partnerships in popular music, Bernie Taupin is the man who wrote the lyrics for Elton John, who conceived...
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Call #: B TAUPIN
Location: New Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Kerry Washington
Summary: While on a drive in Los Angeles, on a seemingly average afternoon, Kerry Washington received a text message that would send her on a life-changing journey of self-discovery. In an instant, her very...
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Call #: B WASHINGTON
Location: New Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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John Stamos
Summary: If you would have told a young John Stamos flipping burgers at his dad's fast-food joint that one day he'd be a household name and that, at the height of his success, he'd be living alone, divorced,...
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Call #: B STAMOS
Location: New Adult Biographies
copies in: 0 of 1
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Britney Spears
Summary: This memoir is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court....
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Call #: B SPEARS
Location: New Adult Biographies
copies in: 0 of 4
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V
(98)
Summary: The newest book from V (formerly Eve Ensler), invites you to travel the journey of a writer's and activist's life and process over forty years, representing both the core of ideas that have become...
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Call #: B V
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Joseph Earl Thomas
(501)
Summary: Stranded in a volatile, ever-shifting family, saddled with a mercurial mother mired in crack addiction, and demeaned daily for his perceived weakness, Joseph Earl Thomas was under constant threat....
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Call #: B THOMAS
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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David Waldstreicher
(41)
Summary: Admired by George Washington, ridiculed by Thomas Jefferson, published in London, and read far and wide, Phillis Wheatley led one of the most extraordinary American lives. Seized in West Africa and...
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Call #: B WHEATLEY
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Patrick Stewart
Summary: From his acclaimed stage triumphs to his legendary onscreen work in the Star Trek and X-Men franchises, Sir Patrick Stewart has captivated audiences around the world and across multiple generations...
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Call #: B STEWART
Location: New Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Barbra Streisand
Summary: The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in...
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Call #: B STREISAND
Location: New Adult Biographies
copies in: 0 of 2
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Henry Winkler
Summary: From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply thoughtful memoir of the lifelong effects of stardom and the struggle to become whole. Henry Winkler,...
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Call #: B WINKLER
Location: New Adult Biographies
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Rich Paul
Summary: Rich Paul grew up in a Cleveland that hadn't won a sports championship in decades. He and his siblings lived with their mother, who struggled with addiction, in a one-bedroom apartment in the...
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Call #: B PAUL
Location: New Adult Biographies
copies in: 0 of 1
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Jean Stoffer
(307)
Summary: When Jean Stoffer's husband announced he was quitting his extremely stressful job to look for another career, she suddenly needed to bring in a lot more of the family income. The problem was, while...
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Call #: B STOFFER
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Alice Wong
(1,481)
Summary: Drawing on a collection of original essays, previously published work, conversations, graphics, photos, commissioned art by disabled and Asian American artists, and more, Alice uses her unique talent...
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Call #: B WONG
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Alice Walker
(257)
Summary: For the first time, the edited journals of Alice Walker are gathered together to reflect the complex, passionate, talented, and acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winner of The Color Purple. She intimately...
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Call #: B WALKER
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Dana Stevens
(982)
Summary: As one of the most famous faces of silent cinema, Buster Keaton was and continues to be revered for his stoic expressions, clever visual gags, and acrobatic physicality in classics such as Sherlock...
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Call #: B KEATON
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Molly Shannon
(25,543)
Summary: A candid, hilarious, and heartbreaking memoir of resilience and redemption by comedic genius Molly Shannon. At age four, Molly Shannon's world was shattered when she lost her mother, baby sister, and...
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Call #: B SHANNON
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Jamie Lynn Spears
(3,986)
Summary: The world first met Jamie Lynn as a child star. She spent years escaping into different characters -- on All That, Zoey 101, and even in the role as Britney's kid sister. But as she grew up, faced a...
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Call #: B SPEARS
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Maria L Yovanovitch
(2,815)
Summary: A child of parents who survived Soviet and Nazi terror, Yovanovitch's life and work have taught her the preciousness of democracy as well as the dangers of corruption. This book follows the arc of...
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Call #: B YOVANOVITCH
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Katy Tur
(4,037)
Summary: When a box from her mother showed up on Katy Tur's doorstep, months into the pandemic and just as she learned she was pregnant with her second child, she didn't now what to expect. The box contained...
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Call #: B TUR
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Tyrus
(3,582)
Summary: The product of a 1970s mixed marriage, George Murdoch learned to fight early in life, fending off both race-baiting bullies and the demons of a dysfunctional home. Couch surfing all through high...
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Call #: B TYRUS
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Alexandra Wentworth
(1,827)
Summary: Like many, Ali Wentworth spent the pandemic seesawing between highs, lows, and baking an unnecessary amount of chocolate cake. Between binging every TV show in existence to conquering TikTok to...
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Call #: B WENTWORTH
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 0 of 1
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Wil Wheaton
(1,842)
Summary: Back in 2001, Wil began blogging on wilwheaton.net. Believing himself to have fallen victim to the curse of the child actor, Wil felt relegated to the convention circuit, and didn't expect many would...
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Call #: B WHEATON
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Jonathan Van Ness
(5,060)
Summary: In Jonathan Van Ness' many endeavors, he has showed others how the incredibly difficult moments from his life (surviving sexual abuse and addiction, being diagnosed with HIV) have existed alongside...
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Call #: B VAN NESS
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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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
copies in: 1 of 1
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Michelle Tea
(528)
Summary: Written in intimate, gleefully TMI prose, this is the irreverent account of Tea's route to parenthood -- with a group of ride-or-die friends, a generous drag queen, and a whole lot of can-do pluck....
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Call #: B TEA
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Stephanie Johnson
(6,122)
Summary: In 2019, Humans of New York featured a photo of a woman in an outrageous fur coat and hat she made herself. She instantly captured the attention of millions. Her name is Stephanie Johnson, but she's...
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Call #: B JOHNSON
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Nina Totenberg
(8,661)
Summary: Celebrated NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg delivers an extraordinary memoir of her personal successes, struggles, and life-affirming relationships, including her remarkable friendship of nearly...
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Call #: B TOTENBERG
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Jann Wenner
(1,570)
Summary: Rolling Stone founder, editor, and publisher Jann Wenner offers a memoir from the heart of the rock and roll generation: from the triumphs of the Beatles and the Stones to Bono and the Boss, from...
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Call #: B WENNER
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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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
copies in: 1 of 1
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Michael Kenneth Williams
(1,958)
Summary: When Michael K. Williams died on September 6, 2021, he left behind a career as one of the most electrifying actors of his generation. From his star turn as Omar Little in The Wire to Chalky White in...
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Call #: B WILLIAMS
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Sarah Polley
(7,358)
Summary: Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah explores memory and the dialogue between her past and her present. These are the most dangerous stories of my life. The ones I have avoided,...
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Call #: B POLLEY
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Paul Newman
(5,222)
Summary: The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon Several years before he died in 2008, Paul Newman commissioned his best friend to interview actors and directors he worked with, his friends,...
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Call #: B NEWMAN
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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