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Oksana Masters
Summary: Oksana was born in Ukraine -- in the shadow of Chernobyl. She was born with one kidney, a partial stomach, six toes on each foot, webbed fingers, no right bicep, and no thumbs. Her left leg was six...
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Call #: CD BOOK B MASTERS
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Laura Dern
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 #: CD BOOK B DERN
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Goldie Taylor
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 #: CD BOOK B TAYLOR
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Joseph Earl Thomas
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 #: CD BOOK B THOMAS
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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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 #: CD BOOK B KENNEDY
Location: New Adult CD Books Biography
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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 #: CD BOOK B WASHINGTON
Location: New Adult CD Books Biography
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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 #: CD BOOK B STEWART
Location: New Adult CD Books Biography
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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 #: CD BOOK B TAUPIN
Location: New Adult CD Books Biography
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Jann Wenner
(1,567)
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 #: CD BOOK B WENNER
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Will Smith
(57,037)
Summary: Will Smith's transformation from a West Philadelphia kid to one of the biggest rap stars of his era, and then one of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood history, is an epic tale -- but it's only...
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Call #: CD BOOK B SMITH
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Jacqueline Winspear
Summary: Both shockingly frank and deftly restrained, Jacqueline Winspear's memoir tackles such difficult, poignant, and fascinating family memories as her paternal grandfather's shellshock, her mother's...
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Call #: CD BOOK B WINSPEAR
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Malcolm X
(254,279)
Summary: In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth...
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Call #: CD BOOK B X
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Amy Tan
Summary: In this memoir, Amy Tan is at her most intimate, revealing the truths and inspirations that underlie her extraordinary fiction. By delving into vivid memories of her traumatic childhood, confessions...
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Call #: CD BOOK B TAN
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Bruce Springsteen
(45,817)
Summary: Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs. He describes growing...
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Call #: CD BOOK B SPRINGSTEEN
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Jeffrey Toobin (read by Paul Michael)
(11,161)
Summary: On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress to the Hearst family fortune, was kidnapped by a ragtag group of self-styled revolutionaries calling itself the Symbionese...
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Call #: CD BOOK B HEARST
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Ashlee Vance
Summary: An exciting narrative in the tradition of Michael Lewis which uses the extraordinary life of the entrepreneur Elon Musk, arguably the most powerful man in Silicon Valley, to look at America's return...
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Call #: CD BOOK B MUSK
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Sonia Sotomayor (read by Rita Moreno )
(31,428)
Summary: "An instant American icon--the first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court--tells the story of her life before becoming a judge in an inspiring, surprisingly personal memoir. With startling candor and...
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Call #: CD BOOK B SOTOMAYOR
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Pat Head Summitt
(4,280)
Summary: "Pat Summitt was only 21 when she became head coach of the Tennessee Vols women's basketball team. For 38 years, she has broken records, winning more games than any NCAA team in basketball history....
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Call #: CD BOOK B SUMMITT
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Malala Yousafzai (read by Archie Panjabi)
(542,931)
Summary: When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. She was shot in the head at...
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Call #: CD BOOK B YOUSAFZAI
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Elie Wiesel (read by Mark Bramhall )
(2,337)
Summary: "Eighty-two years old, facing emergency heart surgery and his own mortality, Elie Wiesel reflects back on his life."--Container.
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Call #: CD BOOK B WIESEL
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Betty White
(41,364)
Summary: A personal account by the popular actress shares stories from her decades in Hollywood while offering her lighthearted perspectives on topics ranging from sex and aging to animal welfare and television.
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Call #: CD BOOK B WHITE
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Jeannette Walls (read by Jeannette Walls)
(1,117,210)
Summary: Journalist Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary and their four children lived like nomads, moving among Southwest...
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Call #: CD BOOK B WALLS
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Randy Pausch (read by Erik Singer)
(334,189)
Summary: "A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." While they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What would we want as our legacy? When Randy Pausch, a computer science...
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Call #: CD BOOK B PAUSCH
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Evan Thomas (read by Dan Cashman )
(1,495)
Summary: John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey and C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower are to...
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Call #: CD BOOK B JONES
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Frank W Abagnale (read by Barrett Whitener)
(57,689)
Summary: Abagnale's first-person narrative of his misadventures as a conman, forger, imposter, and escape artist before the age of 21.
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Call #: CD BOOK B ABAGNALE
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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