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Cheryl Strayed
(748,145)
Summary: A powerful, blazingly honest, inspiring memoir: the story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again.
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Call #: B STRAYED
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Rebecca Solnit
(6,785)
Summary: A companion to "A Field Guide for Getting Lost" explores the ways that people construct lives from stories and connect to each other through empathy, narrative, and imagination, sharing anecdotes...
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Call #: B SOLNIT
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Malala Yousafzai
(542,950)
Summary: When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday October 9, 2012, she almost paid the ultimate price.
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Call #: B YOUSAFZAI
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Tina Turner
(5,935)
Summary: From her early years in Nutbush, Tennessee to her rise to fame alongside Ike Turner to her phenomenal success in the 1980s and beyond, Tina candidly examines her personal history, from her darkest...
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Call #: B TURNER
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Jonathan Van Ness
(60,224)
Summary: Who gave Jonathan Van Ness permission to be the radiant human he is today? No one, honey. The truth is, it hasn't always been gorgeous for this beacon of positivity and joy. Before he stole our...
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Call #: B VAN NESS
Location: Adult Displays - Front
copies in: 0 of 1
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Michelle Zauner
(273,756)
Summary: In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up...
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Call #: B ZAUNER
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 0 of 1
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James Patterson
(3,020)
Summary: Bronx-native Bernard Slotnick's mantra was that everyone deserved a good defense. And he was the best defender out there. A bold strategist in the courtroom, and a doting husband and father of four...
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Call #: B SLOTNICK
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
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: 0 of 1
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by
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 Displays - Front
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Tyler Merritt
(5,883)
Summary: As a six-foot-two, dreadlocked black man, Tyler Merritt knows that getting too close to the wrong person can get him killed. But he also believes that proximity can be a cure for racism. Tyler...
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Call #: B MERRITT
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
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: New Adult Biographies, On Order
copies in: 0 of 3
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by
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: New Adult Biographies
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
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: New Adult Biographies
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
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: New Adult Biographies
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
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: New Adult Biographies
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
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: New Adult Biographies
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
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
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
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
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
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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by
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
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
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
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
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
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
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
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
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
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
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
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
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
copies in: 1 of 1
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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
copies in: 1 of 1
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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
copies in: 1 of 1
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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
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Michelle Duval Ule
(225)
Summary: Among Christian devotional works, "My Utmost for His Highest" stands head and shoulders above the rest, with more than 13 million copies sold. But most readers have no idea that Oswald Chambers' most...
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Call #: B CHAMBERS
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
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
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
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
copies in: 1 of 1
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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
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
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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by
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
copies in: 1 of 1
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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
copies in: 1 of 1
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