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Sebastian Bach
(2,217)
Summary: In his memoir, Bach recounts lurid tales of excess and debauchery as he toured the world with Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Motley Crüe, Soundgarden, Pantera, Nine Inch Nails and Guns N Roses. Filled with...
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Call #: CD BOOK B BACH
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Al Franken (read by Author)
(22,407)
Summary: The story of an award-winning comedian who decided to run for office and then discovered why award-winning comedians tend not to do that. A book about an unlikely campaign that had an even more...
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Call #: CD BOOK B FRANKEN
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Ron Chernow (read by Scott Brick )
Summary: Ron Chernow tells the story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly...
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Call #: CD BOOK B HAMILTON
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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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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Heather Gay
Summary: Straight off the slopes and into the spotlight, Heather Gay is famous for speaking the gospel truth. Whether as a businesswoman, mother, or television personality, Heather is unafraid to blaze a new...
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Call #: CD BOOK B GAY
Location: New Adult CD Books Biography
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Sylvia Nasar (read by Edward Herrmann )
(130,910)
Summary: A biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994.
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Call #: CD BOOK B NASH
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Michelle Obama (read by Michelle Obama)
(942,613)
Summary: In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America, she helped...
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Call #: CD BOOK B OBAMA
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Reggie Jackson
(200)
Summary: Reggie Jackson hit 563 home runs and drove in 1,702 runs over the course of his twenty-one-year career; he played three World Series-winning seasons with the Oakland Athletics, and two with the New...
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Call #: CD BOOK B JACKSON
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Michelle Miller
Summary: Though Michelle Miller was an award-winning broadcast journalist for CBS News, few people in her life knew the painful secret she carried: her mother had abandoned her at birth. Los Angeles in 1967...
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Call #: CD BOOK B MILLER
Location: New Adult CD Books Biography
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Ari Shapiro
Summary: In his first book, broadcaster Ari Shapiro takes us around the globe to reveal the stories behind narratives that are sometimes heartwarming, sometimes heartbreaking, but always poignant. He details...
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Call #: CD BOOK B SHAPIRO
Location: New Adult CD Books Biography
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Trevor Noah (read by Trevor Noah)
(620,825)
Summary: One of the comedy world's fastest-rising stars tells his wild coming of age story during the twilight of Apartheid in South Africa and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.
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Call #: CD BOOK B NOAH
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Steve Martin
(96,766)
Summary: Martin reflects on his over 30 years in the comedy business, from writing to performing and everywhere in between. He offers listeners a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to look into the mind of an artist at the top of his game.
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Call #: CD BOOK B MARTIN
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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Chip Gaines (read by Chip Gaines)
(16,541)
Summary: Gaines is an HGTV star, renovation expert, author, and husband and father of four in Waco, Texas. He's also a serial entrepreneur always ready for the next challenge, even if it didn't quite work out...
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Call #: CD BOOK B GAINES
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Scott Eyman
(1,101)
Summary: Born Archibald Leach in 1904, he came to America as a teenaged acrobat to find fame and fortune, but he was always haunted by his past. His father was a feckless alcoholic, and his mother was...
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Call #: CD BOOK B GRANT
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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Frank B. Gilbreth (read by Ernestine Gilbreth Carey )
(42,325)
Summary: A time-and-motion expert and his engineer wife use scientific principles to raise their twelve children. No growing pains have ever been more hilarious than those suffered loudly by the riotous...
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Call #: CD BOOK B GILBRETH
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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J. Rufus Fears
(293)
Summary: Professor J. Rufus Fears of the University of Oklahoma examines the life of Sir Winston Churchill, prime minister of Great Britain during World War II.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK B CHURCHILL
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Chuck Barris (read by Chuck Barris)
(1,563)
Summary: The autobiography of Chuck Barris, flamboyant 1970s television producer, who allegedly spent close to two decades as a decorated covert assassin for the CIA.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK B BARRIS
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Malachy McCourt (read by Author)
(318)
Summary: Before he runs out of time, Irish bon vivant Malachy McCourt shares his views on death -- sometimes hilarious and often poignant -- and on what will or won't happen after his last breath is drawn....
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Call #: CD BOOK B MCCOURT
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Jon Meacham (read by Paul Michael )
(7,758)
Summary: "In this brilliant biography, Jon Meacham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, chronicles the life of George Herbert Walker Bush. Drawing on President Bush's personal diaries, on the diaries of his...
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Call #: CD BOOK B BUSH
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Seamas O'Reilly
(4,638)
Summary: Seamas O'Reilly's mother died when he was five, leaving him, his ten (!) brothers and sisters, and their beloved father in their sprawling bungalow in rural Derry. It was the 1990s; the Troubles were...
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Call #: CD BOOK B O'REILLY
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Sally Bedell Smith (read by Rosalyn Landor)
(28,248)
Summary: From the moment of her ascension to the throne in 1952 at the age of twenty-five, Queen Elizabeth II has been the object of unparalleled scrutiny. But through the fog of glamour and gossip, how well...
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Call #: CD BOOK B ELIZABETH
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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Tembi Locke
(36,248)
Summary: A poignant and transporting cross-cultural love story set against the lush backdrop of the Sicilian countryside, where one woman discovers the healing powers of food and family in her darkest hour....
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Call #: CD BOOK B LOCKE
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Amy Schumer (read by Amy Schumer)
(119,354)
Summary: Never one to shy away from the uproarious, challenging, and remarkable moments that make up life, this exceptionally candid book will have readers wincing with recognition, nodding their head in...
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Call #: CD BOOK B SCHUMER
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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Ron Chernow (read by Mark Bramhall)
(33,284)
Summary: A sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most complicated generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic...
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Call #: CD BOOK B GRANT
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Matthew McConaughey
(252,106)
Summary: "I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five." McConaughey sat down with those...
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Call #: CD BOOK B MCCONAUGHEY
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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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: New Adult CD Books Biography
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Robert Dallek (read by William Dufris)
(483)
Summary: Robert Dallek chronicles the presidency of one of the nation's most respected and accomplished leaders. Harry Truman led the country into the nuclear age and paved the road for civil rights in America.
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Call #: CD BOOK B TRUMAN
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: New 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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Kevin Hart (read by Kevin Hart)
(32,200)
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 #: CD BOOK B HART
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.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK B WHITE
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Jennette McCurdy
Summary: Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother's dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So...
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Call #: CD BOOK B MCCURDY
Location: New Adult CD Books Biography
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