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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Rich & Famous BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women Legislators United States Biography LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays McCain, John 1936- Obama, Michelle 1964- Presidents' spouses United States Biography United States Military policy 21st century United States. Congress. Senate BiographyOrr, Bobby
Summary: "One of the greatest sports figures of all time breaks his silence in a memoir as unique as the man himself. He has never written a memoir, authorized a biography, or talked to journalists about his past, but now he is finally ready to tell his story. Bobby Orr is often referred to as the greatest ever to play the game of hockey. From 1966 through the mid-seventies, he could change a game just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.962 OrrPeterson, Liza Jessie
Summary: "ALL DAY is a behind-the-bars, personal glimpse into the issue of mass incarceration via an unpredictable, insightful and ultimately hopeful reflection on teaching teens while they await sentencing. Told with equal parts raw honesty and unbridled compassion, ALL DAY recounts a year in Liza Jessie Peterson's classroom at Island Academy, the high school for inmates detained at New York City's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365.666 PeterMolina, Bengie
Summary: "The inspiring true story of the poor Puerto Rican factory worker, Benjamin Molina Santana, who against all odds raised the greatest baseball dynasty of all time: Molina's three sons--Bengie, Jose, and Yadier--have each earned two World Series rings, which is unprecedented in the sport, and his story is told by one of them, Bengie. A baseball rules book. A tape measure. A lottery ticket. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.397 RyanSedaris, David
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 SedarisRiggs, Nina
Summary: "Built on her wildly popular Modern Love column, 'When a Couch is More Than a Couch' (9/23/2016), a breathtaking memoir of living meaningfully with 'death in the room' by the 38 year old great-great-great granddaughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson, mother to two young boys, wife of 16 years, after her terminal cancer diagnosis"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RiggsNelson, Willie
Summary: American music icon Willie Nelson looks back at the songs that defined his career, discussing songwriting, artists he worked with, and themes he has explored: love, loss, friendship, life on the road, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Audiobooks, Call number: CDBK 781 NelsonWagner, Robert
Summary: "Film and television actor and New York Times bestselling author Robert Wagner's memoir of the great women movie stars he has known. In a career that has spanned more than sixty years Robert Wagner has witnessed the twilight of the Golden Age of Hollywood and the rise of television, becoming a beloved star in both media. During that time he became acquainted, both professionally and socially,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Bay Theatre Collection, Call number: BAY THEATRE 791.430 WagnerObama, Michelle
Summary: "Mrs. Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ObamaKalanithi, Paul
Summary: "For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KalanChin, Curtis
Summary: "Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung's Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone--from the city's first Black mayor to the local drag queens, from a big-time Hollywood star to elderly Jewish couples--could sit down for a warm, home-cooked meal. Here was where, beneath a bright-red awning and surrounded by his multigenerational family,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Summary: "Like an urban Dian Fossey, Wednesday Martin decodes the primate social behaviors of Upper East Side mothers in a brilliantly original and witty memoir about her adventures assimilating into that most secretive and elite tribe. After marrying a man from the Upper East Side and moving to the neighborhood, Wednesday Martin struggled to fit in. Drawing on her background in anthropology and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.71 MartinMayes, Frances
Summary: "A lyrical and evocative collection of personal stories from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, in which the queen of wanderlust reflects on the comforts of home. While Frances Mayes is known for her travels, she has always sought a sense of home wherever she goes. In this poetic testament to the power of place in our lives, Mayes reflects on "home," from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 MayesMarcum, Diana
Summary: Reporter Diana Marcum is in crisis. A long-buried personal sadness is enfolding her--and her career is stalled--when she stumbles upon an unusual group of immigrants living in rural California. She follows them on their annual return to the remote Azorean Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, where bulls run down village streets, volcanoes are active, and the people celebrate festas to ease their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.69 Marcum 2018McCurdy, Jennette
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 she went along with what Mom called "calorie restriction," eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, "Your eyelashes are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MccurdyKeillor, Garrison.
Summary: " Stories, essays, poems, and personal reminiscences from the sage of Lake Wobegon When, at thirteen, he caught on as a sportswriter for the Anoka Herald, Garrison Keillor set out to become a professional writer, and so he has done-a storyteller, sometime comedian, essayist, newspaper columnist, screenwriter, poet. Now a single volume brings together the full range of his work:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Adult 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.542 KeillorMayle, Peter
Summary: "The beloved author Peter Mayle, champion of all things Provence, here in a final volume of all new writing, offers vivid recollections from his twenty-five years in the South of France--lessons learned, culinary delights enjoyed, and changes observed. Twenty-five years ago, Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, were rained out of a planned two weeks on the Cô̂te d'Azur. In search of sunlight,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.9 Mayle 2018Saunders, Gerda
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1968 SaunderDunkle, Clare B.
Summary: "Clare Dunkle seemed to have an ideal life--two beautiful, high-achieving teenage daughters, a loving husband, and a satisfying and successful career as a children's book novelist. But it's when you let down your guard that the ax falls. Just after one daughter successfully conquered her depression, another daughter developed a life-threatening eating disorder. Co-published with Elena...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.852 DunkBerman, Matt
Summary: "As John Kennedy Jr.'s creative director for George magazine, Matt Berman had a wonderfully collaborative and fun-loving relationship with America's favorite son--his story is told here with unprecedented candor and wit. The Kennedys--their poise, the family secrets, and their grace in the face of unimaginable tragedies--have captured the imagination and interest of the public for more than...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.922 BermanValenti, Jessica
Summary: "<strong>"Who would I be if I lived in a world that didn't hate women?"</strong> Hailed by the Washington Post as "one of the most visible and successful feminists of her generation," Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation on gender and politics for over a decade. Now, in a memoir that Publishers Weekly calls "bold and unflinching," Valenti explores the toll that sexism...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.420 ValentMcCain, John
Summary: "A candid new political memoir from Senator John McCain--his most personal book in years--covering everything from 2008 up to the present."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 2018
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Summary: "An inspiring and heartfelt memoir about the friendship between eight women forged over two decades. The eight Drummond Girls first met in 1991 at Peegeo's Food & Spirits in northern Michigan where, at the time, they were all waitresses, bartenders, or regular customers. When one of them got engaged, they celebrated with a trip to Drummond Island--their first trip together to the remote...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MC 977.491 LinkKinsley, Michael E.
Summary: "Vanity Fair columnist Michael Kinsley escorts his fellow Boomers through the door marked "Exit." The largest age cohort in history--the notorious baby boomers--is approaching the end and starting to plan their final moves in the game of life. Now they are asking: What was that all about? Was it about acquiring things or changing the world? Was it about keeping all your marbles? Or is the only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: “We were eight years in power” was the lament of Reconstruction-era black politicians as the American experiment in multiracial democracy ended with the return of white supremacist rule in the South. In this sweeping collection of new and selected essays, Ta-Nehisi Coates explores the tragic echoes of that history in our own time: the unprecedented election of a black president followed by a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2017