Brown, Keah
Summary: "From the disability rights advocate and creator of the #DisabledAndCute viral campaign, a thoughtful, inspiring, and charming collection of essays exploring what it means to be black and disabled in a mostly able-bodied white America. Keah Brown loves herself, but that hadn't always been the case. Born with cerebral palsy, her greatest desire used to be normalcy and refuge from the steady...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROWN, KEAH BROMelvin, Craig
Summary: The news anchor of NBC News' Today tells the story of the father figures in his life as well as his reconciliation and understanding of his own father, and how all these experiences and encounters have informed his understanding of his own role as a dad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MELVIN MELTeachout, Terry.
Summary: Wall Street Journal arts columnist Terry Teachout has drawn on new sources unavailable to previous biographers, including hundreds of private recordings of backstage and after-hours conversations, to craft a sweeping new narrative biography of this towering figure that shares, for the first time, full, accurate versions of such storied events as Armstong's quarrel with President Eisenhower and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ARMSTRONG, LOUIS TEAPham, Larissa
Summary: Like a song that feels written just for you, Larissa Pham's debut work of nonfiction captures the imagination and refuses to let go. Pop Song is a book about love and about falling in love--with a place, or a painting, or a person--and the joy and terror inherent in the experience of that love. Plumbing the well of culture for clues and patterns about love and loss--from Agnes Martin's abstract...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Essay PhamTrynka, Paul.
Summary: Born James Newell Osterberg Jr., Iggy Pop transcended life in Ypsilanti, Michigan, to become a member of the punk band the Stooges, earning the nickname "the Godfather of Punk." He is one of the most riveting and reckless performers in music history, with a commitment to his art that is perilously total. But his personal life was often a shambles, as he struggled with drug addiction, mental...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.4216 POP, IGGY TRYFogerty, John
Summary: John Fogerty, the legendary singer-songwriter and creative force behind Creedence Clearwater Revival, takes readers from his Northern California roots, through Creedence's success and the retreat from music and public life, to his hard-won revival as a solo artist who finally found love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FOGERTY, JON FOGStewart, Christopher S.
Contents: The early years--1. John Wayne dreams--2. Taking Europe--3. How we change--4. The case of the elusive man--5. The smiling bank robber--6. We got you! No you don't!--7. Breakout--8. Hit man--9. The man Arkan didn't kill, Part II: Warlord--10. My fixer Milan and our search for truth among Serbia's crime lords--11. Cruising in the pink Cadillac--12. Lord of the soccer warriors--13. The Tigers--14....
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.703 STEDeluxe, Jean-Emmanuel
Contents: The 1960s -- Panorama -- Social Affairs -- Ye-Ye Girls & Marriage -- The Media -- A General View -- The Rock Papers -- Television -- The Four Aces Of Hearts -- France Gall -- Françoise Hardy -- Sylvie Vartan -- Chantal Goya -- Serge Gainsbourg's Filles De La Pop -- From Literary Chanteur to Pop Entrepreneur -- Initials B.B. -- Jane B.: Nationality: British, Sex: Female -- His Majesty Serge's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013