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Kasher, Moshe

Summary: "After bottoming out, being institutionalized, and getting sober all by the tender age of fifteen, Moshe Kasher found himself asking: OK, so what else is out there? Over the ensuing decades, he found his way to the answer: a lot. From his current vantage point as a successful stand-up comic, Kasher looks back on his years careening from subculture to subculture, and he immerses readers in the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024

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Ullman, Ellen

Summary: "The never-more-necessary return of one of our most vital and eloquent voices on technology and culture, the author of the seminal Close to the Machine. The last twenty years have brought us the rise of the internet, the development of artificial intelligence, the ubiquity of once unimaginably powerful computers, and the thorough transformation of our economy and society. Through it all, Ellen...

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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ULLMAN, ELLEN ULL

Levi, Lia

1 hold on 6 copies

Summary: "1938, Italy. Six-year-old Lia loves to build sandcastles at the beach and her biggest problem is her shyness and quiet, birdlike voice -- until prime minister Mussolini joins forces with Hitler in World War II, and everything changes. Now there are laws saying Jewish children can't go to school, Jews can't work, or go on vacation. It's difficult for Lia to understand why this is happening to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEV

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB LEVI LEV

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED LEV

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED LEV

Begley, Ed

Summary: The beloved American actor and environmental activist shares humorous and heartfelt stories throughout his life and illustrious career, focusing on his relationship with his legendary father, adventures with Hollywood icons, addiction and recovery and his constant search for wisdom and common ground.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BEGLEY, ED, JR. BEG

Lurie, John

Summary: "'About this Book' In the tornado that was downtown New York in the 1980s, John Lurie stood in its vortex. After founding the band The Lounge Lizards with his brother in 1979, Lurie quickly became a centrifugal figure in the world of outsider artists, cutting-edge filmmakers, and cultural rebels. In the book, Lurie vibrantly brings to life the whole wash of 1980s New York as he develops his...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LURIE, JOHN LUR

Smarsh, Sarah

Summary: During Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the '80s and '90s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country's changing economic policies solidified her family's place among the working poor. Her personal history affirms the corrosive impact intergenerational poverty can have on individuals, families, and communities. Combining memoir with powerful analysis and cultural commentary, this...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMARSH, SARAH SMA

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B SMARSH SMA

Stamos, John

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "If you would have told a young John Stamos flipping burgers at his dad's fast-food joint that one day he'd be a household name and that, at the height of his success, he'd be living alone, divorced, with no kids, high on a cocktail of forgetting, he might've asked, "You want fries with that?" John burst onto the scene in General Hospital, propelling him into the teen idol stratosphere, a place...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023

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Horace, Matthew

Summary: A CNN contributor and former law enforcement officer offers a personal account of the racism, crimes, and color lines that challenge America's police, sharing insights into high-profile cases, the Black Lives Matter movement, and what is needed for change.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HORACE, MATTHEW HOR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult Horace

Questlove

Summary: "A comprehensive fifty-year history of the hip-hop genre, from renowned artist and author of MUSIC IS HISTORY, Questlove"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: AUWA / MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 QUE

Ung, Loung.

Summary: "When readers first met Loung Ung in her critically acclaimed memoir First They Killed My Father, she was a young, innocent child in Cambodia. But forced by the Khmer Rouge into the life of a child soldier, she soon found herself locked in a desperate struggle for survival in Cambodia's notorious killing fields. In Lucky Child, her life took a turn. As a refugee in Vermont, she grappled with...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 UNG, LOUNG UNG

Jealous, Benjamin Todd

Summary: "'One of the nation's most prominent civil rights leaders' (Washington Post), a New York Times bestselling author, community organizer, investigative journalist, Ivy League professor, and former head of the NAACP, Ben Jealous draws from a life lived on America's racial fault line to deliver a series of gripping and lively parables that call on each of us to reconcile, heal, and work fearlessly...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JEALOUS, BENJAMIN TODD JEA

Nguyen, Viet Thanh

Summary: "The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwide. With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press,an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NGU

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NGUYEN, VIET THANH NGU

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B NGUYEN NGU

Shields, Aomawa

Summary: "A stunning and inspiring memoir charting a life as an astronomer, classically-trained actor, mother, and Black woman in STEM, searching for life in the universe while building a meaningful life here on Earth. As a child, Aomawa Shields was always bumping into things, her neck craned up at the sky, dreaming of becoming an astronaut. One year into an astrophysics PhD program, she was plagued by...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHIELDS, AOMAWA SHI

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