Royal, Sarah
Summary: An intimate and deeply original exploration of the life and work of the television pioneer, the First Lady of Comedy, Lucille Bal--A.K.A. Lucy. With stories illuminating the many different facets of the woman, [this book] details how Ball transformed the face of comedy and the entertainment industry. -- adapted from back cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BALL, LUCILLE ROYLahiri, Jhumpa
Summary: "In 2016, the novelist Jhumpa Lahiri published In Other Words, the story of her quest to learn Italian, which involved moving with her family to Italy to immerse herself fully in her adopted language. The book builds on that account through eight essays that reflect her early career as a translator. One essay uses her teaching of the Echo and Narcissus myth to reflect on the meaning of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 418 LAHCurlee, Lynn
Summary: "Interwoven with photographs of the people lost, this memoir chronicles the AIDS pandemic from the late 1970s to the late 1990s, up until the death of the author's partner"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 CURSantos, Sophie
Summary: "From the self-proclaimed Queen of the Stunted Late Bloomers and one of the most exciting emerging voices in comedy comes an honestly funny memoir about the awkward, cringeworthy, hilarious, and longest possible journey of coming of age and into her own. The only child of a perpetually transferring Filipino-Spanish US Army officer and a spitfire nurse, Sophie Santos spent her early years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Topple Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SANTOS, SOPHIE SANGilpin, Betty
Summary: "Like Jenny Lawson and Caitlin Moran, Emmy-nominated actress and writer Betty Gilpin delivers a lightning-strike dispatch of hilarious, intimate, and luminous essays on how to navigate this weird and wondrous life. Betty Gilpin has a brain full of women. There's Blanche VonFuckery, Ingrid St. Rash, and a host of others--some cowering in sweatpants, some howling plans for revolution, and some,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022
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Summary: A collection of more than 80 profiles about the brave women in the US military.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 355 CONPorizkova, Paulina
Summary: "Writer and former model Paulina Porizkova pens a series of intimate, introspective, and enlightening essays about the complexities of womanhood at every age, pulling back the glossy magazine cover and writing from the heart"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Open Field/Penguin Life 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PORIZKOVA, PAULINA PORStuart, Nancy Rubin
Summary: Benjamin Franklin: thrifty inventor, statesman of the Revolutionary era... lover of women. The most prominent among them was Deborah Read Franklin, his common-law wife and partner for 44 years. An independent, politically savvy woman and devoted wife, she raised their children, managed his finances, and fought off angry mobs at gunpoint while he traipsed about England. Stuart also introduces...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B FRANKLIN STULeavy, Jane
Summary: George Herman "Babe" Ruth Jr. swung the heaviest bat, earned the most money, and incurred the biggest fines. Aided by his crucial partnership with Christy Walsh-- business manager, spin doctor, damage control wizard, and surrogate father-- Ruth drafted the blueprint for modern athletic stardom. Leavy breaks through the mythology that has obscured the legend and delivers the man. -- adapted from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B RUTH LEAHolley, Santi Elijah
Summary: "A history of the rise and lasting impact of Black liberation groups in America, as seen through the Shakurs, one of the movement's most prominent and fiercely creative families, home to Tupac and Assata, and a powerful incubator for today's activism, scholarship, and artistry"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 HOLDe Visé, Daniel
Summary: "When Andy Griffith went to Hollywood in 1960 to film a TV pilot about a small-town sheriff, his friend Don Knotts called to ask if his sheriff could use a deputy. Together, Sheriff Andy Taylor and Deputy Barney Fife elevated The Andy Griffith Show from a folksy sitcom into a timeless study of human friendship. The program was fiction, but the friendship was powerful and real."--Book jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015