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Actors United States Biography Clinton, Hillary Rodham Infants Care United States Case studies Loss (Psychology) Case studies Mothers Death Psychological aspects Case studies Playaways Spouses Death Psychological aspects Case studies Stone, Oliver Television actors and actresses United States Biography United StatesStone, Oliver
Summary: Oliver Stone spent years writing unproduced scripts before the international success of Platoon in 1986. Here, Stone recounts those formative years.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 STONE, OLIVER STOAl-Marashi, Huda
Summary: "When Huda meets Hadi, the boy she will ultimately marry, she is six years old. Both are the American-born children of Iraqi immigrants, who grew up on opposite ends of California. Hadi considers Huda his childhood sweetheart, the first and only girl he's ever loved, but Huda needs proof that she is more than just the girl Hadi's mother has chosen for her son. She wants what the American girls...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: The former secretary of state relates her experiences as the first woman candidate nominated for president by a major party, discussing the sexism, criticism, and double standards she had to confront, and how she coped with a devastating loss.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: A searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, and loss from the critically acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award winner. When his mother passed away at the age of 78, Sherman Alexie responded the only way he knew how: he wrote. The result is this stunning memoir. Featuring 78 poems, 78 essays and intimate family photographs, Alexie shares raw, angry, funny, profane, tender memories...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: "'My father had more than fifty children.' So begins the haunting memoir of Anna LeBaron, daughter of the notorious polygamist and murderer Ervil LeBaron. With her father wanted by the FBI for killing anyone who tried to leave his cult -- a radical branch of Mormonism -- Anna and her siblings were constantly on the run with the other sister-wives. Often starving and always desperate, the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 LEBARON, ANNA BarPoehler, Amy
Summary: "In Amy Poehlers highly anticipated first book, Yes Please, she offers up a big juicy stew of personal stories, funny bits on sex and love and friendship and parenthood and real life advice (some useful, some not so much), like when to be funny and when to be serious. Powered by Amys charming and hilarious, biting yet wise voice, Yes Please is a book full of words to live by" -- from...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 POEHLER, AMY POEPadgett, Jason
Summary: No one sees the world as Jason Padgett does. Water pours from the faucet in crystalline patterns, numbers call to mind distinct geometric shapes, and intricate fractal patterns emerge from the movement of tree branches, revealing the intrinsic mathematical designs hidden in the objects around us. Yet Padgett wasn't born this way. Twelve years ago, he had never made it past pre-algebra. But a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 PADGETT, JASON PADGreer, Judy
Summary: The prolific actress best known for her appearances in such productions as "The Descendants" presents a collection of comedic essays on topics ranging from stepmotherhood to midnight shopping trips at the pharmacy.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 GREER, JUDY GREHart, Melissa Joan
Summary: Melissa Explains It All: her childhood and family, her career from its beginning to the present, her rebellious teen years, the mistakes she's made, the actors she worked with, competed against, befriended--and the wacky stories of trying to fit in, stand out, and juggle the roles of wife, mother and TV star. She shares the lessons she's learned along the way: what's kept her grounded and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 791.45 HART, MELISSA JOAN HARLogelin, Matthew.
Summary: Matt Logelin writes a courageous and searingly honest memoir about the first year of his life following the birth of his daughter and the death of his wife.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011