Davis, Viola

Summary: In this memoir, award-winning actress Viola Davis shares her story, in her own words, from her coming-of-age in Rhode Island to the present day.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 DAVIS VIOLA DAV

Ripa, Kelly

Summary: In her first book, Kelly shows what really makes her tick. As a professional, as a wife, as a daughter, and as a mother, she brings a hard-earned wisdom and an eye for the absurdity of life to every minute of every day. It is her relatability in all of these roles that has earned her fans worldwide and millions of followers on social media. Whether recounting how she and Mark really met, the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 RIP

Hall, Eddie

Summary: In 2017, Eddie Hall became the World's Strongest Man. Eddie brings you into the heart of his training camp as he prepares for his greatest challenge yet, a boxing ring showdown with his nemesis, Hafthor Bjornsson. He also reflects on the lessons he's learned over the course of his life, and draws on them to overcome each new setback, from injuries and illness to uncertainty and grief. Eddie...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 HALL, EDDIE HAL

Patterson, James

Summary: James Patterson tells his life story, a rags-to-riches account, from almost dying at birth to stints as an ad copywriter and psychiatric aid and more, before becoming the most successful storyteller in the world.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 PAT

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD B PATTERSON

Gilbert, Melissa

Summary: Known for her childhood role as Laura Ingalls Wilder on the classic NBC show Little House on the Prairie, Melissa Gilbert has spent nearly her entire life in Hollywood. From Dancing with the Stars to a turn in politics, she was always on the lookout for her next project. She just had no idea that her latest one would be completely life changing. When her husband introduces her to the wilds of...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 GILBERT, MELISSA GIL

Ephron, Delia

Summary: After Delia Ephron channeled her frustration with Verizon into a New York Times op ed, she got an email from a man she dated briefly in college. He soon flew to see her. They were crazily in love. What could go wrong? Acute myeloid leukemia, which also took her beloved older sister, struck her three months into this new blissful life.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 EPHRON, DELIA EPH

Couric, Katie

Summary: In this memoir, Katie Couric reveals what was going on behind the scenes of her sometimes tumultuous personal and professional life--a story she's never shared, until now.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2021

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 COURIC, KATIE COU

Smith, Will

Summary: "Will Smith's transformation from a West Philadelphia kid to one of the biggest rap stars of his era, and then one of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood history, is an epic tale, but it's only half the story. Will Smith thought he had won at life: not only was his own success unparalleled, his whole family was at the pinnacle of the entertainment world. Only they didn't see it that way: they...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 SMI

Ford, Ashley C.

Summary: Somebody's Daughter steps into the world of growing up a poor Black girl in Indiana with a family fragmented by incarceration, exploring how isolating and complex such a childhood can be. Through poverty, adolescence, and a fraught relationship with her mother, Ashley C. Ford wishes she could turn to her father for hope and encouragement. There are just a few problems: he's in prison, and she...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2021

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 FORD, ASHLEY C. FOR

Tyson, Cicely

Summary: The Academy, Tony, and Emmy Award-winning actor and trailblazer tells her stunning story, looking back at her life and six-decade career.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 TYSON, CICELY TYS

Grohl, David

Summary: Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities Dave Grohl has decided to tell these stories just as he has always done, in his own voice. The joy that he has felt from chronicling these tales is not unlike listening back to a song that he has recorded and can't wait to share with the world, or reading a primitive journal entry from a stained notebook,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2021

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD 921 GRO

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 921 GRO

King, Billie Jean

Summary: Journeying from a blue-collar childhood to shatter tennis's exclusive country-club culture, Billie Jean King paved the way for a more open, inclusive, and equal sports environment. In her memoir, she takes us behind the scenes of the pro tennis tour, through her five years as the top-ranked woman in the world, her twenty Wimbledon championships, her thirty-nine grand-slam titles, and her...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2021

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 KING, BILLIE JEAN KIN

Lawson, Jenny

Summary: "As Jenny Lawson's hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken (in the best possible way), she explores her experimental treatment of transcranial magnetic stimulation with brutal honesty. But also with brutal humor: "People do different things to distract themselves during each treatment. I embroider. It feels fitting. I'm being magnetically stabbed in the head...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LAW

Obama, Barack

Summary: In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency,a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil. Obama...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2020

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 OBA

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 OBAMA, BARACK OBA

John, Elton

Summary: An official autobiography by the influential music artist includes coverage of his complicated upbringing in a London suburb, his celebrity collaborations, his struggles with addiction, and the establishment of his AIDS Foundation.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2019

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD B JOH

Springsteen, Bruce.

Summary: Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs. He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid the poetry, danger, and darkness that fueled his imagination, leading up to the moment he refers to as 'The Big Bang': seeing Elvis Presley's debut on The...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2016

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 SPRINGSTEEN, BRUCE Spr