Karikó, Katalin
Summary: "A story of perseverance and the power of convictions from the groundbreaking immigrant scientist whose decades-long research led to the COVID-19 vaccines. Katalin Karikó had an unlikely journey. The daughter of a butcher in postwar communist Hungary, Karikó grew up in a one-room home that lacked running water, and her family grew their own vegetables. She saw the wonders of nature all around...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023
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Summary: This moving memoir-in-verse tells about what it means to be an everyday activist and foot solider for racial justice, as Kathlyn recounts how she went from attending protests as a teenager to fighting as an adult for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday tobecome a national holiday.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KIRShears, Jake
Summary: The lead singer of the glam rock band Scissor Sisters examines his life and career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHEARS, JAKE SHEBanks, Tyra
Summary: Shares the life lessons Tyra Banks learned from her mother and applied to her highly successful career, and how their close bond helped them to overcome many obstacles in life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TarcherPerigee 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BANKS, TYRA BANLauretta, D. S. (Dante S.)
Summary: "On September 11, 1999, humanity made a monumental discovery in the vastness of space. Scientists uncovered an asteroid of immense scientific importance--a colossal celestial entity. As massive as an aircraft carrier and towering as high as the iconic Empire State Building, this cosmic titan was later named Bennu. Remarkable for much more than its size, Bennu belonged to a rare breed of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2024
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Summary: "In this hilarious and heartfelt memoir, award-winning, multi-talented entertainer Jamie Foxx shares the story of being raised by his no-nonsense grandmother, the glamour and pitfalls of life in Hollywood, and the lessons he took from both worlds to raise his two daughters"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
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Summary: In this inspiring picture book autobiography, the first Black Radio City Rockette shares how she proved that everything is possible when you believe you belong.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublisher 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB JONES JONBertch, Jane
Summary: "When Jane Bertch was eighteen, her mother took her on a graduation trip to Paris. Thrilled to use her high-school French, Jane found her halting attempts greeted with withering condescension by every waiter and shopkeeper she encountered. At the end of the trip, she vowed she would never return. Yet a decade later she found herself back in Paris, transferred there by the American bank she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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Summary: When Dr. Maker was diagnosed in 2011, she, like most people, knew almost nothing about breast cancer. What she did know is that she didn't feel safe simply following her doctors' advice. The treatment is not always successful; some people die, and some who survive have disabling side effects. She needed to understand for herself all her treatment options, the statistical outcomes for each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jane Thomas Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.994 MAKRaskin, Jamie B.
Summary: The Maryland congressman tells the story of the forty-five days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life--and his family's--as he confronted the painful loss of his son to suicide, lived through the violent insurrection in the Capitol, and led the impeachment effort to hold President Trump accountable for inciting the political violence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RASKIN, JAMIE RASBertch, Jane
Summary: "In this inspiring, poignant, and delicious memoir, the founder of France's largest nonprofessional culinary institute traces her journey from the American midwest to Paris, and shares how, through painstaking work, she triumphed over French elitism. When Jane Bertch was eighteen, her mother took her on a graduation trip to Paris. Thrilled to use her high school French, Jane found her halting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Group 2024
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Summary: "From award-winning journalist Jane Ferguson, an unflinching memoir of ambition and war--from the Troubles to the fall of Kabul. In Northern Ireland in the 1980s and '90s, war was a secret, and young Jane Ferguson wanted to know the truth. For her, war was called the Troubles, bomb threats and military checkpoints on the way to school were commonplace, and an uncle's gunshot wound in IRA...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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Summary: "Essays that show how Smiley draws inspiration from across literary history to invigorate her own writing. Among the authors she examines are Marguerite de Navarre, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Willa Cather, Franz Kafka, Halldor Laxness, and Jessica Mitford"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heyday 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 SMILima, Jamie Kern
Summary: "Shares the wild but true story of how a once struggling waitress turned her against-the-grain idea into an international bestselling sensation, eventually selling the company for over a billion dollars and becoming the first female CEO of a brand in L'Oraeal's 100+ year history. Faced with self-doubt, body-doubt, God-doubt, Jamie reveals how she almost didn't make it, how she learned to trust...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LIMA, JAMIE KERN LIMWinkler, Henry
Summary: "From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply thoughtful memoir of the lifelong effects of stardom and the struggle to become whole. Henry Winkler, launched into prominence as "The Fonz" in the beloved Happy Days, has transcended the role that made him who he is. Brilliant, funny, and widely-regarded as the nicest man in Hollywood (though he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2023