Search
Type
Format
Sort
Location
Audience

Hirono, Mazie

Summary: "Mazie Hirono is one of the most fiercely outspoken Democrats in Congress, but her journey to the U.S. Senate was far from likely. Raised poor on her family's rice farm in rural Japan, Hirono was seven years old when her mother left her abusive husband and sailed with her two elder children to the United States, crossing the Pacific in steerage in search of a better life. Though the girl then...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HIRONO, MAZIE HIR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B HIRONO HIR

Caribe, Roman

Summary: A long-time confidential informant for U.S. law enforcement describes how he came to be in such a position and recounts how he risked his life and family and faced unthinkable dangers while meeting with gang and cartel leaders every night.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARIBE, ROMAN CAR

Kreutzberger, Mario

Summary: "El octogenario animador repasa lo que ha aprendido en su vasta carrera televisiva y los desafíos que ha enfrentado tanto en su oficio de animador como en su vida."--Amazon.com

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: 468 SPANISH KRE

Rose, Kacie

Summary: After a life-changing solo trip, Kacie Rose did the scariest thing she could think of: She moved from New York City to Italy. And it went perfectly! Just kidding--she made a lot of mistakes. In her tell-all memoir meets manifesto, Kacie champions travel and embracing the scary stuff, like immersing yourself in new cultures (and failling espically along the way) or jumping head-first into a new...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2024

Sorry, no copies available

Place a hold to request this item.

Delgado, Jason

Summary: "The memoir of Jason Delgado, a US Marine scout sniper and MARSOC's first lead sniper instructor. The fight for Jason Delgado's life and soul began when he was just a boy. He ultimately escaped the death and drugs of a crime-riddled Bronx by way of the United States Marine Corps. However, after earning his way into the esteemed ranks of the service's famed Scout Snipers, Delgado saw that old...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DELGADO, JASON DEL

Simon, Marie

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Follows the true story of a young Jewish woman who vanished into the city and lived under an assumed identity, relying on safe houses, foreign workers, and communists in order to survive in World War II Berlin.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2015

Sorry, no copies available

Place a hold to request this item.

Bamford, Maria

Summary: "From "weird, scary, ingenious" (The New York Times) stand-up comedian Maria Bamford, a brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfort of rigid belief systems--from Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, to Suzuki violin training, to Richard Simmons, to 12-step programs. Maria Bamford is a comedian's comedian (an outsider...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BAMFORD, MARIA BAM

Henley, Ariel

Summary: At only eight months old, identical twin sisters Ariel and Zan were diagnosed with Crouzon syndrome, a rare condition where the bones in the head fuse prematurely. They were the first twins known to survive the disease. They endured numerous appearance-altering procedures as they grew up. Surgeons would break the bones in their heads and faces to make room for their growing organs. While the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 HEN

Levy, Ariel

Summary: "In 2012, at age 38, when she left on a reporting trip to Mongolia, Ariel Levy thought she had figured it out: she was married, pregnant, successful on her own terms, financially secure. A month later, none of that was true. 'People have been telling me since I was a little girl that I was too fervent, too forceful, too much. I thought I had harnessed the power of my own strength and greed and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEVY, ARIEL LEV

chat loading...
Back to Top