Tick, Judith
Summary: A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovator.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton and Company 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FITZGERALD, ELLA TICMedina, Nico
Summary: RuPaul Andre Charles always knew he was meant to be a performer. Even as a young child, he loved to dress up and imitate the glamorous women he saw on television. When he turned fifteen, he began studying theater in a performing arts school in Atlanta and never looked back. Ru developed his drag-queen personality and launched his career in the 1980s. He now hosts and judges the widely popular...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RUPPick-Goslar, Hannah
Summary: "Firsthand account of a Holocaust survivor who knew Anne Frank"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PICK-GOSLAR, HANNAH PICCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B PICK-GOSLAR GOSKershaw, Alex.
Summary: "Beginning in the predawn darkness of June 6, 1944, The First Wave follows the remarkable men who carried out D-Day's most perilous missions. The charismatic, unforgettable cast includes the first American paratrooper to touch down on Normandy soil; the British glider pilot who braved antiaircraft fire to crash-land mere yards from the vital Pegasus Bridge; the Canadian brothers who led their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 KERHornby, Nick
Summary: "From the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and entertaining book about art, creativity, and the unlikely similarities between Victorian novelist Charles Dickens and modern American rock star Prince. Every so often, a pairing comes along that seems completely unlikely-until it's not. Peanut butter and jelly, Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong Un, ducks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 HORBaumgartner, Nick
Summary: "Every summer in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Nick Baumgartner went to work pouring concrete, taking on the harsh physical conditions of the construction trade in order to support his professional snowboarding dreams come winter. Unable to afford housing for those months spent training in the mountains, he lived out of a crusty van, parked anywhere he could find a spot. And in 2022, after 17...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Triumph Books LLC 2024
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Summary: "The story of the composer John Cage's famous composition of four minutes and 33 seconds of empty sheet music, and its first performance by the pianist David Tudor"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DAYDe Semlyen, Nick
Summary: "The behind-the-scenes story of the larger-than-life action stars who ruled '80s and '90s Hollywood--Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Jackie Chan, Steven Seagal, Chuck Norris, Dolph Lundgren, and Jean-Claude Van Damme--and the beloved films that made them stars, including Die Hard, Rambo, and The Terminator. The Last Action Heroes opens in 1990, at the Cannes film...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 DE SNguyen, Bich Minh
Summary: "From the award-winning author of Stealing Buddha's Dinner, a powerful memoir of a mother-daughter relationship fragmented by war and resettlement. At the end of the Vietnam War, when Beth Nguyen was eight months old, she and her father, sister, grandmother, and uncles fled Saigon for America. Beth's mother stayed--or was left--behind, and they did not meet again until Beth was nineteen. Over...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NGUYEN, BICH MINH NGUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B NGUYEN NGUSwanson, Shari
Summary: "In 1945, the attention of the United States, along with the rest of the world, was focused on World War II. After more than five years of fighting, downcast, war-weary people were looking for signs of hope of a better future. One April morning, a duck searching for a nesting spot lands on a tall post sticking out of the Milwaukee River. Situated near a busy drawbridge and the noisy city of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SWASummary: Blues and folk singer Karen Dalton was a prominent figure in 1960s New York. Idolized by Bob Dylan and Nick Cave, Karen discarded the traditional trappings of success and led an unconventional life until her early death. Since most images of Karen have been lost or destroyed, the film uses Karen₂s dulcet melodies and interviews with loved ones to build a rich portrait of this singular woman and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC KARBragg, Rick
Summary: "Speck is not a good boy. He is a terrible boy, a defiant, self-destructive, often malodorous boy, a grave robber and screen door moocher who spends his days playing chicken with the FedEx man, picking fights with thousand-pound livestock and rolling in donkey manure and his nights howling at the moon. He has been that way since the moment he appeared on the ridgeline behind Rick Bragg's house....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "A graphic novel memoir recounting one parent's unique and wrenching journey caring for a child with a terminal diagnosis. When Rick and Emily's infant son Ronan is diagnosed with Tay-Sachs, an incurable neurological disorder, they are faced with the practical and emotional hurdles of parenting and loving their son--despite the shadow of inevitable loss. Rick Louis narrates this original...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LOUReilly, Rick
Summary: Donald Trump loves golf. He loves to play it, buy it, build it, and operate it. He owns 14 courses around the world and runs another five, all of which he insists are the best on the planet. He also claims he's a 3 handicap, almost never loses, and has won an astonishing 18 club championships. How much of all that is true? Almost none of it, sportswriter Rick Reilly reveals. Based on Reilly's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TRUMP, DONALD REILeventhal, Rick
Summary: From the front lines in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and other conflict zones to the base of the burning Twin Towers on 9/11 to the eye of countless hurricanes, Rick Leventhal chronicles some of the most amazing stories he's covered in his thirty-five years as a news reporter, anchor, and Senior Correspondent--with some life lessons thrown in along the way. Part memoir and part leadership...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Post Hill Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEVENTHAL, RICK LEVHoneycutt, Kirk
Summary: Hughes allegedly wrote Ferris Bueller's Day Off in four days, Planes, Trains and Automobiles in three days, The Breakfast Club in two days, and Vacation in a week. He never went to film school or studied cinema. And he spent most of his incredible career in the Midwest, far from the Hollywood Hills. John Hughes was indeed one of the most prolific and successful filmmakers in Hollywood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Race Point Publishing, A division of Quarto Publishing Group USA, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 HONRidgeway, Rick
Summary: At the beginning of his memoir Life Lived Wild, Adventures at the Edge of the Map, Rick Ridgeway tells us that if you add up all his many expeditions, he's spent over five years of his life sleeping in tents: "And most of that in small tents pitched in the world's most remote regions." It's not a boast so much as an explanation. Whether at elevation or raising a family back at sea level, those...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Patagonia 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RIDGEWAY, RICK RIDMack, John
Summary: A personal memoir about John Mack, the former CEO of Morgan Stanley, which recounts how he helped grow the company over four decades, fostered a collaborative culture, and led the company through the 2008 financial crisis.--adapted from cover page 2
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Element 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MACK, JOHN MACMack, Jeff
Summary: This is the story of Andy Warhol--and how his pop art took the world by storm. From drawing shoes for a shoe company to his Campbell's Soup cans and Marilyn Monroe prints, Andy made art out of the everyday. People claimed Andy's art wasn't real art, but that didn't stop him from making it, plus movies, a magazine, a TV show, and more!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MACMack, Jeff
Summary: Describes how artist Marcel Duchamp turned a toilet into a famous work of art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MACMcCormick, Mack
Summary: When blues master Robert Johnson's little-known recordings were rereleased to great fanfare in the 1960s, little was known about his life, giving rise to legends that he gained success by selling his soul to the devil. McCormick searched to uncover Johnson's life story, from the late 1960s until his own death in 2015. Here McCormick's manuscript is published for the first time, including...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOHNSON, ROBERT MCCSummary: The incredible story of Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press photographer Nick Ut, whose photo, 'The Terror of War,' is credited with bringing an end to the Vietnam War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FROSummary: The Book Keepers follows the uplifting journey of a husband who keeps his wife's dream alive by becoming the spokesperson for her book after her death. Carol Wall's debut memoir, about cancer, friendship, and cultivating an open heart, was a breakout success. But joy turned to tragedy when the breast cancer she wrote about returned, and she died months after its publication. Carol's husband,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BOOBeck, Joseph Madison
Summary: "A memoir about the author's father, whose courageous defense in a 1938 Alabama trial of a black man accused of raping a white woman calls to mind To Kill a Mockingbird"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016