Sampson, Curt

Summary: One publicly imploded marriage. Two car accidents. Eight surgeries. And now, a miracle of hard work and storied talent: five Masters wins. Once hailed as "the greatest closer in history" before he fell further than any beloved athlete in America's memory, Tiger swung at the world's wildest expectations and beat the skeptics with his April 2019 championship. Roaring Back traces his road to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Diversion Publishing 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WOODS, TIGER SAM

Sampson, Fiona

Summary: "A nuanced, comprehensive portrait of Britain's most famous female poet, a woman who invented herself and defied her times. "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." With these words, Elizabeth Barrett Browning has come down to us as a romantic heroine, a recluse controlled by a domineering father and often overshadowed by her husband, Robert Browning. But behind the melodrama lies a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT SAM

Nix, Megan

Summary: "An inspiring memoir and work of fierce advocacy by a mother whose child is born deaf, leading her to investigate and expose a preventable virus that causes more childhood disabilities than any other--but is kept quiet by the medical community. One virus causes more birth defects and disabilities in children than any other infectious disease, yet 93% of Americans don't know it exists. In 2015,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NIX, MEGAN NIX

Prado, Ric

Summary: "A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil of secrecy and offer a glimpse into the shadow wars that America has fought since the Vietnam Era. Enrique Prado found himself in his first firefight at age seven. The son of a middle-class Cuban family caught in the midst of the Castro Revolution, his family fled their war-torn home for the hope of a better life in America. Fifty...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.127 PRA

Medina, 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 RUP

Jameson, W. C.

Summary: This "is a biography of the life--and disappearance--of Amelia Earhart, the pioneering aviator who was the first woman to fly solo over the Atlantic in 1928. But did Amelia's plane really crash and sink in 1937, or was her fate entirely different"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Taylor Trade Publishing 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EARHART, AMELIA JAM

Jamison, Kay R.

Summary: "The best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind now gives us a groundbreaking life of one of the major American poets of the twentieth century that is at the same time a fascinating study of the relationship between manic-depressive (bipolar) illness, creative genius, and character. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry, Robert Lowell (1917-1977) put his manic-depressive illness into the public...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOWELL, ROBERT JAM

Summary: Photographer Jim Marshall captures the heights of the Rock and Roll music era, from the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, to the civil rights movements and some of the most iconic moments of the '60s.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SHO

Chernow, Ron

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 GRANT, ULYSSES S. CHE

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)

Summary: The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant is an autobiography by Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, focused mainly on his military career during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War, and completed as he was dying of throat cancer in 1885.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 1994

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRANT, ULYSSES S. GRA

Hornby, 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 HOR

Ice-T

Summary: "Award-winning actor, rapper, and producer Ice-T unveils a compelling and astonishing memoir of his early life robbing jewelry stores until he found fame and fortune-while a handful of bad choices sent his former crime partner down an incredibly different path"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ICE

Baumgartner, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BAUMGARTNER, NICK BAU

Summary: A month after receiving a fatal diagnosis in January 2015, Oliver Sacks sat down for a series of filmed interviews in his apartment in New York City. For eighty hours, surrounded by family, friends, and notebooks from six decades of thinking and writing about the brain, he talked about his life and work, his abiding sense of wonder at the natural world, and the place of human beings within it....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OLI

Eig, Jonathan

Summary: "Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.--and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KIN

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KING, MARTIN LUTHER, JR. EIG

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: B KING EIG

Day, Nick (Nicholas)

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 DAY

Baier, Bret

Summary: "From Bret Baier comes a riveting reassessment of Ulysses S. Grant, arguing that the great Civil War commander's battle to save the Union continued to the very end of his presidency when a crisis threatened to fracture the still fragile nation once again"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRANT, ULYSSES S. BAI

Nguyen, 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 NGU

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B NGUYEN NGU

Shone, Rob

Summary: "Readers may already know their names, and now they will know their stories! The lives and trailblazing accomplishments of Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and Martin Luther King Jr. are vibrantly explored in this book, through dazzling illustrations and captivating narratives of their triumphs and hardships. Readers of all ages will enjoy the graphic designs, while more advanced readers can further...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Publishing, Group, Inc. 2024

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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 920 SHO

White, David Fairbank

Summary: "The incredible, untold story behind the rise of the P-51 Mustang, the World War II fighter plane that destroyed the Luftwaffe and made D-Day possible"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Caliber 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 WHI

Rogers, Kim

Summary: "A biographical picture book about Clarence Tinker, a member of the Osage Nation, who endured abuse growing up at the hands of a boarding school and went on to serve in the United States Air Force in World War II"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TIN

Smith, Sherri L.

Summary: "During World War II, black Americans were fighting for their country and for freedom in Europe, yet they had to endure a totally segregated military in the United States, where they weren't considered smart enough to become military pilots. After acquiring government funding for aviation training, civil rights activists were able to kickstart the first African American military flight program...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 SMI

Platt, Christine

Summary: "This title introduces readers to Joan of Arc and how she became France's shero by delivering the country from English domination." -- page [4] of cover

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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 944.026 PLA

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PLA