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Anecdotes. Audiobooks. Autobiographies. bibliography Biographies. biography dictionary essay Essays. Humor.Pop, Iggy
Summary: The almost unbelievable story of the band that invented punk rock, entirely in the words of Stooges founder, Iggy Pop. Includes over 200+ images, many published here for the first time, and contributions from Dave Grohl, Josh Homme, Joan Jett, Jonhhy Marr, Jack White, Ben Blackwell, Johan Kugelberg, and Jon Savage.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Third Man Books 2016
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 781.6 POPMoaveni, Azadeh
Summary: An Iranian-American journalist, who grew up as a California girl living in two worlds, returns to Tehran and discovers not only the oppressive and decadent life of her Iranian counterparts who have grown up since the revolution, but the pain of searching for identity between two cultures, and for a homeland that may not exist. The landscape of her Tehran--ski slopes, fashion shows, malls and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.48 MOAWestergaard, Azadeh
Summary: "Born at the stroke of midnight during a lightning storm, Nikola Tesla grew up to become one of the most important electrical inventors in the world. But before working with electricity, he was a child who loved playing with the animals on his family's farm in Serbia. An inventor since childhood, Tesla's patents encompassed everything from radar and remote-control technology to wireless...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 892.4 SARWigge, Michael.
Summary: Documents how the author journeyed around the world without spending any of his own money, and suggests alternative methods of traveling and creative solutions for finding food and shelter that require no monetary investment.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 WIGIrby, Samantha
Summary: "Beloved writer Samantha Irby has returned to the printed page for her much-anticipated, sidesplitting fourth book following her 2020 breakout, Wow, no thank you, a Vintage Books Original. The success of Irby's career has taken her to new heights. She fields calls with job offers from Hollywood and walks the red carpet with the iconic ladies of Sex and the City. Finally, she has made it. But,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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4 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 IRBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 IRBKrell, Maggy
Summary: For almost a decade, Backpage.com was the world's largest sex trafficking operation. Seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day, in 800 cities throughout the world, Backpage ran thousands of listings advertising the sale of vulnerable young people for sex. Reaping a cut off every transaction, the owners of the website raked in millions of dollars. But many of the people in the advertisements...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.794 KREIrby, Samantha
Summary: With heartfelt candor and her usual side-splitting bite, humorist, essayist, and blogger at bitchesgottaeat.com Samantha Irby captures powerful emotional truths while chronicling the disaster that has been her life. An ill-fated pilgrimage and romantic vacation to Nashville to scatter her estranged father's ashes, awkward sexual encounters, a Bachelorette application gone awry, and more--...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2017
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Summary: Robert Iger shares the lessons he's learned while running Disney and leading its 200,000 employees, and he explores the principles that are necessary for true leadership.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio IgerIrby, Samantha
Summary: Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. She has left her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic, has published successful books and has been friendzoned by Hollywood, left Chicago, and moved into a house with a garden that requires repairs and know- how with her wife in a Blue town in the middle of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 IRBCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 IRBIsay, Dave
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: RelationIsayIrby, Samantha
Summary: "Samantha Irby explodes onto the printed page with her debut collection of brand-new essays about trying to laugh her way through failed relationships, being black, taco feasts, bouts with Crohn's disease, and more. Every essay is crafted with the same scathing wit and poignant candor thousands of loyal readers have come to expect from visiting her notoriously hilarious blog,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Curbside Splendor Publishing 2013
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 IRBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 814 IRBWalther, Ingo F.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Benedikt Taschen 1986
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.6 WALHiggs, Liz Curtis.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Waterbrook Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Christ HiggsNoonan, Peggy
Summary: During his nearly three decades of service, Pope John Paul II became the most recognized person in the world. He upheld many of the traditional values of the Catholic Church while also showing his progressive nature through his lifelong concern for the poor and suffering people of the world. The entire world mourned when he passed away in April of 2005, but he left an extraordinary legacy that...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 282.09 POPE JOHN PAUL NooRiggs, David.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.3 RIGRiggs, Nina
Summary: "Built on her wildly popular Modern Love column, 'When a Couch is More Than a Couch' (9/23/2016), a breathtaking memoir of living meaningfully with 'death in the room' by the 38 year old great-great-great granddaughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson, mother to two young boys, wife of 16 years, after her terminal cancer diagnosis"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RIGGS, NINA RIGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio RiggsOrenstein, Peggy
Summary: The author sets out to make a sweater from scratch--shearing, spinning, dyeing wool--and in the process discovers how we find our deepest selves through craft.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ORECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ORENSTEIN, PEGGY ORECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio OrensteinSeeger, Peggy
Summary: Born in New York City in 1935, Peggy Seeger enjoyed a childhood steeped in music and politics. Her father was the noted musicologist Charles Seeger; her mother, the modernist composer Ruth Crawford; and her brother Pete, the celebrated writer of protest songs. After studying at Radcliffe College, in 1955 Peggy left to travel the world. It was in England that she met the man, some two decades...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faber & Faber 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEEGER, PEGGY SEEGrande, Peggy
Summary: "In The President Will See You Now, devoted Reagan insider Peggy Grande shares behind-the-scenes stories, intimate moments, and insights into one of America's most beloved presidents. Grande, who started in the Office of Ronald Reagan as a college student and earned her way into a coveted role as the president's Executive Assistant, offers an unparalleled perspective on the post-presidency of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRANDE, PEGGY GRARowe, Peggy
Summary: "Peggy Rowe is at it again--this time giving a hilarious inside look at growing up Rowe, both before and after Mike's rise to fame. Since the day they said, "I do," Peggy's previous "doting" lifestyle met with her husband John's minimalist ways and became the backdrop for years of adventure and a quirky sense of humor because of their differences. From thoughts of wearing headlamps in the house...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forefront Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ROWRowe, Peggy
Summary: "Peggy Rowe is at it again--this time giving a hilarious inside look at her writing career."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forefront Books 2022
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Summary: Peggy Rowe's story of growing up as the daughter of Thelma Knobel is filled with warmth and humor. But there's a Thelma in everyone's life. She's the person taking charge, the one who knows instinctively how things should be. Growing up, Peggy saw her mother as a benevolent, loving dictator. When major league baseball came to town in the early 1950s and turned sophisticated Thelma into a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forefront Books 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rough Guides 1995