Kalush, William.
Summary: After years of struggling on the dime museum circuit, Harry Houdini got a break that put him on the front page of a Chicago newspaper. Soon Houdini was performing for royalty, commanding vast sums, and exploring the new power of Hollywood. At a time when spy agencies frequently co-opted amateurs, Houdini developed a relationship with a man who would later run MI-5. For the next several years,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2006
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Summary: "From the former heavyweight champion and New York Times-bestselling memoirist comes an intimate look at the life and leadership lessons of Cus D'Amato, the legendary boxing trainer and Mike Tyson's surrogate father. When Cus D'Amato first saw thirteen-year-old Mike Tyson spar in the ring, he proclaimed, "That's the heavyweight champion of the world." D'Amato, who had previously managed the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TYSON, MIKE TYSTyson, Mike
Summary: "A bare-knuckled, tell-all memoir from Mike Tyson, the onetime heavyweight champion of the world--and a legend both in and out of the ring"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TYSON, MIKE TYSAltman, Elissa
Summary: "The author of the popular Poor Man's Feast blog chronicles her lifelong relationship with all things culinary and the transformation she experiences -- from culinary trend-aholic to a champion of simplicity -- when she finally finds love. Short chapters sprinkled with recipes show that living and eating well are much simpler than we might think"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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Summary: Before losing his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, Prince Harry was known as the happy-go-lucky Spare to the more serious Heir. Grief changed everything. Because he blamed the press for his mother's death, he struggled to accept life in the spotlight. From the beginning, his romance with Meghan was preyed upon by the press, subjected to waves of abuse, racism, and lies. Here Prince Harry tells...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
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Summary: "It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow--and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling--and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. With its raw,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio HarrySaltman, David
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Publisher / Publication Date: Contemporary Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.7 SALHarr, Jonathan.
Summary: A decaying palazzo on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, and in the basement, cobwebbed and dusty, an archive unknown to scholars. Here, a young graduate student from Rome makes a discovery that inspires a search for a painting lost for almost two centuries. The artist was Caravaggio, a revolutionary painter beset by personal demons. Four hundred years ago, he drank and brawled in the taverns...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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Summary: "The legal thriller of the decade." --Cleveland Plain Dealer Now a Major Motion Picture! In this true story of an epic courtroom showdown, two of the nation's largest corporations stand accused of causing the deaths of children. Representing the bereaved parents, the unlikeliest of heroes emerges: a young, flamboyant Porsche-driving lawyer who hopes to win millions of dollars and ends up nearly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 346 HARMarshall, Garry.
Summary: In My Happy Days in Holly wood, Marshall takes us on a journey from his stickball-playing days in the Bronx to the joys and challenges of working with the Fonz and the young Julia Roberts, the "street performer" Robin Williams, and the young Anne Hathaway, among many others. This honest, vibrant, and often hilarious memoir reveals a man whose career has been defined by his drive to make people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 MARSHALL, GARY MARUllman, Ellen
Summary: "The never-more-necessary return of one of our most vital and eloquent voices on technology and culture, the author of the seminal Close to the Machine. The last twenty years have brought us the rise of the internet, the development of artificial intelligence, the ubiquity of once unimaginably powerful computers, and the thorough transformation of our economy and society. Through it all, Ellen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ULLMAN, ELLEN ULLAbleman, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 1998
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Summary: Describes the author's experiences as a young widow and the pivotal relationships she forged with five other widows, recounting the stories of their losses and bravery as exchanged throughout a year of monthly Saturday night meetings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8 AIKAlterman, Eric.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 ALTAllman, Galadrielle
Summary: The daughter of Duane Allman, the founder of the Allman Brothers Band, describes how after losing her father at the age of two she struggled to learn about and understand his profound legacy through the stories of family members, friends, and bandmates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALLMAN, GALADRIELLE ALLTallman, Frank.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1973
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.132 TALLWills, Garry
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.7 WILO'Connor, Garry
Summary: "The definitive biography of Sir Ian McKellen from an acclaimed biographer In 2001, Ian McKellen put on the robe and pointed hat of a wizard named Gandalf and won a place in the hearts of Tolkien fans worldwide. Though his role in the film adaptation of Lord of the Rings introduced him to a new audience, McKellen had a thriving career a lifetime before his visit to Middle Earth. He made his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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Summary: For centuries, Augustine's writings have moved and fascinated readers. With the fresh, keen eye of a writer whose own intellectual analysis has won him a Pulitzer Prize, Gary Wills examines this famed fourth-century bishop and seminal thinker whose grounding in classical philosophy informed his influential interpretation of the Christian doctrines of mind and body, wisdom and God. Saint...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AUGUSTINE WILBarra, Allen.
Summary: Barra exposes the uncanny parallels--and lifelong friendship--between Micky Mantle and Willie Mays, two of the greatest baseball players ever to take the field.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920 BARElman, Robert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1968
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 ELMParry, Tom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nicholas Brealey Pub. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.404 PARWaldman, Michael
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.929 WALButler, Alban
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liturgical Press 2003