Borth, Teddy

Summary: Charlotte Flair is the daughter of the WWE's only two-time hall of famer, Ric Flair. Read about how Charlotte got into wrestling and how her matches started a women's revolution in WWE. The easy to read text is joined with beautiful and colorful photographs showing some of Charlotte's best moments in the ring. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards, Bolt is an...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Zoom, a division of ABDO 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.812 BOR

Borth, Teddy

Summary: The New Day has become WWE's longest reigning tag team champions. Discover the journeys of Big E, Xavier Woods, and Kofi Kingston. What started as a disaster became one of the most fun teams in all of professional wrestling. The simple text is joined with beautiful photographs showing some of The New Day's best moments in the ring. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Zoom, a division of ABDO 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.812 BOR

Borth, Teddy

Summary: Dean Ambrose has wrestled all over the world for over 14 years. Discover the journey that led Ambrose to becoming one of WWE's top stars and earning every championship they have to offer. The easy to read text is joined with beautiful and colorful photographs showing some of Abrose's best moments in the ring. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards, Bolt is an imprint...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Zoom, a division of ABDO 2018

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Borth, Teddy

Summary: "Discover how Roman Reigns went from college football player to WWE's big dog, claiming his yard from The Undertaker at Wrestlemania. This title will go through Reigns' time in NXT, The Shield, and his championship wins along the way. The easy to read text is joined with beautiful photographs showing some of Reigns' best moments in the ring."--Publisher's website.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Zoom, a division of ABDO 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.812 BOR

Darby, Giles

Summary: This is the memoir of Giles Darby, a British banker jailed in 2008 for his involvement in a $7m fraud against his employer, NatWest. Giles and his co-defendants, David Bermingham and Gary Mulgrew, became the subject of extensive media coverage when the US government demanded their extradition in relation to the collapse of the energy giant Enron. The NatWest Three, as they came to be known,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Quiller Publishing 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365.6092 DAR

Pellegrino, Danny

Summary: "For many families, the holiday season is--in a word--unhinged. In no family is that more true than in Danny Pellegrino's, beloved podcast host of Everything Iconic and bestselling author. Inappropriately improvised monologues at the children's Christmas pageant, presents that land someone in the emergency room, or just sitting on the absolute roller coaster that is a Hallmark movie marathon,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PELLEGRINO, DANNY PEL

Troy, Sandy.

Summary: "Captain Trips depicts the life, work, and philosophy of this nonconformist rock legend, counterculture hero, and symbol of the Sixties. It contains exclusive interviews with Phil Lesh, David Nelson, Rock Scully, Jorma Kaukonen, Carolyn "Mountain Girl" Garcia (Jerry's second wife and perhaps closest friend), Jerry himself, and many others. As lead guitarist of the Dead, Garcia has played before...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press 1994

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GARCIA, JERRY TRO

Fingeroth, Danny

Summary: "The definitive biography of the beloved-often controversial-co-creator of many legendary superheroes, A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee presents the origin of "Stan the Man," who spun a storytelling web of comic book heroic adventures into a pop culture phenomenon: the Marvel Universe. Stan Lee was the most famous American comic book creator who ever lived. Thanks, especially, to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEE, STAN FIN

Trejo, Danny

Summary: Raised in an abusive home, Trejo struggled with heroin addiction and did stints in some of the country's most notorious state prisons. Here he takes us through the ups and downs of his life. He reveals how he managed the horrors of prison, rebuilt himself after finding sobriety and spirituality in solitary confinement, and draws inspiration from the adrenaline-fueled robbing heists of his past...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021

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

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TREJO, DANNY TRE

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Roberts, Randy

Summary: "Freshly adapted for young readers, this in-depth portrait showcases the complex bond between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X, revealing how Malcolm aided in molding Cassius Clay into Muhammad Ali and helped him become an international symbol of Black pride and Black independence"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 ROB

Warner, Andy

Summary: "In 2005 Andy Warner travelled to Lebanon to study literature in Beirut, one of the world's most cosmopolitan and storied cities. Twenty-one years old and recently broken up from his girlfriend, Warner feels his life is both intense and directionless. Immersing himself in the vibrant and diverse city, he quickly befriends a group of LGBT students, many of whom are ex-pats straddling different...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.92 WAR

Hernández, Daisy

Summary: "Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy Hernández believed that her aunt had become deathly ill from eating an apple. No one in her family, in either the United States or Colombia, spoke of infectious diseases, and even into her thirties, she only knew that her aunt had died of a rare illness called Chagas. But as Hernández dug deeper, she discovered that Chagas--or the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9 HER

Cohen, Andy

Summary: "Andy Cohen has taken on the most important job of his life--father--and boy (and girl!) does he have a lot to say about it! One of Andy Cohen's most momentous years starts off with a hangover the morning after an epic New Year's Eve broadcast. But Andy doesn't have time to dwell on the drama, as his role as media mogul is now matched with the responsibilities, joys, and growing pains of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Andy Cohen Books, Henry Holt and Company 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 791.45 COH

Taraborrelli, J. Randy

Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author of Jackie, Janet & Lee comes a fresh and often startling look at the life of the legendary former first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Based on hundreds of interviews with friends, family, and lovers over a thirty-year period--as well as previously unreleased material from the JFK Library--Kennedy historian J. Randy Taraborrelli paints an unforgettable...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ONASSIS, JAQUELINE KENNEDY TAR

D'Aguiar, Fred

Summary: Drawing from two cultural perspectives, an acclaimed British-Guyanese writer and award-winning poet combines personal reminiscence and philosophy to reflect on a year of personal and global crisis, as he was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 D'AGUIAR, FRED D'AG

Guttenberg, Fred

Summary: "This is a story of being called out of your happy, peaceful life to an extraordinary one. It is about heeding the call to be a helper and taking on the challenge of a lifetime. Fred Guttenberg is one such helper who comes from a family that finds ways, large and small, to change the world for the better. Fred was a successful businessman for whom family was a priority--as father, husband, son,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mango Publishing 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GUTTENBERG, FRED GUT

Van Lente, Fred

Summary: "We all know that Abraham Lincoln gave the historic Gettysburg Address and ended the Civil War. But did you also know that he pardoned the first White House turkey, once snuck into Washington in disguise, and grew his famous beard because an eleven-year-old girl said it made him look less ugly?! Rad all about the radical rail-spliter, supreme speaker, and paramount president Abraham Lincoln in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018

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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LIN