Walsh, Mikey.

Summary: The son of a Romany Gypsy champion bareknuckle boxer shares the story of his upbringing in England, his realization of his sexual orientation, and how his circumstances were shaped by his culture's absolute beliefs.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WALSH, MIKEY WAL

Jollett, Mikel

Summary: "Hollywood Park is a remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life. Mikel Jollett was born into one of the country's most infamous cults, and subjected to a childhood filled with poverty, addiction, and emotional abuse. Yet, ultimately, his is a story of fiercelove and family loyalty told in a raw, poetic voice that signals the emergence of a uniquely gifted writer. We were never young. We were just...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOLLETT, MIKEL JOL

Kroc, Ray

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: H. Regnery 1977

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 647.9573 KRO

Goucher, Kara

Summary: "Kara Goucher grew up with Olympic dreams. She excelled at running from a young age, and though she was confronted with serious challenges including the death of her father and struggles with disordered eating, her prospects were bright. She won high school cross country championships in Minnesota, NCAA track and field championships at the University of Colorado, and when she graduated from...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GOUCHER, KARA GOU

Classen, Mikel B.

Summary: On the same day Theodore Roosevelt narrowly survived an assassination attempt, his press secretary handed him a newspaper editorial from the Iron Ore, a small town daily located in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Its publisher, George Newett, had printed "...Roosevelt lies and curses in a most disgusting way; he gets drunk, too, and that not infrequently, and all his intimates know about it." Tired...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The History Press 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.49 CLA

Kroll, Steven.

Summary: An account of the writing of the "Star-Spangled Banner," detailing how Key was actually behind enemy lines at the time seeking release of a captured friend from the British, who would not allow their departure until the bombardment of Baltimore was completed.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1994

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 784.7 KRO

Brina, Elizabeth Miki

Summary: "A searing, deeply candid memoir about a young woman's journey to understanding her complicated parents--her father a Vietnam veteran, her mother an Okinawan war bride--and her own, fraught cultural heritage. Elizabeth's mother was working as a nightclubhostess on U.S.-occupied Okinawa when she met the American soldier who would become her husband. The language barrier and power imbalance that...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRINA, ELIZABETH MIKI BRI

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B BRINA BRI

Kiki

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Ecco Press 1996

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

Rol, Ruud van der.

Summary: Photographs, illustrations, and maps accompany historical essays, diary excerpts, and interviews, providing an insight to Anne Frank and the massive upheaval which tore apart her world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 1995

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.5318 ROL

Koul, Scaachi

Summary: "In One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, Scaachi Koul deploys her razor sharp humor to share all the fears, outrages, and mortifying moments of her life. She learned from an early age what made her miserable, and for Scaachi anything can be cause for despair. Whether it's a shopping trip gone awry; enduring awkward conversations with her bikini waxer; overcoming her fear of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KOUL, SCAACHI KOU

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B KOUL KOU

Kram, Mark.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.83 KRA

Idol, Billy.

Summary: In this bold and candid memoir, music legend Billy Idol shares his life story, from his childhood in England to his rise to fame during the height of the punk pop revolution, revealing intimate details about the sex, drugs, and rock and roll that he is so fabulously famous for-all told in his own utterly indelible voice. An integral member of the punk rock revolution whose music crossed over...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone, published by Simon & Schuster 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 IDOL, BILLY IDO

Kropp, Göran.

Summary: A personal account of one man's determination to climb Mount Everest alone describes how the Swedish climber accomplished his goal, within days of the 1995 tragedy that took the lives of a number of fellow climbers.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Discovery Books 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 KRO

Kram, Mark

Summary: History will remember the rivalry of Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali as one for the ages. A trilogy of extraordinary fights that transcended the world of sports and crossed into a sociocultural drama that divided the country. Joe Frazier was a much more complex figure than just his rivalry with Ali would suggest. In this riveting and nuanced portrayal, acclaimed sportswriter Mark Kram, Jr. unlinks...

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Publisher / Publication Date: ECCO, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRAZIER, JOE KRA

Krogh, Egil

Summary: "The true story of The White House Plumbers, a secret unit inside Nixon's White House, and their ill-conceived plans stop the leaking of the Pentagon Papers, and how they led to Watergate and the President's demise. In a secluded office in President Nixon's White House in 1971, Egil "Bud" Krogh was summoned to a closed-door meeting by his mentor-and a key confidant of the president-John...

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

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 KRO

Brox, Jane

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.4 BRO

Krug, Nora

Summary: "A revelatory, visually stunning graphic memoir by award-winning artist Nora Krug, telling the story of her attempt to confront the hidden truths of her family's wartime past in Nazi Germany and to comprehend the forces that have shaped her life, her generation, and history."--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018

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

Fife, Graeme.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 1991

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.01 FIF

Brox, Jane

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1999

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 974.272 BRO

Kiros, Tessa.

Summary: The author includes autobiographical memories, a family tree and portraits, and personal commentary with the recipes, explaining that she was, "born in London to a Finnish mother and a Greek-Cypriot father, when I was four we moved to South Africa. I now live in Italy."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McNeel 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 KIR

Krell, 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 KRE

Brox, Jane

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.272 BRO

Croll, Jennifer

Summary: "Covering everyone from Louis XIV to Prince, Bad Boys of Fashion looks at men across history who have broken the rules both in fashion and in life."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2019

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 CRO