Filter By Subjects
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs Catt, Carrie Chapman 1859-1947 Comedians United States Biography Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Poets, American 19th century Diaries Suffragists United States United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 War work Women BiographyFilter By Subjects
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs Catt, Carrie Chapman 1859-1947 Comedians United States Biography Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Poets, American 19th century Diaries Suffragists United States United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 War work Women BiographyWatt, Ben
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 1997
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1961 WATKrieger, Robby
Summary: In his tell-all, legendary Doors guitarist, Robby Krieger, one of Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time," opens up about his band's meteoric career, his own darkest moments, and the most famous black eye in rock 'n' roll. Few bands are as shrouded in the murky haze of rock mythology as The Doors, and parsing fact from fiction has been a virtually impossible task. But now, after...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KRIEGER, ROBBY KRIMoby
Summary: From Moby, one of the most interesting and iconic musicians of our time, comes a piercingly tender, funny, and harrowing account of the path from suburban poverty and alienation to a life of beauty, squalor, and unlikely success. It's about making it, losing it, loving it, and hating it. It's about finding your people, your place, thinking you've lost them both, and then, somehow, when you...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOBY MOBWhitman, Walt
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.3 WHIStirling, Jasmine
Summary: "Carrie Chapman Catt mobilized people across the nation to dare to question a woman's right to vote"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square Kids 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CATLove, Bobby
Summary: "The inspiring, dramatic, and heartwarming true account of an escaped convict and his wife of thirty-five plus years who never knew his secret, which captured the imaginations of millions on Humans of New York.Bobby and Cheryl Love were living in Brooklyn, happily married for decades, when the FBI and NYPD appeared at their door and demanded to know from Bobby, in front of his shocked wife and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOVE, BOBBY LOVKnight, Bobby.
Summary: The controversial coach discusses his many achievements, from being named coach of the year four times to taking the Hoosiers to the Final Four five times, and reveals his trials and tribulations as Indiana University's basketball coach.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.323 KNICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.323 KNIOrr, Bobby
Summary: "One of the greatest sports figures of all time breaks his silence in a memoir as unique as the man himself. He has never written a memoir, authorized a biography, or talked to journalists about his past, but now he is finally ready to tell his story. Bobby Orr is often referred to as the greatest ever to play the game of hockey. From 1966 through the mid-seventies, he could change a game...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ORR, BOBBY ORRRush, Bobby
Summary: "Experience music history with this memoir by one of the last of the genuine old school Blues and R&B legends, the Grammy-winning dynamic showman Bobby Rush"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RUSH, BOBBY RUSWatts, Reggie.
Summary: Growing up as the only biracial kid in Great Falls, Montana, the comedian, musician and band leader takes us through his story, hitting upon the culture shock he experienced after moving from Europe to Montana--a place he needed to leave, but is ultimately drawn back to.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tiny Reparations Books 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WATTS, REGGIE WATBrorby, Taylor
Summary: "From a young, gay environmentalist, a searing coming-of-age memoir set against the arid landscape of rural North Dakota, where homosexuality "seems akin to a ticking bomb." "I am a child of the American West, a landscape so rich and wide that my culture trembles with terror before its power." So begins Taylor Brorby's Boys and Oil, a haunting, bracingly honest memoir about growing up gay...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W. W. Norton & Company 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRORBY, TAYLOR BROBober, Natalie.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 1998
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ADACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 973.4 BOBCobbs, Elizabeth
Summary: "Cobbs traces the long history of American feminism, dating back to the Revolution, when the founding principle of equality became a battering ram against hierarchy. She tells this story through the public and private lives of 16 women who pushed the boundaries of their times and insisted on their right to control their bodies and their lives"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 COBIrving, Debby
Summary: For twenty-five years, Debby Irving sensed inexplicable racial tensions in her personal and professional relationships. As a colleague and neighbor, she worried about offending people she dearly wanted to befriend. As an arts administrator, she didn't understand why her diversity efforts lacked traction. As a teacher, she found her best efforts to reach out to students and families of color...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Elephant Room Press 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 IRVING, DEBBY IRVCosby, Bill
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1992
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 305.23 COSHobbs, James
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books] 1983
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979 HOBApplegate, Debby
Summary: "A biography of Pearl "Polly" Alder, New York City madam and icon of the Jazz Age"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADLER, POLLY APPBull, Debby
Summary: Irreverent and very funny, a former Rolling Stone writer takes readers on a not so metaphorical journey, during which, in the process of canning, she apparently discovers important truths. Having fled New York for Montana (and another abode in St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, her childhood home), she found that the method to Bull's madness, or rather the way to relieve the depression following a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 1997
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 BULWhitman, Walt 1819-1892
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: David R. Godine 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.3 WHIWatts, Steven
Summary: Henry Ford, a major architect of modern America, has lived on in the imagination of his fellow citizens as an enduring figure of fascination, an inimitable individual, a controversial personality, and a social visionary from the moment his Model T brought the automobile to the masses and triggered the consumer revolution. Ford first made the automobile affordable, but grew skeptical of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2005
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 338.7 WATOwens, Zibby
Summary: "Zibby Owens has become a well-known personality in the publishing world. Her infectious energy, tasteful authenticity, and smart, steadfast support of authors started in childhood, a precedent set by the profound effect books and libraries had on her own family. But after losing her closest friend on 9/11 and later becoming utterly stressed out and overwhelmed by motherhood, Zibby was...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2022
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Whitman, Walt
Summary: A collection of poetry, letters, and prose by Walt Whitman that were inspired by the Civil War.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1995
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.3 WHIDobbs, Michael
Summary: "The powerfully told story of a group of German Jews desperately seeking American visas to escape the Nazis, and an illuminating account of America's struggle with the refugee crisis caused by the rise of Hitler. Official tie-in to the U.S. Holocaust Museum multi-year exhibit"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 DOBHobbs, Jeff
Summary: Examines "the short life of a talented young African-American man who escapes the slums of Newark for Yale University only to succumb to the dangers of the streets--and of one's own nature--when he returns home"--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2014