Link, Mardi.
Summary: "Poignant, irreverent, and hilarious: the memoir of a mother who, after ending her nineteen-year marriage, staves off a perpetually empty bank account and, with the help of her three young sons, saves her century-old farmhouse from foreclosure and reclaims her life. It's the summer of 2005, and Mardi Jo Link's dream of living the simple life has unraveled into debt, heartbreak, and perpetually...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI North LinkCarrère, Emmanuel
Summary: "A thrilling page-turner that also happens to be the biography of one of Russia's most controversial figures This is how Emmanuel Carrère, the magnetic journalist, novelist, filmmaker, chameleon, describes his subject: "Limonov is not a fictional character. There. I know him. He was a rogue in Ukraine; an idol of the Soviet underground under Brezhnev; a bum, then a multimillionaire's valet in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LIMONOV, EDUARD CARPalahniuk, Chuck
Summary: Tender Branson--last surviving member of the so-called Creedish Death Cult--is dictating his life story into the flight recorder of Flight 2039, cruising on autopilot at 39,000 feet somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. He is all alone in the airplane, which will crash shortly into the vast Australian outback. But before it does, he will unfold the tale of his journey from an obedient Creedish...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PALClinch, Jon
Summary: Barely able to walk and rendered mute by the cancer metastasizing in his throat, Ulysses S. Grant is scratching out words, hour after hour, day after day. Desperate to complete his memoirs before his death so his family might have some financial security and he some redemption, Grant journeys back in time. He had once been the savior of the Union, the general to whom Lee surrendered at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLICopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLESummary: "The Pushcart Prize is the only annual anthology to exclusively showcase the very best writing from America's alternative literary presses. Each year contributing editors, whose ranks include the most important writers of today, along with hundreds of small presses, nominate thousands of stories, poems, essays and memoirs for inclusion in Pushcart's collection. This unique submissions process...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pushcart Prize Fellowships 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PUSFranco, James
Summary: "Actors Anonymous is unsettling, funny, personal, and dark, a story told in many forms, from testimonials (in the style of Alcoholics Anonymous) and scripts to letters, diaries, and more. Franco turns his "James Franco" persona inside out--sometimes humorously, often mercilessly. The book brims with profound insights into the nature and purpose of acting, bawdy satires of the high life, as well...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAMiller, Jax
Summary: "The stranger-than-fiction cold case from rural Oklahoma that has stumped authorities for two decades, concerning the disappearance of two teenage girls and the much larger mystery of murder, police cover-up, and an unimaginable truth... On December 30, 1999, in rural Oklahoma, sixteen-year-old Ashley Freeman and her best friend, Lauria Bible, were having a sleepover. The next morning, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 MILAuster, Paul
Summary: Retired life insurance salesman Nathan Glass moves to Brooklyn to find anonymity and solitude through his declining years, but a chance meeting with Tom Wood, his long-lost nephew, forces him to come to terms with his past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC AUSThompson, Maxine
Summary: There’s a commonwealth, but wealth is not common | The atmosphere is charged with a wrought-iron energy that feels like omnipresence. There’s a taste of hyper-vigilance on the tongue, bathing the flesh and forcing me to stand still for a shortened second. Moving into flight, the stairway is travelled as quick as the speed of light, but the body moves according to time... | Thirty-something...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Maxine Thompson 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOTremblay, Paul
Summary: "A cleverly voiced psychological thriller about an unforgettable--and unsettling--friendship, with blood-chilling twists, crackling wit, and a thrumming pulse in its veins--from the nationally bestselling author of The Cabin at the End of the World and Survivor Song. What if the coolest girl you've ever met decided to be your friend? Art Barbara was so not cool. He was a seventeen-year-old high...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HaperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TREKeegan, Marina
Summary: "An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the world's attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation. Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York Fringe Festival and a job...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.609 KEEMichaels, Patty
Summary: Snoopy writes a book about his younger days, but Charlie Brown has some corrections!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MICMillington, Mil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Villard Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILGray, Shelley Shepard
Summary: "Levi Kinsinger returns to Charm, Ohio, and finds a sense of purpose in life for the first time since his father's death when he agrees to help a young widowed neighbor. Friendship builds to attraction, but Julia is keeping something from Levi. She is really an unwed mother pretending to be a widow"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRARoth, Philip.
Contents: The counterlife -- The facts: a novelist's autobiography -- Deception -- Patrimony: a true story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSStein, Gertrude
Contents: Q.E.D. -- Three lives -- Portraits and other short works -- The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.52 STETwain, Mark
Summary: A collection of short stories is accompanied by selections from the novels "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "Life on the Mississippi," as well as an abridgement of Twain's autobiography.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Collins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TWIMiles, Rosalind.
Summary: A fictional autobiography of Elizabeth I of England combines historical accuracy with insightful character studies to provide a picture of the world in 1600.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILHeinlein, Robert A. (Robert Anson)
Summary: The autobiography of Maureen Johnson, the mother of Lazarus Long and also eventually his wife and perhaps his daughter as well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEIKundera, Milan.
Summary: The only authorized translation of the bestselling masterpiece by one of the greatest authors of our time, "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" is part fairy tale, part literary criticism, part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUNSummary: Based on South African President Nelson Mandela's autobiography of the same name, it chronicles his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years in prison before becoming President and working to rebuild the country's once segregated society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MANCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Mandella 2014Griffiths, Andy
Summary: Andy and Terry must get past their differences to save their story ideas from a herd of spy cows.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC GRISummary: Based on the autobiography of a brilliant young master of deception and the FBI agent hot on his trail. Frank W. Abagnale, Jr. passed himself off as a pilot, a lawyer, and a doctor all before his 21st birthday.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Catch 2003Summary: A rollicking, inventive adaptation of the notoriously unfilmable British comic novel The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman, written by Laurence Sterne. Shandy's warped tales reveal far more than any conventional autobiography.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2006