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LoMenzo, Angela

Summary: "Writer, makeup artist, and creative director Angela LoMenzo combines stunning photography and powerful real stories to shine a light on the wild and wondrous journeys of twenty-five extraordinary and deeply creative women." -- Back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mango Publishing 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.0925 LOM

Mathews, Ross

Summary: Television personality Ross Mathews likes telling stories. He was always outrageous and hilariously honest, even when the biggest celebrity he knew was his favorite lunch lady in the school cafeteria. Now that he has Hollywood experience—from interning behind the scenes at The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to judging RuPaul’s Drag Race—he has a lot to talk about. In Name Drop, Ross dishes about...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.6 MAT

Summary: Best-selling author, culinary adventurer and self-proclaimed hedonist, Anthony Bourdain has carved out a distinct place as a gastronomic Indiana Jones. In this series, his journey introduces viewers to people and places far beyond the realm of food as he travels the world sampling local foods and culture. Paris: Take an unusual tour of the city of light and love as Tony ventures from a hardcore...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Discovery Communications 2007

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Smith, Craig R.

Summary: "The celebrated cardio-thoracic surgeon at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, writes an elegant story of life in the land of illness and daily miracles"--

Format: text

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

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMITH, CRAIG R. SMI

Summary: Season 4 of the Emmy and James Beard Award-winning series The Mind of a Chef takes you into the mind of Chef Gabrielle Hamilton, best-selling author of "Blood, bones, and butter", as she runs her restaurant, explores her roots in Pennsylvania, and ventures to Rome and Milan, all the while retracing the inspiration for her culinary career ad exploring what it truly means to cook, think, create,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 GAB

Gulian, Jared

Summary: "For Jared Gulian, leaving the United States and moving to the capital of New Zealand was a big enough switch from the bright lights of big cities. So when his partner decided they just had to buy a rundown olive grove out in the middle of nowhere, it was almost too much. To get there they'd have to drive over a dangerous mountain road - and Jared was terified of heights. And them they'd have...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lucky Pony 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630.92 GUL

Patterson, James

Summary: "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas--until now. James Patterson shows the real Vegas in a dazzling journey through true stories of excess, drama, and hope. In What Really Happens in Vegas, full of surprises for both newcomers and Las Vegas regulars, James Patterson and Vanity Fair contributing editor Mark Seal transport readers from the thrill of adrenaline-fueled vice to the glitter of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.3 PAT

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.3 PAT

Westover, Tara

Summary: Cómo una educación puede salvar una vida. "Podéis llamarlo transformación. Metamorfosis. Falsedad. Traición. Yo lo llamo una educación." Nacida en las montañas de Idaho, Tara Westover ha crecido en armonía con una naturaleza grandiosa y doblegada a las leyes que establece su padre, un mormón fundamentalista convencido de que el final del mundo es inminente. Ni Tara ni sus hermanos van a la...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lumen 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 WES

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wildsam Field Guides 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.4 NEW ENGLAND WIL

Summary: "It's impossible to ignore how life has changed since COVID-19 spread across the world. People from all over quarantined and did their best to keep on going during the pandemic. Zibby Owens, host of the award-winning podcast Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books and a mother of four herself, wanted to do something to help people carry on and to give them something to focus on other than the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2021

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Summary: Sheds new light on fatherhood and the relationship between parent and child, discussing what we can learn from our fathers about humor, discipline, values, tradition, pride, loss, and love.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2006

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 306.8 RUS

Manning, Matthew K.

Summary: "In 2008, Moko the dolphin was well known at Mahia Beach on New Zealand's North Island. People loved to come and watch the playful dolphin fetch beach balls, steal boogie boards, and interact with the swimmers and beachgoers. In March of that year, two pygmy sperm whales got trapped between a sandbar and the beach and couldn't get them back to the ocean. Several concerned people were unable to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.53 MAN

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J559.53 MAN

Montgomery, Sy

Summary: "The story of how in April 2016, Inky the octopus escaped from the New Zealand aquarium and became an international sensation."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2018

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Morris, Mary

Summary: "From the author of the classic memoir Nothing to Declare, a new travel narrative examining healing, redemption, and what it means to be a solo woman on the road."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MORRIS, MARY MOR

Fitzgerald, Isaac

Summary: "Isaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives. He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, a biker, a prince of New England. But before all that, he was a bomb that exploded his parents' lives--or so he was told. In Dirtbag, Massachusetts, Fitzgerald, with warmth and humor, recounts his ongoing search for forgiveness, a more far-reaching vision of masculinity, and a more expansive...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B FITZGERALD FIT

Stein, Joshua David

Summary: "My Father the Chef. My Father the Cult Leader. My Father the Duke. These men (Jacques Pépin, Saul Newton, and John Wayne, respectively) are among the famous-and infamous-fathers featured in To Me, He Was Just Dad, a collection of first-person essays written by the children of some of the world's most fascinating men. Though these men may be familiar to the reader, their children offer a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 STE

Gornall, Jonathan

Summary: "Once an essential skill, the ability to build a clinker boat, first innovated by the Vikings, can seem incomprehensible today. Yet it was the clinker, with its overlapping planks, that afforded us access to the oceans, and its construction has become a lost art that calls to the do-it-yourselfer in all of us. John Gornall heard the call. A thoroughly unskilled modern man, Gornall set out to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Publishing 2019

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 GORNALL, JONATHAN GOR

Summary: "With stories by Barbara Bush, James Herriot, Jimmy Stewart, Betty White, Art Linkletter, Gilda Radner, Bettie Youngs, and many more."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 CHI

Summary: Essays by authors who have appeared on the podcast "Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books" explore the ever-increasing demands on mothers' time and topics inspired by things moms don't have time to do, including sleep, get sick, write, lose weight, and see friends.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2021

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Trump, Ivana

Summary: "'Behind every successful woman, there is a man in shock.' Contrary to popular belief, self-proclaimed 'Lion Mom' Ivana Trump has not always had it all. Born to two loving and diligent parents but raised in communist Czechoslovakia, Ivana knows a thing or two about working her way to the top. And though she is now a successful businesswoman in her own right, her true pride and joy rests within...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TRUMP, IVANA TRU

Summary: A compilation of essays on claiming control of your life, whether it's reducing clutter in your home or learning to say "no" without guilt. The authors share the fulfillment that comes from focusing on what matters most in your life-- your family, your friends, and even your self.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.7 CHI

Brower, Kate Andersen.

Summary: "America's first families are unknowable in many ways. No one has insight into their true character like the people who serve their meals and make their beds every day. Full of stories and details by turns dramatic, humorous, and heartwarming, [this book] reveals daily life in the White House as it is really lived through the voices of the maids, butlers, cooks, florists, doormen, engineers,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.3 BRO

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.3 BRO

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 975.3 BRO

Summary: A documentary about adults who share their most embarrassing childhood diaries, letters, and poems and art; with total strangers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Summary: "101 reasons to laugh out loud. If laughter is the best medicine, then this book is your prescription. Turn off the news and spend a few days not following current events. Instead, return to the basics -- humanity's ability to laugh at itself. Maybe you should even do a news cleanse for a few days! Hide under the covers and read these stories instead. Or read a chapter a day, or a story a day...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken Soup for the Soul, LLC 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.43 CHI

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