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Lowell, Robert

Summary: "A new, expanded edition of Lowell's prose, with annotations"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOWELL, ROBERT LOW

Hsu, Hua

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Summary: "From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken-with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity-is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022

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

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B HSU HSU

Gilbert, Melissa

Summary: Known for her childhood role as Laura Ingalls Wilder on the classic NBC show Little House on the Prairie, Melissa Gilbert has spent nearly her entire life in Hollywood. From Dancing with the Stars to a turn in politics, she was always on the lookout for her next project. She just had no idea that her latest one would be completely life changing. When her husband introduces her to the wilds of...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 GILBERT, MELISSA GIL

Butcher, Amy

Summary: Amy Butcher was an accomplished college professor, mentor, and writer, but in her own home, she was embarrassed and emotionally burdened by an increasingly abusive relationship. Exhausted and terrified, Amy reached out to Instagram celebrity Joy "Mothertrucker" Wiebe - the nation's only female ice road trucker. Invited by Joy to ride shotgun, Amy found her escape on a road that was treacherous,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUTCHER, AMY BUT

Kimura, Yukie

Summary: "When Yukie Kimura was eight years old, her family lived on a tiny island near the coast of northern Japan, where her father was a lighthouse keeper. Her days were filled with adventure and nature: collecting seagull eggs to bake cookies, finding fresh seafood on the shore, and digging for fossils in a cave. But it was also 1945, the final year of World War II. Then, during one sunny weekend,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023

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Gregory, Paul R.

Summary: "In The Oswalds, Paul Gregory--labeled by Robert Oswald as the 'only' friend of Lee Harvey Oswald and his soviet wife Marina--breaks nearly sixty years of silence to reveal how the soul of a killer took shape. Two hours after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, television cameras captured police escorting a suspect into Dallas police headquarters. Meanwhile in the student center at...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Diversion Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GRE

Harry

Summary: It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mothers coffin as the world watched in sorrow--and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling--and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. With its raw,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Graham, Lauren

Summary: "Candid, insightful, and wildly entertaining essays about life, love, and lessons learned as an actress in Hollywood, from the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and New York Times bestselling author of Talking as Fast as I Can. With her signature sense of humor and down-to-earth storytelling, Lauren Graham opens up about her years working in the entertainment business--from the sublime to the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRAHAM, LAUREN GRA

Wright, Richard

Summary: The author grew up in the woods of Mississippi amid poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard", hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other side by blacks who resented anyone trying to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial Modern Classics 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WRIGHT, RICHARD WRI

Wang, Qian Julie

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Summary: In Chinese the word for the United States, Mei Guo, translates directly to "beautiful country." When seven-year-old Qian is plucked from her warm and happy childhood surrounded by extended family in China, she finds a world of crushing fear and poverty instead. For five years she lived undocumented after immigrating with her parents to New York City. Shocked at where her family fits in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 WAN

Manning, Chelsea

Summary: While working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq for the United States Army in 2010, Chelsea Manning disclosed more than seven hundred thousand classified military and diplomatic records that she had smuggled out of the country on the memory card of her digital camera. In 2011 she was charged with twenty-two counts related to the unauthorized possession and distribution of classified military...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MANNING, CHELSEA MAN

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi

Summary: The author presents a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADICHIE, CHIMAMDA NGOZI ADI

Yousafzai, Malala

Summary: "Malala retells her story of speaking out for girls' education rights for chapter book readers"--

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG YOU

Carrère, Emmanuel

Summary: "Emmanuel Carrère is a renowned writer. After decades of emotional upheaval, he has begun to live successfully--he is healthy; he works; he loves. He practices meditation, striving to observe the world without evaluating it. In this state of heightened awareness, he sets out for a ten-day silent retreat in the French heartland, leaving his phone, his books, and his daily life behind. But he's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARRERE, EMMANUEL CAR

Couric, Katie

Summary: In this memoir, Katie Couric reveals what was going on behind the scenes of her sometimes tumultuous personal and professional life--a story she's never shared, until now.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2021

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 COURIC, KATIE COU

Jefferson, Margo

Summary: "Stunning for her daring originality, the author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperamental autobiography," comprised of visceral, intimate fragments that fuse criticism and memoir. Margo Jefferson constructs a nervous system with pieces of different lengths and tone, conjoining arts writing (poem, song, performance) with life writing (history, psychology). The book's structure is...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JEFFERSON, MARGO JEF

Patterson, James

Summary: James Patterson tells his life story, a rags-to-riches account, from almost dying at birth to stints as an ad copywriter and psychiatric aid and more, before becoming the most successful storyteller in the world.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2022

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 PAT

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD B PATTERSON

Patterson, James

Summary: "How did a kid whose dad lived in the poorhouse become one of the most successful storytellers in the world? James nearly died early on the morning he was born. His grandmother told him something that's been his motto for his entire writing career: 'Hungry dogs run faster'. When James worked at a psychiatric hospital in Massachusetts, he met the singer James Taylor. And the poet Robert Lowell....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022

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

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 PATTERSON, JAMES PAT

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP B PATTERSON PAT

Fisher, Joely

Summary: "Actress, director, and entertainer Joely Fisher invites readers behind the curtain and into the intimate world of her career and family with this hilarious, irreverent, heartfelt memoir filled with candid and sometimes painful stories about her life, her famous parents, and how the loss of her sister and unlikely hero, Carrie Fisher, ignited the writer in her. Growing up in an iconic Hollywood...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FISHER, JOELY FIS

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio Ficher

Felton, Tom

Summary: From the magical moments on set as Draco Malfoy to the challenges of growing up in the spotlight, get a backstage pass into Tom Felton's life on and off the big screen. Tom Felton's adolescence was anything but ordinary. His early rise to fame in beloved films like The Borrowers catapulted him into the limelight, but nothing could prepare him for what was to come after he landed the iconic role...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022

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

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FELTON, TOM FEL

Felton, Tom

Summary: Tom Felton's adolescence was anything but ordinary. His early rise to fame in beloved films like The Borrowers catapulted him into the limelight, but nothing could prepare him for what was to come after he landed the iconic role of the Draco Malfoy, the bleached blonde villain of the Harry Potter movies. For the next ten years, he was at the center of a huge pop culture phenomenon and yet, in...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 FELTON, TOM FEL

Page, Elliot

Summary: "The Oscar-nominated star who captivated the world with his performance in Juno finally shares his truth. "Can I kiss you?" It was two months before the world premiere of Juno, and Elliot Page was in his first ever queer bar. The hot summer air hung heavy around him as he looked at her. And then it happened. In front of everyone. A previously unfathomable experience. Here he was on the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023

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

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

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PAGE, ELLIOT PAG

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B PAGE PAG

Grisham, Stephanie

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Summary: "Stephanie Grisham rose from being a junior press wrangler on the Trump campaign in 2016 to assuming top positions in the administration as White House press secretary and communications director, while at the same time acting as First Lady Melania Trump's communications director and eventually chief of staff. Few members of the Trump inner circle served longer or were as close to the first...

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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: 973.933 GRI

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 GRI

Robertson, David

Summary: "David A. Robertson, the son of a Cree father and a white, settler mother, grew up with virtually no knowledge or understanding of his family's Indigenous roots. His father, Dulas, or Don as he became known, had grown up on the trapline in the bush only to be transplanted permanently to a house on reserve in Manitoba, where he was not permitted to speak his language--Swampy Cree--and was forced...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B ROBERTSON ROB

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