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Summary: Born into a political dynasty, Jenna and Barbara Bush grew up in the public eye. As small children, they watched their grandfather become president; just twelve years later they stood by their father's side when he took the same oath. They spent their college years watched over by Secret Service agents and became fodder for the tabloids, with teenage mistakes making national headlines. But the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BUSBosh, Chris
Summary: Bosh had his playing days cut short at their prime by a freak medical condition. Forced to reckon with how to find meaning to carry forward, he found himself looking back over his path, from a teenager in Dallas who balanced basketball with the high school robotics club to the pinnacle of the NBA and beyond. He saw that his important lessons weren't about basketball so much as the inner game of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B BOSH RILBush, Cori
Summary: Embodying a new chapter in progressive politics that prioritizes the lives and stories of the most politically vulnerable, the first black woman to represent the state of Missouri in Congress presents a powerful and empowering memoir that is both a personal account and a fierce call to action.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUSH, CORI BUSMendez, Jonna
Summary: "Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a "contract wife," a second-class citizen who was hired as a convenience to her husband, a young officer stationed in Switzerland. She needed his permission to open a bank account or shut off the gas to her apartment, and she performed menial duties for the CIA. Despite battling sexism at all levels of the agency, Mendez's talent for espionage was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2024
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Summary: Since she adopted him as a puppy fifteen years earlier, Jenna Blum and Woodrow have been inseparable. But Woodrow is aging. As he begins to fail, the true nature of his extraordinary relationship with Jenna is revealed. Jenna may be the dog parent, but it is Woodrow, with his amazing personality and trusting nature, who has much to teach her. Jenna discovers, over the months she spends caring...
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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: 636.7 BLUDavis, Geena
Summary: "From two-time Academy Award winner and screen icon Geena Davis, the surprising tale of her "journey to badassery"--from her epically polite childhood to roles that loaned her the strength to become a powerhouse in Hollywood."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublisher 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAVIS, GEENA DAVKastor, Deena
Summary: "From an Olympic medalist runner and the record-holder in the women's marathon and half-marathon, a lyrical, inspirational memoir on how harnessing the power of the mind can unlock hidden potential. Deena Kastor was a star youth runner with tremendous promise, yet her career almost ended after college. Her competitive method--run as hard as possible, all the time--brought her to the brink of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KASTOR, DEENA KASRush, Andre
Summary: "What does it take to go from growing up in a Mississippi housing project to becoming a master sergeant and a celebrity chef serving in the White House under four United States presidents? Call Me Chef, Dammit! is the inspiring story of Andre Rush, who became an overnight sensation in 2018, after a photograph of his now-famous twenty-four-inch biceps went viral. However, his journey to that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Horizon 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 RUSGrande, Reyna
Summary: From bestselling author Reyna Grandewhose remarkable memoir The Distance Between Us has become required reading in schools across the country comes an inspiring account of one woman's quest to find her place in America as a first-generation Latina university student and aspiring writer determined to build a new life for her family one fearless word at a time. When Reyna Grande was nine years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRANDE, REYNA GRARush, 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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RUSH, BOBBY RUSKrosoczka, Jarrett
Summary: The powerful, unforgettable graphic memoir from Jarrett Krosoczka, about growing up with a drug-addicted mother, a missing father, and two unforgettably opinionated grandparents. A National Book Award Finalist! In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 KORHanna, Kathleen
Summary: "An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. Hey girlfriend I got a proposition, goes something like this: Dare ya to do what you want. Kathleen Hanna's rallying cry to feminists echoed far and wide through the punk scene of the '90s and beyond. Her band Bikini Kill embodies this iconic time, and today her personal yet feminist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2024
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Summary: "Let Love Rule is a work of deep reflection. Lenny Kravitz looks back at his life with candor, self-scrutiny, and humor. "My life is all about opposites," he writes. "Black and white. Jewish and Christian. The Jackson 5 and Led Zeppelin. I accepted my Gemini soul. I owned it. I adored it. Yins and yangs mingled in various parts of my heart and mind, giving me balance and fueling my curiosity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 KRAVITZ, LENNY KRAKravitz, Lenny
Summary: The popular rock musician reflects on his life, from his struggles at school and tensions at home to his three-decade career as a songwriter, producer, and performer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KRAVITZ, LENNY KRADoan, Jenny
Summary: "Over the last decade, the Doan family business, the Missouri Star Quilt Company in tiny Hamilton, Missouri, has grown from Jenny's corner shop -- with one quilting machine and two bolts of fabric for sale in the back -- to become the largest supplier of pre-cut quilting fabric in the U.S. and the headquarters of Jenny's world-famous YouTube tutorial videos. Jenny is now giving her fans, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LPB DOAN DOALawson, Jenny
Summary: "As Jenny Lawson's hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken (in the best possible way), she explores her experimental treatment of transcranial magnetic stimulation with brutal honesty. But also with brutal humor: "People do different things to distract themselves during each treatment. I embroider. It feels fitting. I'm being magnetically stabbed in the head...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LAWLawson, Jenny
Summary: "As Jenny Lawson's hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken (in the best possible way), she explores her experimental treatment of transcranial magnetic stimulation with brutal honesty. But also with brutal humor: "People do different things to distract themselves during each treatment. I embroider. It feels fitting. I'm being magnetically stabbed in the head...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio LawsonPentland, Jenny
Summary: "A funny, biting, and entertaining memoir about coming of age in the shadow of celebrity and finding your own way in the face of absolute chaos, one that is both a moving portrait of a complicated family and an exploration of the cost of fame." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PENTLAND, JENNY PENLawson, Jenny
Summary: "In Furiously Happy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. But terrible ideas are what Jenny does best.As Jenny says: "Some people might think that being 'furiously happy' is just an excuse to be stupid and irresponsible and invite...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B LAWSON LAWSlate, Jenny
Summary: "To see the world through Jenny Slate's eyes is to see it as though for the first time, shimmering with strangeness and possibility. As she will remind you, we live on an ancient ball that rotates around a bigger ball made up of lights and gasses that are science gasses, not farts (don't be immature). Heartbreak, confusion, and misogyny stalk this blue-green sphere, yes, but it is also a place...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SLATE, JENNY SLAPentland, Jenny
Summary: Jenny Pentland's childhood was a literal sitcom. Many of the storylines for her mother's smash hit series, Roseanne, were drawn from Pentland's early family life in working-class Denver. By adolescence, Jenny struggled with anxiety and eating issues, and she and her siblings were sent on a tour of the self-help movement of the '80s. In this memoir, Pentland reveals what it's like to grow up as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 PENTLAND, JENNY PENHanna-Attisha, Mona
Summary: "The dramatic story of the signature environmental disaster of our time and an inspiring tale of scientific resistance by a relentless physician who stood up to power. Flint was already a troubled city in 2014 when the state of Michigan--in the name of austerity--shifted the source of its water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Soon after, citizens began complaining about the water...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Environ Hanna-AttishaHanna-Attisha, Mona
Summary: "The dramatic story of the signature environmental disaster of our time and an inspiring tale of scientific resistance by a relentless physician who stood up to power. Flint was already a troubled city in 2014 when the state of Michigan--in the name of austerity--shifted the source of its water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Soon after, citizens began complaining about the water...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2018
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: 615.9 HAN Book Club KitNguyen, Bich Minh
Summary: "From the award-winning author of Stealing Buddha's Dinner, a powerful memoir of a mother-daughter relationship fragmented by war and resettlement. At the end of the Vietnam War, when Beth Nguyen was eight months old, she and her father, sister, grandmother, and uncles fled Saigon for America. Beth's mother stayed--or was left--behind, and they did not meet again until Beth was nineteen. Over...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2023