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Smith, Patti

Summary: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee presents reflections on her inner life from the unique perspectives of the cafes and cultural haunts she has visited and worked in around the world. --Publisher's description.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMITH, PATTI SMI

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Music Smith

Davis, Patti

Summary: "A remarkably poignant writer for our troubled times, Patti Davis writes about love, loss, and the power of redemption in this poetic letter to her long-gone parents"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2024

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAVIS, PATTI DAV

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B DAVIS DAV

Petri, Alexandra

Summary: "Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri turns her satirical eye on her own life in this hilarious new memoir... Most twentysomethings spend a lot of time avoiding awkwardness. Not Alexandra Petri. Afraid of rejection? Alexandra Petri has auditioned for America's Next Top Model. Afraid of looking like an idiot? Alexandra Petri lost Jeopardy! by answering "Who is that dude?" on national TV....

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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2015

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B PETRI PET

Potts, Monica

2 holds on 2 copies

Summary: "Growing up gifted and poor in small-town Arkansas, Monica and Darci became fast friends. The girls bonded over a shared love of reading and learning, even as they navigated the challenges of their declining town and tumultuous family lives-broken marriages, alcohol abuse, and shuttered stores and factories. They pored over the giant map in their middle school classroom, tracing their fingers...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

Schemel, Patty

Summary: Hit So Hard begins with stories from a childhood informed by the AA meetings Schemel's parents hosted in the family living room. Their divorce triggered her rebellious adolescence and first forays into drinking at age 11, which coincided with her passion for punk rock and playing drums. Her efforts to come to terms with her sexuality further drove her memorably hard playing, and by the late...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHEMEL, PATTY SCH

Krawec, Patty

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "Weaving her own story with the story of her ancestors and with the broader themes of creation, replacement, and disappearance, Krawec helps readers see settler colonialism through the eyes of an Indigenous writer. Settler colonialism tried to force us into one particular way of living, but the old ways of kinship can help us imagine a different future. Krawec asks, What would it look like to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadleaf Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 KRA

Gagne, Patric

11 holds on 5 copies

Summary: "Patric Gagne realized she made others uncomfortable before she started kindergarten. Something about her caused people to react in a way she didn't understand. She suspected it was because she didn't feel things the way other kids did. Emotions like fear, guilt, and empathy eluded her. For the most part, she felt nothing. And she didn't like the way that "nothing" felt. She did her best to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024

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Watts, 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.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiny Reparations Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WATTS, REGGIE WAT

Flea

Summary: The co-founder of the Red Hot Chili Peppers chronicles his life from his birth in Australia and upbringing on the streets of Los Angeles through his rise to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019

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Coulombe, Joe

Summary: The founder of Trader Joe's, a successful chain of grocery stores, provides a blueprint of how to build an enterprise by challenging the status quo and rethinking all aspects of doing business, from creating the work environment that employees want to bepart of to finding a niche of loyal customers sharing your values and passions.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Leadership 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COULOMBE, JOE COU

Gutman, Matt

Summary: "Matt Gutman can tell you the precise moment when his life was upended. Reporting live on a huge story in January 2020, he found himself in the throes of an on-air panic attack--and not for the first time. The truth is that Gutman had been enduring panic attacks in secret for twenty years: soul-bruising episodes that left his vision constricted, his body damp, his nerves shot. Despite the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 GUT

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Mind Gutman

Hay, Matt

Summary: "As a child, Matt Hay didn't know his hearing wasn't the way everyone else processed sound--and like a lot of kids who do workarounds to fit in, even the school nurse didn't catch his condition at the annual hearing and vision checks. But as a prospective college student who couldn't pass the entrance requirements for West Point, Hay's condition, generated by a tumor, was unavoidable: his...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024

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

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