Woodmansey, Mick
Summary: "In January 2016, the unexpected death of David Bowie rocked the globe. For millions of people, he was an icon celebrated for his music, his film and theatrical roles, and his trendsetting influence on fashion and gender norms. But no one from his inner circle has told the story of how David Jones -- a young folksinger, dancer, and aspiring mime -- became one of the most influential artists of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WOODMANSEY, WOODY WOOPick-Goslar, Hannah
Summary: "Firsthand account of a Holocaust survivor who knew Anne Frank"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2023
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Summary: A personal memoir about John Mack, the former CEO of Morgan Stanley, which recounts how he helped grow the company over four decades, fostered a collaborative culture, and led the company through the 2008 financial crisis.--adapted from cover page 2
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Element 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MACK, JOHN MACNguyen, 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
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B NGUYEN NGUBragg, Rick
Summary: "Speck is not a good boy. He is a terrible boy, a defiant, self-destructive, often malodorous boy, a grave robber and screen door moocher who spends his days playing chicken with the FedEx man, picking fights with thousand-pound livestock and rolling in donkey manure and his nights howling at the moon. He has been that way since the moment he appeared on the ridgeline behind Rick Bragg's house....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "Speck is not a good boy. He is a terrible boy, a defiant, self-destructive, often malodorous boy, a grave robber and screen door moocher who spends his days playing chicken with the Fed Ex man, picking fights with thousand-pound livestock, and rolling in donkey manure, and his nights howling at the moon. He has been that way since the moment he appeared on the ridgeline behind Rick Bragg's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B BRAGG BRALeventhal, Rick
Summary: From the front lines in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and other conflict zones to the base of the burning Twin Towers on 9/11 to the eye of countless hurricanes, Rick Leventhal chronicles some of the most amazing stories he's covered in his thirty-five years as a news reporter, anchor, and Senior Correspondent--with some life lessons thrown in along the way. Part memoir and part leadership...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Post Hill Press 2023
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Summary: "An inspiring and heartfelt memoir about the friendship between eight women forged over two decades. The eight Drummond Girls first met in 1991 at Peegeo's Food & Spirits in northern Michigan where, at the time, they were all waitresses, bartenders, or regular customers. When one of them got engaged, they celebrated with a trip to Drummond Island-- their first trip together to the remote...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2015
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LINCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Word LinkRidgeway, Rick
Summary: At the beginning of his memoir Life Lived Wild, Adventures at the Edge of the Map, Rick Ridgeway tells us that if you add up all his many expeditions, he's spent over five years of his life sleeping in tents: "And most of that in small tents pitched in the world's most remote regions." It's not a boast so much as an explanation. Whether at elevation or raising a family back at sea level, those...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Patagonia 2021
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Summary: "The enthralling inside story of the Thai cave rescue. They were utterly alone inside the mountain, isolated from the rest of the world. They might as well have been on another planet.... In July 2018, 12 boys and their football coach disappeared into Tham Luang Cave in Thailand. Trapped miles beneath the surface, not even the Thai Navy SEALs had the skills to bring them to safety. With the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STANTON, RICK STAHerbstreit, Kirk
Summary: The face and voice of college football, in this riveting and revealing memoir, takes readers behind the scenes, describing how a combination of hard work, perseverance and a little luck landed him on the set of ESPN's iconic College GameDay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HERBSTREIT, KIRK HERMullally, Megan
Summary: At last, the full story behind the Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman's epic romance, sharing stories, portraits, and the occasional puzzle, all telling the smoldering tale that has fascinated Hollywood for over a decade.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920 MULBuck, Joan Juliet
Summary: "From Joan Juliet Buck, former editor-in-chief of Paris Vogue comes her dazzling, compulsively readable memoir: a fabulous account of four decades spent in the creative heart of London, New York, Los Angeles, and Paris, chronicling her quest to discover the difference between glitter and gold, illusion and reality, and what looks like happiness from the thing itself. Born into a world of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUCK, JOAN JULIET BUCHoseley, Rantz
Summary: Based on Nikki Sixx's drug-soaked New York Times best-selling memoir, The Heroin Diaries, chronicles the year of decadence and depravity that almost cost Sixx his life during the recording and tour for M©œtley Cr©ơe's seminal 1987 album, Girls Girls Girls, the book not only became a worldwide best-seller, but also spawned the band Sixx A.M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heavy Metal Media 2018
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Summary: "In 2012, Beck Dorey-Stein was just scraping by in DC when a posting on Craigslist landed her, improbably, in the Oval Office as one of Barack Obama's stenographers. For five years, Beck was a part of the elite team of men and women who accompanied the president wherever he went, recorder and mic in hand. She got to know everyone from the White House butler to the secret servicemen, advance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOREY-STEIN, BECK DOREvans, Mike
Summary: "While dreaming of an easier way to order pizza, Mike Evans founded the online food delivery site, Grubhub, in his spare bedroom and grew it into the multi-billion-dollar colossus that is now a household name. But it wasn't as easy as searching, clicking, and checking out. Mike's meteoric rise to the top of the booming tech and business world demanded a decade of 80 hour work weeks, endless...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy Lit 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 EVALove, Mike
Summary: Mike Love tells the story of his legendary, raucous, and ultimately triumphant five-decade career as the front man of The Beach Boys, the most popular American band in history -- timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of "Good Vibrations." Love describes the stories behind his lyrics for pop classics such as "Good Vibrations," "California Girls," "Surfin' USA," and "Kokomo," while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOVE, MIKE LOVMullally, Megan
Summary: The popular comedic couple trace the story of their relationship, sharing anecdotes, family photos, and secrets that reveal how they overcame considerable social differences through their shared values and mutual love of music and laughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MULKittredge, Jack
Summary: "In this heartfelt and unflinching memoir, two activists recount the nearly half century they've spent questioning authority while raising a family, building a self-reliant community, starting an organic farm, leading a farming organization, and experiencing the struggles and joys of living a purposeful life. Many Hands Make a Farm traces the journey of organic farming pioneers Julie Rawson and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2023