Gunn, Tim.
Summary: A television personality and fashion consultant offers a simple, accessible guidebook to help readers navigate all aspects of life. Filled with dishy stories of fashion's greatest divas, behind-the-scenes glimpses of "Project Runway's" biggest drama queens, and never-before-revealed insights into his private life, Gunn shares his personal secrets for "making it work"--in your career,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 643.9 GUNGunn, Lewis C. (Lewis Carstairs)
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Publisher / Publication Date: [s.n.] 1928
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.2 GunnBannister, Nonna
Contents: Boarding the train -- Baby Sarah -- Before the Holocaust -- Move to Taganrog -- Move to Rostov-on-Don -- A day in the park -- The depression in Russia: Stalin's power -- Winter vacation with babushka at the dacha -- Our journey by train -- Homecoming welcome -- Our fun time begins -- Christmas church service -- Christmas Day 1932 -- Reflections on childhood -- Back to reality: 1933 -- Troubled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 BANNISTER, NONNA BANDavis, 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 DAVGurba, Myriam
Summary: "Myriam Gurba's debut is the bold and hilarious tale of her coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. Blending radical formal fluidity and caustic humor, Mean turns what might be tragic into piercing, revealing comedy. This is a confident, funny, brassy book that takes the cost of sexual assault, racism, misogyny, and homophobia deadly seriously. We act mean to defend ourselves from boredom...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GURBA, MYRIAM GURGuinn, Jeff
Summary: "A brilliant portrait of two American giants, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, and America entering the automobile age, told through the fascinating but little-known narrative of the summer road trips taken by Edison and Ford"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GUIMendez, 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: Born in the Bronx and raised in the suburbs of Westchester County, New York, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez witnessed firsthand how a person's zip code can shape their destiny. That early exposure to income inequality fueled a passion for change that, in turn, led her to take on--and defeat--a ten-term incumbent to become the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. Now a target for the right, she is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OCASIO-CORTEZ, ALEXANDRIAGRUGuinn, Jeff
Summary: A portrait of the cult leader behind the Jonestown Massacre examines his personal life, from his extramarital affairs and drug use to his fraudulent faith healing practices and his decision to move his followers to Guyana, sharing new details about the events leading to the 1978 tragedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JONES, JIM GUIGuinn, Jeff.
Summary: An account of one of the most notorious criminals in American history puts Manson in the context of his times, the turbulent end of the 1960s, revealing a rock star wannabe whose killings were directly related to his musical ambitions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MANSON, CHARLES GUIGuha, Ramachandra.
Summary: A first volume of a series detailing the life and work of the influential political advocate draws on private papers and other untapped sources to cover his birth in 1869 through his upbringing in Gujarat, discussing his London education and decades as a lawyer in South Africa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GANDHI, MAHATMA GUHGuha, Ramachandra
Summary: This volume opens with Mohandas Gandhi's arrival in Bombay in January 1915 and takes us through his epic struggles over the next three decades: to deliver India from British rule, to forge harmonious relations between India's Hindu and Muslim populations, to end the pernicious Hindu practice of untouchability, and to develop India's economic and moral self-reliance. We see how in each of these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GANDHI, MAHATMA GUHJackson-Laufer, Guida M. (Guida Myrl)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 1992
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1 available in Reference Office, Call number: R-Gen 929.2 BENSON Jackson-LauferLevin, Janna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.1 LEVGuinn, Jeff
Summary: The definitive account of the disastrous siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, featuring never-before-seen documents, photographs, and interviews, from former investigative reporter Jeff Guinn, bestselling author of Manson and The Road to Jonestown. For the first time in thirty years, more than a dozen former ATF agents who participated in the initial February 28, 1993, raid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.4284 GUIGuinn, Jeff.
Summary: An account of the exploits of Bonnie and Clyde explores the ways in which they captured the imaginations of people during and after their time, reveals the role of youth and luck in their two-year crime spree, and recounts the events that led to their deaths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 GUIGuinn, Jeff.
Summary: Guinn's biography answers lingering questions about the Manson Family murders, while delivering stunning revelations about the life of America's most notorious psychopath.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 MANSON, CHARLES GUIGann, Kyle.
Summary: A discussion of John Cage's "4'33"," a mid-twentieth-century musical work composed entirely of silence, providing a cultural context for the piece, and examining the musical, philosophical, and environmental factors that influenced Cage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 784.18 GANKeller, Sunny
Summary: Presents unique craft projects that have been seen on the Life hacks for kids YouTube show, including feather earrings, melted crayon art, a headband holder, and indoor s'mores, and includes questions answered by Sunny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 745.5 KELHanna, Jack
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.0889 HANHanna, 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: "From the acclaimed author of India After Gandhi: a group biography of seven remarkable men and women who arrived in India during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in order to join the freedom movement and struggle for a country and peopleother than their own"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 954.03 GUHHostin, Sunny
Summary: The co-host of "The View" and ABC News senior legal correspondent traces her journey from a biracial child in a South Bronx housing project to a successful and influential Washington, D.C. attorney and journalist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOSTIN, SUNNY HOSGiunta, Salvatore A. (Salvatore Augustine)
Summary: A Medal of Honor recipient shares the story of his military career, recounting his deployment to Afghanistan's volatile Korengal Valley and his life-risking efforts to provide medical aid to wounded fellow soldiers during an October 2007 Taliban ambush.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Books 2012