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Houston, Gloria.

Summary: An Appalachian girl, Arizona Houston Hughes, grows up to become a teacher who influences generations of schoolchildren.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1992

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOU

Holston, Noel

Summary: From a renowned media critic to a man with sudden and full hearing loss, Noel Holston ran the gauntlet of diagnoses, health insurance, and cochlear implant surgery. On a spring night in 2010, Noel Holston, a journalist, songwriter, and storyteller, went to bed with reasonably intact hearing. By dawn, it was gone, thus beginning a long process of hearing-restoration that included misdiagnoses,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOLSTON, NOEL HOL

Houston, Pam

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: "'How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us,' Pam Houston writes. On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, this beloved writer learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOUSTON, PAM HOU

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B HOUSTON HOU

Copies Available at Interlochen

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

Hurston, Zora Neale.

Contents: Mules and men -- Tell my horse -- Dust tracks on a road -- Selected articles.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1995

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.092 HUR

Bouton, Katherine

Summary: Traces the author's experiences of hearing loss while evaluating a growing epidemic of hearing impairment in America, drawing on medical and specialist insights to identify possible causes while sharing how hearing loss affects everyday life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.8 BOU

Florio, John

Summary: Relates the story of how in the early 1920s, as a Red Scare gripped America, two Italian immigrants, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were wrongly accused, tried, and executed for murder, making front-page headlines as they maintained their innocence to the very end.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 345.73 FLO

Leachman, Cloris.

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Film and television darling Leachman tells her life story through the challenges of her stellar career all while raising five children. She also discusses her many famous friends in the entertainment industry as well as in the political arena.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Pub. 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEACHMAN, CLORIS LEA

Bouton, Jim.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Collier Books 1990

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.357 BOU

Viloria, Hida

Summary: "From Hida Viloria, writer and intersex activist, a candid, provocative, and eye-opening memoir of life, love, and gender identity as an intact intersex person, as well as a call to action for justice for intersex people. Hida Viloria was raised as a girl but discovered early on that he/r body was different. Unlike most people who are born intersex in the first world--meaning they have...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VILORIA, HIDA VIL

Vanderbilt, Gloria

Summary: The personal story of the renowned fashion designer discusses the fierce custody battle between her mother and aunt that marked her childhood, her affairs with such men as Howard Hughes and Frank Sinatra, and her marriages.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VANDERBILT, GLORIA Vanderbilt

Bouton, Jim.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bulldog Publishing 1990

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 BOU

Leachman, Cloris.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 LEACHMAN, CLORIS LEA

Lopez, Barry Holstun

Summary: "This collection represents part of the enduring legacy of Barry Lopez, hailed as a 'national treasure' (Outside) and "one of our finest writers" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) when he died in December 2020. An ardent steward of the land, fearless traveler, and unrivaled observer of nature and culture in all its forms, Lopez lost much of the Oregon property where he had lived for over fifty...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 LOP

Fossi, Gloria

Summary: "Follow in the footsteps of Vincent Van Gogh, from his birthplace in Zundert, Netherlands, to his last days in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, and explore the hidden inspirations behind the world-renowned artist's most famous paintings in this beautiful art bookand travelogue, illustrated with more than 250 black-and-white and full-color images throughout"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Design, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.9492 FOS

Steinem, Gloria.

Summary: "Gloria Steinem had an itinerant childhood. Every fall, her father would pack the family into the car and they would drive across the country, in search of their next adventure. The seeds were planted: Steinem would spend much of her life on the road, as a journalist, organizer, activist, and speaker. In vivid stories that span an entire career, Steinem writes about her time on the campaign...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STEINEM, GLORIA STE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B STEINEM STE

Smith, Huston.

Summary: Documents the world religion scholar's life and experiences with people who shaped the twentieth century, including Mother Teresa, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Ram Dass, in an account that also traces the adventures he had in pursuit of his influential research.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne/HarperCollins Publishers 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Huston, Anjelica.

Summary: "Picking up where A Story Lately Told leaves off, when Anjelica Huston is 22 years old, Watch Me is a chronicle of her glamorous and eventful Hollywood years. She writes about falling in love with Jack Nicholson and her adventurous, turbulent, high-profile, spirited 17-year relationship with him and his intoxicating circle of friends. She writes about learning how to act, about her Academy...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUSTON, ANJELICA HUS

Moulton, Mo

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) was a renowned crime novelist who achieved fame and fortune during a period that historian Mo Moulton calls 'the day after the revolution.' In a time when just as many doors were closed to women as open, Sayers found professional success with her Lord Peter Wimsey novels. Yet she never could have done it without the cohort of remarkable women she met at university...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SAYERS, DOROTHY L. MOU

Steinem, Gloria

Summary: From journalist, activist, and international icon Gloria Steinem comes her first book in twenty years, an all-new memoir of a lifetime of listening and learning from people, traveling America and the world. Gloria Steinem had an itinerant childhood. Every fall, her father would pack the family into the car and they would drive across the country, in search of their next adventure. The seeds...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult Steinem

Houston, James A.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: McClelland & Stewart 1995

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.3 HOU

Holton, Woody.

Summary: Prof. Woody Holton (National Book Award-finalist for Unruly Americans) reveals that American icon Abigail Adams was far wiser and wilier than previously known.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADAMS, ABIGAIL HOL

Steinem, Gloria

Summary: "For decades -- and especially now in these times of crisis -- people around the world have found guidance, humor, and unity in Gloria Steinem's gift for creating quotes that inspire action and create hope. From her early days as a journalist and feministactivist, up to today, Steinem's words have helped generations to empower themselves and work together. Gloria sees quotes as 'the poetry of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 STE

Woodward, Hobson.

Contents: Poet of London -- Aboard for Jamestown -- Ocean bound -- Hurricane -- Rogue wave -- Devil's land -- Angel's garden -- New life -- Rebellion -- Away to Virginia -- Relief from home -- Forest people -- Blood in the snow -- Poison -- Bound for England -- Blackfriars surprise -- Bermuda ghosts -- After the storm.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.9163 WOO

Steinem, Gloria.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1986

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MONROE, MARILYN STE

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