Salie, Faith

Summary: "In this hilarious collection of essays, comedian Faith Salie reflects on the absurd hoops she's jumped through in order to win approval. From running in place in a darkened shower in Africa at 4 am to lose weight, to agreeing to an exorcism at the behest of her crazy ex-husband, to eating pig organs with Harrison Ford's son after her producers told her it would 'make good TV', Salie has done...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2016

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 SAL

Saile, Bob.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pruett Pub. Co. 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.1757 SAI

Sidibe, Gabourey

Summary: With full-throttle honesty, Gabourey Sidibe shares her one-of-a-kind life story in a voice as fresh and challenging as many of the unique characters she's played onscreen since her unconventional rise to international fame in Lee Daniels' acclaimed movie Precious. Her memoir hits hard with self-knowing dispatches on friendship, depression, celebrity, haters, fasion, race, and weight....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SIDIBE, GABOUREY SID

Dirie, Waris.

Summary: Fashion model and UN ambassador Waris Dirie recounts her life, from her roots as a desert nomad in Somalia, her escape from an arranged marriage, her modeling career, and other related topics.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Virago 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 659.152 DIRIE, WARIS DIR

Lee, Helie.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.4 LEE

Sileo, Tom.

Summary: "Four weeks after Navy SEALs had killed Osama bin Laden, President Obama stood in Arlington National Cemetery to deliver his Memorial Day address. He extolled the heroism and sacrifice of the two men buried side by side in the graves before him: Travis Manion, a fallen US Marine, and Brendan Looney, a fallen US Navy SEAL. Although they were killed three years apart, one in Iraq and one in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 SIL

Sinise, Gary

Summary: As a kid in suburban Chicago, Gary Sinise was more interested in sports and rock 'n' roll than reading or schoolwork. But when he impulsively auditioned for a school production of West Side Story, he found his purpose -- or so it seemed. Within a few years, Gary and a handful of friends created what became one of the most exciting and important new theater companies in America. From its humble...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SINISE, GARY SIN

Bingham, Sallie

Summary: A bold portrait of Doris Duke, the defiant and notorious tobacco heiress who was perhaps the greatest modern woman philanthropist. In The Silver Swan, Sallie Bingham chronicles one of the great underexplored lives of the twentieth century and the very archetype of the modern woman. "Don't touch that girl, she'll burn your fingers," FBI director J. Edgar Hoover once said about Doris Duke, the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DUKE, DORIS BIN

Keller, Sadie.

Summary: "How can you take the worst thing that ever happened to you... and use it to make thousands of children happy? Sadie Keller did just that. Told in her own words, this girl's inspiring story will stir the soul of anyone who wants to find hope in humanity. Diagnosed with cancer at age seven, Sadie sneaked into her mother's closet and filmed an instructional video to help kids like her. It became...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Gavia Books 2020

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 921 KEL

Manassah, Sallie M. (Sallie Mossman)

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Publisher / Publication Date: Contemporary Image Adv., Ltd. 1986

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.427 MAN

Franklin, Dixie.

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Publisher / Publication Date: A & M 1991

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 920 FRA

Wilkie, Curtis

Summary: "The inside story of how a courageous FBI informant helped to bring down the KKK chapter responsible for a brutal civil rights-era killing. By early 1966, the civil rights work of Vernon Dahmer, head of the Forrest County chapter of the NAACP and a dedicated advocate for voter registration, was well-known in Mississippi. This put him in the crosshairs of the White Knights, one of the most...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 WIL

Rowbottom, Allie

Summary: "A memoir that braids the evolution of one of America's most iconic branding campaigns with the stirring tales of the women who lived behind its facade--told by the inheritor of their stories. In 1899, Allie Rowbottom's great-great-great-uncle bought the patent to Jell-O from its inventor for $450. The sale would turn out to be one of the most profitable business deals in American history, and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROWBOTTOM, ALLIE ROW

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B ROWBOTTOM ROB

Schindler, Emilie

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 SCH

Sale, Kirkpatrick.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 1991

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.015 SAL

Holiday, Billie

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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1984

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOLIDAY, BILLIE HOL

Olsen, Tillie.

Summary: A collection of works, both fictional and non-fictional, gathered together here for the first time --

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Publisher / Publication Date: Univ of Nebraska Pr 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 OLS

Silbey, Joel H.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2002

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Summary: In April 1898 Rainer Maria Rilke, not yet 23, began a diary of his Florence visit. It was to record, in the form of an imaginary dialogue with his mentor and then-lover, Lou Andreas-Salome, his firsthand experiences of early Renaissance art. Two others followed. In these "Schmargendorf" and "Worpswede" diaries, Rilke began to reach toward other people - among them the sculptor Clara Westhoff,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RILKE, RAINER MARIA RIL

Milne, Christopher

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Publisher / Publication Date: E. P. Dutton 1975

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 828.9 MIL

Milne, David

Summary: "A new intellectual history of U.S. foreign policy from the late nineteenth century to the present. Worldmaking is a fresh and compelling new take on the history of American diplomacy. Rather than retracing a familiar story of realism versus idealism, David Milne suggests that U.S. foreign policy has also been crucially divided between those who view statecraft as an art and those who believe...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 MIL

Brosh, Allie.

Summary: Collects autobiographical, illustrated essays and cartoons from the author's popular blog and related new material that humorously and candidly deals with her own idiosyncrasies and battles with depression.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BRO

Simmons, Sylvie.

Summary: Exploring the many facets of Cohen's life, an intimate portrait of the influential songwriter draws upon his private archives and interviews with many of his closest associates, colleagues, and other artists whose work he has inspired.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COHEN, LEONARD SIM