Irby, Samantha
Summary: "Beloved writer Samantha Irby has returned to the printed page for her much-anticipated, sidesplitting fourth book following her 2020 breakout, Wow, no thank you, a Vintage Books Original. The success of Irby's career has taken her to new heights. She fields calls with job offers from Hollywood and walks the red carpet with the iconic ladies of Sex and the City. Finally, she has made it. But,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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5 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 IRBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 IRBJones, Saeed
Summary: Haunted and haunting, Jones's memoir tells the story of a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears. Through a series of vignettes that chart a course across the American landscape, Jones draws readers into his boyhood and adolescence--into tumultuous relationships with his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JONES, SAEED JONPerkins, Nichole
Summary: "Pop culture is the Pandora's Box of our lives. Racism, wealth, poverty, beauty, inclusion, exclusion, and hope -- all of these intractable and unavoidable features course through the media we consume. Examining pop culture's impact on her life, Nichole Perkins takes readers on a rollicking trip through the last twenty years of music, media and the internet from the perspective of one southern...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PERKINS, NICHOLE PERBailey, Blake
Summary: "The renowned biographer's definitive portrait of a literary titan. Appointed by Philip Roth and granted independence and complete access, Blake Bailey spent years poring over Roth's personal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and colleagues, and engaging Roth himself in breathtakingly candid conversations. The result is an indelible portrait of an American master and of the postwar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROTH, PHILIP BAICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ROTH BAICopaken, Deborah
Summary: "Breasts. Uterus. Cervix. Heart. Vagina. The source of life, right? Well, for writer and photographer Deborah Copaken, it turned out to be just the opposite--almost. Between escaping from an abusive marriage, facing down the challenge of single-parenthood, and attempting to find love again, getting her bearings after everything she knew fell to pieces proved more slippery than she ever could...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COPAKEN, DEBORAH COPFrangello, Gina
Summary: "Gina Frangello is a long-married fortysomething devoted mom when her life is turned upside down by the sudden death of her closest friend. Worn down from years of caregiving both her elderly parents and three kids, Gina starts to interrogate her own mortality and what she once longed for as a younger woman : a kind of sexual, romantic and artistic intensity radically at odds with her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRANGELLO, GINA FRAEvans, Richard Paul
Summary: "The #1 New York Times bestselling author and "king of Christmas fiction" (The New York Times) delivers a charming and inspirational collection of personal essays.Before he was the #1 New York Times bestselling author of holiday classics such as The Christmas Box, Richard Paul Evans was a young boy being raised by a suicidal mother and dealing with relentless bullying. He could not fathom what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Irby, Samantha
Summary: "The widely beloved, uproarious, first essay collection and the basis for the upcoming FX Studios series from smart, edgy, hilarious, and unabashedly raunchy Samantha Irby. Samantha Irby exploded onto the printed page with this debut collection of essays about trying to laugh her way through failed relationships, taco feasts, bouts with Crohn's disease, and more. Every essay is crafted with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Trillin, Calvin.
Summary: In a tribute to his late wife, Alice, and their relationship, the author celebrates the life of a remarkable woman who played a vital role in his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 TRILLIN, CALVIN TRIWalker, Alice
Summary: "For the first time, the edited journals of Alice Walker are gathered together to reflect the complex, passionate, talented, and acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winner of The Color Purple. She intimately explores her thoughts and feelings as a woman, a writer, an African-American, a wife, a daughter, a mother, a lover, a sister, a friend, a citizen of the world. In an unvarnished and singular voice,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WALKER, ALICE WALSaenz, Gil
Summary: Gives thanks in the acknowledgment to his brother, Rudolph Saenz for his extensive assistance with the Spanish language translations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Xlibris 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 SAECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 811 SAESummary: "A comprehensive biography of the life of artist-poet Kahlil Gibran and his development as an artist transcending geographical boundaries of East and West--includes many rare photographs and images of his work"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GIBRAN, KHALIL G. GIBAngelou, Maya
Summary: In the third volume of her autobiography, the author recounts her passage into adulthood and the white world, and her initial experiences of marriage, motherhood, and show business.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANGELOU, MAYA ANGKunkel, Angela Burke
Summary: "A biography that follows the lives of Robert McCloskey, creator of Make Way for Ducklings, and sculptor Nancy Schön, whose famous bronze ducks grace Boston Public Garden"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 KUNWong, Carmen Rita
Summary: Carmen Rita Wong siempre ha anhelado un sentido de pertenencia: primero cuando era una niña pequeña en una habitación cálida llena de mujeres latinas negras y morenas, como su madre, Lupe, animándola bailando durante su infancia en Harlem. Y en Chinatown, donde su padre inmigrante, "Papi" Wong, un estafador, la exhibiría a ella y a su hermano mayor en opulentos restaurantes decorados en rojo y...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Español 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH WONSlate, Jenny
Summary: "To see the world through Jenny Slate's eyes is to see it as though for the first time, shimmering with strangeness and possibility. As she will remind you, we live on an ancient ball that rotates around a bigger ball made up of lights and gasses that are science gasses, not farts (don't be immature). Heartbreak, confusion, and misogyny stalk this blue-green sphere, yes, but it is also a place...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SLATE, JENNY SLAFraser, Caroline.
Summary: The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Little House on the Prairie book series. Millions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls-the pioneer girl who survived blizzards and near-starvation on the Great Plains, and the woman who wrote the famous autobiographical books. But the true story of her life has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 WILDER, LAURA INGALLS FRAGrande, Reyna
Summary: From bestselling author Reyna Grandewhose remarkable memoir The Distance Between Us has become required reading in schools across the country comes an inspiring account of one woman's quest to find her place in America as a first-generation Latina university student and aspiring writer determined to build a new life for her family one fearless word at a time. When Reyna Grande was nine years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRANDE, REYNA GRAJacobson, Abbi
Summary: When Broad City star Abbi Jacobson announced that she planned to drive across the country alone, she was met with lots of questions and opinions. Why wasn't she going with friends? Wouldn't it be incredibly lonely? The North route is better! Was it safe for a woman? The Southern route is the way to go! You should bring mace! And a common one: Why? But Abbi had always found comfort in solitude...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 814 JACWalls, Laura Dassow
Summary: Drawing on Thoreau’s copious writings, published and unpublished, Walls presents a Thoreau vigorously alive in all his quirks and contradictions: the young man shattered by the sudden death of his brother; the ambitious Harvard College student; the ecstatic visionary who closed Walden with an account of the regenerative power of the Cosmos. We meet the man whose belief in human freedom and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THOREAU, HENRY DAVID WALWard, Nathan
Summary: "An epic account of the Old West and a vivid portrait of the outsized life of cowboy, detective, and chronicler Charlie Siringo. No figure in the Old West lived or influenced its legacy more fully than Charlie Siringo. Born in Matagorda, Texas, in 1855, Charlie went on his first cattle drive at age 11 and spent two decades living his boyhood dream as a cowboy. As the dangerous, lucrative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SIRINGO, CHARLIE SIRGessner, David
Summary: Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Gessner follows the ghosts of these two remarkable writer-environmentalists--from Stegner's birthplace in Saskatchewan to the site of Abbey's pilgrimages to Arches--braiding their stories and asking how they speak to the lives of all those who care about the West. What is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 978 GESAngell, Roger
Summary: "From the acclaimed New Yorker writer and editor, a compendium of writings that celebrate the view from the tenth decade of his richly lived life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 818 ANGClaridge, Laura P.
Summary: "Left off her company's fifth anniversary tribute but described by Thomas Mann as "the soul of the firm," Blanche Knopf began her career when she founded Alfred A. Knopf with her husband in 1915. With her finger on the pulse of a rapidly changing culture, Blanche quickly became a driving force behind the firm. A conduit to the literature of Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance, Blanche...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016