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Summary: "When Seán Hewitt meets Elias, the two fall headlong into a love story. But as Elias struggles with severe mental illness, they soon come face-to-face with crisis. All Down Darkness Wide is a perceptive and unflinching meditation on the burden of living in a world that too often sets happiness and queer life at odds, and a tender and honest portrayal of what it's like to be caught in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEWITT, SEAN HEWHaynes, Colton
Summary: "A brutally honest and moving memoir of lust, abuse, addiction, stardom, and redemption from Arrow and Teen Wolf actor Colton Haynes"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAYNES, COLTON HAYKinsley, Michael E.
Summary: "Vanity Fair columnist Michael Kinsley escorts his fellow Boomers through the door marked "Exit." The largest age cohort in history--the notorious baby boomers--is approaching the end and starting to plan their final moves in the game of life. Now they are asking: What was that all about? Was it about acquiring things or changing the world? Was it about keeping all your marbles? Or is the only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tim Duggan Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 KINPerkins, 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 PERCopaken, 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 COPWoods, Stuart
Summary: "Over the last forty years, Stuart Woods has written more than ninety novels of suspense and intrigue, beginning with the award-winning Chiefs. Featuring iconic crime-fighting and jet-setting leads, the plots are masterfully conceived and wonderfully escapist. What many readers don't know is that Woods's very own life was filled with similar stories of adventure. Born in Georgia, Woods worked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WOODS, STUART WOOThompson, Kenan
Summary: "When I Was Your Age is a hilarious, heartwarming and surprising ode to growing up, getting older and wiser, and luck, life, and learning from the school of hard knocks, from SNL's longest-serving actor, Kenan Thompson"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THOMPSON, KENAN THOSmith, Will
Summary: "Will Smith's transformation from a West Philadelphia kid to one of the biggest rap stars of his era, and then one of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood history, is an epic tale, but it's only half the story. Will Smith thought he had won at life: not only was his own success unparalleled, his whole family was at the pinnacle of the entertainment world. Only they didn't see it that way: they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 SMIHarjo, Joy
Summary: Joy Harjo, the first Native American to be appointed Poet Laureate of the United States, details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepfather by finding shelter in her imagination, a deep spiritual life, and connection with the natural world. Narrating the complexities of betrayal and love, grounded...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARJO, JOY HARStuart, Sarah Payne.
Summary: "A wryly comic memoir that examines the pillars of New England WASP culture-class, history, family, money, envy, perfection, and, of course, real estate-through the lens of mothers and daughters. At eighteen, Sarah Payne Stuart fled her mother and all the other disapproving mothers of her too perfect hometown of Concord, Massachusetts, only to return years later when she had children of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STUART, SARAH PAYNE STUMayes, Frances.
Summary: "A lyrical and evocative memoir from Frances Mayes, the Bard of Tuscany, about coming of age in the Deep South and the region's powerful influence on her life. The author of three beloved books about her life in Italy, including Under the Tuscan Sun and Every Day in Tuscany, Frances Mayes revisits the turning points that defined her early years in Fitzgerald, Georgia. With her signature style...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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Summary: "Molly Caro May grew up as part of a nomadic family, one proud of their international sensibilities, a tribe that never settled in one place for very long. Growing up moving from foreign country to foreign country, just like her father and grandfather, she became attached to her identity as a global woman from nowhere. But, on the verge of turning thirty years old, everything changed. Molly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pgw 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAY, MOLLY CARO MAYChin, Curtis
Summary: "Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung's Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone--from the city's first Black mayor to the local drag queens, from a big-time Hollywood star to elderly Jewish couples--could sit down for a warm, home-cooked meal. Here was where, beneath a bright-red awning and surrounded by his multigenerational family,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Magary, Drew
Summary: The fan-favorite Defector and former Deadspin columnist shares his long recovery from a catastrophic brain hemorrhage and how he learned to live with a broken mind as he tried to figure out who this new person is, in this fascinating, darkly funny comeback story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAGARY, DREW MAGHull, Anne
Summary: "Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Hull grew up in rural Central Florida, barefoot half the time and running through the orange groves her father's family had worked for generations. The ground trembled from the vibrations of bulldozers and jackhammers clearing land for Walt Disney World. "Look now," her father told her as they rode through the mossy landscape together. "It will all be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B HULL HULGay, Ross
Summary: "A collection of essays in which the author discusses the small and large things that delight him"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023
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Summary: The actress, who played Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter films, shares how she confronted all the complexities and contradictions within herself; reveals how she began to conquer her self-hate and eating disorder; and explores the choices that led her down the path of creativity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LYNCH, EVANNA LYNEhrenreich, Barbara.
Summary: "In middle age, Ehrenreich came across the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence and set out to reconstruct that quest, which had taken her to the study of science and through a cataclysmic series of uncanny-or as she later learned to call them, "mystical"-experiences. A staunch atheist and rationalist, she is profoundly shaken by the implications of her life-long search. Part...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EHRENREICH, BARBARA EHRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Spirit EhrenreichCohen, Richard M. (Richard Martin)
Summary: "Nora Ephron, one of the most famous writers, film makers, and personalities of her time is captured by her long-time and dear friend in a hilarious, blunt, raucous, and poignant recollection of their decades-long friendship. Nora Ephron (1941-2012) was a phenomenal personality, journalist, essayist, novelist, playwright, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, and movie director (Sleepless in Seattle;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EPHRON, NORA COHWalker, Ray
Summary: "An intoxicating memoir of an American who discovers a passion for French wine, and gambles everything to chase a dream of owning a vineyard in Burgundy Ray Walker had a secure career in finance until a wine-tasting vacation ignited a passion that hecouldn't stifle. Ray neglected his work, spending hours poring over ancient French winemaking texts, learning the techniques and the language,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WALKER, RAY WalkerBarrymore, Drew.
Summary: "Award-winning actress Drew Barrymore shares funny, insightful, and profound stories from her past and present told from the place of happiness she's achieved today. Wildflower is a portrait of Drew's life in stories as she looks back on the adventures, challenges, and incredible experiences of her earlier years. It includes tales of living on her own at 14 (and how laundry may have saved her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Smith, Tracy K.
Summary: "A memoir about the author's coming of age as she grapples with her identity as an artist, her family's racial history, and her mother's death from cancer"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMITH, TRACY K SMIShatner, William
Summary: "William Shatner's personal tribute to his longtime friend and Star Trek co-star, Leonard Nimoy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B NIMOY SHALawless, Wendy.
Summary: "Wendy Lawless' stunning memoir of resilience in the face of an unstable alcoholic and suicidal mother"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2013