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Hough, Stephen

Summary: Stephen Hough is indisputably one of the world's leading pianists, winning global acclaim and numerous awards, both for his concerts and recordings. He is also a writer, composer and painter. As an international performer he spends much of his life at airports, on planes, and in hotel rooms and this book expands notes he has made, in his words, 'during that dead time on the road'. He writes...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 786.2092 HOU

White, David Fairbank

Summary: "The incredible, untold story behind the rise of the P-51 Mustang, the World War II fighter plane that destroyed the Luftwaffe and made D-Day possible"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Caliber 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 WHI

Summary: "For the millions who adored the People's Princess, this lavish book celebrates Diana Spencer's life in pictures. Page after page of inside photos from the legendary National Geographic archives document the royal's most memorable moments in the spotlight; a luminous, personal remembrance by Diana friend and biographer Tina Brown adds context and nuance to a poignant life twenty years after her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DIANA, PRINCESS REM

Zaidi, Mohsin

Summary: A coming of age memoir about growing up queer in a strict Muslim household. Mohsin grew up in a poor pocket of east London, in a devout shia Muslim community. His family were close-knit and religiously conservative. From a young age, Mohsin felt different but in a home where being gay was inconceivable he also felt very alone. Outside of home Mohsin went to a failing inner city school where...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZAIDI, MOHSIN ZAI

Holmes, Elizabeth

Summary: "The Duchess of Cambridge and the Duchess of Sussex are global style icons. With their every fashion choice chronicled and celebrated, Kate and Meghan purposefully select clothes to send messages about their values, interests, and priorities. Their thoughtful sartorial strategies follow the legacies of Queen Elizabeth II and Diana, Princess of Wales, two towering figures who have used their...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.085 HOL

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 941.085092 HOL

Rees, Paul A.

Summary: Robert Plant is a living legend. The front man of Led Zeppelin, one of the biggest and most influential rock bands of all time, Plant defined the very notion of what it means to be a rock god. The sheer scale of Led Zeppelin's success is extraordinary. In the United States alone they have sold seventy million records, a figure surpassed only by the Beatles, while "Stairway to Heaven," the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PLANT, ROBERT REE

Khan, Sabba

Summary: "As a second-generation Pakistani immigrant living in East London, Sabba Khan paints a vivid snapshot of contemporary British Asian life and investigates the complex shifts experienced by different generations within immigrant communities, creating an uplifting and universal story that crosses borders and decades. Race, gender, and class are explored in a compelling personal narrative creating...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 KHA

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KHAN, SABBA KHA

Woolf, John

Summary: A radical new history that rediscovers the remarkable freak performers whose talents and charisma helped define an era.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.3 WOO

Morton, Andrew

Summary: Diana in Pursuit of Love includes previously unpublished details from the Diana-Morton tapes, it is based on wide-ranging research, and new and exclusive interviews. The definitive book on Diana, Pricess of Wales's last years, by the biographer she herself chose. When Andrew Morton's world-famous biography, Diana: Her True Story was first published, it caused a media frenzy, severely jolted the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday Large Print Home Library 2004

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 DIANA, PRINCESS MOR

Rees-Jones, Trevor

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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 REES-JONES, TREVOR REE

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 941.085` REE

Trethewey, Rachel

Summary: "As complex in their own way as their Mitford cousins, Winston and Clementine Churchill's daughters each had a unique relationship with their famous father. Rachel Trethewey's biography, The Churchill Sisters, tells their story. Bright, attractive and well-connected, in any other family the Churchill girls - Diana, Sarah, Marigold and Mary - would have shone. But they were not in another...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 TRE

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

Smith, Sally Bedell

Summary: "When the Duke of Windsor abdicated the throne in 1936, his shy, uncertain, unprepared younger brother became King. Sally Bedell Smith was granted by Queen Elizabeth II special access to the letters and diaries of George VI and Elizabeth, to tell the story of how their love, devotion, and strong marriage led George VI to overcome insecurities and difficulty speaking and to become an exceptional...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023

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

Thompson, Richard

Summary: "A revealing look at the early years of Richard Thompson, one of the world's most influential guitarists and songwriters, following the formation of his band Fairport Convention, his revival of British folk traditions, and his journey through Sufism-all before the age of 26"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THOMPSON, RICHARD THO

Phan, Zoya.

Summary: Zoya Phan escaped the Burmese army in her native jungle and a Thai refugee camp to become the spokesperson of the Free Burma movement.--Publisher description.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.105 PHAN, ZOYA PHA

Whiteman, Medina Tenour

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "Medina Tenour Whiteman stands at the margins of whiteness and Islam. An Anglo-American born to Sufi converts, she feels perennially out of place--not fully at home in Western or Muslim cultures. In this searingly honest memoir, Whiteman contemplates what it means to be an invisible Muslim, examining the pernicious effects of white Muslim privilege and exploring what Muslim identity can mean...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hurst and Company 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WHITEMAN, MEDINA TENOUR WHI

Gigliotti, Jim

Summary: Describes the life of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain from 1837 to 1901, and the social and political conditions in Great Britain during her lifetime.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Carby, Hazel V.

Summary: "A haunting and evocative history of British empire, told through one woman's family story 'Where are you from?' Hazel Carby was continually asked as a girl, at a time when being Black and being British was understood to be an impossibility. To answer that question properly, eminent scholar Hazel Carby finds she needs to trace not just the family history of her Jamaican father and her Welsh...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.2 CAR

Martin, Ralph G.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1985

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHARLES & DIANA MAR

Patterson, James

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Summary: At age thirteen, she became Lady Diana Spencer. At twenty, Princess of Wales. At twenty-one, she earned her most important title: Mother. As she fell in love, first with Prince Charles and then with her sons, William and Harry, the world fell in love with the young royal family, Diana most of all. With one son destined to be King of England, and one to find his own way, she taught them dual...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022

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

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

Moore, Peter

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "The most famous phrase in American history once looked quite different. "The preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness" was how Thomas Jefferson put it in the first draft of the Declaration, before the first ampersand was scratched out, along with "the preservation of." In a statement as pithy--and contested--as this, a small deletion matters. And indeed, that final,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023

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Patterson, James

Summary: At age thirteen, she became Lady Diana Spencer. At twenty, Princess of Wales. At twenty-one, she earned her most important title: Mother. As she fell in love, first with Prince Charles and then with her sons, William and Harry, the world fell in love with the young royal family, Diana most of all. With one son destined to be King of England, and one to find his own way, she taught them dual...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 PAT

Summary: For this book, Larry King asked many people who knew Diana, some officially and some more personally, for their favorite memories. Some of these recollections are warm and intimate, celebrating Diana for her ability to make a human connection with everyone she met, others are perceptive and revealing, even about her human failings and frailties. Together, they coalesce into a multifaceted...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES KIN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 941.0850 KIN

Doak, Robin S. (Robin Santos)

Summary: "The Book explains the life of Princess Diana"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2020

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DIA

Muir, Robin

Summary: Four monarchs (crowned and uncrowned); one abdication; one royal investiture; a jewel box of jubilees and many, many royal marriages.... British Vogue has borne witness to a century of royal history. Its first star photographer, Cecil Beaton, was entranced by the House of Windsor and the admiration was mutual. A younger star photographer, Antony Armstrong Jones, left Vogue to marry the Queen's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder Bay Press 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 941.082 MUI

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.082 MUI

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