Walker, 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 Walker

Asimov, Eric.

Summary: "A beautifully written, thought-provoking combination memoir and manifesto by Eric Asimov, the acclaimed, highly respected chief wine critic for the New York Times"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.23 ASI

Rehm, Diane.

Summary: "In a deeply personal and moving book, the beloved NPR radio hostess speaks out about the long drawn-out death (from Parkinson's) of her husband of 54 years, and of her struggle to reconstruct her life without him"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016

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Toorpakai, Maria

Summary: Coming from a Pakistani tribal region where women playing sports is forbidden, the author discusses how she passed as a boy in order to be an athlete, thus becoming a lightning rod for women's freedom in her country.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TOORPAKAI, MARIA TOO

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Guerrero, Diane

Summary: "Diane Guerrero, the television actress from the megahit Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, was just fourteen years old on the day her parents and brother were arrested and deported to Colombia while she was at school. Born in the U.S., Guerrero was able to remain in the country and continue her education, depending on the kindness of family friends who took her in and helped her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2016

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Osgood, Kelsey.

Summary: "At fourteen, Kelsey Osgood became fascinated by the stories of women who starved themselves. She devoured their memoirs and magazine articles, committing the most salacious details of their cautionary tales to memory--how little they ate, their lowest weights, and their merciless exercise regimes--to learn what it would take to be the very best anorectic. When she was hospitalized for anorexia...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OSGOOD, KELSEY OSG

Burke, Diane

Summary: "The moment Diane Burke, an author and mother of two grown sons, received an unexpected certified letter in the mail, she had no idea her life would be shaken to its core. Memories of a past she had buried more than forty years ago suddenly resurfaced and she wasn't prepared to deal with them. Steve Orlandi, happily married, father of two and step-father of three, was living the typical middle...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Distribution Services 2014

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Kalanithi, Paul

Summary: At the age of 36, on the verge of a completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi's health began to falter. He started losing weight and was wracked by waves of excruciating back pain. A CT scan confirmed what Paul, deep down, had suspected: he had stage four lung cancer, widely disseminated. One day, he was a doctor making a living treating the dying, and the next,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2016

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Kalanithi, Paul

Summary: At the age of 36, on the verge of a completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi started losing weight and was wracked by waves of excruciating back pain. A CT scan confirmed that he had stage IV lung cancer. One day, he was a doctor making a living treating the dying, and the next, he was a patient struggling to live. In Breath Becomes Air, Kalanithi approaches...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016

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

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KALANITHI, PAUL KAL

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Hull, 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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