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Summary: Michael Wood, one of our most versatile critics, has given us a compact study of Hitchcock that deftly melds biography and criticism. He gives us the life, from a provincial suburb of London to the most posh precincts of Los Angeles, and a fabled career that began as a designer of title cards in the silent film era. He reads the films as visual texts, studying their plots to tease out their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HITCHCOCK, ALFRED WOOSanders, Ed.
Summary: "In 1971, Ed Sanders published The Family, his insider's account of the Manson family murders; it was an immediate sensation. Using the same investigative skills and insider contacts that informed his counterculture classic, Sanders delivers the definitive account of the brief and tragic life of Sharon Tate. The biography takes a close look at Tate's life-from her itinerant childhood and early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TATE, SHARON SANKennedy, Gerrick
Summary: "A candid exploration of the genius, shame, and celebrity of Whitney Houston a decade after her passing. On February 11, 2012, Whitney Houston was found submerged in the bathtub of her suite at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. In the decade since, the world has mourned her death amid new revelations about her relationship to her Blackness, her sexuality, and her addictions. Didn't We Almost Have It...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOUSTON, WHITNEY KENPage, Elliot
Summary: A groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page. A generation-defining actor and one of the most famous trans advocates of our time, Elliot will now be known as an uncommon literary talent, as he shares never-before-heard details and intimate interrogations on gender, love, mental health, relationships, and Hollywood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2023
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD 921 PAGE, ELLIOT PAGBanner, Lois W.
Summary: "Last year J. Randy Taraborrelli wrote a bestselling book entitled The Secret Life of Marilyn. His is the most recent of dozens written since Marilyn's death in August of 1962 and yet the appetite for information about Marilyn is insatiable. No matter whether sensational or flawed, as most of these biographies have been, the fans always come out, in best-selling numbers. This time, with Lois...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MONROE, MARILYN BANRhimes, Shonda.
Summary: On Thanksgiving Day, 2013, Rhimes' sister told her: "You never say yes to anything." This became a wake-up call-- and a challenge. Rhimes details her one-year experiment with saying "yes" that transformed her life. She reveals how accepting unexpected invitations she would have otherwise declined enabled powerful benefits. When she learned to say yes to life, she learned to explore, empower,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RHICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RHIWinkler, Henry
Summary: "From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply thoughtful memoir of the lifelong effects of stardom and the struggle to become whole. Henry Winkler, launched into prominence as "The Fonz" in the beloved Happy Days, has transcended the role that made him who he is. Brilliant, funny, and widely-regarded as the nicest man in Hollywood (though he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WINKLER, HENRY WINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B WINKLER WINMoore, Roger
Summary: "In a career that spans over seven decades, Roger Moore has been at the very heart of Hollywood. Of course, he's an actor and has starred in films that have made him famous the world over; but he's also a tremendous prankster, joker and raconteur. Despite the fact that he is well known as one of the nicest guys in the business, on and off the screen he has always been up for some fun. In this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press, an imprint of Roman & Littlefield 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOORE, ROGER MOOShannon, Molly
Summary: At age four, Molly Shannon lost her mother, baby sister, and cousin in a car accident. Held together by her father, she was raised in a house that would allow her to become a renowned comedic actress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "The memoirs of Mary Rodgers--writer, composer, Broadway royalty, and "a woman who tried everything.""--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RODGERS, MARY RODStewart, Patrick
Summary: From his acclaimed stage triumphs to his legendary onscreen work in the Star Trek and X-Men franchises, Sir Patrick Stewart has captivated audiences around the world and across multiple generations with his indelible command of stage and screen. Now, he presents his long-awaited memoir, Making It So, a revealing portrait of an artist whose astonishing life, from his humble beginnings in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 921 STEEyman, Scott
Summary: "A revelatory biography of the enduringly popular John Wayne that draws on more than 100 interviews as well as exclusive access to the files of Wayne's film production company to answer the question why he became and remains an iconic American figure"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WAYNE, JOHN EYMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Entertain WayneRipa, Kelly
Summary: "A sharp, funny, and honest collection of real-life stories from Kelly Ripa, showing the many dimensions and crackling wit of the beloved daytime talk show host"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RIPCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RIPA, KELLY RIPCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio RipaPorter, Billy
Summary: It's easy to be yourself when who and what you are is in vogue. But growing up Black and gay in America has never been easy. Actor and survivor Billy Porter shares his life story in his own words.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 PORTER, BILLY PORCarlin, Kelly
Summary: "Truly the voice of a generation, George Carlin gave the world some of the most hysterical and iconic comedy routines of the last fifty years. From the "Seven Dirty Words" to "A Place for My Stuff," to "Religion is Bullshit," he perfected the art of making audiences double over with laughter while simultaneously making people wake up to the realities (and insanities) of life in the twentieth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARLIN, KELLY CARAlda, Arlene
Summary: The vivid oral histories in Arlene Alda’s Just Kids from the Bronx reveal what it was like to grow up in the place that bred the influencers in just about every field of endeavor today. The Bronx is where Michael Kay, the New York Yankees’ play-by-play broadcaster, first experienced baseball, where J. Crew’s CEO Millard (Mickey) Drexler found his ambition, where Neil deGrasse Tyson and Dava...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 ALDKlein, Jessi
Summary: "YOU'LL GROW OUT OF IT hilariously, and candidly, explores the journey of the twenty-first century woman. As both a tomboy and a late bloomer, comedian Jessi Klein grew up feeling more like an outsider than a participant in the rites of modern femininity. In YOU'LL GROW OUT OF IT, Klein offers-through an incisive collection of real-life stories-a relentlessly funny yet poignant take on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KLEIN, JESSI KLEPhillips, Stevie
Summary: "No star burned more ferociously than Judy Garland. And nobody witnessed Garland's fierce talent at closer range than Stevie Phillips. During the Mad Men era, Stevie Philips was a young woman muscling her way into the manscape of Manhattan's glittering office towers. After a stint as a secretary, she began working for Freddie Fields and David Begelman at Music Corporation of America (MCA) under...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PHILLIPS, STEVIE PHIHoward, Ron
Summary: Ron and Clint Howard examine their childhoods in detail and reveal a tight four-person family unit that helped the brothers survive "child-actor syndrome" to become fulfilled adults.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 920 HOWKaran, Donna
Summary: A personal, provocative memoir by the iconic designer includes candid stories about her difficult and isolated childhood, her nearly five-decade career in the fashion industry, her two marriages, her children, and her spiritual life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KARAN, DONNA KARLakshmi, Padma.
Summary: Television personality Padma Lakshmi examines "her journey from [a humble family kitchen], led by ferocious and unforgettable women, to the judges' table of Top Chef and beyond. It chronicles the fierce devotion of the remarkable people who shaped her along the way, from her headstrong mother who flouted conservative Indian convention to make a life in New York, to her Brahmin grandfather--a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B LAKSHMI LAKCohen, 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 COHDowling, Robert M.
Summary: "A major new biography of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright whose brilliantly original plays revolutionized American theater"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 O'NEILL, EUGENE DOWFisher, Joely
Summary: Actress Joely Fisher shares her unconventional coming-of-age and stories of the family members and costars dearest to her heart, while stripping bare her own misadventures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017