Kennedy, Robert Francis
Summary: The son and namesake of Robert F. Kennedy shares memories from his turbulent childhood, the lessons he learned from family mentors, and finding his calling as a passionate environmental activist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Luxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 KENNEDY, ROBERT F., JR. KENDoyle, Abby Badach
Summary: "To many people, a diary is like a trusted friend - somewhere to share their true (and sometimes secret) thoughts and feelings. In this book, explore more than 200 years of American history through the eyes of real people who lived through it... and, lucky for us, wrote about it, too! In this book, learn what makes diaries and autobiographies different, why they matter, and how to think...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 DOYChaudry, Rabia
Summary: "A memoir about food, body image, and growing up in a loving but sometimes oppressively concerned Pakistani immigrant family"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAUDRY, RABIA CHADeGeneres, Ellen.
Summary: The much-loved entertainer opens up about her personal life, her talk show, and joining the judges' table of American Idol.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 792.702 DEGENERES, ELLEN DegFriedman, Tova
Summary: Holocaust survivor Friedman recalls her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau as a young child in this heartrending memoir. Born in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland, in 1938, Friedman's first memories were of life in the Jewish ghetto. Suffering starvation, disease, and constant violence, she and her parents managed to survive several deportations and mass killings by the Gestapo. In autumn 1943,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Bio FriedmanBae, Kenneth
Summary: Driven by his passion to help the people of North Korea, Bae moves to neighboring China to lead guided tours into the secretive nation. Six years later, after eighteen successful excursions in and out of the country, Ken is suddenly stopped at the border: he inadvertently brought his hard drive, that reveals the true nature of his visits, to customs. He is arrested, brought to Pyongyang for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Publishing Group 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BAE, KENNETH BAEHaynes, 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 HAYStielstra, Megan
Summary: From an important new American writer comes this powerful collection of personal essays on fear, creativity, art, faith, academia, the Internet, and justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 STIWood, Annette.
Summary: In this fascinating biography, Annette Wood delves deep into Grandin's life from childhood to adulthood. Wood tells of the trials and tribulations of the icon: What difficulties Grandin struggled with and how she's become a hero for the autistic community. She also tells what Temple has done since the movie came out, where she is today, what kind of difference she's made, and what her future...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRANDIN, TEMPLE WOOSummary: "'Journeys' captures the quintessential idea of the American dream. The individuals in this book are only a part of the brilliant mosaic of people who came to this country and made it what it is today. Read about the governor's grandfathers who dug ditches and cleaned sewers, laying the groundwork for a budding nation; how a future cabinet secretary crossed the ocean at age eleven on a cargo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: RosettaBooks 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.873 TISArce, Julissa
Summary: "Julissa Arce explores her days in Mexico separated from her parents and her daily fears while growing up undocumented in Texas"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.4 ARCStone, Sly
Summary: "As the front man for the sixties pop-rock-funk band Sly and the Family Stone, a songwriter who created some of the most memorable anthems of the 1960s and 1970s ('Everyday People,' 'Family Affair'), and a performer who electrified audiences at Woodstock and elsewhere, Sly Stone’s influence on modern music and culture is indisputable. But as much as people know the music, the man remains a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AUWA Books, MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STONE, SLY STOHull, 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 HULKim, Eunsun
Summary: "Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the modern world. As a child Eunsun loved her country--despite her school field trips to public executions, daily self-criticism sessions, and the increasing gnaw of hunger as the country-wide famine escalated ... Her mother decided to escape North Korea with Eunsun and her sister, not knowing that they...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 KIM, EUNSUN KimMcNamara, Garrett
Summary: In this memoir, world record-holding and controversial Big Wave surfer Garrett McNamara chronicles his emotional quest to ride the most formidable waves on earth. Garrett McNamara affectionately known as GMac set the world record for the sport, surfing a seventy-eight-foot wave in Nazare, Portugal in 2011, a record he smashed two years later at the same break. Propelled by the challenge and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCNAMARA, GARRETT MCNMichaels, Patty
Summary: Snoopy writes a book about his younger days, but Charlie Brown has some corrections!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Anderson, Marian
Contents: Philadelphia childhood -- Life at grandmother's -- Branching out -- Shock -- Learning how -- Up and way down -- Home of our own -- Mother -- Contest -- Step up -- First trip to Europe -- Back to Europe -- Scandinavia -- Beyond Scandinavia -- Home again -- Russia -- Easter Sunday -- Songs I sing -- Notes on the voice -- On the road -- Good companions -- Highest and the lowest -- East and West --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANDERSON, MARIAN ANDBirkerts, Sven.
Summary: "In The Art of Time in Memoir, critic, editor, and memoirist Sven Birkerts examines the human impulse to write about the self. "Memoir is, for better and often for worse, the genre of our times," Birkerts writes. But what makes one memoir memorable and another self-serving? What determines the difference between graceful disclosure and sensational self-exposure? Birkerts argues that the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2008