Idle, Eric
Summary: Idle reflects on the meaning of his own life in a memoir that takes us on a journey from his childhood in an austere boarding school through his successful career in comedy, television, theater, and film. With anecdotes sprinkled throughout involving close friends and luminaries, he captures a time of tremendous creative output with equal parts hilarity and heart. The year 2019 marks the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 IDLE, ERIC IDLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B IDLE IDLFelton, Tom
Summary: From the magical moments on set as Draco Malfoy to the challenges of growing up in the spotlight, get a backstage pass into Tom Felton's life on and off the big screen. Tom Felton's adolescence was anything but ordinary. His early rise to fame in beloved films like The Borrowers catapulted him into the limelight, but nothing could prepare him for what was to come after he landed the iconic role...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FELCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FELTON, TOM FELKhan, 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 KHACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KHAN, SABBA KHAPope, Rob
Summary: "Becoming Forrest is the incredible story of Englishman Rob Pope, a veterinarian who left his job in pursuit of a dream - to become the first person ever to complete the epic run undertaken by one of Hollywood's most beloved characters, Forrest Gump. After his momma urged him "to do one thing in life that made a difference", he flew to Alabama, put on his running shoes, and sped off into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperNorth 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POPE, ROB POPLynch, Evanna
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 LYNHarry
Summary: "It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow--and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling--and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. With its raw,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B PRINCE HARRY HARHewitt, Seán
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 HEWAitkenhead, Decca
Summary: "A beautifully written, breathtakingly honest, unsentimental, and profound memoir from one of the UK's most popular journalists. On a hot, still morning on a beautiful beach in Jamaica, Decca Aitkenhead's life changed forever. Her four-year-old son was paddling peacefully at the water's edge when a wave pulled him out to sea. Her partner, Tony, swam out and saved their son's life--then drowned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AITKENHEAD, DECCA AITAndrews, Julie
Summary: In this follow-up to her critically acclaimed and bestselling memoir Home, the enchanting Julie Andrews picks up her story with her arrival in Hollywood, sharing the career highlights, personal experiences, and reflections behind her astonishing career, including such classics as Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, Victor/Victoria and many others. Not only does she detail her work in now-classic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 ANDREWS, JULIE ANDPark, Jihyun
Summary: The harrowing story of a woman who escaped famine and terror in North Korea, not once but twice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperNorth 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PARK, JIHYUN PARWhiteman, Medina Tenour
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 WHIGornall, Jonathan
Summary: "Once an essential skill, the ability to build a clinker boat, first innovated by the Vikings, can seem incomprehensible today. Yet it was the clinker, with its overlapping planks, that afforded us access to the oceans, and its construction has become a lost art that calls to the do-it-yourselfer in all of us. John Gornall heard the call. A thoroughly unskilled modern man, Gornall set out to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Publishing 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 GORNALL, JONATHAN GORHarry
Summary: It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mothers coffin as the world watched in sorrow--and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling--and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. With its raw,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "A moving, laugh-out-loud memoir from one of today's best-loved British actors, whose credits include Downton Abbey, Notting Hill, and Paddington. From getting his big break as Third Shepherd in the school nativity play, to navigating Highclere Castle's complex Labrador policies, to bizarre Hollywood encounters, Hugh Bonneville creates a brilliantly vivid picture of a career on stage and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BONNEVILLE, HUGH BONFelton, Tom
Summary: Tom Felton's adolescence was anything but ordinary. His early rise to fame in beloved films like The Borrowers catapulted him into the limelight, but nothing could prepare him for what was to come after he landed the iconic role of the Draco Malfoy, the bleached blonde villain of the Harry Potter movies. For the next ten years, he was at the center of a huge pop culture phenomenon and yet, in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 FELTON, TOM FELCarby, 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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Summary: "Birder, environmentalist and activist Mya-Rose Craig is an international force. In her moving memoir, Birdgirl, she chronicles her mother's struggle with mental illness, and shares her passion for social justice and fierce dedication to preserving our planet. Meet Mya-Rose - otherwise known as "Birdgirl." In her words: "Birdwatching has never felt like a hobby, or a pastime I can pick up and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CRAIG, MYA-ROSE CRABlack, Sue M.
Summary: "Sue Black confronts death every day. As Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses on mortal remains in her lab, at burial sites, at scenes of violence, murder and criminal dismemberment, and when investigating mass fatalities due to war, accident or natural disaster. In All That Remains she reveals the many faces of death she has come to know, using key cases to explore how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BLACK, SUE BLAJohn, Elton
Summary: An official autobiography by the influential music artist includes coverage of his complicated upbringing in a London suburb, his celebrity collaborations, his struggles with addiction, and the establishment of his AIDS Foundation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2019