Hiaasen, Carl
Summary: Hiaasen presents "The Graduation Speech You'll Never Hear," telling graduates (or new job-holders, or brides-and-grooms, or newly-released ex-convicts) the truth: you need to disregard the lame platitudes, keep disillusionment at bay, and assume that bad things will happen in life. Yes, life is a shit storm. No, you're not all doomed. And you might even survive with a sense of humor intact.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 HIASummary: "Graduation Moments is a collection of the best commencement speeches ever given and the best advice you'll ever hear on living life well, achieving your dream, guarding your integrity, serving your country, and finding true success. In addition, this collection features the wise insights of people like C. S. Lewis, Abraham Lincoln, Oswald Chambers, Charles H. Spurgeon, Thomas Merton, Evelyn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Honor Books 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 814 PRIContents: How to be hopeful / Barbara Kingsolver -- The love of learning / David McCullough -- Go forth unafraid / Molly Ivans -- The reach / Anna Deavere Smith -- Listen to your heart / Thomas L. Friedman -- "Be naked as often as possible": anthropological advice / Genevieve Bell -- You are not alone / Karen Tse -- The approach of danger / Ken Burns -- What the future will bring / Ray Kurzweil -- The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sellers Publishing 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Speech CreatingRowling, J. K.
Summary: In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a deeply affecting commencement speech at Harvard University. Now published for the first time in book form, VERY GOOD LIVES presents J.K. Rowling's words of wisdom for anyone at a turning point in life. How can we embrace failure? And how can we use our imagination to better both ourselves and others? Drawing from stories of her own post-graduate years, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 ROWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 170 ROWBush, Barbara
Summary: "Barbara Bush is one of America's most beloved first ladies, and one of only two in our history to be both the wife and mother of a president. Celebrated for her wit, candor, and ebullience, she was embraced on both sides of the political aisle. In the outpouring of national admiration and affection in the days following her death in the spring of 2018 at age ninety-two, many remembered the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 BUSVonnegut, Kurt.
Summary: "Chiefly consists of selected graduation speeches given by Vonnegut at various educational institutions"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014