Fink, Mitchell.
Summary: Former New York Daily News gossip columnist Fink made his livelihood reporting on celebrities' lives. Now, he reports on their deaths. John Lennon, Ted Williams, Lucille Ball, John Ritter, Warren Zevon: these are just a few of the fifteen larger-than-life celebrities whose final days are detailed here. Working with the cooperation of the stars' families and friends, all on the record, he has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FINWenner, Jann
Summary: "Rolling Stone founder, editor, and publisher Jann Wenner offers a memoir from the heart of the rock and roll generation: from the triumphs of the Beatles and the Stones to Bono and the Boss, from Burning Man to the White House. Jann Wenner has been called by his peers "the greatest editor of his generation." His deeply personal memoir brings you inside the music, the politics, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WENNER, JANN S. WENDidion, Joan.
Summary: ""Life changes fast. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends." These were among the first words Joan Didion wrote in January 2004. Her daughter was lying unconscious in an intensive care unit, a victim of pneumonia and septic shock. Her husband, John Gregory Dunne, was dead. The night before New Year's Eve, while they were sitting down to dinner, he suffered a massive and fatal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 813.54 DIDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DIDION, JOAN DIDKeenan, Sheila
Summary: When he was a young boy, John Fitzgerald Kennedy wondered about what happened in the world. He wanted to change the world when he grew up, and he did just that! --Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR BLUE KEEHarris, Duchess.
Summary: John Lewis is an influential African American politician who played a key role in the civil rights movement. He raised awareness of racial discrimination and violence in the 1960s. This book explores Lewis's activism and political career. Includes infographics and glossary. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB LEWIS HARSummary: Timed to coincide with the band's twenty-fifth anniversary, an inside portrait of Bon Jovi follows them on their 2008 Lost Highway tour, explores the history of the band, and discusses the band members' lives both at home and on the road.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collins Design 2009
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 782.42 BON JOVI BONSwartz, Mimi
Summary: "In Ticker, Texas Monthly executive editor and two-time National Magazine Award winner Mimi Swartz takes readers behind the scenes of perhaps the greatest medical and technological quest of our time, as she follows pioneering heart surgeon O.H. "Bud" Frazier and his partner, Dr. Billy Cohn, in Frazier's lifelong effort to develop, perfect, and successfully implant an artificial heart in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRAZIER, O. HOWARD SWAKuper, Simon
Summary: "With rare and unrivaled access, bestselling coauthor of Soccernomics and longtime Financial Times journalist Simon Kuper tells the story of how FC Barcelona became the most successful club in the world-and how that era is now ending"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.334 KUPKanefield, Teri
Summary: Describes the peaceful protest organized by teenager Barbara Rose Johns in order to secure a permanent building for her segregated high school in Virginia in 1951, and explains how her actions helped fuel the civil rights movement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB POWELL KANKohn, Howard.
Summary: A memoir of reconciliation between a man and his father as the son comes to terms with his father's farm in Saginaw Valley, Michigan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Books 1988
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.447 KOHMurphy, Cullen
Summary: A history of the cartoonists and illustrators from the Connecticut School, written by the son of the artist behind the popular strips "Prince Valiant" and "Big Ben Bolt," explores the achievements and pop-culture influence of these artists in the aftermath of World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MURPHY, JOHN CULLEN MURBader, Bonnie
Summary: "Through this engaging Who Was? biography, kids will discover the woman behind the sunglasses. Private and bookish, Jackie Kennedy found herself thrust into the world spotlight as the young and glamorous wife of the President John F. Kennedy. As First Lady she restored the once neglected rooms of the White House to their former glory, and through her charm and elegance became a style icon whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KENScieszka, Jon.
Summary: How did Jon Scieszka get so funny? He grew up as one of six brothers with Catholic school, lots of comic books, lazy summers at the lake with time to kill, babysitting misadventures, TV shows, and jokes told at family dinner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SCISchultz Nicholson, Lorna
Summary: "The biography of Canadian Joey Moss, a man born with Down syndrome who worked with the NHL Edmonton Oilers hockey team, and was an inspiration for neurodiverse people and an advocate for inclusivity"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCHCorey, Shana
Summary: "Acclaimed author Shana Corey and New York Times Best Illustrated artist R. Gregory Christie deliver a fresh look at Kennedy, underscoring the greatness and fallibility of our leaders and how each one of us, no matter who we are, have the power to make adifference. With quotes from JFK's speeches, detailed back matter, and a thought- provoking author's note, this biography offers a sensitive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NorthSouth 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KENAnderson, Joan
Summary: Shortly after deciding to spend a year apart from her husband, Anderson met Joan Erikson, wife of pioneering psychoanalyst Erik Erikson, on a foggy beach on Cape Cod. The two women were at different points in their lives but struck up a friendship that helped sustain them through the challenges they faced: marital uncertainty for Anderson; the decline and imminent death of a beloved spouse for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANDERSON, JOAN ANDMatthews, Chris
Summary: Based on interviews with some of his closest associates, a portrait of the thirty-fifth president discusses his privileged childhood, military service, struggles with a life-threatening disease, and career in politics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 KENNEDY, JOHN F. JR. MATNguyen, Viet Thanh
Summary: "The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwide. With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press,an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B NGUYEN NGULunden, Joan
Summary: "When former Good Morning America host Joan Lunden was diagnosed with breast cancer, she set out to learn everything about it to help her survive. With seven children counting on her, giving up was not an option. After announcing her diagnosis on Good Morning America, people all over the country rallied around Joan as she went into Warrior mode. Within a few months, after losing her hair, Joan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LUNDEN, JOAN LUNBrennan, Chrisann.
Summary: "An intimate look at the life of Steve Jobs by the mother of his first child and a complement to Walter Isaacson's biography, providing rare insight into Jobs's formative, lesser-known years. Steve Jobs was a remarkable man who wanted to unify the world through technology. For him, the point was to set people free with tools to explore their own unique creativity. Chrisann Brennan knows this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOBS, STEVE BREJovin, Ellen
Summary: When Jovin first walked outside her Manhattan apartment building and set up a folding table with a Grammar Table sign, it took about thirty seconds to get her first visitor. Everyone had a question for her. Jovin soon took it on the road, traveling across the US to answer questions from anyone who uses words in this world. Here she tackles what is most on people's minds, grammatically speaking:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428.2 JOVTackach, James.
Summary: Focuses on the trial of the abolitionist who was hanged for treason and murder following his attempt to capture a military arsenal and arm the slaves for revolt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7116 TackaBrinkley, Douglas
Summary: As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy's inspiring challenge, and America's race to the moon. On May 25, 1961, JFK made an astonishing announcement: his goal of putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade. In this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.4 BRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 629.40973 BRIBailey, Anthony
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1971