Mangano, Joy

Summary: The visionary entrepreneur and inventor shares an inspirational blueprint for promoting personal success and fulfillment, sharing stories from her childhood, family, and career experiences that illustrate how healthier perspectives can significantly improve one's life.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017

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Lingan, John

Summary: "The definitive biography of Creedence Clearwater Revival, exploring the band's legendary rise to fame and how their music embodied the cultural landscape of the late '60s and early '70s. From 1969 to 1971, as the United States convulsed with political upheaval and transformative social movements, no band was bigger than Creedence Clearwater Revival. They managed a two-year barrage of top-10...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Hannan, Bill.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 2004

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Kennedy, Pagan

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 1995

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Abouzeid, Rania

Summary: This astonishing book by the prize-winning journalist Rania Abouzeid tells the tragedy of the Syrian War through the dramatic stories of four young people seeking safety and freedom in a shattered country. Extending back to the first demonstrations of 2011, No Turning Back dissects the tangle of ideologies and allegiances that make up the Syrian conflict. As protests ignited in Daraa, some...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2018

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Raban, Jonathan.

Summary: Provides the writer's view of the British Isles and its people, including himself, during his voyage around his native land.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1987

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Raban, Jonathan.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1999

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Branigan, Tania

Summary: "'It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution,' Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on parents, students condemned teachers, and as many as two million people died for their supposed political sins, while tens of millions were hounded, ostracized, and imprisoned. Yet in China this...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023

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Raban, Jonathan

Summary: "A poignant memoir of recovery and reflection after a life-changing stroke, by a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023

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Raban, Jonathan.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1989

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Reagan, Michael

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Publisher / Publication Date: Zebra Books 1988

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Reagan, Ron.

Summary: In celebration of what would be President Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday, his son, Ron Reagan, honors his father's lasting legacy.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011

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Raban, Jonathan.

Summary: An account of life in American from a British perspective.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Edward Burlingame Books 1991

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Raban, Jonathan.

Summary: What does the "war on terror" and a new era of religious ferocity look like to an Englishman living in the Pacific Northwest? Jonathan Raban finds that as he reads the source texts that have inspired modern-day jihad, memories of his own rigidly fundamentalist adolescent atheism help him understand why young people suffering from cultural alienation, spiritual emptiness, and moral uncertainty...

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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review of Books 2005

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Fagan, Cary

Summary: "On May 10, 1940, the Nazi Army invaded Belgium, setting into motion the refugee story of Cary Fagan's father, Maurice. Maurice was only 12 at the time, and he and his family had no idea they would never again return to Brussels, the city of his birth. Instead, they would travel through France, Spain, and Portugal, running from war. Every time they thought they might be safe, Maurice would try...

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Publisher / Publication Date: OwlKids Books Inc. 2020

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Fagan, Kate

Summary: "Kate Fagan and her father forged their relationship on the basketball court, bonded by sweaty high fives and a dedication to the New York Knicks. But as Kate got older, her love of the sport and her closeness with her father grew complicated. The formerly inseparable pair drifted apart. The lessons that her father instilled in her about the game, and all her memories of sharing the court with...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021

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Fagan, Kate.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Jarrar, Randa

Summary: A gay, Muslim, overweight, Arab-American woman describes her road trip from California to Connecticut to reclaim her autonomy and explore everything she has survived in life, schooling a rest-stop racist and destroying Confederate flags in the desert along the way.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2021

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Reagan, Ron

Summary: The son of Ronald and Nancy Reagan presents an assessment of his father's life that features his childhood observations of the qualities that rendered the future fortieth president a powerful leader.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011

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Farrow, Ronan

Summary: In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered about: one of Hollywood's most powerful producers was a predator, protected by fear, wealth, and a conspiracy of silence. As Farrow drew closer to the truth, shadowy operatives, from high-priced lawyers to elite war-hardened spies, mounted a secret campaign of intimidation, threatening his career,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019

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Ameri, Anan

Summary: "Born to a Syrian mother and a Palestinian father in 1944, Anan Ameri'a refreshing memoir, The Scent of Jasmine, offers a funny, spirited, unique self-portrait of her childhood, adolescence and passage to adulthood as a young woman in an Arab world. A collection of twenty-three vignettes, Anan's search for the familiar fragrance of jasmine blossoms leads her to reimagine the puzzle pieces of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Branch Press, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group Inc. 2017

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Fagan, Kate

Summary: A sports journalist relates the story of Ivy League freshman and track star Maddy Holleran, who seemingly had it all and succeeded at everything she tried, but who secretly grappled with mental illness before taking her own life during the spring semester.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017

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Reagan, Ronald.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2003

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Reagan, Ronald.

Summary: During his two terms as the fortieth president of the United States, Ronald Reagan kept a daily diary in which he recorded, by hand, his innermost thoughts and observations on the extraordinary, the historic, and the routine day-to-day occurrences of his presidency. Whether he was in his White House residence study or aboard Air Force One, from his first inauguration to the end of the Cold War,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2007

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