Gorani, Hala
Summary: "Emmy Award-winning international journalist Hala Gorani weaves stories from her time as a globe-trotting correspondent and anchor with her own lifelong search for identity as the daughter of Syrian immigrants. What is it like to have no clear identity in a world full of labels? How can people find a sense of belonging when they have never felt part of a "tribe?" And how does a blonde-haired,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2024
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Summary: Foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness Fiona Hill reveals how declining opportunity has set America on the grim path of modern Russia--and shows how we can return hope to our forgotten places. In this deeply personal account, she shares what she has learned, and explains that only by expanding opportunity can we save our democracy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: In this deeply personal memoir, the ultimate It Girl shares, for the first time, the hidden history that traumatized and defined her and how she rose above a series of heart-wrenching challenges to find healing, lasting love, and a life of meaning and purpose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HILTON, PARIS HILHill, Jemele
Summary: "An empowering, unabashedly bold memoir by the Atlantic journalist and former ESPN SportsCenter co-anchor about overcoming a legacy of pain and forging a new path, no matter how uphill life's battles might be"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio HillHill, Clint
Summary: "Sparked by long-forgotten gifts and memorabilia discovered in an old trunk, the now ninety-year-old Hill reminisces about private moments, shared laughs, and crazy adventures with one of the world's most iconic women during her time as First Lady and the excruciating year following the assassination of her husband. After all, he notes that "when you travel with someone...you experience things...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2022
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Summary: The remarkable story of a couple who came together during the civil rights movement and made fighting for equality and civil and workers' rights their purpose for more than sixty years, overcoming adversity--with the strength of their love and commitment--to bring about meaningful change. "A chronicle of lives of unwavering dedication. Now in their 80s, labor and civil rights activists Norman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regalo Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 HILHill, Grant
Summary: "The full, frank story of a remarkable life's journey-to the pinnacle of success as a basketball player, icon, and entrepreneur, to the depths of personal trauma and back, to a place of flourishing and peace-made possible above all by a family's love"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B HILL HILGill, Charlotte
Summary: "An award-winning writer retraces her dysfunctional, biracial, globe-trotting family's journey as she reckons with ethnicity and belonging, diversity and race, and the complexities of life within a multicultural household. Charlotte Gill's father is Indian. Her mother is English. They meet in 1960's London when the world is not quite ready for interracial love. Their union, a revolutionary act,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GILL, CHARLOTTE GILHeat Moon, William Least
Summary: Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads. William Least-Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map--if they get on at all--only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill: Remote, Oregon; Simplicity,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.304 HEAHill, James Tate
Summary: "A writer's humorous and often-heartbreaking tale of losing his sight-and how he hid it from the world. At age sixteen, James Tate Hill was diagnosed with Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy, a condition that left him legally blind. After high school friends stopped calling and a disability counselor advised him to aim for Cs in his classes, Hill used his remaining blurry peripheral vision to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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Summary: "An electrifying debut memoir of a pastor's son chronicling his loss of faith, his addiction to heroin and our universal quest to find something to believe in"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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Summary: "When veteran war reporter Benjamin Hall woke up in Kyiv on the morning of March 14, 2022, he had no idea that, within hours, Russian bombs would nearly end his life. This is the story of how he survived--a story that continues to this day. For the first time, Hall shares his experience in full--from his ground-level view of the war to his dramatic rescue to his arduous, and ongoing, recovery....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: In February 2008, Bill Walton, after climbing to the top of every mountain he ever tried, suffered a catastrophic spinal collapse--the culmination of a lifetime of injuries--that left him in excruciating, debilitating, and unrelenting pain. Unable to walk, he underwent pioneering surgery and slowly recovered. The ordeal tested Walton to the fullest, but with extraordinary determination and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B WALTON WALOates, John.
Summary: "John Oates was born at the perfect time, paralleling the birth of rock and roll. Raised in a small Pennsylvania town, he was exposed to folk, blues, soul, and R & B. After he met and teamed up with Daryl Hall in the late 1960s, they developed a style of music that was uniquely their own, but never abandoned their roots. In his memoir, John uncovers the grit and struggle it took to secure a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OATES, JOHN OATGriffeth, Bill (William C.)
Summary: "In his 2016 best-seller, 'The Stranger in My Genes: A Memoir,' Bill Griffeth told of learning that the father who raised him was not, in fact, his biological father. In this sequel, Bill continues his journey to learn about his newly discovered biological family and shares some of the dramatic stories strangers and friends told him about their own shocking DNA discoveries..."--Inside jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRIFFETH, BILL GRIRonstadt, Linda
Summary: "Feels Like Home is a love letter to Ronstadt's Mexican American roots. It tells of her coming of age in the world between Tucson and the Rio Sonora region of northern Mexico, presented through stories, photographs, and recipes"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heyday 2022