Bono
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2005
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 781.66 ASSBono
Summary: "Bono, artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2, has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he's lived, the challenges he's faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him. 'When I started to write this book, I was hoping to draw in detail what I'd previously only sketched in songs. The...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BONO BONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B BONO BONCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio BonoKennedy, Kostya
Summary: "True is a probing, richly-detailed, unique biography of Jackie Robinson, one of baseball's-and America's-most significant figures. For players, fans, managers, and executives, Jackie Robinson remains baseball's singular figure, the person who most profoundly extended, and continues to extend, the reach of the game. Beyond Ruth. Beyond Clemente. Beyond Aaron. Beyond the heroes of today. Now, a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROBINSON, JACKIE KENJones, Lolo
Summary: "Three-time Olympian Lolo Jones delivers a tough yet inspiring look into the strategies she has used to overcome immense obstacles on her way to becoming the number-one women's hurdler in the world"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2021
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 JONBodo, Peter.
Contents: All roads lead to antlers: Andes, New York, October 12, 2008 -- Blood trail to nowhere: East Arcade, New York, October 12-13 -- The milkweed factor: East Arcade, New York, October 13-14 -- Pancho and Lefty, reprieved: Delhi, New York, October 20 -- Gravity is a buzzkill: Andes, New York, October 22 -- The whitetail express: Great Falls, Montana, October 24-28 -- Lord of the plains: Rudyard,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.2765 BODSummary: In 2016, a new exhibit on the work of visionary director Guillermo del Toro will begin at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), before moving on to the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and the Minneapolis Museum of Art (MIA). This book will be the perfect accompaniment to the exhibition, which focuses on del Toro’s creative process, including the well-defined themes that he obsessively...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Insight Editions 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 GUIWillink, Jocko.
Summary: Jocko Willink and Leif Babin served together in SEAL Task Unit Bruiser, the most highly decorated Special Operations unit from the war in Iraq. Through difficult months of sustained combat, Jocko, Leif and their SEAL brothers learned that leadership -- at every level -- is the most important thing on the battlefield. They started Echelon Front to teach these same leadership principles to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Solo, Hope
Summary: The goalkeeper for the U.S. women's national soccer team reveals how she has repeatedly triumphed over adversity, from her childhood in Richland, Washington, to the realization of her dreams of being a world-class soccer player.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Bono, Chaz.
Summary: Transition is a deeply personal, honest, and ultimately triumphant story. It tells of the physical and emotional process that brought him to come out to the world for a second time and finally claim his life as the one he always wanted--as a man.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BONO, CHAZ BONWillink, Jocko
Summary: Jocko Willink and Leif Babin served together in SEAL Task Unit Bruiser, the most highly decorated Special Operations unit from the war in Iraq. Willink, the task unit commander, planned and executed the strategy for Task Unit Bruiser, which had huge impact in the 'Battle of Ramadi'. Babin, as commander of Charlie Platoon (one of two SEAL platoons in Task Unit Bruiser) led countless combat...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 303.3 WILWillink, Jocko
Summary: With their first book, Extreme Ownership (2015), Jocko Willink and Leif Babin challenged readers to become better leaders, better followers, and better people in both their professional and personal lives. Now, Jocko and Leif dive deeper into finding balance between the opposing forces that pull every leader in different directions. Mastering the Dichotomy of Leadership requires understanding...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Lester, Toby.
Contents: Awakening -- Old World. Matthew's maps ; Scourge of God ; The description of the world ; through the Ocean Sea ; Seeing is believing -- New World. Rediscovery ; Ptolemy the Wise ; the Florentine perspective ; Terrae incognitae ; Into African climes ; The learned men ; Cape of Storms ; Colombo ; The Admiral ; Christ-bearer ; Amerigo -- The whole world. Gymnasium ; World without end ; Afterworld...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 912.73 LESCoster, Theo.
Summary: "In 1941, Theo Coster was a student at the Amsterdam Jewish Lyceum, one in a class of 28 Jewish children that the Nazis had segregated from the rest of the Dutch population. Among Theo's fellow students was a young Anne Frank, whose diary would later become one of the most important documents of the Holocaust. In this remarkable group portrait, Coster and five of his fellow classmates gather...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2011
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Brown-Nagin, Tomiko
Summary: This biography of the first black woman to argue a case in front of the Supreme Court examines how she played a critical role in vanquishing Jim Crow laws throughout the South.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOTLEY, CONSTANCE BAKER BROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B MOTLEY BROToll, Ian W.
Summary: "The final volume of the magisterial Pacific War Trilogy from acclaimed historian Ian W. Toll, "one of the great storytellers of war" (Evan Thomas). Twilight of the Gods is a riveting account of the harrowing last year of World War II in the Pacific, whenthe U.S. Navy won the largest naval battle in history; Douglas MacArthur made good his pledge to return to the Philippines; waves of kamikazes...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2020
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Berglund, Bruce R.
Summary: "In January 1925, many people in Nome, Alaska, and the surrounding area were sick and dying from an outbreak of diphtheria. A supply of medicine was found but there was one problem-it was hundreds of miles away. The only way to get it to Nome was by dogsled. Ride along with the heroic sled dog Togo and his owner, Leonhard Sepalla, as they make a dangerous journey across Alaska's unforgiving...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.73 BERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J636.73 BERParish, Theo
Summary: "In this intimate and defiantly hopeful graphic novel memoir, the author shares their journey to find a home within themself, taking readers through the experiences and everyday moments that all led up to them finding the term "nonbinary," which finally struck a chord.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC PARGreenfeld, Karl Taro
Summary: A brother of an autistic child profiled in the trilogy that began with A Boy Called Noah describes the challenges he faced growing up in his brother's shadow, in an account that interweaves the social history of autism and its related research with the author's sideline experiences in childhood and adulthood.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GREENFELD, KARL TAROGRERomo Edelman, Claudia
Summary: From a girl who loved performing for her family in Texas to one of "Time" magazine's most influential people, Selena Gomez is an emblem of her generation whose empathy and courage have guided her throughout her career.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GOMRomo Edelman, Claudia
Summary: "Meet the Queen of Salsa, Celia Cruz-once just a girl from Havana, Cuba, who loved to sing. Her soulful voice, compelling charm, and unstoppable determination led to her meteoric rise to fame, opening the door for Latinx performers everywhere. Her booming career took her from the Sonora Matancera to the Fania All-Stars, with the rising popularity of salsa, a genre born of Afro-Cuban musical...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CRURomo Edelman, Claudia
Summary: "Meet Puerto Rican Baseball Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente-once just a kid from Carolina, Puerto Rico, who loved to play baseball on the streets of his hometown with friends and family. As a right fielder, Roberto played eighteen seasons with Major League Baseball, but his life was tragically cut short when a plane he chartered to bring earthquake relief supplies to Nicaragua crashed. The first...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CLELester, Toby.
Summary: Recounts the intellectual journey behind the creation of Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man and how the drawing represents the momentous period in Western history when the Middle Ages gave way to the Renaissance.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEONARDO DA VINCI LesterFrattino, Andre R.
Summary: "Tells the true story of Iva Toguri, a Japanese American woman who was visiting relatives in Tokyo shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Trapped in Japan, Iva was pressed to renounce her American citizenship, but refused. As war raged across the Pacific, she took a job with Radio Tokyo-where she was forced to host "Zero Hour," a propaganda show aimed at demoralizing American troops-in the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TOGURI, IVA FRAJensen, Toni
Summary: "A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author's encounters with gun violence--for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Terese Marie Mailhot. Toni Jensen grew up in the Midwest around guns:As a girl, she learned how to shoot birds with her father, a card-carrying member of the NRA. As an adult, she's had guns waved in her face in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020