Ball, Deborah.
Summary: The first book in English about the legendary designer, House of Versace shows how Gianni Versace, with his flamboyant sister Donatella at his side, combined his virtuosic talent and extraordinary ambition to almost single-handedly create the celebrity culture we take for granted today. Bringing together fashion, celebrity, business drama, jet-set lifestyles, and a notorious crime, this is an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2010
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Summary: "A look at genius, through portraits of 12 iconic figures in fields ranging from music to medicine, to explore what leads certain people to reach their creative heights early in life, whereas others don't uncover their potential until their later years"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Partners, LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.3 KALKalb, Bess
Summary: "A funny, warm, original memoir in which a grandmother speaks to her granddaughter from beyond the grave, telling, with candor and humor, stories from both their lives--of kinship, loyalty, tenacity, and love"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio KalbHall, Ron
Summary: The co-author relates how he was held under plantation-style slavery until he fled in the 1960s and suffered homelessness for an additional eighteen years before the wife of the other co-author, an art dealer accustomed to privilege, intervened.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem HallKalb, Claudia.
Summary: "Was Andy Warhol a hoarder? Did Einstein have autism? In this surprising and inventive look at the evolution of mental health, respected journalist Claudia Kalb gives readers a glimpse into the lives of high-profile historic figures through the lens of modern psychology, weaving groundbreaking research into biographical narratives that are deeply embedded in our culture. From Marilyn Monroe's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Books 2016
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Summary: The authors of "Same Kind of Different as Me" offer new reflections and stories of hope and healing, covering such topics as faith, friendship, community outreach, and much more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.8325 HALHarding, Debora
Summary: "For readers of Educated and The Glass Castle, a harrowing, redemptive and profoundly inspiring memoir of childhood trauma and its long reach into adulthood. One Omaha winter day in November 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knifepoint from a church parking lot. She was thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ransom, and then left to die as an ice storm descended...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARDING, DEBORA HARKalb, Marvin L.
Summary: "In the book Kalb captures the excitement of being present at the creation of a whole new way of bringing news immediately to the public. And what news. Cold War tensions were high between Eisenhower's America and Khrushchev's Soviet Union. Kalb is at the center, occupying a unique spot as a student of Russia tasked with explaining Moscow to Washington and the American public. He joins a cast...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brookings Institution Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KALB, MARVIN KALTelushkin, Dvorah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 839.133 SINGER, ISAAC TELPenn, Kal
Summary: "Kal Penn's unlikely career arc has taken him from nerdy American kid from an immigrant family in the New York suburb of Montclair, New Jersey, to world-famous actor, to White House staffer under President Obama, and back to actor again. Now, in You Can'tBe Serious, he reflects on the most ridiculous, offensive, and rewarding moments that have stood out during his journey. With intelligence,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PENN, KAL PENFelt, Hali.
Summary: "Until Marie Tharp's ground-breaking work in the 1950s, the floor of the ocean was a mystery--then, as now, we knew less about the ocean than we did about outer space. In a time when women in the scientific community were routinely dismissed, Marie's work changed our understanding of the earth's geologic evolution. While her partner, Bruce Heezen, went on expeditions to collect soundings...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THARP, MARIE FELThompson, Laurie Ann
Summary: Born in Ghana, West Africa, with one deformed leg, he was dismissed by most people--but not by his mother, who taught him to reach for his dreams. As a boy, Emmanuel hopped to school more than two miles each way, learned to play soccer, left home at age thirteen to provide for his family, and, eventually, became a cyclist. He rode an astonishing four hundred miles across Ghana in 2001,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 YEBKarbo, Karen.
Contents: The importance of being brash -- Strive to defy categorization -- The necessity of having an aviator in your life -- How to stick to your knitting -- The impracticality of marriage -- Making the most of a dysfunctional relationship -- Some thoughts on denial -- Fear management, the Hepburn way -- Thinking like a legend -- Twenty-two ways to get your Hepburn on.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEPBURN, KATHARINE KARKade, Rebecca.
Summary: Offers the author's accounts of her time as a highly paid prostitute, how she came to work for multimillion-dollar madam Anna Gristina, and how she became an informant against Gristina after being threatened with jail time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KADE, REBECCA KADBaker, Deborah
Summary: "John Auden was a pioneering geologist of the Himalaya. Michael Spender was the first to draw a detailed map of the North Face of Mount Everest. While their younger brothers--W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender--achieved literary fame, they vied to be included on an expedition that would deliver Everest's summit to an Englishman, a quest that had become a metaphor for Britain's struggle to maintain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BAKDwork, Deborah.
Summary: Discusses the legal and illegal ways that millions of Jews managed to leave Germany, the challenges they faced, and the diversity of the refugee experience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 DWOHopkinson, Deborah.
Summary: Introduces Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan, focusing on their relationship and interspersed with letters that Annie wrote home detailing Helen's early communication progress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2012
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Summary: "One hundred years ago, juvenile diabetes was a death sentence for millions of people around the world, most of them children. this book tells the story the discovery of insulin, a treatment for this disease and one of the most impactful milestones in medical science. Frederick Banting was a young doctor who was haunted by the memories of the diabetic children he'd treated at Toronto's Hospital...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books Inc. 2021
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Summary: Describes the life and accomplishments of the women's rights activist, from her youth to the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 PAUGelb, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 GELDigges, Deborah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 DIGHeiligman, Deborah.
Summary: Paul Erdos loved numbers and thought about them all the time. He became friends with other mathematicians all over the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2013
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Summary: John Adams didn't enjoy traveling. He much preferred to stay home with his wife and children. But John Adams also had a dream: He wanted to see the thirteen colonies free from English rule. He wanted to see the creation of a new country -- the United States of America. John Adams did whatever was needed to make his dream come true.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2005
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE HOPJowitt, Deborah
Summary: "In the pantheon of American modernists, few figures loom larger than Martha Graham. One of the greatest choreographers ever to live, Graham pioneered a revolutionary dance technique--primal, dynamic, and rooted in the emotional life of the body--that upended traditional vocabulary and shaped generations of dancers and choreographers across the globe. Over her sweeping career, she founded what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024