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Anecdotes. Autobiographies. bibliography Biographies. biography Biography. History. Nonfiction.Bisher, Patrick
Summary: Patrick Bisher’s career as a Navy SEAL should have ended after a parachuting accident nearly crippled him. But overcoming adversity, even an injury as serious as a broken hip, was nothing new for him. He’d spent a portion of his childhood in leg braces. Doctors told him he’d never walk again thanks to a degenerative hip condition. He wasn’t about to give up then, any more than he was in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Post Hill Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155 BISVilden, Lynx
Summary: "In this memoir, earth advocate chronicles her journey to reconnect with the earth, offering a model for how we all can nurture the wild around and inside ourselves. In 1991, twenty-four-year-old Lynx Vilden crawled out of a sweat lodge covered in mud, her face streaked with tears, and whispered a promise to the earth: "I will love you and cherish you, I will learn how to live and share what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VILDEN, LYNX VILViren, Sarah
Summary: "Sarah's story begins as she's researching what she believes will be a book about her high school philosophy teacher, a charismatic instructor who taught her and her classmates to question everything--in the end, even the reality of historical atrocities. As she digs into the effects of his teachings, her life takes a turn into the fantastical when her wife, Marta, is notified that she's been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VIREN, SARAH VIRGoldman, Vivien.
Contents: Send us another Brother Moses -- Don't worry 'bout a thing -- Walking creation road -- Jah people -- Smile Jamaica -- Never forget, no way -- So much things to say -- Exodus vibration -- Punk reggae party -- Exodus : the intro -- Exodus : a song cycle. Natural mystic ; So much things to say ; Guiltiness ; The heathen ; Exodus ; Jamming ; Waiting in vain ; Turn your lights down low ; Three...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.646 GOLRisen, James
Summary: Senator Frank Church of Idaho was an unlikely hero. He led congressional opposition to the Vietnam War and had become a scathing, radical critic of what he saw as American imperialism around the world. But he was still politically ambitious, privately yearning for acceptance from the foreign policy establishment that he hated and eager to run for president. Despite his flaws, Church would show...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B CHURCH RISEisen, Max
Summary: This autobiography of Canadian Max Eisen details the rural Hungarian deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau, back-breaking slave labour in Auschwitz I, the infamous 'death march' of January 1945, the painful aftermath of liberation, and a journey of physical and psychological healing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EISEN, MAX EISThomas, Vivien T.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pennsylvania Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617 THODe Visae, Daniel
Summary: "Riley King, ever to be known as B.B. (1925-2015), was born into deep poverty in Jim Crow Mississippi. Wrenched away from his sharecropper father, B.B. lost his mother at age ten, leaving him more or less alone. Music became his emancipation from exhausting toil in the fields. Inspired by a local minister's guitar and by the records of Blind Lemon Jefferson and T-Bone Walker, and encouraged by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KING, B.B. DE VShen, Ann
Summary: Shen profiles women of color who pushed the boundaries, rewrote the rules, and led the way for the women in the communities to follow in their footsteps. From the big screen to the halls of NASA; from the courts of the US OPen to the Supreme Court, these short (one- to three-page) articles will inspire you to embrace your authentic self and live your life in full color. -- adapted from back cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SHEShen, Ann.
Summary: "Bad Girls Throughout History features some of the fiercest women of all time - the famous, the infamous, and the ones you haven't even heard of yet. Explore the notable works, impressive feats, and striking portraits of these wild women from around the globe who challenged the status quo"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1247 VISFisher, Carrie
Summary: "Fisher's intimate and revealing recollection of what happened on one of the most famous film sets of all time--the first Star Wars movie--and what developed behind the scenes"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 FISHER, CARRIE FISFisher, Carrie.
Summary: The electro-convulsive shock therapy she's been regularly undergoing is threatening to wipe out (what's left of) Fisher's memory. This might even be a brand-new addiction for her. But before she can truly commit herself to it in the long term, she decided to get some of those more nagging memories of hers on paper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FISHER, CARRIE FISFisher, Carrie.
Summary: A memoir based on the author's one-woman show describes growing up with celebrity parents, her early success in "Star Wars," battle with addiction and mental illness, turbulent romances, role as a single mother, and struggle for recovery and healing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FISHER, CARRIE FISFisher, David
Summary: The American Revolution was not inevitable, nor was it a unanimous cause. It pitted neighbors against one another, as loyalists and colonial rebels faced off for their lives and futures. Through the remarkable lives of the first Americans, this book reveals the contentious arguments that turned friends into foes and the land into a war zone. From the riots over a child's murder that led to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US FisherFisher, David
Summary: How did Davy Crockett save President Jackson's life only to end up dying at the Alamo? Was the Lone Ranger based on a real lawman -- and was he African American? What amazing detective work led to the capture of Black Bart, the "gentleman bandit" and one of the West's most famous stagecoach robbers? Did Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid really die in a hail of bullets in South America?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: HistUS FisherFisher, Carrie
Summary: The Hollywood icon best known for her role in "Star Wars" shares interconnected essays exploring her life as the child of Hollywood royalty, adventures on the sets of "Star Wars," and struggles with bipolar disorder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio FisherFisher, Joely
Summary: Actress, director, and entertainer Joely Fisher invites readers backstage into the intimate world of her career and family with this hilarious, irreverent, down-to-earth memoir filled with incredible, candid stories about her life, her famous parents, and how the loss of her unlikely hero, sister Carrie Fisher, ignited the writer in her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 FISHER, JOELY FISFisher, Todd
Summary: In December 2016, the world was shaken by the sudden deaths of Carrie Fisher and her mother Debbie Reynolds, occurring less than 24 hours apart. Debbie's only remaining child, Todd Fisher, somehow retained his grace and composure under the glare of the media spotlight as he struggled with his own overwhelming grief. In My girls, Todd shares his heart and his memories of Debbie and Carrie with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Entertain FisherFisher, Todd
Summary: In December 2016, the world was shaken by the sudden deaths of Carrie Fisher and her mother Debbie Reynolds, occurring less than 24 hours apart. Debbie's only remaining child, Todd Fisher, somehow retained his grace and composure under the glare of the media spotlight as he struggled with his own grief. In this book, Todd shares his heart and his memories of Debbie and Carrie with personal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 FISFisher, Joely
Summary: "Actress, director, and entertainer Joely Fisher invites readers behind the curtain and into the intimate world of her career and family with this hilarious, irreverent, heartfelt memoir filled with candid and sometimes painful stories about her life, her famous parents, and how the loss of her sister and unlikely hero, Carrie Fisher, ignited the writer in her. Growing up in an iconic Hollywood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio FicherDevonshire, Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford Cavendish
Summary: Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously witty brood that includes the writers Jessica and Nancy, who wrote when Deborah was born, "How disgusting of the poor darling to go and be a girl." Deborah's effervescent memoir chronicles her remarkable life, from an eccentric but happy childhood in the Oxfordshire countryside, to tea with Adolf Hitler and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MITFORD MITFisher-Alaniz, Karen.
Summary: On his 81st birthday, without explanation, Karen Alaniz's father placed two weathered notebooks on her lap. Inside were more than 400 pages of letters he'd written to his parents during WWII. She began reading them, and the more she read, the more she discovered about the man she never knew and the secret role he played in WWII. With painful memories now at the forefront of his thoughts, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54867 FISHER, MURRAY WILLIAM ALAFine, Aubrey H.
Contents: Discoveries -- My life on the "ranch": just follow the yellow brick road home -- Giving from the Hart: becoming a comforter and a human builder -- Fending off loneliness -- Do you believe in magic? -- Giving and accepting a second chance -- Writing from the Hart: becoming a Cyrano de Bergerac -- One of life's lessons: carpe diem -- Remembering lifetimes -- Serendipity can lead to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Purdue University Press 2008