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Summary: "In late 2004, Vivian Chong's life was changed forever when a rare skin disease, TEN (Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis), left her with scar tissue that would eventually blind her. As she was losing her sight, she put down as many drawings on paper as she could to document the experience. In Dancing After TEN, Chong teams up with cartoonist Georgia Webber -- whose graphic autobiography, Dumb,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2020
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Summary: Traces an idyllic French honeymoon trip while sharing lighthearted tips and advice on how to thrive as a traveler, in a book with hundreds of watercolor and line illustrations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944 SWICash, Vivian
Summary: A memoir by the iconic musical artist's first wife covers a wide range of topics, from Cash's struggles with drug addiction and his tenacious family relationships to his divorce from the author and the inspirations for his most famous songs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CASH, VIVIAN CASGornick, Vivian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GORNICK, VIVIAN GORGornick, Vivian.
Summary: "A memoir of self-discovery and the dilemma of connection in our time, The Odd Woman and the City explores the rhythms, chance encounters, and ever-changing friendships of urban life that forge the sensibility of a fiercely independent woman who has lived out her conflicts, not her fantasies, in a city (New York) that has done the same." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GORNICK, VIVIAN GORGornick, Vivian
Summary: "A series of essays exploring the different books that shaped Gornick throughout her life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.92 GORWinfrey, Oprah.
Summary: "After film critic Gene Siskel asked her, "What do you know for sure?" Oprah Winfrey began writing the "What I Know For Sure" column in O, The Oprah Magazine. Saying that the question offered her a way to take "stock of her life," Oprah has penned one column a month over the last fourteen years, years in which she retired The Oprah Winfrey Show (the highest-rated program of its kind in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 WINCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Self-help WinfreyGoldman, 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 GOLForrester, Viviane.
Summary: Winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt award for biography, this remarkable portrait sheds new light on Virginia Woolf's relationships with her family and friends and how they shaped her work. Forrester's biography draws on revelations about the author that often remain buried and carefully applies them to a narrative of her development and influence. Virginia Woolf: A Portrait blends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WOOLF, VIRGINIA WOOKirkfield, Vivian
Summary: Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe. On the outside, you couldn't find two girls who looked more different. But on the inside, they were alike--full of hopes and dreams and plans of what might be. Ella Fitzgerald's velvety tones and shube-doobie-doos captivated audiences. Jazz greats like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington couldn't wait to share the stage with her, but still, Ella could not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: little bee books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 KIRThomas, 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 THOFry, Varian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Johnson Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 FRYJohnson, Varian
Summary: Introduces the Negro Leagues of baseball, highlighting the players, coaches, owners, and teams that dominated the leagues during the 1930s and 1940s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2019
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Summary: "The story of how a young Southern girl who was raised on a pig farm became one of the most influential and inspiring people in the world. We all know Oprah Winfrey as a talk-show host, actress, producer, media mogul, and philanthropist, but the "Queen ofTalk" wasn't always so fortunate. She suffered through a rough childhood and went on to use her personal struggles as motivation. Oprah's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WINWatson, Renee
Summary: "A biography of Oprah Winfrey, part of the She Persisted chapter book series"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WINAhmedi, Farah.
Summary: Ahmedi was born just as the war between the mujahideen and the Soviets reaches its peak in Afghanistan. The sounds of gunfire and fighter planes were as normal to her as the sounds of traffic or children playing are to a schoolgirl in America. When she stepped on a land mine on her way to school, she began to learn--slowly--that ordinary people, often strangers, have immense power to save lives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AHMEDI, FARAH AHMFarah, Douglas.
Summary: What do the Taliban, Liberian war criminal Charles Taylor, and the U.S. government have in common? They have all done business with the man who put the "blood" in blood diamonds--an immensely wealthy and powerful arms dealer who has flooded Africa and Southwest Asia with weapons of war. Here, two respected journalists tell the story of Viktor Bout, the Russian weapons supplier whose global...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.133 FARMeltzer, Brad
Summary: "This picture book biography focuses on critically acclaimed talk show host Oprah Winfrey, who used her struggles in childhood as motivation to become "Queen of All Media.""--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: J Bio I am WinfreyJackson, Livia Bitton.
Contents: A hazardous mission -- On the way to Europe -- Ari -- Vienna -- Crossing the Iron Curtain -- The escape -- The bridge -- The Danube -- Bratislava -- The bribe -- The drive -- The beginning of the end -- Buying favors -- Louis the Madman of Samorin -- A divine miracle at the Burial Authority -- The phantom -- The chairman -- Penetrating the jungle -- The house in Samorin -- Papa's castle -- Gone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.73 BITTON-JAKCSON, LIV BITDevonshire, 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 Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DEVONSHIRE, DEBORAH VIVIEN MITCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B MITFORD MITFarah, Boyah J.
Summary: A searing memoir of American racism from a Somalian-American who survived hardships in his birth country only to experience firsthand the dehumanization of Blacks in his adopted land, the United States."No one told me about America." Born in Somalia and raised in a valley among nomads, Boyah Farah grew up with a code of male bravado that helped him survive deprivation, disease, and civil war....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FARAH, BOYAH FARGriffin, Farah Jasmine.
Summary: Unravels the myths surrounding Billie Holiday and presents her as a dedicated artist who struggled with her own addictions and suffering to succeed as a singer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.65 GRIMark, Sabrina Orah
Summary: "The literary tradition of the fairy tale has long endured as the vehicle by which we interrogate the laws of reality. These fantastical stories, populated with wolves, kings, and wicked witches, have throughout history served as a template for understanding culture, society, and that muddy terrain we call our collective human psyche. In Happily, Sabrina Orah Mark reimagines the modern fairy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARK, SABRINA ORAH MARGriffin, Farah Jasmine
Summary: ""A masterpiece. . . . Farah Jasmine Griffin's magical words enchant and empower us like those of her towering heroes." -Cornel West. Farah Jasmine Griffin's beloved father died when she was nine, bequeathing her an unparalleled inheritance in closets full of remarkable books and other records of Black genius. In Read Until You understand-a line from a note he wrote to her-she shares a lifetime...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021