Cathcart Robbins, Laura
Summary: After years of hiding her addiction from everyone, Cathcart Robbins settled into a complicated purgatory. She learned the hard way that privilege doesn't protect you from pain. Facing divorce, the possibility of a grueling custody battle, and internalized racism, Robbins wondered just how much more she could take. Here she reveals how she managed to begin the long journey towards sobriety and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2023
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Summary: "The highly anticipated first book by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, the voices behind the #1 hit podcast My Favorite Murder! Sharing never-before-heard stories ranging from their struggles with depression, eating disorders, and addiction, Karen and Georgia irreverently recount their biggest mistakes and deepest fears, reflecting on the formative life events that shaped them into two of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult KilgariffPerkins, Nichole
Summary: "Pop culture is the Pandora's Box of our lives. Racism, wealth, poverty, beauty, inclusion, exclusion, and hope -- all of these intractable and unavoidable features course through the media we consume. Examining pop culture's impact on her life, Nichole Perkins takes readers on a rollicking trip through the last twenty years of music, media and the internet from the perspective of one southern...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PERKINS, NICHOLE PERDJ Envy
Summary: Gia and Raashaun Casey met when they were two teenagers living around the corner from each other in Queens. They have been together for an astounding twenty-five years and have remained together through RaaShaun's growing celebrity, a devastating cheating scandal, and the births of five children. Gia and Raashaun explore the entire chronology of their love story with vulnerability, honesty, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920 CASHinds, Patrick
Summary: "On paper, the chubby, poor, gay son of a lesbian who wrote pornographic letters to Jesus isn't the person that you think of when you hear the word "success." Yet Patrick Hinds has somehow managed to bungle his way through to become the successful co-host of True Crime Obsessed--a podcast with more than 200 million downloads. Before that, though, he failed at many, many things. Patrick's life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 HINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B HINDS HINOwens, Zibby
Summary: "Zibby Owens has become a well-known personality in the publishing world. Her infectious energy, tasteful authenticity, and smart, steadfast support of authors started in childhood, a precedent set by the profound effect books and libraries had on her own family. But after losing her closest friend on 9/11 and later becoming utterly stressed out and overwhelmed by motherhood, Zibby was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B OWENS OWEScheer, Paul
Summary: "From award-winning actor and comedian Paul Scheer, a candid and hilarious memoir-in-essays on coming to terms with childhood trauma and finding the joy in embracing your authentic self"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHEER, PAUL SCHAfualo, Drew
Summary: Drew Afualo is best known as the internet’s 'Crusader for Women' and is at the head of a new generation of entertainment’s rising stars, with more than nine million followers across her social platforms. She soon realized that men on social media were creating sexist content aimed at disparaging women, and also containing rampant fatphobia, racism, and other forms of bigotry with very real-life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AUWA Books / MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AFUALO, DREW AFUPellegrino, Danny
Summary: "Growing up in small-town Ohio isn't easy, particularly when you're a closeted gay kid surrounded by... no one openly gay. Luckily, Danny Pellegrino grew up in the '90s, coming of age when the internet opened up a whole new world for a curious kid itchingfor life outside of Midwest suburbia. Danny escaped the pains of growing up by submerging himself in a sea of pop culture-bingeing The Nanny...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PELLEGRINO, DANNY PELShafrir, Doree
Summary: "An honest, witty, and insightful memoir about what happens when your coming-of-age comes later than expected, from the co-host of the hit podcast Forever35. Doree Shafrir was one of Gawker's early hires and one of the first editors at BuzzFeed; at both sites, she authored countless viral articles. Just before she turned forty, she published her first novel, and one year later, she quit her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHAFRIR, DOREE SHAWallace, Carvell
Summary: "A lyrical meditation on healing-told through the lenses of justice, sex, love, family, and death-by journalist and podcaster Carvell Wallace"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WALLACE, CARVELL WALOakley, Tyler
Summary: Social rights advocate and prominent LGBTQ+ voice on YouTube, Tyler Oakley brings you his first collection of personal essays. For someone who made a career out of over-sharing on the Internet, Tyler has a shocking number of personal mishaps and shenanigans to reveal in his first book: experiencing a legitimate rage blackout in a Cheesecake Factory; negotiating a tense stand-off with a White...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 818 OAKMosley, Laci
Summary: "From an early age, comedian and actress Laci Mosley knew her path would be riddled with scams, cons, robberies, and frauds. Little ones. Ones that didn't hurt people or get her in trouble. But ones that would get her where she needed to be. "You see," she writes, "everyone's a scammer and everything's a scam. Some people are better at it than others, but we all do it. The system wasn't built...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press