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Summary: The author explains how her love for the outdoors--and her journeys to natural landscapes in Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming and Alaska--became her only source of redemption after suffering sexual abuse from her stepfather for more than six years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROSS, TRACY ROSSKobabe, Maia
Summary: "In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 KOBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KOBOllestad, Norman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Survival OllestadHitchens, Christopher.
Summary: "The life story of one of the most admired and controversial public intellectuals of our time"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HITCHENS, CHRISTOPHER HITGreenfeld, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GREENFELD, KARL TAROGREGilbert, Elizabeth
Summary: Picking up where her bestselling memoir "Eat, Pray, Love" left off, Gilbert details the extraordinary circumstances that surround her love with Felipe, the man she swore never to marry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.81 GILCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GILBERT, ELIZABETH GILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation GilbertKennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore)
Summary: In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, elected to the Senate in 1962 tells his extraordinary personal story--of his legendary family, politics, and fifty years at the center of national events. He discusses his distinguished career, his relationships with his brothers John and Robert Kennedy, and the tragedies that have befallen his family over the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 KENNEDY, EDWARD KennedyCaldwell, Gail
Summary: In this gorgeous, moving memoir, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Caldwell reflects on her own coming-of-age in midlife, as she learns to open herself to the power and healing of sharing her life with a best friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 070.92 CALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CALDWELL, GAIL CALVincent, Norah.
Summary: From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Self-Made Man" comes this eye-opening, emotionally wrenching, and at time very funny work that exposes the state of mental healthcare in America from the inside out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: B Vincent VinMcClure, Tori Murden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collins 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCCLURE, TORI MCCClegg, Bill.
Summary: In this stark memoir, a follow-up to Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man, literary agent and author Clegg describes his struggle to stay clean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: R to R CleggScott-Heron, Gil
Summary: A personal account by the late musician and poet traces the story of his life, career, and history-making 1981 tour at the side of Stevie Wonder to raise support for the establishment of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCOTT-HERON, GIL SCOFeiffer, Jules.
Summary: The award-winning cartoonist, playwright, and author delivers a witty, illustrated rendition of his life, from his childhood as a wimpy kid in the Bronx to his legendary career in the arts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FEIFFER, JULES FEIPowell, Julie.
Summary: Her marriage challenged by an insane, irresistible love affair, Julie decides to leave town and immerse herself in a new obsession: butchery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.5 POWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POWELL, JULIE POWClegg, Bill.
Summary: The author chronicles the dark secret life he led when, despite building for himself a respectable career as a literary agent, he embraced crack cocaine; went on a two-month binge; and lost his job, his home, and all his money.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: R to R CleggGarner, James.
Summary: The revered actor and quintessential self-made man recalls "trying to decipher" William Wyler with Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine, breaking Doris Day's ribs, having a "heart-to-heart and eyeball-to-eyeball" with Steve McQueen, being "a card-carrying liberal--and proud of it," and much more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2011
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Summary: The four-decade star of "All My Children" offers behind-the-scenes stories from the show and discusses the joys and heartaches of her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: !t Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LUCCI, SUSAN LUCWang, Dora.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610 WANDruckerman, Pamela
Summary: Author Pamela Druckerman leads us on a quest for wisdom, self-knowledge and the right pair of pants. A witty dispatch from the front lines of the forties, There Are No Grown-ups is a (midlife) coming-of-age story, and a book for anyone trying to find their place in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DRUCKERMAN, PAMELA DRUGilbert-Lurie, Leslie.
Contents: In Mom's voice (1937-1960). Childhood, interrupted ; Stashik is coming ; Safe for the moment ; Where is God? ; Far from normal ; Good-bye, Urzejowice ; Una situazione molto grave ; A taste of freedom ; The greenhorns ; But we just got used to it here ; Utterly demoralized ; I might even marry him ; A wonderful mother -- My own voice (1960-1997). On my watch ; Bread crumbs ; Magical distractions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 GILKilmer-Purcell, Josh
Summary: "Michael Perry meets David Sedaris in this follow-up to Josh Kilmer-Purcell's beloved and bestselling debut memoir, I Am Not Myself These Days--another riotous, moving, and entirely unique story of his attempt to tackle the next phase of life with his partner on a goat farm in upstate New York"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KILMER-PURCELL, JOSH KILWelch, Diana.
Summary: The poignant, harrowing story of four siblings--Amanda, Liz, Dan, and Diana Welch--who despite their wrenching loss and subsequent separation, retained the resilience and humor that both their mother and father endowed them with--growing up as lost souls, taking disastrous turns along the way, but eventually coming out right side up and being together again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WELBourdain, Anthony.
Summary: Tracking his own strange and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-traveling professional eater and drinker, and even to fatherhood, Bourdain takes no prisoners as he dissects what he's seen, pausing along the way for a series of confessions, rants, investigations, and interrogations of some of the most controversial figures in food.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco Press 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.509 BOUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 BOUDeLucie, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2009