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Summary: The former secretary of state relates her experiences as the first woman candidate nominated for president by a major party, discussing the sexism, criticism, and double standards she had to confront, and how she coped with a devastating loss.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: Known for her childhood role as Laura Ingalls Wilder on the classic NBC show Little House on the Prairie, Melissa Gilbert has spent nearly her entire life in Hollywood. From Dancing with the Stars to a turn in politics, she was always on the lookout for her next project. She just had no idea that her latest one would be completely life changing. When her husband introduces her to the wilds of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 GILBERT, MELISSA GILPerry, Matthew
Summary: Matthew Perry takes readers onto the soundstage of the most successful sitcom of all time while opening up about his private struggles with addiction.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Recalling pivotal moments from her dynamic career on the front lines of American diplomacy and foreign policy, Susan E. Rice, who served as National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, delivers an account of a life in service to family and country.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 RICE, SUSAN E. RICCouric, Katie
Summary: In this memoir, Katie Couric reveals what was going on behind the scenes of her sometimes tumultuous personal and professional life--a story she's never shared, until now.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 COURIC, KATIE COUHandler, Chelsea
Summary: In a haze of vape smoke on a rare windy night in L.A. in the fall of 2016, Chelsea Handler daydreams about what life will be like with a woman in the White House. And then Donald Trump happens. In a torpor of despair, she decides that she's had enough of the privileged bubble she's lived in--a bubble within a bubble--and that it's time to make some changes, both in her personal life and in the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 HANDLER, CHELSEA HANIdle, Eric
Summary: From the ingenious comic performer, founding member of Monty Python, and creator of Spamalot, comes an absurdly funny memoir of unparalleled wit and heartfelt candor.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD B IDLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 921 IdleShannon, Molly
Summary: At age four, Molly Shannon lost her mother, baby sister, and cousin in a car accident. Held together by her father, she was raised in a house that would allow her to become a renowned comedic actress.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Constantly threatened with suicide by his over-protective mother, disillusioned by the father he worshiped, and abused by a demonic relative, Barry Sonnenfeld describes how he somehow went on to become one of Hollywood's most successful producers and directors.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 SONNENFELD, BARRY SONStone, Oliver
Summary: Oliver Stone spent years writing unproduced scripts before the international success of Platoon in 1986. Here, Stone recounts those formative years.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 STONE, OLIVER STOWalls, Jeannette.
Summary: Journalist Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary and their four children lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary painted...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 362.82 WALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 WALLS, JEANNETTE WALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD B WALLSLovato, Roberto
Summary: Roberto Lovato shares a timely and no-holds-barred tale of gang life, guerilla warfare, immigration, and intergenerational trauma.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: In this memoir, award-winning actress Viola Davis shares her story, in her own words, from her coming-of-age in Rhode Island to the present day.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 DAVIS VIOLA DAVFord, Ashley C.
Summary: Somebody's Daughter steps into the world of growing up a poor Black girl in Indiana with a family fragmented by incarceration, exploring how isolating and complex such a childhood can be. Through poverty, adolescence, and a fraught relationship with her mother, Ashley C. Ford wishes she could turn to her father for hope and encouragement. There are just a few problems: he's in prison, and she...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 FORD, ASHLEY C. FORLawson, Jenny
Summary: "As Jenny Lawson's hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken (in the best possible way), she explores her experimental treatment of transcranial magnetic stimulation with brutal honesty. But also with brutal humor: "People do different things to distract themselves during each treatment. I embroider. It feels fitting. I'm being magnetically stabbed in the head...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LAWSpears, Britney
Summary: In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice and her truth was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey and the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history. Written with remarkable...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: By revealing stories of his life, William Shatner reflects on what he has learned along the way to his ninth decade and how important it is to apply the joy of exploration to our own lives.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 921 SHAThrash, Maggie
Summary: All-girl camp. First love. First heartbreak. At once romantic and devastating, brutally honest and full of humor, this graphic novel memoir is a debut of the rarest sort.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dreamscape Media, LLC 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC THRKobabe, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2022