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LARGE TYPE 781.6 ROCK ZAUNER
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LARGE TYPE 781.6 ROCK ZAUNER
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"From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean-American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up the...
2) Becoming
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BIOGRAPHY OBAMA
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BIOGRAPHY OBAMA
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LARGE TYPE BIOGRAPHY OBAMA MICHELLE
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LARGE TYPE BIOGRAPHY OBAMA MICHELLE
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LARGE TYPE BIOGRAPHY OBAMA MICHELLE
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LARGE TYPE BIOGRAPHY OBAMA MICHELLE
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CD BIOGRAPHY OBAMA MICHELLE
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CD BIOGRAPHY OBAMA MICHELLE
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"An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States. When she was a little girl, Michelle Robinson's world was the South Side of Chicago, where she and her brother, Craig, shared a bedroom in their family's upstairs apartment and played catch in the park, and where her parents, Fraser and Marian Robinson, raised her to be outspoken and unafraid. But life soon took her much further afield, from the halls of Princeton,...
3) Finding me
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BIOGRAPHY DAVIS VIOLA
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BIOGRAPHY DAVIS VIOLA
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LARGE TYPE BIOGRAPHY DAVIS VIOLA
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CD BIOGRAPHY DAVIS VIOLA
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"In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life changing decision to stop running forever. This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and beyond. This is the path I took to finding my purpose and my strength, but also to finding my voice in a world that didn't always see me. As I wrote Finding Me, my eyes were open to the truth of how...
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In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles--as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror...
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LARGE TYPE BIOGRAPHY STRAYED CHERYL
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LARGE TYPE BIOGRAPHY STRAYED CHERYL
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At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State -- and to do it alone. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker, and the trail was little...
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CD 910.4 GILBERT
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CD 910.4 GILBERT
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In her early thirties, [the author] had everything a modern American woman was supposed to want - husband, country home, successful career - but instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she felt consumed by panic and confusion. This ... is the story of how she left behind all these outward marks of success, and of what she found in their place. Presents the memoir of a magazine writer's yearlong travels across the world in search of pleasure, guidance,...
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CD BIOGRAPHY TUCCI STANLEY
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CD BIOGRAPHY TUCCI STANLEY
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"From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen. Stanley Tucci grew up in an Italian American family that spent every night around the kitchen table. He shared the magic of those meals with us in The Tucci Cookbook and The Tucci Table, and now he takes us beyond the savory recipes and into the compelling stories behind them. Taste is a reflection on the intersection...
8) Greenlights
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BIOGRAPHY MCCONAUGHEY MATTHEW
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BIOGRAPHY MCCONAUGHEY MATTHEW
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CD BIOGRAPHY MCCONAUGHEY MATTHEW
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CD BIOGRAPHY MCCONAUGHEY MATTHEW
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"Drawing on the Academy Award-winning actor's journals and diaries from the last 40 years, this book presents a uniquely McConaughey approach to achieving success and satisfaction"--
"I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five." McConaughey sat down with those diaries. He found lessons he learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions,...
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BIOGRAPHY GROHL DAVID
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BIOGRAPHY GROHL DAVID
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Grohl offers an honest portrait of an extraordinary life made up of ordinary moments. From his deep connection to his hometown of Springfield, Virginia, to the awe he still feels about raising his daughters, he tells stories from his soul. Packed with reflections on touring with Scream, joining Nirvana and watching it all crumble, creating Foo Fighters when his life was at a crossroads, and now crisscrossing the world as a family man, Grohl introduces...
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LARGE TYPE BIOGRAPHY WESTOVER TARA
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LARGE TYPE BIOGRAPHY WESTOVER TARA
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LARGE TYPE BIOGRAPHY WESTOVER TARA
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CD BIOGRAPHY WESTOVER TARA
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Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse....
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BIOGRAPHY WARD JESMYN
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BIOGRAPHY WARD JESMYN
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"Jesmyn Ward's universally acclaimed memoir shines a light on the community she comes from, in the small town of DeLisle, Mississippi, a place of quiet beauty and fierce attachment. Here, in the space of four years, she lost five young men dear to her, including her beloved brother--to accidents, murder, and suicide. Their deaths were seemingly unconnected, yet their lives had been connected, by identity and place, and as Jesmyn dealt with these losses,...
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J BIOGRAPHY ACTIVISTS MALALA
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J BIOGRAPHY ACTIVISTS MALALA
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"I Am Malala. This is my story. Malala Yousafzai was only ten years old when the Taliban took control of her region. They said music was a crime. They said women weren't allowed to go to the market. They said girls couldn't go to school. Raised in a once-peaceful area of Pakistan transformed by terrorism, Malala was taught to stand up for what she believes. So she fought for her right to be educated. And on October 9, 2012, she nearly lost her life...
13) Untamed
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BIOGRAPHY DOYLE GLENNON
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BIOGRAPHY DOYLE GLENNON
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LARGE TYPE BIOGRAPHY DOYLE GLENNON
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LARGE TYPE BIOGRAPHY DOYLE GLENNON
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CD BIOGRAPHY DOYLE GLENNON
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"There is a voice of longing inside every woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good mothers, daughters, partners, employees, citizens, and friends. We believe all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We look at our lives, relationships, and world, and wonder: Wasn't it all supposed to be more beautiful than this? We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to...
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BIOGRAPHY ANGELOU MAYA
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BIOGRAPHY ANGELOU MAYA
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CD BIOGRAPHY ANGELOU MAYA
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Maya Angelou's autobiographical account of her childhood and early youth in 1930s America is an evocation of a black girl's struggle against her oppressors.
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155.937 CHOW
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155.937 CHOW
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After her mother dies unexpectedly of cancer, a Chinese American writer and journalist weaves together the story of the fallout of grief that follows her extended family as they emigrate from China and Hong Kong to Cuba and America.
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BIOGRAPHY TURNER DAWN
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BIOGRAPHY TURNER DAWN
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"They were three Black girls. Dawn, tall and studious; her sister, Kim, younger by three years and headstrong as they come; and her best friend, Debra, already prom-queen pretty by third grade. They bonded--fervently and intensely in that unique way of little girls--as they roamed the concrete landscape of Bronzeville, a historic neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, the destination of hundreds of thousands of Black folks who fled the ravages of the...
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BIOGRAPHY FORD ASHLEY
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BIOGRAPHY FORD ASHLEY
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LARGE TYPE BIOGRAPHY FORD ASHLEY
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"One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the ever looming absence of her incarcerated father and the path we must take to both honor and overcome our origins. For as long as she could remember, Ashley has put her father on a pedestal. Despite having only vague memories of seeing him face-to-face, she believes he's the only person in the entire world who...
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An Emmy Award-winning writer and activist describes the harrowing years she spent in early adulthood fighting leukemia and how she learned to live again while forging connections with other survivors of profound illness and suffering.
A few weeks shy of her twenty-third birthday, Jaouad received a diagnosis of leukemia, with a 35 percent chance of survival. She would spend much of the next four years in a hospital bed, fighting for her life and chronicling...