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East Side Library - Biographies - Adult
B Rojas Contreras, I.
1 available
B Rojas Contreras, I.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - New Biographies - New Books
B Rojas Contreras, I.
1 available
B Rojas Contreras, I.
1 available
South Side Library - Biographies - Adult
B Rojas Contreras, I.
1 available
B Rojas Contreras, I.
1 available
Description
"For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in the Colombia of the 1980s and 1990s in a house where "what did you dream?" was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy and violence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move the clouds. As a young girl, Rojas Contreras eavesdropped...
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Central Library - Biographies - 2nd Floor
B Jaouad, S.
3 available
B Jaouad, S.
3 available
Forest Ave. Library - Biographies - Adult
B Jaouad, S.
1 available
B Jaouad, S.
1 available
South Side Library - Biographies - Adult
B Jaouad, S.
1 available
B Jaouad, S.
1 available
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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.
3) Becoming
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Central Library - Biographies - 2nd Floor
B Obama, M.
3 available
B Obama, M.
3 available
East Side Library - Biographies - Adult
B Obama, M.
1 available
B Obama, M.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Biographies - Adult
B Obama, M.
2 available
B Obama, M.
2 available
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Central Library - Audiobooks - 2nd Floor
B Obama, M.
2 available
B Obama, M.
2 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Central Library - Large Print Books - 1st Floor
B Obama, M.
2 available
B Obama, M.
2 available
East Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
B Obama, M.
1 available
B Obama, M.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
B Obama, M.
1 available
B Obama, M.
1 available
Description
"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 look her much further afield, from the halls of Princeton,...
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Central Library - Nonfiction - 2nd Floor
305.896 L
1 available
305.896 L
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Memoirs - Adult
305.896 L
1 available
305.896 L
1 available
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Central Library - Audiobooks - 2nd Floor
305.896 L
1 available
305.896 L
1 available
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Central Library - Large Print Books - 1st Floor
305.896 L
1 available
305.896 L
1 available
Description
In this stylish and complex memoir, Laymon, an English professor at the University of Mississippi and novelist (Long Division), presents bittersweet episodes of being a chubby outsider in 1980s Mississippi. He worships his long-suffering, resourceful grandmother, who loves the land her relatives farmed for generations and has resigned herself to the fact of commonplace bigotry. Laymon laces the memoir with clever, ironic observations about secrets,...
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East Side Library - Biographies - Adult
B Yousafzai, M.
1 available
B Yousafzai, M.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Memoirs - Adult
B Yousafzai, M.
1 available
B Yousafzai, M.
1 available
North Side Library - Biographies - Adult
B Yousafzai, M.
1 available
B Yousafzai, M.
1 available
Description
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from...
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North Side Library - Biographies - Adult
B Bourdain, A.
1 available
B Bourdain, A.
1 available
South Side Library - Biographies - Adult
B Bourdain, A.
1 available
B Bourdain, A.
1 available
Description
A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying out his more than a quarter-century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine - now with all-new, never-before-published material.
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Forest Ave. Library - Biographies - Adult
B Keys, A.
1 available
B Keys, A.
1 available
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"An intimate, revealing look at one artist's journey from self-censorship to full expression As one of the most celebrated musicians of our time, Alicia Keys has enraptured the nation with her heartfelt lyrics, extraordinary vocal range, and soul-stirring piano compositions. Yet away from the spotlight, Alicia has grappled with private heartache-over the challenging and complex relationship with her father, the people-pleasing nature that characterized...
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Central Library - Biographies - 2nd Floor
B Harjo, J.
1 available
B Harjo, J.
1 available
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A memoir from the Native American poet describes her youth with an abusive stepfather, becoming a single teen mom, and how she struggled to finally find inner peace and her creative voice.
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Central Library - Audiobooks - 2nd Floor
B Rhimes, S.
1 available
B Rhimes, S.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Audiobooks
B Rhimes, S.
1 available
B Rhimes, S.
1 available
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As the mega-talented creator of Grey's Anatomy and Scandal and executive producer of How to Get Away with Murder, and the single mom of three children, Shonda Rhimes had lots of good reasons to say NO when an unexpected invitation arrived. Hollywood party? No. Speaking engagement? No. Media appearances? No. The side benefit of saying No for an introvert like her: nothing new to fear. Then Shonda's sister laid down a challenge: just for one year, try...
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Central Library - Biographies - 2nd Floor
B Miller, C.
1 available
B Miller, C.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Biographies - Adult
B Miller, C.
1 available
B Miller, C.
1 available
North Side Library - Biographies - Adult
B Miller, C.
1 available
B Miller, C.
1 available
Description
"She was know to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford's campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on BuzzFeed, where it instantly went viral--viewed by almost eleven million people within four days, it was translated globally and read on the floor of Congress; it inspired changes in California law...
11) Untamed
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Central Library - Biographies - 2nd Floor
B Doyle, G.
1 available
B Doyle, G.
1 available
East Side Library - Biographies - Adult
B Doyle, G.
1 available
B Doyle, G.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Biographies - Adult
B Doyle, G.
1 available
B Doyle, G.
1 available
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Central Library - Audiobooks - 2nd Floor
B Doyle, G.
1 available
B Doyle, G.
1 available
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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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A young North Korean defector and activist describes her father's imprisonment by the regime of Kim Jong-Il, her enslavement in China, and her walk through the freezing Gobi Desert to freedom in South Korea.
13) The hiding place
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Central Library - Biographies - 2nd Floor
B Ten Boom, C.
1 available
B Ten Boom, C.
1 available
East Side Library - Biographies - Adult
B Ten Boom, C.
1 available
B Ten Boom, C.
1 available
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Central Library - Audiobooks - 2nd Floor
B Ten Boom, C.
1 available
B Ten Boom, C.
1 available
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Central Library - Large Print Books - 1st Floor
B Ten Boom, C.
1 available
B Ten Boom, C.
1 available
Description
"The incredible true story of Corrie ten Boom, and her faith in the face of evil, is now a visually stunning graphic novel for ages 8-12. Through more than 900 engaging, full-color panels, this real-life heroine comes to life-showing a new generation how even in the most desperate, loneliest, and darkest times, faith, hope, and love will ultimately triumph"--
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Central Library - Biographies - 2nd Floor
B Hudes, Q.
1 available
B Hudes, Q.
1 available
East Side Library - Biographies - Adult
B Hudes, Q.
1 available
B Hudes, Q.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Biographies - Adult
B Hudes, Q.
1 available
B Hudes, Q.
1 available
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East Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
B Hudes, Q.
1 available
B Hudes, Q.
1 available
Description
Quiara Alegria Hudes was the sharp-eyed girl on the stairs while her family danced in her grandmother's tight South Philly kitchen, "frizzy hair cut short, bangs teased into stiff clouds, sweat glistening in the summer fog, pamper-butt babies weaving between legs." Quiara was awed by her aunts and uncles and cousins, but haunted by the secrets of the family and the unspoken stories of the barrio -- even as she tried to find her own voice in the sea...
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East Side Library - Biographies - Adult
B Carlile, B.
1 available
B Carlile, B.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Biographies - Adult
B Carlile, B.
1 available
B Carlile, B.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Biographies - Adult
B Carlile, B.
1 available
B Carlile, B.
1 available
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1 copy, 6 people are on the wait list.
Description
In Broken Horses, Brandi Carlile takes readers through the events of her life that shaped her very raw art -- from her start at a local singing competition where she performed Elton John's "Honky Cat" in a bedazzled white polyester suit, to her first break opening for Dave Matthews Band, to many sleepless tours over fifteen years and six studio albums, all while raising two children with her wife, Catherine Shepherd. This hard-won success led her...