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Publisher
Knox Press, an imprint of Permuted Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"John Dalton's life is an inspirational American success story. At the Helm traces his journey from modest beginnings in Louisiana to traveling the world and working across private and public sectors and four presidential appointments all culminating in his appointment as the 70th Secretary of the Navy. As Secretary of the Department of the Navy, including both Navy and Marine Corps, Dalton had to weather the storm of the Tailhook controversy, navigate...
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Jake Keiser was living the life in Tampa, Florida, running a high-powered PR firm and juggling drink dates, shopping sprees, and charity galas. But at age thirty-eight, following a failed marriage, a series of miscarriages, and a still-blistering breakup, she began to suffer from extreme anxiety. Hit with the realization that no amount of Botox could fill the hole in her heart, she decided to make the impulse purchase of a lifetime. She bought a...
Author
Publisher
GoodKnight Books, an imprint of Paladin Communications
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
Hollywood historian and film reviewer Leonard Maltin invites readers to pull up a chair and listen as he tells stories, many of them hilarious, of 50+ years interacting with legendary movie stars, writers, directors, producers, and cartoonists. Maltin grew up in the first decade of television, immersing himself in TV programs and accessing 1930s and '40s movies hitting the small screen. His fan letters to admired performers led to unexpected correspondences,...
Author
Publisher
Red Hen Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The Weight of Ghosts is a circling of grief following the death of the author's older son when he was twenty-one, a horror that was compounded by her younger son's drug use, the country's slow eruption as it dealt with its own brokenness, and reckoning the author had to do regarding her own story. The Weight of Ghosts is a lyrical reclaiming and an insistence by the author that she own the rights to her story, which is American flavored with an unreleasing...
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Founded in 1968 by Aubrey "Po" Powell, Storm Thorgerson and Peter Christopherson, graphic design firm Hipgnosis gained a legendary status by transforming the look of album art through their designs for AC/DC, Black Sabbath, The Police, Genesis, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Paul McCartney, Syd Barrett, and The Who. In this lively volume, Powell presents brutally honest, entertaining and revealing insider stories from the world of rock, featuring an eclectic...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Grammy-nominated musician Allison Moorer's lyrical memoir, a testament to love and resilience through the lens of parenting her young son, John Henry, who has nonverbal autism"--
When Moorer's son, John Henry, stopped using his growing vocabulary just before his second birthday, she knew in her bones that something was shifting. Here she details the meltdowns and the moments of grace following the diagnosis of autism, and how the mundane expectations...
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Leora, a juvenile court judge, wife, mother, and daughter, is caught in the routine of work, taking care of her family and aging parents. But she's also a second-generation Holocaust survivor. It's an identity she didn't understand was hers until she accidentally discovered a secret file of handwritten notes addressed to her father. A further discovery of a seemingly random WWII postcard in a thrift store sets her on a collision course with the past...
Author
Publisher
Worthy
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Kevan is just one of the guys. It's impossible to know him and not become a little more excited about life. He is an inspiring man permeated by joy, unafraid of sorrow, full of vitality and life! His sense of humor is infectious and so is his story. He grew up, he says, at "belt-buckle level" and stayed there until Kevan's beloved posse decided to leave his wheelchair at the Atlanta airport, board a plane for France, and have his friends carry him...
Author
Publisher
Sandra Jonas Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Born in poverty-stricken Albania, twin sisters Argita and Detina Zalli always dreamed of becoming doctors. Their parents scrimped and sacrificed, committed to giving them a better life. But then the unthinkable happened. In 1997, the government collapsed, plunging the country into anarchy and civil war. The twins' dream unraveled along with their homeland. Their parents had to find a way to leave and save their daughters' futures--not to mention...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"After years in the spotlight on American Idol and Dancing with the Stars, country music star Lauren Alaina has learned a thing or two about fighting self-doubt and feeling at home in her own skin. In Getting Good at Being You, Lauren shares stories about everything from lost loves to getting a nose ring to battling an eating disorder to grieving a loved one's death. Each story leads to practical tips, take-it-on-the-road strategies, and encouragement...
871) Shoutin' in the fire
Author
Publisher
Convergent
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A stirring meditation of being Black and learning to love in a loveless, anti-Black world. In Shoutin' in the Fire, Danté Stewart gives breathtaking language to his reckoning with the legacy of white supremacy-both the kind that hangs over our country and the kind that is internalized on a molecular level. Stewart uses his personal experiences as a vehicle to reclaim and reimagine spiritual virtues like rage, resilience, and remembrance-and explores...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
A successful television writer describes her friendship with a neurodiverse middle-aged woman who helps her confront her own issues with mental illness and feelings of inadequacy while coming to peace with the choices she has made.
After years of struggle, Rowe was finally making a name for herself in Hollywood., but the agreeable, confident persona she presented to the world often felt like a deception to her. She has long grappled with mental illness...
Author
Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Maj. Gen. Gregg Martin cut a striking figure in the Army: athletic, quick witted, devout, and studious, he was a natural leader. Thanks to his engineering and leadership knowhow, Martin was chosen to lead the thousands of combat engineers who paved the way for 100,000 Army troops to battle their way to Baghdad in 2003. Martin was astonishing to watch as he led this effort, his mind laser focused and body vibrating with energy. He made quick decisions,...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The rock-and-roll icon shares his inspirational journey from irrepressible Idaho farmboy to the man who formed Mötley Crüe., proving that you can overcome anything and achieve all of your goals, if only you put your mind to it.
Born Franklin Carlton Feranna, Sixx was abandoned by his father and partly raised by his mother, a woman who was ahead of her time but deeply troubled. He lived with other family before being on his own. There were dead-end...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"In this spiritual, moving autobiography, Wilma Mankiller, former Chief of the Cherokee Nation and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, tells of her own history while also honoring and recounting the history of the Cherokees. Mankiller's life unfolds against the backdrop of the dawning of the American Indian civil rights struggle, and her book becomes a quest to reclaim and preserve the great Native American values that form the foundation...
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Jodi M. Savage was raised in Brooklyn, New York, by her maternal grandmother. Her whip-smart, charismatic mother struggled with addiction and was unable to care for her. Granny—a fiery Pentecostal preacher who had a way with words—was Jodi’s rock, until Alzheimer’s disease turned the tables, and a 28-year-old Jodi stepped into the role of caretaker. It was up to Jodi to get them both through the devastations of a deteriorating mind. After...
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Series
Publisher
Norton Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Continuing this propulsive middle grade nonfiction series, a young woman once persecuted by the Taliban shares her journey to becoming a community activist. As a girl and as part of an ethnic minority in Afghanistan, Freshta Tori Jan was persecuted relentlessly. Her family faced kidnappings and daily murder attempts on the bus, on the way to school, in the workplace, and beyond. Freshta's school was shut down by the Taliban, and many of her friends...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Anne Hobbs is a prim and proper 19-year-old schoolteacher who yearns for adventure. She finds this and much more in a town with the unlikely name of Chicken, located deep in the Alaskan interior. It is 1927 and Chicken is a wild mining community flaming with gold fever. Anne quickly makes friends with many of the townspeople, but is soon ostracized when she not only befriends the local Indians but also falls in love with one.
879) Mother noise
Author
Publisher
Scribner/Marysue Rucci Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Told in essays and graphic-narrative shorts, this memoir illustrates the author's struggles with addiction and motherhood and her ongoing efforts to reconcile the two, capturing the desire to look hopefully forward, while acknowledging the darkness of the past.
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