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History's yearbookOestreicher, Amy
Summary: Amy Oestreicher was college-bound with ambitious sights on Broadway, when the week before her senior prom, a blood clot caused her stomach to explode, and she nearly died in the emergency room. Waking from a coma months later, she was told she might never eat or drink again. After 28 operations and years without a drop of liquid or morsel of food, Amy's digestive system was miraculously...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Singing Tree Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OESTREICHER, AMY OESWinkler, Henry
Summary: "From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply thoughtful memoir of the lifelong effects of stardom and the struggle to become whole. Henry Winkler, launched into prominence as "The Fonz" in the beloved Happy Days, has transcended the role that made him who he is. Brilliant, funny, and widely-regarded as the nicest man in Hollywood (though he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B WINKLER WINBegley, Ed
Summary: The beloved American actor and environmental activist shares humorous and heartfelt stories throughout his life and illustrious career, focusing on his relationship with his legendary father, adventures with Hollywood icons, addiction and recovery and his constant search for wisdom and common ground.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BEGLEY, ED, JR. BEGMoore, Roger
Summary: "In a career that spans over seven decades, Roger Moore has been at the very heart of Hollywood. Of course, he's an actor and has starred in films that have made him famous the world over; but he's also a tremendous prankster, joker and raconteur. Despite the fact that he is well known as one of the nicest guys in the business, on and off the screen he has always been up for some fun. In this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press, an imprint of Roman & Littlefield 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOORE, ROGER MOOTippins, Sherill.
Summary: "An icon of American artistic invention, the Chelsea Hotel has been, since its founding by a French socialist utopian in 1884, a cultural dynamo lodged in the very heart of uber-capitalist New York City. Sherill Tippins, author of the acclaimed February House, delivers a lively, masterly history of the Chelsea and of the successive generations of artists who have cohabited and created there,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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Summary: "Who were history's most creative artists? Who was voted 'Best Visionary?' In the History's Yearbook series, readers will learn about the amazing and diverse women in history. In Girl Artists, readers will discover and rediscover their favorite heroines and learn about top women artists who have made an impact. Each book in this series is written at a higher maturity level using considerate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Cherry Lake Publishing] 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 704 LOHBernier, Rosamond.
Summary: Rosamond Bernier has lived an unusually full life--remarkable for its vividness and diversity of experience--and she has known many (one is tempted to say all) of the greatest artists and composers of the twentieth century. In Some of My Lives, Bernier has made a kind of literary scrapbook from an extraordinary array of writings, ranging from diary entries to her many contributions to the art...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BERNIER, ROSAMOND BernierVolponi, Paul
Summary: "This book will expand the horizons of teen and pre-teen readers in an exciting and engaging way, by debating the Greatest of All Time in a variety of categories. Topics include the greatest athlete of all time, greatest band, greatest inventor, greatest scientist, greatest writer, greatest sci-fi franchise, and more"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 031.02 VOLTodd, Pamela.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2005
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Summary: "In 1971, Ed Sanders published The Family, his insider's account of the Manson family murders; it was an immediate sensation. Using the same investigative skills and insider contacts that informed his counterculture classic, Sanders delivers the definitive account of the brief and tragic life of Sharon Tate. The biography takes a close look at Tate's life-from her itinerant childhood and early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TATE, SHARON SANPorter, Billy
Summary: It's easy to be yourself when who and what you are is in vogue. But growing up Black and gay in America has never been easy. Actor and survivor Billy Porter shares his life story in his own words.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 PORTER, BILLY PORCohen, Richard M. (Richard Martin)
Summary: "Nora Ephron, one of the most famous writers, film makers, and personalities of her time is captured by her long-time and dear friend in a hilarious, blunt, raucous, and poignant recollection of their decades-long friendship. Nora Ephron (1941-2012) was a phenomenal personality, journalist, essayist, novelist, playwright, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, and movie director (Sleepless in Seattle;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EPHRON, NORA COHShapiro, Kitt
Summary: In this unique combination of memoir and cultural history, we come to know one of the greatest stars the world has ever seen--Eartha Kitt--as revealed by the person who knew her best: her daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SHARodgers, Mary
Summary: "The memoirs of Mary Rodgers--writer, composer, Broadway royalty, and "a woman who tried everything.""--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RODGERS, MARY RODSelleck, Tom
Summary: Actor Tom Selleck chronicles his life both in show business and away from it in this long-awaited memoir. Selleck is best known as the star of Magnum, P.I., one of the most popular and enduring television shows of the eighties, and of Blue Bloods, where he plays New York City Police Commissioner Frank Reagan, but his career is longer, and richer, than those two hits suggest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Actor Tom Selleck chronicles his life both in show business and away from it in this long-awaited memoir. Selleck is best known as the star of Magnum, P.I., one of the most popular and enduring television shows of the eighties, and of Blue Bloods, where he plays New York City Police Commissioner Frank Reagan, but his career is longer, and richer, than those two hits suggest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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2 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD 921 SELLECK, TOM SELPetri, Alexandra
Summary: "Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri turns her satirical eye on her own life in this hilarious new memoir... Most twentysomethings spend a lot of time avoiding awkwardness. Not Alexandra Petri. Afraid of rejection? Alexandra Petri has auditioned for America's Next Top Model. Afraid of looking like an idiot? Alexandra Petri lost Jeopardy! by answering "Who is that dude?" on national TV....
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B PETRI PETCoveney, Michael
Summary: "No one does glamour, severity, girlish charm or tight-lipped witticism better than Dame Maggie Smith, one of Britain's best-loved actors. This new biography shines the stage lights on the life and work of a truly remarkable performer, one whose career spans six decades. From her days as a star of West End comedy and revue, Dame Maggie would cross paths with those of the greatest actors,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMITH, MAGGIE COVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B SMITH COVShatner, William
Summary: "William Shatner's personal tribute to his longtime friend and Star Trek co-star, Leonard Nimoy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B NIMOY SHAPage, Elliot
Summary: A groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page. A generation-defining actor and one of the most famous trans advocates of our time, Elliot will now be known as an uncommon literary talent, as he shares never-before-heard details and intimate interrogations on gender, love, mental health, relationships, and Hollywood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2023
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 PAGE, ELLIOT PAGKlein, Jessi
Summary: "YOU'LL GROW OUT OF IT hilariously, and candidly, explores the journey of the twenty-first century woman. As both a tomboy and a late bloomer, comedian Jessi Klein grew up feeling more like an outsider than a participant in the rites of modern femininity. In YOU'LL GROW OUT OF IT, Klein offers-through an incisive collection of real-life stories-a relentlessly funny yet poignant take on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KLEIN, JESSI KLEPhillips, Stevie
Summary: "No star burned more ferociously than Judy Garland. And nobody witnessed Garland's fierce talent at closer range than Stevie Phillips. During the Mad Men era, Stevie Philips was a young woman muscling her way into the manscape of Manhattan's glittering office towers. After a stint as a secretary, she began working for Freddie Fields and David Begelman at Music Corporation of America (MCA) under...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PHILLIPS, STEVIE PHIHoward, Ron
Summary: Ron and Clint Howard examine their childhoods in detail and reveal a tight four-person family unit that helped the brothers survive "child-actor syndrome" to become fulfilled adults.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 920 HOWKaran, Donna
Summary: A personal, provocative memoir by the iconic designer includes candid stories about her difficult and isolated childhood, her nearly five-decade career in the fashion industry, her two marriages, her children, and her spiritual life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2015