Gaines, Joanna
Summary: "In her first solo memoir, New York Times bestselling author Joanna Gaines invites us on an authentic and deeply vulnerable journey into her story--and helps shine a light on the beauty of our own--guiding us to release the weights that hold us back so we may live and share our story in truth. We've all dropped anchor in places that suited us for a time: a city, a perspective, a lie we mistook...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Select 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GAINES, JOANNA GAICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B GAINES GAIDavis, Viola
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 DAVMatis, Aspen
Summary: When Aspen Matis's husband, Justin, left to attend a funeral, he never came back. Shock, grief, fear, and anger battled for control, but nothing prepared her for the disarming truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MATIS, ASPEN MATParks, Casey
Summary: "When Casey Parks came out as a lesbian in college back in 2002, she assumed her life in the rural South was over. Her mother shunned her, and her pastor asked God to kill her. But then Parks' grandmother, a stern conservative who grew up picking cotton, shared a story about her childhood friend, Roy Hudgins, a musician who was allegedly kidnapped as a baby and was "a woman who lived as a man."...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PARKS, CASEY PARPastiloff, Jennifer
Summary: "An inspirational memoir about how Jennifer Pastiloff's years of waitressing taught her to seek out unexpected beauty, how deafness taught her to listen fiercely, how being vulnerable allowed her to find love, and how imperfections can lead to a life full of wild happiness. Centered around the touchstone stories Jen tells in her popular workshops,On Being Human is the story of how a starved...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2019