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Brzezinski, Mika. All things at once 1st ed. New York : Weinstein Books, c2009. Call Number: 070.195092 B849A 2009 Owned by: SWASEY Summary: From the MSNBC "Morning Joe" co-host comes a candid and inspiring memoir of one woman's confrontation with the unique professional and personal challenges she faced during the key moments in her life as a working mother and professional television journalist. Women television journalists United States Biography. Date added: Feb 03
Minutaglio, Bill. Molly Ivins : a rebel life 1st ed. New York : PublicAffairs, c2009. Call Number: 070.92 IV5M 2009 Owned by: MAIN Summary: She was a groomed for a gilded life in moneyed Houston, but Molly Ivins left the country club behind to become one of the most provocative, courageous, and influential journalists in American history. Presidents and senators called her for advice; her column ran in 400 newspapers; her books were bestsellers. But despite her fame, few people really knew her: what her background was, who influenced her, how her political views developed, or how many painful struggles she fought. This is a comprehensive, definitive narrative biography, based on intimate knowledge of Molly, interviews with her family, friends, and colleagues, and access to her personal papers. It is at once the saga of a powerful, pugnacious woman muscling her way to the top in a world dominated by men; a look behind the scenes of national media and politics; and a sobering account of the toll of addiction and cancer.--From publisher description. Women journalists United States Biography. Date added: Jan 13
Urofsky, Melvin I. Louis D. Brandeis : a life 1st ed. New York : Pantheon Books, c2009. Call Number: 347.732634 B7335U 2009 Owned by: MAIN Judges United States Biography. Date added: Jan 11
Biskupic, Joan. American original : the life and constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus And Giroux, 2009. Call Number: 347.732634 SCA45B 2009 Owned by: MAIN Summary: A profile of the conservative Supreme Court justice offers insight into his absolute belief system and considerable body of work, evaluating Scalia as an "apex of power" whose opinions may have far-reaching consequences in the social counterrevolution. Judges United States Biography. Date added: Jan 13
Goeres-Gardner, Diane L. Murder, morality and madness : women criminals in early Oregon Caldwell, Idaho : Caxton Press, 2009. Call Number: 364.1523 G553M 2009 Owned by: MAIN Women prisoners Oregon History Case studies. Date added: Jan 12
Lazar, Zachary. Evening's empire : the story of my father's murder 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2009. Call Number: 364.1523 L456E 2009 Owned by: MAIN Summary: Describes the gangland-style murder of the author's father amid the height of 1970s counterculture, in an account that follows his efforts to understand why his father would risk everything to participate in a multimillion-dollar real estate scandal. Murder Arizona Phoenix Case studies.Phoenix (Ariz.) Biography. Date added: Jan 13
West, Cornel. Brother West : living and loving out loud : a memoir 1st ed. New York : SmileyBooks : Distributed by Hay House, c2009. Call Number: 378.12092 W52027B 2009 Owned by: MAIN African American intellectuals Biography. Date added: Jan 20
Vincent, Ali. Believe it, be it : how being the biggest loser won me back my life [Emmaus, Pa.] : Rodale ; [New York] : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, c2009. Call Number: 613.25092 V7431B 2009 Owned by: WHEELOCK Weight loss United States Biography. Date added: Jan 13
Skloot, Rebecca, 1972- The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks 1st ed. New York : Crown Publishers, c2010. Call Number: 616.02774 L118S 2010 Owned by: MAIN KING SWASEY Cancer Patients Virginia Biography. Date added: Jan 26
Borchard, Therese Johnson. Beyond blue : surviving depression & anxiety and making the most of bad genes 1st ed. New York : Center Street, 2010. Call Number: 616.8527 B64467B 2010 Owned by: MAIN KOBETICH MOORE SWASEY SWANCREEK WHEELOCK Affective disorders Patients Biography. Date added: Feb 06
Johnson, Haynes, 1931- Herblock : the life and work of the great political cartoonist 1st ed. [Washington, D.C.] : Herb Block Foundation : Library of Congress ; New York : In association with W.W. Norton & Co., c2009. Call Number: 741.56973 B6207J 2009 Owned by: MAIN Cartoonists United States Biography. Date added: Jan 13
Osbourne, Ozzy, 1948- I am Ozzy 1st U.S. ed. New York : Grand Central Pub., 2010, c2009. Call Number: 784.092 OS19I 2009 Owned by: KOBETICH MOORE WHEELOCK Summary: One of television's best loved personalities via the wildly successful hit MTV show The Osbournes, Ozzy tells about his days on the road and the heartbreak he suffered during those days of hard living. Rock musicians United States Biography. Date added: Feb 03
Nash, Alanna. Baby, let's play house : Elvis Presley and the women who loved him 1st ed. New York : ItBooks, c2010. Call Number: 784.092 P9264N 2010 Owned by: MAIN Summary: Decades after his death, Elvis Presley's extraordinary physical appeal, timeless music, and sexual charisma continue to captivate, titillate, and excite. Yet no book has solely explored his relationships with women and how they influenced his music and life--until now. Based largely on exclusive interviews with the many women who knew him in various roles--lover, sweetheart, friend, costar, and family member--this book explores Presley's love affairs with, among others, Ann-Margret, Linda Thompson, Sheila Ryan Caan, June Juanico, Joyce Bova, Barbara Leigh, Cybill Shepherd, and Priscilla Beaulieu, as well as his numerous friendships with women. The book also spotlights the women who dared to turn him down, as well as two women--Kay Wheeler and Tura Satana--who taught him dance moves he used onstage. Baby, Let's Play House presents Elvis as a charming but wounded Lothario who bedded scores of women but seemed unable to maintain a lasting romantic relationship.--From publisher description. Rock musicians United States Biography. Date added: Jan 28
Palmer, Robert, 1945-1997. Blues & chaos : the music writing of Robert Palmer 1st Scribner hardcover ed. New York : Scribner, 2009. Call Number: 784.5 P1828B 2009 Owned by: MAIN Summary: A collection of previously published articles and criticism by famed music critic Robert Palmer. Popular music Reviews. Date added: Jan 13
Kleist, Reinhard, 1970- Johnny Cash : I see a darkness : a graphic novel New York : Abrams ComicArts, c2009. Call Number: 784.52 C2688K 2009 Owned by: MOORE MOTTET Summary: "...Vividly portrays the unpredictable life of a loner, patriot, outlaw, and music rebel, making this unique biography a compelling read for multiple generations of graphic novel and music fans." Country musicians United States Biography Comic books, strips, etc. Date added: Jan 26
Biskind, Peter. Star : how Warren Beatty seduced America 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2010. Call Number: 791.43028 B3809S 2010 Owned by: MAIN SWASEY Summary: In this compulsively readable and constantly surprising book, Peter Biskind, the author of the film classics "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" and "Down and Dirty Pictures," writes the most intimate, revealing, and balanced biography ever of Hollywood legend Warren Beatty. Motion picture actors and actresses United States Biography. Date added: Jan 20
Keegan, Rebecca Winters. The futurist : the life and films of James Cameron 1st. ed. New York : Crown Publishers, 2009. Call Number: 791.43092 C1457K 2009 Owned by: WHEELOCK Motion picture producers and directors Canada Biography. Date added: Jan 29
Sweetin, Jodie. Unsweetined 1st Simon Spotlight Entertainment hardcover ed. New York : Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2009. Call Number: 791.45028 SW366U 2009 Owned by: MAIN SWASEY Summary: In the vein of Nic Sheff's "Tweak" and Tori Spelling's "sTori Telling," "UnSweetined" reveals the former "Full House" star's harrowing journey from her role as America's sweetheart on a popular television show to her struggle with substance abuse. Television actors and actresses United States Biography. Date added: Jan 26
Williams, Roy, 1950- Hard work : a life on and off the court 1st ed. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2009. Call Number: 796.323092 W6755H 2009 Owned by: MAIN WHEELOCK Summary: Coach Roy Williams, one of the most successful basketball coaches in the nation, tells the story of his life that few people know, from his turbulent family life as a child to the North Carolina Tar Heels' National Championship victory in 2009. Basketball coaches United States Biography. Date added: Jan 13
Christgau, John. Kokomo Joe : the story of the first Japanese American jockey in the United States Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009. Call Number: 798.40092 K799C 2009 Owned by: MAIN Jockeys United States Biography. Date added: Jan 26
Lemon, Alex. Happy : a memoir 1st Scribner hardcover ed. New York : Scribner, 2010. Call Number: 811.6 L5443H 2010 Owned by: MAIN Poets, American 21st century Biography. Date added: Jan 28
The lineup : the world's greatest crime writers tell the inside story of their greatest detectives 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2009. Call Number: 813.0872 L6459L 2009 Owned by: MAIN Summary: Shares the stories behind the creations of many of the mystery genre's most popular characters, revealing the inspirations for such examples as Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch and Alexander McCall Smith's Precious Ramotswe. Detective and mystery stories, American Sources. Date added: Jan 13
Schenkar, Joan. The talented Miss Highsmith : the secret life and serious art of Patricia Highsmith 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2009. Call Number: 813.54 H5379S 2009 Owned by: MAIN Authors, American 20th century Biography. Date added: Jan 26
McMurtry, Larry. Literary life : a second memoir 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009. Call Number: 813.54 M2299L 2009 Owned by: MAIN Summary: McMurtry has delighted generations with his witty and elegant prose. In "Literary Life, " the sequel to "Books, " McMurtry expounds on life on the private side: the trials and triumphs of being a writer. Authors, American 20th century Biography. Date added: Jan 29
Scammell, Michael. Koestler : the literary and political odyssey of a twentieth-century skeptic 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2009. Call Number: 828.91209 K8199S 2009 Owned by: MAIN Summary: The first authorized biography of one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals of the twentieth century, based on new research and full access to its subject's papers. Best known as the creator of the classic anti-Communist novel Darkness at Noon, Koestler is here revealed as a man whose personal life was as astonishing as his literary accomplishments. The young Hungarian Jew whose experience of anti-Semitism and devotion to Zionism provoked him to move to Palestine; the foreign correspondent who risked his life from the North Pole to Franco's Spain; the committed Communist for whom the brutal truth of Stalin's show trials inspired the angry novel that became an instant classic in 1940; the escape from occupied France by joining the Foreign Legion and his bluffing his way illegally to England, where his controversial 1943 novel Arrival and Departure was the first to portray Hitler's Final Solution. Scammell also gives a full account of the author's voluminous writings, making the case Novelists, English 20th century Biography. Date added: Jan 28
Pellegrino, Charles R. The last train from Hiroshima : the survivors look back 1st ed. New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2010. Call Number: 940.542521 P3642L 2010 Owned by: MAIN MOORE Summary: Drawing on the voices of atomic-bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices detonated over Japan changed life on Earth forever. Atomic bomb victims Japan Hiroshima-shi Biography.Hiroshima-shi (Japan) History Bombardment, 1945 Personal narratives, Japanese. Date added: Jan 21
Brady, James, 1928-2009. Hero of the Pacific : the life of Marine legend John Basilone Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2010. Call Number: 940.545973 B2927B 2010 Owned by: MAIN Summary: "Can a single night define a man's life? From the summer of 1943 to early 1945, John Basilone was one of the most famous and admired people in America. As the first enlisted man to be awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II, for extraordinary bravery under fire at Guadalcanal, he toured the nation with movie stars, shared podiums with mayors and governors, shook the hands of thousands of citizens, and was even rumored to have made a romantic connection with a beautiful young actress. Why would a man who had proven his courage beyond any doubt, who had gone above and beyond the call of duty, and was reaping the rewards of his sacrifice beg his commanding officers to break with tradition and send a Medal of Honor winner back into combat? Legendary columnist James Brady explores this and many other puzzling questions in this thrilling and surprising biography. Hero of the Pacific tells the dramatic and compelling life story of a small-town boy who became one of World War II's greatest and best-known Medal of Honor Biography.Raritan (N.J.) Biography. Date added: Jan 21
Lee, Celia. The Churchills : a family portrait 1st ed. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Call Number: 941.0840922 C4758L 2010 Owned by: MOTTET SWASEY Great Britain History 19th century Biography. Date added: Feb 06
Weir, Alison. The lady in the tower : the fall of Anne Boleyn 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 2010. Call Number: 942.052092 AN74W 2010 Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL SWASEY Summary: The tempestuous love affair between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn scandalized Christendom and altered forever the religious landscape of England. Acclaimed historian and bestselling author Alison Weir draws on myriad sources from the Tudor era to examine, in unprecedented depth, the gripping, dark, and chilling story of Anne Boleyn's final days. Queens England Biography.Great Britain History Henry VIII, 1509-1547 Biography. Date added: Jan 28
Service, Robert, 1947- Trotsky : a biography Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. Call Number: 947.084092 T7562S 2009 Owned by: MAIN Summary: Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing and, given his prominence, the most understudied of the Soviet revolutionaries. Using new archival sources, Robert Service offers new insights. He discusses Trotsky's fractious relations with the leaders he was trying to unify; his attempt to disguise his political closeness to Stalin; and his role in the early 1920s as the progenitor of political and cultural Stalinism. Trotsky evinced a surprisingly glacial and schematic approach to making revolution. Service recounts Trotsky's role in the botched German revolution of 1923; his willingness to subject Europe to a Red Army invasion in the 1920s; and his assumption that peasants could easily be pushed onto collective farms. Although Trotsky's followers clung to the stubborn view of him as a pure revolutionary and a powerful intellect unjustly hounded into exile by Stalin, the reality is very different.--From publisher description. Revolutionaries Soviet Union Biography.Russia Politics and government 1894-1917. Date added: Jan 13
Lee, Jid, 1955- To kill a tiger : a memoir of Korea 1st ed. New York : Overlook Press, 2010. Call Number: 951.9504092 L5133T 2010 Owned by: MAIN Korea (South) Biography. Date added: Feb 06
Going rouge : Sarah Palin : an American nightmare Deerfield Beach, Fla. : Health Communications, 2009. Call Number: 973.931092 P176GO 2009 Owned by: MAIN KOBETICH MOORE SWANCREEK WHEELOCK Summary: A collection of 50 articles from sources including the L.A. Times, the New Yorker and the Guardian examines Palin's quirky origins in Wasilla, Alaska, her spectacular rise to the effective leadership of the Republican Party, and the nightmarish prospect of her continuing to dominate the nation's political scene. Women governors Alaska Biography.United States Politics and government 2001-2009. Date added: Jan 11
Abramsky, Sasha. Inside Obama's brain New York : Portfolio, c2009. Call Number: 973.932092 OB1AB 2009 Owned by: MAIN KING Presidents United States Biography. Date added: Jan 29
Bernier-Grand, Carmen T. Diego : bigger than life 1st ed. New York : Marshall Cavendish, c2009. Call Number: J 759.972 Owned by: MAIN Summary: "The life and work of the artist Diego Rivera is told through chronological poems that capture salient points in his life"--Provided by publisher. Painters Mexico Biography Juvenile literature. Date added: Jan 30
Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Sojourner Truth's step-stomp stride 1st ed. New York : Disney/Jump at the Sun Books, c2009. Call Number: JB T777P 2009 Owned by: KING MOORE WHEELOCK African American abolitionists Biography Juvenile literature. Date added: Jan 26
Gilbert, Elizabeth, 1969- Committed : a skeptic makes peace with marriage Large print ed. Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2010. Call Number: LP 306.81 G373C 2010 Owned by: FERNHILL KING Summary: At the end of Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity, but also never to get legally married. The U.S. government gave them a choice: either get married, or Felipe would never be allowed to enter the country again. Sentenced to wed, Gilbert tackles her fears of marriage. Divorced women United States Biography. Date added: Feb 01
Curtis, Tony, 1925- American prince : a memoir Large print ed. Detroit : Large Print Press, 2009, c2008. Call Number: LP 791.43028 C946A 2008 Owned by: WHEELOCK Summary: The legendary actor chronicles his odyssey from hard-knock childhood as the son of immigrant parents to Hollywood success, detailing his days as a tinseltown playboy, the film industry during Hollywood's Golden Era, and his life as an artist at the age of eighty. Motion picture actors and actresses United States Biography. Date added: Jan 19
Brenner-Wonschick, Hannelore, 1951- The Girls of Room 28 : friendship, hope, and survival in Theresienstadt Large print ed. Detroit : Thorndike Press, 2009. Call Number: LP 940.5318 B7518G 2009 Owned by: MOORE WHEELOCK Summary: From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In the mid-1990s, German journalist Hannelore Brenner met ten of these child survivors--women in their late seventies today. Weaving these interviews with excerpts from diaries that were kept secretly during the war and samples of the art, music, and poetry created at Theresienstadt, Brenner gives us an unprecedented picture of daily life there, and of the extraordinary strength, sacrifice, and indomitable will that combined to make survival possible. Jewish children in the Holocaust Czech Republic Terezin (Severocesky kraj) Biography. Date added: Jan 19
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