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Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
383 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Profiles the critically acclaimed performer known for such roles as Dirty Harry, tracing his rise from a disaffected youth to a dynamic Hollywood actor, producer, and director.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A monumental figure on the American landscape, Jerry Lee Lewis spent his childhood raising hell in Ferriday, Louisiana, and Natchez, Mississippi; galvanized the world with hit records like "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" and "Great Balls of Fire," that gave rock and roll its devil's edge; caused riots and boycotts with his incendiary performances; nearly scuttled his career by marrying his thirteen-year-old second cousin--his third wife of seven;...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the personal crisis the author endured after the death of her mother and a painful divorce, which prompted her ambition to undertake a dangerous 1,100-mile solo hike that both drove her to rock bottom and helped her to heal.
Author
Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
207 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"I Am Not Your Slave is the shocking true story of a young African girl, Tupa, who was abducted from southwestern Africa and funneled through an extensive yet almost completely unknown human trafficking network spanning the entire African continent"--
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Da Capo Press ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 280 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
According to Eric Clapton, John Mayer, and the late Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Guy is the greatest blues guitarist of all time. An enormous influence on these musicians as well as on Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck, he is the living embodiment of Chicago blues. Guy's epic story stands at the absolute nexus of modern blues. He came to Chicago from rural Louisiana in the fifties—the very moment when urban blues were electrifying our culture....
90) The doctors Blackwell: how two pioneering sisters brought medicine to women--and women to medicine
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The vivid biography of two pioneering sisters who, together, became America's first female doctors and transformed New York's medical establishment by creating a hospital by and for women. Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for greatness beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood. Though the world recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity won her the acceptance of the all-male...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
228 pages : illustration, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
McPadden recounts his experiences as a Ranger Officer during the war in Afghanistan. He writes about growing up, leadership, the nature of war, and war's aftermath.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Traces the author's discovery of a half-frozen kitten in the drop-box of her small-community Iowa library and the feline's development into an affable library mascot whose intuitive nature prompted hundreds of abiding friendships.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was "just" an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? She was born in 1890 into a world that had its own rules about what women could and couldn't do. Lucy Worsley's biography is not just of a massively, internationally successful writer. It's also the story of a person who, despite the obstacles of class and gender, became an astonishingly successful working woman. With access to...
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A portrait of the passionate performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker, the woman who worked her way from the slums of St. Louis to the grandest stages in the world. Meticulously researched by both author and artist, Josephine's powerful story of struggle and triumph is an inspiration and a spectacle, just like the legend herself.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
1985
Physical Desc
xiv, 415 p., [20] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The definitive biography of one of America's brightest stars. Hers was a brief life that still fascinates the world. Marilyn Monroe was born in obscurity and deprivation, and rose to become a legend of her century, a great actress, and a lover of the most famous men in America, only to die young and under suspicious circumstances, leaving behind a mystery that remains unsolved to this day. Anthony Summers interviewed more than six hundred people,...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Issa Ibrahim's memoir details in searing prose his development of severe mental illness leading to the accidental killing of his mother, his acquittal by reason of insanity, and his subsequent commission to a mental hospital for nearly twenty years"--
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
242 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After Daniel Hays and his father built a twenty-five-foot boat and sailed it around Cape Horn, he thought he'd finally put his wanderlust to rest. He went back to school, bought a house, took a job, got married.
But as it turned out, in the real world Daniel Hays felt lost. So he took his love for the sea and his need to escape civilization and pushed it further: he bought an island off the coast of Nova Scotia; built a tiny house; packed up his...
Author
Publisher
Broadman & Holman
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
x, 246 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fans of Chuck Norris may see him as an action hero in the John Wayne mold, but his autobiography presents a different image of the "Walker, Texas Ranger" star. Norris describes himself as a shy youth who finally blossomed while studying martial arts as a soldier in South Korea. His self-deprecating humor shows through anecdotes about karate defeats, white-knuckled speaking engagements, and his failure to become a Los Angeles policeman, which led to...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
7 CDs (8 hr.)
Language
English
Description
Besides being a politician, he was also a cowboy, a soldier, a historian, an intrepid explorer, and an unsurpassed environmentalist, all in all perhaps the most accomplished chief executive in our nation's history. Historian Aida D. Donald masterfully chronicles the life of this first modern president.