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Rocky River Public Library
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Biographies & Memoirs |
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The Best of Us: A Memoir
JOYCE MAYNARD · Bloomsbury USA Pages: 448 Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard, a memoir about discovering strength in the midst of great loss--"heart wrenching, inspiring, full of joy and tears and life." (Anne Lamott) In 2011, when she was in her late fifties, beloved author and journalist Joyce Maynard... |
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We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It: A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood
Tom Phelan · Gallery Books Pages: 224 Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes and Alice Taylor's To School Through the Fields, Tom Phelan's We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It is a heartfelt and masterfully written memoir of growing up in Ireland in the 1940s.Tom Phelan, who was born and raised in County Laois in the Irish... |
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Hank : the short life and long country road of hank williams
Mark Ribowsky · Liveright Pages: 472 Format: Hardcover
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A heartbreaking and unforgettable portrait of country music's founding father.After he died in the backseat of a Cadillac at the age of twenty-nine, Hank Williams?a frail, flawed man who had become country music's most compelling and popular star?instantly morphed into its first tragic... |
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Mother on Fire: A True Motherf%#$@ Story About Parenting!
Sandra Tsing Loh · Crown Publishers Pages: 298 Format: Print book
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This is a story about the year I exploded into flames. Which turns out to be more common than you'd think, among forty-something humans. Yea, we can hold it together in our thirties, with a raft of hair products and semi-tall nonfat half-caf beverages and much brisk walking to a lot of interesting... |
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Mother Angelica Her Grand Silence: The Last Years and Living Legacy
Raymond Arroyo · Doubleday Pages: 240 Format: Print book
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"Even now, I still meet with Mother in memory and in spirit. And though I miss her physical presence, the writing of this work has allowed me to once again spend long hours with her and share her essence with others. This final book in the canon captures the last bittersweet years... |
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The mayor of Mogadishu : a story of chaos and redemption in the ruins of Somalia
Andrew Harding · St. Martin's Press Pages: 304 Format: Print book
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In The Mayor of Mogadishu, one of the BBC's most experienced foreign correspondents, Andrew Harding, reveals the tumultuous life of Mohamoud "Tarzan" Nur - an impoverished nomad who was abandoned in a state orphanage in newly independent Somalia, and became a street brawler and activist.... |
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Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant
Joel Golby · Anchor Pages: 304 Format: Paperback
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By the popular Vice contributor, a collection of full-throated appreciations, elaborate theories, and unflinching recollectionsJoel Golby's writing for Vice and The Guardian, with its wry observation and naked self-reflection, has brought him a wide and devoted following. Now, in his first... |
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Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
Anne Lamott · Pantheon Books Pages: 288 Format: Book
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From the bestselling author of Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird comes a chronicle of faith and spirituality that is at once tough, personal, affectionate, wise and very funny.With an exuberant mix of passion, insight, and humor, Anne Lamott takes us on a journey through her often... |
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Snowden
Luke Harding · Vintage Pages: 352 Format: Print book
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The official movie tie-in edition to Oliver Stone's major motion picture, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. It began with a tantalizing, anonymous email: "I am a senior member of the intelligence community." What followed was the most spectacular intelligence breach ever, brought... |
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