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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"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 would be the first to tell you that it's simply not the...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio / Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling authors of The Daily Stoic comes an inspiring guide to the lives of the Stoics, and what the ancients can teach us about happiness, success, resilience and virtue. Nearly 2,300 years after a ruined merchant named Zeno first established a school on the Stoa Poikile of Athens, Stoicism has found a new audience among those who seek greatness, from athletes to politicians and everyone in between. It's no wonder; the philosophy and...
Author
Publisher
Harper Select
Language
English
Description
Hawaii, 1941. War clouds with Japan are gathering and the islands of Hawaii have become battlegrounds of spies, intelligence agents, and military officials - with the island's residents caught between them. Toiling in the shadows are Douglas Wada, the only Japanese American agent in naval intelligence, and Takeo Yoshikawa, a Japanese spy sent to Pearl Harbor to gather information on the U.S. fleet. Douglas Wada's experiences in his native Honolulu...
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Language
English
Description
"Once you start reading, be prepared, because you won't want to stop." —Oprah Winfrey
OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICKNew York Times bestselling author Lara Love Hardin recounts her slide from soccer mom to opioid addict to jailhouse shot caller and her unlikely comeback as a highly successful ghostwriter in this harrowing, hilarious, no-holds-barred memoir.
No one expects the police to knock on the door of the million-dollar...
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No one expects the police to knock on the door of the million-dollar...
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Magic Johnson is one of the most beloved, and at times controversial, athletes in history. His iconic smile lifted the dowdy sport of American pro basketball from a second tier sport with low ratings into the global spotlight, a transformation driven by his ability to eviscerate opponents with a style that featured his grand sense of fun. He was a master entertainer who directed Los Angeles Lakers "Showtime" basketball to the heights of both glory...
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Derek Parfit (1942-2017) is the most famous philosopher you've likely never heard of. In 1984, Parfit published what was, and is still, hailed by many philosophers as a work of genius - one of the most cited works of philosophy since World War II, Reasons and Persons. At its core, he argued that we should be concerned less with our own interests and more with the common good. His book brims with brilliant argumentative detail and stunningly inventive...
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Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The first and only Estate-authorized biography of the legendary artist, Tupac Shakur, a moving exploration of his life and powerful legacy, fully illustrated with photos, mementos, handwritten poetry, musings, and more. Tupac Shakur is one of the greatest and most controversial artists of all time. More than a quarter of a century after his tragic death in 1996 at the age of just twenty-five, he continues to be one of the most misunderstood, complicated...
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Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
One of corporate America's greatest enemies profiles twelve CEOs, including The Body Shop's Anita Roddick, Patagonia's Yvon Chouinard and Vanguard's John Bogle, whom he believes performed extraordinarily well as business leaders and civic reformers.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Over the past forty years Mark Ellison has designed and constructed some of the most stunning marvels of architecture that you've never seen. He built a staircase that the famed architect Santiago Calatrava called a masterpiece. He worked on the iconic Sky House, which Interior Design named the best apartment of the decade. He's even worked on the homes of David Bowie, Robin Williams, and others whose names he cannot reveal. He is regarded by many...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
From the Founding to today, this book tells the stories of seven former presidents who each changed history and offered lessons about how to decide what to do in the next chapter of life as they handled human problems of ego, finances and questions about their legacy and mortality.
Author
Publisher
TAN Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In The Synodal Pope: The True Story of the Theology and Politics of Pope Francis, Jean-Pierre Moreau traces the history and theological development of Pope Francis from his upbringing in Argentina and formation by the liberationist Jesuits. Moreau, a keen observer of liberation theology, many of whose leading figures he personally met when he was a special correspondent for the Figaro-Magazine in the 1980s, has made a close study of the personal and...
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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"From Eric Blehm, the bestselling author of The Last Season and Fearless, comes an extraordinary new book in the vein of Into the Wild, the story of the legendary snowboarder Craig Kelly and his death in the 2003 Durrand Glacier Avalanche-a devastating and controversial tragedy that claimed the lives of seven people. On January 20, 2003, a thunderous crack rang out and a 100-foot-wide tide of snow barreled down the Northern Selkirk Mountains in British...
14) Leo Messi
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Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Childrens Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Discover the incredible life of Leo Messi, one of the worlds most skilled and celebrated footballers. As a child, Leo developed his passion for football playing games with his brothers and cousins in the streets of Rosario, Argentina. He later honed his skills on the pitch as part of the local youth team. But life wasn't without its challenges. Aged 9, he was diagnosed with Growth Hormone Deficiency. But nothing was going to stop Leo from following...
Author
Publisher
Seal Press, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"At 35, Elsie Robinson feared she'd lost it all. She was reeling from a hostile divorce to a wealthy man that played out in tabloids across the country and she faced an uncertain future as the single mother of a chronically-ill son. She had no clear means of financial support, no college education or training. She'd hit a wall. At a time when it was thought that a woman's highest calling was to become a wife and mother, Elsie hungered for a different...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Film legend recalls his remarkable life of nearly eight decades-a heralded actor who's played the roles he wanted, unchecked by the racism and typecasting so rife in the mostly all-white industry in which he triumphed. Billy Dee Williams was born in Harlem in 1937 and grew up in a household of love and sophistication. As a young boy, he made his stage debut working with Lotte Lenya in an Ira Gershwin/Kurt Weill production where Williams ended up...
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Language
English
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"Poet and journalist Shayla Lawson follows their National Book Critics Circle finalist This Is Major with these daring and exquisitely crafted essays, where Lawson journeys across the globe, finds beauty in tumultuous times, and powerfully disrupts the constraints of race, gender, and disability. With their signature prose, at turns bold, muscular, and luminous, Shayla Lawson travels the world to explore deeper meanings held within love, time, and...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
Español
Description
A Alan le encantaban el deporte y las piruetas aéreas. Pero un buen día de 2018, la vida decidió ponerle un enorme obstáculo: una mala caída le produjo una lesión medular y las piernas dejaron de responderle. Ahora es tetrapléjico. Y también un modelo de superación, de no rendirse, de darle a su vida una nueva perspectiva para continuar adelante, experiencias que cuenta en sus redes sociales.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
For the first time ever, this thrilling literary detective story, doubling as a celebration of words, language, people and one of mankind's greatest achievements, unravels the mystery of the contributors from around the world who, for over seventy years, helped to codify the way we read, write and speak.
"A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, word by word"--
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"No British monarch has had a tougher act to follow. Now, after seventy years of waiting and preparation, King Charles III is not just the head of the most famous family in the world. He is the custodian of a thousand-year-old institution that must redefine its place in the digital age while others insist on rewriting the past. With unrivaled access to the king, the royal family, and the court, leading royal authority Robert Hardman brings us the...
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