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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
188 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Such a needed, fun, and insightful book! It is packed with so much wisdom and great story telling. Navigating this important life change with Nancy will leave you feeling uplifted and inspired.y-Ariane de Bonvoisin, Best-selling author, The First 30 DaysShould I sell my house? Where should I go? How do I get rid of all this stuff? What can I do so I am not a burden to my kids? These are the questions senior citizens face. In Early Birds Flock Together,...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 176 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen prominent cartoonists discuss their creative processes and the experiences and influences that led to their success in one of today's most vibrant art forms. Each interview is followed by an original graphic short on the common theme of "the city."
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 311 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When the women behind the blog Three Many Cooks gather in the busiest room in the house, there are never too many cooks in the kitchen. Now cookbook author Pam Anderson and her daughters Maggy Keet and Sharon Damelio blend reflections and well-loved recipes into one book.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 297 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Rock stars, rappers, and actors haven't always had a monopoly on misbehaving. There was a time when authors fought with both words and fists, a time when poets were the ones living fast and dying young. This witty, insightful and wildly entertaining narrative profiles the literary greats who wrote generation-defining classics such as The Great Gatsby and On the Road while living and loving like hedonistic rock icons, who were as likely to go on epic...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 257 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Career and family-minded people everywhere understand the basic problem: Everyone wants to be able to do it all -- work, sleep, family, fitness, and friends -- but there are only twenty-four hours in a day. Randi Zuckerberg encourages others to follow her lead to be 'well-lopsided,' a term she says has saved her life. Between having her own radio show, appearing on Broadway, speaking across the globe, creating Facebook Live, and being the mother to...
1967) Kafka and the doll
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by a true story, Kafka and the Doll recounts a remarkable gesture of kindness from one of the world's most bewildering and iconic writers. In the fall of 1923, Franz Kafka encountered a distraught little girl on a walk in the park. She'd lost her doll and was inconsolable. Kafka told her the doll wasn't lost, but instead, traveling the world and having grand adventures! And to reassure her, Kafka began delivering letters from the doll to...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
930L
Physical Desc
xi, 221 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"A book of affirmations and honest stories about relationships, career, and faith"--
Ortega has had to balance her acting career, her private live, and many public expectations from a young age. She learned that she could only get through it by leading with love-- love for her friends, her family, her faith, and herself. Here she shares candid stories about acting, dating, family, friendships, and mental health, alongside short affirmations. -- adapted...
1970) Soldaten: on fighting, killing, and dying : the secret World War II transcripts of German POWs
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
x, 437 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Though initially recorded by British intelligence with the intention of gaining information that might be useful for the Allied war effort, the matters discussed in these conversations ultimately proved to be limited in that regard. But they would supply a unique and profoundly important window into the mentality of the soldiers in the Wehrmacht, the Luftwaffe, the German navy, and the military in general, almost all of whom had insisted on their...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"M*A*S*H meets Scrubs in a sharply observant, absurdly funny, inspiring, and totally unique debut memoir from a physical therapist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the birthplace of physical therapy and the world leader in prosthetic rehabilitation for injured war veterans"--
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Expanded edition.
Physical Desc
279 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Secret Loves of Geek Girls is a non-fiction anthology mixing prose, comics, and illustrated stories on the lives and loves of an amazing cast of female creators. Featuring work by Margaret Atwood (The Heart Goes Last), Mariko Tamaki (This One Summer), Trina Robbins (Wonder Woman), Marguerite Bennett (Marvel's A-Force), Noelle Stevenson (Nimona), Marjorie Liu (Monstress), Carla Speed McNeil (Finder), and over fifty more creators. It's a compilation...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 191 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A timeless collection of philosophies from renaissance performer and the world's most famous shape-shifter RuPaul, whose sage outlook has created an unprecedented career for more than thirty-five years. GuRu is packed with more than 80 beautiful photographs that illustrate the concept of building the life you want from the outside in and the inside out. As someone who has deconstructed life's hilarious facade, RuPaul has broken "the fourth wall"...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Looking for wit, wisdom, and inspiration all within the pages of one useful book? Read Something Else. Life is a turbulent journey, fraught with confusion, heartbreak, and inconvenience. This collection of wit and wisdom from New York Times bestselling author Lemony Snicket is unlikely to help. It includes a new introduction filled with curious aphorisms, a handful of never-before-seen-or-heard quotations, and fan favorites from works over the years....
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Face is a book of fictional vignettes that examines the fear and vestigial evolutionary habits that have caused women and men to cultivate the imagined reality that older women's faces are unattractive, undesirable, and something to be "fixed." Based on "older face" experiences of the author, Justine Bateman, and those of dozens of women and men she interviewed, the book presents the reader with the many root causes for society's often negative attitudes...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 324 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 2014, outspoken author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza found himself hauled into federal court for improperly donating money to an old friend's Senate campaign. D'Souza pleaded guilty and was sentenced to eight months in a state-run confinement center. There he lived among hardened criminals--drug dealers, thieves, gangbangers, rapists, and murderers. Now the bestselling author explains how this experience not only changed his life, but...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Fire in the heart is a powerful memoir by once a weak, bullied schoolgirl who reinvented herself as a professional wildlands fire fighter. Determined to forge herself into a stronger, braver person, Mary climbs to unmitigated heights for a woman in the field, eventually becoming a team commander of a Florida wildfire division. Filled with literal struggles for survival, tough choices and Mary's burning passion for what she does, Fire in the Heart,...
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