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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
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
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J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to his central role in the Cold War.
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Language
English
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"When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world's youngest billionaire and crypto's Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash after he catapulted, practically overnight, onto the Forbes billionaire list. Who was this rumpled guy in cargo shorts and limp white socks, whose eyes twitched across Zoom meetings as he played video games on the side? In Going Infinite Lewis sets out to answer...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The Oscar-nominated star who captivated the world with his performance in Juno finally shares his truth. "Can I kiss you?" It was two months before the world premiere of Juno, and Elliot Page was in his first ever queer bar. The hot summer air hung heavy around him as he looked at her. And then it happened. In front of everyone. A previously unfathomable experience. Here he was on the precipice of discovering himself as a queer person, as a trans...
5) Elon Musk
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 670 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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"When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh. He was in the hospital for a week. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer, rogue, and charismatic fantasist.
His father’s impact on his psyche would linger. He developed into a tough yet vulnerable...
Author
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
c2018
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
These collections of Orwell, Vt Civil War veteran's life stories are meant to preserve their achievements in our hearts and minds. The entire series is meant to individualize and personalize the otherwise clinically antiseptic recounting of great historical events like America's Civil War. These are the human stories of the men who made that history.
Author
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
c2019
Physical Desc
480 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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These collections of New Haven, Vt Civil War veteran's life stories are meant to preserve their achievements in our hearts and minds. The entire series is meant to individualize and personalize the otherwise clinically antiseptic recounting of great historical events like America's Civil War. These are the human stories of the men who made that history.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The true story of the world's most prolific art thief--a spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, from the bestselling author of The Stranger in the Woods. For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Sťphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly ten years--in museums and cathedrals all over Europe--Breitwieser,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 465 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The definitive biography of dancer and choreographer Martha Graham, one of the great American artists of the twentieth century"--
"In the pantheon of American modernists, few figures loom larger than Martha Graham. One of the greatest choreographers ever to live, Graham pioneered a revolutionary dance technique--primal, dynamic, and rooted in the emotional life of the body--that upended traditional vocabulary and shaped generations of dancers and...
Author
Publisher
Rockridge Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
60 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Barack Obama became the first African American president of the United States and made a lot of important changes during his time in office. Before he made history fighting for health care, the environment, and civil rights, he was a smart kid who knew he wanted to help others. He worked hard to become a lawyer, a senator, and then the president, all so that he could change people's lives for the better." --from back cover.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this memoir, celebrated author, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit relates how she found her voice as a writer and as a feminist during the 1980s in San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. Then in her early twenties, Solnit tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city, which became her great teacher; of the small apartment she found, which became a home in which...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
"The raw and gripping memoir of a Black physician who confronts his past mistakes and relationships as he learns to find his own path forward At first glance, Anthony Chin-Quee looks like a traditional success story: a smart, ambitious kid who grew up to become a board-certified otolaryngologist--an ear, nose, and throat surgeon. Yet the truth is more complicated. As a self-described "not white, mostly Black, and questionably Asian man," Chin-Quee...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
"A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism shaped George Floyd's life and legacy--from his family's roots in the tobacco fields of North Carolina, to ongoing inequality in housing, education, health care, criminal justice, and policing -- telling the singular story of how one man's tragic experience brought about a global movement for change. The events of that day are now tragically familiar:...
14) King: a life
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The first full biography in decades, "King" mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times"--
"Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.--and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton and Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 560 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996) possessed one of the twentieth century’s most astonishing voices. In this first major biography since Fitzgerald’s death, historian Judith Tick offers a sublime portrait of this ambitious risk-taker whose exceptional musical spontaneity made her a transformational artist. Becoming Ella Fitzgerald clears up long-enduring mysteries. Archival research and in-depth family interviews shed new light on the singer’s difficult...
Author
Publisher
Rockridge Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
58 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Simone Biles has been called the greatest gymnast of all time, winning five Olympic and twenty-five World Champion medals by age twenty-two. Before she wowed the world with her incredible gymnastics skills, Simone was an energetic young girl who dreamed of becoming a top gymnast. She trained for hours every day and made many sacrifices to pursue her goals. Explore how Simone Biles went from being a kid growing up in Texas to an Olympic athlete who...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 451 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A revelatory new biography of the writer-activist Frantz Fanon, who inspired today's movements for racial liberatio"--
Author
Publisher
Rootstock Publishing
Pub. Date
2023, c2022
Physical Desc
xvi, 154 pages : illustrations (some colored) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Dave Morse (1937-2015), a beloved Vermont Sports Hall of Fame journalist ... spent 20 years at the Hardwick Gazette writing 'The Morse Code,' an all-sports, all-ages column. This biography, which includes a foreword by Ross Connelly, editor and co-publisher of the Hardwick Gazette (1986 to 2017), chronicles the life of veteran sports editor Dave Morse, whose contributions to the youth of a small community echo across the Green Mountains today."--Back...
Series
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Third edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 695 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This collection of Darwin's writing, those of his critics and those of his intellectual descendants, incorporates excerpts from "The Voyage of the Beagle", "On The Tendency of Species to Form Varieties" as well as "Origin of Species" and "The Descent of Man."
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A major new biography of J Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of a colossus who dominated half a century of American history and planted the seeds for much of today's conservative political landscape. We remember him as a bulldog--squat frame, bulging wide-set eyes, fearsome jowls--but in 1924, when he became director of the FBI, he had been the trim, dazzling wunderkind of the administrative...
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