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61) Whiskey in a teacup: what growing up in the South taught me about life, love, and baking biscuits
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Language
English
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Description
Academy Award-winning actress, producer, and entrepreneur Reese Witherspoon invites the reader into her world, where she infuses the southern style, parties, and traditions she loves with contemporary flair and charm.
Author
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
A memoir by a USS Arizona survivor describes his experience with the attacks that left him with burns over more than sixty-five percent of his body. He details his resolve to re-enter service after a grueling recovery and his contributions to some of the Pacific's most violent battles.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books, Jeter Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 306 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
The founder of Comfort Cases, an organization that makes life better for thousands of foster children, shares his own experiences in foster care and how he was able to chart his own path and achieve his wildest dreams.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
Like nearly all the boys he knew, John Musgrave grew up looking forward to the day he could enlist in the Marine Corps and serve his country as his father had done. In this memoir, Musgrave renders his wartime service with intimacy and immediacy: from the rude awakening of boot camp to daily life in the Vietnam jungle to the chest wound that nearly killed him. Musgrave also describes the difficulty of returning home to a society rife with antiwar...
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
This vital memoir will change how we look at the opioid crisis and how the media talks about it. A deeply moving and emotional read, STRUNG OUT challenges our preconceived ideas of what addiction looks like.' Stephanie Land, New York Times bestselling author of MaidIn this deeply personal and illuminating memoir about her fifteen-year struggle with heroin, Khar sheds profound light on the opioid crisis and gives a voice to the over two million people...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization, and gene mapping.
68) Greenlights
Author
Publisher
Crown
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
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Description
"I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five." McConaughey sat down with those diaries. He found lessons he learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. This book is an album, a record, a story of his life and the graces, truths, and...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
A detailed look at the flagraising at Iwo Jima during World War II describes how the act became a symbol of the battle, the war, and the ideals of the United States; and examines the lives of the men who raised the flag.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
Documents the efforts of the first American ambassador to Hitler's Germany, William E. Dodd, to acclimate to a residence in an increasingly violent city where he is forced to associate with the Nazis while his daughter pursues a relationship with Gestapo chief Rudolf Diels.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The former Republican presidential nominee chronicles his political career from the election of Barack Obama through the divisive 2016 election, offering his opinions of the current developments in Washington as well as his recommendations for ongoing international challenges.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Near the end of 1939, ten-year-old Audrey Hepburn flew from boarding school in England into the Netherlands, which would soon become a war zone. What she experienced in five years of Nazi occupation has never been explored until now. Dutch Girl sets the story straight, revealing the Nazi past of Audrey's parents and how their daughter dealt with this information. The book examines her career as an acclaimed young ballerina, her involvement with the...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Admiral William H. McRaven is a part of American military history, having been involved in some of the most famous missions in recent memory, including the capture of Saddam Hussein, the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips, and the raid to kill Osama bin Laden. Sea Stories begins in 1960 at the American Officers' Club in France, where Allied officers and their wives gathered to have drinks and tell stories about their adventures during World War II....
Publisher
Howard Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
ix, 275 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Describes the devasting accident and case of mistaken identity that left one family grieving for the young woman they thought was their daughter while the wrong family cared for the lone survivor, and describes the healing journey of survivor Whitney Cerak.
76) Enough
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ever since a childhood visit to Washington, DC, Cassidy Hutchinson aspired to serve her country in government. Raised in a working-class family with a military background, she was the first in her immediate family to graduate from college. Despite having no ties to Washington, Hutchinson landed a vital position at the center of the Trump White House.
Her life took a dramatic turn on January 6th, 2021, when, at twenty-four, she found herself in one...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hillbilly Elegy shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author who is a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past.
78) Rage
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An essential account of the Trump presidency draws on interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, diaries, and confidential documents to provide details about Trump's moves as he faced a global pandemic, economic disaster, and racial unrest.
Author
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Notorious RBG takes the reader behind the scenes for an intimate, irreverent look at the justice's life and work. As America struggles with the unfinished business of gender equality and civil rights, Ginsburg stays fierce.