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Two's company : a fifty-year romance with lessons learned in love, life & business / by Somers, Suzanne,1946-author.;
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Somers, Suzanne, 1946-; Somers, Suzanne, 1946-; Hamel, Alan.; Hamel, Alan; Actors; Entertainers;
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Fahrenheit-182 : a memoir / by Hoppus, Mark,author.; Ozzi, Dan,author.;
Bassist, songwriter, and vocalist for renowned pop-punk trailblazers Blink-182, Mark Hoppus, tells his story in 'Fahrenheit-182'. A memoir that paints a vivid picture of what it was like to grow up in the 1980s, Hoppus shares how he came of age and formed one of the biggest bands of his generation.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Hoppus, Mark.; Blink-182 (Musical group); Bass guitarists; Rock musicians;
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The girl who smiled beads : a story of war and what comes after / by Wamariya, Clemantine,author.; Weil, Elizabeth,1969-author.;
"A riveting story of dislocation, survival and the power of the imagination to save us. Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were "thunder." It was 1994, and in 100 days, more than 800,000 people would be murdered in Rwanda and millions more displaced. Clemantine and her fifteen-year-old sister, Claire, ran and spent the next six years wandering through seven African countries searching for safety--hiding under beds, foraging for food, surviving and fleeing refugee camps, finding unexpected kindness, witnessing unimaginable cruelty. They did not know whether their parents were alive. At age twelve, Clemantine, along with Claire, was granted asylum in the United States--a chance to build a new life. Chicago was disorienting, filled with neon lights, antiseptic smells, endless concrete. Clemantine spoke five languages but almost no English, and had barely gone to school. Many people wanted to help--a family in the North Shore suburbs invited Clemantine to live with them as their daughter. Others saw her only as broken. They thought she needed, and wanted, to be saved. Meanwhile Claire, who had for so long protected and provided for Clemantine, found herself on a very different path, cleaning hotel rooms to support her three children. Raw, urgent, yet disarmingly beautiful, The Girl Who Smiled Beads captures the true costs and aftershocks of war: what is forever lost, what can be repaired, the fragility and importance of memory, the faith that one can learn, again, to love oneself, even with deep scars."--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Wamariya, Clemantine.; Genocide; Genocide survivors; Genocide survivors; Refugees; Refugees;
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Finding freedom : Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family / by Scobie, Omid,author.; Durand, Carolyn,author.;
Offers an up-close and disarming portrait of a confident, influential, and forward-thinking couple who are unafraid to break with tradition, determined to create a new path away from the spotlight, and dedicated to building a humanitarian legacy that will make a profound difference in the world.
Subjects: Biographies.; Harry, Prince, Duke of Sussex, 1984-; Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, 1981-; Princes; Princesses; Royal couples;
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Freddie Mercury [videorecording] : the final act / by Rogan, James(Filmmaker),television director.; BBC Studios,publisher.;
Freddie Mercury.The story of the extraordinary final chapter of Freddie Mercury's life and how, after his death, Queen staged one of the biggest concerts in history, to celebrate his life and challenge the prejudices around HIV/AIDS.E.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Made-for-TV movies.; Biographical television programs.; Documentary television programs.; Historical television programs.; Nonfiction television programs.; Personal narratives.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Mercury, Freddie.; Queen (Musical group); Gay men; Rock music; Rock musicians;
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True compass : a memoir / by Kennedy, Edward M.(Edward Moore),1932-2009.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Edward M. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story--of his legendary family, politics, and fifty years at the center of national events.
Subjects: Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009.; United States. Congress. Senate; Legislators;
© 2009., Twelve,
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Saving Sam : the true story of an American's disappearance in Syria and his family's extraordinary fight to bring him home / by Goodwin, Sam,1989-author.;
"What would you do if your son suddenly disappeared in Syria, and you had no idea what had happened to him? Would you contact the FBI? The State Department? Pray? Would you Google "What to do if your son disappears in Syria"? When the unthinkable happened, the answer, in the case of Ann Goodwin and her husband Tag, was: all of the above. Their 30-year-old son Sam, who was attempting to become one of the few people in history to travel to every single country on the planet, vanished in a supposed safe-zone run by the Kurds on the Turkish border. At first, they didn't even realize he had been abducted: maybe the phone reception had gone down, they told themselves, as had happened plenty of times before when Sam was in an off-the-beaten-path place. Just wait, he'll call back soon. But Sam never did call back, and over the coming days, the horror of their situation quickly bore down on the Goodwins, a devout Catholic family of seven living a middle-class suburban lifestyle in St. Louis, Missouri. Frustrated and increasingly terrified, the Goodwins came to realize that they couldn't rely on their government to save Sam. They were going to have to do it themselves. This is the extraordinary story of Sam's abduction by the Syrian regime, who threatened to hand him over to ISIS for beheading if he did not confess to being a CIA spy. It's also the story of a Midwestern American family who transformed themselves into their own detective agency, building up a network of journalists, hostage negotiators, Middle East experts, Russian diplomats, Vatican envoys, and shady mercenaries, until eventually -- by nothing short of a miracle -- they found a secret backdoor into the heart of the Syrian intelligence service itself. Through multiple first-person narrators, Saving Sam recounts an inspiring and unforgettable saga that includes a travel journey to every country in the world, famous celebrities, heads of state, high-stakes diplomacy and critical life lessons around curiosity, uncertainty, prayer and what it ultimately means to be free. In a genuine, straightforward and sometimes humorous style, Sam draws on his experience as a hostage to demonstrate how we can all turn our own adversities into assets, whether it be in our personal, professional or spiritual lives"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Goodwin, Sam, 1989-; Goodwin, Sam, 1989-; Prisoners; Prisoners; Travelers;
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Inventory of a life mislaid : an unreliable memoir / by Warner, Marina,1946-author.; Herxheimer, Sophie,illustrator.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Marina Warner was born in 1946 to an English father and an Italian mother who had met during the war. In this beautiful memoir, Warner reaches back to their wartime meeting, romance, and the precarious tale of her wilful mother making the difficult move to London. It is also the story of Warner's childhood spent in Cairo, in a time when Egypt was in revolution and tumult, as well as her adolescence and life thereafter.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Warner, Marina, 1946-; Authors, English; Novelists, English;
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The Bigger Picture : My Blockbuster Life & Lessons Learned Along the Way. by Landau, Jon.;
'The Bigger Picture' is an uplifting and entertaining behind-the-scenes memoir about a life in film and the joy in solving problems with grace, kindness, and generosity, by the late film producer Jon Landau, written as he battled cancer and came to terms with his terminal diagnosis. Landau was a film producer for 'Titanic' and 'Avatar'. He died in July 2024.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs; PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Direction & Production;
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Soft as bones : a memoir / by Sage, Chyana Marie,author.;
Chyana Marie Sage shares the pain of growing up with her father, a crack dealer who went to prison for molesting her older sister. In revisiting her family's history, Chyana examines the legacy of generational abuse, which began with her father's father, who was forcibly removed from his family by the residential schools and Sixties Scoop programs. Yet hers is also a story of hope, as it was the traditions of her people that saved her life, healing one small piece in the mosaic that makes up the dark past of colonialism shared by Indigenous people throughout Turtle Island.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Sage, Chyana Marie; Sage, Chyana Marie.; Cree women; Generational trauma.; Métis women;
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