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Playing the long game : a memoir / by Sinclair, Christine,1983-author.; Brunt, Stephen,author.;
For the first time in depth and in public, Olympic soccer gold-medalist Christine Sinclair, the top international goal scorer of all time and one of Canada's greatest athletes, reflects on both her exhilarating successes and her heartbreaking failures. 'Playing the Long Game' is a book of earned wisdom on the value of determination and team spirit, and on leadership that changed the landscape of women's sport. Sinclair was born and raised in Burnaby, BC.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Sinclair, Christine, 1983-; Soccer players; Women soccer players;
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Bad reputation [videorecording] / by Armstrong, Billie Joe,1972-on-screen participant.; Bingenheimer, Rodney,on-screen participant.; Brinkman, Carianne,on-screen participant.; Jett, Joan,on-screen participant.; Kerslake, Kevin,film director.; Magnolia Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Joan Jett, Billie Joe Armstrong, Rodney Bingenheimer, Carianne Brinkman.It's true, Joan Jett became mega-famous from the number-one hit "I Love Rock n Roll," but that's only part of the story. This documentary gives a wild ride as Jett and her close friends tell you how it really was in the burgeoning's 70s punk scene and the rocky road to rock stardom decades on. Their interviews are laced with amazing archival footage.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA Rating: R; for language, sexual references, some drug use and brief nudity.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Nonfiction films.; Biographical films.; Jett, Joan.; Rock musicians; Women rock musicians; Guitarists;
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Stuntman! : my car-crashing, plane-jumping, bone-breaking, death-defying Hollywood life / by Needham, Hal,1931-;
Subjects: Needham, Hal, 1931-; Actors; Directors; Stunt performers;
© c2011., Little, Brown and Company,
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Billy Joel [sound recording] : the definitive biography / by Schruers, Fred.; Thornton, Kirk.;
Read by Kirk Thornton.
Subjects: Joel, Billy.; Audiobooks.; Rock musicians;
© p2014., Random House Audio : Books on Tape,
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Inheritance : a memoir of genealogy, paternity, and love / by Shapiro, Dani,author.;
"The acclaimed and beloved author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets--a real-time exploration of the staggering discovery she made last year about her father, and her struggle to piece together the hidden the story of her own life"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Shapiro, Dani.; Jewish women; Novelists, American; Women novelists, American;
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Low-hanging fruit : sparkling whines, champagne problems, and pressing issues from my gay agenda / by Rainbow, Randy,1981-author.;
"A new essay collection by adored comedian and New York Times bestseller Randy Rainbow. Randy Rainbow has a few things on his mind that he wants to talk about. As a savvy social commentator tuned into the public discourse, his unfailing intuition tells him that the perspective everyone in America is clamoring for is that of a privileged white male complaining about a bunch of shit. While writing his New York Times bestseller Playing With Myself, Randy saw an America in crisis. He knew that what the country needed to get back on its high heels was a hard-hitting gay agenda and here it is--Low Hanging Fruit--a book filled with sparkling whines, a few flutes of champagne problems and a Birkin bag of the most pressing issues facing the US, from dancing TikTok grandmas, to Elon Musk, the GOP, and Donald Jessica Trump. On the down low, Randy dishes up some sex talk about life on the dating apps, Craigslist hookups and more. ("Gurl, wait till you hear the story about the fireman and the goggles ... ") Randy's longtime companion, the glamorous Chinchilla Silver Persian cat Tippi, makes an appearance as she dishes about her life Chez Randy. And, in the most highly anticipated sequel since Top Gun: Maverick, Randy continues the conversation with his mother, Gwen, because who knows better than the Jewish mother of a gay man about how to solve America's problems? Randy Rainbow's Low Hanging Fruit--a bold manifesto for a nation desperately in need of a makeover"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Rainbow, Randy, 1981-; Comedians; Gay men; Jewish men; Singers;
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The weight of sand : my 450 days held hostage in the Sahara / by Blais, Edith,1984-author.; Grubisic, Katia,translator.; translation of:Blais, Edith,1984-Sablier.English.;
"An evocative, earth-shattering memoir about one woman's kidnapping and 450 days of captivity at the hands of terrorists-and her stunning escape to freedom. In January 2019, news outlets reported that a young Canadian woman and her Italian companion were presumed kidnapped while traveling in Africa's Sahel region, a haven for Islamic terrorists. Little was known about the pair's fate until they reappeared in Mali more than one year later, having apparently escaped their captors. Now, in The Weight of Sand, Edith Blais describes her harrowing hostage experience for the first time-and reveals that writing poetry in secret helped save her life. Edith recounts the prolonged terror of her months as a hostage, enduring violent sandstorms, constant relocations, grueling hunger strikes, extreme isolation, and the unpredictability of her captors. She also shares the luminous poems she wrote in secret with a borrowed pen, which became a lifeline of creativity and one of the few possessions she smuggled out in her escape, strapped to her leg under her clothes. A compelling descent into a strange, brutal universe, The Weight of Sand is ultimately a life-affirming book-a celebration of resilience by a woman who refused to have her humanity stripped away from her."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Blais, Edith, 1984-; Blais, Edith, 1984-; Hostages; Hostages; Kidnapping victims; Kidnapping victims; Terrorism;
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Toni Morrison [videorecording] : the pieces I am / by Morrison, Toni,on-screen participant.; Als, Hilton,interviewee.; Davis, Angela Y.(Angela Yvonne),1944-interviewee.; Lebowitz, Fran,interviewee.; Mosley, Walter,interviewee.; Winfrey, Oprah,interviewee.; Sanchez, Sonia,1934-interviewee.; Magnolia Pictures (Firm),presenter.; Perfect Day Films,production company.; Magnolia Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Music by Kathryn Bostic ; director of photography, Graham Willoughby.Featuring: Hilton Als, Angela Davis, Fran Lebowitz, Walter Mosley, Sonia Sanchez, Oprah Winfrey.An artful and intimate meditation on the life and works of the acclaimed novelist. From her childhood in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio to '70s-era book tours with Muhammad Ali, from the front lines with Angela Davis to her own riverfront writing room, Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics, and colleagues on an exploration of race, America, history and the human condition as seen through the prism of her own literature.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13; for some disturbing images/thematic material.DVD; widescreen (1.78:1).
Subjects: Biographical films.; Documentary films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Morrison, Toni.; Nobel Prize winners; African American women novelists; African American women poets;
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This is our life / by Tragically Hip (Musical group),author.;
'This Is Our Life' is the story of The Tragically Hip--the definitive account of their incredible journey, as told in their own words and drawn from hundreds of hours of interviews with Rob Baker, Gord Downie, Johnny Fay, Paul Langlois, Gord Sinclair and the fellow musicians, producers, and crew that helped in shaping their story.
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Tragically Hip (Musical group); Rock groups; Rock musicians;
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Carrie Fisher : A Life on the Edge. by Weller, Sheila.;
Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts;
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