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Left on Tenth : a second chance at life : a memoir / by Ephron, Delia,author.;
The bestselling, beloved writer of romantic comedies like You've Got Mail tells her own late-in-life love story in her "resplendent memoir," complete with a tragic second act and joyous resolution. Delia Ephron had struggled through several years of heartbreak. She'd lost her sister, Nora, and then her husband, Jerry, both to cancer. Several months after Jerry's death, she decided to make one small change in her life--she shut down his landline, which crashed her internet. She ended up in Verizon hell. She channeled her grief the best way she knew: by writing a New York Times op-ed. The piece caught the attention of Peter, a Bay Area psychiatrist, who emailed her to commiserate. Recently widowed himself, he reminded her that they had shared a few dates fifty-four years before, set up by Nora. Delia did not remember him, but after several weeks of exchanging emails and sixties folk songs, he flew east to see her. They were crazy, utterly, in love. But this was not a rom-com: four months later she was diagnosed with AML, a fierce leukemia. In Left on Tenth, Delia Ephron enchants as she seesaws us between tears and laughter, navigating the suicidal lows of enduring cutting-edge treatment and the giddy highs of a second chance at love. With Peter and her close girlfriends by her side, with startling clarity, warmth, and honesty about facing death, Ephron invites us to join her team of warriors and become believers ourselves.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Ephron, Delia.; Authors, American; Cancer;
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Heiresses : the lives of the million dollar babies / by Thompson, Laura,1964-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."New York Times bestselling author Laura Thompson returns with Heiresses, a fascinating look at the lives of heiresses throughout history and the often tragic truth beneath the gilded surface. Heiresses: surely they are among the luckiest women on earth. Are they not to be envied, with their private jets and Chanel wardrobes and endless funds? Yet all too often those gilded lives have been beset with trauma and despair. Before the 20th century a wife's inheritance was the property of her husband, making her vulnerable to kidnap, forced marriages, even confinement in an asylum. And in modern times, heiresses fell victim to fortune-hunters who squandered their millions. Heiresses tells the stories of these women: Mary Davies, who inherited London's most valuable real estate, and was bartered from the age of twelve; Consuelo Vanderbilt, the original American "Dollar Heiress", forced into a loveless marriage; Barbara Hutton, the Woolworth heiress who married seven times and died almost penniless; Patty Hearst, heiress to a newspaper fortune who was arrested for terrorism. However, there are also stories of achievement: Angela Burdett-Coutts, who became one of the greatest philanthropists of Victorian England; Nancy Cunard, who lived off her mother's fortune and became a pioneer of the civil rights movement; Daisy Fellowes, elegant linchpin of interwar high society and noted fashion editor. Heiresses is about the lives of the rich, who-as F. Scott Fitzgerald said-are 'different'. But it is also a bigger story about how all women fought their way to equality, and sometimes even found autonomy and fulfilment"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Anecdotes.; Personal narratives.; Heiresses; Rich people; Upper class women; Women;
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Reckless daughter : a portrait of Joni Mitchell / by Yaffe, David,1973-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Biographies.; Mitchell, Joni.; Composers; Singers; Women composers; Women singers;
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Pilgrimage : my search for the real Pope Francis / by Shriver, Mark K.(Mark Kennedy),1964-author.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Biographies.; Francis, Pope, 1936-; Catholic Church; Popes;
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To the temple of tranquility ... and step on it! : a memoir / by Begley, Ed,Jr.,author.;
"Beloved actor and environmental activist Ed Begley Jr. -- known for countless roles over the last five decades, most recently in Better Call Saul and Young Sheldon -- shares hilarious and poignant stories of his improbable life, focusing on his relationship with his legendary father Ed Begley Sr., adventures with Hollywood icons, the origins of his environmental activism, addiction and recovery, and his lifelong search for wisdom and common ground."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Begley, Ed, Jr.; Actors; Environmentalists; Drug addiction.;
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The Bible : a biography / by Armstrong, Karen,1944-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Bible;
© c2007., Douglas & McIntyre,
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Rise up : ordinary kids with extraordinary stories / by Li, Amanda.; Blackwell, Amy.;
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Subjects: Youth; Children; Heroes;
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Amelia to Zora : twenty-six women who changed the world / by Chin-Lee, Cynthia; Addy, Sharon; Halsey, Megan;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 30-31).
Subjects: Alphabet books; Women;
© c2005., Charlesbridge,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Prime ministers / by Craats, Rennay,1973-;
Includes bibliograpical references and index.
Subjects: Prime ministers;
© c2000., Weigl Educational Publishers,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Orlando, My Political Biography. by B., Paul,film director.; The Criterion Collection (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 2023.“Come, come! I’m sick to death of this particular self. I want another.” Taking Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando: A Biography as his starting point, academic virtuoso turned filmmaker Paul B. Preciado fashioned the documentary ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY—a personal essay, historical analysis, and social manifesto. For almost a century, Woolf’s eponymous hero(ine) has inspired readers with their gender fluidity as well as their physical and spiritual metamorphoses across a three-hundred-year span. In making his film, Preciado invited a diverse group of more than twenty trans and nonbinary people to play the role of Orlando and to participate in this shared biography. Together, they perform interpretations of the novel, weaving into Woolf’s narrative their own stories of transition and identity formation. Not content to simply update a groundbreaking work, Preciado interrogates the relevance of Orlando in the ongoing struggle to secure dignity for trans people worldwide.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Literature.; Arts.; Social sciences.; Gender identity.; Homosexuality.; Documentary films.; LGBTQ.; Artists.;
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