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Hollywood Park : a memoir / by Jollett, Mikel,author.;
"Hollywood Park is a remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life. Mikel Jollett was born into one of the country's most infamous cults, and subjected to a childhood filled with poverty, addiction, and emotional abuse. Yet, ultimately, his is a story of fierce love and family loyalty told in a raw, poetic voice that signals the emergence of a uniquely gifted writer. We were never young. We were just too afraid of ourselves. No one told us who we were or what we were or where all our parents went. They would arrive like ghosts, visiting us for a morning, an afternoon. They would sit with us or walk around the grounds, to laugh or cry or toss us in the air while we screamed. Then they'd disappear again, for weeks, for months, for years, leaving us alone with our memories and dreams, our questions and confusion. So begins Hollywood Park, Mikel Jollett's remarkable memoir. His story opens in an experimental commune in California, which later morphed into the Church of Synanon, one of the country's most infamous and dangerous cults. Per the leader's mandate, all children, including Jollett and his older brother, were separated from their parents when they were six months old, and handed over to the cult's "School." After spending years in what was essentially an orphanage, Mikel escaped the cult one morning with his mother and older brother. But in many ways, life outside Synanon was even harder and more erratic. In his raw, poetic and powerful voice, Jollett portrays a childhood filled with abject poverty, trauma, emotional abuse, delinquency and the lure of drugs and alcohol. Raised by a clinically depressed mother, tormented by his angry older brother, subjected to the unpredictability of troubled step-fathers and longing for contact with his father, a former heroin addict and ex-con, Jollett slowly, often painfully, builds a life that leads him to Stanford University and, eventually, to finding his voice as a writer and musician. Hollywood Park is told at first through the limited perspective of a child, and then broadens as Jollett begins to understand the world around him. Although Mikel Jollett's story is filled with heartbreak, it is ultimately an unforgettable portrayal of love at its fiercest and most loyal"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Jollett, Mikel; Synanon (Foundation); Rock musicians;
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The genius under the table : growing up behind the Iron Curtain / by Yelchin, Eugene.;
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Subjects: Yelchin, Eugene;
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Rebel Queen : the Cold War, misogyny, and the making of a Grandmaster / by Polgár, Zsuzsa,1969-author.; Seirawan, Yasser,1960-writer of foreword.;
A real life 'Queens Gambit', 'Rebel Queen' is the story of one of the most renowned women in chess history, Susan Polgar, who took on a sexist establishment, standing up to an authoritarian empire, and rewriting the rules of what women could achieve against the oppressive backdrop of Cold War Eastern Europe.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Polgár, Zsuzsa, 1969-; Polgár, Zsuzsa, 1969-; Chess; Women chess players;
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Me-- Jane / by McDonnell, Patrick,1956-;
Holding her stuffed toy chimpanzee, young Jane Goodall observes nature, reads Tarzan books, and dreams of living in Africa and helping animals. Includes biographical information on the prominent zoologist.LSC
Subjects: Goodall, Jane, 1934-; Nature study; Toys;
© 2011., Little, Brown,
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Force of nature : a novel of Rachel Carson / by Burg, Ann E.; Blackall, Sophie.;
Includes bibliographical references.Through the eyes of her family and friends we see the young Rachel as she explores nature and overcomes obstacles to write about harmful chemical practices and launch the global environmental movement. Written in blank verse.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Novels in verse.; Free verse.; Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964; Conservationists; Women scientists;
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The darkest dark / by Hadfield, Chris,1959-; Fan, Eric.; Fan, Terry.; Fillion, Kate.;
Chris, who loves rockets, planets and pretending to be an astronaut, is afraid of the dark, until he watches the moon landing on television.LSC
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Hadfield, Chris, 1959-; Astronauts; Fear of the dark;
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Young Herriot : the early life and times of James Herriot / by Lewis-Stempel, John.; Osawa, Mai.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-250) and index.LSC
Subjects: Herriot, James; Veterinary students; Veterinarians;
© 2011., BBC Books,
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My good bright wolf : a memoir / by Moss, Sarah,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."An unflinching memoir about childhood, food, books, and our ability to see, become, and protect ourselves"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Moss, Sarah; Moss, Sarah; Authors; Eating disorders.; Memory.;
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On Sunset : a memoir / by Harrison, Kathryn,author.;
"A memoir of the author's upbringing by her grandparents in a fading mansion above Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Harrison, Kathryn; Harrison, Kathryn; Novelists, American; Novelists, American;
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Barack Obama : the story / by Maraniss, David.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : It's not even past -- In search of El Dorado -- Luoland -- "In this our life" -- Nairobi days -- Afraid of smallness -- Beautiful isle of somewhere -- Hapa -- Orbits -- "Such a world" -- Marked man -- What school you went? -- Barry Obama -- Riding Poniyem -- Mainland -- End and beginning -- The moviegoer -- Genevieve and the veil -- Finding and being found.
Subjects: Obama, Barack; Obama, Barack; Obama, Barack; Presidents;
© 2012., Simon & Schuster,
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