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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO WANG 2021
1 available
BIO WANG 2021
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO WANG 2021
1 available
BIO WANG 2021
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO WANG 2021
1 available
BIO WANG 2021
1 available
Description
"Beautiful Country is the real deal. Heartrending, unvarnished, and powerfully courageous, this account of growing up undocumented in America will never leave you."--Gish Jen, author of The Resisters Ba Ba told me this and I in turn carried it in my heart: so long as we didn't stake claim to what wasn't ours--the things, our rooms, America, this beautiful country--we would be okay. An incandescent and heartrending memoir about Qian Julie Wang's five...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO FRENCH 2021
1 available
BIO FRENCH 2021
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO FRENCH 2021
1 available
BIO FRENCH 2021
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO FRENCH 2021
1 available
BIO FRENCH 2021
1 available
Description
"Long before The Lost Kitchen became a world dining destination with every seating filled the day the reservation book opens each spring, Erin French was a girl roaming barefoot on a 25-acre farm, a teenager falling in love with food while working the line at her dad's diner and a young woman finding her calling as a professional chef at her tiny restaurant tucked into a 19th century mill. This singular memoir--a classic American story--invites readers...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO TYSON 2021
1 available
BIO TYSON 2021
1 available
Description
The Academy, Tony, and Emmy Award-winning actor and trailblazer tells her stunning story, looking back at her life and six-decade career.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO ZAUNER 2021
1 available
BIO ZAUNER 2021
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO ZAUNER 2021
1 available
BIO ZAUNER 2021
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO ZAUNER 2021
1 available
BIO ZAUNER 2021
1 available
Checked Out
6 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print Shelf
LP BIO ZAUNER 2021
1 available
LP BIO ZAUNER 2021
1 available
Description
The Japanese Breakfast indie pop star presents a full-length account of her viral New Yorker essay to share poignant reflections on her experiences of growing up Korean-American, becoming a professional musician and caring for her terminally ill mother.
"From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean-American,...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO HUDES 2021
1 available
BIO HUDES 2021
1 available
Description
"Quiara Alegria Hudes was the sharp-eyed girl on the stairs while her family danced in her grandmother's tight South Philly kitchen, "frizzy hair cut short, bangs teased into stiff clouds, sweat glistening in the summer fog, pamper-butt babies weaving between legs." Quiara was awed by her aunts and uncles and cousins, but haunted by the secrets of the family and the unspoken stories of the barrio -- even as she tried to find her own voice in the sea...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
977.311 TURNER 2021
1 available
977.311 TURNER 2021
1 available
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"The three girls formed an indelible bond: roaming their community in search of hidden treasures for their "Thing Finder box," and hiding under the dining room table, eavesdropping as three generations of relatives gossiped and played the numbers. The girls spent countless afternoons together, ice skating in the nearby Lake Meadows apartment complex, swimming in the pool at the Ida B. Wells housing project, and daydreaming of their futures: Dawn a...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO BROOME 2021
1 available
BIO BROOME 2021
1 available
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"Punch Me Up to the Gods introduces a powerful new talent in Brian Broome, whose early years growing up in Ohio as a dark-skinned Black boy harboring crushes on other boys propel forward this gorgeous, aching, and unforgettable debut. Brian’s recounting of his experiences—in all their cringe-worthy, hilarious, and heartbreaking glory—reveal a perpetual outsider awkwardly squirming to find his way in. Indiscriminate sex and escalating drug use...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
641.5092 TUCCI 2021
2 available
641.5092 TUCCI 2021
2 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction
641.5092 TUCCI 2021
2 available
641.5092 TUCCI 2021
2 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
641.5092 TUCCI 2021
1 available
641.5092 TUCCI 2021
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
The food-obsessed, award-winning actor, reflecting on the intersection of food and life, presents a heartfelt and delicious memoir of life in and out of the kitchen that takes readers on a gastronomic journey through the good times and bad.
"From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen"--
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction
811.54 HARJO 2021
1 available
811.54 HARJO 2021
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
811.54 HARJO 2021
1 available
811.54 HARJO 2021
1 available
Description
"Poet Laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life. In the second memoir from the first Native American to serve as US poet laureate, Joy Harjo invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her "poet-warrior" road. A musical, kaleidoscopic meditation, Poet Warrior reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of compassion and healing, poetry...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
617.481 MAGARY 2021
1 available
617.481 MAGARY 2021
1 available
Description
The fan-favorite Defector and former Deadspin columnist shares his long recovery from a catastrophic brain hemorrhage and how he learned to live with a broken mind as he tried to figure out who this new person is, in this fascinating, darkly funny comeback story.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO JAOUAD 2021
1 available
BIO JAOUAD 2021
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO JAOUAD 2021
1 available
BIO JAOUAD 2021
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO JAOUAD 2021
2 available
BIO JAOUAD 2021
2 available
Checked Out
3 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Description
An Emmy Award-winning writer and activist describes the harrowing years she spent in early adulthood fighting leukemia and how she learned to live again while forging connections with other survivors of profound illness and suffering.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO KENNEDY 2020
1 available
BIO KENNEDY 2020
1 available
Description
"The epic, definitive biography of Ted Kennedy--an immersive journey through the life of a complicated man and a sweeping history of the fall of liberalism and the collapse of political morality. Edward M. Kennedy was never expected to succeed. The youngest of nine, he lacked his brothers' natural gifts and easy grace. Yet after winning election to the Senate at the tender age of thirty, he became the most consequential legislator of his lifetime,...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO FORD 2021
1 available
BIO FORD 2021
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO FORD 2021
1 available
BIO FORD 2021
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO FORD 2021
1 available
BIO FORD 2021
1 available
Description
"One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the ever looming absence of her incarcerated father and the path we must take to both honor and overcome our origins. For as long as she could remember, Ashley has put her father on a pedestal. Despite having only vague memories of seeing him face-to-face, she believes he's the only person in the entire world who...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO CHOW 2021
1 available
BIO CHOW 2021
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO CHOW 2021
1 available
BIO CHOW 2021
1 available
Description
After her mother dies unexpectedly of cancer, a Chinese American writer and journalist weaves together the story of the fallout of grief that follows her extended family as they emigrate from China and Hong Kong to Cuba and America.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
813.54 SORREN 2021
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813.54 SORREN 2021
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Description
In a memoir of familial grief, the author examines the mystery of his mother's life and her withdrawal from everyone and everything she'd ever loved by excavating his own memories and family folklore.
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In the eighteenth century, on discovering her husband has been murdered, an Irish noblewoman drinks handfuls of his blood and composes an extraordinary lament that reaches across centuries to the young Doireann Ní Ghríofa, whose fascination with it is later rekindled when she narrowly avoids fatal tragedy in her own life and becomes obsessed with learning everything she can about the poem Peter Levi has famously called "the greatest poem written...
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"A turbulent romance meets harrowing medical mystery: the true story of the author's twenty-year marriage defined by her husband's chronic illness-and a testament to the endurance of love. Eleanor met Aaron when she was just a teenager and he was working at a local record store-older, cool, experienced, and with an electric personality. Escaping the cliches of fleeting young love, their summer romance bloomed into a relationship that survived college...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction
796.323 THOMPS 2020
1 available
796.323 THOMPS 2020
1 available
Description
"The autobiography of the legendary coach of the Georgetown Hoyas, whose achievements on and off the basketball court reflect America's unresolved struggle with racial justice"--
19) Going there
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO COURIC 2021
1 available
BIO COURIC 2021
1 available
Gerlach Community Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO COURIC 2021
1 available
BIO COURIC 2021
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO COURIC 2021
1 available
BIO COURIC 2021
1 available
Description
In this memoir, the iconic media star discusses her professional and personal life, including losing her husband at a young age, her historic turn as anchor of the CBS Evening News, and experiences dealing with gender inequality.
Author
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO GROHL 2021
1 available
BIO GROHL 2021
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO GROHL 2021
1 available
BIO GROHL 2021
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO GROHL 2021
1 available
BIO GROHL 2021
1 available
Description
The legendary American musician, singer, songwriter and documentary filmmaker offers a collection of stories, written by his own hand, that focus on the memories of his life, from his childhood to today.