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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
973 ONE 2021
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973 ONE 2021
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Gerlach Community Library - Adult Nonfiction
973 ONE 2021
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973 ONE 2021
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
973 ONE 2021
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973 ONE 2021
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print Shelf
LP 973 ONE 2021
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LP 973 ONE 2021
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"The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric and unprecedented system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country's original sin, but it is more...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
306 GREEN 2021
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306 GREEN 2021
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
306 GREEN 2021
1 available
306 GREEN 2021
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
306 GREEN 2021
2 available
306 GREEN 2021
2 available
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3 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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"The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet—from the QWERTY keyboard and Staphylococcus aureus to the Taco Bell breakfast menu—on a five-star scale. John Green’s gift for storytelling shines throughout this...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO WANG 2021
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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
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"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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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
927.9143 HOWARD 2021
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927.9143 HOWARD 2021
4 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
927.9143 HOWARD 2021
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927.9143 HOWARD 2021
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print Shelf
LP 927.9143 HOWARD 2021
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LP 927.9143 HOWARD 2021
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By turns confessional, nostalgic, heartwarming, and harrowing, the award-winning filmmaker and his brother, an audience-favorite actor, share their unusual family story of navigating and surviving life as sibling child actors.
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO CARLILE 2021
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BIO CARLILE 2021
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO CARLILE 2021
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BIO CARLILE 2021
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"Brandi Carlile was born into a musically gifted, impoverished family on the outskirts of Seattle and grew up in a constant state of change, moving from house to house, trailer to trailer, fourteen times in as many years. Though imperfect in every way, her dysfunctional childhood was as beautiful as it was strange, and as nurturing as it was difficult. At the age of five, Brandi contracted bacterial meningitis, which almost took her life, leaving...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
811.6 GORMAN 2021
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811.6 GORMAN 2021
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
811.6 GORMAN 2021
1 available
811.6 GORMAN 2021
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
811.6 GORMAN 2021
1 available
811.6 GORMAN 2021
1 available
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The presidential inaugural poet--and unforgettable new voice in American poetry--presents a collection of poems that includes the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
576.5 ISAACS 2021
1 available
576.5 ISAACS 2021
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
576.5 ISAACS 2021
1 available
576.5 ISAACS 2021
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
576.5 ISAACS 2021
1 available
576.5 ISAACS 2021
1 available
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD 576.5 ISAACS 2021
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CD 576.5 ISAACS 2021
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1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how the pioneering scientist Jennifer Doudna, along with her colleagues and rivals, launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and enhance our children"--
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO ZAUNER 2021
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BIO ZAUNER 2021
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO ZAUNER 2021
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BIO ZAUNER 2021
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6 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 26 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 26 people are on the wait list.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print Shelf
LP BIO ZAUNER 2021
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LP BIO ZAUNER 2021
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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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Gerlach Community Library - Adult Nonfiction
929.2097 KEEFE 2021
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929.2097 KEEFE 2021
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North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
929.2097 KEEFE 2021
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929.2097 KEEFE 2021
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
929.2097 KEEFE 2021
1 available
929.2097 KEEFE 2021
1 available
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3 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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Presents a portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, who built their fortune on the sale of Valium and later sponsored the creation and marketing of one of the most commonly prescribed and addictive painkillers of the opioid crisis.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
973.0496 FOUR 2021
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973.0496 FOUR 2021
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
973.0496 FOUR 2021
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973.0496 FOUR 2021
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
973.0496 FOUR 2021
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973.0496 FOUR 2021
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"A "choral history" of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Last year marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first African presence in the Americas--and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Antiracism Institute of American University, and Keisha Blain,...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
591.5 ROACH 2021
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591.5 ROACH 2021
5 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
591.5 ROACH 2021
1 available
591.5 ROACH 2021
1 available
Gerlach Community Library - Adult Nonfiction
591.5 ROACH 2021
1 available
591.5 ROACH 2021
1 available
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD 591.5 ROACH 2021
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CD 591.5 ROACH 2021
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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"Join "America's funniest science writer" (Peter Carlson, Washington Post) Mary Roach on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A grizzly bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? As New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict,...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
973.0496 SMITH 2021
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973.0496 SMITH 2021
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
973.0496 SMITH 2021
1 available
973.0496 SMITH 2021
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
973.0496 SMITH 2021
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973.0496 SMITH 2021
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"'How the Word is Passed' is Clint Smith's revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a slave owning nation. Beginning in his own hometown of New Orleans, Smith leads the reader through an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks— those that are honest about the past and those that are not— that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nations collective history, and ourselves." --
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The Academy, Tony, and Emmy Award-winning actor and trailblazer tells her stunning story, looking back at her life and six-decade career.
14) On Juneteenth
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
394.263 GORDON 2021
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394.263 GORDON 2021
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
394.263 GORDON 2021
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394.263 GORDON 2021
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""It is staggering that there is no date commemorating the end of slavery in the United States." -Annette Gordon-Reed. The essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth's integral importance to American history, as told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Texas native. Interweaving American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed, the descendant of enslaved people brought to Texas in the 1850s, recounts...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
818.602 ROBINS 2021
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818.602 ROBINS 2021
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
818.602 ROBINS 2021
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818.602 ROBINS 2021
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"New York Times bestselling author, comedian, actress, and producer Phoebe Robinson is back with a new essay collection that is equal parts thoughtful, hilarious, and sharp about human connection, race, hair, travel, dating, Black excellence, and more. Written in Phoebe's unforgettable voice and with her unparalleled wit, Robinson's latest collection, laced with spot-on pop culture references, takes on a wide range of topics. From the values she learned...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO FORD 2021
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BIO FORD 2021
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO FORD 2021
1 available
BIO FORD 2021
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North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO FORD 2021
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BIO FORD 2021
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"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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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO GROHL 2021
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BIO GROHL 2021
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO GROHL 2021
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BIO GROHL 2021
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO GROHL 2021
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BIO GROHL 2021
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7 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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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.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
581.6 POLLAN 2021
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581.6 POLLAN 2021
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North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
581.6 POLLAN 2021
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581.6 POLLAN 2021
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
581.6 POLLAN 2021
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581.6 POLLAN 2021
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD 581.6 POLLAN 2021
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CD 581.6 POLLAN 2021
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Pollan, a radical challenge to how we think about drugs, and an exploration into the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants -- and the equally powerful taboos Of all the things humans rely on plants for--sustenance, beauty, fragrance, flavor, fiber--surely the most curious is our use of them is to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm, fiddle with or completely alter, the qualities...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO TREJO 2021
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BIO TREJO 2021
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO TREJO 2021
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BIO TREJO 2021
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Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - Adult Nonfiction
BIO TREJO 2021
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BIO TREJO 2021
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"For the first time, the full, fascinating, and inspirational true story of Danny Trejo's journey from crime, prison, addiction, and loss to unexpected fame as Hollywood's favorite bad guy with a heart of gold"--
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO BURKE 2021
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BIO BURKE 2021
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO BURKE 2021
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BIO BURKE 2021
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"From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the "me too" movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about her own journey to saying those two simple yet infinitely powerful words-me too-and how she brought empathy back to an entire generation in one of the largest cultural events in American history. Tarana didn't always have the courage to say "me too." As a child, she reeled...