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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO BLAIR 2022
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BIO BLAIR 2022
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO BLAIR 2022
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BIO BLAIR 2022
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO BLAIR 2022
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BIO BLAIR 2022
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The first story Selma Blair Beitner ever heard about herself is that she was a mean, mean baby. With her mouth pulled in a perpetual snarl and a head so furry it had to be rubbed to make way for her forehead, Selma spent years living up to her terrible reputation: biting her sisters, lying spontaneously, getting drunk from Passover wine at the age of seven, and behaving dramatically so that she would be the center of attention. Although Selma went...
2) Wildflower
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD 791.4302 BARRYM 2015
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CD 791.4302 BARRYM 2015
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"Award-winning actress Drew Barrymore shares funny, insightful, and profound stories from her past and present told from the place of happiness she's achieved today. Wildflower is a portrait of Drew's life in stories as she looks back on the adventures, challenges, and incredible experiences of her earlier years. It includes tales of living on her own at 14 (and how laundry may have saved her life), getting stuck in a gas station overhang on a cross...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
791.4302 WILSON 2016
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791.4302 WILSON 2016
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
791.4302 WILSON 2016
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791.4302 WILSON 2016
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""Growing up, I wanted to BE Mara Wilson. Where Am I Now? is a delight." --Ilana Glazer, cocreator and star of Broad City "Genuine and authentic, funny and heartbreaking, Where Am I Now? reminds you that no matter how unique your life is, some things bind us all together." --Jenny Lawson, author of Furiously Happy A former child actress best known for her starring roles in Matilda and Mrs. Doubtfire, Mara Wilson has always felt a little young and...
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The actress who played the villain Nellie Oleson on the telvision show "Little House on the Prairie" shares her experiences on the show and discusses her life, from her bohemian childhood in West Hollywood to her recent charity work involving abused children and HIV awareness.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
791.4502 REMINI 2015
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791.4502 REMINI 2015
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
791.4502 REMINI 2015
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791.4502 REMINI 2015
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
791.4502 REMINI 2015
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791.4502 REMINI 2015
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"Leah Remini has never been the type to hold her tongue. That willingness to speak her mind, stand her ground, and rattle the occasional cage has enabled this tough-talking girl from Brooklyn to forge an enduring and successful career in Hollywood. But being a troublemaker has come at a cost. That was never more evident than in 2013, when Remini loudly and publicly broke with the Church of Scientology. Now, in this frank, funny, poignant memoir, the...
6) Small fry
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
818.603 BRENNA 2018
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818.603 BRENNA 2018
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
818.603 BRENNA 2018
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818.603 BRENNA 2018
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"A frank, smart and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs. Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents--artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs--Lisa Brennan-Jobs's childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa's father was a mythical figure who was rarely present in her life. As she grew older, her father took an interest in her, ushering her into a new world of mansions, vacations,...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO MARNELL 2017
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BIO MARNELL 2017
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"From Cat Marnell, 'New York's enfant terrible' (The Telegraph), a candid and darkly humorous memoir of prescription drug addiction and self-sabotage, set in the glamorous world of fashion magazines and downtown nightclubs. At twenty-six, Cat Marnell was an associate beauty editor at Lucky, one of the top fashion magazines in America--and that's all most people knew about her. But she hid a secret life. She was a prescription drug addict. She was...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction
791.4502 PECK 2022
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791.4502 PECK 2022
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
791.4502 PECK 2022
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791.4502 PECK 2022
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The actor, writer, YouTuber, and television superstar presents a candid memoir in which he reflects on the many stumbles and silver linings of his life while sharing surprising life lessons for anyone seeking to accept their past and make peace with the face in the mirror. For the first time, Josh reflects on his late teens and early twenties. Raised by a single mother, and coming of age under a spotlight that could be both invigorating and cruel,...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO JOLLETT 2020
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BIO JOLLETT 2020
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO JOLLETT 2020
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BIO JOLLETT 2020
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO JOLLET 2020
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BIO JOLLET 2020
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD BIO JOLLETT 2020
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CD BIO JOLLETT 2020
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"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...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO POLLEY 2022
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BIO POLLEY 2022
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"Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores memory and the dialogue between her past and her present These are the most dangerous stories of my life. The ones I have avoided, the ones I haven't told, the ones that have kept me awake on countless nights. As these stories found echoes in my adult life, and then went another, better way than they did in childhood, they became lighter and easier to...
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO LYNCH 2021
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BIO LYNCH 2021
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The actress, who played Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter films, shares how she confronted all the complexities and contradictions within herself; reveals how she began to conquer her self-hate and eating disorder; and explores the choices that led her down the path of creativity.
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"Tyler Feder shares her story of her mother's first oncology appointment to facing reality as a motherless daughter in this frank and refreshingly funny graphic memoir"--
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A story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation as it has never been told before. Recounted in visceral, kinetic prose, and crafted with a forthrightness that rejects piety, cynicism, and self-pity, it brings us face-to-face with a provocative new understanding of the nature of addiction and the meaning of recovery. By the time he entered a drug and alcohol treatment facility, James Frey had taken his addictions to near-deadly extremes. He had...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
813.54 WOL 1989
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813.54 WOL 1989
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction
813.54 WOLFE 1989
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813.54 WOLFE 1989
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This memoir introduces us to the young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling, and ultimately winning. Separated by divorce from his father and brother, Toby and his mother are constantly on the move, yet they develop an extraordinarily close, almost telepathic relationship. As Toby fights for identity and self-respect against the unrelenting hostility of a new stepfather, his experiences are at once poignant and comical, and...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO CONLEY 2017
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BIO CONLEY 2017
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO CONLEY 2017
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BIO CONLEY 2017
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The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality. When Garrard was a nineteen-year-old college student, he was outed to his parents, and was forced to make a life-changing decision: either agree to attend a church-supported conversion therapy program that promised to "cure" him of homosexuality; or risk losing family, friends, and the...
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David Pelzer trilogy volume 1
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO PELZER 1995
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BIO PELZER 1995
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Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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Dave Pelzer was beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother. This book covers the early years of his life and is an affecting look at the horrors of child abuse and the determination of one child to survive against the odds.
This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable,...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO GREGORY 2003
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BIO GREGORY 2003
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The author describes growing up as the victim of Munchausen by proxy, a form of child abuse in which her mother invented or caused a series of illnesses and ailments, and her struggle to escape her mother's problems to rebuild her life.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
818.54 ANGELO 1970
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818.54 ANGELO 1970
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
818.54 ANGELO 1970
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818.54 ANGELO 1970
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction
818.54 ANGELO 1970
1 available
818.54 ANGELO 1970
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3 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Description
Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FISHER 1987
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FICTION FISHER 1987
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In a stunning literary debut, Carrie Fisher chronicles the excruciatingly funny adventures of Suzanne Vale - young film star and drug addict, who survives a rehab clinic only to rejoin the equally harrowing world of Hollywood. Out there on the edge, despair flips into hilarity, and we're left laughing as Suzanne struggles to come to terms with her various fantasylands. Carrie Fisher's reading evokes the deliciously irreverent humor that forms the
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION FIT 1999 UNABRIDGED
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CD FICTION FIT 1999 UNABRIDGED
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When a woman murders a former lover and is imprisoned for life, her daughter must navigate a new reality--that of a series of foster homes, each its own universe, each with its own limits and dangers.
A Los Angeles girl whose mother goes to jail is taken in hand by the city's foster-care program and the novel describes her experience in a series of homes, each a new adventure.
Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed...