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''From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie answers violence with art, and reminds us of the power of words to make sense of the unthinkable. Knife...
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The definitive biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time—Barbara Walters—a woman whose personal demons fueled an ambition that broke all the rules and finally gave women a permanent place on the air, written by bestselling author Susan Page.
Barbara Walters was a force from the time TV was exploding on the American scene in the 1960s to its waning dominance in a new world of competition from streaming services...
Barbara Walters was a force from the time TV was exploding on the American scene in the 1960s to its waning dominance in a new world of competition from streaming services...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
BIO RUPAUL 2024
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BIO RUPAUL 2024
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
BIO RUPAUL 2024
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BIO RUPAUL 2024
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
BIO RUPAUL 2024
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BIO RUPAUL 2024
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4 copies, 20 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 6 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 6 people are on the wait list.
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"From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date—a brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-acceptance. A profound introspection of his life, relationships, and identity, The House of Hidden Meanings is a self-portrait of the legendary icon...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
BIO HARING 2024
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BIO HARING 2024
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"A stunning life of the iconic American artist, Keith Haring, by the acclaimed biographer Brad Gooch. In the 1980s, the subways of New York City were covered with art. In the stations, black matte sheets were pasted over outdated ads, and unsigned chalk drawings often popped up on these blank spaces. These temporary chalk drawings numbered in the thousands and became synonymous with a city as diverse as it was at war with itself, beset with poverty...
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
305.8687 FIGUER 2024
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305.8687 FIGUER 2024
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"A searing and deeply personal memoir that explores the institutions--family, society, country--that defined a Puerto Rican woman and what she unlearned to rediscover herself. Growing up in the Midwest, raised by a Puerto Rican mother who was abandoned byher family, Jamie Figueroa and her sisters were estranged from their culture, consumed by the whiteness that surrounded them. In Mother Island, Figueroa traces her search for identity as shaped by...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
155.93 CROSLE 2024
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155.93 CROSLE 2024
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2 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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"How do we live without the ones we love? Grief Is for People is a deeply moving and suspenseful portrait of friendship, and a book about loss that is profuse with life. Sloane Crosley is one of our most renowned observers of contemporary behavior, and now the pathos that has been ever present in her trademark wit is on full display. After the pain and confusion of losing her closest friend to suicide, Crosley looks for answers in philosophy and art,...
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"Film legend recalls his remarkable life of nearly eight decades-a heralded actor who's played the roles he wanted, unchecked by the racism and typecasting so rife in the mostly all-white industry in which he triumphed. Billy Dee Williams was born in Harlem in 1937 and grew up in a household of love and sophistication. As a young boy, he made his stage debut working with Lotte Lenya in an Ira Gershwin/Kurt Weill production where Williams ended up...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
975.8265 FINKEL 2024
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975.8265 FINKEL 2024
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
975.8265 FINKEL 2024
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975.8265 FINKEL 2024
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"A man navigates the deep divisions in America today and discovers that sometimes change can start by finding common ground with your neighbors in this immersive account by the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Thank You for Your Service and The Good Soldiers. "Finkel's account is poetic, profound, and irresistibly page-turning."—Geraldine Brooks, author of Horse As this powerful book begins, Brent Cummings finds himself coping with the feeling...
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"A monumental account of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the forging of a leader, The Showman provides an insider's perspective on the war reshaping our world, based on unprecedented access to Volodymyr Zelensky and the high command in Kyiv. Time correspondent Simon Shuster chronicles the life and leadership of Volodymyr Zelensky from the dressing rooms of his variety shows to the muddy trenches of Ukraine's war with Russia. Based on four years...
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"I'm starting a service... available for any situation in which all you want is a person to be there. Maybe there's a restaurant you want to go to, but you feel awkward going on your own. Maybe a game you want to play, but you're one person short. Or perhaps you'd like someone to keep a space in the park for your cherry blossom viewing party... Shoji Morimoto was constantly being told by his boss, 'It makes no difference whether you’re here or...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
BIO STREISAND 2023
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BIO STREISAND 2023
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North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
BIO STREISAND 2023
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BIO STREISAND 2023
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
BIO STREISAND 2023
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BIO STREISAND 2023
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12 copies, 59 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 26 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 26 people are on the wait list.
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"The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) and has one of the greatest and most recognizable voices in popular music. She has been nominated for a Grammy 46 times, and with Yentl she became the...
13) My effin' life
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
BIO LEE 2023
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BIO LEE 2023
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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"The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Rush bassist, and bestselling author of Geddy Lee's Big Beautiful Book of Bass. Geddy Lee is one of rock and roll's most respected bassists. For nearly five decades, his playing and work as co-writer, vocalist and keyboardist has been an essential part of the success story of Canadian progressive rock trio Rush. Here for the...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
BIO LONGSTREET 2023
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BIO LONGSTREET 2023
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"An authoritative biography of the second-highest-ranking and most controversial Confederate general, who rejoined the Union after the Civil War, advising other Confederate soldiers to put that war behind them. After joining an interracial government in New Orleans, Longstreet fought against white supremacists when they attacked these postwar elected officials, for which he was vilified and attacked by other Southerners, and blamed for the South's...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
BIO FITZGERALD 2024
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BIO FITZGERALD 2024
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"Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996) possessed one of the twentieth century’s most astonishing voices. In this first major biography since Fitzgerald’s death, historian Judith Tick offers a sublime portrait of this ambitious risk-taker whose exceptional musical spontaneity made her a transformational artist. Tick’s compelling narrative depicts Fitzgerald’s complicated career in fresh and original detail, upending the traditional view that segregates...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
BIO THOMPSON 2023
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BIO THOMPSON 2023
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"When I Was Your Age is a hilarious, heartwarming and surprising ode to growing up, getting older and wiser, and luck, life, and learning from the school of hard knocks, from SNL's longest-serving actor, Kenan Thompson Kenan Thompson is Saturday Night Live’s longest-ever-serving cast member and a star of such pioneering sketches as “Black Jeopardy” and is hugely beloved thanks to a tidal wave of nostalgic fans who grew up on early 2000s classics...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
812.54 MAMET 2023
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812.54 MAMET 2023
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"Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet shares scandalous and laugh-out-loud tales from his four decades in Hollywood where he worked with some of the biggest names in movies. David Mamet went to Hollywood on top—a super successful playwright summoned west in 1980 to write a vehicle for Jack Nicholson. He arrived just in time to meet the luminaries of old Hollywood and revel in the friendship of giants like Paul Newman,...
18) The woman in me
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
BIO SPEARS 2023
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BIO SPEARS 2023
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
BIO SPEARS 2023
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BIO SPEARS 2023
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Senior Center Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
CD BIO SPEARS 2023
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CD BIO SPEARS 2023
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
CD BIO SPEARS 2023
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CD BIO SPEARS 2023
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35 copies, 40 people are on the wait list.
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The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice-her truth-was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey-and the strength at the core of one of the greatest...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
BIO MADONNA 2023
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BIO MADONNA 2023
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
BIO MADONNA 2023
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BIO MADONNA 2023
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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The award-winning master biographer chronicles the meteoric rise and enduring influence of the greatest female pop icon of the modern era who has never stopped experimenting, pushing boundaries that changed culture globally, and fiercely defending a person’s right to love whomever—and be whoever –they wanted.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
BIO PARTON 2023
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BIO PARTON 2023
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
BIO PARTON 2023
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BIO PARTON 2023
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
BIO PARTON 2023
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BIO PARTON 2023
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"A beautiful celebration of Dolly Parton’s iconic sense of style through entertaining personal stories and 450 full-color photographs, including exclusive images from her private costume archive In Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones, global superstar Dolly Parton shares, for the first time, the full story behind her lifelong passion for fashion, including how she developed her own, distinctly Dolly style, which has defied convention and endeared...