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1) Finding me
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#1 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2022-05-15.
| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| [2022] | First edition. | Ebony Magazine Publishing | 291 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits (some color) ; 24 cm | English | Available from another library
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This is Viola Davis' story, in her own words, and spans her incredible, inspiring life, from her coming-of-age in Rhode Island to her present day. Hers is a story of overcoming, a true hero's journey.
"In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life changing decision to stop running forever. This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and...
2) Greenlights
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#2 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2022-05-15.
On Shelf
Frank Carlson Library - Biography 1 available
BIO McConaughey, Matthew
| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| [2020] | First edition. | Crown | 289 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm | English | On Shelf
Frank Carlson Library - Biography 1 available BIO McConaughey, Matthew |
| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| 2021 | Unabridged. | Penguin Random House Audio | 6 audio discs (approximately 6 hr., 43 min.) ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available from another library
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2 copies, 22 people are on the wait list.
| Publication Date | Source | Edition | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2020 | Sunflower eLibrary | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
2 copies, 22 people are on the wait list.
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| Publication Date | Source | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2020 | Sunflower eLibrary | Crown | English | Available Online
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"Drawing on the Academy Award-winning actor's journals and diaries from the last 40 years, this book presents a uniquely McConaughey approach to achieving success and satisfaction"--
"I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five." McConaughey sat down with those diaries. He found lessons he learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions,...
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#3 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2022-05-15.
| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| [2022] | First edition. | Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | 291 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm | English |
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"A candid, compulsively readable, hilarious, and heartbreaking memoir of resilience and redemption by comedic genius Molly Shannon. Filled with behind-the-scenes stories involving everyone from Whitney Houston to Adam Sandler to Monica Lewinsky, many told for the first time here, 'Hello, Molly!' spans Molly's time on Saturday Night Live--where she starred alongside Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler, Cheri Oteri, Tracy Morgan, and Jimmy Fallon, among many...
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#4 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2022-05-15.
| Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| 2014. | Viking | xvi, 443 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. | English |
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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An expert on traumatic stress outlines an approach to healing, explaining how traumatic stress affects brain processes and how to use innovative treatments to reactivate the mind's abilities to trust, engage others, and experience pleasure. --Publisher's description.
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#5 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2022-05-15.
Formats:
| Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Availability | |
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| First edition. | Crown | xxxiv, 310 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm | Available from another library
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| First large print edition. | Random House Large Print | 389 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Boxed for RB
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| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| 2022 | Large Print. | Random House Inc | 461 p. ; | English | Available from another library
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"With Quiet, Susan Cain urged our society to cultivate space for the undervalued, indispensable introverts among us, thereby revealing an untapped power hidden in plain sight. Now she employs the same mix of research, storytelling, and memoir to explore why we experience sorrow and longing, and how embracing the bittersweetness at the heart of life is the true path to creativity, connection, and transcendence. Cain shows how a bittersweet state of...
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#6 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2022-05-15.
| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| 2022. | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. | Simon & Schuster | xii, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | Available from another library
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"When Bill Browder's young Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten to death in a Moscow jail, Browder made it his life's mission to go after his killers and make sure they faced justice. The first step of that mission was to uncover who was behind the $230 million tax refund scheme that Magnitsky was killed over. As Browder and his team tracked the money as it flowed out of Russia through the Baltics and Cyprus and on to Western Europe and the...
7) Will
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#7 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2022-05-15.
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| Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| 2021. | Penguin Press | x, 418 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm | English | Available from another library
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Checked Out
1 copy, 28 people are on the wait list.
| Publication Date | Source | Edition | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2021 | Sunflower eLibrary | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 28 people are on the wait list.
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A product of a profound journey of self-knowledge, and a reckoning with all that your will can get you and all that it can leave behind, in this memoir, one of the most dynamic and globally recognized entertainment forces of our time opens up fully about his life.
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#8 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2022-05-15.
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| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| [2015] | First edition. | St. Martin's Press | pages cm | English | Available from another library
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| Publication Date | Source | Edition | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2015 | Sunflower eLibrary | Unabridged | Macmillan Audio | English | Checked Out
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"These guys are intense. And they bring that same fire to their narration in the audiobook. Listen to these insanely competent SEAL officers tell you exactly how to make a team successful through their firsthand experiences in business and combat." - The Hustle
An updated edition of the blockbuster bestselling leadership audiobook that took America and the world by storm, two U.S. Navy SEAL officers who led the most highly decorated
...Author
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#9 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2022-05-15.
Checked Out
2 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
| Publication Date | Source | Edition | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2021 | Sunflower eLibrary | Unabridged | HarperAudio | English | Checked Out
2 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
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Read by Dave Grohl. Features excerpts from five never before heard demos performed by Dave Grohl and an original story exclusive to The Storyteller audiobook.
So, I've written a book.
Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ("It's a piece of cake! Just do four hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!")
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#11 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2022-05-15.
| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| 2021. | First edition. | Flatiron Books | 301 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm | English | Available from another library
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Oprah Winfrey, sharing stories from her own past, and a renowned brain development and trauma expert discuss the impact of trauma and adversity and how healing must begin with a shift to asking, "What happened to you?" rather than "What's wrong with you?"
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#12 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2022-05-15.
| Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| [2021] | Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC | 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | English |
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"Resettling Your Brain in the Age of Cheap Pleasures"--
We are living in a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, sexting. The smartphone is the modern-day hypodermic needle, delivering digital dopamine 24/7 for a wired generation. Lembke explores new scientific discoveries that explain why the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to pain-- and what to do about it....
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#15 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2022-05-15.
| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| [2022] | First edition. | Crown | xv, 570 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm | English |
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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The author of The Diana Chronicles takes readers inside the British royal family since the death of Princess Diana, showing the Queen's stoic resolve as family drama raged around her.
“Never again” became Queen Elizabeth II’s mantra shortly after Princess Diana’s tragic death. More specifically, there could never be “another Diana”—a member of the family whose global popularity upstaged, outshone, and...
