Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+3448&No=90 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712618 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1753319 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743596 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713191 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1739487 Featuring stories from some of his most trusted couturiers and friends, a tribute to the internationally celebrated star known for his music and his flamboyant fashions displays his most dazzling and over-the-top costumes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1750493 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694364 The twelve-time All-Star catcher describes the inspiration he gleaned from his self-made father, his early career with the Dodgers, his memorable 2000 World Series with the Mets, and the controversies that have marked his career. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1754574 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694338 Eddie Huang is the 30-year-old proprietor of Baohaus - the hot East Village hangout where foodies, stoners, and students come to stuff their faces with delicious Taiwanese street food late into the night - and one of the food worlds brightest and most controversial young stars. But before he created the perfect home for himself in a small patch of downtown New York, Eddie wandered the American wilderness looking for a place to call his own. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712054 A brilliant and provocative reexamination of Americas thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge, and the decade of unparalleled growth that the nation enjoyed under his leadership. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715289 Examines the colorful lives and careers of the leaders of the Wild Bunch, who always managed to escape unscathed from their criminal exploits until new twentieth-century inventions and crime-fighting techniques caught up with them. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715282 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687152 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713110 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1693194 A memoir by the author of And I shall have some peace there about how [her] surrender to gardening saved her life--Provided by the publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694402 In the slums of Kampala, Uganda, Phiona Mutesi sleeps in a decrepit shack with her mother and three siblings and struggles to find a single meal each day. Phiona is also one of the worlds best chess players. One day in 2005 while searching for food, nine-year-old Phiona met Robert Katende, a war refugee turned missionary. Katende had an improbable dream: to empower slum kids through chess - a game for which there is no word in their language. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738269 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712347 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1716141 In this book, Angelou details what brought her mother to send her away, and unearths the well of emotions she experienced long afterward as a result. For the first time, she reveals the triumphs and struggles of being the daughter of Vivian Baxter, an indomitable spirit whose petite size belied her larger-than-life presence, a presence absent during much of the authors early life. When her marriage began to crumble, Vivian famously sent three-year-old Maya and her older brother away from their California home to live with their grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. Their reunion a decade later began a story that has never before been told. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713115 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1758113 Edna OBrien, the author of The Country Girls trilogy, The Light of Evening, and Byron in Love, portrays the events, people, emotions, and landscape that contributed to her rich and heady life. She is the recipient of the James Joyce Ulysses Medal, and an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713069 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742154 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731468 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1752857 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696173 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1750412 Explores the life and career of the 19th-century American journalist, intellectual, and advocate of personal liberation. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715593 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1674360 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1757388 The original MTV VJs offer a behind-the-scenes oral history of the early years of MTV, circa 1981 to 1985, when it was exploding, reshaping the culture, and forming the MTV generation.MTVs first VJs (along with the late J.J. Jackson) had front-row seats to a cultural revolution--and the hijinks of rock stars from Adam Ant to Cyndi Lauper. Their worlds collided, of course: John Cougar invited Nina Blackwood to a late night party that proved to be a seduction attempt. Mark Goodman partied with David Lee Roth, who offered him cocaine and groupies. Aretha Franklin made chili for Alan Hunter. After Martha Quinn interviewed Bob Dylan, he whisked her off to Ireland in his private jet. While the book has plenty of dish--secret romances, nude photographs, incoherent celebrities--it also tells the story of four VJs growing up alongside MTVs devoted viewers. Using MTV as a focal point, the book tells the story of the 1980s, from the neon-colored drawstring pants to the Reagan administration. Readers dont just get the inside scoop on music stars like Bob Dylan, Madonna, and Duran Duran, but a deeper understanding of how MTV changed our culture. Or as the VJs put it: Were the reason you have no attention span.-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1741970 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713181 In The Things They Cannot Say, eleven soldiers and marines display a rare courage that transcends battlefield heroics--they share the truth about their wars. For each of them it means something different: one struggles to recover from a head injury he believes has stolen his ability to love, another attempts to make amends for the killing of an innocent man, while yet another finds respect for the enemy fighter who tried to kill him. Award-winning journalist and author Kevin Sites asks the difficult questions of these combatants, many of whom he first met while in Afghanistan and Iraq and others he sought out from different wars. Sites compiles the accounts of soldiers, marines, and their families and friends and also shares the unsettling narrative of his own failures during war--including complicity in a murder--and the redemptive powers of storytelling in arresting a spiraling path of self-destruction. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712584 A revered yoga instructor reveals her own struggles with body image and the student-prompted journey of self-discovery that led her to visit other world regions, including the drought-stricken Indian countryside and the center of the 2011 earthquake in Japan. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738973 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1741972 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742180 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731346 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1750712 A no-holds-barred memoir by the original bad boy of tennis. Jimmy Connors ignited the tennis boom in the 1970s with his aggressive style of play, turning his matches with John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg, and Ivan Lendl into prizefights. But it was his prolonged dedication to his craft that won him the publics adoration. He capped off one of the most remarkable runs in tennis history at the age of 39 when he reached the semifinals of the 1991 U.S. Open, competing against players half his age. Here is the uncensored account of Connors life, from his complicated relationship with his formidable mother and his storybook romance with tennis legend Chris Evert, to his battles with gambling and fidelity that threatened to derail his career and his long-lasting marriage to Playboy playmate Patti McGuire. When he retired twenty years ago, Connors all but disappeared from public view--but here he is, as feisty, outspoken, and defiant as ever.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713096 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687294 How can I help others grow and transform if I havent done it myself? Cyndi Lee asks in the opening pages of her memoir, May I Be Happy, where she makes a surprising revelation. In spite of her success in physically demanding professions--dancer, choreographer, and yoga teacher--Lee was caught in a lifelong cycle of repetitive self-judgment about her body, which was infecting her closest relationships--including her relationship with herself.... By becoming her own best student, Lee internalizes the strength, stability, and clarity she imparts in her Buddhist-inspired yoga classes.--Jacket. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742052 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1750606 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1750382 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1664019 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1753499 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1751114 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1754635 Sally Kellermans portrayal of Margaret Hot Lips Houlihan in Robert Altmans M*A*S*H remains a landmark performance. Throughout her long career Kellerman has been a real dame--honest, down-to-earth, sultry, funny, and unfiltered. Here, she shares colorful tales of her years as an up-and-coming actress in the early 1960s, when Hollywood was a small neighborhood full of chance encounters. To pay for acting classes ($10 each, alongside the likes of Jack Nicholson) she waited tables at a coffee house on the Sunset Strip that was a hangout for Marlon Brando, Steve McQueen, and Warren Beatty. During the Vietnam War, she dated Henry Kissinger. Through the years there were career highs and low, along with drugs, affairs, diets, and therapy, a music album, marriages, and unexpected motherhood. Inspiring, poignant, and often hilarious, Sally Kellermans story is a paean to the power of reinvention.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1760214 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696361 Sampson Davis is best known as one of three friends from inner-city Newark who made a pact in high school to become doctors. In this book, Dr. Davis looks at the health-care crisis in the inner city from a rare perspective: that of a doctor who works on the front line of emergency medical care in the community where he grew up and as a member of that community who has faced the same challenges as the people he treats every day. He also offers invaluable practical advice for those living in such communities, where conditions like asthma, heart disease, strokes, obesity, and AIDS are disproportionately endemic. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735886 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1760188 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731473 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744320 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1750481 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687259 The author of The Rose of Martinique presents a history of the interdependence of sugar, slavery and colonial settlement in the New World through the story of the authors ancestors, exploring the myriad connections between sugar cultivation and her familys identity, genealogy and financial stability. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731374 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687131 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712187 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748523 Glennon Melton believes that by shedding our weapons and armor, we can stop hiding, competing, striving for the mirage of perfection, and ultimately build a better life in our hearts, homes, and communities. Readers will find a wise and witty friend who will embolden them to cut themselves a break and commit to small acts of love that can have an extraordinary impact. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732522 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713185 Thom Hatch brings these memorable characters to life like never before: Butch, the brains of the outfit; Sundance, the man of action; and the men on both sides of the law whom they fought with and against. From their early holdup attempts to that fateful day in Bolivia, Hatch draws on a wealth of fresh research to go beyond the myth and provide a compelling new look at these legends of the Wild West. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682862 Illuminates the friendships that have influenced, nourished, inspired, and haunted the author--and sometimes torn her apart--each of which has its own lessons that she seeks to understand. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696188 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1752854 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1741965 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744214 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1754591 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734588 A portrait of the Detroit Tigers pitcher who died in a 2009 accident recounts his rise from small-town Massachusetts to the major leagues, the on-field eccentricities that endeared him to fans, and the injuries that cut his career short. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743703 The story of how a Mormon kid with Tourettes found salvation in books and weight-lifting. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1750562 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1758119 [A] memoir ... that juxtaposes two fascinating lives--the iconoclastic designer Elsa Schiaparelli and the authors own mother--to explore how a girl fashions herself into a woman--Dust jacket flap. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705574 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742079 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1750608 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705698 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732179 A memoir from the travel writer and editor who spent her childhood moving between her Great Alaskan father on the tundra in the summer and her more urbane mother in Baltimore during the school year, a lifestyle that led to an adult who both feared and idolized human connection. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712336 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682781 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687361 Just past seventy, Alex Witchels smart, adoring, ultracapable mother began to exhibit signs of dementia. Her smart, adoring, ultracapable daughter reacted as shed been raised: If something was broken, they would fix it. But medical reality undid that hope, and her mother continued to disappear in plain sight. So Witchel retreated to the kitchen, trying to reclaim her mother by cooking the comforting foods of her childhood. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738323 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715298 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742702 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738343 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696406 One hundred and seventy-five years ago, a Swiss immigrant took America by storm, launching American science as we know it. The irrepressible Louis Agassiz, legendary at a young age for his work on mountain glaciers, focused his prodigious energies on the fauna of the New World. Invited to deliver a series of lectures in Boston, he never left, becoming the most famous scientist of his time. A pioneer in field research and an obsessive collector, Agassiz enlisted the American public in a vast campaign to send him natural specimens, dead or alive, for his ingeniously conceived museum of comparative zoology. As an educator of enduring impact, he trained a generation of American scientists and science teachers, men and women alike. Irmscher sheds new light on Agassizs fascinating partnership with his brilliant wife, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, a science writer in her own right who would go on to become the first president of Radcliffe College. But theres a dark side to the story. Irmscher adds unflinching evidence of Agassizs racist impulses and shows how avidly Americans looked to men of science to mediate race policy. The books potent, original scenes include the pitched battle between Agassiz and his student Henry James Clark as well as the merciless, often amusing exchanges between Darwin and Harvard botanist Asa Gray over Agassizs stubborn resistance to evolution. A fascinating life story, both inspiring and cautionary, for anyone interested in the history of American ideas--Jacket. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696412 A true story of obsessive love turning to obsessive hate, Give Me Everything You Have chronicles the authors strange and harrowing ordeal at the hands of a former student, a self-styled verbal terrorist, who began trying, in her words, to ruin him. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1753972 Brenda Ashford is the quintessential British nanny. Prim and proper, gentle and kind, she seems to have stepped straight out of Mary Poppins. For more than six decades Nanny Brenda swaddled, diapered, dressed, played with, sang to, cooked for, and looked after more than one hundred children. From the pampered sons and daughters of lords ensconced in their grand estates to the children of tough war evacuees in Londons East End, Brenda has taught countless little ones to be happy, healthy, and thoroughly well bred--Dust jacket flap. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738328 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748527 The Emanuels are a hard-driving family in perpetual motion--three brothers reign at the top of three very different fields: medicine, politics, and Hollywood. Author Dr. Ezekiel Zeke Emanuel is the eldest of the brothers and describes the family history, unique upbringing, and dynamic social atmosphere that produced Zeke, Rahm, and Ari--three intensely driven boys who became remarkably successful men. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734637 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743599 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1750344 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715487 On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir, she describes those first horrifying moments and her long journey since. She has written an engrossing, unsentimental, beautifully poised account: as she struggles through the first months following the tragedy, furiously clenched against a reality that she cannot face and cannot deny; and then, over the ensuing years, as she emerges reluctantly, slowly allowing her memory to take her back through the rich and joyous life shes mourning, from her familys home in London, to the birth of her children, to the year she met her English husband at Cambridge, to her childhood in Colombo; all the while learning the difficult balance between the almost unbearable reminders of her loss and the need to keep her family, somehow, still alive within her.--Publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1750555 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712986 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713747 On November 14, 1889, two young female journalists raced against one another, determined to outdo Jules Vernes fictional hero and circle the globe in less than 80 days. The dramatic race that ensued would span 28,000 miles, captivate the nation, and change both competitors lives forever. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1716089 The veteran singer and songwriter recounts his life and career, beginning from his teenage performances in dive bars and playing to provide for his family, through selling more than 53 million albums and singles worldwide. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712714 Francona explores his tenure in Boston, examining how the beleaguered Red Sox reached incredible highs and equally incredible lows under his management, including several championship victories. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731419 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744325 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713062