Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&browse=true&N=3+6609+6606+3448 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682803 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687306 A vivid, funny, and poignant memoir that celebrates the distinct lure of the camaraderie and community one finds drinking in bars. Rosie Schaap has always loved bars: the wood and brass and jukeboxes, the knowing bartenders, and especially the sometimes surprising but always comforting company of regulars. Starting with her misspent youth in the bar car of a regional railroad, where at fifteen she told commuters fortunes in exchange for beer, and continuing today as she slings cocktails at a neighborhood joint in Brooklyn, Schaap has learned her way around both sides of a bar and come to realize how powerful the fellowship among regular patrons can be. In Drinking with Men, Schaap shares her unending quest for the perfect local haunt, which takes her from a dive outside Los Angeles to a Dublin pub full of poets, and from small-town New England taverns to a character-filled bar in Manhattans TriBeCa. Drinking alongside artists and expats, ironworkers and soccer fanatics, she finds these places offer a safe haven, a respite, and a place to feel most like herself. In rich, colorful prose, Schaap brings to life these seedy, warm, and wonderful rooms. Drinking with Men is a love letter to the bars, pubs, and taverns that have been Schaaps refuge, and a celebration of the uniquely civilizing source of community that is bar culture at its best-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711358 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=1694995 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744899 The adopted daughter of Jane Fonda describes her youth in 1970s Oakland, California, her daunting prospects in the face of her dysfunctional biological family, and the ways in which a structured home life enabled her eventual reconnection with her biological family. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734772 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707570 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712338 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744419 Traces the lives of the Chopra brothers from India to America, where they both excelled in healing, one as a world-renowned spiritual teacher, the other as a professor at Harvard Medical School. 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=1741948 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738008 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738259 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713926 Famed swordfish boat captain Linda Greenlaw faces her greatest battle with nature--a newly adopted teenage daughter Linda Greenlaw isnt a woman who shies away from a challenge--a nationally renowned swordfish boat captain made famous in the film The Perfect Storm, Greenlaw is also a bestselling author and a television celebrity. Through hard work and determination, she had created a life of peaceful independence, living on a rugged island off the coast of Maine. Then came Mariah. A troubled fifteen-year-old, Mariah arrives on the island to stay with her uncle, an island newcomer and seemingly normal guy. The entire community is rocked when it is revealed that Mariah has suffered terrible abuse at his hands, and the island comes together to rescue the teenager from further harm. Alone and at risk, Mariah needs a guardian and the island residents nominate Linda, who is not exactly the picture of maternal warmth. A remarkably candid and tenderly funny memoir, Lifesaving Lessons follows this unexpected mother-daughter pair as they navigate their new life together, learning to trust themselves and each other and forge the loving family that neither of them knew they needed. -- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706041 Domenica Ruta grew up in a working-class, unforgiving town north of Boston, in a trash-filled house on a dead-end road surrounded by a river and a salt marsh. Her mother, Kathi, a notorious local figure, was a drug addict and sometimes dealer whose life swung between welfare and riches. And yet she managed, despite the chaos she created, to instill in her daughter a love of stories. Despite the fact that there was not a book to be found in her household, Domenica developed a love of reading, which helped her believe that she could transcend this life of undying grudges, self-inflicted misfortune, and the crooked moral code that Kathi and her cohorts lived by. With or Without You is the story of Domenica Rutas unconventional coming of age and the necessary and painful act of breaking away, and of overcoming her own addictions and demons in the process. 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=1742006 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712341 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696008 Good Prose is an inspiring book about writing--about the creation of good prose--and the record of a warm and productive literary friendship. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698287 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=1738260 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1685685 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1685082 Nick Flynn chronicles the surreal experience of being on set during the making of the film Being Flynn, from his best-selling memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, and watching the central events of his life reenacted: his fathers long run of homelessness and his mothers suicide. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1679421 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=1693176 The extraordinary life of the man who founded Islam, and the world he inhabited-- and remade. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731341 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742982 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1664003 An extraordinary and literary love story between a young mother and a much older Holocaust survivor that celebrates the unique and powerful bonds of friendship. It explores a complex relationship with someone from a different generation and socioeconomic background, and someone who happened to be one of the last surviving Holocaust witnesses of our time--Publishers summary. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1693622 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744276 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732775 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742702 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1721100 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711480 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731182 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704561 Examines the relationship between Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon, from the politics that divided them to the marriage that united their families. Despite being separated by age and temperament, their association evolved into a collaboration that helped to shape the nations political ideology, foreign policy, and domestic goals. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1693646 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738261 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1739381 An authoritative portrait of the Latin-American warrior-statesman draws on a wealth of primary documents to set his life against a backdrop of the explosive tensions of 19th-century South America, providing coverage of such topics as his role in the 1813 campaign for Colombian and Venezuelan independence, his legendary love affairs and his achievements as a strategist, abolitionist and diplomat. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705024 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1685699 At the age of twelve, Julia Pandl was initiated into the ritual of the Sunday brunch at her fathers Milwaukee-based restaurant, a weekly madhouse where she--and her eight siblings before her--learned not just the family business but also life lessons that would shape them for years to come. Now, looking back on those years, she tells a story that is part childhood memories, part a window into the mysteries of the restaurant business. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706060 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732795 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706154 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1674360 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731342 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684985 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713893 Recounts epic battles, standoffs, and skirmishes from antiquity through modern times, profiling the great men and women, including St. Moses the Black, Tango Mike-Mike, and Cyrus the Great. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712331 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713985 A former Navy SEAL and combat medic traces the dramatic story of his military service, his survival of harrowing battlefield engagements, and his subsequent triumph over post-traumatic stress disorder. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711649 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738014 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731374 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=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=1738532 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1681341 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1741970 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705582 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694964 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731468 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1716029 The attorney general of Virginia documents his fight against the overreach of the Obama administration, arguing that the goals of redistributing wealth and concentrating power in Washington are contrary to the Constitution. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743319 How artists work, how they ritualize their days with the comforting (mundane) details of their lives: their daily routines, fears, dreams, naps, eating habits, and other prescribed, finely calibrated subtle maneuvers-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712346 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704116 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713998 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682827 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731473 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1672983 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744300 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738265 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704559 the niece of controversial Scientology leader David Miscavige presents a tell-all memoir about her life in the Church of Scientology. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1686196 Shirley MacLaines only child shares shocking stories from her out-of-this-world childhood with the famously eccentric and award-winning actress. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696460 In this unique, 360-degree look, Plump delivers a searing, confessional story about the challenges of marriage. From the view of both betrayer and betrayed, Plump looks at the ordeal of finding out about infidelity, the recovery, passion, and the daily play that can lead to fulfillment or disillusionment. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1741997 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742079 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713816 A major portrait of the legendary comics figure and creator of Lil Abner offers insight into his deeply complicated character, providing coverage of such topics as the childhood accident that cost him his leg, his turbulent apprenticeship with Joe Palooka creator Ham Fisher and his extremely conservative political views. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1740023 For nearly fifty years she was the common-law wife of Wyatt Earp, yet Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp has nearly been erased from Western lore. Kirschner brings Josephine out of the shadows of history to tell her tale: a spirited and colorful tale of ambition, adventure, self-invention, and devotion; from the post-Civil War years to World War II, and from New York to the Arizona Territory to old Hollywood. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742052 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1739382 An account of the acclaimed actors Hollywood career and struggles with methamphetamine addiction covers his Detroit background, his relationships with various co-stars, and his experiences as a father of twin boys. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742154 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696590 A collection of accounts about life in the servants halls of Englands great houses shares the true story of under-parlourmaid Rose, who after eloping with her employers only son was swept up in a maelstrom of gossip. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706322 One of the most powerful, famous executives in the history of the music industry, Mottola was there from Elvis to the iPod. Now, Mottola recounts how a street kid from the Bronx became the music industrys most creative and successful CEO. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714160 A memoir from television producer Jack Gray, who provides a generational account of finding ones way at work, at home, and even across the street--Dust jacket flap. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712756 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=1731791 Shares the authors assessment of how a seductive cowboy challenged her feminist beliefs, describing how as an embittered, middle-aged divorce she began to question her staunch beliefs before being swept off her feet by a very masculine lover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1681217 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743620 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1697542 The race between two ambitious, complicated men in the early 1900s to create the most extravagant, complicated timepiece ever-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712335 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738256 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731333 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744178 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742026 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704111 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744224 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732645