Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?id=9086&Re=3295&browse=true&N=3448 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1747011 Chronicles the life and achievements of Dean Smith, a Texan and Olympic gold medal winner who became a Hollywood stuntman and actor-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743590 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=1698287 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1683353 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743591 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=1732795 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=1712707 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=1693646 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732522 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=1683356 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744224 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712337 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738337 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=1732165 Mikey was born into a Romany Gypsy family. They lived in a closeted community, and little is known of their way of life. After centuries of persecution Gypsies are wary of outsiders and if you choose to leave you can never come back. This is something Mikey knows all too well. Growing up, he didnt go to school, he seldom mixed with non-Gypsies and the caravan became his world. Eventually Mikey was forced to make an agonising decision - to stay and keep secrets, or escape to find somewhere to belong. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713172 Jonathan Cott met John Lennon in 1968 and remained friends with him and Yoko Ono until Johns death in 1980. He has kept in touch with Yoko since that time, and is one of the few writers who understand her profoundly positive influence on Lennon. This deeply personal book recounts the course of these friendships over the decades and provides an intimate look at two of the most astonishing cultural figures of our time. And what Jonathan Cott has to say will be found nowhere else. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731473 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744290 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713998 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=1744319 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=1738964 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744311 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713069 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732554 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712338 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=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=1715282 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1672983 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704098 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705024 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=1679421 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=1712331 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731474 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705097 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738270 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705609 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735886 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738273 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1674933 During the Gilded Age, Ingersoll raised his voice on behalf of Enlightenment reason, secularism, and the separation of church and state with a vigor unmatched since Americas revolutionary generation. Jacoby restores Ingersoll to his rightful place in an American intellectual tradition, as public figure who devoted his life to liberty of conscience belonging to the religious and nonreligious alike. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1741983 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715312 Draws on the recently opened archives of Ted Hughes to offer new insights into the iconic poets psyche and literary achievements, in a portrait that includes previously unpublished papers and dozens of letters exchanged between Plath and Hughes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1741997 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=1684985 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738972 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744320 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705524 An authoritative account of the iconic actors life beyond his sensationalized persona celebrates his talents and classic films, providing discussions of such topics as his relationships with family members, ongoing battles with alcoholism and depression and his struggles with PTSD after serving in World War II. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694995 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=1682769 In this much-anticipated, controversial memoir, Dara-Lynn Weiss chronicles the struggle and journey to get Bea, her seven year old daughter, healthy. In describing their process, complete with frustrations, self-recriminations, dark humor, and some surprising strategies, Weiss reveals the hypocrisy inherent in the debates over many cultural hot-button issues. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1685685 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696187 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=1712341 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1681341 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713063 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742157 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712322 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734637 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1695916 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738324 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682821 General Stanley McChrystal, the commanding officer of all U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan, frankly explores the major episodes and controversies of his eventful career. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704560 An expos of Detroit, icon of Americas lost prosperity, from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff. Back in his broken hometown, LeDuff searches through the ruins for clues to its fate, his familys, and his own. Once the richest city in America, Detroit is now the nations poorest. It is an eerie and angry place of deserted factories and abandoned homes and forgotten people. LeDuff sets out to uncover what destroyed his city, and shares an unbelievable story of a hard town in a rough time filled with some of the strangest and strongest people our country has to offer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704979 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743705 A descendant of a great American plutocratic dynasty who grew up in the servants quarters of Rokeby, the Astor familys beautiful mansion, reveals how she was able to impose order on her anarchic world. 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=1742175 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742992 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1741990 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696121 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705578 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1697554 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687152 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712335 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738335 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=1713174 A profoundly moving, piercingly frank memoir of learning to live with grief that begins in Sri Lanka on December 26, 2004, when the author lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. Sonali Deraniyagala tells her story without artifice or sentimentality, in the stark language of unfathomable sorrow, anger, and guilt: struggling through the first months following the tragedy, and then reluctantly emerging. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731332 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712327 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713028 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687140 The author is the thirty-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, he wandered the American wilderness looking for a place to call his own. He grew up in theme-park America, on a could-be-anywhere cul-de-sac in suburban Orlando, Florida raised by a wild family of FOB (fresh off the boat) hustlers and hysterics from Taiwan. While his father improbably launched a series of successful seafood and steak restaurants, the author burned his way through American culture, defying every model minority stereotype along the way. He obsessed over football, fought the all-American boys who called him a chink, partied like a gremlin, sold drugs with his crew, and idolized Tupac. His anchor through it all was food, from making Southern ribs with the Haitian cooks in his dads restaurant to preparing traditional meals in his mothers kitchen to haunting the midnight markets of Taipei when he was shipped off to the homeland. After misadventures as an unlikely lawyer, street fashion renegade, and stand-up comic, he finally threw everything he loved, past and present, family and food, into his own restaurant, bringing together a legacy stretching back to China and the shards of global culture he had melded into his own identity. This book is the immigrants story for the twenty-first century; a story of food, family, and the forging of a new notion of what it means to be an American. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732106 The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement and presenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713191 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713116 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=1715313 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711358 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=1715593 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744292 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738256