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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
From his breakout role in Die Hard to his outstanding, multifaceted performances in the Harry Potter films, Galaxy Quest, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and more, Alan Rickman cemented his legacy as a world-class actor. His air of dignity, his sonorous voice, and the knowing wit he brought to each role continue to captivate audiences today. But Rickman's ability to breathe life into projects wasn't confined to just his performances. As you'll find,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"For the first time, the edited journals of Alice Walker are gathered together to reflect the complex, passionate, talented, and acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winner of The Color Purple. She intimately explores her thoughts and feelings as a woman, a writer, an African-American, a wife, a daughter, a mother, a lover, a sister, a friend, a citizen of the world. In an unvarnished and singular voice, she explores an astonishing array of events: marching in...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xi, 386 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, photographs, facsimilies ; 19 cm
Description
"In 2018, without any plan or agenda for what might happen next, Patti Smith posted her first Instagram photo: her hand with the simple message "Hello Everybody!" Known for shooting with her beloved Land 250 Camera, Smith started posting selfies with her phone, portraits of her kids, her radiator, her boots, and her Abyssinian cat, Cairo. Followers felt an immediate affinity with these miniature windows into Smith's world, her daily coffee, the books...
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxiii, 464 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Beginning with Ferlinghetti's account of serving as a commanding officer on a Navy sub-chaser during D-Day, Writing Across the Landscape dramatically traverses the latter half of the twentieth century. For those only familiar with his poetry, these pages present a Lawrence Ferlinghetti never before encountered, an elegant prose stylist and tireless political activist who was warning against the pernicious sins of our ever-expansive corporate culture...
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Diary of a wimpy kid volume 1
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Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship.
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
120 pages : illustrations (black and white), map, portraits, photographs ; 20 cm
Description
"Yeva Skalietska's story begins on her twelfth birthday in Kharkiv, where she has been living with her grandmother since she was a baby. Ten days later, the only life she'd ever known was shattered. On February 24, 2022, her city was suddenly under attack as Russia launched its horrifying invasion of Ukraine. Yeva and her grandmother took shelter in a basement bunker, where she began writing this diary. She describes the bombings she endured while...
9) Smarty Sara
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Description
Everywhere Sara goes she brings along her journal where she jots notes, makes lists, draws pictures and maps, writes poems, and plans a big surprise for her friends.
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
xxxv, 310 pages ; 20 cm
Description
An abridgement of the famous diary by the remarkable Englishman who witnessed the coronation of Charles II, the Great Plague of 1665, and the Great Fire of 1666, while chronicling life in Restoration London.
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A raucous, stunningly candid, deliriously smart diary of two years in the life of the incomparable Heidi Julavits. Like many young people, Heidi Julavits kept a diary. Decades later she found her old diaries in a storage bin, and hoped to discover the early evidence of the person (and writer) she'd since become. Instead, 'The actual diaries revealed me to possess the mind of a paranoid tax auditor.' The entries are daily chronicles of anxieties about...
12) Diary of a fly
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Series
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A young fly discovers, day by day, that there is a lot to learn about being an insect, including the dangers of flypaper and that heroes come in all shapes and sizes.
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
From flat-topped acacia trees to great migrations of wildebeest across an edgeless expanse of grass, the Serengeti is one of the world's most renowned ecosystems. And at the apex of this incredible landscape prowls its seemingly indomitable ruler: the Serengeti lion. These majestic mammals are skillful hunters, iconic, and integral to Serengeti health. But they also commit infanticide; eat local people and destroy local livelihoods; are a source of...
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
992 pages
Description
"Publishing for the centenary of her birth, Patricia Highsmith's diaries "offer the most complete picture ever published" of the canonical author (New York Times). Relegated during her lifetime to the pulpy genre of mystery, Patricia Highsmith has emerged since her death in 1995 as one of "our greatest modernist writers" (Gore Vidal). Presented for the first time, this one-volume assemblage of her diaries and notebooks-posthumously discovered behind...
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Publisher
Henry Holt & Co
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
x, 436 pages, [16] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm.
Description
"Here are the inside stories of Vanity Fair scoops and covers that sold millions?the Reagan kiss, the meltdown of Princess Diana's marriage to Prince Charles, the sensational Annie Leibovitz cover of a gloriously pregnant, naked Demi Moore. In the diary's cinematic pages, the drama, the comedy, and the struggle of running an "it" magazine come to life. Brown's Vanity Fair Diaries is also a woman's journey, of making a home in a new country and of...
Author
Series
Wombat books (Jackie French) volume 1
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 22 x 29 cm.
Description
In his diary, a wombat describes his life of eating, sleeping, and getting to know some new human neighbors.
Author
Publisher
Omnibus Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
205 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"Long acclaimed as a classic fly-on-the-wall memoir, Diary of a Rock'n'Roll Star is Ian Hunter's candid account of Mott the Hoople's five-week American tour in November and December of 1972. In this diary, the first ever rock autobiography, Hunter strips away the glittering facade of the rock star's lifestyle and introduces readers to the reality of life on the road, from the discomforts of cheap motels to the fatigue brought on by endless travel....
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xxxi, 493 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Description
"A committed Social Democrat and steadfast opponent of Nazism, Kellner went to Laubach to escape retribution from Nazi activists in Mainz. Ironically, his destination was itself a stronghold of Nazism. In the Reichstag election of July 1932, the NSDAP had received 62.9 percent of the votes cast in Laubach, in contrast to the 37.3 percent of the vote attained by the Nazis nationally. The Social Democrats, who in the closing days of the Weimar Republic...
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