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Category: Biography

Apr 12

Action Park: Fast Times, Wild Rides and the Untold Story of America’s Most Dangerous Amusement Park by Andy Mulvihill with Jake Rossen

Gretchen MLeave a commentAdult Services Department, Biography, Nonfiction

Action Park is a memoir written by Andy Mulvihill, whose father, Gene, founded the titular amusement park in 1978. Located in New Jersey, Action Park was known for its innovative rides with lax safety standards, and was popularly known by Read more

Mar 02

Relish by Lucy Knisley

Morgan GLeave a commentAdult Services Department, Biography, Cooking, Graphic Novels, Nonfiction

Lucy Knisley takes us on a tour of her life through her interactions with food. The influences food has had on her life as she grew up. From her mom’s home cooking, to fancy restaurants, hidden bakeries in European cities, Read more

May 27

Audiobook – In Pieces written and read by Sally Field

Jeanne WLeave a commentAdult Services Department, Audiobooks, Biography, Nonfiction

Looking back on her life on and off the screen, Sally Field brings a mature, sensitive, and poignant reading to her intimate, hauntingly honest, as well as authentic and fresh memoir, In Pieces. She takes us through her personal life Read more

May 12

Audiobook – Still Foolin’ ‘Em: Where I’ve Been, Where I’m Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys written and read by Billy Crystal

Jeanne WLeave a commentAdult Services Department, Audiobooks, Biography, Nonfiction

Billy Crystal has just turned 65 as he reflects on his personal and professional life while providing his observations on aging in his memoir, Still Foolin’ ‘Em: Where I’ve Been, Where I’m Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys. Read more

May 12

18 Tiny Deaths: the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics by Bruce Goldfarb

Linda NLeave a commentAdult Services Department, Biography

The reason I picked up 18 Tiny Deaths was for the dioramas depicted on the cover. Frances Lee had made 18 little scenes in perfect detail of a variety of deaths. These were called Nutshell Studies and used to train Read more

May 04

Audiobook – Yes Please written and read by Amy Poehler

Jeanne WLeave a commentAdult Services Department, Audiobooks, Biography, Nonfiction

Not only does the Parks and Recreation and Saturday Night Live alum Amy Poehler read her enormously entertaining memoir – Yes Please – she is also joined by cameo appearances from her parents, Carol Burnett, Seth Meyers, Michael Schur, Patrick Read more

May 01

Audiobook – The Diary of a Young Girl written by Anne Frank and read by Selma Blair

Jeanne WLeave a commentAdult Services Department, Audiobooks, Biography, Nonfiction

Anne Frank’s timeless The Diary of a Young Girl, has become a world classic since it was discovered and subsequently published in the Dutch language in 1947. Since then, it has been translated into numerous languages and been adapted into Read more

Apr 28

The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Deborah Blum

Gretchen MLeave a commentAdult Services Department, Biography, Medicine and Health, Nonfiction, Science

The Poison Squad tells the story of Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, head chemist of the U.S. Department of Agriculture for 30 years beginning in the late 1880s, who was instrumental in the passing of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Read more

Apr 24

The Splendid and the Vile by Eric Larson

Library StaffLeave a commentBiography, Circulation Department

In Eric Larson’s latest book, The Splendid and the Vile, we join Winston Churchill on the day he is sworn in as Prime Minister of England, momentous as it is the same day that Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. We Read more

Apr 20

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

Library StaffLeave a commentAdministration Department, Biography

If you love to read memoirs, you will love Maybe You Should Talk to Someone. Gottlieb does a wonderful job with making the topic of therapy fun, engaging, human and relatable. Who, at one time, does not wonder what goes Read more

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