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<title><![CDATA[KCLS Biography titles]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[New Biography titles added to the KCLS collection]]></description>
<copyright><![CDATA[King County Library System]]></copyright>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
<item><title><![CDATA[Heart of a patriot : how I found the courage to survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove / Max Cleland, with Ben Raines.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A searing memoir of recovery and triumph by one of America's finest patriots, detailing his remarkable journey from smalltown Georgia to Vietnam to a U.S. Senate seat, his trajectory serving as scaffolding for a withering critique of the Bush administration's handling of September 1]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1439126054]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Manhood for amateurs : the pleasures and regrets of a husband, father, and son / Michael Chabon.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061490180]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Weekends at Bellevue / Julie Holland.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0553807668]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Step out on nothing : how faith and family helped me conquer life's challenges / Byron Pitts.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312577664]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The boy from Baby House 10 : from the nightmare of a Russian orphanage to a new life in America / Alan Philps and John Lahutsky.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312576978]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[American rebel : the life of Clint Eastwood / Marc Eliot.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A well-researched, updated, and comprehensive biography of the motion picture actor and Oscar-winning director of Unforgiven and Million Dollar Bab]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0307336883]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Frantic Francis : how one coach's madness changed football / Brett Perkins.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=080321894X]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Moon River and me : a memoir / Andy Williams.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A remarkable memoir by one of the most popular and beloved entertainers of the twentieth centur]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0670021172]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[An artist in treason : the extraordinary double life of General James Wilkinson / Andro Linklater.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0802717209]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Double take : a memoir / Kevin Michael Connolly.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Connolly's account of his life as someone born without legs. This is his story of his journeys around the world and his discovery of what it truly means to be huma]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061791539]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The magnificent Mrs. Tennant : the adventurous life of Gertrude Tennant, Victorian grande-dame / David Waller.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0300139357]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The last founding father : James Monroe and a nation's call to greatness / Harlow Giles Unger.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0306818086]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Thelonious Monk : the life and times of an American original / Robin D.G. Kelley.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0684831902]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Family sentence : the search for my Cuban-revolutionary, prison-yard, mythic-hero, deadbeat dad / Jeanine Cornillot.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0807000388]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll be here for the rest of our lives : a swingin' show-biz saga / Paul Shaffer with David Ritz.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In this hilarious, entertaining, and candid memoir--in which he dishes on everyone from John Belushi and Jerry Lewis to Mel Gibson and Britney Spears--Paul Shaffer gives readers the full behind-the-scenes story of his life, from banging out pop tunes on the piano at the age of twelve to leading the band every night at the Sullivan Theate]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0385524838]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Thomas Cromwell : the rise and fall of Henry VIII's most notorious minister / Robert Hutchinson.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=031257794X]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Finding it : and satisfying my hunger for life without opening the fridge / Valerie Bertinelli.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A former TV star and author of the #1 best seller Losing It returns with an intimate account of the challenges she faced after reaching her goal weight--including her son falling in love, her mother's health issues, her anger over her father's conservative politics, her struggles with faith, and mor]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1439141630]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Munson : the life and death of a Yankee captain / Marty Appel.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Thurman Munson is remembered by fans as the fiercely competitive, tough, and--most of all-- inspiring Yankee captain and champion from the wild Bronx Zoo years. He is also remembered for his tragic death, at age thirty-two, when the private plane he was piloting crashed in Canton, Ohio, on August 2, 1979."--dust jacke]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0385522312]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Mennonite in a little black dress : a memoir of going home / Rhoda Janzen.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A hilarious and moving memoir--in the spirit of Anne Lamott and Nora Ephron--about a woman who returns home to her close-knit Mennonite family after a personal crisi]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=080508925X]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Stitches : a memoir-- / David Small.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0393068579]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheerful money : me, my family, and the last days of Wasp splendor / Tad Friend.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0316003174]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The kids are all right : a memoir / Diana Welch and Liz Welch ; with Amanda Welch and Dan Welch.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The poignant, harrowing story of four siblings--Amanda, Liz, Dan, and Diana Welch--who despite their wrenching loss and subsequent separation, retained the resilience and humor that both their mother and father endowed them with--growing up as lost souls, taking disastrous turns along the way, but eventually coming out right side up and being together agai]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0307396045]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[High on arrival / Mackenzie Phillips ; with Hilary Liftin.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The actor-musician-mother shares her lifelong battle with personal demons, incest, and near-fatal addictions in this astounding, outrageous, and often tender life stor]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=143915385X]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Knut Hamsun : dreamer and dissenter / Ingar Sletten Kolloen ; translated by Deborah Dawkin and Erik Skuggevik.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0300123566]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech less : tales of a White House survivor / Matt Latimer.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Latimer, a young conservative speechwriter, pens this hilarious yet poignant account of life inside the White House, as he laments a certain kind of principled conservatism that disappeared in the last years of the Bush presidenc]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0307463729]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet thunder : the life and times of Sugar Ray Robinson / Wil Haygood.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1400044979]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Animal magnetism : my life with creatures great and small / Rita Mae Brown.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In Animal Magnetism, the bestselling author shares the lessons she's learned from a parrot, a courageous Doberman, a horse, a tough tiger cat, and other marvelous creatures as well as her deep appreciation for the]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0345511794]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Harold Lloyd : magic in a pair of horn-rimmed glasses and other turning points in the life and career of a comedy legend / by Annette D'Agostino Lloyd ; [edited by Lon Davis].]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1593933320]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[What would Susie say? : bullshit wisdom about love, life, and comedy / Susie Essman.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Susie Essman sheds the crasser layers to reveal how she went from an anxiety-ridden, struggling stand-up comic to being one of the funniest women on television, while also providing sidesplittingly funny wisdom on a range of topics that she's highly unqualified to expound upon, including men, sports, hypochondria, and stepparenthoo]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0743597389]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[City boy : my life in New York during the 1960s and '70s / Edmund White.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1596914025]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The collector : David Douglas and the natural history of the Northwest / Jack Nisbet.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1570616132]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Man of constant sorrow : my life and times / Ralph Stanley, with Eddie Dean.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The legendary classic-style bluegrass performer recounts his early partnership with his late brother, the inspiration for such songs as "White Dove" and "Rank Stranger," and his work with the Clinch Mountain Boy]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1592404251]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Scared silent : when the one you love-- becomes the one you fear : the Mildred Muhammad story : a memoir / Mildred Muhammad.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Mildred Muhammad, the former wife of convicted "D.C. sniper" John Muhammad, breaks her silence about the domestic violence she suffered during their marriage and the tragic events that occurred after their divorce, which led up to the October 2002 sniper killings in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area"--Dust cove]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1593092415]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Strange things happen : a life with the Police, polo, and pygmies / Stewart Copeland.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061791490]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Goddess of the market : Ayn Rand and the American Right / Jennifer Burns.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Worshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets shaped the conservative movement from its earliest days. Drawing on unprecedented access to Rand's private papers and the original, unedited versions of Rand's journals, Jennifer Burns offers a groundbreaking reassessment of this key cultural figure, examining her life, her ideas, and her impact on conservative political thought." "Goddess of the Market follows Rand from her childhood in Russia through her meteoric rise from struggling Hollywood screenwriter to bestselling novelist, including the writing of her wildly successful The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Burns highlights the two facets of Rand's work that make her a perennial draw for those on the right: her promotion of capitalism, and her defense of limited government. Both sprang from her early, bitter experience of life under Communism, and became among the most deeply enduring of her messages, attracting a diverse audience of college students and intellectuals, business people and Republican Party activists, libertarians and conservatives. The book also traces the development of Rand's Objectivist philosophy and her relationship with Nathaniel Branden, her closest intellectual partner, with whom she had an explosive falling out in 1968." "This book captures the life of the woman who was a tireless champion of capitalism and the freedom of the individual. and whose ideas are still devoured by eager students. debated on blogs, cited by political candidates, and promoted by corporate tycoons."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0195324870]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Detectives don't wear seat belts : true adventures of a female P.I. / Cici McNair.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1599951878]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Sitting Bull : his life and legacy / Ernie LaPointe.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=142360556X]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Big man : real life & tall tales / Clarence Clemons & Don Reo ; with a foreword by Bruce Springsteen.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[For the first time ever comes the inside story of saxophonist Clarence "Big Man" Clemons--his life before, during and beyond the E-Street Band, including never-before-told adventures with Bruce Springsteen, the band, and a cast of other famous characters recounted by himself and his best friend, television writer/ producer Don Reo.--From publisher descriptio]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0446546267]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The Paris letters of Thomas Eakins / edited by William Innes Homer.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0691138087]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The remains of Company D : a story of the Great War / James Carl Nelson.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312551002]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The king of oil : the secret lives of Marc Rich / Daniel Ammann.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312570740]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Perry Como : a biography and complete career record / Malcolm Macfarlane and Ken Crossland ; foreword by Michael Feinstein.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Perry Como became one of the top American crooners of the 20th century and one of the first multimedia stars. His record sales exceeded 100 million. In 1948, Como crossed over to television and The Perry Como Show became the benchmark for a broadcast music and variety show. Como's career illuminates developments in the music and television business"--Provided by publishe]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0786437014]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Dorothea Lange : a life beyond limits / Linda Gordon.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["We all know Dorothea Lange's iconic photos - the "Migrant Mother" holding her child, the gaunt men forlornly waiting in breadlines - but few know the arc of her extraordinary life. In this sweeping account, historian Linda Gordon charts Lange's journey from polio-ridden child to wife and mother, to San Francisco portrait photographer, to chronicler of the Great Depression and World War II. Gordon uses Lange's life to anchor a moving social history of twentieth-century America, re-creating the bohemian world of San Francisco, the Dust Bowl, and the Japanese American internment camps. She explores Lange's growing radicalization as she embraced the democratic power of the camera, and she examines Lange's entire body of work, reproducing more than one hundred images, many of them previously unseen and some of them formerly suppressed."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0393057305]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Clinton's secret wars : the evolution of a commander in chief / Richard Sale.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["When Bill Clinton ran for president in 1992, the main criticism of his qualifications was his lack of foreign policy experience - something on which he was tested immediately upon taking office. Nearly a decade after his presidency, Clinton's record as a military leader remains a hotbed for debate. Now veteran journalist Richard Sale provides the first book devoted to our forty-second president as commander in chief." "In the final eight years of the twentieth century, the nation and the world witnessed pivotal, world-defining events. The situation in the Balkans, where the area fell victim to the horrors of ethnic cleansing, and the Middle East, where the menace of the Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, loomed and al-Qaeda was building its plans, proved to be daunting challenges for the new president. Although the popular assessment of the Clinton administration was that it was largely ineffective in the realm of foreign policy, Sale uncovers a much more interesting and complex story: that of a young president who learned from his initial missteps and evolved into a tough-as-nails world leader. The author gets beneath partisan rhetoric and shows how Clinton, driven by a pure hatred for treacherous leaders and brutal regimes, launched covert ops (about which nothing has been reported in the mainstream media) that extradited war criminals, toppled Slobodan Milosevic, and narrowly missed getting Osama bin Laden."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=031237366X]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Gloria's miracle : a young girl, a deadly disease and an enduring lesson about the power of faith / by Jerry Brewer.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Gloria's Miracle is a true story about how much you are willing to sacrifice to believe in God, in yourself, in true happiness. It is about family, community, choices, dreams and, especially, love. By the end, the vast concept of a miracle is whittled down to its poignant essence."--Jkt. fla]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0970739974]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Part of the pride : my life among the big cats of Africa / Kevin Richardson ; with Tony Park.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["About a year ago, a video started to circulate on YouTube of a remarkable man named Kevin Richardson, an animal custodian in a South African animal park. The video showed Richardson in his day-to-day work with some of the world's most dangerous animals, looking them directly in the eye, crouching down at their level, playing with them, and sometimes even kissing them on the nose. The video's popularity skyrocketed, and Richardson became an international sensation. In Part of the Pride, Kevin Richardson tells the story of his life and work, how he grew from a young boy who cared for so many animals that he was called "The Bird Man of Orange Grove" to an adolescent who ran wild and, finally, to a man who is able to cross the divide between humans and predators." "As a self-taught animal behaviorist, Richardson has broken every safety rule known to humans when working with these wild animals. Flouting common misconceptions that breaking animals' spirits with sticks and chains is the best way to subdue them, he uses love, understanding, and trust to develop personal bonds with the animals. His unique method of getting to know their individual personalities, what makes each of them angry, happy, upset, or irritated - just like a mother understands a child - has caused them to accept him into their fold as one of their own." "Like anyone else who truly loves animals, Richardson allows their own stories to share center stage as he tells readers about Napoleon and Tau, the two male lions he calls his "brothers"; the amazing Meg, a lioness Richardson taught to swim; the fierce Tsavo, who savagely attacked him; and the heartbreaking little hyena called Homer who didn't live to see his first birthday. Richardson also chronicles his work on the forthcoming feature film White Lion and has a lot to say about the state of lion farming and hunting in South Africa today. In Part of the Pride, Richardson, with novelist Tony Park, delves into the mind of the big cats and their world to show readers a different way of understanding the dangerous big cats of Africa."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312556748]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Iron heart : the true story of how I came back from the dead / Brian Boyle with Bill Katovsky.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1602397716]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Highest duty : my search for what really matters / Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger with Jeffrey Zaslow.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Airline pilot Captain "Sully" Sullenberger tells his life story, including his perspective on the emergency landing on the Hudson River that earned him the world's admiration, and offers insight on the essential qualities--leadership, responsibility and service--that he believes have been vital to his succes]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061924687]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day is game day / Fran Tarkenton with Jim Bruton.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1600782531]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Michelle / by Deborah Hopkinson ; Illustrated by A.G. Ford.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061827398]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Enemies of the people : my family's journey to America / Kati Marton.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Renowned author Kati Marton tells how her journalist parents survived the Nazis in Budapest and were imprisoned by the Soviet]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1416586121]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[My heritage, my destiny / Baiba Kreger.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0595465080]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Master of shadows : the secret diplomatic career of the painter Peter Paul Rubens / Mark Lamster.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0385523793]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning : the racing life of Paul Newman / Matt Stone and Preston Lerner ; foreword by Mario Andretti.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0760337063]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The soldier from Independence : a military biography of Harry Truman / D.M. Giangreco.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0760332096]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Miss O'Dell : my hard days and long nights with the Beatles, the Stones, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, and the women they loved / Chris O'Dell with Katherine Ketcham.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The remarkable story of an ordinary woman who lived the dream of millions -- to be part of rock royalty's trusted inner circle. Illustrated with private photographs and jam-packed with intimate anecdotes, Miss O'Dell is a backstage pass to some of the most momentous events in rock histor]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1416590935]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[A room for learning : the making of a school in Vermont / Tal Birdsey.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["In this stirring account of a teacher and his fourteen students tucked away in the Green Mountains of Vermont, educator Tal Birdsey, with wit and humility, fervently documents the founding year of his small junior high school. Part memoir, part meditation on the power of art and poetry, and part criticism of standardized education, A Room for Learning evokes a spirit of change in which students were allowed a hand in their own education. With no set curriculum, no prior history, and limited resources, Birdsey's students delved deeply into the poetry of Yeats and Bukowski, the music of Coltrane, the art of Caravaggio, and the emotional landscape of Elie Wiesel's Night, and they were encouraged to offer their own personal insights, essays, and poetry. But they also took time to be outside amid the pinecones and fresh air, to fool around and and be the kids they still were, and to learn from one another. Isolated from mainstream culture and constantly on the brink of apathy, this diverse group of youngsters and one teacher created a literary community and celebrated learning and themselves." "A Room for Learning is the true story of how one small school demonstrated that a classroom can be a place of transformative power."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312547307]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Robert Altman : the oral biography / Mitchell Zuckoff.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Mitchell Zuckoff--who was working with visionary director Robert Altman on his memoirs before he died--weaves the Hollywood legend's final interviews, an incredible cast of voices, and contemporary reviews and news accounts, into a riveting tale of an extraordinary lif]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0307267687]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Amen, amen, amen : memoir of a girl who couldn't stop praying (among other things) / Abby Sher.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Until the age of ten, comedian Abby Sher was a happy child in a fun-loving, musical family. When her father and favorite aunt pass away, Abby fills the void of her loss with a series of rituals. At first she repeats the few phrases she remembers from synagogue, but by the time she is in high school, Abby is spending hours locked in her closet urgently reciting a series of incantations and pleas. The prescribed patterns from which she cannot deviate become her shelter and her obsession.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1416589457]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Jacques Cousteau : the sea king / Brad Matsen.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=037542413X]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Nicholas Black Elk : medicine man, missionary, mystic / by Michael F. Steltenkamp.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Since its publication in 1932, Black Elk Speaks has moved countless readers to appreciate the American Indian world that it described. John Neihardt's popular narrative addressed the youth and early adulthood of Black Elk, an Oglala Sioux religious elder. Michael F. Steltenkamp now provides the first full interpretive biography of Black Elk, distilling in one volume what is known of this American Indian wisdom keeper whose life has helped guide others." "Nicholas Black Elk: Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic shows that the holy-man was not the dispirited traditionalist commonly depicted in literature, but a religious thinker whose outlook was positive and whose spirituality was not limited solely to traditional Lakota precepts. Combining in-depth biography with its cultural context, the author depicts a more complex Black Elk than has previously been known: a world traveler who participated in the Battle of the Little Bighorn yet lived through the beginning of the atomic age." "Steltenkamp draws on published and unpublished material to examine closely the last fifty years of Black Elk's life - the period often overlooked by those who write and think of him only as a nineteenth-century figure. In the process, the author details not just Black Elk's life but also the creation of his life story by earlier writers, and its influence on the Indian revitalization movement of the late twentieth century." "Nicholas Black Elk explores how a holy-man's diverse life experiences led to his synthesis of Native and Christian religious practice. The first book to follow Black Elk's lifelong spiritual journey - from medicine man to missionary and mystic - Steltenkamp's work provides a much-needed corrective to previous interpretations of this special man's life story. This biography will lead general readers and researchers alike to rediscover both the man and the rich cultural tradition of his people."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0806140631]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Churchill / Paul Johnson.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Acclaimed historian Paul Johnson shows how Churchill's immense adaptability combined with his natural pugnacity to make him a formidable leader for the better part of a century. Rich with anecdote and quotation, Johnson's narrative illustrates the British statesman's humor, resilience, courage, and eccentricity as no other biography befor]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0670021059]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaplin : the tramp's odyssey / Simon Louvish.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Charlie Chaplin was first lauded and later reviled by the audience that made him Hollywood's richest man. Louvish looks afresh at this classic comedian and his most recognizable character: The Tram]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312581696]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[That first season : how Vince Lombardi took the worst team in the NFL and set it on the path to glory / John Eisenberg.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["In the late 1950s the once vaunted Green Bay Packers were a laughingstock. They hadn't fielded a winning team in more than a decade and were nearly in jeopardy of losing their franchise to another city. The ultimate low came in 1958 when, with seven future Hall of Famers on the team, they went a lousy 1-10-1 under a too soft coach, Scooter McLean. They were desperately in need of a savior, and he arrived in a wood-paneled station wagon in the dead of winter from New York City." "That First Season chronicles Vince Lombardi's remarkable first year as head coach of the franchise he would reinvent and etch forever in football history. In a single year, as the grizzled coach who took no bull, Lombardi would transform a team of underachievers into winners and reignite a city known for its passion for football. Based on exhaustive new research and interviews, That First Season is the seldom-studied prequel to a football career marked by greatness. John Eisenberg clears away the mist that surrounds the Lombardi legend to bring readers the real story of how the seeds of a football dynasty were sown. He also brings alive an incredible ensemble tale of a town, a team, and one determined leader."--BOOK JACKE]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0618904999]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Gringa : a contradictory girlhood / Melissa Hart.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1580052940]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Little daughter : a memoir of survival in Burma and the West / Zoya Phan, with Damien Lewis.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=067006968X]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Someday my prince will come : true adventures of a wannabe princess / Jerramy Fine.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1592404332]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[This family of mine : what it was like growing up Gotti / Victoria Gotti.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1439154503]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Robert E. Lee : lessons in leadership / Noah Andre Trudeau; foreword by Wesley K. Clark.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0230613667]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Neverland : J.M. Barrie, the Du Mauriers, and the dark side of Peter Pan / Piers Dudgeon.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Relates the tragic story of the author of the beloved children's novel, who learned hypnosis to captivate and psychologically abuse a family with whom he had become obsessed, the very family that inspired the Darlings of "Peter Pan]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1605980633]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Mike Bloomberg : money, power, politics / Joyce Purnick.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1586485776]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[John Force : the straight story of drag racing's 300-mph superstar / Erik Arneson ; with photography from Jon Asher.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0760335664]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Mapping the territory : selected nonfiction / Christopher Bram.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Novelist Christopher Bram has been writing essays for thirty years. Mapping the Territory, his first collection of nonfiction, including two previously unpublished pieces, ranges through such topics as the power of gay fiction, coming out in the 1970s in Virginia, low-budget filmmaking with friends in New York, and the sexual imagination of Henry James. He describes the heady experience of seeing his novel Gods and Monsters made into an Oscar-winning movie starring Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, and Lynn Redgrave; he discusses why he and his partner of three decades don't want to get married. Bram looks both into and out of himself in these essays. He revisits the titles he read while finding himself as a gay man, but also shows us Greenwich Village as seen from his front stoop. The book is not simply a collection of short pieces, it's an autobiography of ideas from one of today's most lively and popular novelists."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1593501439]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Ayn Rand and the world she made / Anne C. Heller.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A comprehensive and eye-opening portrait of one of the most significant and improbable figures of the twentieth century--from her childhood in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution to her years as a screenwriter in Hollywood, the publication of her blockbuster novels, and the rise and fall of the cult that formed around her in the 1950s and 1960]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0385513992]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Inklings : a memoir / Jeffrey Koterba.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An acclaimed editorial cartoonist traces his success back to his chaotic boyhood home and his complicated father, who, like the author, suffers from Tourette's syndrome, in book with 30 drawings by the autho]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0151014922]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Charles Dickens / Michael Slater.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0300112076]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The Queen Mother : the official biography / William Shawcross.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The official and definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, grandmother of Prince Charles, and the most beloved British monarch of the twentieth century. A revelatory royal biography that is, as well, a singular history of Britain in the twentieth centur]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1400043042]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Nina Simone : the biography / David Brun-Lambert ; [translation by Paul Morris & Isabelle Villancher].]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in North Carolina at the tail end of the Great Depression, Nina Simone blossomed as a young musical prodigy. Her family's dream for her to succeed as a concert pianist was shattered, however, when her application to study at the elite New York conservatoire, the Curtis Institute, was rejected by an all-white board. Convinced that this 'first violation' was based on the colour of her skin, she conceived a lasting indignation on behalf of her race." "Turning to singing secretly on the Jazz club circuit to pay her way and support her family, she assumed the stage name Nina Simone to disguise her association with the 'devil's music' from her increasingly estranged mother. Her rendition of Gershwin's 'I Loves You Porgy' became a US Top 40 hit and her debut album Little Girl Blue saw the public fall in love with the 'Jazz' artist Nina Simone. Her success took her all over the world, on a punishing schedule of concerts and appearances, inspiring audiences with her spiritually charged, high-drama performances. As she travelled, she became more conscious of the social unrest that wracked the world in the 1960's, and used hits like 'Mississippi Goddam' and her version of 'Strange Fruit' as weapons in the battle for Civil Rights." "Disillusioned with her record company, abandoned by her husband, and plagued with financial worries, the exhausted diva eventually fled the United States, living all over the world in the arms of different men before she settled alone in France. But public demand saw her regularly emerge from exile to perform all over Europe, including her famous residencies at Ronnie Scott's Club in London in the 1970's and 80's." "Nina recorded over forty albums during her career and is best known for her hits 'My Baby Just Cares For Me', 'Feelin' Good' and 'I Put a Spell on You', Despite her personal turmoil, horrific tantrums on and off stage - 'Yes, I think I'm a little volatile!' sometimes turning up hours late for gigs, Nina Simone captivated audiences the world over for more than 50 years. Elton John spoke for many in proclaiming her 'the greatest female artist of the twentieth century' and her legacy is still treasured today. This is the first biography to tell the whole story of her extraordinary life."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1845134303]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Call me lucky : a Texan in Hollywood / Robert Hinkle with Mike Farris ; with a foreword by George Stevens, Jr.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[""Do you think you could teach Rock Hudson to talk like you do?" The question came from famed Hollywood director George Stevens, and an affirmative answer propelled Bob Hinkle into a fifty-year career in Hollywood as a speech coach, actor, producer, director, and friend to the stars. Along the way, Hinkle helped Rock Hudson, Dennis Hopper, Carroll Baker, and Mercedes McCambridge talk like Texans for the 1956 epic film Giant. He also helped create the character Jett Rink with James Dean, who became a best friend, and he consoled Elizabeth Taylor personally when Dean was killed in a tragic car accident before the film was released."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0806140933]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Bowie : a biography / Marc Spitz.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0307393968]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Lit : a memoir / Mary Karr.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The author reveals how, shortly after giving birth to a child she adored, she drank herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide before a spiritual awakening led her to sobriet]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0060596988]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Swans and pistols : modeling, motherhood, and making it in the me generation / Lâeon Bing.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1596914815]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The odyssey of an African slave / by Sitiki ; edited by Patricia C. Griffin.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0813033918]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The Tao of Wu / the RZA, with Chris Norris.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Behind the allure of their esoteric lyricism and imagery, there's vast depth behind the Wu-Tang Clan's interest in kung fu films, chess and comic books, as well as their ties to the Five-Percent Nation, Eastern philosophy and the boroughs of New York from which they hail. There's nothing kitschy about these now hipster-standard cultural elements that were once an avant-garde, new angle to the hip hop world and, especially, mainstream America. If textbook rules applied, the Wu-Tang Clan would have either dissolved into the depths of underground obscurity or retooled their image to satisfy commercial norms. Through The RZA's vision, however, the Clan held steadfast to their distinctiveness and stormed through the industry with a divide and conquer strategy." "RZA's new book, The Tao of Wu, discusses the various steps and influences that paved his road to success (in music and in life), the roadblocks that tested his discipline, and the jewels of knowledge he's gathered along the way. Loaded with the terminology and precepts of The Universal Language, The Tao of Wu is definitely intended for Wu-Tang fans and folks familiar with the concepts of the Five-Percenters; but anybody with an interest in music and the game of life, eccentric as RZA's story may seem, can glean much from The Tao of Wu." "As the book's jacket suggests, The Tao of Wu bares resemblance to Hermann Hesse's cult classic Siddhartha. RZA's tales, much like those of the young Siddhartha, are framed as a coming of age story with key parables and glimpses of enlightenment. RZA's narrative, of course, is nonfictional; thus The Tao of Wu is part Wu-Tang fact book and, mostly, part memoir. RZA retraces the roots that led him to music and philosophy all the way back to his early years. It was his days as a child in North Carolina after all - with his Mother Goose rhyme-reciting uncle Hollis - that cultivated the inspiration behind the Gravediggaz and 6 Feet Deep."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1594488851]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance / Elna Baker.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In this hilarious, tongue-in-cheek memoir, writer, actress, and gorgeous stand up comedian Elna Baker tells what it's like to be the Mormon "Tina Fey"--the girl who distresses her family when she chooses NYU over BYU; the girl who's cultivating an oxymoronic identity as a bold, educated, modern, funny, proper, abstinent, religious stand-up comic, equal parts wholesome and ho]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0525951350]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Read my pins : stories from a diplomat's jewel box / Madeleine Albright ; with Elaine Shocas, Vivienne Becker, and Bill Woodward ; photography by John Bigelow Taylor ; photography composition by Dianne Dubler.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0060899182]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Goodbye Natalie, goodbye Splendour / Marti Rulli with Dennis Davern.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A journalist and Natalie Wood's friend, confidant, and captain of the Splendour on the night she died present the results of a decades-long investigation to examine Wood's life as well as her death, which has been shrouded in myster]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1597776394]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[A pilgrim in a pilgrim church : memoirs of a Catholic archbishop / Rembert G. Weakland.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0802863825]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[High society : the life of Grace Kelly / Donald Spoto.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Documents the life and whirlwind career of the iconic Hollywood actress-turned-European princess, drawing on previously unpublished interviews to discuss her conservative education, Oscar-winning film achievements, and role as a mother to royal childre]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0307395618]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Louisa May Alcott : the woman behind Little women / Harriet Reisen.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A vivid, energetic account of the life of Louisa May Alcott that explores Alcott's life in the context of her works, all of which are to some extent autobiographica]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0805082999]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Growing up bin Laden : Osama's wife and son take us inside their secret world / Najwa bin Laden, Omar bin Laden, and Jean Sasson.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312560168]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Woodrow Wilson : a biography / John Milton Cooper, Jr.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Evaluates the parallel worlds of the twenty-eighth president's personal and political arenas, examining his World War I leadership, his failed efforts to bring the United States into the League of Nations, and his contributions toward the creation of the United Nation]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0307265412]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Abigail Adams / Woody Holton.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Prof. Woody Holton (NBA-finalist for Unruly Americans) reveals that American icon Abigail Adams was far wiser and wilier than previously know]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1416546804]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Paul McCartney : a life / Peter Ames Carlin.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Takes a look at the whole life of the Beatles star, casting new light on his years with the band Wings and wife, Linda McCartney, and revealing a man as haunted by his legacy--and particularly his relationship with John Lennon--as he was inspired by i]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1416562095]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[A country of vast designs : James K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the conquest of the American continent / Robert W. Merry.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0743297431]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[My life outside the ring / Hulk Hogan with Mark Dagostino.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Hulk Hogan burst onto the professional wrestling scene in the late 1970s and enjoyed success for decades. But the last two years have tested Hogan more than any other period in his life. Here, Hogan reveals how he emerged from these battles feeling stronger than ever befor]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312588895]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The lady queen : the notorious reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily / Nancy Goldstone.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The riveting history of a beautiful queen, a shocking murder, a papal trial--and a reign as triumphant as any in the Middle Ages. As courageous as Eleanor of Aquitaine, as astute and determined as Elizabeth I of England, Joanna, Queen of Naples, was the only female monarch in her time to rule in her own nam]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0802716709]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The last empress : Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the birth of modern China / Hannah Pakula.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[With the powerful Madame Chiang Kai-Shek at the center of one of the great dramas of the 20th century, the story of the founding of modern China ranges from the revolution that swept away the monarchy to the eventual loss to the communists and exile in Taiwa]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1439148937]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Grant : American hero, American myth / Joan Waugh.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0807833177]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[On the line / Serena Williams ; with Daniel Paisner.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[As one of the biggest stars in tennis, Williams has captured every major title and earned the #1 world ranking in tennis three times during her illustrious career. In this compelling and poignant memoir, she takes an empowering look at her extraordinary life and what is still to com]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0446553662]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Paul Harvey's America : the life, art, and faith of a man who transformed radio and inspired a nation / by Stephen Mansfield and David A. Holland.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1414334508]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Saving Ben : a father's story of autism / Dan E. Burns.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1574412698]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Keynes : the rise, fall, and return of the 20th century's most influential economist / Peter Clarke.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1608190234]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Samuel Johnson : a life / David Nokes.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=080508651X]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Prophet of purpose : the life of Rick Warren / Jeffery L. Sheler.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0385523955]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Open : an autobiography / Andre Agassi.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court, a beautiful, haunting autobiograph]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0307268195]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[My paper chase : true stories of vanished times / Harold Evans.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In My Paper Chase, Harold Evans recounts the wild and wonderful tale of newspapering life, a story stretching from the 1930s to his service in WWII, through towns big and off the map, entailing clashes with Rupert Murdoch and crusades to use journalism to better the lives of those less fortunat]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0316031429]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite field : a memoir / Jesse Katz.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Faced with the collapse of his son's Little league program--consisting mostly of Latino kids in the largely Asian suburb of Monterey Park, California--Jesse Katz finds himself thrust into the role of baseball commissioner for La Loma Park, where he soothes egos, brokers disputes, applies Popsicles to bruises and chases down delinquent coaches and missing equipment, all the while learning nothing less than what it takes to be a father, a son, a husband, a coach, and ultimately, a ma]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=030740711X]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[iWant : my journey from addiction and overconsumption to a simpler, honest life / Jane Velez-Mitchell.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=075731371X]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Lady Jane Grey : a Tudor mystery / Eric Ives.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1405194138]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Going rogue : an American life / Sarah Palin.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin, the first female Republican Vice Presidential candidate, recounts her political experiences, her rapid rise on the national stage during the 2008 campaign, and the personal challenges she's faced including balancing her time as a working mother, recognizing the war's impact with her son serving combat in Iraq, having a child with a disability, and supporting her teenage daughter with an unplanned pregnanc]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061939897]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Brother West : living and loving out loud : a memoir / Cornel West with David Ritz.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1401921892]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Unsweetined / by Jodie Sweetin with Jon Warech.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In the vein of Nic Sheff's "Tweak" and Tori Spelling's "sTori Telling," "UnSweetined" reveals the former "Full House" star's harrowing journey from her role as America's sweetheart on a popular television show to her struggle with substance abus]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1439152683]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Heart of a patriot : how I found the courage to survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove / Max Cleland, with Ben Raines.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A searing memoir of recovery and triumph by one of America's finest patriots, detailing his remarkable journey from smalltown Georgia to Vietnam to a U.S. Senate seat, his trajectory serving as scaffolding for a withering critique of the Bush administration's handling of September 1]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Cleland, Max, 1942-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1439126054]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Manhood for amateurs : the pleasures and regrets of a husband, father, and son / Michael Chabon.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Chabon, Michael.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061490180]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Weekends at Bellevue / Julie Holland.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Holland, Julie, 1965-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0553807668]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Step out on nothing : how faith and family helped me conquer life's challenges / Byron Pitts.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Pitts, Byron.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312577664]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The boy from Baby House 10 : from the nightmare of a Russian orphanage to a new life in America / Alan Philps and John Lahutsky.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Philps, Alan.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312576978]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[American rebel : the life of Clint Eastwood / Marc Eliot.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A well-researched, updated, and comprehensive biography of the motion picture actor and Oscar-winning director of Unforgiven and Million Dollar Bab]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Eliot, Marc.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0307336883]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Frantic Francis : how one coach's madness changed football / Brett Perkins.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Perkins, Brett.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=080321894X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Moon River and me : a memoir / Andy Williams.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A remarkable memoir by one of the most popular and beloved entertainers of the twentieth centur]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Williams, Andy, 1930-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0670021172]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[An artist in treason : the extraordinary double life of General James Wilkinson / Andro Linklater.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Linklater, Andro.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0802717209]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Double take : a memoir / Kevin Michael Connolly.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Connolly's account of his life as someone born without legs. This is his story of his journeys around the world and his discovery of what it truly means to be huma]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Connolly, Kevin Michael, 1985-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061791539]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The magnificent Mrs. Tennant : the adventurous life of Gertrude Tennant, Victorian grande-dame / David Waller.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Waller, David, 1963-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0300139357]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The last founding father : James Monroe and a nation's call to greatness / Harlow Giles Unger.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Unger, Harlow G., 1931-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0306818086]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Thelonious Monk : the life and times of an American original / Robin D.G. Kelley.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Kelley, Robin D. G.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0684831902]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Family sentence : the search for my Cuban-revolutionary, prison-yard, mythic-hero, deadbeat dad / Jeanine Cornillot.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Cornillot, Jeanine, 1965-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0807000388]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll be here for the rest of our lives : a swingin' show-biz saga / Paul Shaffer with David Ritz.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In this hilarious, entertaining, and candid memoir--in which he dishes on everyone from John Belushi and Jerry Lewis to Mel Gibson and Britney Spears--Paul Shaffer gives readers the full behind-the-scenes story of his life, from banging out pop tunes on the piano at the age of twelve to leading the band every night at the Sullivan Theate]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Shaffer, Paul.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0385524838]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Thomas Cromwell : the rise and fall of Henry VIII's most notorious minister / Robert Hutchinson.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Hutchinson, Robert, 1948-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=031257794X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Finding it : and satisfying my hunger for life without opening the fridge / Valerie Bertinelli.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A former TV star and author of the #1 best seller Losing It returns with an intimate account of the challenges she faced after reaching her goal weight--including her son falling in love, her mother's health issues, her anger over her father's conservative politics, her struggles with faith, and mor]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Bertinelli, Valerie, 1960-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1439141630]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Munson : the life and death of a Yankee captain / Marty Appel.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Thurman Munson is remembered by fans as the fiercely competitive, tough, and--most of all-- inspiring Yankee captain and champion from the wild Bronx Zoo years. He is also remembered for his tragic death, at age thirty-two, when the private plane he was piloting crashed in Canton, Ohio, on August 2, 1979."--dust jacke]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Appel, Martin.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0385522312]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Mennonite in a little black dress : a memoir of going home / Rhoda Janzen.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A hilarious and moving memoir--in the spirit of Anne Lamott and Nora Ephron--about a woman who returns home to her close-knit Mennonite family after a personal crisi]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Janzen, Rhoda.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=080508925X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Stitches : a memoir-- / David Small.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Small, David, 1945-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0393068579]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheerful money : me, my family, and the last days of Wasp splendor / Tad Friend.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Friend, Tad.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0316003174]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The kids are all right : a memoir / Diana Welch and Liz Welch ; with Amanda Welch and Dan Welch.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The poignant, harrowing story of four siblings--Amanda, Liz, Dan, and Diana Welch--who despite their wrenching loss and subsequent separation, retained the resilience and humor that both their mother and father endowed them with--growing up as lost souls, taking disastrous turns along the way, but eventually coming out right side up and being together agai]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Welch, Diana.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0307396045]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[High on arrival / Mackenzie Phillips ; with Hilary Liftin.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The actor-musician-mother shares her lifelong battle with personal demons, incest, and near-fatal addictions in this astounding, outrageous, and often tender life stor]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Phillips, Mackenzie.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=143915385X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Knut Hamsun : dreamer and dissenter / Ingar Sletten Kolloen ; translated by Deborah Dawkin and Erik Skuggevik.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Kolloen, Ingar Sletten, 1951-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0300123566]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091021]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech less : tales of a White House survivor / Matt Latimer.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Latimer, a young conservative speechwriter, pens this hilarious yet poignant account of life inside the White House, as he laments a certain kind of principled conservatism that disappeared in the last years of the Bush presidenc]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Latimer, Matt.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0307463729]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091021]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet thunder : the life and times of Sugar Ray Robinson / Wil Haygood.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Haygood, Wil.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1400044979]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091022]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Animal magnetism : my life with creatures great and small / Rita Mae Brown.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In Animal Magnetism, the bestselling author shares the lessons she's learned from a parrot, a courageous Doberman, a horse, a tough tiger cat, and other marvelous creatures as well as her deep appreciation for the]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Brown, Rita Mae.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0345511794]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091022]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Harold Lloyd : magic in a pair of horn-rimmed glasses and other turning points in the life and career of a comedy legend / by Annette D'Agostino Lloyd ; [edited by Lon Davis].]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[D'Agostino, Annette M.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1593933320]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091022]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[What would Susie say? : bullshit wisdom about love, life, and comedy / Susie Essman.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Susie Essman sheds the crasser layers to reveal how she went from an anxiety-ridden, struggling stand-up comic to being one of the funniest women on television, while also providing sidesplittingly funny wisdom on a range of topics that she's highly unqualified to expound upon, including men, sports, hypochondria, and stepparenthoo]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Essman, Susie, 1955-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0743597389]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091022]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[City boy : my life in New York during the 1960s and '70s / Edmund White.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[White, Edmund, 1940-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1596914025]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091022]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The collector : David Douglas and the natural history of the Northwest / Jack Nisbet.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Nisbet, Jack, 1949-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1570616132]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091022]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Man of constant sorrow : my life and times / Ralph Stanley, with Eddie Dean.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The legendary classic-style bluegrass performer recounts his early partnership with his late brother, the inspiration for such songs as "White Dove" and "Rank Stranger," and his work with the Clinch Mountain Boy]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Stanley, Ralph.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1592404251]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091023]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Scared silent : when the one you love-- becomes the one you fear : the Mildred Muhammad story : a memoir / Mildred Muhammad.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Mildred Muhammad, the former wife of convicted "D.C. sniper" John Muhammad, breaks her silence about the domestic violence she suffered during their marriage and the tragic events that occurred after their divorce, which led up to the October 2002 sniper killings in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area"--Dust cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Muhammad, Mildred.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1593092415]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091023]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Strange things happen : a life with the Police, polo, and pygmies / Stewart Copeland.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Copeland, Stewart.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061791490]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091023]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Goddess of the market : Ayn Rand and the American Right / Jennifer Burns.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Worshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets shaped the conservative movement from its earliest days. Drawing on unprecedented access to Rand's private papers and the original, unedited versions of Rand's journals, Jennifer Burns offers a groundbreaking reassessment of this key cultural figure, examining her life, her ideas, and her impact on conservative political thought." "Goddess of the Market follows Rand from her childhood in Russia through her meteoric rise from struggling Hollywood screenwriter to bestselling novelist, including the writing of her wildly successful The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Burns highlights the two facets of Rand's work that make her a perennial draw for those on the right: her promotion of capitalism, and her defense of limited government. Both sprang from her early, bitter experience of life under Communism, and became among the most deeply enduring of her messages, attracting a diverse audience of college students and intellectuals, business people and Republican Party activists, libertarians and conservatives. The book also traces the development of Rand's Objectivist philosophy and her relationship with Nathaniel Branden, her closest intellectual partner, with whom she had an explosive falling out in 1968." "This book captures the life of the woman who was a tireless champion of capitalism and the freedom of the individual. and whose ideas are still devoured by eager students. debated on blogs, cited by political candidates, and promoted by corporate tycoons."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Burns, Jennifer, 1975-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0195324870]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091023]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Detectives don't wear seat belts : true adventures of a female P.I. / Cici McNair.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[McNair, Cici.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1599951878]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091023]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Sitting Bull : his life and legacy / Ernie LaPointe.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[LaPointe, Ernie.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=142360556X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091024]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Big man : real life & tall tales / Clarence Clemons & Don Reo ; with a foreword by Bruce Springsteen.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[For the first time ever comes the inside story of saxophonist Clarence "Big Man" Clemons--his life before, during and beyond the E-Street Band, including never-before-told adventures with Bruce Springsteen, the band, and a cast of other famous characters recounted by himself and his best friend, television writer/ producer Don Reo.--From publisher descriptio]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Clemons, Clarence.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0446546267]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091030]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The Paris letters of Thomas Eakins / edited by William Innes Homer.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0691138087]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091030]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The remains of Company D : a story of the Great War / James Carl Nelson.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Nelson, James Carl.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312551002]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091030]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The king of oil : the secret lives of Marc Rich / Daniel Ammann.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Ammann, Daniel.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312570740]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091030]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Perry Como : a biography and complete career record / Malcolm Macfarlane and Ken Crossland ; foreword by Michael Feinstein.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Perry Como became one of the top American crooners of the 20th century and one of the first multimedia stars. His record sales exceeded 100 million. In 1948, Como crossed over to television and The Perry Como Show became the benchmark for a broadcast music and variety show. Como's career illuminates developments in the music and television business"--Provided by publishe]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Macfarlane, Malcolm, 1942-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0786437014]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091030]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Dorothea Lange : a life beyond limits / Linda Gordon.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["We all know Dorothea Lange's iconic photos - the "Migrant Mother" holding her child, the gaunt men forlornly waiting in breadlines - but few know the arc of her extraordinary life. In this sweeping account, historian Linda Gordon charts Lange's journey from polio-ridden child to wife and mother, to San Francisco portrait photographer, to chronicler of the Great Depression and World War II. Gordon uses Lange's life to anchor a moving social history of twentieth-century America, re-creating the bohemian world of San Francisco, the Dust Bowl, and the Japanese American internment camps. She explores Lange's growing radicalization as she embraced the democratic power of the camera, and she examines Lange's entire body of work, reproducing more than one hundred images, many of them previously unseen and some of them formerly suppressed."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Gordon, Linda.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0393057305]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091030]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Clinton's secret wars : the evolution of a commander in chief / Richard Sale.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["When Bill Clinton ran for president in 1992, the main criticism of his qualifications was his lack of foreign policy experience - something on which he was tested immediately upon taking office. Nearly a decade after his presidency, Clinton's record as a military leader remains a hotbed for debate. Now veteran journalist Richard Sale provides the first book devoted to our forty-second president as commander in chief." "In the final eight years of the twentieth century, the nation and the world witnessed pivotal, world-defining events. The situation in the Balkans, where the area fell victim to the horrors of ethnic cleansing, and the Middle East, where the menace of the Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, loomed and al-Qaeda was building its plans, proved to be daunting challenges for the new president. Although the popular assessment of the Clinton administration was that it was largely ineffective in the realm of foreign policy, Sale uncovers a much more interesting and complex story: that of a young president who learned from his initial missteps and evolved into a tough-as-nails world leader. The author gets beneath partisan rhetoric and shows how Clinton, driven by a pure hatred for treacherous leaders and brutal regimes, launched covert ops (about which nothing has been reported in the mainstream media) that extradited war criminals, toppled Slobodan Milosevic, and narrowly missed getting Osama bin Laden."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Sale, Richard T., 1939-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=031237366X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091030]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Gloria's miracle : a young girl, a deadly disease and an enduring lesson about the power of faith / by Jerry Brewer.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Gloria's Miracle is a true story about how much you are willing to sacrifice to believe in God, in yourself, in true happiness. It is about family, community, choices, dreams and, especially, love. By the end, the vast concept of a miracle is whittled down to its poignant essence."--Jkt. fla]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Brewer, Jerry.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0970739974]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091030]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Part of the pride : my life among the big cats of Africa / Kevin Richardson ; with Tony Park.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["About a year ago, a video started to circulate on YouTube of a remarkable man named Kevin Richardson, an animal custodian in a South African animal park. The video showed Richardson in his day-to-day work with some of the world's most dangerous animals, looking them directly in the eye, crouching down at their level, playing with them, and sometimes even kissing them on the nose. The video's popularity skyrocketed, and Richardson became an international sensation. In Part of the Pride, Kevin Richardson tells the story of his life and work, how he grew from a young boy who cared for so many animals that he was called "The Bird Man of Orange Grove" to an adolescent who ran wild and, finally, to a man who is able to cross the divide between humans and predators." "As a self-taught animal behaviorist, Richardson has broken every safety rule known to humans when working with these wild animals. Flouting common misconceptions that breaking animals' spirits with sticks and chains is the best way to subdue them, he uses love, understanding, and trust to develop personal bonds with the animals. His unique method of getting to know their individual personalities, what makes each of them angry, happy, upset, or irritated - just like a mother understands a child - has caused them to accept him into their fold as one of their own." "Like anyone else who truly loves animals, Richardson allows their own stories to share center stage as he tells readers about Napoleon and Tau, the two male lions he calls his "brothers"; the amazing Meg, a lioness Richardson taught to swim; the fierce Tsavo, who savagely attacked him; and the heartbreaking little hyena called Homer who didn't live to see his first birthday. Richardson also chronicles his work on the forthcoming feature film White Lion and has a lot to say about the state of lion farming and hunting in South Africa today. In Part of the Pride, Richardson, with novelist Tony Park, delves into the mind of the big cats and their world to show readers a different way of understanding the dangerous big cats of Africa."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Richardson, Kevin.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312556748]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091030]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Iron heart : the true story of how I came back from the dead / Brian Boyle with Bill Katovsky.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Boyle, Brian.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1602397716]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091030]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Highest duty : my search for what really matters / Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger with Jeffrey Zaslow.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Airline pilot Captain "Sully" Sullenberger tells his life story, including his perspective on the emergency landing on the Hudson River that earned him the world's admiration, and offers insight on the essential qualities--leadership, responsibility and service--that he believes have been vital to his succes]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Sullenberger, Chesley, 1951-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061924687]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091030]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day is game day / Fran Tarkenton with Jim Bruton.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Tarkenton, Fran.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1600782531]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091030]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Michelle / by Deborah Hopkinson ; Illustrated by A.G. Ford.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Hopkinson, Deborah.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061827398]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091030]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Enemies of the people : my family's journey to America / Kati Marton.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Renowned author Kati Marton tells how her journalist parents survived the Nazis in Budapest and were imprisoned by the Soviet]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Marton, Kati.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1416586121]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091031]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[My heritage, my destiny / Baiba Kreger.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Kreger, Baiba, 1939-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0595465080]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091031]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Master of shadows : the secret diplomatic career of the painter Peter Paul Rubens / Mark Lamster.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Lamster, Mark, 1969-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0385523793]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091031]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning : the racing life of Paul Newman / Matt Stone and Preston Lerner ; foreword by Mario Andretti.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Stone, Matthew L., 1958-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0760337063]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091031]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The soldier from Independence : a military biography of Harry Truman / D.M. Giangreco.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Giangreco, D. M., 1952-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0760332096]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091031]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Miss O'Dell : my hard days and long nights with the Beatles, the Stones, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, and the women they loved / Chris O'Dell with Katherine Ketcham.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The remarkable story of an ordinary woman who lived the dream of millions -- to be part of rock royalty's trusted inner circle. Illustrated with private photographs and jam-packed with intimate anecdotes, Miss O'Dell is a backstage pass to some of the most momentous events in rock histor]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[O'Dell, Chris, 1947-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1416590935]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091031]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[A room for learning : the making of a school in Vermont / Tal Birdsey.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["In this stirring account of a teacher and his fourteen students tucked away in the Green Mountains of Vermont, educator Tal Birdsey, with wit and humility, fervently documents the founding year of his small junior high school. Part memoir, part meditation on the power of art and poetry, and part criticism of standardized education, A Room for Learning evokes a spirit of change in which students were allowed a hand in their own education. With no set curriculum, no prior history, and limited resources, Birdsey's students delved deeply into the poetry of Yeats and Bukowski, the music of Coltrane, the art of Caravaggio, and the emotional landscape of Elie Wiesel's Night, and they were encouraged to offer their own personal insights, essays, and poetry. But they also took time to be outside amid the pinecones and fresh air, to fool around and and be the kids they still were, and to learn from one another. Isolated from mainstream culture and constantly on the brink of apathy, this diverse group of youngsters and one teacher created a literary community and celebrated learning and themselves." "A Room for Learning is the true story of how one small school demonstrated that a classroom can be a place of transformative power."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Birdsey, Tal.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312547307]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091031]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Robert Altman : the oral biography / Mitchell Zuckoff.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Mitchell Zuckoff--who was working with visionary director Robert Altman on his memoirs before he died--weaves the Hollywood legend's final interviews, an incredible cast of voices, and contemporary reviews and news accounts, into a riveting tale of an extraordinary lif]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Zuckoff, Mitchell.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0307267687]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091031]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Amen, amen, amen : memoir of a girl who couldn't stop praying (among other things) / Abby Sher.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Until the age of ten, comedian Abby Sher was a happy child in a fun-loving, musical family. When her father and favorite aunt pass away, Abby fills the void of her loss with a series of rituals. At first she repeats the few phrases she remembers from synagogue, but by the time she is in high school, Abby is spending hours locked in her closet urgently reciting a series of incantations and pleas. The prescribed patterns from which she cannot deviate become her shelter and her obsession.]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Sher, Abby.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1416589457]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091031]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Jacques Cousteau : the sea king / Brad Matsen.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Matsen, Bradford]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=037542413X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Nicholas Black Elk : medicine man, missionary, mystic / by Michael F. Steltenkamp.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Since its publication in 1932, Black Elk Speaks has moved countless readers to appreciate the American Indian world that it described. John Neihardt's popular narrative addressed the youth and early adulthood of Black Elk, an Oglala Sioux religious elder. Michael F. Steltenkamp now provides the first full interpretive biography of Black Elk, distilling in one volume what is known of this American Indian wisdom keeper whose life has helped guide others." "Nicholas Black Elk: Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic shows that the holy-man was not the dispirited traditionalist commonly depicted in literature, but a religious thinker whose outlook was positive and whose spirituality was not limited solely to traditional Lakota precepts. Combining in-depth biography with its cultural context, the author depicts a more complex Black Elk than has previously been known: a world traveler who participated in the Battle of the Little Bighorn yet lived through the beginning of the atomic age." "Steltenkamp draws on published and unpublished material to examine closely the last fifty years of Black Elk's life - the period often overlooked by those who write and think of him only as a nineteenth-century figure. In the process, the author details not just Black Elk's life but also the creation of his life story by earlier writers, and its influence on the Indian revitalization movement of the late twentieth century." "Nicholas Black Elk explores how a holy-man's diverse life experiences led to his synthesis of Native and Christian religious practice. The first book to follow Black Elk's lifelong spiritual journey - from medicine man to missionary and mystic - Steltenkamp's work provides a much-needed corrective to previous interpretations of this special man's life story. This biography will lead general readers and researchers alike to rediscover both the man and the rich cultural tradition of his people."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Steltenkamp, Michael F.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0806140631]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Churchill / Paul Johnson.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Acclaimed historian Paul Johnson shows how Churchill's immense adaptability combined with his natural pugnacity to make him a formidable leader for the better part of a century. Rich with anecdote and quotation, Johnson's narrative illustrates the British statesman's humor, resilience, courage, and eccentricity as no other biography befor]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Johnson, Paul, 1928-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0670021059]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaplin : the tramp's odyssey / Simon Louvish.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Charlie Chaplin was first lauded and later reviled by the audience that made him Hollywood's richest man. Louvish looks afresh at this classic comedian and his most recognizable character: The Tram]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Louvish, Simon.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312581696]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[That first season : how Vince Lombardi took the worst team in the NFL and set it on the path to glory / John Eisenberg.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["In the late 1950s the once vaunted Green Bay Packers were a laughingstock. They hadn't fielded a winning team in more than a decade and were nearly in jeopardy of losing their franchise to another city. The ultimate low came in 1958 when, with seven future Hall of Famers on the team, they went a lousy 1-10-1 under a too soft coach, Scooter McLean. They were desperately in need of a savior, and he arrived in a wood-paneled station wagon in the dead of winter from New York City." "That First Season chronicles Vince Lombardi's remarkable first year as head coach of the franchise he would reinvent and etch forever in football history. In a single year, as the grizzled coach who took no bull, Lombardi would transform a team of underachievers into winners and reignite a city known for its passion for football. Based on exhaustive new research and interviews, That First Season is the seldom-studied prequel to a football career marked by greatness. John Eisenberg clears away the mist that surrounds the Lombardi legend to bring readers the real story of how the seeds of a football dynasty were sown. He also brings alive an incredible ensemble tale of a town, a team, and one determined leader."--BOOK JACKE]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Eisenberg, John, 1956-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0618904999]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Gringa : a contradictory girlhood / Melissa Hart.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Hart, Melissa, 1970-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1580052940]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Little daughter : a memoir of survival in Burma and the West / Zoya Phan, with Damien Lewis.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Phan, Zoya.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=067006968X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Someday my prince will come : true adventures of a wannabe princess / Jerramy Fine.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Fine, Jerramy Sage, 1977-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1592404332]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[This family of mine : what it was like growing up Gotti / Victoria Gotti.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Gotti, Victoria.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1439154503]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Robert E. Lee : lessons in leadership / Noah Andre Trudeau; foreword by Wesley K. Clark.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Trudeau, Noah Andre, 1949-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0230613667]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Neverland : J.M. Barrie, the Du Mauriers, and the dark side of Peter Pan / Piers Dudgeon.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Relates the tragic story of the author of the beloved children's novel, who learned hypnosis to captivate and psychologically abuse a family with whom he had become obsessed, the very family that inspired the Darlings of "Peter Pan]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Dudgeon, Piers.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1605980633]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Mike Bloomberg : money, power, politics / Joyce Purnick.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Purnick, Joyce.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1586485776]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[John Force : the straight story of drag racing's 300-mph superstar / Erik Arneson ; with photography from Jon Asher.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Arneson, Erik.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0760335664]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091106]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Mapping the territory : selected nonfiction / Christopher Bram.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Novelist Christopher Bram has been writing essays for thirty years. Mapping the Territory, his first collection of nonfiction, including two previously unpublished pieces, ranges through such topics as the power of gay fiction, coming out in the 1970s in Virginia, low-budget filmmaking with friends in New York, and the sexual imagination of Henry James. He describes the heady experience of seeing his novel Gods and Monsters made into an Oscar-winning movie starring Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, and Lynn Redgrave; he discusses why he and his partner of three decades don't want to get married. Bram looks both into and out of himself in these essays. He revisits the titles he read while finding himself as a gay man, but also shows us Greenwich Village as seen from his front stoop. The book is not simply a collection of short pieces, it's an autobiography of ideas from one of today's most lively and popular novelists."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Bram, Christopher.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1593501439]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091106]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Ayn Rand and the world she made / Anne C. Heller.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A comprehensive and eye-opening portrait of one of the most significant and improbable figures of the twentieth century--from her childhood in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution to her years as a screenwriter in Hollywood, the publication of her blockbuster novels, and the rise and fall of the cult that formed around her in the 1950s and 1960]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Heller, Anne Conover.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0385513992]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091107]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Inklings : a memoir / Jeffrey Koterba.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An acclaimed editorial cartoonist traces his success back to his chaotic boyhood home and his complicated father, who, like the author, suffers from Tourette's syndrome, in book with 30 drawings by the autho]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Koterba, Jeffrey.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0151014922]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091107]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Charles Dickens / Michael Slater.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Slater, Michael.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0300112076]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091107]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The Queen Mother : the official biography / William Shawcross.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The official and definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, grandmother of Prince Charles, and the most beloved British monarch of the twentieth century. A revelatory royal biography that is, as well, a singular history of Britain in the twentieth centur]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Shawcross, William.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1400043042]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091110]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Nina Simone : the biography / David Brun-Lambert ; [translation by Paul Morris & Isabelle Villancher].]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in North Carolina at the tail end of the Great Depression, Nina Simone blossomed as a young musical prodigy. Her family's dream for her to succeed as a concert pianist was shattered, however, when her application to study at the elite New York conservatoire, the Curtis Institute, was rejected by an all-white board. Convinced that this 'first violation' was based on the colour of her skin, she conceived a lasting indignation on behalf of her race." "Turning to singing secretly on the Jazz club circuit to pay her way and support her family, she assumed the stage name Nina Simone to disguise her association with the 'devil's music' from her increasingly estranged mother. Her rendition of Gershwin's 'I Loves You Porgy' became a US Top 40 hit and her debut album Little Girl Blue saw the public fall in love with the 'Jazz' artist Nina Simone. Her success took her all over the world, on a punishing schedule of concerts and appearances, inspiring audiences with her spiritually charged, high-drama performances. As she travelled, she became more conscious of the social unrest that wracked the world in the 1960's, and used hits like 'Mississippi Goddam' and her version of 'Strange Fruit' as weapons in the battle for Civil Rights." "Disillusioned with her record company, abandoned by her husband, and plagued with financial worries, the exhausted diva eventually fled the United States, living all over the world in the arms of different men before she settled alone in France. But public demand saw her regularly emerge from exile to perform all over Europe, including her famous residencies at Ronnie Scott's Club in London in the 1970's and 80's." "Nina recorded over forty albums during her career and is best known for her hits 'My Baby Just Cares For Me', 'Feelin' Good' and 'I Put a Spell on You', Despite her personal turmoil, horrific tantrums on and off stage - 'Yes, I think I'm a little volatile!' sometimes turning up hours late for gigs, Nina Simone captivated audiences the world over for more than 50 years. Elton John spoke for many in proclaiming her 'the greatest female artist of the twentieth century' and her legacy is still treasured today. This is the first biography to tell the whole story of her extraordinary life."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Brun-Lambert, David.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1845134303]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091110]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Call me lucky : a Texan in Hollywood / Robert Hinkle with Mike Farris ; with a foreword by George Stevens, Jr.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[""Do you think you could teach Rock Hudson to talk like you do?" The question came from famed Hollywood director George Stevens, and an affirmative answer propelled Bob Hinkle into a fifty-year career in Hollywood as a speech coach, actor, producer, director, and friend to the stars. Along the way, Hinkle helped Rock Hudson, Dennis Hopper, Carroll Baker, and Mercedes McCambridge talk like Texans for the 1956 epic film Giant. He also helped create the character Jett Rink with James Dean, who became a best friend, and he consoled Elizabeth Taylor personally when Dean was killed in a tragic car accident before the film was released."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Hinkle, Robert, 1930-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0806140933]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091111]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Bowie : a biography / Marc Spitz.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Spitz, Marc.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0307393968]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091111]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Lit : a memoir / Mary Karr.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The author reveals how, shortly after giving birth to a child she adored, she drank herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide before a spiritual awakening led her to sobriet]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Karr, Mary.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0060596988]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091113]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Swans and pistols : modeling, motherhood, and making it in the me generation / Lâeon Bing.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Bing, Lâeon, 1950-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1596914815]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091113]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The odyssey of an African slave / by Sitiki ; edited by Patricia C. Griffin.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Sitiki, d. 1882.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0813033918]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091113]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The Tao of Wu / the RZA, with Chris Norris.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Behind the allure of their esoteric lyricism and imagery, there's vast depth behind the Wu-Tang Clan's interest in kung fu films, chess and comic books, as well as their ties to the Five-Percent Nation, Eastern philosophy and the boroughs of New York from which they hail. There's nothing kitschy about these now hipster-standard cultural elements that were once an avant-garde, new angle to the hip hop world and, especially, mainstream America. If textbook rules applied, the Wu-Tang Clan would have either dissolved into the depths of underground obscurity or retooled their image to satisfy commercial norms. Through The RZA's vision, however, the Clan held steadfast to their distinctiveness and stormed through the industry with a divide and conquer strategy." "RZA's new book, The Tao of Wu, discusses the various steps and influences that paved his road to success (in music and in life), the roadblocks that tested his discipline, and the jewels of knowledge he's gathered along the way. Loaded with the terminology and precepts of The Universal Language, The Tao of Wu is definitely intended for Wu-Tang fans and folks familiar with the concepts of the Five-Percenters; but anybody with an interest in music and the game of life, eccentric as RZA's story may seem, can glean much from The Tao of Wu." "As the book's jacket suggests, The Tao of Wu bares resemblance to Hermann Hesse's cult classic Siddhartha. RZA's tales, much like those of the young Siddhartha, are framed as a coming of age story with key parables and glimpses of enlightenment. RZA's narrative, of course, is nonfictional; thus The Tao of Wu is part Wu-Tang fact book and, mostly, part memoir. RZA retraces the roots that led him to music and philosophy all the way back to his early years. It was his days as a child in North Carolina after all - with his Mother Goose rhyme-reciting uncle Hollis - that cultivated the inspiration behind the Gravediggaz and 6 Feet Deep."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[RZA (Rapper)]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1594488851]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091113]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance / Elna Baker.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In this hilarious, tongue-in-cheek memoir, writer, actress, and gorgeous stand up comedian Elna Baker tells what it's like to be the Mormon "Tina Fey"--the girl who distresses her family when she chooses NYU over BYU; the girl who's cultivating an oxymoronic identity as a bold, educated, modern, funny, proper, abstinent, religious stand-up comic, equal parts wholesome and ho]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Baker, Elna.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0525951350]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091113]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Read my pins : stories from a diplomat's jewel box / Madeleine Albright ; with Elaine Shocas, Vivienne Becker, and Bill Woodward ; photography by John Bigelow Taylor ; photography composition by Dianne Dubler.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Albright, Madeleine Korbel.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0060899182]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091113]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Goodbye Natalie, goodbye Splendour / Marti Rulli with Dennis Davern.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A journalist and Natalie Wood's friend, confidant, and captain of the Splendour on the night she died present the results of a decades-long investigation to examine Wood's life as well as her death, which has been shrouded in myster]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Rulli, Marti.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1597776394]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091114]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[A pilgrim in a pilgrim church : memoirs of a Catholic archbishop / Rembert G. Weakland.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Weakland, Rembert.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0802863825]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[High society : the life of Grace Kelly / Donald Spoto.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Documents the life and whirlwind career of the iconic Hollywood actress-turned-European princess, drawing on previously unpublished interviews to discuss her conservative education, Oscar-winning film achievements, and role as a mother to royal childre]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Spoto, Donald, 1941-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0307395618]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Louisa May Alcott : the woman behind Little women / Harriet Reisen.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A vivid, energetic account of the life of Louisa May Alcott that explores Alcott's life in the context of her works, all of which are to some extent autobiographica]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Reisen, Harriet.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0805082999]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Growing up bin Laden : Osama's wife and son take us inside their secret world / Najwa bin Laden, Omar bin Laden, and Jean Sasson.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Bin Laden, Najwa.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312560168]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Woodrow Wilson : a biography / John Milton Cooper, Jr.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Evaluates the parallel worlds of the twenty-eighth president's personal and political arenas, examining his World War I leadership, his failed efforts to bring the United States into the League of Nations, and his contributions toward the creation of the United Nation]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Cooper, John Milton.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0307265412]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Abigail Adams / Woody Holton.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Prof. Woody Holton (NBA-finalist for Unruly Americans) reveals that American icon Abigail Adams was far wiser and wilier than previously know]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Holton, Woody.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1416546804]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Paul McCartney : a life / Peter Ames Carlin.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Takes a look at the whole life of the Beatles star, casting new light on his years with the band Wings and wife, Linda McCartney, and revealing a man as haunted by his legacy--and particularly his relationship with John Lennon--as he was inspired by i]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Carlin, Peter Ames.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1416562095]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[A country of vast designs : James K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the conquest of the American continent / Robert W. Merry.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Merry, Robert W., 1946-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0743297431]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[My life outside the ring / Hulk Hogan with Mark Dagostino.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Hulk Hogan burst onto the professional wrestling scene in the late 1970s and enjoyed success for decades. But the last two years have tested Hogan more than any other period in his life. Here, Hogan reveals how he emerged from these battles feeling stronger than ever befor]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Hogan, Hulk, 1953-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312588895]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The lady queen : the notorious reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily / Nancy Goldstone.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The riveting history of a beautiful queen, a shocking murder, a papal trial--and a reign as triumphant as any in the Middle Ages. As courageous as Eleanor of Aquitaine, as astute and determined as Elizabeth I of England, Joanna, Queen of Naples, was the only female monarch in her time to rule in her own nam]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Goldstone, Nancy Bazelon.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0802716709]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The last empress : Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the birth of modern China / Hannah Pakula.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[With the powerful Madame Chiang Kai-Shek at the center of one of the great dramas of the 20th century, the story of the founding of modern China ranges from the revolution that swept away the monarchy to the eventual loss to the communists and exile in Taiwa]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Pakula, Hannah.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1439148937]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Grant : American hero, American myth / Joan Waugh.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Waugh, Joan.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0807833177]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[On the line / Serena Williams ; with Daniel Paisner.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[As one of the biggest stars in tennis, Williams has captured every major title and earned the #1 world ranking in tennis three times during her illustrious career. In this compelling and poignant memoir, she takes an empowering look at her extraordinary life and what is still to com]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Williams, Serena, 1981-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0446553662]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Paul Harvey's America : the life, art, and faith of a man who transformed radio and inspired a nation / by Stephen Mansfield and David A. Holland.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Mansfield, Stephen, 1958-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1414334508]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Saving Ben : a father's story of autism / Dan E. Burns.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Burns, Dan E. (Dan Eric), 1945-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1574412698]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Keynes : the rise, fall, and return of the 20th century's most influential economist / Peter Clarke.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Clarke, P. F.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1608190234]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Samuel Johnson : a life / David Nokes.]]></title>
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<author><![CDATA[Nokes, David.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=080508651X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Prophet of purpose : the life of Rick Warren / Jeffery L. Sheler.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Sheler, Jeffery L.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0385523955]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Open : an autobiography / Andre Agassi.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court, a beautiful, haunting autobiograph]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Agassi, Andre, 1970-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0307268195]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[My paper chase : true stories of vanished times / Harold Evans.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In My Paper Chase, Harold Evans recounts the wild and wonderful tale of newspapering life, a story stretching from the 1930s to his service in WWII, through towns big and off the map, entailing clashes with Rupert Murdoch and crusades to use journalism to better the lives of those less fortunat]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Evans, Harold, 1928-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0316031429]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite field : a memoir / Jesse Katz.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Faced with the collapse of his son's Little league program--consisting mostly of Latino kids in the largely Asian suburb of Monterey Park, California--Jesse Katz finds himself thrust into the role of baseball commissioner for La Loma Park, where he soothes egos, brokers disputes, applies Popsicles to bruises and chases down delinquent coaches and missing equipment, all the while learning nothing less than what it takes to be a father, a son, a husband, a coach, and ultimately, a ma]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Katz, Jesse.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=030740711X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[iWant : my journey from addiction and overconsumption to a simpler, honest life / Jane Velez-Mitchell.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Velez-Mitchell, Jane.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=075731371X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091119]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Lady Jane Grey : a Tudor mystery / Eric Ives.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Ives, E. W. (Eric William), 1931-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1405194138]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091120]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Going rogue : an American life / Sarah Palin.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin, the first female Republican Vice Presidential candidate, recounts her political experiences, her rapid rise on the national stage during the 2008 campaign, and the personal challenges she's faced including balancing her time as a working mother, recognizing the war's impact with her son serving combat in Iraq, having a child with a disability, and supporting her teenage daughter with an unplanned pregnanc]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Palin, Sarah, 1964-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061939897]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091120]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Brother West : living and loving out loud : a memoir / Cornel West with David Ritz.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[West, Cornel.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1401921892]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091120]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Unsweetined / by Jodie Sweetin with Jon Warech.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In the vein of Nic Sheff's "Tweak" and Tori Spelling's "sTori Telling," "UnSweetined" reveals the former "Full House" star's harrowing journey from her role as America's sweetheart on a popular television show to her struggle with substance abus]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Sweetin, Jodie.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1439152683]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091120]]></pubDate>
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