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<title><![CDATA[The loveliest woman in America : a tragic actress, her lost diaries, and her granddaughter's search for home.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["In 1927, at the age of twenty-three, Rosamond Pinchot was hailed as "The Loveliest Woman in America." At thirty-three, in a sudden, shocking, and highly public act, Rosamond took her own life, setting in motion generations of confusion in the family she ]]></description>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=097920951X]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[A life unburdened : getting over weight and getting on with my life / Richard Morris.]]></title>
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</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0874620236]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The duty of delight : the diaries of Dorothy Day / edited by Robert Ellsberg.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, has been called "the most significant, interesting, and influential person in the history of American Catholicism." For almost fifty years, through her tireless service of the poor and her courageous witness for peace, she offered an extraordinary example of the gospel in action. Now the publication of her diaries, previously sealed for twenty-five years after her death, offers a uniquely intimate portrait of her daily struggles and concerns." "Beginning in 1934, soon after the founding of the Catholic Worker, and ending in 1980, just days before her death, these diaries reflect her response to the vast changes in America, the church, and the wider world." "Most of her life was spent in the discipline of prayer and worship that structured her days; and in her efforts to find God in all the tasks and encounters of daily life. The record of this pilgrimage displays a rare balance between radicalism and tradition, action and contemplation, the transcendent and the everyday. Ultimately it challenges readers to imagine what it would be like to live as if the gospel were true."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The quest for Shakespeare / Joseph Pearce.]]></title>
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</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0465002080]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[A mended and broken heart : the life and love of Francis of Assisi / Wendy Murray.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Francis of Assisi is Catholicism's most popular saint. Tens of millions of spiritual seekers summon his name and example. But the real Francis - both his complicated personality and his complex theology - have been misunderstood for centuries." "In A Mended and Broken Heart, religion scholar Wendy Murray slices through the bowdlerized version of Francis' life promoted within the Catholic traditions and reveals instead a saint who was in every way a real man. Murray stresses in particular the crucial but completely neglected role that Clare of Assisi played in Francis' life and theology, both before and after his conversion."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1416572570]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[My incredibly wonderful, miserable life : an anti-memoir / Adam Nimoy.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A thirty-year battle with drug addiction, three career changes, one divorce, a major mid-life crisis, and countless AA meetings later, Leonard Nimoy's son, Adam, tells his cautionary -- and very funny -- tal]]></description>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1844546330]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Heath Ledger : his beautiful life and mysterious death / John McShane.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061340685]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Golden bones : an extraordinary journey from hell in Cambodia to a new life in America / Sichan Siv.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0307269191]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[What I talk about when I talk about running : a memoir / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a dozen critically a]]></description>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0806529415]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Ernie : the autobiography / Ernest Borgnine.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In this candid and witty memoir, Ernest Borgnine tells about his fifty-year career in motion pictures and televisio]]></description>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0375424741]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The three of us : a family story / Julia Blackburn.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["This is the story of three people: Julia Blackburn; her father, Thomas; and her mother, Rosalie. Thomas was a poet and an alcoholic who for many years was addicted to barbiturates, which would often make him violent. Rosalie, a painter, was sociable and flirtatious; she treated Julia as her sister, her confidante, and eventually as her deadly sexual rival. After Julia's parents divorced, her mother took in lodgers, always men, on the understanding that each would become her lover. When one of the lodgers started an affair with Julia, Rosalie was devastated; when he later committed suicide, the relationship between mother and daughter was shattered irrevocably." "Or so it seemed until the spring of 1999, when Rosalie, diagnosed with leukemia, came to live with Julia for the last month of her life. At last the spell was broken, and they were able to talk with an ease they had never known before. When she was very near the end, Rosalie said to Julia, "Now you will be able to write about me, won't you?""--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Backstage passes & backstabbing bastards : memoirs of a rock 'n' roll survivor / Al Kooper.]]></title>
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</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0297853554]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[On the edge : my story / Richard Hammond, with Mindy Hammond.]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Destroyer captain : lessons of a first command / James G. Stavridis.]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Claude Debussy / by Paul Roberts.]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Birdwatcher : the life of Roger Tory Peterson / Elizabeth J.  Rosenthal.]]></title>
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</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1416553398]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Hiding in Hip Hop : on the down low in the entertainment industry, from music to Hollywood / Terrance Dean.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Within the masculine culture of hip hop and Hollywood, there is a gay subculture that industry insiders are keenly aware of but choose to hide. Terrance Dean worked his way up for more than ten years in the entertainment industry from intern to executive, and has lived the life of glitz and bling along with Hollywood and hip hop's most glamorous. With a family full of secrets and working in an industry founded on maleness--where one's job, friendships, and reputation all depend on remaining on the down low and in hiding--Dean writes a revealing account of the journey of coming out from hiding. While full of startling anecdotes and true stories, this is not a traditional tell-all, but a provocative and honest look at stardom and sexuality.--From publisher descriptio]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[My trip down the pink carpet / Leslie Jordan.]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Wade Hampton : Confederate warrior to southern redeemer / Rod Andrew, Jr.]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[You can observe a lot by watching : what I've learned about teamwork from the Yankees and life / Yogi Berra with Dave Kaplan.]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Amped : a soldier's race for gold in the shadow of war / Kortney Clemons ; with Bill Briggs.]]></title>
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</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1897106378]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The lone Wolff : autobiography of a bridge maverick / Bobby Wolff.]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[The Tonya tapes : the Tonya Harding story in her own voice / Lynda D. Prouse ; foreword by Michael Rosenberg.]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[The agitator's daughter : a memoir of four generations of one extraordinary African American family / Sheryll Cashin.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["The Agitator's Daughter is Sheryll Cashin's memoir of her "emotional inheritance," the dedication to political activism that has coursed through her family for generations. During Reconstruction, Herschel V. Cashin was a radical republican legislator who championed black political enfranchisement throughout the South. His grandson, Dr. John L. Cashin, Jr., inherited that passion for social justice and founded an independent Democratic party to counter George Wallace's Dixiecrats, electing more blacks to office than in any Southern state. His "uppity" ways attracted many enemies. The IRS pursued him, as did the FBI. Ultimately, his passions would lead to ruin and leave his daughter, Sheryll, wondering why he would risk so much. The process of political emancipation, begun by Herschel, eroded by Jim Crow, and revived in the era of Civil Rights is the lifeblood of the Cashin family. It is a complicated, often troublesome inheritance, one that Sheryll herself comes gradually to embrace and understand as she acknowledges being an agitator's daughter, with humor, honesty,and love."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Call of duty : my life before, during and after the Band of Brothers / Lynn "Buck" Compton, with Marcus Brotherton.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[As part of the elite 101st Airborne paratroopers, Lt. Lynn "Buck" Compton fought in critical battles of World War II as a member of Easy Company, immortalized as the Band of Brothers. Here, Compton tells his own story for the first time. From his years as a two-sport UCLA star who played baseball with Jackie Robinson and football in the 1943 Rose Bowl, through his legendary post-World War II legal career as a prosecutor, in which he helped convict Sirhan Sirhan for the murder of Robert F. Kennedy, Buck Compton truly embodies the American Dream: college sports star, esteemed combat veteran, detective, attorney, judge. This is the true story of a real-life hero who traveled to a faraway place and put his life on the line for the cause of freedom--and an insightful memoir about courage, leadership, camaraderie, compassion, and success.--From publisher descriptio]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Woman of Rome : a life of Elsa Morante / Lily Tuck.]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Sex, love, and fashion : a memoir of a male model / Bruce Hulse.]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Trailer trashed : my dubious efforts toward upward mobility / Hollis Gillespie ; illustrations by James Polisky.]]></title>
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</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=069113006X]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The China diary of George H.W. Bush : the making of a global president / edited by Jeffrey A. Engel.]]></title>
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</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0874809150]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Dave Rust : a life in the canyons / Frederick H. Swanson ; foreword by Michael F. Anderson.]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[The geography of love : a memoir / Glenda Burgess.]]></title>
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</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=159420151X]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The girl from foreign : a search for shipwrecked ancestors, forgotten histories, and a sense of home / Sadia Shepard.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In this beautifully crafted memoir, a young Muslim-Christian woman travels to an insular Jewish community in India to unlock her family's secret histor]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Wife in the north / Judith O'Reilly.]]></title>
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</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1593761937]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[X films : true confessions of a radical filmmaker / Alex Cox.]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[The lost spy : an American in Stalin's secret service / Andrew Meier.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[For half a century, the case of Isaiah Oggins, a 1920s New York intellectual brutally murdered in 1947 on Stalin's orders, remained hidden in the secret files of the KGB and the FBI--a footnote buried in the rubble of the Cold War. Then, in 1992, it surfaced briefly, when Boris Yeltsin handed over a deeply censored dossier to the White House. This book at last reveals the truth: Oggins was one of the first Americans to spy for the Soviets. Based on six years of international sleuthing, journalist Meier traces Oggins's rise in beguiling detail--a brilliant Columbia University graduate sent to run a safe house in Berlin and spy on the Romanovs in Paris and the Japanese in Manchuria--and his fall: death by poisoning in a KGB laboratory.--From publisher descriptio]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Roasting in Hell's Kitchen : temper tantrums, F words, and the pursuit of perfection / Gordon Ramsay.]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Don't throw away your stick till you cross the river : the journey of an ordinary man / by Vincent Beach with Anni Beach.]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Dumbfounded : a memoir / Matt Rothschild.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["The only Jewish family in a luxury Fifth Avenue building of WASPs, the senior Rothschilds took over the responsibility of raising their grandson, Matt, after his mother left him for Italy and a fourth husband. But rearing Matt was no small task - even for his sharp-tongued grandmother, a cross between Lauren Bacall and Bea Arthur, and a lady who Matt grew to love deeply." "Matt secretly wore his grandmother's dresses, shoplifted Barbies from FAO Schwarz, invented an imaginary midget butler who he addressed at dinner parties, and got kicked out of nearly every elite school in Manhattan - once for his impersonation of Judy Garland at a recital. He was eventually sent to a boarding school (his grandmother had to ransom off a van Gogh to get him in). But as funny as his hijinks are now, at the time they masked a Jewfroed, chubby, lovable kid, sexually confused and abandoned by his mother, trying to fit in among the precious genteel world he was forced to live in."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The jive talker : an artist's genesis / Samson Kambalu.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["The father of Samson Kambalu is the "Jive Talker" of this vivacious and warm, bristling and hilarious memoir. Kambalu Senior died of AIDS in 1995, bequeathing to his son a passion for words and an imagination that transcended all limitations." "In this utterly original, often subversive book, Samson Kambalu introduces us to his country of birth, Malawi, an impoverished nation in which no dissent is tolerated, where political opponents are "disappeared" and where a portrait of Life President Dr. Hastings Kamazu Banda is always guaranteed to be watching. It's also a place in which a little boy obsessed with Michael Jackson, Footloose, Nietszche, girls, fashion and football can move beyond his station to become a rising star in international pop culture, creating a life-affirming expressionist philosophy, "Holyballism," along the way." "Narrated with sass and charisma, The Jive Talker is a love letter to an Africa that is hardly understood, and it's a coming-of-age story that takes its place among the finest work by Tobias Wolff, Mary Karr and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The oracles : my Filipino grandparents in America / Pati Navalta Poblete.]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Hard driving : the Wendell Scott story : the odyssey of NASCAR'S first Black driver / Brian Donovan.]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Candy Barr : the small-town Texas runaway who became a darling of the mob and the queen of Las Vegas burlesque / Ted Schwarz and Mardi Rustam.]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Mother on fire : a true motherf%#$@ story about parenting! / Sandra Tsing Loh.]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Mistress of the Vatican : the true story of Olimpia Maidalchini: the secret female pope / Eleanor Herman.]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[The man who made Vermeers : unvarnishing the legend of master forger Han van Meegeren / Jonathan Lopez.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Lopez has drawn on never-before-seen documents from dozens of archives to write a revelatory new biography of the world's most famous forger. Neither unappreciated artist nor antifascist hero, Van Meegeren emerges as an ingenious, dyed-in-the-wool crook who plied the forger's trade far longer than he ever admitted--a talented Mr. Ripley armed with a paintbrush. Lopez also explores a network of illicit commerce that operated across Europ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Working girl blues : the life and music of Hazel Dickens / Hazel Dickens and Bill C. Malone.]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[The wink of the zenith : the shaping of a writer's life / Floyd Skloot.]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Playing the enemy : Nelson Mandela and the game that made a nation / John Carlin.]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Julius Caesar : the life and times of the people's dictator / Luciano Canfora ; translated by Marian Hill and Kevin Windle.]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[A sense of belonging : from Castro's Cuba to the U.S. Senate, one man's pursuit of the American dream / Mel Martinez ; with Ed Breslin.]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Carl Maxey : a fighting life / Jim Kershner.]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Heart : in the studio / Jake Brown.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The loveliest woman in America : a tragic actress, her lost diaries, and her granddaughter's search for home.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["In 1927, at the age of twenty-three, Rosamond Pinchot was hailed as "The Loveliest Woman in America." At thirty-three, in a sudden, shocking, and highly public act, Rosamond took her own life, setting in motion generations of confusion in the family she ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080729]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Gaston, Bibi.]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[A life unburdened : getting over weight and getting on with my life / Richard Morris.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080729]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Morris, Richard.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0874620236]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The duty of delight : the diaries of Dorothy Day / edited by Robert Ellsberg.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, has been called "the most significant, interesting, and influential person in the history of American Catholicism." For almost fifty years, through her tireless service of the poor and her courageous witness for peace, she offered an extraordinary example of the gospel in action. Now the publication of her diaries, previously sealed for twenty-five years after her death, offers a uniquely intimate portrait of her daily struggles and concerns." "Beginning in 1934, soon after the founding of the Catholic Worker, and ending in 1980, just days before her death, these diaries reflect her response to the vast changes in America, the church, and the wider world." "Most of her life was spent in the discipline of prayer and worship that structured her days; and in her efforts to find God in all the tasks and encounters of daily life. The record of this pilgrimage displays a rare balance between radicalism and tradition, action and contemplation, the transcendent and the everyday. Ultimately it challenges readers to imagine what it would be like to live as if the gospel were true."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080729]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980.]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[The quest for Shakespeare / Joseph Pearce.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080730]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Pearce, Joseph, 1961-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0465002080]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[A mended and broken heart : the life and love of Francis of Assisi / Wendy Murray.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Francis of Assisi is Catholicism's most popular saint. Tens of millions of spiritual seekers summon his name and example. But the real Francis - both his complicated personality and his complex theology - have been misunderstood for centuries." "In A Mended and Broken Heart, religion scholar Wendy Murray slices through the bowdlerized version of Francis' life promoted within the Catholic traditions and reveals instead a saint who was in every way a real man. Murray stresses in particular the crucial but completely neglected role that Clare of Assisi played in Francis' life and theology, both before and after his conversion."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080730]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Zoba, Wendy Murray.]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[My incredibly wonderful, miserable life : an anti-memoir / Adam Nimoy.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A thirty-year battle with drug addiction, three career changes, one divorce, a major mid-life crisis, and countless AA meetings later, Leonard Nimoy's son, Adam, tells his cautionary -- and very funny -- tal]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080730]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Nimoy, Adam.]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[Heath Ledger : his beautiful life and mysterious death / John McShane.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080731]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[McShane, John.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061340685]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Golden bones : an extraordinary journey from hell in Cambodia to a new life in America / Sichan Siv.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080801]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Siv, Sichan, 1948-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0307269191]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[What I talk about when I talk about running : a memoir / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a dozen critically a]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080802]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[880-01 Murakami, Haruki, 1949-]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[Ernie : the autobiography / Ernest Borgnine.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In this candid and witty memoir, Ernest Borgnine tells about his fifty-year career in motion pictures and televisio]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080802]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Borgnine, Ernest, 1917-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0375424741]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The three of us : a family story / Julia Blackburn.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["This is the story of three people: Julia Blackburn; her father, Thomas; and her mother, Rosalie. Thomas was a poet and an alcoholic who for many years was addicted to barbiturates, which would often make him violent. Rosalie, a painter, was sociable and flirtatious; she treated Julia as her sister, her confidante, and eventually as her deadly sexual rival. After Julia's parents divorced, her mother took in lodgers, always men, on the understanding that each would become her lover. When one of the lodgers started an affair with Julia, Rosalie was devastated; when he later committed suicide, the relationship between mother and daughter was shattered irrevocably." "Or so it seemed until the spring of 1999, when Rosalie, diagnosed with leukemia, came to live with Julia for the last month of her life. At last the spell was broken, and they were able to talk with an ease they had never known before. When she was very near the end, Rosalie said to Julia, "Now you will be able to write about me, won't you?""--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080805]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Blackburn, Julia.]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[Backstage passes & backstabbing bastards : memoirs of a rock 'n' roll survivor / Al Kooper.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20080805]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Kooper, Al.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0297853554]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[On the edge : my story / Richard Hammond, with Mindy Hammond.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080806]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Hammond, Richard, 1969-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1591148499]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Destroyer captain : lessons of a first command / James G. Stavridis.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080807]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Stavridis, James.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0714835129]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Claude Debussy / by Paul Roberts.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20080807]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Roberts, Paul, 1949-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1599212943]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Birdwatcher : the life of Roger Tory Peterson / Elizabeth J.  Rosenthal.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080807]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Rosenthal, Elizabeth J.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1416553398]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Hiding in Hip Hop : on the down low in the entertainment industry, from music to Hollywood / Terrance Dean.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Within the masculine culture of hip hop and Hollywood, there is a gay subculture that industry insiders are keenly aware of but choose to hide. Terrance Dean worked his way up for more than ten years in the entertainment industry from intern to executive, and has lived the life of glitz and bling along with Hollywood and hip hop's most glamorous. With a family full of secrets and working in an industry founded on maleness--where one's job, friendships, and reputation all depend on remaining on the down low and in hiding--Dean writes a revealing account of the journey of coming out from hiding. While full of startling anecdotes and true stories, this is not a traditional tell-all, but a provocative and honest look at stardom and sexuality.--From publisher descriptio]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080807]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Dean, Terrance.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1416955550]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[My trip down the pink carpet / Leslie Jordan.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20080807]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Jordan, Leslie, 1955-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=080783193X]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Wade Hampton : Confederate warrior to southern redeemer / Rod Andrew, Jr.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080807]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Andrew, Rod.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0470079924]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[You can observe a lot by watching : what I've learned about teamwork from the Yankees and life / Yogi Berra with Dave Kaplan.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080807]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Berra, Yogi, 1925-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0470281375]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Amped : a soldier's race for gold in the shadow of war / Kortney Clemons ; with Bill Briggs.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080807]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Clemons, Kortney, 1980-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1897106378]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The lone Wolff : autobiography of a bridge maverick / Bobby Wolff.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080808]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Wolff, Bobby.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1934209805]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The Tonya tapes : the Tonya Harding story in her own voice / Lynda D. Prouse ; foreword by Michael Rosenberg.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080808]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Prouse, Lynda D.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1586484222]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The agitator's daughter : a memoir of four generations of one extraordinary African American family / Sheryll Cashin.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["The Agitator's Daughter is Sheryll Cashin's memoir of her "emotional inheritance," the dedication to political activism that has coursed through her family for generations. During Reconstruction, Herschel V. Cashin was a radical republican legislator who championed black political enfranchisement throughout the South. His grandson, Dr. John L. Cashin, Jr., inherited that passion for social justice and founded an independent Democratic party to counter George Wallace's Dixiecrats, electing more blacks to office than in any Southern state. His "uppity" ways attracted many enemies. The IRS pursued him, as did the FBI. Ultimately, his passions would lead to ruin and leave his daughter, Sheryll, wondering why he would risk so much. The process of political emancipation, begun by Herschel, eroded by Jim Crow, and revived in the era of Civil Rights is the lifeblood of the Cashin family. It is a complicated, often troublesome inheritance, one that Sheryll herself comes gradually to embrace and understand as she acknowledges being an agitator's daughter, with humor, honesty,and love."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080808]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Cashin, Sheryll.]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[Call of duty : my life before, during and after the Band of Brothers / Lynn "Buck" Compton, with Marcus Brotherton.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[As part of the elite 101st Airborne paratroopers, Lt. Lynn "Buck" Compton fought in critical battles of World War II as a member of Easy Company, immortalized as the Band of Brothers. Here, Compton tells his own story for the first time. From his years as a two-sport UCLA star who played baseball with Jackie Robinson and football in the 1943 Rose Bowl, through his legendary post-World War II legal career as a prosecutor, in which he helped convict Sirhan Sirhan for the murder of Robert F. Kennedy, Buck Compton truly embodies the American Dream: college sports star, esteemed combat veteran, detective, attorney, judge. This is the true story of a real-life hero who traveled to a faraway place and put his life on the line for the cause of freedom--and an insightful memoir about courage, leadership, camaraderie, compassion, and success.--From publisher descriptio]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080809]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Compton, Lynn D., 1921-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061472565]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Woman of Rome : a life of Elsa Morante / Lily Tuck.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080812]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Tuck, Lily, 1938-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0307381684]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Sex, love, and fashion : a memoir of a male model / Bruce Hulse.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080812]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Hulse, Bruce.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1599213850]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Trailer trashed : my dubious efforts toward upward mobility / Hollis Gillespie ; illustrations by James Polisky.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080812]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Gillespie, Hollis.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=069113006X]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The China diary of George H.W. Bush : the making of a global president / edited by Jeffrey A. Engel.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080812]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Bush, George, 1924-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0874809150]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Dave Rust : a life in the canyons / Frederick H. Swanson ; foreword by Michael F. Anderson.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080813]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Swanson, Frederick H. (Frederick Howard), 1952-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0767928598]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The geography of love : a memoir / Glenda Burgess.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080813]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Burgess, Glenda.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=159420151X]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The girl from foreign : a search for shipwrecked ancestors, forgotten histories, and a sense of home / Sadia Shepard.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In this beautifully crafted memoir, a young Muslim-Christian woman travels to an insular Jewish community in India to unlock her family's secret histor]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080814]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Shepard, Sadia.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=158648639X]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Wife in the north / Judith O'Reilly.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080815]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[O'Reilly, Judith.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1593761937]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[X films : true confessions of a radical filmmaker / Alex Cox.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080815]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Cox, Alex, 1954-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0393060977]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The lost spy : an American in Stalin's secret service / Andrew Meier.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[For half a century, the case of Isaiah Oggins, a 1920s New York intellectual brutally murdered in 1947 on Stalin's orders, remained hidden in the secret files of the KGB and the FBI--a footnote buried in the rubble of the Cold War. Then, in 1992, it surfaced briefly, when Boris Yeltsin handed over a deeply censored dossier to the White House. This book at last reveals the truth: Oggins was one of the first Americans to spy for the Soviets. Based on six years of international sleuthing, journalist Meier traces Oggins's rise in beguiling detail--a brilliant Columbia University graduate sent to run a safe house in Berlin and spy on the Romanovs in Paris and the Japanese in Manchuria--and his fall: death by poisoning in a KGB laboratory.--From publisher descriptio]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080815]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Meier, Andrew.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061191981]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Roasting in Hell's Kitchen : temper tantrums, F words, and the pursuit of perfection / Gordon Ramsay.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080816]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Ramsay, Gordon.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1589850572]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Don't throw away your stick till you cross the river : the journey of an ordinary man / by Vincent Beach with Anni Beach.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080819]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Beach, Vincent, 1924-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0307405427]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Dumbfounded : a memoir / Matt Rothschild.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["The only Jewish family in a luxury Fifth Avenue building of WASPs, the senior Rothschilds took over the responsibility of raising their grandson, Matt, after his mother left him for Italy and a fourth husband. But rearing Matt was no small task - even for his sharp-tongued grandmother, a cross between Lauren Bacall and Bea Arthur, and a lady who Matt grew to love deeply." "Matt secretly wore his grandmother's dresses, shoplifted Barbies from FAO Schwarz, invented an imaginary midget butler who he addressed at dinner parties, and got kicked out of nearly every elite school in Manhattan - once for his impersonation of Judy Garland at a recital. He was eventually sent to a boarding school (his grandmother had to ransom off a van Gogh to get him in). But as funny as his hijinks are now, at the time they masked a Jewfroed, chubby, lovable kid, sexually confused and abandoned by his mother, trying to fit in among the precious genteel world he was forced to live in."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080820]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Rothschild, Matt.]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[The jive talker : an artist's genesis / Samson Kambalu.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["The father of Samson Kambalu is the "Jive Talker" of this vivacious and warm, bristling and hilarious memoir. Kambalu Senior died of AIDS in 1995, bequeathing to his son a passion for words and an imagination that transcended all limitations." "In this utterly original, often subversive book, Samson Kambalu introduces us to his country of birth, Malawi, an impoverished nation in which no dissent is tolerated, where political opponents are "disappeared" and where a portrait of Life President Dr. Hastings Kamazu Banda is always guaranteed to be watching. It's also a place in which a little boy obsessed with Michael Jackson, Footloose, Nietszche, girls, fashion and football can move beyond his station to become a rising star in international pop culture, creating a life-affirming expressionist philosophy, "Holyballism," along the way." "Narrated with sass and charisma, The Jive Talker is a love letter to an Africa that is hardly understood, and it's a coming-of-age story that takes its place among the finest work by Tobias Wolff, Mary Karr and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080821]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Kambalu, Samson.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1597140368]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The oracles : my Filipino grandparents in America / Pati Navalta Poblete.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080823]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Poblete, Pati Navalta.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1586421441]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Hard driving : the Wendell Scott story : the odyssey of NASCAR'S first Black driver / Brian Donovan.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080827]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Donovan, Brian, 1952-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1589793412]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Candy Barr : the small-town Texas runaway who became a darling of the mob and the queen of Las Vegas burlesque / Ted Schwarz and Mardi Rustam.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080827]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Schwarz, Ted, 1945-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0609608134]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Mother on fire : a true motherf%#$@ story about parenting! / Sandra Tsing Loh.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080827]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Loh, Sandra Tsing.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061245550]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Mistress of the Vatican : the true story of Olimpia Maidalchini: the secret female pope / Eleanor Herman.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080828]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Herman, Eleanor, 1960-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0151013411]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The man who made Vermeers : unvarnishing the legend of master forger Han van Meegeren / Jonathan Lopez.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Lopez has drawn on never-before-seen documents from dozens of archives to write a revelatory new biography of the world's most famous forger. Neither unappreciated artist nor antifascist hero, Van Meegeren emerges as an ingenious, dyed-in-the-wool crook who plied the forger's trade far longer than he ever admitted--a talented Mr. Ripley armed with a paintbrush. Lopez also explores a network of illicit commerce that operated across Europ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080828]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Lopez, Jonathan.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0252033043]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Working girl blues : the life and music of Hazel Dickens / Hazel Dickens and Bill C. Malone.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080828]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Dickens, Hazel.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0803211198]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The wink of the zenith : the shaping of a writer's life / Floyd Skloot.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080828]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Skloot, Floyd.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1594201749]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Playing the enemy : Nelson Mandela and the game that made a nation / John Carlin.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080829]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Carlin, John, interviewer and writer.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0520235029]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Julius Caesar : the life and times of the people's dictator / Luciano Canfora ; translated by Marian Hill and Kevin Windle.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080829]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Canfora, Luciano.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0307405400]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[A sense of belonging : from Castro's Cuba to the U.S. Senate, one man's pursuit of the American dream / Mel Martinez ; with Ed Breslin.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080829]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Martinez, Mel (Melquiades Rafael), 1946-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0295988460]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Carl Maxey : a fighting life / Jim Kershner.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080829]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Kershner, Jim, 1953-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1550228315]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Heart : in the studio / Jake Brown.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080829]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Brown, Jake.]]></author>
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