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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Diagnosed at age 29, Fox is engaged in Parkinson's advocacy work, raising global awareness of the disease and helping find a cure through The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, the world's leading non-profit funder of PD science. Here he shares personal stories and observations about illness and health, aging, the strength of family and friends, and how our perceptions about time affect the way we approach mortality. Running through...
2) Lucky man
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In September 1998, Michael J. Fox stunned the world by announcing he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease - a degenerative neurological condition. ... he tells the story of his life, his career, and his campaign to find a cure for Parkinson's."--Container.
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Paints a revealing portrait of the pioneering rock musician, detailing his innovative influence on the world of rock music and his turbulent personal life, including his rise to fame and his battles with drug addiction and mental illness.
Author
Publisher
Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Meredith Baxter is a beloved and iconic television actress, most well-known for her enormously popular role as hippie mom, Elyse Keaton, on Family Ties. Her warmth, humor, and brilliant smile made her one of the most popular women on television, with millions of viewers following her on the small screen each week. Yet her success masked a tumultuous personal story and a harrowing private life. For the first time, Baxter is ready to share her incredible...
Author
Publisher
Health Communications
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"I began life, it would seem, as some kind of Grimms fairy tale creature, large and oafish, undesirable, grossly imperfect. Neatly penned in my baby book were the words, Debbie was a fat, unattractive baby. Thus begins the harrowing and inspiring story of Debrah Constance. Despite a life fraught with cycles of abuse and addiction, cancer and catastrophe, Debrah defied the odds, never losing hope in herself or humanity. Her story is one of triumph:...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
p2007
Language
English
Description
Tom DeLay was nicknamed "the Hammer" for his hard-charging, take-no-prisoners style of leadership. Liberals despise him, but for conservatives he's a hero--one of the architects of the 1994 Republican revolution. For twelve years afterward, he was the driving force of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives. In this memoir, DeLay shares stories from his entire career, starting with his early, raucous days in Texas; his personal conversion...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The A Girl Named series tells the stories of how ordinary American girls grew up to be extraordinary American women. It took a lot of determination, courage, and confidence to become the first woman to be nominated for president by a major political party. A Girl Named Hillary tells of the defining moments that made up her childhood and adolescence.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A chief legal officer with the CIA who helped create and implement counterterrorist operations after September 11 draws on previously undisclosed stories from his long career to illuminate the agency's inner workings.
In 1975, fresh out of law school and working a numbing job at the Treasury Department, John Rizzo took "a total shot in the dark" and sent his resume to the Central Intelligence Agency. He had no notion that more than thirty years later,...
Author
Publisher
Richard Ross
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"...the photographs in Juvenile in Justice open our eyes to the world of the incarceration of American youths. The nearly 150 images in this book were made over 5 years of visiting more than 1,000 youth confined in more than 200 juvenile detention institutions in 31 states. These riveting photographs, accompanied by the life stories that these young people in custody shared with Ross, give voice to imprisoned children from families that have no resources...
20) Nolan Ryan
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
A biography of the only pitcher to have thrown a no-hitter in three different decades.
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