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You got anything stronger? : stories / by Union, Gabrielle,author.(CARDINAL)342896; O'Leary, Kevin Carr,author.(CARDINAL)353015;
Loved even as a thought -- Dream team -- Embrace your kryptonite -- On the compassion of strippers -- Good soldiers -- Zaya -- Freshman orientation -- The audacity of aging (with hope) -- Into the matrix -- Fuck balance -- Dance battle -- Power in numbers -- Thanksgiving -- The golden lady of L.A. -- Dear Isis -- Escape from King's Landing -- How to pitch your life -- The voice of wisdom -- Don't worry, mommy -- Standards and practices : a tragedy in three acts -- Oh, one more thing."We're Going to Need More Wine... plus a few shots-acclaimed activist, actress, and New York Times bestselling author Gabrielle Union is back with an even more intimate, revealing, and powerful collection of essays."--In her previous book, Union revealed her own trauma as a victim of sexual assault and spoke openly of her fertility journey. In this collection of essays, she continues her story: becoming a mom to two amazing girls; an expanded career that gives her the opportunity to lift up other voices that need to be heard. But as a Black woman, a mother, an aging woman and a human being, she shows how this ever-changing life presents challenges... and moment of pure joy. -- adapted from jacket
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Essays.; Anecdotes.; Union, Gabrielle.; African American actresses; Motion picture actors and actresses; Television actors and actresses; Infertility, Female; Motion picture industry;
Available copies: 41 / Total copies: 53
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Open book / by Simpson, Jessica,1980-author.(CARDINAL)538829; O'Leary, Kevin Carr,author.(CARDINAL)353015;
"Jessica reveals for the first time her inner monologue and most intimate struggles. Guided by the journals she's kept since age fifteen, and brimming with her unique humor and down-to-earth humanity, Open Book is as inspiring as it is entertaining. This was supposed to be a very different book. Five years ago, Jessica Simpson was approached to write a motivational guide to living your best life. She walked away from the offer, and nobody understood why. The truth is that she didn't want to lie. Jessica couldn't be authentic with her readers if she wasn't fully honest with herself first. Now, Americas Sweetheart, preachers daughter, pop phenomenon, reality TV pioneer, and the billion-dollar fashion mogul invites readers on a remarkable journey, examining a life that blessed her with the compassion to help others but also burdened her with an almost crippling need to please. Open Book is Jessica Simpson using her voice, heart, soul, and humor to share things shes never shared before. First celebrated for her voice, she became one of the most talked-about women in the world, whether for music and fashion, her relationship struggles, or as a walking blonde joke. But now, instead of being talked about, Jessica is doing the talking. Her book shares the wisdom and inspirations shes learned and shows the real woman behind all the pop-culture clichés "chicken or fish," "Daisy Duke," "football jinx," "mom jeans," "sexual napalm" and more. Open Book is an opportunity to laugh and cry with a close friend, one that will inspire you to live your best, most authentic life, now that she is finally living hers." --
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Simpson, Jessica, 1980-; Singers; Actors;
Available copies: 44 / Total copies: 52
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This is me : loving the person you are today / by Metz, Chrissy,1980-author.(CARDINAL)353014; O'Leary, Kevin Carr,author.(CARDINAL)353015;
A book of inspirational and spiritual life lessons from the star of NBC's "This Is Us" examines the role of authenticity and sincerity in her successes, encouraging readers to claim their rightful places in a world that constantly undermines individuals.Introduction -- Use the pretty napkin -- Bottle rocket in a beer bottle -- Too much but not enough -- Bee mindful: Say thank you -- Secret summer -- Be not afraid -- Bee mindful: Preschool rules still apply -- You're here for a reason -- These are the breaks -- Bee mindful: How to be an agent of change in your own life -- Woo me with your words -- Bee mindful: The shrouded supreme -- Lost Angeles -- If nothing changes, nothing changes -- Bee mindful: My new vows -- When you're so thirsty you're dehydrated -- Bee mindful: Don't call him back -- Falling forward -- The not-so-big easy -- Bee mindful: Hurt people hurt people -- Do whatcha wanna do -- Bee mindful: Wear what makes you happy -- Return on the investment -- Bee mindful: The power of an apology -- A reason, a season, or a lifetime -- Bee mindful: Give back to others (and to yourself) -- Forever never fades -- P.S.: A letter from Chrissy to Kate.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Metz, Chrissy, 1980-; This is us (Television program); Television actors and actresses; Self-actualization (Psychology); Self-actualization (Psychology) in women.;
Available copies: 34 / Total copies: 43
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All the young men : a memoir of love, AIDS, and chosen family in the American South / by Burks, Ruth Coker,author.; O'Leary, Kevin Carr,author.;
"In 1986, twenty-six-year-old Ruth visits a friend at the hospital when she notices a door to one of the rooms is painted red. Nurses are drawing straws to see who will tend to the patient crying for his mother on the other side, all of them unwilling to help. Ruth immediately steps into the quarantined space herself, comforting the young man in his last moments. Before she realizes what she's done, word spreads in the community that Ruth is the only person willing to help these young men afflicted by AIDS, and is called upon to nurse them. Shuttling from patient to patient, Ruth forges deep friendships with the men she helps: Paul and Billy, Angel, Chip, Todd and Douglas, working tirelessly to find them housing and jobs, and burying their ashes in her own family's cemetery. She teaches sex-ed to drag queens after hours at secret bars and defies local pastors and nurses to help the men she cares for, ultimately advising then-Governor Bill Clinton on the national HIV-AIDS crisis and becoming a beacon of hope to an otherwise spurned group of ailing gay men on the fringes of an intensely conservative state. This moving and elegiac memoir honors the extraordinary life of Ruth Coker Burks and the beloved men with AIDS who fought valiantly for their lives during a most hostile and misinformed time in America"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Burks, Ruth Coker; AIDS (Disease); Caregivers; Gay men; AIDS (Disease); Gay men.;
Available copies: 18 / Total copies: 20
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Matriarch [large print] : a memoir / by Knowles, Tina,1954-author.; O'Leary, Kevin Carr,author.(CARDINAL)353015;
The mother tree -- Prelude: under the pecan tree -- Act one: a daughter. Badass Tenie B ; Galveston ; Weeks island ; Holy rosary ; Claiming our power ; Dreaming within the lines ; Hellhounds on our trail ; Ladies and gentlemen, the Veltones ; An education in liberation ; Before I let go ; Golden hour ; Return of the prodigal daughter ; Into the undercurrent ; The persistence of fate -- Act two: a mother. Bloodline ; Jazz baby ; It goes by fast ; Order my steps ; Headliners ; Parkwood ; "Those little Knowles girls" ; Lessons in survival ; Three girls ; Bread of life ; The loss is the fuel ; Three sisters ; The dolls ; Mother of invention ; Naming their destiny ; A way out of no way ; The style it takes ; Johnny ; New beginnings ; "Tina is the problem" ; Twenty-first-century women ; Eyes lifted to the mountains ; Joy and pain ; Contemporary American landscapes ; In my fashion ; Before and after ; Frenchy's and veuve clicquot ; The distant beat of wings -- Act three: a woman. What becomes of the broken-hearted? ; Soul survivor ; Single in the city ; Get your groove back ; Ready for love ; Louisiana roots ; Tina's angels ; Capri moon ; Cover it with crystals ; Choosing me ; Reading the margins -- Finale: the waves at Malibu."Tina Knowles, the mother of iconic singer-songwriters BeyoncЃe Knowles-Carter, Solange Knowles, and bonus daughter Kelly Rowland, is known the world over as a Matriarch with a capital M: a determined, self-possessed, self-aware, and wise woman who raised and inspired some of the great artists of our time. But this story is about so much more than that. Matriarch begins with a precocious, if unruly, little girl growing up in 1950s Galveston, the youngest of seven. She is in love with her world, with extended family on every other porch and the sounds of Motown and the lapping beach always within earshot. But as the realities of race and the limitations of girlhood set in, she begins to dream of the world beyond. Her instincts and impulsive nature drive her far beyond the shores of Texas to discover the life awaiting her on the other side of childhood. That life's journey-through grief and tragedy, creative and romantic risks and turmoil, the nurturing of superstar offspring and of her own special gifts-is the remarkable story she shares with readers here. This is a page-turning chronicle of family love and heartbreak, of loss and perseverance, and of the kind of creativity, audacity, and will it takes for a girl from Galveston to change the world. It's one brilliant woman's intimate and revealing story, and a multigenerational family saga that carries within it the story of America--and the wisdom that women pass on to each other, mothers to daughters, across generations"--
Subjects: Large print books.; Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Knowles, Tina, 1954-; Singers; Mothers of celebrities; Beyoncé, 1981-; Mothers and daughters; African American women;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 11
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Full disclosure / by Daniels, Stormy,1979-author.(CARDINAL)782899; O'Leary, Kevin Carr,author.(CARDINAL)353015;
She was already well-known in some circles before March 6, 2018, but that's probably the first time you heard the name Stormy Daniels. That's the day she filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump over a nondisclosure agreement negotiated before the election but never signed. How did Stormy Daniels become the woman willing to take on a president? What is it like to be reviled by some, held up as a beacon of hope by others, and to be an object of fascination to all? In this book, Stormy Daniels tells her whole story for the first time: everything about the events that led to the nondisclosure agreement and the behind-the-scenes attempts to intimidate her, how she came to be a leading actress and director in the adult film business, and the full truth about her journey from a rough childhood in Louisiana onto the national stage. Stormy is funny, sharp, warm, and impassioned by turns. Her story is a thoroughly American one, of a girl who loved reading and horses and who understood from a very young age what she wanted--and who also knew she'd have to get every step of the way there on her own. People can't stop talking about Stormy Daniels. And they won't be able to stop talking about her fresh, surprising, completely candid, nothing-held-back book.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Daniels, Stormy, 1979-; Trump, Donald, 1946-; Motion picture actors and actresses; Motion picture producers and directors; Pornographic film industry; Pornographic films; Pornographic film industry; Sex scandals; Sex scandals.;
Available copies: 27 / Total copies: 32
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Matriarch [sound recording] : Oprah's Book Club: a Memoir. by Knowles, Tina,author,narrator.; O'Leary, Kevin Carr,author.(CARDINAL)353015;
Tina Knowles, the mother of iconic singer-songwriters Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Solange Knowles, and bonus daughter Kelly Rowland, is known the world over as a Matriarch with a capital M: a determined, self-possessed, self-aware, and wise woman who raised and inspired some of the great artists of our time. But this story is about so much more than that. Matriarch begins with a precocious, if unruly, little girl growing up in 1950s Galveston, the youngest of seven. She is in love with her world, with extended family on every other porch and the sounds of Motown and the lapping beach always within earshot. But as the realities of race and the limitations of girlhood set in, she begins to dream of a more grandiose world. Her instincts and impulsive nature drive her far beyond the shores of Texas to discover the life awaiting her on the other side of childhood. That life's journey-through grief and tragedy, creative and romantic risks and turmoil, the nurturing of superstar offspring and of her own special gifts-is the remarkable story she shares with readers here. This is a page-turning chronicle of family love and heartbreak, of loss and perseverance, and of the kind of creativity, audacity, and will it takes for a girl from Galveston to change the world. It's one brilliant woman's intimate and revealing story, and a multigenerational family saga that carries within it the story of America-and the wisdom that women pass on to one another, mothers to daughters, across generations. - Amazon.com
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Audiobooks.; Beyoncé, 1981-; Knowles, Tina, 1954-; Singers; Mothers of celebrities; Singers; Mothers of rock musicians; Women singers; African American women; Mothers and daughters;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Every day I'm hustling / by Fox, Vivica A.,1964-author.(CARDINAL)533167; O'Leary, Kevin Carr,author.(CARDINAL)353015;
The start of our hustle -- Find your dream-and actually make it happen -- A troubleshooting guide to the heart -- Look amazing at any age or budget -- Maintaining success as you grow through change.Fox created a lasting career through sheer roll-up-your-sleeves DIY hustle. Her message: you make your own luck, you never ever wake up in the morning thinking somebody's going to call you and change your life-- you need to go out and make your life happen yourself. Sprinkled in with her strategies for success are behind-the-scenes tales, an examination of what it took for her come-back on television, and her secrets to looking your best, no matter the age on your driver's license.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Fox, Vivica A., 1964-; Actors; African American actresses; Conduct of life.; Success.;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 11
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La fuerza de la quietud : el poder de la meditación trascendental / by Roth, Robert,1950-author.(CARDINAL)350932; O'Leary, Kevin Carr,author.(CARDINAL)353015; Asensio, Maria Jesus,translator.;
¿Qué tienen en común Oprah Winfrey, Ellen DeGeneres, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tom Hanks o Gisele Bündchen? La respuesta es: un profesor de meditación trascendental llamado Bob Roth, que ha ayudado a miles de personas a desarrollar su creatividad y poder innatos a través de una técnica sencilla y no religiosa llamada meditación trascendental. En este libro Bob Roth nos explica, de forma simple y clara, todo lo necesario para conocer y practicar esta técnica.Oprah Winfrey and Jerry Seinfeld. Ray Dalio and Ellen DeGeneres. Gwyneth Paltrow and Howard Stern. Tom Hanks and Gisele Bündchen. What do they have in common? The answer is a Transcendental Meditation teacher named Bob Roth, who has spent the past forty-five years helping many thousands of people access their innate creativity and power through this simple, nonreligious technique. Roth's students range from titans of business and the arts to federal prisoners, from war-scarred veterans to overworked moms and dads. Medical experts agree that the epidemic of stress is damaging our physical and emotional health at younger and younger ages. While there is no one single cure, the Transcendental Meditation technique is a simple practice that dramatically changes how we respond to stress and life's challenges. With scientifically proven benefits- reduced stress and anxiety, and improved focus, sleep, resilience, creativity, and memory, to name a few-this five-thousand-year-old technique has a clear and direct impact on our very modern problems. Once a skeptic, Roth trained under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the twentieth century's foremost scientist of consciousness and meditation, and has since become one of the most experienced and sought-after meditation teachers in the world. In Strength in Stillness, Roth breaks down the science behind Transcendental Meditation in a new, accessible way. He highlights the three distinct types of meditation-Focused Attention, Open Monitoring, and Self-Transcending-and showcases the evidence that the third, Self-Transcending, or Transcendental Meditation, is a uniquely accessible, effective, and efficient way to reduce stress, access inner power, and build resilience. Free of gimmicks, mystical verbiage, and obscure theory, Strength in Stillness offers a clear explanation for how Transcendental Meditation can calm the mind, body, and spirit.
Subjects: Transcendental Meditation.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Strength in stillness : the power of transcendental meditation / by Roth, Robert,1950-author.(CARDINAL)350932; O'Leary, Kevin,author.(CARDINAL)794115;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-205).
Subjects: Transcendental Meditation.;
Available copies: 15 / Total copies: 17
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