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New Biographies at Riverside Public Library
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Ian Fleming : the complete man
by Nicholas Shakespeare
Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our culture. What Bond represents about ideas of masculinity, the British national psyche and global politics has shifted over time, as has the interpretation of the life of his author. But Fleming himself was more mysterious and subtle than anything he wrote. Ian's childhood with his gifted brother Peter and his extraordinary mother set the pattern for his ambition to be "the complete man," and he would strive for the means to achieve this "completeness'" all his life.
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Life : my story through history
by Francis
For the first time, Pope Francis tells the story of his life as he looks back on the momentous world events that have changed history—from his earliest years during the outbreak of World War II in 1939 to the turmoil of today.
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Carson McCullers : a life
by Mary V. Dearborn
This new biography of the brilliant Southern author of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is based on newly available letters and journals and traces how she captured the heart and longing of the outcast.
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True believer : Hubert Humphrey's quest for a more just America
by James Traub
A celebrated historian recounts the life and career of Hubert Humphrey, liberalism's most dedicated defender and its most public and tragic sacrifice, reveals a deep-dyed idealist willing to compromise and even fight ugly in pursuit of a better society.
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What have we here : portraits of a life
by Billy Dee Williams
Recalling his remarkable life of nearly eight decades, the film legend who has starred in 40 movies, seven Broadway plays and has made more than 40 TV shows and movies combined shows how he, as the first Black character in the Star Wars universe, became a true pop culture icon. Illustrations.
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Goodbye Russia : Rachmaninoff in exile
by Fiona Maddocks
This story of the beloved Russian composer's years in exile in America and Switzerland focuses on his farewell masterpiece to his homeland, written shortly before his 1943 death: the iconic “Symphonic Dances.”
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Pure wit : the revolutionary life of Margaret Cavendish
by Francesca Peacock
Shining on a light on the remarkable—and in her time scandalous— 17th century writer who pioneered the science fiction novel, this biography of the brilliant, courageous proto-feminist largely forgotten by history chronicles her complex and controversial life.
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Oath and honor : a memoir and a warning
by Liz Cheney
The House Republican leader who dared to take a stand against the January 6th insurrection, which she witnessed first-hand, and then helped lead the ensuing investigation, tells the story of this perilous moment in our history, the betrayal of the American people and the Constitution and the risks we still face.
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The path to paradise : a Francis Ford Coppola story
by Sam Wasson
Granted total and unprecedented access to the Academy Award-winning director's archives, the author, drawing on hundreds of interviews with the artist and those who have worked closely with him, chronicles his attempt to reimagine the entire pursuit of moviemaking though his production company American Zoetrope.
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Jumpman : the making and meaning of Michael Jordan
by John Matthew Smith
Blending dramatic game action with the social forces of the early 90s, an acclaimed sports historian charts Michael Jordan's ubiquitous rise in American culture and the burden he carried as a national symbol of racial progress, demonstrating how the man and the myth together created the legend we remember today.
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My name is Barbra
by Barbra Streisand
In her own words, the living legend tells the story of her life and extraordinary career, from growing up in Brooklyn to her first star-making appearances in NY nightclubs to her breakout performance in Funny Girl to the long string of successes in every medium in the years that followed.
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The woman in me
by Britney Spears
The noted pop star offers a moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope.
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Madonna : a rebel life
by Mary Gabriel
The award-winning master biographer chronicles the meteoric rise and enduring influence of the greatest female pop icon of the modern era who has never stopped experimenting, pushing boundaries that changed culture globally, and fiercely defending a person's right to love whomever—and be whoever–they wanted.
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