Connect the Books - SER 2024


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Book cover for "Finding Freedom"
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Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"Long before The Lost Kitchen became a world dining destination with every seating filled the day the reservation book opens each spring, Erin French was a girl roaming barefoot on a 25-acre farm, a teenager falling in love with food while working the line at her dad's diner and a young woman finding her calling as a professional chef at her tiny restaurant tucked into a 19th century mill. This singular memoir--a classic American story--invites readers...
Book cover for "Finding me"
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Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
"The "emotionally-charged debut memoir from award-winning actor and icon Viola Davis"--
Book cover for "Funny farm"
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Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
"[This] is ... [a] memoir of the author's turbulent life with 600 rescue animals. Laurie Zaleski never aspired to run an animal rescue; that was her mother Annie's dream. But from girlhood, Laurie was determined to make the dream come true. Thirty years later as a successful businesswoman, she did it, buying a 15-acre farm deep in the Pinelands of South Jersey. She was planning to relocate Annie and her caravan of ragtag rescue-horses and goats, dogs...
Book cover for "Greenlights"
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Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"Drawing on the Academy Award-winning actor's journals and diaries from the last 40 years, this book presents a uniquely McConaughey approach to achieving success and satisfaction"--
Book cover for "Last chance Texaco"
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"A tender and intimate memoir by one of the most remarkable, trailblazing, and tenacious women in music, the two-time Grammy Award-winning "premiere song-stylist and songwriter of her generation" (New Yorker), Rickie Lee Jones. Have you met Ms. Jones? One weekend night on primetime television, a then-unknown singer and vital part of the burgeoning Los Angeles jazz pop scene skyrocketed to fame overnight after a now- iconic performance on Saturday...
Book cover for "Mixed plate"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
The autobiography of Filipino-American comedian Jo Koy.
Book cover for "We need to hang out"
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"A middle-aged everyman who realizes that he doesn't have any close friends is inspired to set out on a humorous and ultimately moving quest to revive old tribes and build new ones, all with the goal of having someone to hang out with on Wednesday nights. "--Provided by publisher.
Book cover for "The woman in me"
Star rating for The woman in me
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Description:
"In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice--her truth--was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey--and the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history. Written with remarkable candor and humor, Spears's groundbreaking book illuminates...
Book cover for "Yearbook"
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Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Description:
"A collection of funny personal essays from one of the writers of Superbad and Pineapple Express and one of the producers of The Disaster Artist, Neighbors, and The Boys"--