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1) The iceberg
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272 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The author recounts the painful time in her life when her husband was dying of a brain tumor while her young son was just developing language.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Offers an illustrated telling of the story of Ada Byron Lovelace, from her early creative fascination with mathematics and science and her devastating bout with measles, to the ground-breaking algorithm she wrote for Charles Babbage's analytical engine.
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234 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color photographs ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this deeply personal memoir, the celebrated Olympic Gold Medal diver and LGBTQ+ advocate discusses his struggles, triumphs and how he developed the mindset to compete at an elite level."
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x, 353 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The English television personality reveals his struggles to become a successful comedian, discussing his troubled childhood, his addiction to drugs, sex, and alcohol, his mental illness, and his recovery aided by the support of his family and friends.
13) Gertrude Bell
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504 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
15) So anyway
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392 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this rollicking memoir, Cleese takes his readers on a Grand Tour of his ascent in the entertainment world, from his humble beginnings in a sleepy English town and his early comedic days at Cambridge University (with future Python partner Graham Chapman), to the founding of the landmark comedy troupe that would propel him to worldwide renown.
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1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Gertrude Bell is sometimes called the female Lawrence of Arabia. Bell was an explorer, spy, archaeologist, and diplomat who helped shape the Middle East after World War I. Advisor to Winston Churchill and critic of colonial policies in Iraq, Bell was considered the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day. The film takes viewers into a past that is eerily current. Why has Bell been written out of the history she helped make?
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287 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Diagnosed with autism at the age of thirty-four, one of the UK's hottest comedy stars reflects on the ways her undiagnosed autism influenced her youth, from the tree that functioned as her childhood best friend to the psychiatric facility where she ended up when no one knew what to do with her.
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English
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This "tour de force of analysis" (Joel Agee) examines the life and work of the prolific, visionary writer, painter and critic. Kemp finds in Ruskin's life, which spanned the same years as Queen Victoria's and thus embodied the Victorian era itself, a faithful mirror of the history and psychological evolution of his age.
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