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Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, map ; 21 x 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Olympic gymnast Laurie Hernandez! Hernandez's life story is examined from her childhood in New Jersey where she began gymnastics at age five, to the 2015 US Junior Titleon the way to being chosen for the women's gymnastics team at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro where she won one gold and one silver medal. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards."--
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xi, 176 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"W. J. T. Mitchell's son Gabriel was diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of nineteen and died by suicide at the age of 38, leaping from his apartment high in Chicago's Marina City towers. Gabe left behind a remarkable archive of creative work and a father determined to learn from, and bear witness to, Gabe's journey. What is a father to do when caught between his skepticism about psychiatry and the reality of a son suffering from mental illness?...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This comprehensive biography, written by celebrated nonfiction author Susan Goldman Rubin, explores the tumultuous and passionate life of activist, singer, and actor Paul Robeson. When faced with the decision to remain silent or be ostracized, Paul Robeson chose to sing, shout, and speak out. Sing and Shout: The Mighty Voice of Paul Robeson explores how Robeson's love of African American spirituals and deep empathy towards the suffering of others...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
177 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Paula's story is a testament to the spirit of survival in inhumane times and the triumph of life over those seeking to destroy it. If we carefully read and learn from her experience, we will dedicate ourselves, each generation, to ensuring the present and future dignity of all people"--Back cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
viii, 419 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Historian David O. Stewart restores James Madison, sometimes overshadowed by his fellow Founders, to his proper place as the most significant framer of the new nation. Short, plain, balding, neither soldier nor orator, low on charisma and high on intelligence, Madison cared more about achieving results than taking the credit. To reach his lifelong goal of a self-governing constitutional republic, he blended his talents with those of key partners....
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
x, 405 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The dramatic and compelling story of the transformation of America during the last fifty years, told through a handful of families in one suburban county in Virginia that has been utterly changed by recent immigration. In the fifty years since the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, the foreign-born population of the United States has tripled. Significantly, these immigrants are not coming from Europe, as was the case before 1965, but from all...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xiv, 154 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In The Presidency in Black and White, journalist April Ryan gives readers a compelling and personal behind-the-scenes look at race relations in contemporary America from the epicenter of American power and policy making--the White House, her beat since 1997. On behalf of the American Urban Radio Networks, and through her "Fabric of America" news blog, she delivers her readership and listeners (millions of African Americans and close to 300 radio affiliates)...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
95 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"Here is the story of a child born at the dawn of a social movement. At first the protests were in small villages and at universities. But then they spread. People drew sustenance from other social movements in other countries. And then the unthinkable happened. The protagonist in this fictionalized children's memoir is a witness and a participant, fearful sometimes, brave sometimes too, and when things change, this child who is now an adult is as...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
x, 388 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Draws on six volumes of unpublished memoirs to chronicle the life of Lady Anne Barnard, an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poet and painter, who lived on her own terms and defied the conventions of her day.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xiv, 184 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Almost every couple faces a "now what?" moment as their last kid moves out of the house. There's a big empty nest looming over this new and uncertain stage in their lives. David and Veronica James chose to look at this next phase of life as a beginning instead of an ending. Rather than staying put and facing the constant reminders of empty bedrooms and backseats, a plan began to develop to sell the nest and hit the highway. But could a homebody helicopter...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
viii, 359 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist, Nina Burleigh, explores Donald Trump's attitudes toward women by providing in-depth analysis and background on the women who have had the most profound influence on his life-- the mother and grandmother who raised him, the wives who lived with him, and the daughter who is poised to inherit it all. Has any president in the history of the United States had a more fraught relationship with...
5535) Almost brown
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning writer retraces her dysfunctional, biracial, globe-trotting family's journey as she reckons with ethnicity and belonging, diversity and race, and the complexities of life within a multicultural household. Charlotte Gill's father is Indian. Her mother is English. They meet in 1960's London when the world is not quite ready for interracial love. Their union, a revolutionary act, results in a total meltdown of familial relations, a...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xv, 447 pages, 16 unnumbered of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A captivating book that brilliantly reveals an American sports legend long overlooked. Sally Jacobs tells the riveting story of Althea Gibson, my personal hero, who overcame daunting odds - on the tennis court and off - to stand at the world pinnacle of her sport and became an inspiration to many." - Billie Jean King In 1950, three years after Jackie Robinson first walked onto the diamond at Ebbets Field, the all-white, upper-crust US Lawn Tennis...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xx, 248 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Who was the real Atticus Finch? The publication of Go Set a Watchman in 2015 forever changed how we think about Atticus Finch. Once seen as a paragon of decency, he was reduced to a small-town racist. How are we to understand this transformation? In Atticus Finch, historian Joseph Crespino draws on exclusive sources to reveal how Harper Lee's father provided the central inspiration for each of her books. A lawyer and newspaperman, A.C. Lee was a...
5538) Vessel: a memoir
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An unprecedented and heartfelt memoir that illuminates the lives of rural Chinese workers, offering a portrait of generational strife, family, love, and loss that crosses cultures and time. Cai Chongda spent his childhood in a rural fishing village in Fujian province. When his father-- a former communist gang leader turned gas station owner-- has a stroke that partially paralyzes him, his responsibilities fall to Cai, his only son. Assuming his new...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The first Black mayor of Montgomery, Alabama, shares his story of making his way in a world that wasn't built for him, drawing on his rich heritage as the son of a civil rights leader. As a proud son of Joe L. Reed, Steven Reed grew up hearing stories about how his father integrated Montgomery lunch counters and took advice directly from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Reverend Ralph Abernathy. However, it wasn't until Reed was in the fourth grade...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xiv, 193 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Hamilton: An American Biography, Tony Williams provides readers with a concise biography that traces the events and values that enabled Hamilton to rise from his youth as a dispossessed orphan to Revolutionary War hero and Founding Father, a life uniquely shaped by America and who, in turn, contributed to the creation of the American regime of liberty and self-government. He was one of key leaders in the American Revolution, a chief architect...
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