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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: 973 ObamaObama, Barack.
Contents: Originally published: New York : Times Books, c1995.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OBAMA, BARACK OBAObama, Barack.
Summary: "In New York ... Barack Obama learns that his father--a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man--has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey--first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 OBAMA, BARAK OBAObama, Barack
Summary: Now adapted for young adults, the #1 New York times best-selling memoir offers an intimate look at Barack Obama's early days, tracing the future 44th president's odyssey through family, race, and identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 OBASummary: It was in Chicago, Barack Obama's adopted hometown, that the 24-year-old future President of the United States began a personal and political odyssey that would take him all the way to the White House. In this program, many of the people who have known Obama best since his arrival in Chicago offer their insights. Obama's work as a community organizer, his achievements at Harvard Law School, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Sotomayor, Sonia
Summary: "An instant American icon--the first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court--tells the story of her life before becoming a judge in an inspiring, surprisingly personal memoir. With startling candor and intimacy, Sonia Sotomayor recounts her life from a Bronxhousing project to the federal bench, a progress that is testament to her extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SOTOMAYOR, SONIA SOTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B SOTOMAYOR SOTCastro, Julián
Summary: In the spirit of a young Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father, comes a candid and compelling memoir about race and poverty in America. In many ways, there was no reason Julian Castro would have been expected to be a success. Born to unmarried parents in a poverty-stricken neighborhood of a struggling city, his prospects of escaping his circumstance seemed bleak. But he and his twin brother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018