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Scalia, Antonin

Summary: "By any measure, Antonin Scalia lived an extraordinary life. A Supreme Court justice for three decades, he transformed the way that judges and lawyers think about the law. Married to his beloved Wife, Maureen, for more than fifty years, a father to nine children, and a grandfather to dozens, he was devoted to his family and his faith. He was gregarious, energetic, and a friend to people of all...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Forum 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 815 SCA

Corey, Shana

Summary: "Acclaimed author Shana Corey and New York Times Best Illustrated artist R. Gregory Christie deliver a fresh look at Kennedy, underscoring the greatness and fallibility of our leaders and how each one of us, no matter who we are, have the power to make adifference. With quotes from JFK's speeches, detailed back matter, and a thought- provoking author's note, this biography offers a sensitive...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: NorthSouth 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KEN

Contents: On the future of women in flying (1931) / Amelia Earhart -- Farewell to baseball (1939) / Lou Gehrig -- Address to the nation on the R.A.F. (1940) / Prime Minister Winston Churchill -- Farewell to baseball (1947) / Babe Ruth -- Address to the Chicago Irish Fellowship Club (1954) / Senator Joseph McCarthy -- Farewell to fans (The Payola scandal) (1959) / Alan Freed -- Farewell address (1961) /...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino/Word Beat 1994

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN GRE

Morrison, Toni

Summary: Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection--a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 814 MOR

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 MOR

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 MOR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Essay Morrison

Obama, Barack.

Contents: "What I am opposed to is a dumb war" : Speech Against the Iraq War, Chicago, IL, October 2, 2002 -- "The Audacity of Hope" : Speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Boston, MA, July 27, 2004 -- "How Far We've Come" : Remarks at John Lewis's 65th Birthday Gala, February 21, 2005 -- "We cannot abandon the field of religious discourse" : Keynote Address at the Call to Renewal...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.932 WE

Summary: The rich and sometimes discordant strains of American self-scrutiny fill this wide-ranging anthology. Kennedy (The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis) arranges the more than 200 selections according to themes like "The Flag," "Freedom of Speech," "Work, Opportunity and Invention" and "The Individual," and devotes equal space to the official, the devotional and the oppositional. ...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 PAT

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