Weintraub, Aileen
Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 WEIPatterson, James
Summary: At age thirteen, she became Lady Diana Spencer. At twenty, Princess of Wales. At twenty-one, she earned her most important title: Mother. As she fell in love, first with Prince Charles and then with her sons, William and Harry, the world fell in love with the young royal family, Diana most of all. With one son destined to be King of England, and one to find his own way, she taught them dual...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 PATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 PATPatterson, James
Summary: At age thirteen, she became Lady Diana Spencer. At twenty, Princess of Wales. At twenty-one, she earned her most important title: Mother. As she fell in love, first with Prince Charles and then with her sons, William and Harry, the world fell in love with the young royal family, Diana most of all. With one son destined to be King of England, and one to find his own way, she taught them dual...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 PATGreenberg, Mark
Summary: Back in 2007, when Barack Hussein Obama announced his campaign, his election seemed to be a long shot. But he won in a decisive victory, also garnering a record 69.5 million votes, and on January 20, 2009, he became the 44th president of the United States and its first African American chief executive. Now, after two terms, this book explores Obama's journey in pictures, from his remarkable...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 921 OBAMA, BARACK GREFunk, McKenzie
Summary: "The bizarre and captivating story of the most important person you've never heard of. The world we live in today, where everything is tracked by corporations and governments, originates with one manic, elusive, utterly unique man--as prone to bullying as he was to fits of surpassing generosity and surprising genius. His name was Hank Asher, and his life was a strange and spectacular show that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Gorenstein, Nathan
Summary: "The first major biography of "the Thomas Edison of guns," John Moses Browning, a visionary inventor who designed the modern handgun and whose awe-inspiring array of firearms helped ensure victory in numerous American wars and found an important place in American culture. Few people are aware that John Moses Browning-a tall, humble, cerebral man born in 1855 and raised as a Mormon in the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Weir, Alison
Summary: "Packed with dramatic true stories from one of European history's most romantic and turbulent eras, this epic narrative chronicles the five vividly rendered queens of the Plantagenet kings who ruled England between 1299 and 1399. The Age of Chivalry describes a period of medieval history dominated by the social, religious, and moral code of knighthood that prized noble deeds, military greatness...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WEIObama, Michelle
Summary: "Mrs. Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group 2022
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OBACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OBACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OBACopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OBAMA, MICHELLE OBACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B OBAMA OBACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio ObamaSeligman, Craig
Summary: "In the 1970s, queer people were openly despised and drag queens scared the public; this was also the era when Doris Fish (born Philip Mills in 1952 in Australia) rose to drag queen stardom. He was a leader of the generation that prepared the world not just for drag queens on TV but for a society that is more tolerant and accepting of LGBTQ+ people. How did we get from there to here? Craig...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FISH, DORIS SELZaleski, Laurie
Summary: "Funny Farm is an inspiring and moving 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. Laurie had...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZALCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZALESKI, LAURIE ZALZaleski, Laurie
Summary: "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 rescues -- horses and goats, dogs and cats, chickens...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LPB ZALESKI ZAIAdayfi, Mansoor
Summary: "The moving, eye-opening memoir of an innocent man detained at Gauntánamo Bay for 15 years: a story of humanity in the unlikeliest of places and an unprecedented look at life at Gauntánamo on the eve of its 20th anniversary"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADAYFI, MANSOOR ADAShaffer, Jody Jensen
Summary: Briefly examines the childhood, education, adulthood, and presidency of the first African-American president in U.S. history.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 OBAAmeri, Anan
Summary: "Born to a Syrian mother and a Palestinian father in 1944, Anan Ameri'a refreshing memoir, The Scent of Jasmine, offers a funny, spirited, unique self-portrait of her childhood, adolescence and passage to adulthood as a young woman in an Arab world. A collection of twenty-three vignettes, Anan's search for the familiar fragrance of jasmine blossoms leads her to reimagine the puzzle pieces of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Branch Press, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group Inc. 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AMERI, ANAN AMEKimmerer, Robin Wall
Summary: "As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 KIMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 KIMMoore, Peter
Summary: "The most famous phrase in American history once looked quite different. "The preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness" was how Thomas Jefferson put it in the first draft of the Declaration, before the first ampersand was scratched out, along with "the preservation of." In a statement as pithy--and contested--as this, a small deletion matters. And indeed, that final,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Kimmerer, Robin Wall
Summary: "Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer's best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass is adapted for a young adult audience by children's author Monique Gray Smith, bringing Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Zest Books, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. 2022
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.8 KIMBeresford-Kroeger, Diana
Summary: "Canadian botanist, biochemist and visionary Diana Beresford-Kroeger's startling insights into the hidden life of trees have already sparked a quiet revolution in how we understand our relationship to forests. Now, in a captivating account of how her life led her to these illuminating and crucial ideas, she shows us how forests can not only heal us but save the planet. When Diana...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Canada 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BERESFORD-KROEGER, DIANA BERSmith, Sally Bedell
Summary: "When the Duke of Windsor abdicated the throne in 1936, his shy, uncertain, unprepared younger brother became King. Sally Bedell Smith was granted by Queen Elizabeth II special access to the letters and diaries of George VI and Elizabeth, to tell the story of how their love, devotion, and strong marriage led George VI to overcome insecurities and difficulty speaking and to become an exceptional...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SMIWeir, Alison
Summary: "Spanning the years from the Norman conquest in 1066 to the dawn of a new era in 1154, when Henry II succeeded to the throne and Eleanor of Aquitaine, the first Plantagenet queen, was crowned, this ... book brings to ... life five women: Matilda of Flanders, wife of William the Conqueror, the first Norman king; Matilda of Scotland, revered as 'the common mother of all England'; Adeliza of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballentine Books 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WEISarnowski, Claire
Summary: "The true story of a young girl and a Holocaust survivor whose friendship led to a significant change in their community and beyond"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SARKeenan, Cody
Summary: Barack Obama's chief speechwriter Cody Keenan shares an account of the ten most dramatic days of the presidency, when a hate-fueled massacre and looming Supreme Court decisions put the character of our country on the line, and a president's words could bring the nation together or tear it apart.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.932 KEEObama, Michelle
Summary: Il y a encore tant de choses que j'ignore au sujet de l'Amérique, de la vie, et de ce que l'avenir nous réserve. Mais je sais qui je suis. Mon père, Fraser, m'a appris à travailler dur, à rire souvent et à tenir parole. Ma mère, Marian, à penser par moi-même et à faire entendre ma voix. Tous les deux ensemble, dans notre petit appartement du quartier du South Side de Chicago, ils m'ont aidée à...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fayard 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.4 OBABrandreth, Gyles Daubeney
Summary: This is the story of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh - the longest-serving consort to the longest-reigning sovereign in British history. It is an extraordinary story, told with unique insight and authority by an author who knew the prince for more than forty years. Philip - elusive, complex, controversial, challenging, often humorous, sometimes irascible - is the man Elizabeth II once...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Coronet 2021