Nivola, Claire A.
Summary: A picture book biography tells the story of Sylvia Earle's growing passion for the wonders of the sea and how her ocean exploration and advocacy have made her known around the world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Foster Books 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 EARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Bio EarleNivola, Claire A.
Summary: "This is the story of Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the Green Belt Movement"--Dust jacket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MAABartoletti, Susan Campbell.
Summary: Relates events of the 1814 Battle of Baltimore as seen through the eyes of twelve-year-old Caroline Pickersgill, who had worked with her family and their servants to sew the enormous flag which waved over Fort McHenry.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.52 BARPerkins, Nichole
Summary: "Pop culture is the Pandora's Box of our lives. Racism, wealth, poverty, beauty, inclusion, exclusion, and hope -- all of these intractable and unavoidable features course through the media we consume. Examining pop culture's impact on her life, Nichole Perkins takes readers on a rollicking trip through the last twenty years of music, media and the internet from the perspective of one southern...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PERKINS, NICHOLE PERGlaser, Linda.
Summary: The story of Emma Lazarus, who, despite her life of privilege, became a tireless advocate for the immigrants who arrived in New York City in the 1880s and wrote a famous poem for the Statue of Liberty.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Mansfield, Ken.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Broadman & Holman 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MANSFIELD, KEN MANKanefield, Teri
Summary: "The America that Alexander Hamilton knew was largely agricultural and built on slave labor. In contrast, he envisioned something different: along with agriculture and small towns, he imagined a multiracial, urbanized, capitalistic America with a strong central government. A poor immigrant, Hamilton believed that such an America would be a land of opportunity for newcomers. His vision put him...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HAMKanefield, Teri
Summary: In the fourth installment in the Making of America series, Susan B. Anthony, Teri Kanefield examines the life of America's famous suffragette. Anthony was born into a world in which men ruled women: A man could beat his wife, take her earnings, have her committed into an asylum based on his word, and take her children away from her. While the young nation was ablaze with the radical notion that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Abrams 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ANTMansfield, Stephen
Summary: Throughout his life, Lincoln fought with God. In his early years in Illinois, he rejected even the existence of God and became the village atheist. In time, this changed but still he wrestled with the truth of the Bible, preachers, doctrines, the will of God, the providence of God, and then, finally, God's purposes in the Civil War. Still, on the day he was shot, Lincoln said he longed to go to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM MANKanefield, Teri
Summary: Describes the peaceful protest organized by teenager Barbara Rose Johns in order to secure a permanent building for her segregated high school in Virginia in 1951, and explains how her actions helped fuel the civil rights movement.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB POWELL KANKanefield, Teri
Summary: "Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) was a US Supreme Court Justice and important civil rights activist. Born in Baltimore, Marshall faced racial segregation at school, but he worked his way up and earned his law degree from Howard University, where he met Charles Hamilton Houston. He followed Houston to New York to serve the NAACP and argued cases as an attorney. He argued more than thirty-two cases...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MARTesla, Nikola
Summary: Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla was a revolutionary scientist whose greatest invention, A/C current, powers almost all of the technological wonders in the world today.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: SoHo Books 2012
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sci EngTeslaReich, Steve
Summary: "Steve Reich is a living legend in the world of contemporary classical music. As a leader of the minimalist movement in the 1960s, his works have become central to the musical landscape worldwide, influencing generations of younger musicians, choreographers and visual artists. He has explored non-Western music and American vernacular music from jazz to rock, as well as groundbreaking music and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.92 REITickle, Phyllis.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Loyola Press 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 242.38 TICBethea, Nikole Brooks
Summary: Gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the invention of the cotton gin. Additional features include a table of contents, a Fast Facts spread, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, an index, and sources for further research.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World, Inc. 2017
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 609 BETCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J609 MOMTickle, Phyllis.
Contents: No palms in my purse -- Mardi Gras and other portals into mystery -- Of swallowtails in particular -- Watching and waiting -- Final sanity -- On just such a morning -- The bleeding birds -- Runaway son -- Garden myths -- Father and son -- Through the veil torn -- Patron saints and a story of grief -- Dance of the fireflies -- Ascension day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Loyola Press 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 242 TICChung, Nicole
Summary: "What does it mean to lose your roots--within your culture, within your family--and what happens when you find them? Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From childhood, she heard the story of her adoption as a comforting, prepackaged myth. She believed that her biological parents had made...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2018
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHUNG, NICOLE CHUChung, Nicole
Summary: "From the bestselling author of ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW comes a searing memoir of class, inequality, and grief-a daughter's search to understand the lives her adoptive parents led, the life she forged as an adult, and the lives she's lost. In this country, unless you attain extraordinary wealth, you will likely be unable to help your loved ones in all the ways you'd hoped. You will learn to live...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHUNG, NICOLE CHUCurtis, Nicole
Summary: "For the first time, Nicole Curtis, the star of the megahit HGTV and DIY Network show Rehab Addict, reveals her private struggles, her personal victories, and the inspiring lessons we can all learn from them,"--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CURTIS, NICOLE CUREllis, Nicole
Summary: "We Go High brings together the inspiring stories, motivational quotes, and personal philosophies of 30 influential women of color who have sought to overcome challenges in their lives. From activists to scientists, artists to sporting icons, each woman's story is different-but all have in common a deep-seated resilience to fight against the prejudices and barriers to success that women of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dk Publishing 2022
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Kanellos, Nicolás
Summary: "Latino Almanac covers the history of Latino Americans in politics, labor, law, religion, business, science, medicine, the military, media, sports, literature, music, theater, art, and film. Chapters address the important events and social and cultural changes that affected Latino Americans over the centuries. Each chapter offers a narrative history, along with separate biographical profiles of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Visible Ink Press 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0468 KANNicholl, Charles.
Summary: Examines the life and works of Renaissance painter, inventor, and sculptor, Leonardo da Vinci and studies his childhood in Tuscany, apprenticeship in Florence, relationship with contemporaries Michelangelo and Machiavelli, and the stories behind the creation of his "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Penguin 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEONicholl, Charles.
Summary: "In 1612, Shakespeare gave evidence in a court case at Westminster - and it is the only occasion on which his actual spoken, words, were recorded. The case seems routine - a dispute over an unpaid marriage dowry - but it opens an unexpected window into the dramatist's famously obscure life story. Some eight years earlier, we learn, Shakespeare was lodging in the house of a French immigrant...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM NICMartin, Barry
Summary: "The inspiring true story of the bond between a feisty octogenarian and the man in charge of building an enormous shopping mall around her home. Edith Macefield achieved folk hero status in 2006 when she turned down $1 million to sell her home to make way for a commercial development in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. It didn't matter that her tiny house was surrounded by rubble and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2013