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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group 2022
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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 ObamaObama, Michelle
Summary: Protagonista de una vida plena y exitosa, Michelle Obama se ha convertido en una de las mujeres más icónicas y cautivadoras de nuestra era. Como primera dama de los Estados Unidos de América, y primera afroamericana en desempeñar esa función, contribuyó a que la Casa Blanca alcanzara sus mayores cotas de apertura y pluralidad de la historia; se erigió en destacada defensora de las mujeres y las...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plaza Janés 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 OBAObama, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fayard 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.4 OBAAndersen, Christopher P.
Summary: One of America's bestselling pop-culture and current-events authors reveals the inside story of the First Couple, in this biography of the history-making family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OBAMA, BARACK AND MICHELLE ANDObama, Michelle
Summary: "When she was a little girl, Michelle Robinson's world was the South Side of Chicago, where she and her brother, Craig, shared a bedroom in their family's upstairs apartment and played catch in the park, and where her parents, Fraser and Marian Robinson, raised her to be outspoken and unafraid. But life soon took her much further afield, from the halls of Princeton, where she learned for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Goldman 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 OBAObama, Michelle
Summary: "Becoming" ist eines der am meisten erwarteten Bücher in diesem Jahr. Aufrichtige und inspirierende Memoiren der ehemaligen First Lady der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika haben sich bereits mehr als 3 Millionen Mal verkauft, wurden in 32 Sprachen übersetzt und standen 10 Monate an der Spitze des prestigeträchtigsten Buchrankings Amazon. In ihrem Buch teilt Michelle Obama zum ersten Mal die...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bombora 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 491.7 OBASummary: Michelle Obama's legacy transcends categorization; her cultural imprint is as nuanced as it is indelible. She used her time in the White House to fight for women, minorities, and health and education advocates. At the same time, her own genre-busting style encouraged others to speak, to engage, even to dress however they wanted. In this tribute to the former First Lady, T: The New York Times...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lenny 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 O'BAMA, MICHELLE COUFelix, Antonia
Summary: A photographic journey of Michelle Obama, one of the most beloved First Ladies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2017
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 921 OBAMA, MICHELLE FELDeaver, Michael K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLargePrint 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 REAObama, Michelle
Summary: In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America, she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private. A deeply personal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 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 ObamaObama, Michelle
Summary: "Michelle 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 OBAPaley, Rebecca
Summary: The A Girl Named series tells the stories of how ordinary American girls grew up to be extraordinary American women. It took a lot of determination, courage, and confidence to become the first woman to be nominated for president by a major political party. A Girl Named Hillary tells of the defining moments that made up her childhood and adolescence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR PURPLE PALChambers, Veronica
Summary: "Michelle Obama is unlike any other First Lady in American History. From her first moments on the public stage, she has challenged traditional American notions about what it means to be beautiful, to be strong, to be fashion-conscious, to be healthy, to be First Mom, to be a caretaker and hostess, and to be partner to the most powerful man in the world. As Hillary Clinton has said, admiringly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 CHAObama, Michelle
Summary: An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America-the first African-American to serve in that role-she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 OBAMA, MICHELLE OBASlevin, Peter B.
Summary: A comprehensive portrait of the First Lady describes her working-class upbringing on Chicago's South Side, her education at Princeton and Harvard during the racially charged 1980s, and her marriage to the future forty-fourth president.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OBAMA, MICHELLE SLEHummer, Jill Abraham
Summary: "This book is a history of first ladies beginning with Lou Henry Hoover and ending with Michelle Obama, discussing how they defined their role with a focus on how they related to women's issues and how they participated in politics. Hummer explores the intersection of personality and the first ladies' personal ambition and relationship with their presidential spouse, with the social and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kansas 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320 HUMJacobs, Diane.
Summary: "For readers of the historical works of Robert K. Massie, David McCulough, and Alison Weir comes the first biography on the life of Abigail Adams and her sisters. "Never sisters loved each other better than we."--Abigail Adams in a letter to her sister Mary, June 1776 Much has been written about the enduring marriage of President John Adams and his wife, Abigail. But few know of the equally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADAMS, ABIGAIL JACRogers, Katie
Summary: "The first definitive exploration of the role of the twenty-first century First Lady, painting a comprehensive portrait of Jill Biden and the evolution of the First Lady's role from ceremonial figurehead to political operative--from a White House correspondent for The New York Times. Since the Clinton era, tectonic shifts in media, politics, and pop culture have all redefined expectations of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.934 ROGBernstein, Carl
Summary: "Carl Bernstein's stunning portrait of Hillary Rodham Clinton shows us, as nothing else has, the true trajectory of her life and career with its zigzag bursts of risks taken and safety sought. Marshaling all the skills and energy that propelled his history-making Pulitzer Prize reporting on Watergate, Bernstein gives us the most detailed, sophisticated, comprehensive, and revealing account we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 CLINTON, HILLARY BERChadwick, Bruce.
Summary: "A revealing new portrait of James and Dolley Madison, America's first political power couple. In this comprehensive biography of James and Dolley Madison, historian Bruce Chadwick introduces the reader to "America's first power couple." Using newly uncovered troves of letters at the University of Virginia, Chadwick has been able to reconstruct the details of the Madisons' personal and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MADISON, JAMES & DOLLEY CHAMarton, Kati.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 MARTaraborrelli, J. Randy
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling celebrity biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli comes Grace & Steel, the epic, hidden history of the exceptional women behind the greatest political dynasty of all time-the Bush family. Bestselling author J. Randy Taraborrellireveals the unsung heroines of the inimitable Bush family dynasty: not only First Ladies Barbara and Laura, but other colorful women whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 TARWard, Geoffrey C.
Summary: An extraordinarily vivid and personal portrait of America's greatest political family and its enormous impact on our nation--the tie-in volume to the PBS documentary to air in the fall of 2014.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ROOSEVELT FAMILY WARTaraborrelli, J. Randy
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author of Jackie, Janet & Lee comes a fresh and often startling look at the life of the legendary former first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Based on hundreds of interviews with friends, family, and lovers over a thirty-year period--as well as previously unreleased material from the JFK Library--Kennedy historian J. Randy Taraborrelli paints an unforgettable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023