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Beasley, Gertrude

Summary: "Originally published in Paris in 1925, My First Thirty Years is a brutally honest memoir by Gertrude Beasley, who grew up in poverty in rural Texas and suffered unthinkable emotional and sexual abuse at the hands of her family. The themes in this book are still relevant to readers today, telling the story of a woman who grew up in brutal circumstances, but who ultimately found a way out....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BEASLEY, GERTRUDE BEA

Gao, Laura

Summary: Seamlessly toggling between past and present, this funny graphic memoir follows a queer Chinese American's immigration to Texas where she just wants to make the basketball team, escape Chinese school, and figure out why she is attracted to girls.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, Harper Alley 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 GAO

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 GAO

Jones, Amy Robin

Summary: A biography of the African-American educator Mary McLeod Bethune, discussing her role in creating opportunities for African-Americans in education and government.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Isaacson, Walter

Summary: A portrait of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist explores the impact of James Watson's "The Double Helix" on her career and how her team's invention of CRISPR technology enabled revolutionary DNA-editing approaches to fighting disease, as well as curing diseases, fending off viruses, and enhancing our children

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 576.5 ISA

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 DOUDNA, JENNIFER ISA

Freeman, Anna Harber

Summary: "The most renowned Native American Indian potter of her time, Maria Poveka Martinez learned pottery as a child under the guiding hands of her Ko-ōo, her aunt. She grew up to discover a new firing technique that turned her pots black and shiny, and made them-and Maria-famous. This inspiring story of family and creativity illuminates how Maria's belief in sharing her love of clay brought success...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Hall, Ron

Summary: The authors of "Same Kind of Different as Me" offer new reflections and stories of hope and healing, covering such topics as faith, friendship, community outreach, and much more.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.8325 HAL

Arce, Julissa

Summary: "Julissa Arce explores her days in Mexico separated from her parents and her daily fears while growing up undocumented in Texas"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.4 ARC

Hall, Ron

Summary: The co-author relates how he was held under plantation-style slavery until he fled in the 1960s and suffered homelessness for an additional eighteen years before the wife of the other co-author, an art dealer accustomed to privilege, intervened.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HALL, RON HAL

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem Hall

Hall, Ron

Summary: This remarkable story shows what can happen when we choose to help. Kids will discover that we can all make a difference—no matter how big or small we are and no matter how big or small the task. Based on the New York Times bestseller Same Kind of Different As Me, which sold more than a million copies worldwide and inspired the major motion picture, this book tells the true story of Denver...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tommy Nelson 2017

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

Russell-Brown, Katheryn

Summary: "A picture biography of educator and politician Shirley Chisholm, who in 1968 was the first Black woman elected to Congress and in 1972 was the first Black candidate from a major political party (the Democratic party) to run for the United States presidency. An afterword with additional information, photographs, and source lists are included"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low Books 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Rozelle, Ron

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 616.831 ROZEL

Duncan, Alice Faye

Summary: "The true story of Black activist Opal Lee and her vision of Juneteenth as a holiday for everyone celebrates Black joy and inspires children to see their dreams blossom. Growing up in Texas, Opal knew the history of Juneteenth, but she soon discovered that many Americans had never heard of the holiday that represents the nation's creed of "freedom for all. "Every year, Opal looked forward to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tommy Nelson, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Chaffee, Kim

Summary: "As a kid, Abby Wambach was loud and clear about what she wanted and what she didn't--and she didn't want to be left out of any competition, especially soccer. Darting down fields and booting balls ... into goals, Abby worked her way up from competitive youth player to U.S. Women's National Soccer Team star."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Kids 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Gill, Charlotte

Summary: "An award-winning writer retraces her dysfunctional, biracial, globe-trotting family's journey as she reckons with ethnicity and belonging, diversity and race, and the complexities of life within a multicultural household. Charlotte Gill's father is Indian. Her mother is English. They meet in 1960's London when the world is not quite ready for interracial love. Their union, a revolutionary act,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GILL, CHARLOTTE GIL

Amory, Cleveland.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1997

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 AMO

Oomen, Anne-Marie.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2010

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Word Oomen

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 818.603 OOM

Delano, Marfe Ferguson.

Summary: Photographs and text present the life and accomplishments of the young woman who overcame a poverty-stricken childhood, family tragedy, and failing eyesight to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Faruqi, Reem

Summary: "From the author of Lailah's Lunchbox and Unsettled comes a powerful picture book biography about Maryam Faruqi, the founder of the Happy Home Schools, which provided education to thousands of girls across Pakistan at a time when girls weren't encouraged to go to school. Milloo lives in a time when school is considered unnecessary for girls. But to Milloo, education is essential. When Milloo...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: J 921 FAR

Anderson, Beth

Summary: After being denied a seat on a New York City streetcar, Elizabeth Jennings begins the fight for equality by telling her story in churches, to newspapers, and finally in the courtroom.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Williams, Alicia R. (Alicia Renee)

Summary: "An inspiring picture book biography about Shirley Chisholm"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: From the east: "A journey from the end of summer to deepest winter, across Eastern Europe to Moscow."--Container

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHA

Grande, Reyna

Summary: From bestselling author Reyna Grandewhose remarkable memoir The Distance Between Us has become required reading in schools across the country comes an inspiring account of one woman's quest to find her place in America as a first-generation Latina university student and aspiring writer determined to build a new life for her family one fearless word at a time. When Reyna Grande was nine years...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRANDE, REYNA GRA

McMurtry, Larry.

Summary: Larry McMurtry chronicles the experiences he had while traveling through Tahiti and the South Sea Islands and shares what he learned about his parents' relationship along the way.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCMURTRY, LARRY MCM

Parravani, Christa

Summary: "A stressed family, an unplanned pregnancy, and a painful, if liberating, awakening from the author of the lauded memoir Her. Loved and Wanted is the passionate story of a woman's love for her children, and a poignant and bracing look at the difficult choices women in America are forced to make every day, in a nation where policies and a cultural war on women leave them without sufficient...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PARRAVANI, CHRISTA PAR

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