Brown, Monica

Summary: A powerful and accesible bilingual picture book that highlights "the power and impact of ordinary but dedicated citizens." Every day, thousands of farmworkers harvested the food that ended up on kitchen tables all over the country. But at the end of the day, when the workers sat down to eat, there were only beans on their own tables. Then Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez teamed up. Together they...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BRO

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BRO

Zoboi, Ibi Aanu

Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse and prose of science fiction visionary Octavia Butler. Acclaimed novelist Ibi Zoboi illuminates the young life of the visionary storyteller Octavia E. Butler in poems and prose. Born into the Space Race, the Red Scare, and the dawning Civil Rights Movement, Butler expereinced an American childhood...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2022

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

Montero, Rosa

Summary: "Hablar de algunos de los tiranos mas conocidos del siglo XX a traves de la vision de sus esposas, amantes e hijas, y del lugar que la mujer ocupaba en sus proyectos megalomaniacos, es poder ahondar en la historia europea desde otra perspectiva y ampliar la comprension de las tragedias sociales por medio del analisis de las tragedias domesticas. Es como meterse por la puerta de atras de las...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Debols!llo 2017

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 MON

Brown, Monica

Summary: En este vibrante libro ilustrado bilingüe sobre la biografía del músico Tito Puente, los lectores bailarán al ritmo de la vida de este rey del mambo. A Tito Puente le encantaba golpear ollas y sartenes cuando era niño, pero lo que realmente soñaba era tener su propia banda algún día. Desde Spanish Harlem hasta los premios Grammy, y todos los ritmos intermedios, esta es la historia real de la...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BRO

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BRO

Frías, Carlos.

Summary: Carlos Frías, award-winning journalist and the US-born son of Cuban exiles, grew up hearing stories about the homeland of his parents. Sent to Cuba by his newspaper when the country began to close to the foreign press in August 2006, Frías embarked on the journey of his life -- a secret twelve day trip to the land of his parents. That experience led to this evocative, dramatic and unforgettable...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: C.A. Press, Penguin Group 2014

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH FRI

Bird, Kai

Summary: J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OPPENHEIMER, J. ROBERT BIR

Lowe, Keanon

Summary: "The Blindside meets Friday Night Lights in Keanon Lowe's Hometown Victory when an NFL coach returns home after losing a friend to opiods to coach a team of struggling high school kids on a 23-game losing streak. Keanon Lowe was working as an offensive analyst for the San Francisco 49ers when his childhood friend and former high school teammate suddenly died from an opioid overdose. Keanon...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B LOWE LOW

Kinew, Wab

Summary: "Using rhyming lyrics from a previously written rap song, Midewin author, Manitoba politician, and creator Kinew tells the stories of diverse Indigenous heroes both historical and contemporary from the U.S. and Canada" --

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KIN

Summary: From the Publisher: Women lighthouse keepers, fur traders, cooks on sailing vessels, missionaries, and fearless travelers all wrote of their lives on the Great Lakes, both publicly and in quiet testimonies such as letters, logbooks, and diaries. Their narratives, which span the centuries from 1789 to the present, are now collected in this anthology. Compiled in response to historical accounts...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ladyslipper Press 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 WOM

Beason, Jimmy

Summary: This collection of biographies for kids explores 15 Native Americans and some of the incredible things they achieved. Kids will explore the ways each of these people used their talents and beliefs to stand up for what's right and stay true to themselves and their community.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rockridge Press 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 BEA

Bolden, Tonya

Summary: "A biography of Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to the House of Representatives and the first Black woman to run for president with a major political party"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2022

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

Norry, E. L.

Summary: "As a lawyer and political activist, he led the fight for equality for all in his homeland, and despite being imprisoned unfairly for many years, he became the first black president of South Africa"--Amazon.com.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People Mandela

Bryant, Jen

Summary: Presents an illustrated introduction to the life and work of artist Horace Pippin, describing his childhood love for drawing and the World War I injury that challenged his career.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PIP

Shapiro, Kitt

Summary: In this unique combination of memoir and cultural history, we come to know one of the greatest stars the world has ever seen--Eartha Kitt--as revealed by the person who knew her best: her daughter.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SHA

Ephron, Delia

Summary: The bestselling, beloved writer of romantic comedies like You've Got Mail tells her own late-in-life love story in her "resplendent memoir," complete with a tragic second act and joyous resolution. Delia Ephron had struggled through several years of heartbreak. She'd lost her sister, Nora, and then her husband, Jerry, both to cancer. Several months after Jerry's death, she decided to make one...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EPHRON, DELIA EPH

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B EPHRON EPH