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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 WEISummary: A deft politician and skillful diplomat, TR's magnetic personality and genius for publicity made him a legend in his own time. Through archival footage and interviews with historians, this is an engaging portrait of the private man and the president who created the modern American presidency.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2008
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PRECastor, Helen
Summary: "In Joan of Arc : a history, Helen Castor tells this gripping story afresh: forwards, not backwards. Instead of an icon, she gives us a living, breathing woman confronting the challenges of faith and doubt, a roaring girl who, in fighting the English, was also taking sides in a bloody civil war. We meet this extraordinary girl amid the tumultuous events of her extraordinary world where no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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Summary: African American educator, author, speaker, and advisor to presidents of the United States, Booker Taliaferro Washington was the leading voice of former slaves and their descendants during the late 1800s. As part of the last generation of leaders born into slavery, Booker believed that blacks could better progress in society through education and entrepreneurship, rather than trying to directly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WASCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WASRoberts, Rebecca Boggs
Summary: "This portrait of the first acting woman president, written by a leading historian on women's suffrage and power, tracks the ascent of Edith Boling Galt Wilson, one of American history's most influential and complicated women"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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Summary: In 1733, struggling printer John Peter Zenger scandalized colonial New York by launching the New-York Weekly Journal, which assailed the British governor as corrupt and arrogant -- a direct challenge to the prevailing law against "seditious libel", which criminalized any criticism of the government. Fronting for a group of powerful antiroyalist politicians, Zenger was jailed for nine months...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZENGER, JOHN PETER KLUBader, Bonnie
Summary: "Through this engaging Who Was? biography, kids will discover the woman behind the sunglasses. Private and bookish, Jackie Kennedy found herself thrust into the world spotlight as the young and glamorous wife of the President John F. Kennedy. As First Lady she restored the once neglected rooms of the White House to their former glory, and through her charm and elegance became a style icon whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2016
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Summary: "The first biography of an American master. The Songs We Know Best, the first comprehensive biography of the early life of John Ashbery -- the winner of nearly every major American literary award -- reveals the unusual ways he drew on the details of his youth to populate the poems that made him one of the most original and unpredictable forces of the last century in arts and letters. Drawing on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ASHBERY, JOHN ROFSzwed, John F.
Summary: Puslished in celebration of Holiday's centenary, the first biography to focus on the singer's extraordinary musical talent. When Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia's studios in November 1933, it marked the beginning of what is arguably the most remarkable and influential career in twentieth-centruy popular music. Her voice weathered countless shifts in public taste, and new reincarnations...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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Summary: An intimate portrait of Louisa Catherine Adams, the wife of John Quincy Adams, who witnessed firsthand the greatest transformations of her time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADAMS, LOUISA THOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wom ThomasMacCarry, Noel
Summary: Presents the life of the folk singer and social activist, and discusses his role in the union, anti-war, civil rights, and environmental movements and the opposition he sometimes aroused for his radical views.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB SEGER MACKing, Dean
Summary: "In June of 1889 in San Francisco, John Muir-iconic environmentalist, writer, and philosopher-meets face-to-face for the first time with his longtime editor Robert Underwood Johnson, an elegant and influential figure at The Century magazine. Before long, the pair, opposites in many ways, decide to venture to Yosemite Valley, the magnificent site where twenty years earlier, Muir experienced a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MUICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MUIR, JOHN KINJohn, Elton
Summary: An official autobiography by the influential music artist includes coverage of his complicated upbringing in a London suburb, his celebrity collaborations, his struggles with addiction, and the establishment of his AIDS Foundation.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 JOHN, ELTON JOHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD B JOHFishman, Howard
Summary: "From a frequent music and culture contributor to The New Yorker, the mysterious, true story of the life of Connie Converse-a mid-century New York City singer/songwriter whose haunting music never found recognition-and the tale of one man's quest to uncover the truth"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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Summary: General Omar Bradley said of him, "I have never known a braver man or a more devoted soldier." But for much of his life, Theodore Roosevelt's son Ted seemed born to live in his father's shadow. With the same wide smile, winning charm, and vigorous demeanor, Ted possessed limitless potential, with even the White House within his reach. In the First World War, Ted braved gunfire and gas attacks...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 ROOSEVELT, THEODORE BRACadbury, Deborah
Summary: In 1933, as Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger hatched a daring and courageous plan: to smuggle her entire school out of Nazi Germany. Anna had read Mein Kampf and knew the terrible danger that Hitler's hate-fueled ideologies posed to her pupils. She knew that to protect them she had to get her pupils to the safety of England.But the safe haven that Anna struggled to create in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 CADCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.53 CADCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 CADGeorge, Alice L.
Summary: On February 20, 1962, John Glenn became a national star. That morning at Cape Canaveral, the small-town boy from Ohio took his place atop a. rocket and soared into space. . . He became celebrated in all corners of the world as not just the first American to orbit the Earth, but as the first space traveler to take the human race with him. Refusing to let that dramatic day define his life, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GLENN, JOHN GEOPage, Susan
Summary: Former First Lady Barbara Pierce Bush was one of the country's most popular and powerful figures. Here Page tells the riveting tale of a woman who helped define two American presidencies-- and an entire political era. As first the wife and then the mother of American presidents, Barbara Bush became an astute and trusted political campaign strategist, invested herself deeply in expanding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUSH, BARBARA PAGGuiet, Daniel (Daniel C.)
Summary: "The astonishing untold story of the author's father, the lone American on a 4-person SOE commando team dropped behind German lines in France, whose epic feats of irregular warfare proved vital in keeping Nazi tanks away from Normandy after D-Day"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GUISummary: I am somebody : Records the 1969 strike by black, predominantly female, hospital workers in Charleston, S.C. for better working conditions and higher wages. Shows how the struggle was won by a coalition of local and national union and civil rights groups plus the local black community through nonviolent marches and demonstrations. Highlights Andrew Young, Coretta Scott King, Ralph Abernathy,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ILoftis, Larry
Summary: "The extraordinary true story of Odette Sansom, the British spy who operated in occupied France and fell in love with her commanding officer during World War II--perfect for fans of Unbroken, The Boys in the Boat, and Code Girls."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ODELabrecque, Ellen
Summary: Provides an introduction to the life of Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister during World War II.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CHUDe Visé, Daniel
Summary: "When Andy Griffith went to Hollywood in 1960 to film a TV pilot about a small-town sheriff, his friend Don Knotts called to ask if his sheriff could use a deputy. Together, Sheriff Andy Taylor and Deputy Barney Fife elevated The Andy Griffith Show from a folksy sitcom into a timeless study of human friendship. The program was fiction, but the friendship was powerful and real."--Book jacket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 791.45 DEVDe Visé, Daniel
Summary: A lively and revealing biography of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts, celebrating the powerful real-life friendship behind one of America's most iconic television programs. Written by Don Knotts's brother-in-law and featuring extensive unpublished interviews with those closest to both men.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2015