Mochizuki, Ken

Summary: "A powerful biography of Michi Weglyn, the Japanese American fashion designer whose activism fueled a movement for recognition of and reparations for America's World War II concentration camps. The daughter of Japanese immigrants, Michi Nishiura Weglyn was confined in Arizona's Gila River concentration camp during World War II. She later became a costume designer for Broadway and worked as the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company 2023

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Turke, Rosemarie Lengsfeld

Summary: "Set against a backdrop of Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the reign of Nazi Germany, and the entire course of World War II in Europe, American Shoes recounts the tumultuous childhood of a young American girl and her family trapped within a country that turned against itself, where human decency eroded and then vaporized. Forced to grow up in the midst of endemic fear stoked by a ravenous madman,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Beyond Words 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TUR
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 TUR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: YA 940.53 TUR

Curlee, Lynn

Summary: "Interwoven with photographs of the people lost, this memoir chronicles the AIDS pandemic from the late 1970s to the late 1990s, up until the death of the author's partner"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 CUR