Filter By Subjects
Chambers, Julius L. (Julius LeVonne) 1936-2013 Ford, Gerald R 1913-2006 Jr Schlesinger, Arthur M., (Arthur Meier) 1917-2007 Judges Massachusetts Biography Merchants Massachusetts Biography Puritans Massachusetts Biography Sewall, Samuel 1652-1730 Sewall, Samuel 1652-1730 Ethics United States Zenger, John Peter 1697-1746Filter By Subjects
Chambers, Julius L. (Julius LeVonne) 1936-2013 Ford, Gerald R 1913-2006 Jr Schlesinger, Arthur M., (Arthur Meier) 1917-2007 Judges Massachusetts Biography Merchants Massachusetts Biography Puritans Massachusetts Biography Sewall, Samuel 1652-1730 Sewall, Samuel 1652-1730 Ethics United States Zenger, John Peter 1697-1746Bolden, 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CHIBowden, Mark
Summary: "In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depth portrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investigation that landed eight of its members in prison. Sandtown is one of the deadliest neighborhoods in the world; it earned Baltimore its nickname "Bodymore, Murderland," and was made notorious by...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.106 BOWDoeden, Matt
Summary: "Over the years, many women have made contributions to tennis. In the early 1900s, Suzanne Lenglen dominated women's tennis and many talented athletes soon followed, including Billie Jean King, Martina Navratilova, Serena Williams, and Naomi Osaka. Learn more about each woman's struggles and successes, and find out what makes them trailblazers"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Norwood House Press 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.342 DOEDoeden, Matt
Summary: "Jalen Hurts is one of the youngest quarterbacks to ever start in a Super Bowl. Follow his career from childhood to his superstar performances in the NFL"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Bolden, Tonya
Summary: "Before there was Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Johnny Cash, there was Sister Rosetta Tharpe. The godmother of rock & roll started as a little girl from Arkansas with music in her air, in her hair, in her bones, wiggling her toes. With a big guitar in hand and a big voice in her soul, she grew into a rock & roll trailblazer in a time when women were rarely seen rocking out."--Front...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 THARichards, Matt
Summary: "For the first time, readers have access to [an] ... account of the crucial moments leading up to Jackson's demise. Drawing on court documents and testimonials, [the book] presents a multi-perspective tracking of every individual involved and the part they played as the tragedy unfolded, examining forensically the mystery of the 83 minutes that elapsed from the moment Dr. Murray suggested he...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 782 RICDougherty, Nancy
Summary: "A biography of Reinhard Heydrich and his wife, Lina von Osten Heydrich"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEYDRICH, REINHARD DOURappaport, Doreen
Summary: "A biography of astronaut and former director of the Johnson Space Center Ellen Ochoa"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 OCHRappaport, Doreen
Summary: As a student, teacher, lawyer, and judge, Ruth often experienced unfair treatment. But she persisted, becoming a cultural icon, championing equality in pay and opportunity. Her brilliant mind, compelling arguments, and staunch commitment to truth and justice have convinced many to stand with her, and her fight continues to this day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GINRappaport, Doreen
Summary: An eye-opening look at the life and legacy of Jackie Robinson, the man who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and became an American hero.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ROBTaylor, Diane C. (Diane Carol)
Summary: Discusses what engineering is, highlighting female engineers who revolutionized the role of women in the field and providing activities, including building a suspension bridge, designing and building a kite, and investigating processed food.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nomad Press 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 TAYAldous, Richard
Summary: "Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917-2007), known today as the architect of John F. Kennedy's presidential legacy, blazed an extraordinary path from Harvard University to wartime London to the West Wing. The son of a pioneering historian--and a two-time Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner in his own right--Schlesinger redefined the art of presidential biography. A Thousand Days, his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHLESINGER, ARTHUR M. ALDFrancis, Richard
Summary: Biographer and novelist Francis looks at the Salem witch hunt of 1692 with fresh eyes, through the story of Samuel Sewall, New England Puritan, Salem trial judge, antislavery agitator, defender of Native American rights, utopian theorist, family man. The second-generation colonists were pitted against the pagan Native Americans and a hostile mother country intent on imposing control. Out of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fourth Estate 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEWALL, SAMUEL FRARhodes, Richard
Summary: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author presents this fully authorized--and timely-biography of the Harvard biologist and naturalist who has become a leading voice on the crucial importance to all life of biodiversity and has worked tirelessly to synthesize the fields of science and the humanities in a fruitful way.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILSON, E.O. RHOKluger, Richard
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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZENGER, JOHN PETER KLUHurowitz, Richard
Summary: In the Garden of the Righteous chronicles extraordinary acts at a time when the moral choices were stark, the threat immense, and the passive apathy of millions predominated. Deeply researched, it focuses on ten remarkable stories. These heroes provided hiding places, participated in underground networks, refused to betray their neighbors, and secured safe passage to save the persecuted. They...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 HURKienzle, Richard
Summary: "In a masterful biography laden with new revelations, veteran country music journalist/historian Rich Kienzle offers a definitive, full-bodied portrait of legendary country singer George Jones and the music that remains his legacy... Kienzle chronicles Jones's impoverished East Texas childhood as the youngest son of a deeply religious mother and alcoholic, often-abusive father. He examines his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow Publishers 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B JONES KIEEllmann, Richard
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1987
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILDE, OSCAR ELLSmith, Richard Norton
Summary: For many Americans, President Gerald Ford was the genial accident of history who controversially pardoned his Watergate-tarnished predecessor, presided over the fall of Saigon, and became a punching bag on Saturday Night Live. Yet as Richard Norton Smith reveals in a book full of surprises, Ford was an underrated leader whose tough decisions and personal decency look better with the passage of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FORD, GERALD R. SMIRosen, Richard A.
Summary: Born in the hamlet of Mount Gilead, North Carolina, Julius Chambers escaped the fetters of the Jim Crow South to emerge in the 1960s and 1970s as the nation's leading African American civil rights attorney. Following passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Chambers worked to advance the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's strategic litigation campaign for civil rights, ultimately winning landmark...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAMBERS, JULIUS ROSSylla, Richard Eugene
Summary: "Meet the founding father who made America modern... An immigrant from the West Indies, he played a crucial part in the political, legal, and economic development of the new nation: He served as Washington’s right-hand man during the Revolutionary War; he helped establish the Constitution; he wrote most of The Federalist Papers; and he modernized America’s fledgling finances,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAMILTON, ALEXANDER SYLKang, Myŏng-sŏk
Summary: "After taking their first step into the world on June 13, 2013, BTS will celebrate the 10th anniversary of their debut in June 2023. They have risen to the peak as an iconic global artist and during this meaningful time, they look back on their footsteps in the first official book. In doing so, BTS nurtures the power to build brighter days and they choose to take another step on a road that no...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023