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Andreas, Peter

Summary: "Carol Andreas was a traditional 1950s housewife from a small Mennonite town in central Kansas who became a radical feminist and Marxist revolutionary. From the late sixties to the early eighties, she went through multiple husbands and countless lovers while living in three states and five countries. She took her youngest son, Peter, with her wherever she went."--Jacket flap

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANDREAS, CAROL AND

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio Andreas

Parkin, Simon

Summary: "Following the events of Kristallnacht in 1938, Peter Fleischmann evaded the Gestapo's midnight roundups in Berlin by way of a perilous journey to England via the Kindertransport train. But he could not escape the British police, who came for him in the early hours and shipped him off to Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man, under suspicion of being a spy for the very regime he had fled. Peter's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 PAR

Andros, Camille

Summary: The author presents a picture book biography of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, co-founder and director of the first private orphanage in New York City and wife of founding father Alexander Hamilton.--adapted from publisher's description.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB HAMILTON AND

Packer, George

2 holds on 1 copy

Summary: "From the award-winning author of The Unwinding--the vividly told saga of the ambition, idealism, and hubris of one of the most legendary and complicated figures in recent American history, set amid the rise and fall of U.S. power from Vietnam to Afghanistan. Richard Holbrooke was brilliant, wholly self-absorbed, and possessed of almost inhuman energy and appetites. Admired and detested, he was...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOLBROOKE, RICHARD PAC

Markel, Michelle

Summary: Quick! If you don't move fast, you're going to miss him -- there he goes-- Randolph Caldecott, future famous illustrator. His sketchbook is full of hurly-burly; wild weather, frisky animals and people so sprightly they can barely hold on to the pages. But in the 1850s, there are no children's books like that. Not yet. Many are published, but their pictures look still, full of pretty poses and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Markel, Howard

Summary: "John Harvey Kellogg was one of America's most beloved physicians; a best-selling author, lecturer, and health-magazine publisher; founder of the Battle Creek Sanitarium; and patron saint of the pursuit of wellness. His youngest brother, Will, was the founder of the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, which revolutionized the mass production of food and what we eat for breakfast. In The...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MAR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B KELLOGGS MAR

Markel, Michelle

Summary: Ever since she was a little girl, Leonora Carrington loved to draw on walls, in books, on paper—and she loved the fantastic tales her grandmother told that took her to worlds that shimmered beyond this one, where legends became real. Leonora’s parents wanted her to become a proper English lady, but there was only one thing she wanted, even if it was unsuitable: to become an artist. In London,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Friddell, Claudia

Summary: "Led by twenty-five-year-old Grace Banker, thirty-two telephone operators -- affectionately called Hello Girls back in the US -- became the first female combatants in World War I. Follow Grace Banker's journey from her busy life as a telephone switchboard trainer in New York to her pioneering role as the Chief Operator of the 1st Unit of World War I telephone operators in the battlefields of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

D'Aquino, Andrea

Summary: "As a young girl, Florence Merriam Bailey fell in love with the outdoors, especially birds, whose songs and flight captivated her. She listened, waited, and watched to better understand her feathered friends, and wrote many books, including one of the first field guides to American birds. Her work ultimately led to better protection for birds and to the scientific study of birds in nature...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JEN Envi D'Aquino

Warren, Andrea

Summary: "A biography of Norman Mineta, from his internment as a child in Heart Mountain Internment Camp during World War II, through his political career including serving in Congress for ten terms during which time he was instrumental in getting the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 passed which provided reparations and an apology to those who were interned"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Garner, Dwight

Summary: "The New York Times book critic gathers his literary chorus to capture the pure pleasure of reading and eating in this comic, soulful, semi-autobiographic treasure"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GARNER, DWIGHT GAR

Nooyi, Indra K.

Summary: "Indra Nooyi, the trailblazing former CEO of PepsiCo, offers clear-eyed insight and a call to action for how our society can really blend work and family-and advance women-in the twenty-first century"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NOOYI, INDRA K. NOO

Parks, Casey

Summary: "When Casey Parks came out as a lesbian in college back in 2002, she assumed her life in the rural South was over. Her mother shunned her, and her pastor asked God to kill her. But then Parks' grandmother, a stern conservative who grew up picking cotton, shared a story about her childhood friend, Roy Hudgins, a musician who was allegedly kidnapped as a baby and was "a woman who lived as a man."...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PARKS, CASEY PAR

DeAngelis, Audrey

Summary: This biography highlights the life and accomplishments of Cardi B. Readers learn about Cardi's early life, inspiration to pursue music, and successes as a hip-hop artist. With striking photographs and sidebars, the book also explores Cardi's social media success, her iconic fashion, and her social and political activism. Features include a timeline, glossary, references, websites, source notes,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA B CARDI B

Pinkney, Andrea Davis

Summary: "When young Tybre Faw discovers Congressman John Lewis and his heroic march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in the fight for the right to vote -- Tybre is determined to meet him. Tybre's two grandmothers take him on the seven-hour drive to Selma, Alabama, where Lewis invites Tybre to join him in the annual memorial walk across the Bridge. And so begins a most amazing friendship! In rich, poetic...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Barretta, Gene

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: When George Washington Carver was just a young child, he had a secret: a garden of his own. Here, he rolled dirt between his fingers to check if plants needed more rain or sun. He protected roots through harsh winters, so plants could be reborn in the spring. He trimmed flowers, spread soil, studied life cycles. And it was in this very place that George’s love of nature sprouted into something...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Bio Carver

Treuenfeld, Andrea von

Summary: Going Back is divided into 16 chapters, wherein each woman relates her personal story of fleeing Nazis and surviving as refugees abroad, then moving back. The book explores German anti-Semitism then and now. It also examines the refugee experience and Jewish identity before and after leaving. Photographs of the women appear throughout the book.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 TRE

Pinkney, Andrea Davis

Summary: "Born enslaved, Harriet Tubman rose up to become one of the most successful, determined and well-known conductors of the Underground Railroad. With her family's love planted firmly in her heart, Harriet looked to the North Star for guidance--and its lighthelped guide her way out of slavery. Her courage made it possible for her to help others reach freedom too"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Nelson, Marilyn

Summary: George Washington Carver was determined to help the people he loved. Born a slave in Missouri, he left home in search of an education, eventually earning his master's degree. When Booker T. Washington invited Carver to start the agricultural department at the all-black-staffed Tuskegee Institute, Carver truly found his calling. He spent the rest of his life seeking solutions to the poverty...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 811.54 NEL

Harris, Duchess

Summary: Eleanor Roosevelt is well known for her time as First Lady of the United States, but she also made important contributions to women's rights before, during, and after her husband's presidency. Eleanor Roosevelt Champions Women's Rights examines her efforts from multiple perspectives, including those of Roosevelt herself, her husband, Franklin, and later feminist activists.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, An Imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.917 HAR

Kirtzman, Andrew

Summary: In this revealing biography, Andrew Kirtzman pieces together Giuliani's rise and fall from hundreds of interviews with friends, family members, White House officials, business partners, and close confidants, some of whom have never gone on the record before. He reveals new information about Giuliani's role in the 2020 election debacle, his relationship with Trump, his troubled personal life,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022

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Maraniss, Andrew

Summary: "The true story of Glenn Burke, a "hidden figure" in the history of sports: the inventor of the high five and the first openly gay MLB player"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Morton, Andrew

Summary: "Renowned biographer Andrew Morton takes an in-depth look at Britain's longest reigning monarch, exploring the influence Queen Elizabeth had on both Britain and the rest of the world for much of the last century. From leading a nation struggling to restore itself after the devastation of the second World War to navigating the divisive political landscape of the present day, Queen Elizabeth was...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELIZABETH II MOR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B QUEEN ELIZABETH MOR

Summary: "Celebrate singing and songwriting with Beyoncé and Blue Ivy. Save frontline soldiers with Marie Curie and Irene Joliot-Curie. And swim across the English Channel with Leena and Bhakti Sharma. 'Rebel Girls Powerful Pairs' showcases many of the wonderful ways mothers and daughters work together to make the world a better, healthier, and more vibrant place"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rebel Girls, Inc. 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

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

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