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Krull, Kathleen

Summary: "Sonia Sotomayor's path, from growing up in the projects to success in Ivy League universities to her rise in the legal profession is a true testament to the American dream. She broke the rules women were supposed to follow in her life and career, ultimately becoming the first Latino justice to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, and the third woman to serve the Court"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Angers, Trent.

Summary: The story of the U.S. Army helicopter pilot who risked his life to rescue South Vietnamese civilians and to put a stop to the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War in 1968. Revised Edition shows President Nixon and some of his political allies in the House of Representatives interfered in the judicial process to try to prevent any U.S. soldier from being convicted of war crimes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Acadian House Publishing 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THOMPSON, HUGH ANG

Angel, Ann

Summary: A biography of the nineteenth-century French scientist who discovered the process for destroying harmful bacteria with heat and opened the door to the new science of microbiology.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Children's Books 1992

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB PASTEUR ANG

Mandela, Nelson

Summary: Dare Not Linger is the story of Mandela’s presidential years, drawing heavily on the memoir he began to write as he prepared to leave office, but was unable to finish. Now the acclaimed South African writer Mandla Langa has completed the task, using Mandela’s unfinished draft, detailed notes that Mandela made as events were unfolding, and a wealth of unseen archival material. With a prologue by...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MANDELA, NELSON MAN

Santoni, Manuela

Summary: "Before she was the beloved author of Pride and Prejudice and other classic novels, Jane Austen was a young woman wrestling with society's expectations and challenges of the heart. Her own story involves choices that changed literary history--and perhaps even the choice to walk away from love. This graphic imagining of Jane Austen's youth includes her creative awakening and her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 921 AUS

Mandela, Nelson

Summary: This historic collection of documents archived at the Nelson Mandela Foundation offers an unprecedented insight into Mandela's remarkable life--from his first stirrings of political consciousness to his galvanizing role on the world stage.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MANDELA, NELSON MAN

Spinelli, Angelo M.

Contents: Angelo Spinelli's narrative and photographs -- North Africa -- Captured! -- Stalag IIIB-Fürstenberg/Oder -- Stalag IIIA-Luckenwalde -- Liberation and home -- Civilian Spinelli and his photographs.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fordham University Press 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5472 SPI

Cohen, David

Summary: Historic moments from Mandela's inspiring life are captured in more than one hundred iconic photos from the mid-1940s through August 2009. Six key Mandela speeches are included, as well as an informative text.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 968.06 MANDELA, NELSON BAT

Angelou, Maya.

Summary: Following World War II, a black mother contemplates prostitution after unsuccessfully searching for a decent job and a reliable man.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1974

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANGELOU, MAYA ANG

Joy, Angela

Summary: "The story of the mother of Emmett Till, and how she channeled grief over her son's death into a call to action for the civil rights movement"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Freedman, Russell

Summary: A middle-grade history of the "other Ellis Island" traces how Angel Island served as an entry point for one million Asian immigrants to the United States in the early 20th century, drawing on memoirs, diaries, letters and "wall poems" discovered at the facility long after it closed to describe the center's screening process, immigration policies and eventual renaissance as a historic site.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979.4 FRE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J979.4 FRE

Angela, Alberto

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "One of Italy's most revered cultural figures reconstructs the extraordinary life of the legendary Cleopatra at the height of her power in this epic story of passion, intrigue, betrayal, and war. Our world today would not be the same without Cleopatra. While she is one of the most famous figures in history, the legendary Egyptian queen remains, in many ways, an enigma. In this mesmerizing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLEOPATRA ANG

Jackson, Angela

Summary: Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the great American literary icons of the twentieth century, a protégé of Langston Hughes and mentor to a generation of poets, including Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, and Elizabeth Alexander. Her poetry took inspiration from the complex portraits of black American life she observed growing up on Chicago's South Side, a world of kitchenette...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROOKS, GWENDOLYN JAC

Carpenter, Angelica Shirley

Summary: Radical, feminist, writer, suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage changed the course of history. She fought for equal rights not dependent on sex, race, class, or creed. Yet her name has faded into obscurity. She is forgotten when her comrades, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, are celebrated. To explain, Angelica Shirley Carpenter explores Gage's life, including her rise and fall within the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: South Dakota Historical Society Press 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Rappaport, 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 OCH

Denise, Anika

Summary: "The life of Puerto Rican actress, dancer, and singer Rita Moreno, from her girlhood journey to the United States to her rise as a timeless superstar."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 921 MOR

Adams, Ansel

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1985

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 770.92 ADA

Summary: Mandela: The Authorized Portrait was created by a team of award-winning writers, photographers, and researchers in collaboration with Mandela's closest living comrades from Robben Island, Mac Maharaj and Ahmed Kathrada. Among the narrative contributors are biographer Mike Nichol and three interviewers personally selected by Nelson Mandela: Ros Coward, Professor Tim Couzens, and Amina Frense.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Pub. 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 921 MANDELA, NELSON Man

Mattis, James N.

Summary: "Call Sign Chaos is the account of Jim Mattis's storied career, from wide-ranging leadership roles in three wars to ultimately commanding a quarter of a million troops across the Middle East. Along the way, Mattis recounts his foundational experiences as a leader, extracting the lessons he has learned about the nature of warfighting and peacemaking, the importance of allies, and the strategic...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B MATTIS MAT

McDivitt, Lindsey

Summary: "This biography follows Nelson Mandela from his work with the African National Congress, to his imprisonment on Robben Island, to his extraordinary rise to the presidency"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Kunkel, Angela Burke

Summary: In Bogotá, Columbia, young José eagerly anticipates Saturday, when he can visit the library started by José Alberto Gutiérrez, a garbage collector, and take a book home to enjoy all week. Includes note about Gutiérrez's life and Bogotá.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 921 GUT

Kunkel, Angela Burke

Summary: In Bogotaa, Columbia, young Josae eagerly anticipates Saturday, when he can visit the library started by Josae Alberto Gutiaerrez, a garbage collector, and take a book home to enjoy all week. Includes note about Gutiaerrez's life and Bogotaa.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GUT
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KUN

Kunkel, Angela Burke

Summary: "A biography that follows the lives of Robert McCloskey, creator of Make Way for Ducklings, and sculptor Nancy Schön, whose famous bronze ducks grace Boston Public Garden"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Brown, Laaren.

Summary: Biography of Nelson Mandela who was imprisoned during the apartheid years and became the elected leader of South Africa after being released.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2006

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB MANDELA BRO

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT 921 Mandela 2006

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