Gupta, Prachi
Summary: Born in the Bronx and raised in the suburbs of Westchester County, New York, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez witnessed firsthand how a person's zip code can shape their destiny. That early exposure to income inequality fueled a passion for change that, in turn, led her to take on--and defeat--a ten-term incumbent to become the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. Now a target for the right, she is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OCASIO-CORTEZ, ALEXANDRIAGRULucci, Susan.
Summary: The four-decade star of "All My Children" offers behind-the-scenes stories from the show and discusses the joys and heartaches of her life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: !t Books 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LUCCI, SUSAN LUCBucci, Andra
Summary: "On March 28, 1944, six-year-old Tati, her four-year-old sister Andra, and other members of the family were deported to Auschwitz. Their mother Mira was determined to keep track of her girls. After being tattooed with their inmate numbers, she made them memorize her number and told them to "always remember your name." In keeping this promise to their mother, the sisters were able to be reunited...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Astra House 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BUCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B BUCCI BUCGurba, Myriam
Summary: "Myriam Gurba's debut is the bold and hilarious tale of her coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. Blending radical formal fluidity and caustic humor, Mean turns what might be tragic into piercing, revealing comedy. This is a confident, funny, brassy book that takes the cost of sexual assault, racism, misogyny, and homophobia deadly seriously. We act mean to defend ourselves from boredom...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GURBA, MYRIAM GURRauch, Georg
Summary: "A YA memoir of an 18-year old part-Jewish youth who, despite his heritage, is drafted into Hitler's army and sent to serve on the Russian front"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 RAUBruschi, Tedy.
Summary: "You might be coming to this book as a fan of Tedy's football skills and, don't get me wrong, gaining the insights of one of the best defenders in Patriots history is worth the price of admission, but that's just part of the story. There are a lot of reasons to look up to him, and I promise you will finish this book with an admiration for him on a much deeper level."--Tom Brady (from the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.332 BruscRushin, Steve
Summary: A bittersweet memoir of the author's 1970s childhood nostalgically shares observations of his family life as it was shaped by influences ranging from the Steve Miller Band and Saturday morning cartoons to Bic pens and Schwinn Sting-Ray bikes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RUSHIN, STEVE RUSTucci, Stanley
Summary: "From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 TUCLindsey, Ruthie
Summary: At seventeen years old, Ruthie Lindsey is hit by an ambulance near her home in rural Louisiana. She's given a five percent chance of survival and one percent chance of walking again. One month later after a spinal fusion surgery, Ruthie defies the odds, leaving the hospital on her own two feet. Just a few years later, newly married and living in Nashville, Ruthie begins to experience...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINDSEY, RUTHIE LINGuha, Ramachandra.
Summary: A first volume of a series detailing the life and work of the influential political advocate draws on private papers and other untapped sources to cover his birth in 1869 through his upbringing in Gujarat, discussing his London education and decades as a lawyer in South Africa.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GANDHI, MAHATMA GUHTjipombo, Tupa
Summary: "I Am Not Your Slave is the shocking true story of a young African girl, Tupa, who was abducted from southwestern Africa and funneled through an extensive yet almost completely unknown human trafficking network spanning the entire African continent"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lawrence Hill Books 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TJIPOMBO, TUPA TJIFuchs, Arved.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sheridan House 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.89 FUCJackson-Laufer, Guida M. (Guida Myrl)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 1992
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Reference Office, Call number: R-Gen 929.2 BENSON Jackson-LauferRusch, Elizabeth
Summary: "Una historia real sobre un científico contemporáneo que salvó la capa de ozono y el planeta, evitando un desastre en el medioambiente. Mario Molina es un científico mexicoamericano y un héroe de nuestros días que ayudó a resolver la crisis de la capa de ozono de la década de 1980. Se crió en la Ciudad de México y desde niño sintió curiosidad por los mundos ocultos que estudiaba a través de un...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 921 MOLRichie, Donald
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Bridge Press 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 952.04 RICDodson, Peggy Rouch
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beistline Enterprises 1996
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.8 DODBenjamin, Ruha
Summary: Benjamin draws on her own experiences as well as research to show how we can build a more just world--one small, and viral, step at a time.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Rusch, Elizaberth
Summary: An introduction to the life and contributions of Nikola Tesla covers his innovations in the field of alternating current and his role in the development of such inventions as remote controls, fluorescent lights, and cell phones.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Pr 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TESGuha, Ramachandra
Summary: This volume opens with Mohandas Gandhi's arrival in Bombay in January 1915 and takes us through his epic struggles over the next three decades: to deliver India from British rule, to forge harmonious relations between India's Hindu and Muslim populations, to end the pernicious Hindu practice of untouchability, and to develop India's economic and moral self-reliance. We see how in each of these...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A Knopf 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GANDHI, MAHATMA GUHRuhl, Sarah
Summary: "In this poignant and deeply intimate memoir, Sarah Ruhl chronicles her experience with Bell's palsy after giving birth to twins. At night, I dreamed that I could smile. The smile felt effortless in my dreams, the way it did in my childhood. Happily married and in the flush of hard-earned professional success, with her first play opening on Broadway, Sarah Ruhl has just survived a high risk...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RUHL, SARAH RUHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B RUHL RUHCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem RuhlYang, Kelly
Summary: "A lyrical nonfiction picture book featuring eighteen Asian American changemakers and two pivotal moments in Asian American history, illustrated by fifteen renowned Asian and Asian American artists"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 YANJackson, Richie
Summary: "When Richie Jackson's son born through surrogacy comes out to him at the age of 18, Richie - now in his 50s, a successful producer and happily married - feels compelled to write him a letter. Gay Like Me is both a celebration of gay identity and a sorrowful warning. Jackson talks of his own progress and growth as a gay man coming of age through decades of political and cultural change. We've...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACKSON, RICHIE JACRusho, W. L.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Peregrine Smith Books 1983
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Oluseyi, Hakeem M. (Hakeem Muata)
Summary: "Born into extreme poverty and emotional deprivation, James Edward Plummer was blessed with a genius I.Q. and a love of science. But in his community, a young bookworm quickly becomes a target for violence and abuse. As he struggles to survive his childhood in some of the toughest cities in the country, and his teenage years in the equally poor backwoods of Mississippi, James adopts the hybrid...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023