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Holler, Anne.

Summary: Discusses the life of Pocahontas and her role as peacemaker between the Powhatan tribes and the settlers of Jamestown.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 1993

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 975 HOL

Hopkinson, Deborah.

Summary: Introduces Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan, focusing on their relationship and interspersed with letters that Annie wrote home detailing Helen's early communication progress.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Hurwitz, Johanna.

Summary: A biography of the blind and deaf girl who overcame both handicaps with the help of her teacher, Annie Sullivan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1997

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE HUR

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JBR BLUE Hur

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR RED HUR

Thompson, Gare.

Summary: A biography of the woman who, with the assistance of her devoted teacher Annie Sullivan, achieved success and fame despite being blind and deaf.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET KELLER

Heller, Anne Conover.

Summary: Hannah Arendt, one of the most gifted and provocative voices of her era, was a polarizing cultural theorist--extolled by her peers as a visionary and berated by her critics as a poseur and a fraud. Born in Prussia to assimilated Jewish parents, she escaped from Hitler's Germany in 1933 and is now best remembered for the storm of controversy that arose after the publication of her 1963 New...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ARENDT, HANNAH HEL

Heller, Anne Conover.

Summary: A comprehensive and eye-opening portrait of one of the most significant and improbable figures of the twentieth century--from her childhood in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution to her years as a screenwriter in Hollywood, the publication of her blockbuster novels, and the rise and fall of the cult that formed around her in the 1950s and 1960s.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RAND, AYN HEL

Gilder, Joshua.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 520 GIL

Keller, Helen

Summary: The inspiring autobiography of a girl stricken blind and deaf when she was two years old.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2003

Copies Available at Interlochen

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

Rappaport, Doreen.

Summary: An introduction to the life and legacy of Helen Keller and her teacher Annie Sullivan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion Books 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB KELLER RAP

Murphy, Mannie

Summary: "What begins as an affectionate reminiscence of Mannie Murphy's 1990s teenage infatuation with the late actor River Phoenix--specifically his role in Gus Van Sant's classic film, My Own Private Idaho--slowly transforms into a remarkable, sprawling account of the city of Portland and state of Oregon's long and shameful history of white nationalism. Told in the style of an illustrated diary, with...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books, Inc. 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MUR

Kim, Carol

Summary: "In 1811, while exploring the cliffs near Lyme Regis, England, 12-year-old Mary Anning made the find of a lifetime. There in the rocks was the skeleton of a strange creature. Mary's find was later named Ichthyosaurus, a reptile that lived more than 250 million years ago. Anning went on to have a long career finding and identifying dinosaur fossils. However, her work often went unrecognized by...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Mitchell, Andie.

Summary: All her life, Mitchell had eaten lustily and mindlessly. Food was her babysitter, her best friend, her confidant, and it provided a refuge from her fractured family. But when she stepped on the scale on her twentieth birthday and it registered a shocking 268 pounds, she knew she had to change the way she thought about food and herself: her life was at stake. She tells us how she discovered...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MITCHELL, ANDIE MIT

Kilmer, Val

Summary: "Legendary actor Val Kilmer shares the stories behind his most beloved roles, reminisces about his star-studded career and love life, and reveals the truth behind his recent health struggles in a remarkably candid autobiography. Val Kilmer has played so many iconic roles over his nearly four-decade film career. A table-dancing Cold War agent in Top Secret! A troublemaking science prodigy in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KILMER, VAL KIL

Melzer, Nils

Summary: "Nils Melzer's compelling investigation shows how, through secrecy, impunity and, crucially, public indifference, unchecked power risks annihilating Western democracy and the rule of law. The case of Julian Assange could set a chilling precedent"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Verso Books 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323 MEL

Mosler, Layne.

Summary: "A delicious memoir that takes us from Buenos Aires to New York to Berlin as the author, driven by wanderlust and an unrelenting appetite, finds purpose, passion, and unexpected flavor. Layne Mosler's search for her next meal based on a recommendation from a cab driver starts in Buenos Aires: After leaving a tango club following a terrible turn on the dance floor, she impulsively asks her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOSLER, LAYNE MOS

Mealer, Bryan

Summary: In 1892, Bryan Mealer's great-grandfather leaves the Georgia mountains and heads west into Texas, looking for wealth and adventure in the raw and open country. But his luck soon runs out. Beset by drought, the family loses their farm just as the dead pastures around them give way to one of the biggest oil booms in American history.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Millan, Cesar

Summary: Looks at the positive effects that having and training dogs has on their owners, and shares personal stories of how the dogs in his life have given him important lessons in respect, confidence, resilience, and authenticity.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2017

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Weintraub, Aileen

Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Milner, Florence.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Historical Society of Michigan 1989

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 921 MIL

Millet, Lydia

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "A personal evocation of the glory of nature, our vexed position in the animal kingdom, and the difficulty of adoring what we destroy. Acclaimed novelist Lydia Millet's first work of nonfiction, We Loved It All, is a genre-defying tour de force that makes an impassioned argument for people to see their emotional and spiritual lives as infinitely dependent on the lives of nonhuman beings....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc 2024

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Geller, Danielle

Summary: "After Danielle Geller's mother dies of alcohol withdrawal while homeless, she is forced to return to Florida. Using her training as a librarian and archivist, Geller collects her mother's documents, diaries, and photographs into a single suitcase and begins a journey of confronting her family, her harrowing past, and the decisions she's been forced to make, a journey that will end at her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GELLER , DANIELLE GEL

Minter, Adam

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "In Secondhand, journalist Adam Minter takes us on an unexpected adventure into the often-hidden, multibillion-dollar industry of reuse: thrift stores in the American Southwest to vintage shops in Tokyo, flea markets in Southeast Asia to used-goods enterprises in Ghana, and more. Along the way, Minter meets the fascinating people who handle-and profit from-our rising tide of discarded stuff,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 381 MIN

Bilger, Burkhard

Summary: "What do we owe the past? How to make peace with a dark family history? Burkhard Bilger hardly knew his grandfather growing up. His parents immigrated to Oklahoma from Germany after World War II, and though his mother was an historian, she rarely talked about her father or what he did during the war. Then one day a packet of letters arrived from Germany, yellowing with age, and a secret history...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023

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Pincus, Meeg

Summary: "Helen Keller was an activist, rebel, performer, romantic and so much more! Most stories about Helen Keller focus on the story of her deaf-blindness and scholarship, but there is more to Helen than her disability. This story teaches children to look beyond the surface with everyone they encounter"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PIN

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