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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BARAGA, FREDERIC BARGreenberg, Mark
Summary: Back in 2007, when Barack Hussein Obama announced his campaign, his election seemed to be a long shot. But he won in a decisive victory, also garnering a record 69.5 million votes, and on January 20, 2009, he became the 44th president of the United States and its first African American chief executive. Now, after two terms, this book explores Obama's journey in pictures, from his remarkable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 921 OBAMA, BARACK GREHalbert, Frederic
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. 1978
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.2 HALOhringer, Frederic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Merritt Pub. Co. 1979
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779.2 OHRBurke, Tarana
Summary: "From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the "me too" movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about her own journey to saying those two simple yet infinitely powerful words-me too-and how she brought empathy back to an entire generation in one of the largest cultural events in American history. Tarana didn't always...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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Summary: "New York City, 1911. Edith Wharton, almost equally famed for her novels and her sharp tongue, is bone-tired of Manhattan. Finding herself at a crossroads with both her marriage and her writing, she makes the decision to leave America, her publisher, and her loveless marriage. And then, dashing novelist David Graham Phillips--a writer with often notorious ideas about society and women's place...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FREObama, Barack.
Contents: Originally published: New York : Times Books, c1995.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OBAMA, BARACK OBAObama, Barack
Summary: Now adapted for young adults, the #1 New York times best-selling memoir offers an intimate look at Barack Obama's early days, tracing the future 44th president's odyssey through family, race, and identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 OBAObama, Barack.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: 973 ObamaHill, Frederic B.
Summary: "The true and remarkable life of Richard Willis (Will) Jackson, an intrepid seaman from one of the leading shipbuilding families in nineteenth-century Maine, whose exploits and adventures in the oceans of the world include surviving a harrowing shipwreckin the Marshall Islands, being washed overboard rounding Cape Horn, and running down Alaskan glaciers. His faithful letters to his family in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACKSON, WILL HILBarra, Allen.
Summary: Barra exposes the uncanny parallels--and lifelong friendship--between Micky Mantle and Willie Mays, two of the greatest baseball players ever to take the field.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920 BARBaram, Marcus
Summary: In this biography, Marcus Baram--an acquaintance of Gil Scott-Heron's--will trace the volatile journey of a troubled musical genius. Baram will chart Scott-Heron's musical odyssey, from Chicago to Tennessee to New York: a drug addict's twisted path to redemption and enduring fame. In Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man, Marcus Baram puts the complicated icon into full focus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCOTT-HERON, GIL BARArana, Marie
Summary: "Against the background of a thousand years of vivid history, acclaimed writer Marie Arana tells the timely and timeless stories of three contemporary Latin Americans whose lives represent three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region:exploitation (silver), violence (sword), and religion (stone). Leonor Gonzales lives in a tiny community perched 18,000 feet above sea level...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.08 ARAObama, Barack
Summary: "In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both hispolitical education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency--a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio ObamaObama, Barack.
Contents: "What I am opposed to is a dumb war" : Speech Against the Iraq War, Chicago, IL, October 2, 2002 -- "The Audacity of Hope" : Speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Boston, MA, July 27, 2004 -- "How Far We've Come" : Remarks at John Lewis's 65th Birthday Gala, February 21, 2005 -- "We cannot abandon the field of religious discourse" : Keynote Address at the Call to Renewal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.932 WEKerbel, Deborah
Summary: "One hundred years ago, juvenile diabetes was a death sentence for millions of people around the world, most of them children. this book tells the story the discovery of insulin, a treatment for this disease and one of the most impactful milestones in medical science. Frederick Banting was a young doctor who was haunted by the memories of the diabetic children he'd treated at Toronto's Hospital...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books Inc. 2021
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Summary: Senator Obama calls for a different brand of politics--a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the "endless clash of armies" we see in Congress and on the campaign trail; a politics rooted in the faith, inclusiveness, and nobility of spirit at the heart of our democracy. He explores those forces--from the fear of losing, to the perpetual need to raise money, to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Politic ObamaBaroja, J. C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 133.4 BARStevens, Bryna.
Summary: Relates how a determined aunt and a boy who swallowed a knife made it possible for young George Frederic Handel to study music despite his father's strong objections.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 1990
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB HANDEL STEStreisand, Barbra
Summary: "The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) and has one of the greatest and most recognizable voices in popular music. She has been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STRCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STREISAND, BARBRA STR2 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B STREISAND STRDouglass, Frederick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8092 DOUDouglass, Frederick
Summary: Douglass's autobiography traces his birth into slavery, his escape to the North and the beginnings of the career that was to make him the preeminent spokesman for his people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.8 DOUBuechner, Frederick
Contents: Introduction -- Our last drive together -- Johnny -- Presidents I have known -- Wunderjahr -- Fathers and teachers -- Bulletin board -- The laughter barrel -- The five sisters -- Gertrude Conover remembers -- Dickens' Christmas carol -- Family poems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Westminster John Knox Press 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BUEForsyth, Frederick
Summary: "From Frederick Forsyth, the grand master of international suspense, comes his most intriguing story ever--his own"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2015