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Crothers, Tim.

Summary: The astonishing true story of Phiona Mutesi, a teenager from the slums of Kampala, Uganda, who, inspired by an unlikely mentor, a war refugee turned missionary, becomes an international chess champion.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, inc. 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MUTESI, PHIONA CRO

Herman, Gail

Summary: Presents the life and achievements of Coretta Scott King, discussing her vital role in the Civil Rights Movement, her awareness campaigns, and her efforts to continue the work of her husband, Martin Luther King, Jr.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2017

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET KING

Terp, Gail

Summary: Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. One of the most popular contemporary female recording artists, she is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which has received much media attention.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Black Rabbit Books 2017

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Terp, Gail

Summary: Demetria Devonne "Demi" Lovato is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Black Rabbit Books 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE TER

Herman, Gail

Summary: Recounts the journey made by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkey to the peak of Mount Everest, the highest location on Earth, highlighting how they used teamwork to make it to the top.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.54 HER

Terp, Gail

Summary: Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Black Rabbit Books 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE TER

Terp, Gail

Summary: Misty Danielle Copeland is an American ballet dancer for American Ballet Theatre, one of the three leading classical ballet companies in the United States

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Black Rabbit Books 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE TER

Herman, Gail

Summary: Highlights the life and accomplishments of the shortstop and captain of the New York Yankees.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2015

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 921 JET

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET JETER

Thompson, Gare.

1 hold on 4 copies

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

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

Summary: Six books in the Who was? series, each offering a detailed account of a famous figure's life.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 920 SPO

Bair, Deirdre

Summary: "Born in 1899 in Brooklyn, New York, to poor, Italian immigrant parents, Al Capone went on to become the most infamous gangster in American history. In 1925, during the height of Prohibition, Capone's multi-million-dollar Chicago bootlegging, prostitution, and gambling operation dominated the organized-crime scene. His competition with rival gangs was brutally violent, a long-running war that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CAPONE, AL BAI

Gage, Beverly

Summary: "A major new biography of J Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of a colossus who dominated half a century of American history and planted the seeds for much of today's conservative political landscape. We remember him as a bulldog--squat frame, bulging wide-set eyes, fearsome jowls--but in 1924, when he became director of the FBI, he had...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOOVER, J. EDGAR GAG

Carl, Polly K.

Summary: "A remarkable, deeply moving memoir of one man's gender transition amid a pivotal political moment in America"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARL, POLLY K. CAR

Summary: Carl Boenish is the father of the BASE jumping movement, whose early passion for skydiving led him to ever more spectacular and dangerous feats of foot-launched human flight. Experience his jaw-dropping journey in li fe and love, to the pinnacle of his achievements when he and wife Jean broke the BASE jumping Guinness World Record in 1984. Incredibly, within days, triumph was followed by...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

3 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SUN

LeClair, Michelle

Summary: "The revelatory memoir by former 'poster girl for Scientology' Michelle LeClair describes her struggle to reconcile her same-sex attraction with the church's antigay doctrine, and the lengths to which Scientologists went to silence her. At eighteen, Michelle LeClair found her dream of going to college eclipsed by the lure of Scientology and its promise of a better world--and a better life. She...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LECLAIR, MICHELLE LEC

Summary: A film portrait of Carl Gustav Jung which includes rare home movies, archival materials and interviews. Presents conversations with Jung's closet friends, patients and associates including Marie-Louise von Franz, Joseph Henderson, members of the Hugennmater family, and Sir Laurens van der Post. Explores Jung's long relationship with Fraulein Toni Wolff, and also focuses on the meaning of Jung's...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MAT

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