Obama, Michelle
Summary: "Mrs. Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio ObamaObama, Michelle
Summary: Protagonista de una vida plena y exitosa, Michelle Obama se ha convertido en una de las mujeres más icónicas y cautivadoras de nuestra era. Como primera dama de los Estados Unidos de América, y primera afroamericana en desempeñar esa función, contribuyó a que la Casa Blanca alcanzara sus mayores cotas de apertura y pluralidad de la historia; se erigió en destacada defensora de las mujeres y las...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plaza Janés 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 OBAObama, Michelle
Summary: Il y a encore tant de choses que j'ignore au sujet de l'Amérique, de la vie, et de ce que l'avenir nous réserve. Mais je sais qui je suis. Mon père, Fraser, m'a appris à travailler dur, à rire souvent et à tenir parole. Ma mère, Marian, à penser par moi-même et à faire entendre ma voix. Tous les deux ensemble, dans notre petit appartement du quartier du South Side de Chicago, ils m'ont aidée à...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fayard 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.4 OBAObama, Michelle
Summary: "Becoming" ist eines der am meisten erwarteten Bücher in diesem Jahr. Aufrichtige und inspirierende Memoiren der ehemaligen First Lady der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika haben sich bereits mehr als 3 Millionen Mal verkauft, wurden in 32 Sprachen übersetzt und standen 10 Monate an der Spitze des prestigeträchtigsten Buchrankings Amazon. In ihrem Buch teilt Michelle Obama zum ersten Mal die...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bombora 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 491.7 OBAObama, Michelle
Summary: "When she was a little girl, Michelle Robinson's world was the South Side of Chicago, where she and her brother, Craig, shared a bedroom in their family's upstairs apartment and played catch in the park, and where her parents, Fraser and Marian Robinson, raised her to be outspoken and unafraid. But life soon took her much further afield, from the halls of Princeton, where she learned for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Goldman 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 OBAFelix, Antonia
Summary: A photographic journey of Michelle Obama, one of the most beloved First Ladies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2017
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Summary: "Through this engaging Who Was? biography, kids will discover the woman behind the sunglasses. Private and bookish, Jackie Kennedy found herself thrust into the world spotlight as the young and glamorous wife of the President John F. Kennedy. As First Lady she restored the once neglected rooms of the White House to their former glory, and through her charm and elegance became a style icon whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KENSummary: A deft politician and skillful diplomat, TR's magnetic personality and genius for publicity made him a legend in his own time. Through archival footage and interviews with historians, this is an engaging portrait of the private man and the president who created the modern American presidency.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2008
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Summary: "The definitive biography of the fiercely vigilant and politically astute First Lady who shaped one of the most consequential presidencies of the 20th century: Nancy Reagan"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 REAGAN, NANCY TUMPaley, Rebecca
Summary: The A Girl Named series tells the stories of how ordinary American girls grew up to be extraordinary American women. It took a lot of determination, courage, and confidence to become the first woman to be nominated for president by a major political party. A Girl Named Hillary tells of the defining moments that made up her childhood and adolescence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR PURPLE PALPage, Susan
Summary: Former First Lady Barbara Pierce Bush was one of the country's most popular and powerful figures. Here Page tells the riveting tale of a woman who helped define two American presidencies-- and an entire political era. As first the wife and then the mother of American presidents, Barbara Bush became an astute and trusted political campaign strategist, invested herself deeply in expanding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUSH, BARBARA PAGRogers, Katie
Summary: "The first definitive exploration of the role of the twenty-first century First Lady, painting a comprehensive portrait of Jill Biden and the evolution of the First Lady's role from ceremonial figurehead to political operative--from a White House correspondent for The New York Times. Since the Clinton era, tectonic shifts in media, politics, and pop culture have all redefined expectations of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.934 ROGTaraborrelli, J. Randy
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author of Jackie, Janet & Lee comes a fresh and often startling look at the life of the legendary former first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Based on hundreds of interviews with friends, family, and lovers over a thirty-year period--as well as previously unreleased material from the JFK Library--Kennedy historian J. Randy Taraborrelli paints an unforgettable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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Summary: "Camera Girl brings to cinematic life Jackie Kennedy's years as a young woman chafing at the expectations of her family and her era as she seeks to follow her dreams of becoming a famous writer. Set primarily during the underexamined years of 1950-1954, when Jackie was 20 to 25 years old, the book recounts the extraordinary story of her late college years, coming-of-age, and her life as a young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ONASSIS, JACQUELINE KENNEDY ANTRoberts, Rebecca Boggs
Summary: "This portrait of the first acting woman president, written by a leading historian on women's suffrage and power, tracks the ascent of Edith Boling Galt Wilson, one of American history's most influential and complicated women"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILSON, EDITH ROBRussell, Jan Jarboe
Summary: "A vivid account of a critical chapter in the life of Eleanor Roosevelt, when she moved to New York's Greenwich Village, shed her high-born conformity, and became the progressive leader who pushed for change as America's First Lady Hundreds of books have been written about Eleanor Roosevelt, yet, as America's longest-serving first lady, she remains a compelling and elusive figure. Perhaps the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B ROOSEVELT RUSGreenberg, Amy S.
Summary: At the same time as the Woman's Rights convention was taking place at Seneca Falls in 1848, First Lady Sarah Childress Polk was wielding influence unprecedented for a woman. Yet, while history remembers the women of the convention, it has all but forgotten Sarah Polk. Now, Amy Greenberg brings her story into vivid focus. We see her father raising her on the frontier to discuss politics and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 POLK, SARAH GRESimon, Carly
Summary: A chance encounter at a summer party on Martha's Vineyard blossomed into an improbable but enduring friendship between Simon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. An intimate, vulnerable, and insightful portrait of the bond that grew between two iconic and starkly different American women, this work is a celebration of kinship in all its many forms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 SIMON, CARLY SIMAbrams, Jeanne E.
Summary: How the three inaugural First Ladies defined the role for future generations, and carved a space for women in AmericaAmerica's first First Ladies--Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, and Dolley Madison--had the challenging task of playing a pivotal role in defining the nature of the American presidency to a fledgling nation and to the world. In First Ladies of the Republic, Jeanne Abrams breaks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 ARBPace, Julie
Summary: The Washington Bureau Chief for The Associated Press examines the life of First Lady Dr. Jill Biden in her roles as wife, mother and educator over 40 years in the public spotlight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BIDEN, JILL PACMcCubbin, Lisa
Summary: "An intimate and insightful biography of Betty Ford, the groundbreaking, candid, and resilient First Lady and wife of President Gerald Ford, from the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Five Presidents and Mrs. Kennedy and Me. Betty Ford: First Lady, Women's Advocate, Survivor, Trailblazer is the inspiring story of an ordinary Midwestern girl thrust onto the world stage and into the White...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FORD, BETTY MCCThomas, Louisa
Summary: An intimate portrait of Louisa Catherine Adams, the wife of John Quincy Adams, who witnessed firsthand the greatest transformations of her time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016
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Summary: "On August 27, 1943, news broke in the United States that First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was on the other side of the world. A closely guarded secret, she had left San Francisco aboard a military transport plane headed for the South Pacific to support and report the troops on WW2's front lines. Meanwhile, for those ten days, Americans had believed she was secluded at home. As Allied forces...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B ROOSEVELT SCHTate, Sheila
Summary: A collection of behind-the-scenes stories and iconic images of the influential First Lady, compiled by a close confidante and former press secretary, shares insights into her personal life, from her daily routines to her enduring influence in the Reagan White House.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Forum 2018