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Andrews-Dyer, Helena Daniel, Mary-Alice Hirono, Mazie Joy, Angela Stauffer, John Welsh, JohnnyHirono, Mazie
Summary: "Mazie Hirono is one of the most fiercely outspoken Democrats in Congress, but her journey to the U.S. Senate was far from likely. Raised poor on her family's rice farm in rural Japan, Hirono was seven years old when her mother left her abusive husband and sailed with her two elder children to the United States, crossing the Pacific in steerage in search of a better life. Though the girl then...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HIRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HIRONO, MAZIE HIRCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B HIRONO HIRJoy, Angela
Summary: "The story of the mother of Emmett Till, and how she channeled grief over her son's death into a call to action for the civil rights movement"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TILAndrews-Dyer, Helena
Summary: To millions nationwide, American Congresswoman Maxine Waters is a hero of the resistance and an icon, serving eye rolls, withering looks, and sharp retorts to any who dare waste her time on nonsense. Throughout her forty years in public service and eighty years on earth, the U.S. Representative for California's 43rd district has been a role model, a crusader for justice, a game-changer, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey Street 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WATERS, MAXINE ANDDaniel, Mary-Alice
Summary: "Mary-Alice Daniel's family moved from West Africa to England when she was a very young girl, leaving behind the vivid culture of her native land in the Nigerian savanna. They arrived to a blanched, cold world of prim suburbs and unfamiliar customs. So began her family's series of travels across three continents in search of places of belonging. A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing ventures...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DANIEL, MARY-ALICE DANWelsh, Johnny
Summary: "A young couple pledges to stay connected to each other by disconnecting from the rest of the world for a 16-day vacation. Unplugged smartphones and devices are the first rule of the road. Chance encounters, surprising side trips, and a cast of unique characters met along the way, make this unplugged travel adventure a fun trip for anyone who has had it with today's smartphone-addicted world"
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Wit WelshStauffer, John
Summary: Picturing Frederick Douglass is a work that promises to revolutionize our knowledge of race and photography in nineteenth-century America. Teeming with historical detail, it is filled with surprises, chief among them the fact that neither George Custer nor Walt Whitman, and not even Abraham Lincoln, was the most photographed American of that century. In fact, it was Frederick Douglass...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2015