Bybee, Veeda
Summary: "A collective biography of 40 influential Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, from Kalpana Chawla to The Rock to Tammy Duckworth, whose historical contributions readers may not know but whose light shines on, with stunning illustrated portraits by Hugo Award nominee Victo Ngai. From scientists to sports stars, aerospace engineers to artists, every person shines in this collection. Dynamic...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 BYBŌyama, Sumita
Summary: "Zen monk Santoka Taneda (1882-1940) is one of Japan's most beloved modern poets, famous for his 'free-verse' haiku, the dominant style today. This book tells the fascinating story of his life, liberally sprinkled with more than 300 of his poems and extracts from his essays and journals--compiled by his best friend and biographer Sumita Oyama and elegantly translated by William Scott Wilson."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TANEDA, SANTOKA OYAPurdum, Todd S.
Summary: "Even before they joined forces, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II had written dozens of Broadway shows, but together they pioneered a new art form: the serious musical play. Their songs and dance numbers served to advance the drama and reveal character, a sharp break from the past and the template on which all future musicals would be built. [This is a portrait of that creative...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 PURPerone, James E.
Contents: The young virtuoso, 1962-1964 -- The first three albums -- With a song in my heart and Stevie at the beach -- The soul shouter, 1965-1967 -- Uptight -- Down to earth -- I was made to love her -- Someday at Christmas -- The middle of the road, 1968-1970 -- Eivets rednow -- For once in my life -- My cherie amour -- Signed, sealed & delivered -- The independent artist, 1971-1973 -- Where I'm...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Praeger 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 PERAl-Windawi, Thura.
Summary: Nineteen-year-old Thura al-Windawi traces the days leading up to the bombings in Iraq, the war, and the chaos that followed, describing her life and the reality of war for Iraqi families.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2004
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 921 Al-WiJohnson, Rheta Grimsley
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pharos Books 1989
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHULZ, CHARLES JohnsonBruschi, Tedy.
Summary: "You might be coming to this book as a fan of Tedy's football skills and, don't get me wrong, gaining the insights of one of the best defenders in Patriots history is worth the price of admission, but that's just part of the story. There are a lot of reasons to look up to him, and I promise you will finish this book with an admiration for him on a much deeper level."--Tom Brady (from the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.332 BruscKotb, Hoda
Summary: Shares the inspirational stories of six individuals who persevered in the face of devastating life challenges, from a woman who became a health advocate after losing 340 pounds to a civilian hero who saved a burn victim on September 11th only to discoverthat two family members had died in the tragedy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.24 KOTFried, Hedi
Summary: Hédi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis arrested her family and transported them to Auschwitz. While there, apart from enduring the daily horrors at the concentration camp, she and her sister were forced into hard labor before being released at the end of the war. After settling in Sweden, Hédi devoted her life to educating young people about the Holocaust. In her 90s, she decided to take the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribble, an imprint of Scribe Publications 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 940.53 FRICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 940.53 FRIEwing, Rhea
Summary: "Graphic artist Rhea Ewing celebrates the incredible diversity of experiences within the transgender community with this vibrant and revealing debut. For fans of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and Meg-John Barker's Queer, Fine is an essential graphic memoir about the intricacies of gender identity and expression. As Rhea Ewing neared college graduation in 2012, they became consumed by the question:...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EWING, RHEA EWIViloria, Hida
Summary: "From Hida Viloria, writer and intersex activist, a candid, provocative, and eye-opening memoir of life, love, and gender identity as an intact intersex person, as well as a call to action for justice for intersex people. Hida Viloria was raised as a girl but discovered early on that he/r body was different. Unlike most people who are born intersex in the first world--meaning they have...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VILORIA, HIDA VILHaynes, Keeda J.
Summary: "Just weeks after graduating from the Dean's List from Tennessee State University, Keeda Haynes became an inmate at Alderson Federal Prison Camp, all for a crime she didn't commit. This was never meant to be her story. Her childhood was spent in church, band practice, and Girl Scouts meetings, and when she enrolled at TSU, the path ahead had seemed bright. Then one day her boyfriend had asked...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAYNES, KEEDA J. HAYRaven, Margot Theis.
Summary: The true story of a young German girl, Mercedes Simon, and of the American pilot, Gail Halvorsen, who shared hope and joy with the children of West Berlin by dropping candy-filled parachutes during the Airlift.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2002
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 943 RavRaven, Margot Theis.
Summary: "A stray dog named Rags befriends a U.S. soldier in Paris, France, during WWI. Rags traveled with the troops carrying messages from the front line to the back. His loyalty kept him by his owner's side until Sergeant Donovan died at the base hospital in Chicago"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2014
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.4 RAVTamimi, Ahed
Summary: "What would you do if you grew up repeatedly seeing your home raided? Your parents arrested? Your mother shot? Your uncle killed? Try, if just for a moment, to imagine this was your life. How would you want the world to react?" Ahed Tamimi's father was born in 1967, the year that the Israeli occupation of the West Bank began, and every aspect of their family's life has been touched by it. One...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TAMIMI, AHED TAMBlumberg, Rhoda.
Summary: In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, fourteen-year-old Manjiro learns new laws and customs as he becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the United States.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB NAKAHAMA BLUJanzen, Rhoda.
Summary: A hilarious and moving memoir--in the spirit of Anne Lamott and Nora Ephron--about a woman who returns home to her close-knit Mennonite family after a personal crisis.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2009
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 JANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JANZEN, RHODA, JANFahmy, Huda
Summary: "Chaperones, suitors, and arranged marriages aren't only reserved for the heroines of a Jane Austen novel. They're just another walk in the park for this leading lady, who is on a mission to find her leading lad. From the brilliant comics Yes, I'm Hot in This, Huda Fahmy tells the hilarious story of how she met and married her husband. Navigating mismatched suitors, gossiping aunties, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2020
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Kotb, Hoda
Summary: She's just like the rest of us. But she's something different, too. Hoda Kotb grew up in two cultures--one where summers meant playing at the foot of the ancient pyramids and another where she had to meet her junior prom date at the local 7-Eleven to spare them both the wrath of her conservative Egyptian parents. She's traveled the globe for network television, smuggling videotapes in her shoes...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KOTB, HODA KOTBradshaw, Thelma Finster.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crane Hill 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FINSTER, HOWARD BradshawSchubert, Leda
Summary: Early in the twentieth century, Nathan embarks on a voyage from Russia to New York City hoping to become an opera singer, and works hard while missing his home and family. Includes note about the author's grandfather, who inspired the story, and his children.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCHCoster, Theo.
Summary: "In 1941, Theo Coster was a student at the Amsterdam Jewish Lyceum, one in a class of 28 Jewish children that the Nazis had segregated from the rest of the Dutch population. Among Theo's fellow students was a young Anne Frank, whose diary would later become one of the most important documents of the Holocaust. In this remarkable group portrait, Coster and five of his fellow classmates gather...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 FRANK, ANNE COSBarr, Nancy Verde.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHILD, JULIA BARWallmark, Laurie
Summary: Shares the life of the actress and inventor, detailing how she developed a groundbreaking communications system that still remains essential to the security of today's technology.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2019