Graham, Felicia
Summary: Flat track roller derby is one of the country's fastest growing sports. What started as a single league in Austin, Texas, a couple of decades ago has grown into an international phenomenon, with nearly two thousand leagues around the world. Rollergirls captures the spirit of the game, which is poised to become an Olympic sport, and highlights the women who have become known as the godmothers of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trinity University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.21 GRADay, Felicia
Summary: "From the online entertainment pioneer, actress, and "queen of the geeks" Felicia Day, comes a funny, quirky, and inspiring memoir about her unusual upbringing, her rise to internet stardom, and embracing her weirdness to find her place in the world."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAY, FELICIA DAYFelicien, Perdita
Summary: "A raw and affecting memoir about a mother and daughter who beat the odds together. Perdita Felicien's story is woven into her mother's like an intricate braid. To understand Perdita's story, you must know Catherine's. Catherine is larger than life. At seventeen years old, she is determined and tenacious, and longing to experience a better life. But she is also pregnant with her second child,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday Canada 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FELAston, Felicity
Summary: "The story of how British polar explorer Felicity Aston gathered a team of ten women from across Europe and the Middle East to ski over the frozen Arctic Ocean to the North Pole"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.911 ASTWilliams, Alicia R. (Alicia Renee)
Summary: "An inspiring picture book biography about Shirley Chisholm"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CHIWilliams, Alicia
Summary: Zora was a girl who hankered for tales like bees for honey. Now, her mama always told her that if she wanted something, "to jump at de sun", because even though you might not land quite that high, at least you'd get off the ground. So Zora jumped from place to place, from the porch of the general store where she listened to folktales, to Howard University, to Harlem. And everywhere she jumped,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HURSummary: Fourteen children's book artists draw their favorite foods and explain why they love them, using short stories, statements, and poems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books/Henry Holt and Company 2019
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Summary: "An intimate, revealing look at one artist's journey from self-censorship to full expression As one of the most celebrated musicians of our time, Alicia Keys has enraptured the nation with her heartfelt lyrics, extraordinary vocal range, and soul-stirringpiano compositions. Yet away from the spotlight, Alicia has grappled with private heartache-over the challenging and complex relationship with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KEYS, ALICIA KEYDrake, Alicia
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2006
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Summary: On cover: The first person account of the former businessman and olympic athlete who became "a soldier of democracy," commanding world attention with his arrest as a spy in Nicaragua.
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Publisher / Publication Date: D.I. Fine 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.35 HALDujovne Ortiz, Alicia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PERON, EVA DUJChurnin, Nancy
Summary: "Growing up in the late 19th century, Laura Wheeler Waring didn't see any artists who looked like her. She didn't see any paintings of people who looked like her, either. So when she was offered a commission to paint portraits of accomplished African Americans, she jumped at the chance. Writers, singers, political activists, and thinkers all posed for her. Now her portraits hang in Washington,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creston Books, LLC 2020
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 921 WARValdez, Patricia
Summary: Looks at the inspiring story of Joan Procter, a pioneering female scientist who loved reptiles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PROAppleman-Jurman, Alicia.
Summary: Alicia's tells of her flight from the Nazis through the fields of Poland, rescuing other Jews, leading them to safe hideouts, and offering them courage and hope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5315 APPWeigel, Alicia Roth
Summary: "From a celebrated activist on the forefront of fighting for intersex representation and rights-and a subject of the forthcoming documentary Every Body, from the filmmakers behind RBG-a funny, thought-provoking collection of essays about owning your identity and living your truth"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WEIGEL, ALICIA ROTH WEIViña, Rose
Summary: "As a young girl in Cuba, Alicia Alonso practiced ballet in tennis shoes. Within a few years, she was in New York City, with a promising ballet career. But her eyesight began to fail. When Alicia needed surgeries to save her vision, dancing was impossible, but she wouldn't give up her dream. She found the strength and determination to return to the stage and become a prima ballerina. This is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2021
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Summary: "The fascinating biography of the maverick newspaperwoman, equestrian, aviatrix and intrepid adventurer Alicia Patterson, which follows her exceptional exploits through the first half of the 20th century, from her troublemaking days as the middle child of complicated parents to her successes as publisher of the Pulitzer Prize winning Newsday"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon 2016