Search
Type
Format
Sort
Location
Audience

Spinale, Laura

Summary: An illustrated biography of nineteenth-century abolitionist Sojourner Truth, who was born into slavery and fought for the rights of African-Americans and women.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Franklin, Ruth.

Summary: What is the difference between writing a novel about the Holocaust and fabricating a memoir? Are Holocaust writings, by their very nature, exempt from criticism and interpretation? Do narratives about the Holocaust have a special obligation to be truthful--that is, faithful to the facts of history? Is a fictional account of the Holocaust, in the words of Elie Wiesel, "an insult to the dead"? In...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 FRA

Jacobs, Alan

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 177.3 JAC

Schmidt, Gary D

Summary: Shows how the hardships of slavery, particularly the loss of her family, caused Isabella Baumfree to walk towards freedom, to re-invent herself as Sojourner Truth, and to continue walking to abolish slavery and for other reforms.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB SOJOURNER TRUTH SCH

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCH

Andrews, Andy

Summary: "If the truth is what sets us free, what does it mean to live in a society where truth is absent? How do truth and lies in the past shape our destiny today? Through the lens of the Holocaust, Andy Andrews examines the critical need for truth in our relationships, our communities, and our government"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.01 AND

Bernard, Jacqueline.

Summary: Biography of Sojourner Truth, who was born into slavery, freed in 1827, and became famous for her courage, quick wit, and ready challenge as she campaigned for abolition and women's rights in New York and the Midwestern States.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1967

Sorry, no copies available

Place a hold to request this item.

Young, Kevin

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "Award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon--the legacy of P.T. Barnum's 'humbug' culminating with the currency of Donald J. Trump's 'fake news'. Disturbingly, Young finds that fakery is woven from stereotype and suspicion, with race being the most insidious American hoax of all. He chronicles how Barnum came to fame by...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 001.9 YOU

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 001.9 YOU

Grant, John

Summary: Uses modern, ripped-from-the-headlines examples to clearly explain how to identify bad evidence and dismantle poor arguments.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Zest Books 2019

Sorry, no copies available

Place a hold to request this item.

Lu, Cuong

Summary: "We spend so much time in pursuit of happiness-trying to purchase it, experience it, meditate our way towards it-but happiness is elusive and doesn't last. According to the teachings of the Buddha, this is not a problem! As Cuong Lu writes, "suffering is not a problem to be solved. It is a truth to be recognized." Happiness is Overrated invites us to look deeply at the truths in our lives-not...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 LU

Tutu, Desmond.

Summary: "The establishment of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a pioneering international event. At the center of this attempt at healing a nation has been Archbishop Desmond Tutu, whom President Nelson Mandela named as Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. With the final report of the Commission just published, Archbishop Tutu offers his reflections on South...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968.065 TUTU

Kakutani, Michiko

Summary: Over the last three decades, Michiko Kakutani has been thinking and writing about the demise of objective truth in popular culture, academia, and contemporary politics. In The Death of Truth, she connects the dots to reveal the slow march of untruth up to our present moment, when Red State and Blue State America have little common ground, proven science is once more up for debate, and all...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tim Duggan Books 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.2 KAK

Lackey, Michael

Summary: "In this new collection of interviews, some of America's most prominent novelists identify the key intellectual developments that led to the rise of the contemporary biographical novel, discuss the kind of historical 'truth' this novel communicates, indicate why this narrative form is superior to the traditional historical novel, and reflect on the ideas and characters central to their...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA Academic 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.082 TRU

Mattern, Joanne

Summary: Introduces the life of a woman who escaped slavery, traveled and made speeches to help free slaves before and during the Civil War, and helped freed slaves to find jobs and houses after the war.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Painter, Nell Irvin.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1996

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TRUTH, SOJOURNER PAI

Shadyac, Tom.

Summary: Just about everything today comes with an operating manual -- from your computer to your car, from your cell phone to your iPad. Is it possible that Life comes with an operating manual, as well? That's the simple, but powerful premise of Tom Shadyac's inspiring and provocative first book. Written as a series of essays and dialogues, we are invited into a conversation that is both challenging...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 128 SHA

Washington, Margaret.

Summary: The autobiography of the pioneer for racial and sexual equality discusses her years as a slave in upstate New York and describes the spiritual revelations that turned her into an abolitionist.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1993

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TRUTHE, SOJOURNER TRU

David, Alex

Contents: The need for change -- Fighting to be free -- "No union with slaveholders" -- America in 1850 -- The legacy of Sojourner Truth -- Primary source transcriptions.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Gov David

Fernández-Armesto, Felipe.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 121 FER

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2006

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Mind Murray

Cole, K. C.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1998

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 COL

McRaney, David.

Summary: McRaney reveals that every decision we make, every thought we contemplate, and every emotion we feel comes with a story we tell ourselves to explain them. But sometimes those stories aren't true.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books/Penguin Group 2011

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 MCR

Sheehan, Jacqueline.

Summary: A historical novel based on the life of Sojourner Truth, telling of her life as a slave, her efforts to reunite her family after being freed, and her call by God to speak out against slavery and in favor of women's rights.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHE

Thubten Zopa

Summary: The Buddha’s profound teachings on the four noble truths are illuminated by a Tibetan master simply and directly, so that readers gain an immediate and personal understanding of the causes and conditions that give rise to suffering as well as the spiritual life as the path to liberation. Experiential teachings on the Dharma by the Tibetan master Lama Zopa Rinpoche, written in a lively manner...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 THU

Calkhoven, Laurie

Summary: "Biography of American Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2019

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE CAL

Back to Top