Wilson, John K.
Summary: Explores the ideas that Illinois senator Barack Obama has about race, religion, and politics and discusses how he has been received as a presidential candidate by the far right, the far left, the media, and everyday Americans.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Paradigm 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OBAMA, BARACK WILWeintraub, Aileen
Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Wilson, Joan Nockels
Summary: "Set in Rome, Chicago, and Anchorage, and spanning thirty years from crime to confrontation, The Book of Timothy: A Sister's Pursuit recounts in lyric movements a sister's journey, partly through trickery, but eventually through truth, to gain a long-absent admission from the priest who abused her brother. While on that journey, Nockels Wilson, a former prosecutor, confronts not only the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Boreal Books 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILSON, JOAN NOCKELS WILCooper, John Milton.
Summary: Evaluates the parallel worlds of the twenty-eighth president's personal and political arenas, examining his World War I leadership, his failed efforts to bring the United States into the League of Nations, and his contributions toward the creation of the United Nations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILSON, WOODROW COOCooper, John Milton.
Summary: "The fight over the League of Nations at the end of World War I was one of the great political debates of the American twentieth century. President Woodrow Wilson, himself a key architect of the League, was uncompromising in his belief that the United States would rise to a position of leadership in the peaceful union of states that he had envisaged. A masterful politician and distinguished...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.913 COOCohen, David
Summary: Historic moments from Mandela's inspiring life are captured in more than one hundred iconic photos from the mid-1940s through August 2009. Six key Mandela speeches are included, as well as an informative text.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 968.06 MANDELA, NELSON BATNelson, Richard K.
Summary: Here is Nelson's luminously wise account of his exploration of an unnamed island in the Pacific Northwest. This book revises our own relationship with nature, allowing us to observe it and also to participate in it with reverence and a sense of wonder.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1991
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 NelsoMitchell, Brian K.
Summary: "Depicted as a graphic history and informed by newly discovered primary sources and years of archival research, Monumental resurrects, in vivid detail, Louisiana and New Orleans after the Civil War, and an iconic American life that never should have been forgotten. The graphic history is supplemented with personal and historiographical essays as well as a map, timeline, and endnotes that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Historic New Orleans Collection 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.305 MITBisson, Terry.
Summary: Presents the life and times of the African American preacher who led a slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia in 1831, believing that God wanted him to free the slaves.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TURPatterson, James
Summary: John Lennon was one of the world's most influential people. Mark David Chapman was one of the most invisible. By the end of 1980, the Beatles had been broken up for a decade, a decade John Lennon had spent in search of his true identity: singer, songwriter, activist, burn out. "It's the perfect time to be coming back, " he declared. Except that Lennon was a marked man. As early as the Beatles'...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATLarson, Erik
Summary: In this "portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz, ... Larson shows ... how Churchill taught the British people 'the art of being fearless.' It is a story of political brinkmanship, but it's also an intimate domestic drama set against the backdrop of Churchill's prime-ministerial country home Chequers; his wartime retreat Ditchley, where he and his entourage go when the moon is...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.54 LARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LARLewis, John
Summary: Welcome to the stunning conclusion of the award-winning and best-selling MARCH trilogy. Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, joins co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell to bring the lessons of history to vivid life for a new generation, urgently relevant for today's world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Top Shelf Productions 2016
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Blk LewisCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 323 LEWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 LEWCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC LEWWittman, Robert K.
Summary: Robert K. Wittman, the founder of the FBI's Art Crime Team, pulls back the curtain on his remarkable career, offring a real-life international thriller. The son of an antique dealer, Wittman built a twenty-year career going undercover, usually unarmed, to catch art thieves, scammers, and black market traders in Paris and Philadelphia, Rio And Santa Fe, Miami and Madrid. Wittman tells the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 WITMohn, Reinhard
Summary: A legendary entrepreneur and father of the global media giant Bertelsmann offers penetrating insights into his motives, beliefs, and hopes as one of the world's foremost businesspeople.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 174 MOHNelson, Vaunda Micheaux
Summary: An inspiring biography introducing children to the civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the historic march on Washington. Young readers can now learn about one of the greatest civil rights leaders of all time, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in this Level 3 Step into Reading Biography Reader. Set against Dr. King’s historic march on Washington in the summer of 1963, a moving...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Books for Young Readers 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE NELKeilson, Hans
Summary: "An account of the Nazi-occupied Netherlands from one of Europe's most powerful chroniclers of the Holocaust. In 2010, FSG published two novels set in World War II by the German Jewish psychoanalyst Hans Keilson: The Death of the Adversary (1959) and Comedy in a Minor Key (1944). With their Chekhovian sympathy for perpetrators and bystanders as much as for victims and resisters, they were, as...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 833.912 KEIOhlson, Kristin
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Theia 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 255.9 OHLWillson, Margaret
Summary: "A daring and magnificent account of Iceland's most famous female sea captain who constantly fought for women's rights and equality-and who also solved one of the country's most notorious robberies. Many people may have heard the old sailing superstition that having women onboard a ship was bad luck. Thus, the sea remains in popular knowledge a male realm. When we think of examples of daring...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THURIDUR EINARSDOTTIR WILBruyneel, Johan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.62 BRUBilton, Chrysta
Summary: "In this unputdownable story of nature, nurture, and coming to terms with one's true inheritance, the author, introducing her deeply dysfunctional yet fiercely loving family that is anything but "normal," reveals how a colorful cast of characters were thrown together by chance and DNA"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BILTON, CHRYSTA BILNielson, Stephanie
Summary: Details how the author survived a horrific plane crash that left her with third degree burns over eighty percent of her body and learned to embrace the power of love, motherhood, community, faith, and the simple joys of everyday life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Voice/Hyperion 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NIELSON, STEPHANIE NIECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio NielsonWinton, Tim
Summary: "A beautiful, evocative, and sometimes provocative memoir of Australia's unique landscape, and how that singular place has shaped Tim Winton and his writing. From boyhood, Winton's relationship with the world around him-rock pools, sea caves, scrub, andswamp-has been as vital as any other connection. Camping in hidden inlets, walking in high rocky desert, diving in reefs, bobbing in the sea...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WINTON, TIM WINNelson, Ramon
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: S. Jennings Press 1990
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 289.9 NELGolson, Barry.
Summary: In 2004, Barry Golson wrote an article for AARP magazine about Mexican hot spots for retirees longing for a lifestyle they couldn't afford in the United States. A year later, he and his wife Thia joined in the growing trend: they sold their Manhattan apartment, packed up their SUV, moved to the surfing and fishing village of Sayulita ( population 1,500) on Mexico's Pacific coast, and spent a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2006