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Archives of Sexuality & Gender includes gay and lesbian newspapers from more than 35 countries, reports, policy statements, interviews, personal letters, and other documents related to gay rights and health, including the worldwide impact of AIDS. Part of Gale’s Archives of Sexuality & Gender.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In 2005, Dana Canedy's fiancé, First Sergeant Charles Monroe King, began to write what would become a two-hundred-page journal for his son in case he did not make it home from the war in Iraq. He was killed by a roadside bomb on October 14, 2006. His son, Jordan, was seven months old. Inspired by his example, Dana was determined to preserve his memory for their son. A Journal for Jordan is a mother's fiercely honest letter to her child about the...
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Showcasing the music legend's most unforgettable looks from the 1960s until now, this stunningly photographed book displays Dolly Parton's iconic sense of style along with entertaining personal anecdotes that, for the first time, reveal the full story behind her lifelong passion for fashion.
3303) Mary Todd Lincoln
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Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Musician, songwriter, and producer-- Spector's musical ability and visionary foresight charted the future of popular music and culture of the late twentieth century. He reshaped the business and marketing sides of the music industry, while revolutionizing the recording processes. Yet Spector's need for control brought much damage and confusion into the life of those around him-- and into his own career and life. MacLeod follows the ups and downs of...
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Illustrated profiles of fifty pioneering female athletes, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Women in Science. A charmingly illustrated and inspiring book, Women in Sports highlights the achievements and stories of fifty notable women athletes--from well-known figures like tennis player Billie Jean King and gymnast Simone Biles, to lesser-known athletes like skateboarding pioneer Patti McGee and Toni Stone, the first woman to play baseball...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Novelist Vladimir Nabokov witnessed the horrors of his century, escaping Revolutionary Russia then Germany under Hitler, and fleeing France with his Jewish wife and son just weeks before Paris fell to the Nazis. He repeatedly faced accusations of turning a blind eye to human suffering to write artful tales of depravity. But does one of the greatest writers in the English language really deserve the label of amoral aesthete bestowed on him by so many...
Author
Publisher
Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Three-time Olympian Lolo Jones delivers a tough yet inspiring look into the strategies she has used to overcome immense obstacles on her way to becoming the number-one women's hurdler in the world"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward-written by one of the Civil Rights Movement's pioneers. At 18, Charles Person was the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, key figures in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement who left Washington, D.C. by bus in 1961, headed for New Orleans. This purposeful mix of black and white, male and female activists-including future Congressman John Lewis, Congress of Racial...
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Language
English
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Description
"Beautiful Country is the real deal. Heartrending, unvarnished, and powerfully courageous, this account of growing up undocumented in America will never leave you."--Gish Jen, author of The Resisters. "Ba Ba told me this and I in turn carried it in my heart: so long as we didn't stake claim to what wasn't ours--the things, our rooms, America, this beautiful country--we would be okay." An incandescent and heartrending memoir about Qian Julie Wang's...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Cohen's secret payoff to porn star Stormy Daniels on behalf of Donald Trump made Cohen look like a liability to the by-then-President of the United States, the end to their decade-long relationship came swiftly-- with a knock on the door from the FBI. Cohen also found himself battling endless news reports citing the Steele Dossier's claims that he'd had clandestine dealings with Russia-- despite his exoneration by the Mueller Report. In his inimitable...
3312) W.E.B. Du Bois
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
1993-2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.8 - AR Pts: 63
Language
English
Description
This second volume of what is already a classic work begins with the triumphal return from WWI of African American veterans to the shattering reality of racism and lynching even as America discovers the New Negro of literature and art. In stunning detail, Lewis chronicles the little-known political agenda behind the Harlem Renaissance and Du Bois's relentless fight for equality and justice, including his steadfast refusal to allow whites to interpret...
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
©1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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A biography of William Penn, founder of the Quaker colony of Pennsylvania, who struggled throughout his life for the freedom to practice his religion. Penn's life seems to have been a constant struggle for the realization of his goals. This biography gives readers insight into why he fought against the odds.
Author
Series
Publisher
Checkerboard Library, An Imprint of ABDO Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"In this engaging biography, readers will learn about the innovators of the Slinky, the James family. Follow the story from Richard James's childhood and engineering education at Penn State University where he married Betty Mattas to his naval engineering career at William Cramp & Sons and the accident with a tension spring that led to Slinky. The Jameses founding of the Spring and Wire Company and its success with Slinky, the company's foundering,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Rosalind Franklin knows if she just takes one more X-ray picture--one more after thousands--she can unlock the building blocks of life. Never again will she have to listen to her colleagues complain about her, especially Maurice Wilkins who'd rather conspire about genetics with James Watson and Francis Crick than work alongside her. Then it finally happens--the double helix structure of DNA reveals itself to her with perfect clarity. But what happens...
3316) Si yo pude... ¡tú más!
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Cargada de motivación y su característica energía, María Antonieta Collins, una de las corresponsales de noticias más reconocidas de Latinoamérica, comparte la historia de su increíble transformación física y mental, los secretos que la llevaron a perder peso y el viaje en el que se embarcó para encontrar el autoestima, salud y felicidad que cambiaron su vida. María Antonieta Collins perdió seis tallas y más de 40 kilos gracias a una...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"On the heels of his historic election to the United States Senate, Raphael Warnock shares his remarkable spiritual and personal journey. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock occupies a singular place in American life. As Senior Pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church and now as a Senator from Georgia, he is the rare voice who can at once call out the uncomfortable truths that shape contemporary American life and, at a time of division, summon us...
3319) The black man's president: Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, & the pursuit of racial equality
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Frederick Douglass called the martyred president 'emphatically the black man's president' as well as 'the first who rose above the prejudice of his times and country.' This narrative history of Lincoln's personal interchange with Black people over the course his career reveals a side of the sixteenth president that, until now, has not been fully explored or understood. In a little-noted eulogy delivered shortly after Lincoln's assassination, Frederick...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A poignant, funny, personal exploration of authenticity in work and life by a woman doctor. In 2017, Dr. Suzanne Koven published an essay describing the challenges faced by women doctors, including her own personal struggle with "imposter syndrome"-a long-held, secret belief that she was not smart enough or good enough to be a "real" doctor. Accessed nearly 300,000 times by readers around the world, Koven's "Letter to a Young Female Physician" has...
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