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Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxiii, 285 pages : 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A feminist, an outspoken activist, a woman without a college education, Midge Costanza was one of the unlikeliest of White House insiders. Yet in 1977 she became the first female Assistant to the President for Public Liaison under Jimmy Carter, emerging as a prominent focal point of the American culture wars. Tasked with bringing the views of special interest groups to the president, Costanza championed progressive causes even as Americans grew increasingly...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"After watching an ice-skating movie, young Zahra sets her mind to learn how to ice skate even though her family and friends doubt her abilities. After all, she's too old to learn, the rink is too cold, and figure skaters don't look like her... not yet at least! Illustrated with Sara Alfageeh's energetic lines and colors that pop right off the page, we follow Zahra's story as she glides across the floors of her house in her socks all the way to the...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 224 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A book blending memoir, reporting, and argument, which drills past the obvious political opinions of our moment in an attempt to make sense of our social and political landscape, particularly with regards to feminism and the various layers of the Trump Resistance movement"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Miep Gies, who as a girl was a refugee during World War I, recognized that the world had once again become a dark place. Especially in danger were Jewish people during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, like her boss's family. This is the story of how Miep helped hide the Frank family"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
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When they are thrown together for a year-long science project, Kat, who has a social anxiety disorder, and Meg, who has ADHD, bond over their common obsession with a swoon-worthy online gaming star.
Kat's anxiety makes it hard for her to talk to new people; she only feels safe in front of her computer, playing her favorite video game. Meg hates being alone, but her ADHD keeps pushing people away. When the two girls are thrown together for a year-long...
26187) The dead queens club
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
455 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
You'd think being the new girl in a tiny town would equal one very boring senior year. But if you're me-- Annie Marck, alias Cleves-- and you accidentally transform into teenage royalty by entering Lancaster High on the arm of the king himself? Life becomes the exact opposite of boring.Henry has it all: he's the jock, the genius and the brooding bad boy all in one. Which sort of explains why he's on his sixth girlfriend in two years. What it doesn't...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Filled with unexpected good news about growing older, Winter's Graces highlights eleven qualities that ripen with age--including audacious authenticity, creative ingenuity, necessary fierceness, self-transcending generosity, and a growing capacity to savor life and to ride its ups and downs with humor and grace. Decades of research have established that the catastrophic conditions often associated with late life, such as severe dementia and debilitating...
26189) Victoria rebels
Author
Series
Young royals volume 8
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
265 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Through diary entries, reveals the life of Britain's strong-willed and short-tempered Queen Victoria from the age of eight through her twenty-fourth birthday, up to her third wedding anniversary with her beloved Albert in 1843.
26190) Eva y la nueva lechuza
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
71 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"¡Hay una nueva lechuza en Arbolópolis! Se llama Julia. Eva quiere MUCHO que Julia sea su amiga, pero Julia parece no estar muy interesada en Eva. ¡Luego, Julia comienza a pasar mucho tiempo con Lucía, la mejor amiga de Eva! ¿Perderá Eva a su amiga más alavillosa?"--Cover.
Eva wants to be friends with Hailey, the new owl in her class, but when Hailey seems to prefer Lucy's company, Eva starts to feel left out, and even a little jealous of...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
ix, 271 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A groundbreaking figure in every sense of the word, Susie King Taylor (1848-1912) was one of the first Black nurses during the Civil War, tending to the wounded soldiers of the 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Afterward, she was a key figure in establishing a postbellum educational system for formerly bonded Black people, opening several dedicated schools in Georgia. Taylor was also one of the first Black women to publish her memoirs....
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xvi, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"It was a beautiful fall day in Connecticut when Colleen Alexander, a lifelong competitive athlete, rode her bike home from work, having just learned her job with the nonprofit PeaceJam was secure. She had survived a diagnosis of lupus and brain surgery that almost took her life, and was married at last to the love of her life, Sean. Life was good as she met the eyes of a truck driver rolling up to the stop sign beside her. He didn't stop. The truck...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
95 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Lauren Hogg, one of the survivors of the shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school in Parkland, Florida, dramatically tells her story in graphic novel form. The tragedy of yet another mass shooting has galvanized the young people of the country, and helped launch a movement that continues to gain momentum. Lauren Hogg lost her two best friends that horrible day, but despite her loss she, along with other Parkland students, found her voice and...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
359 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The extraordinary story of the Russian slave girl Roxelana, who rose from the role of concubine to become the only queen in Ottoman history In Empress of the East, historian Leslie Peirce tells the remarkable story of a Christian slave girl, Roxelana, who was abducted by warriors at age twelve from her Ruthenian homeland, and brought to the harem of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent in Constantinople. Suleiman became besotted with her, and forsook...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
viii, 260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Christine O'Brien remembers growing up in NYC's famous Dakota apartment with her powerful father, her beautiful mother, and a food obsessesion that consumed her. Hunger comes in many forms. A person can crave a steak in the same way that she can crave a perfect family life. In her memoir, Crave: A Memoir of Food and Longing, Christine O'Brien tells the story of her own cravings. It's a story of growing up in a family with a successful, but explosive...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
382 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
En plena Guerra Civil española, el joven médico Víctor Dalmau, junto a su amiga pianista Roser Bruguera, se ven obligados a abandonar Barcelona, exiliarse y cruzar los Pirineos rumbo a Francia. A bordo del Winnipeg, un navío fletado por el poeta Pablo Neruda que llevó a más de dos mil españoles rumbo a Valparaíso, embarcarán en busca de la paz y la libertad que no tuvieron en su país. Recibidos como héroes en Chile --ese "largo pétalo...
26199) Anne Frank: voice of hope
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Introduces the life of the teenage girl who dreamed of becoming a writer someday, but who died in a Nazi death camp withouth seeing her diary become famous around the world.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
323 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white photographs ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Alfred Hitchcock was fixated on the blond actresses who starred in many of his iconic movies. The lengths he went to in order to showcase--and often manipulate--these women would become the stuff of movie legend. But the women themselves have rarely been at the center of the story, until now. In Hitchcock's Blondes, Laurence Leamer offers an intimate journey into the lives of eight legendary actresses whose stories helped chart the course of the...
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