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1) Becoming
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973.932 OBAMA
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2018. | First edition. | Crown | xiii, 426 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm | English | Available
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2018 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America, she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private. A deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily...
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2020. | Riverhead Books | xiv, 284 pages ; 21 cm | English |
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2020 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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A New York Times Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book
“Riveting, heartbreaking, sometimes difficult, always inspiring.” —The New York Times Book Review
As seen/heard on Fresh Air, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, Weekend Edition, and more
An emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others...
A New York Times Notable Book
“Riveting, heartbreaking, sometimes difficult, always inspiring.” —The New York Times Book Review
As seen/heard on Fresh Air, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, Weekend Edition, and more
An emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others...
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c2014. | Nancy Paulsen Books | 336 pages : illustrations, portraits, genealogical tables ; 22 cm. | English | Available
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[2014] | Unabridged. | Listening Library | 4 audio discs (3 hr., 56 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available
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2014 | OverDrive | Penguin Young Readers Group | English | Available Online
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"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...
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Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction
629.4072 SHETT
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[2016] | First edition. | William Morrow | xviii, 346 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
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[2016] | Unabridged. | Harper Audio | 9 audio discs (approximately 645 min.) : CD ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available
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2016 | OverDrive | Unabridged | HarperAudio | English | Available Online
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2016 | OverDrive | William Morrow | English | Checked Out
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Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in...
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[2018] | First edition. | Convergent Books | 185 pages ; 20 cm | English |
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2018 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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Online OverDrive Collection has 15
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2018 | OverDrive | The Crown Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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The author's first encounter with a racialized America came at age seven, when her parents told her they named her Austin to deceive future employers into thinking she was a white man. She grew up in majority-white schools, organizations, and churches, and has spent her life navigating America's racial divide as a writer, a speaker, and an expert helping organizations practice genuine inclusion. While so many institutions claim to value diversity...
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Central - Adult Biography
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2019. | Penguin Press | xvii, 318 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm | Available
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[2019] | Young readers edition. | Philomel Books | xv, 288 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm | Available
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2019 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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2019 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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"From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across the life of our country. By reckoning with the big challenges we face together, drawing on the hard-won wisdom and insight from her own career and the work of those who have most inspired her, Kamala Harris offers in The Truths We Hold a...
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616.02774 SKLOO
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616.02774 SKLOO
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c2009 | Crown Publishers | x, 369 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. | English | Available
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[2010] | Library edition. | Books on Tape | 10 audio discs (12 hr., 31 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available
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2010 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The story of modern medicine and bioethics—and, indeed, race relations—is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”—Entertainment Weekly
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO® STARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE • ONE OF THE “MOST INFLUENTIAL” (CNN), “DEFINING” (LITHUB), AND “BEST” (THE...
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO® STARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE • ONE OF THE “MOST INFLUENTIAL” (CNN), “DEFINING” (LITHUB), AND “BEST” (THE...
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Aurora Hills - Adult New Nonfiction
976.33509 BROOM
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976.33509 BROOM
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[2019] | First edition. | Grove Press | 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | Available
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2019 | OverDrive | Grove Atlantic | English | Available Online
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In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant-the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed, Ivory Mae remarried Sarah's father Simon Broom; their combined family would eventually number twelve children. But after Simon died, six months after Sarah's birth,...
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2017. | Gallery Books | 278 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
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2017 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Simon & Schuster Audio | English | Available Online
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"From stand-up comedian and actress Tiffany Haddish comes The Last Black Unicorn, a hilarious, edgy, and heart-wrenching collection of autobiographical essays that will leave you laughing through tears. Tiffany Haddish grew up in one of the poorest parts of South Central Los Angeles. Her mother wound up with a debilitating brain injury after surviving a car accident. Tiffany never fit in anywhere: not in the households she rotated through in the foster...
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c2013. | First U.S. edition. | Bloomsbury | 258 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
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[2014] | Unabridged. | Recorded Books | 7 audio discs (8 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English |
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2013 | OverDrive | Bloomsbury Publishing | English | Available Online
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A memoir that examines rural poverty and the lingering strains of racism in the South by the author of Salvage the bones.
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2015. | 37 Ink/Atria | xv, 204 pages ; 24 cm | English |
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2015 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Simon & Schuster Audio | English | Available Online
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The "brilliantly wry" (Lena Dunham) and "lovably awkward" (Mindy Kaling) New York Times bestseller from the creator of HBO's Insecure.
In this universally accessible New York Times bestseller named for her wildly popular web series, Issa Rae—"a singular voice with the verve and vivacity of uncorked champagne" (Kirkus Reviews)—waxes humorously on what it's like to be unabashedly awkward in a world...
In this universally accessible New York Times bestseller named for her wildly popular web series, Issa Rae—"a singular voice with the verve and vivacity of uncorked champagne" (Kirkus Reviews)—waxes humorously on what it's like to be unabashedly awkward in a world...
12) Meaty: Essays
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814 IRBY
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2018. | Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC | 252 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available
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2018 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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2013 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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Smart, edgy, hilarious, and unabashedly raunchy New York Times bestselling author Samantha Irby explodes onto the printed page in her uproarious first collection of essays.
Irby laughs her way through tragicomic mishaps, neuroses, and taboos as she struggles through adulthood: chin hairs, depression, bad sex, failed relationships, masturbation, taco feasts, inflammatory bowel disease and more. Updated with her favorite Instagramable,...
Irby laughs her way through tragicomic mishaps, neuroses, and taboos as she struggles through adulthood: chin hairs, depression, bad sex, failed relationships, masturbation, taco feasts, inflammatory bowel disease and more. Updated with her favorite Instagramable,...
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[2019] | Viking | xvi, 320 pages ; 24 cm | English |
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2019 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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2019 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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"Part memoir, part manifesto, [this book] explores what it means to come into your own--on your own terms. By age thirty, Elaine Welteroth had climbed the ranks of media and fashion, shattering ceilings along the way. When she became the youngest and only the second Black editor-in-chief in Condé Nast history, Welteroth helped infuse Teen Vogue with social consciousness, amplifying youth voices on key issues and proving there was more to the selfie...
14) I am Rosa Parks
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[2014] | Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC | 38 pages : color ; 20 cm. | English |
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2014 | OverDrive | Penguin Young Readers Group | English | Checked Out
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Recounts Rosa Parks' daring effort to stand up for herself and other African Americans by helping to end segregation on public transportation.
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[2015] | First edition. | Pantheon Books | 248 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits ; 22 cm | English | Available
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"At once incendiary and icy, mischievous, and provocative, celebratory and elegiac, a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author's rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned to distance itself from whites and the black generality, while tirelessly measuring itself against both. Born in 1947 in upper-crust black Chicago--her father was for years head of pediatrics at Provident, at...
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[2018] | Dial Books for Young Readers | 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 20 cm. | English |
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2018 | OverDrive | Penguin Young Readers Group | English | Checked Out
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"A biography of Harriet Tubman, the abolitionist leader who played a key role in helping enslaved people escape via the Underground Railroad."--Provided by publisher.
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2016. | Plume | xxxii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm | English | Available
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2016 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • “A must-read...Phoebe Robinson discusses race and feminism in such a funny, real, and specific way, it penetrates your brain and stays with you.”—Ilana Glazer, co-creator and co-star of Broad City
A hilarious and timely essay collection about race, gender, and pop culture from comedy superstar and 2 Dope Queens podcaster Phoebe Robinson
Being...
A hilarious and timely essay collection about race, gender, and pop culture from comedy superstar and 2 Dope Queens podcaster Phoebe Robinson
Being...
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©2017. | First 37 Ink/Atria Books hardcover edition. | 37 Ink/Atria | xvii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | Available
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2017 | OverDrive | Simon & Schuster | English | Available Online
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"A revelatory account of the actions taken by the first president to retain his slaves in spite of Northern laws profiles one of the slaves, Ona Judge, describing the intense manhunt that ensued when she ran away,"--NoveList.
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c2010 | Grosset & Dunlap | 106 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm. | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Kids Biography JB PARKS R |
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2016 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. This seemingly small act triggered civil rights protests across America and earned Rosa Parks the title Mother of the Civil Rights Movement. Illustrations.
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2018. | First edition. | Henry Holt and Company | xviii, 364 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Biography has 3 B CARTER E |
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2018 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Macmillan Audio | English | Available Online
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2019. | Large print edition. | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company | 727 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm. | English | Available
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"She was brilliant, ambitious, and unafraid to break barriers. As the only member of a squad of twenty high-powered lawyers who was not a white male, she devised the strategy that in the 1930s sent Mafia chieftain Lucky Luciano to prison. She achieved so much--but what could she have accomplished if not for barriers of race and gender?..."--back cover.
"She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter...
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