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By Mary Fairhurst Breen. 2023
The activists between these pages have stood up for the queer community, whether on their own behalf or in support…
of people they love. Some made a difference by confronting injustice; others dared to be fully themselves.By Colleen Nelson, Kathie MacIsaac. 2023
From award-winning author Colleen Nelson, and literacy advocate Kathie MacIsaac, twenty-five profiles present a plethora of jobs, and people, making…
it easier than ever for young people to see their dreams and to live their dreams!By Jimmy Carter. 2001
Carter, who served as the thirty-ninth president of the United States, reminisces about family Christmases over the years, beginning with…
his childhood on a Georgia farm, through his years in the U.S. Navy, the Georgia governor's mansion, the White House, and then back to Plains. Bestseller.By Dorie McCullough Lawson. 2004
Presents parental messages of advice, wisdom, humor, and affection from authors, explorers, presidents, inventors, and soldiers. Includes Carl Sandburg, Theodore…
Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, George Patton, Woody Guthrie, Abigail Adams, and Eleanor Roosevelt among others. Grouped by general theme, the selections span four centuries and are introduced with contextual commentary. 2004Veterans recall experiences of battle from World War I to the war in Iraq. Soldiers' letters, diaries, memoirs, and oral…
histories provide personal accounts of D-Day, the Tet offensive, heroic actions, and sinking ships. Includes an interview with Senator John McCain about his captivity in Vietnam. 2005By Ved Mehta. 1984
Continues the author's life as a blind boy growing up in India during the 1940s. He recalls his loving and…
cultured family, the political violence of partition, and his attempts, fired by a thirst for learning, to overcome his handicap. Sequel to "Vedi."By Paul Aurandt. 1983
Based on the popular radio series by his father, the author has assembled a collection of little-known facts about well-known…
people. Included among the hundred and three all-true tales are such famous names as Longfellow, Lincoln, and WhistlerBy Paul James. 1986
Russell, a former butler to the royal household, and James, a "veteran chronicler of the members of royalty," offer details…
of behind-the-palace-walls life. This is not a sampler of royal gossip, but an informed account of the day-to-day running of the court explained with thorough knowledge and ingratiating humorBy Paul Monette. 1988
A wrenching account of the author's final two years with his companion and "beloved friend" Roger Horwitz, who died of…
AIDS in 1986. The poet and novelist chronicles the suffering endured in the months between the diagnosis and death of his lover, with whom he had spent over ten yearsBy F. N Monjo. 1970
Father could have kept on being a cowboy on his ranch out West, or he could have been a general,…
as he helped win a war in Cuba. Or, he could have headed the police force in New York City. Instead, Father is President of the United States. He's President Teddy Roosevelt, and his son, Quentin (the narrator), and Quentin's mother and five brothers and sisters have to live in the White House. That's not easy. For grades 3-6By Kenneth Brecher. 1988
Using his lifelong enthusiasm for postcards as a frame, Brecher, director of the Children's Museum in Boston, has produced a…
brief and gentle memoir designed to set the reader thinking, smiling, and reminiscing. His postcards tell of his years spent among the Wausha Indians of the Amazon; a trek through the Himalayas; visits to the Louvre and the Prado; and interviews with Samuel Beckett and Dolores Del RioBy Edith Deen. 1955
This comprehensive collective biography contains studies of the 52 women in the foreground of biblical accounts. It also includes sketches…
of 125 women named in the Bible, and 125 nameless women in the biblical backgroundBy Roxane Chadwick. 1987
Anne was a shy child whose world was her family, travel, and books. During her senior year in college she…
met Charles Lindbergh, the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic. Later they married and Anne flew with her husband charting new routes for airlines. This biography tells of her career in aviation, the tragic kidnapping of their son, and her success as a writer. For grades 3-6 and older readersBy Joe Barrow. 1988
This biography of heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis, written by his son, is filled with the recollections of those who…
knew the fighter best--family members, childhood friends, ex-wives, trainers, opponents, and sportswriters. Louis won the adulation of fellow blacks and earned the respect of many whites during an era when racism was a part of American lifeBy David Chandler. 1987
This chronicle of the family that founded the "Louisville Courier-Journal" is a story of greed, ravenous ambition, and a probable…
murder. The focus of Chandler's study is the mysterious death in 1917 of Mary Bingham, who willed her husband of eight months the $5 million that become the seed for the family's later $455-million fortuneBy Lucille Falkof. 1990
William Howard Taft was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on September 15, 1857. Like his grandfather and his father, he chose…
law as a profession and was admitted to the bar in 1880. Taft was elected to the presidency in 1909. At the end of his term he became a law professor at Yale, and was appointed chief justice of the Supreme Court in 1921. For grades 5-8 and older readersBy Anne Canadeo. 1990
Warren Harding was born on November 2, 1865, near Blooming Grove, Ohio, the eldest of eight children. His father was…
a physician. Harding was elected to the presidency in 1920. Several members of his administration became involved in the Teapot Dome scandal, which embittered his last days. He became ill and died in 1923. For grades 5-8 and older readersBy David Collins. 1989
Zachary Taylor was born in 1784 in Virginia, and grew up in Kentucky. During the Revolutionary War his father had…
won acclaim as a soldier, and Zach loved to listen to his war stories and play war games. When Zach was twenty-three, he began his own military career, which would make him a national hero and lead to the presidency. For grades 5-8 and older readersBy David Collins. 1990
Ford was born in Nebraska on July 14, 1913, and named Leslie King, Jr. Two years later his parents divorced,…
and he and his mother moved to Michigan. His mother remarried, and his name was changed to Gerald R. Ford, Jr. Upon the resignation of Nixon, Ford became the first president never elected to the presidency or the vice-presidency. For grades 5-8 and older readersBy Byron Farwell. 1963
Burton was a notorious adventurer, as well as an archaeologist, diplomat, inventor, linguist, translator, soldier, traveler, and explorer. Farwell portrays…
him as a rare personality from his wild childhood and expulsion from Oxford, to his years in India, Africa, and the Middle East, and in his literary career and peculiar marriage