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Pride and Persistence: Stories of Queer Activism (Do You Know My Name? #4)
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.See It, Dream It, Do It: How 25 people just like you found their dream jobs
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!Christmas in Plains: memories
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.Veteran National Public Radio correspondent Anne Garrels, embedded with the U.S. military forces in Baghdad, chronicles her observations before and…
during the 2003 second Gulf War. Includes e-mails that her husband, Vint Lawrence, sent while she was gone and describes hardships endured by her Iraqi driver, Amer.Posterity: letters of great Americans to their children
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. 2005Sinister touches: the secret war against Hitler
By Robert Goldston. 1982
A dramatic account of the daring covert operations carried out by scientists, private citizens, professors, and assassins who risked their…
lives for an allied victory. This compelling and well-documented report penetrates the veils of secrecy that have shrouded some of the most important activities of World War II. For junior and senior high and adult readersThe ledge between the streams
By 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."The secret that exploded
By Howard Morland. 1981
The author tells the true story of his investigation of the nuclear weapons industry, the inner workings of the H-bomb,…
and the U.S. government's unsuccessful attempt to suppress his discoveries. Morland, a former Air Force pilot, is devoutly anti-nuclear and very forthright about his positionDestiny: from Paul Harvey's The rest of the story
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 WhistlerAt home with the Royal Family
By 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 humorBorrowed time: an AIDS memoir
By 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 yearsThe one bad thing about father (An I can read history book)
By 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 3-6Too sad to sing: a memoir with postcards
By 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 RioAll of the women of the Bible
By 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 backgroundAnne Morrow Lindbergh: pilot and poet (Achievers)
By 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 readersJoe Louis: 50 years an American hero
By 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 lifeThe Binghams of Louisville: the dark history behind one of America's great fortunes
By 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 fortuneWilliam H. Taft, 27th president of the United States
By 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 readersWarren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States
By 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 readers