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1) Becoming
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
"An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States. When she was a little girl, Michelle Robinson's world was the South Side of Chicago, where she and her brother, Craig, shared a bedroom in their family's upstairs apartment and played catch in the park, and where her parents, Fraser and Marian Robinson, raised her to be outspoken and unafraid. But life soon took her much further afield, from the halls of Princeton,...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
408 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Bronx-native Bernard Slotnick's mantra was that everyone deserved a good defense. And he was the best defender out there. A bold strategist in the courtroom, and a doting husband and father of four at home, 'Liberty's Last Champion' proudly stood up for the unpopular and the controversial, including: John Gotti, head of the Gambino crime family; Joe Colombo Sr., inspiration for The Godfather; Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League;...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Mrs. Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully adapt...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
418 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a biography of President Barack Obama's wife Michelle Obama, chronicling her childhood in Chicago's South Side neighborhood, her law career and her community work with the neighborhood of her youth, her family life, and her many activities and works as First Lady.
5) My own words
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993--a witty, engaging, serious, and playful collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had a powerful and enduring influence on law, women's rights, and popular culture. My Own Words is a selection of writings and speeches by Justice Ginsburg on wide-ranging topics, including gender equality, the workways of the Supreme Court, on being Jewish, on...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
432 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A memoir from President Trump's former attorney and personal advisor shares information about the inner workings of Trump's business empire, political campaign, and presidential administration.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 218 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Exploring the similarities between his father's defense of a black man charged with rape in 1938 and the trial in "To Kill a Mockingbird," presents a narrative of how race, class, and the Souths defeat in the Civil War produced the trials outcome.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Valerie Jarrett interviewed a promising young lawyer named Michelle Robinson in July 1991 for a job in Chicago city government, neither knew that it was the first step on a path that would end in the White House. Jarrett soon became Michelle and Barack Obama's trusted personal adviser and family confidante; in the White House, she was known as the one who 'got' him and helped him engage his public life. Jarrett joined the White House team on...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 364 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The author traces the story of his grandmother, an African-American attorney who, in spite of social and political barriers, devised the strategy that sent mafia chieftain Lucky Luciano to prison in the 1930s.
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
275 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Taiwanese-American rebel restaurateur chronicles his rise to success from his difficult childhood in the American South to his decision to embrace all he had learned about food in his father's restaurants and his mother's kitchen to create his own culinary identity.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
It was a time of unregulated madness at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. Leo Koretz, a lawyer from Chicago, enticed hundreds of people to invest as much as $30 million in phantom timberland and nonexistent oil wells in Panama. Leo vanished when his scheme finally collapsed in 1923.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
An urgent call to free those buried alive by America's legal system, and an inspiring true story about unwavering belief in humanity-from a gifted young lawyer and important new voice in the movement to transform the system. Brittany K. Barnett was only a law student when she came across the case that would change her life forever-that of Sharanda Jones, single mother, business owner, and, like Brittany, Black daughter of the rural South. A victim...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"For the first time, discover the unedited truth about the Duggars, the traditional Christian family that captivated the nation on TLC's hit show 19 Kids and Counting. Jill Duggar and her husband Derick are finally ready to share their story, revealing the secrets, manipulation, and intimidation behind the show that remained hidden from their fans. Jill and Derick knew a normal life wasn't possible for them. As a star on the popular TLC reality show...
Author
Language
English
Description
"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...