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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 257 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"There's very little that's conventional about Kamala Harris, and yet her personal story also represents the best of America. She grew up the eldest daughter of a single mother, a no-nonsense cancer researcher who emigrated from India at the age of nineteen in search of a better education. She and her husband, an accomplished economist from Jamaica, split up when Kamala was only five. The Kamala Harris the public knows today is tough, smart, quick-witted,...
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...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 285 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The House Majority Whip describes the mass shooting at baseball practice for Republican members of Congress that resulted in his near-fatal gunshot wound, and relates the stories of the heroes who emerged in the aftermath and his miraculous recovery.
26) Persist
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The influential senator and former presidential candidate, in this deeply personal book and a powerful call to action, writes about six perspectives that have influenced her life and advocacy.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xvi, 397 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Mazie Hirono is one of the most fiercely outspoken Democrats in Congress, but her journey to the U.S. Senate was far from likely. Raised poor on her family's rice farm in rural Japan, Hirono was seven years old when her mother left her abusive husband and sailed with her two elder children to the United States, crossing the Pacific in steerage in search of a better life. Though the girl then known as "Keiko" did not speak English when she entered...
30) Run: Book one
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
vi, 152 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling, graphic novel series March comes the continuation of the life story of John Lewis and the struggles seen across the United States after the Civil Rights Movement. For John Lewis, the Civil Rights Movement as he knew it ended with the signing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, but his struggle in the following years echo many of the same questions of civil rights and equality that are being asked today. The movement...
Author
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Library of Congress map librarian Anna O'Brien turns to charismatic young congressman Luke Callahan for help in solving the mystery of a missing ship, only to find an unexpected and inconvenient attraction beginning to grow between them.
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 532 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Massachusetts senator shares his personal perspectives on the tragedies that have shaped his family, his long political career, the major events of the past fifty years, and his recent health battles.
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions/Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Threshold Editions hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 364 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Analyzes Obama's political career and influences and his current presidential campaign, describing how his radical, far-left politics and naive foreign policy would be disastrous for the country in the event of his election.
34) TailSpin
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dispatched to the Kentucky mountains to discern the fates of a missing special agent and a doctor who is being protected by the FBI, agents Savich and Sherlock find the case further complicated by a young woman on the run and the doctor's mental deterioration.
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 438 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A New York Times best-selling author and USA Today Washington bureau chief offers a new biography of Nancy Pelosi, one of the most powerful women in American politics.
Nancy D'Alesandro Pelosi didn't begin running for office until she was forty-six years old, her five children mostly out of the nest. Since then she has lived on the cutting edge of the revolution in both women's roles and in the nation's movement to a fiercer and more polarized politics....
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 406 pages : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Harvard-educated comedian, talk-show host, and U.S. Senator chronicles the story of his unlikely senatorial campaign, detailing the ensuing months-long recount and what his service has taught him about America's deeply polarized political culture.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Senator Kamala Harris is known as a tough prosecutor. She made history as the first Black and Indian woman to lead a major ticket. Follow her fight to the White House!"--Provided by publisher.