Author: Burcaw, Shane.
Published: 2014
Call Number: YB BURCAW
Format: Books
Summary: "With acerbic wit and a hilarious voice, Shane Burcaw describes the challenges he faces as a twenty-one-year-old with spinal muscular atrophy. From awkward handshakes to having a girlfriend and everything in between, Shane handles his situation with humor and a "you-only-live-once" perspective on life. While he does talk about everyday issues that are relatable to teens, he also offers an eye-opening perspective on what it is like to have a life threatening disease"--
Author: Childs, Laura, author.
Published: 2014 2013
Call Number: PB CHILDS
Format: Books
Summary: Tea shop owner and bridesmaid Theodosia Browning investigates when the groom is literally late on the couples' big day.
Author: Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013
Published: 2013 1994
Call Number: B MANDELA
Format: Books
Summary: Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's anti-apartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. The foster son of a Thembu chief, Mandela was raised in the traditional, tribal culture of his ancestors, but at an early age learned the modern, inescapable reality of what came to be called apartheid, one of the most powerful and effective systems of oppression ever conceived. In classically elegant and engrossing prose, he tells of his early years as an impoverished student and law clerk in Johannesburg, of his slow political awakening, and of his pivotal role in the rebirth of a stagnant ANC and the formation of its Youth League in the 1950s. He describes the struggle to reconcile his political activity with his devotion to his family, the anguished breakup of his first marriage, and the painful separations from his children. He brings vividly to life the escalating political warfare in the fifties between the ANC and the government, culminating in his dramatic escapades as an underground leader and the notorious Rivonia Trial of 1964, at which he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Herecounts the surprisingly eventful twenty-seven years in prison and the complex, delicate negotiations that led both to his freedom and to the beginning of the end of apartheid. Finally he provides the ultimate inside account of the unforgettable events since his release that produced at last a free, multiracial democracy in South Africa. To millions of people around the world, Nelson Mandela stands, as no other living figure does, for the triumph of dignity and hope over despair and hatred, of self-discipline and love over persecution and evil.
Author: Ciotta, Beth, author.
Published: 2013
Call Number: PB CIOTTA
Format: Books
Summary: Secret heiress Reagan Devereaux meets her match in pub owner Luke Monroe, but the two must settle their differences before they can learn to love.
Author: Williams, Juan, author.
Published: 2013
Call Number: 323.1196
Format: Books
Summary: This oral history of the first ten years of the Civil Rights movement is a tribute to the men and women, both black and white, who took part in the fight for justice and kept their eyes on the prize of freedom.
Author: Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014, author.
Published: 2013
Call Number: FIC MYE
Format: Books
Summary: "Two best friends, a writer and a runner, deal with bullies, family issues, social pressures, and their quest for success coming out of Harlem"--
Author: Jackson, Mitchell S.
Published: 2013
Call Number: F JACKSON
Format: Books
Summary: Mitchell S. Jackson grew up black in a neglected neighborhood in America's whitest city, Portland, Oregon. In the '90s, those streets and beyond had fallen under the shadow of crack cocaine and its familiar mayhem. In his commanding autobiographical novel, Mitchell writes what it was to come of age in that time and place, with a break-out voice that's nothing less than extraordinary."The Residue Years" switches between the perspectives of a young man, Champ, and his mother, Grace. Grace is just out of a drug treatment program, trying to stay clean and get her kids back. Champ is trying to do right by his mom and younger brothers, and dreams of reclaiming the only home he and his family have ever shared. But selling crack is the only sure way he knows to achieve his dream. In this world of few options and little opportunity, where love is your strength and your weakness, this family fights for family and against what tears one apart.
Author: Richards, Emilie, 1948-
Published: 2012
Call Number: PB RICHARDS
Format: Books
Summary: "With nothing but brains, ambition and sheer nerve, Charlotte Hale built a career as a tough, do-anything-to-succeed real-estate developer. She's at the top of that mountain...but her life is empty. Her friends are as grasping and insincere as she has become. Far worse, she's alienated her family so completely that she's totally lost touch with her only daughter. One terrifying day, facing her own mortality, she realizes that her ambition has almost destroyed her chance at happiness. So Charlotte vows to make amends, not simply with her considerable wealth, but by offering a hand instead of a handout. Putting in hours and energy instead of putting in an appearance. Opening her home and heart instead of her wallet. With each wrenching, exhilarating decision, Charlotte finds that climbing a new mountain-one built on friendship, love and forgiveness-will teach her what it truly means to build a legacy."--P. [4] of cover.
Author: McCall, Guadalupe Garcia.
Published: 2012
Call Number: Y MCCALL
Format: Books
Summary: In an adventure reminiscent of Homer's Odyssey, fifteen-year-old Odilia and her four younger sisters embark on a journey to return a dead man to his family in Mexico, aided by La Llorona, but impeded by a witch, a warlock, chupacabras, and more.
Author: Martin, Kat.
Published: 2011
Call Number: PB MARTIN
Format: Books
Summary: Redheads like Maggie O'Connell are nothing but trouble. But Trace Rawlins, a former army ranger turned private investigator, takes the case anyway. After all, he knows a thing or two about women.
Author: Taboo, 1975- author. Dennis, Steve, author.
Published: 2011
Call Number: B TABOO
Format: Books
Summary: Taboo, Grammy Award-winning founding member of the Black Eyed Peas, shares the inspiring story of his rise from the mean streets of East L.A. to the heights of international fame.--From publisher description.
Author: Murphy, Joseph, 1898-1981.
Published: 2010 1963
Call Number: 154.2
Format: Books
Author: Vonnegut, Kurt author.
Published: 2009 1969
Call Number: CL VONNEGUT
Format: Books
Summary: Billy Pilgrim returns home from the Second World War only to be kidnapped by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, who teach him that time is an eternal present.
Author: Angelou, Maya.
Published: 2009 1969
Call Number: B ANGELOU
Format: Books
Author: Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Published: 2009
Call Number: CL STEINBEC
Format: Books
Summary: Two laborers work from ranch to ranch in the Salinas Valley of the 1930s, frustrated in their hope of having a place of their own.
Author: Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. Simmons, Allan, 1955- Stape, J. H. (John Henry)
Published: 2007
Call Number: CL CONRAD
Format: Books
Summary: The story of a young, idealistic Englishman--'as unflinching as a hero in a book'--who's disgraced by an act of cowardice while serving as an officer on the Patna, a merchant-ship sailing from 'an Eastern port' with a party of Muslim pilgrims.
Author: Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Published: 2006
Call Number: CL STEINBEC
Format: Books
Summary: Depicts the hardships and suffering endured by the Joads as they journey from Oklahoma to California during the Depression.
Author: Frady, Marshall, author.
Published: 2006
Call Number: B JACKSON
Format: Books
Summary: From Library Journal: Journalist Frady's biography of Civil Rights leader and former presidential candidate Jesse Jackson makes extensive use of numerous interviews and conversations that the author had with Jackson, his family, and many of his associates. The book offers valuable insights into Jackson's difficult childhood and its effect on his personality; his relationship with Martin Luther King; and his two presidential campaigns. Frady also accompanied Jackson on a trip to Iraq in 1990 and provides an excellent account of how Jackson persuaded Iraq's leader, Saddam Hussein, to release hostages taken during the early days of the Persian Gulf crisis. Unfortunately, Frady has a tendency to be repetitious, and his writing style may sometimes hinder the general reader's understanding rather than facilitate it. Nonetheless, this is the most comprehensive biography available of a very important American political figure.
Author: Strasser, Todd.
Published: 2004
Call Number: Y STRASSER
Format: Books
Summary: Tired of being hungry, cold, and dirty from living on the streets of New York City with a tribe of other homeless teenagers who are dying, one by one, a girl named Maybe ponders her future and longs for someone to care about her.
Author: Frey, James, 1969-
Published: 2004 2003
Call Number: B FREY
Format: Books
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