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Hillwood High - Teen Biography
B OBA OBA
Hume-Fogg High Magnet - Teen Biography
B OBA OBA
Marshall Middle - Teen Biography
B OBA OBA
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[2020] | Crown | xvi, 751 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
60 copies, 153 people are on the wait list.
Hillwood High - Teen Biography B OBA OBA Hume-Fogg High Magnet - Teen Biography B OBA OBA Marshall Middle - Teen Biography B OBA OBA |
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2020 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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[2020] | MackinVIA | Unabridged. | [Books on Tape] | 1 online resource (1 audio file (24 hr., 49 min.)) : digital | English | Available Online
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[2020] | MackinVIA | Crown | 1 online resource (xvi, 751 pages) : illustrations (some color) | English | Available Online
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[2020] | First large print edition. | Random House Large Print | xviii, 1085 pages (large print), 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm | English |
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18 copies, 42 people are on the wait list.
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Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency--a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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Antioch High - Teen Biography
B NOR
Hume-Fogg High Magnet - Teen Biography
B NOR
Pearl-Cohn High - Teen Biography has 2
B NOR NOR
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2013 | Penguin Books | xxxviii, 240 p. : ill ; 20 cm. | On Shelf
Antioch High - Teen Biography B NOR Hume-Fogg High Magnet - Teen Biography B NOR Pearl-Cohn High - Teen Biography has 2 B NOR NOR | |
2000 | Dover Publications | ix, 336 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. | Available at another branch
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[2013] | Dreamscape Media | 7 sound discs (8 hrs., 50 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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2013 | OverDrive | Dreamscape Media, LLC | Available Online
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2013 | OverDrive | Blackstone Publishing | Available Online
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2012 | OverDrive | Tantor Media, Inc | Available Online
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2013 | OverDrive | Recorded Books, Inc | Available Online
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2012 | OverDrive | Dover Publications | Available Online
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2013 | OverDrive | HarperTorch | Available Online
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2013 | OverDrive | eStar Books | Available Online
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2013 | OverDrive | HarperPerennial Classics | Available Online
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2014 | OverDrive | Open Road Media | Available Online
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2012 | Dover Publications | Available Online
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2013 | HarperTorch | Available Online
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2013 | eStar Books | Available Online
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2014 | Open Road Media | Available Online
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2013 | HarperPerennial Classics | Available Online
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[2012], ©2012 | Unabridged. | [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC | 1 sound media player (7 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | Available at another branch
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#1 Bestseller
Now a major motion picture directed by Steve McQueen and starring Brad Pitt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Paul Giamatti
12 Years a Slave is a riveting true account of a free man captured and sold into slavery in the pre--Civil War South. Solomon Northup's narrative explores one of the darkest times in American history and captures in vivid detail the unimaginable
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39 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Antioch High - Teen Biography
B ANG ANG
Cameron College Prep - Teen Biography
B ANG ANG
East Nashville Magnet High - Teen Biography
B ANG ANG
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2009, c1969 | Ballantine Books mass market ed. | Ballantine Books | 289 p. ; 18 cm. | On Shelf
21 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Cameron College Prep - Teen Biography B ANG ANG Hillsboro High - Teen Biography has 2 B ANG ANG Hume-Fogg High Magnet - Teen Non-Fiction has 4 818.54 ANG | |
2002 | Random House | 281 p. ; 22 cm. | On Shelf
Antioch High - Teen Biography B ANG ANG | ||
1971, c1969 | Bantam | 246 p. ; 18 cm. | On Shelf
MLK Jr. Magnet - Teen Biography has 2 B ANG ANG | ||
2009, c1969 | Ballantine Books mass market ed. | Ballantine Books | 289 p. ; 18 cm. | On Shelf
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
East Nashville Magnet High - Teen Biography B ANG ANG | |
1970, c1969 | Random House | 281 p. ; 22 cm. | On Shelf
Overton High - Teen Biography B ANG ANG | ||
[1970, c1969] | Random House | 281 p. ; 22 cm. | Available at another branch
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p1996 | Random House Audiobooks | 3 sound discs (ca. 180 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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13 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
Online OverDrive Collection has 13
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2011 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
13 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
Online OverDrive Collection has 13 |
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12 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Online OverDrive Collection has 12
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2009 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
12 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Online OverDrive Collection has 12 |
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[2013] | MackinVIA | Random House Trade Paberbacks | 1 online resource (289 pages) | English | Available Online
MackinVIA |
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12 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Online OverDrive Collection has 12
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2009 | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
12 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Online OverDrive Collection has 12 |
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[2011], p2011 | Unabridged. | [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC | 1 sound media player (ca. 10 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | Available at another branch
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This remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black girl from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant.
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138 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Amqui Elementary - Kids Biography
B WOO WOO
Antioch High - Teen Biography
B WOO WOO
Antioch Middle - Teen Biography has 2
B Woo Woo
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137 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Amqui Elementary - Kids Biography B WOO WOO Antioch High - Teen Biography B WOO WOO Antioch Middle - Teen Biography has 2 B Woo Woo | |
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[2014] | Unabridged. | Listening Library | 4 sound discs (3 hr., 56 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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OverDrive | Books on Tape | Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection has 2 | |
OverDrive | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | Checked Out
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Online OverDrive Collection has 5
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2014 | OverDrive | Penguin Young Readers Group | English | Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection has 5 |
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[2014] | MackinVIA | Nancy Paulsen Books | 1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations, genealogical table | English | Available Online
MackinVIA |
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Online OverDrive Collection has 5
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2014 | Penguin Young Readers Group | English | Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection has 5 |
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c2014 | Nancy Paulsen Books | 1 bag (Black and yellow) ; 30 x 44 cm. + 10 books, discussion questions, author's biography, "Tips for starting a successful Book club" and instructions for Book Club in a Bag program. | English | Available at another branch
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"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...
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Apollo Middle - Teen Fiction
F Dou Bio
Cameron College Prep - Teen Biography has 2
B DOU DOU
Donelson Middle - Teen Biography has 2
B DOU
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2005 | 1st ed. | Barnes & Noble Classics | xxxiii, 126 p. ; 23 cm. | On Shelf
Litton Middle - Teen Biography B DOU DOU | |
[2014] | Penguin Classics | xxix, 190 pages ; 20 cm. | On Shelf
McMurray Middle - Teen Biography B DOU | ||
c2003 | Barnes & Noble Classics | 126 p. ; 21 cm. | On Shelf
Hillsboro High - Teen Non-Fiction 973.8 DOU Hillwood High - Teen Biography B DOU DOU MLK Jr. Magnet - Teen Biography B DOU DOU | ||
2004 | Townsend Press | 122 p. ; 18 cm. | On Shelf
Apollo Middle - Teen Fiction F Dou Bio Cameron College Prep - Teen Biography has 2 B DOU DOU Robert Churchwell Elementary - Kids Biography has 2 B DOU DOU | ||
c1997 | Signet Classic | xiv, 127 p. ; 18 cm. | On Shelf
Overton High - Teen Biography PLAY B DOU | ||
c2001 | Yale University Press | xli, 148 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. | On Shelf
Hunter's Lane High - Teen Biography has 3 B DOU DOU | ||
c2002 | Barnes & Noble | viii, 127 p. ; 22 cm. | On Shelf
Pearl-Cohn High - Teen Biography has 2 B DOU DOU | ||
[2005] | Signet Classics | xiv, 144 p. ; 18 cm. | On Shelf
McKissack Middle - Teen Biography has 2 B DOU | ||
1960 | Belknap Press | xxvi, 163 p. : port., map ; 22 cm. | On Shelf
Donelson Middle - Teen Biography B DOU | ||
c2008 | Wilder Publications | 110 p. ; 24 cm. | On Shelf
Goodlettsville Middle - Teen Biography B DOU | ||
2005 | Signet Classics | On Shelf
Harris Hillman - Teen Biography B DOU DOU | |||
[2000] | Holt, Rinehart and Winston | xxii, 201 p. ; 22 cm. | On Shelf
Donelson Middle - Teen Biography B DOU | ||
1982 | Penguin Books | 159 p. ; 18 cm. | Available at another branch
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eAudiobook
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2009 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Tantor Media, Inc | English | Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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[2021] | MackinVIA | Unabridged. | [Author's Republic] | 1 online resource (1 audio file (3 hr., 50 min.)) : digital | English | Available Online
MackinVIA |
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OverDrive | Duke Classics | Checked Out
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2011 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | Checked Out
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c2012 | MackinVIA | Mackin Educational Resources | 1 online resource (160 p.). | Available Online
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[2014] | MackinVIA | Xist Publishing | 1 online resource (132 pages). | Available Online
MackinVIA |
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2011 | Random House Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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Hillsboro High - Teen Audiobook
PLA F DOU
Hillwood High - Teen Audiobook
PLA F DOU
Hunter's Lane High - Teen Audiobook
PLY F DOU
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[released 2008], c2007 | Unabridged. | Playaway Digital Audio : | 1 sound media player (4 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | On Shelf
Hillsboro High - Teen Audiobook PLA F DOU Hillwood High - Teen Audiobook PLA F DOU Hunter's Lane High - Teen Audiobook PLY F DOU |
Description
"An updated edition of a classic African American autobiography, with new supplementary materials. The preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Frederick Douglass's Narrative powerfully details the life of the abolitionist from his birth into slavery to his escape to the North in 1838. Douglass tells how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and drivers, how he learned to read and write, and how...
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Cameron College Prep - Teen Biography
B OBA OBA
Hillsboro High - Teen Biography
B Oba Oba
Hume-Fogg High Magnet - Teen Biography
B OBA OBA
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[2007], c1995 | 1st ed. | Crown Publishers | xvii, 442 p. ; 25 cm. | On Shelf
Cameron College Prep - Teen Biography B OBA OBA MLK Jr. Magnet - Teen Biography B OBA OBA Overton High - Teen Biography B OBA OBA | |
c2004 | Rev. ed. | Three Rivers Press | xvii, 442 p. ; 21 cm. | On Shelf
Hillsboro High - Teen Biography B Oba Oba Hume-Fogg High Magnet - Teen Biography B OBA OBA Hunter's Lane High - Teen Biography B OBA OBA | |
c2004 | Rev. ed. | Three Rivers Press | xvii, 442 p. ; 21 cm. | Available at another branch (library use only)
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p2007 | Library ed. | Books on Tape | 6 sound discs (ca. 75 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English |
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2005 | OverDrive | Abridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
6 copies, 26 people are on the wait list.
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p2005 | Abridged [ed.] | Random House Audio | 1 sound media player (7.5 hrs.) : digital ; 8 x 5 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS
In this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama “guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and race” (The Washington Post Book World).
“Quite extraordinary.”—Toni Morrison
In...
In this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama “guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and race” (The Washington Post Book World).
“Quite extraordinary.”—Toni Morrison
In...
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100 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction
920.72 Har
Amqui Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction
920.72 Har
Andrew Jackson Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction
920.72 Har
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[2017] | First edition. | Little, Brown and Company | 87 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm | English | On Shelf
100 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction 920.72 Har Amqui Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction 920.72 Har Andrew Jackson Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction 920.72 Har |
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2017 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Hachette Book Group | English | Available Online
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Online OverDrive Collection has 2
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2017 | OverDrive | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | English | Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection has 2 |
Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection has 2
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2017 | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | English | Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection has 2 |
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[2018] | Unabridged. | Findaway World, LLC | 1 audio media player (1 hr., 30 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | On Shelf
Wright Middle - Teen Audiobook PLA 305.48 Har |
Description
Based on her popular Instagram posts, debut author/illustrator Vashti Harrison shares the stories of 40 bold African American women who shaped history.
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84 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Biography
B BRI COL
Alex Green Elementary - Everyone
E COL
Amqui Elementary - Kids Biography
B BRI COL
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c1993 | 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm. | On Shelf
59 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Biography B BRI COL Alex Green Elementary - Everyone E COL Amqui Elementary - Kids Biography B BRI COL | ||
[2010], c1995 | Special anniversary ed. | [30] p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm. | On Shelf
Eagle View Elementary - Kids Biography B Bri Col East Nashville Magnet Middle - Teen Biography B Bri Col Gateway Elementary - Kids Biography B Bri Col |
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Online OverDrive Collection
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2010 | OverDrive | Scholastic Inc | English | Available Online
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2010 | Scholastic Inc | English | Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection |
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For months six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of white parents when she becomes the first African American girl to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960.
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Biography
B Kin Rap
Alex Green Elementary - Kids Biography
B KIN RAP
Amqui Elementary - Kids Biography
B KIN RAP
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c2001 | 1st ed. | Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children | 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm. | On Shelf
A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Biography B Kin Rap Alex Green Elementary - Kids Biography B KIN RAP Amqui Elementary - Kids Biography B KIN RAP | |
[2001] | First edition. | Hyperion Books for Children | 34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm |
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OverDrive | Unabridged | Weston Woods Studios, a subsidiary of SCHOLASTIC Inc | English | Available Online
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Looks at the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, explaining his works to bring about a peaceful end to segregation.
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71 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Biography
B HAR HAR
Amqui Elementary - Kids Biography
B HAR HAR
Andrew Jackson Elementary - Kids Biography
B HAR HAR
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2019. | First edition. | Little, Brown and Company | 86 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm | English | On Shelf
71 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Biography B HAR HAR Amqui Elementary - Kids Biography B HAR HAR Andrew Jackson Elementary - Kids Biography B HAR HAR |
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Online OverDrive Collection
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2019 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Hachette Book Group | English | Available Online
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2019 | OverDrive | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | English | Available Online
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[2020] | MackinVIA | Little, Brown and Company | 1 online resource (86 pages) : color illustrations | English | Available Online
MackinVIA |
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Online OverDrive Collection
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2019 | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | English | Available Online
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[2020] | Unabridged. | Playaway | 1 audio media player (2 hr.) : digital ; 9 x 6 cm | English | On Shelf
Hickman Elementary - Kids Audiobook PLA 305.38 Har |
Description
Profiles thirty-five prominent men in African American history, including James Armistead Lafayette, Thurgood Marshall, Alvin Ailey, and Leland Melvin.
11) Hidden figures
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Antioch High - Teen Biography has 4
B UNI LEE
Antioch Middle - Teen Biography
B UNI LEE
Antioch Middle - Teen Biography
B Uni Lee
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[2016] | Young readers' edition. | Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers | 231 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
Antioch High - Teen Biography has 4 B UNI LEE Antioch Middle - Teen Biography B UNI LEE Antioch Middle - Teen Biography B Uni Lee |
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Online OverDrive Collection has 4
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2016 | OverDrive | Unabridged | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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2016 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Checked Out
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2016 | HarperCollins | English | Checked Out
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Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them from their white counterparts despite their groundbreaking successes.
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Amqui Elementary - Kids Biography
B TUB MAR
Cameron College Prep - Teen Biography
B TUB
Cole Elementary - Kids Biography
B TUB MAR
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c2005 | Capstone Press | 32 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
Amqui Elementary - Kids Biography B TUB MAR Cameron College Prep - Teen Biography B TUB Cole Elementary - Kids Biography B TUB MAR |
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2012 | Capstone | Capstone Press | 1 online resource (32 p.) | English | Available Online
Capstone |
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An illustrated look at the life of Harriet Tubman and her work to free slaves.
13) Trombone Shorty
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Biography
B AND AND
Amqui Elementary - Kids Biography
B AND AND
Andrew Jackson Elementary - Kids Biography
B AND AND
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2015. | Abrams Books for Young Readers | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 27 cm. | English | On Shelf
A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Biography B AND AND Amqui Elementary - Kids Biography B AND AND Andrew Jackson Elementary - Kids Biography B AND AND |
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2017 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Live Oak Media | English | Available Online
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[2018] | MackinVIA | Abrams Books for Young Readers | 1 online resource (40 unnumbered pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) | English | Available Online
MackinVIA |
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Hailing from the Tremé neighborhood in New Orleans, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews got his nickname by wielding a trombone twice as long as he was high. A prodigy, he was leading his own band by age six, and today this Grammy-nominated artist headlines the legendary New Orleans Jazz Fest.
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43 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Antioch High - Teen Non-Fiction
305.8 COA
East Nashville Magnet High - Teen Non-Fiction
305.8 COA
Hume-Fogg High Magnet - Teen Non-Fiction has 2
305.8 COA
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42 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Antioch High - Teen Non-Fiction 305.8 COA East Nashville Magnet High - Teen Non-Fiction 305.8 COA Hume-Fogg High Magnet - Teen Non-Fiction has 2 305.8 COA | |
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[2015] | Unabridged. | Random House Audio : | 3 audio discs (3 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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Available Online
30 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
Online OverDrive Collection has 30
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2015 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
30 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
Online OverDrive Collection has 30 |
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32 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Online OverDrive Collection has 32
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2015 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
32 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Online OverDrive Collection has 32 |
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[2015] | MackinVIA | Spiegel & Grau | 1 online resource (152 pages) : illustrations | English | Available Online
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32 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Online OverDrive Collection has 32
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2015 | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
32 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Online OverDrive Collection has 32 |
On Shelf
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Marshall Middle - Teen Non-Fiction
305.8 Coa
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[2015] | First edition. | Spiegel & Grau | 1 bag (black and yellow) ; 30 x 44 cm. + 10 books, discussion questions, author's biography, "Tips for starting a successful Book club" and instructions for Book Club in a Bag program. | English | On Shelf
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Marshall Middle - Teen Non-Fiction 305.8 Coa |
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2016. | Large print edition. | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning | 337 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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Description
"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him--most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear ... In [this book], Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings--moments when he discovered some new truth...
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Hillsboro High - Teen Biography
B WAS WAS
MLK Jr. Magnet - Teen Biography has 2
B WAS WAS
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1997 | Carol Pub | 330 p. ; 21 cm. | On Shelf
MLK Jr. Magnet - Teen Biography B WAS WAS | |
1993 | Gramercy Books | vii, 232 p. ; 22 cm. | On Shelf
Hillsboro High - Teen Biography B WAS WAS | |
2000 | New American Library | xxii, 228 p. ; 18 cm. | On Shelf
MLK Jr. Magnet - Teen Biography B WAS WAS | |
1986 | Penguin Books | liii, 332 p. ; 19 cm. | Available at another branch
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[1963, c1901] | Bantam Books | 241 p. ; 19 cm. | Available at another branch (library use only)
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p2009 | Tantor Audio | 6 sound discs (8.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | On Shelf
Pearl-Cohn High - Teen Audiobook F WAS | |
p2003 | Phoenix Pub | 6 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | Available at another branch
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p2006 | Tantor Audio | 6 sound discs (7.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | Available at another branch
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Online OverDrive Collection has 2
Pub. Date | Source | Edition | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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2009 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Tantor Media, Inc | English | Available Online
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Online OverDrive Collection has 2 |
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[2021] | MackinVIA | Unabridged. | [Author's Republic] | 1 online resource (1 audio file (8 hr., 57 min.)) : digital | English | Available Online
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1999 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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c2012 | MackinVIA | Mackin Educational Resources | 1 online resource (311 p.). | Available Online
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[2020] | MackinVIA | G&D Media | 1 online resource | Available Online
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1999 | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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Description
This is an autobiography of Booker T. Washington, the foremost black educator of his times.
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207 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Biography
B UNI SHE
A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction has 2
510.92 She
Alex Green Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction has 2
510.92 She
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[2018] | First edition. | Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm | English | On Shelf
207 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Biography B UNI SHE A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction has 2 510.92 She Alex Green Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction has 2 510.92 She |
Pub. Date | Source | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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2018 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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2018 | HarperCollins | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Description
Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes. Includes biographies on Dorothy Jackson Vaughan (1910-2008), Mary Winston Jackson (1921-2005), Katherine Colman Goble Johnson (1918-), Dr. Christine Mann Darden (1942-).
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Biography
B Kin Mar
Amqui Elementary - Kids Big Book
BIG BOOK B KIN
Andrew Jackson Elementary - Kids Biography
B Kin Mar
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2006, c1993 | 1st Bookshelf ed. | Scholastic | 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm. | On Shelf
A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Biography B Kin Mar Andrew Jackson Elementary - Kids Biography B Kin Mar Bellshire Elementary - Kids Biography B Kin Mar | |
1993 | Scholastic Inc | [32] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm. | On Shelf
Chadwell Elementary - Kids Biography B KIN Charlotte Park Elementary - Kids Biography B Kin Mar Cole Elementary - Kids Other KIT E MAR 4 BOOKS W/ TAPE | ||
c1993 | Scholastic | 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 50 cm. | On Shelf
Amqui Elementary - Kids Big Book BIG BOOK B KIN |
Description
Using simple text, presents the life and accomplishments of the great civil rights leader.
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14 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Hillwood High - Teen Biography
B X X
Hume-Fogg High Magnet - Teen Biography has 3
B X Hal
Hunter's Lane High - Teen Biography
B X X
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1992 | 1st Ballantine Books hardcover ed. | xii, 500 p. ; 25 cm. | On Shelf
5 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Hillwood High - Teen Biography B X X | |
1992, c1965 | 1st Ballantine Books trade ed. | xv, 527 p. ; 21 cm. | On Shelf
Hume-Fogg High Magnet - Teen Biography has 3 B X Hal | |
c1965 | xiv, 466 p. ; 18 cm. | On Shelf
Hunter's Lane High - Teen Biography B X X MLK Jr. Magnet - Teen Biography has 2 B X X |
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2015 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
5 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.
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2015 | Random House Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
5 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.
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ONE OF TIME’S TEN MOST IMPORTANT NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American Dream, and the inherent racism in a society that...
In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American Dream, and the inherent racism in a society that...
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Cameron College Prep - Teen Biography
B TUB MCD PB
Cockrill Elementary - Kids Biography
BIOGRAPHY TUB MCD
Crieve Hall Elementary - Kids Biography
B Tub McD
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©2002. | Grosset & Dunlap | 106 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm. | On Shelf
Cameron College Prep - Teen Biography B TUB MCD PB Cockrill Elementary - Kids Biography BIOGRAPHY TUB MCD Crieve Hall Elementary - Kids Biography B Tub McD | |
2019. | Penguin Workshop | 108 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm. | On Shelf
Dupont Elementary - Kids Biography B Tub McD |
Description
A biography of the nineteenth-century woman who escaped slavery and helped many other slaves get to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
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23 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Cameron College Prep - Teen Biography
B HAR HAR
Hillsboro High - Teen Biography
B HAR HAR
Hillwood High - Teen Biography
B HAR HAR
Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Availability | |
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[2019] | Young readers edition. | Philomel Books | xv, 288 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm | On Shelf
16 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Cameron College Prep - Teen Biography B HAR HAR Hillsboro High - Teen Biography B HAR HAR Hillwood High - Teen Biography B HAR HAR | |
2019. | Penguin Press | xvii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
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7 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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2019 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
10 copies, 30 people are on the wait list.
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MackinVIA | Unabridged. | [Books on Tape] | 1 online resource (1 audio file (9 hr., 26 min.)) : digital | Available Online
MackinVIA | |
MackinVIA | Unabridged, Young readers edition. | [Listening Library] | 1 online resource (1 audio file (6 hr., 44 min.)) : digital | Available Online
MackinVIA |
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2019 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
5 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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2019 | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
5 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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[2019] | Random House Large Print | xix, 459 pages (large print), 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | Available at another branch
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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...