Biography

Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon (Hardcover)

By Larry Tye

$32.00
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ISBN: 9780812993349

Published: Random House - July 5th, 2016

With access to many key figures and documents as well as members of the Kennedy family, Larry Tye has brilliantly captured the complex personality of one of the most charismatic public figures of the 1960’s. Tye explores the seeming contradictions in Kennedy’s life, a man who first came to Washington as an ardent anti-communist staffer for McCarthy and who became a generation’s best hope for creating a more just, more compassionate, more peaceful world.

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Miss Todd and Her Wonderful Flying Machine (Hardcover)

By Kristina Yee, Frances Poletti, Frances Poletti (Illustrator)

$18.95

ISBN: 9781938298769

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Published: Compendium Publishing & Communications - June 1st, 2015

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Celebrate Women's History Month with this book! The illustrations are lively, as is Miss Todd, and the message is awesome: Girls are smart and girls can fly!

Heather

 

The Penny Poet of Portsmouth: A Memoir Of Place, Solitude, and Friendship (Hardcover)

By Katherine Towler

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ISBN: 9781619027121

Published: Counterpoint - March 15th, 2016

The late Robert Dunn was, as noted by a friend, someone who “rested lightly on the earth”. With her evocative, intimate, and strongly affecting memoir, Katherine Towler captures the unique and unorthodox character of the poet who remained mysterious to many of us who were lucky to make his acquaintance.

 

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Radioactive!: How Irène Curie and Lise Meitner Revolutionized Science and Changed the World (Hardcover)

By Winifred Conkling

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ISBN: 9781616204150

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Published: Algonquin Young Readers - January 5th, 2016

Irene Joliot-Curie and Lise Meitner were early 20th-century physicists, both brilliant women in a field full of brilliant men. They balanced their personal lives with groundbreaking research that led to the development of nuclear weapons.

Sarah

 

The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial (Hardcover)

By Susan E. Goodman, E. B. Lewis (Illustrator)

$17.99
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ISBN: 9780802737397

Published: Bloomsbury USA Childrens - January 5th, 2016

In 1847, Sara Roberts was told she could not attend the Otis School – it was for white children only.Her family fought for change.  Roberts vs City of Boston was the first case challenging segregated schools in America.  It was the first time an African American lawyer argued in a supreme court.  It was the first steps leading to equality under the law in the US.

Robert

 

Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Hardcover)

By Irin Carmon, Shana Knizhnik

$25.99

ISBN: 9780062415837

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Published: Dey Street Books - October 27th, 2015

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I don't quite know exactly what this is but I'm in awe. Biography or Etsy shop? Scrapbook and photo album or feminist polemic? Either way RBG and her legions of admirers win my ardent admiration for her life work and their creativity.

Susannah

 

Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)

By Ron Chernow

$22.00

ISBN: 9780143034759

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Published: Penguin Books - March 29th, 2005

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With megahit Hamilton taking Broadway by storm, learn about the man himself in this captivating biography. Alexander Hamilton, a biracial illegitimate child, raised in St. Croix by a single mother before becoming George Washington's aide-de-camp and eventually the first Secretary of the Treasury, is a fascinating figure, and Chernow paints a vivid picture of his astounding life.

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Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream (Paperback)

By Joshua Davis

$19.00

ISBN: 9780374534981

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Published: FSG Originals - December 2nd, 2014

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It's a feel-good story- inner-city high school students learn to build robots and in a national competition on a shoestring budget, defeating teams from Caltech and MIT -- with a twist: most of the students are undocumented immigrants from Mexico, living in a time of increasing deportations, and their undocumented status means that college, jobs, and the other elements of a happy ending are just out of each.

Sarah