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Thurgood Marshall: a life for justice
Par James Haskins. 1992
Born in segregated Baltimore in 1908, Thurgood Marshall championed equality and justice for all. The author examines the life and…
career of Marshall, who became legendary as the NAACP's chief counsel and architect of the famous Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case. In 1967 Marshall became the first African-American Supreme Court justice. For grades 6-9 and older readersMarie Curie
Par Andrew Dunn. 1991
In the 1890s, when women scientists were rare and it was believed that the atom was the smallest unit of…
matter, Marie Curie, the first European woman to become a doctor of science, believed that atoms had an internal structure. With her husband, Pierre, she discovered radium. The author traces Curie's life from her birth in Poland in 1867 through a career that included two Nobel prizes. For grades 4-7 and older readersThe idea factory: learning to think at MIT
Par Pepper White. 1991
After obtaining a master of science from the prestigious technological school, White describes how MIT teaches students to think. He…
explores how engineers struggle to develop the intuitive and the analytical sides of their minds. He includes human interest stories--mixed with philosophy, problem solving, and warnings--to create an image of MIT's high-pressure environment. Some strong languageAre you the one for me?: Knowing who's right & avoiding who's wrong
Par Barbara Angelis. 1992
Author of bestselling Secrets about Men Every Woman Should Know (RC 31291) questions our understanding of relationships. De Angelis identifies…
ten types of relationships that won't work, and six qualities to look for in a mate. Includes self-evaluation exercises based on the author's theories about sexual attraction, compatibility, and commitment levels. BestsellerContinuing with the messages put forth in The Road Less Traveled (RC 17113, BR 5732), Peck lectures as both psychiatrist…
and spiritual guide. He stresses striving for self-love rather than self-esteem and proposes that being disillusioned and being confused are actually signs of mental health. Some strong language. BestsellerThe same river twice: a memoir
Par Chris Offutt. 1993
The author traces his steps from Appalachian Kentucky, on which he turns his back at nineteen, through a decade of…
shunting across America. Aspiring to become an actor, a painter, a playwright, and a poet, he runs through a series of odd jobs and relationships. Through it all he confronts self-doubts and society's low expectations of him until he awaits the birth of his first son. Strong language and some descriptions of sexThe pigman & me
Par Paul Zindel. 1991
Paul Zindel, author of The Pigman (RC 23431, BR 9275), Pigman's Legacy (RC 23260, BR 6309), writes of the angst,…
humor, and mishaps that fill the year he spends with his mother and sister on Staten Island. Lacking funds but able to talk a mile a minute, his mother arranges to buy a house with Connie, a single mother with money and a set of zesty twins. Connie's father becomes Zindel's own pigman. For junior and senior high readersA world waiting to be born: civility rediscovered
Par M. Peck. 1993
Peck believes that society is no longer civil in the workplace and within the family. He presents case histories of…
counseling sessions for individuals at home and at work, illustrating how people may become more aware of themselves and their effect on others--thus restoring civility to society. He suggests submission to a Higher Power through prayer, and looking at the broad picture. Some strong language. BestsellerAlex Haley's Queen: the story of an American family
Par Alex Haley. 1993
Completed by David Stevens, this is the final work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Roots (RC 9409/BR 3234). Alex…
Haley tells the story of his father's family, beginning with James Jackson, his white great-great-grandfather, who came from Ireland. When James's son falls in love with a slave named Easter, their daughter Queen, the grandmother of the author, resultsTaking hold: my journey into blindness
Par Sally Alexander. 1994
Sally Hobart was twenty-four when she began to lose her sight. At first she saw a thin black line that…
disappeared after a few minutes. But the line returned, and Sally realized after visits to many specialists that she would soon be totally blind. She tells of her frustrations, the loss of her fiance, the support of family and friends, and the help she got in adjusting to her new world. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 1994The story of San Michele
Par Axel Munthe. 1957
Although this is the autobiography of a Swedish-born physician with a fashionable practice in Paris, it is as much about…
the lives of his patients and friends, his beloved animals, and the people he meets in his travels. Those journeys often include Italy, where he is so taken with Capri that he builds himself a house on the island on the site of a ruined chapel--a structure that by all accounts becomes "one of the best-loved houses in the world."Feeling good: the new mood therapy
Par David Burns. 1980
Cognitive therapy is a method of depression treatment developed at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Burns believes that sufferers from…
less-than-severe forms of the illness can use this method to treat themselves by recognizing and rejecting distorted thought patterns. Includes case examples and self-evaluation methodsA girl from Yamhill: a memoir
Par Beverly Cleary. 1988
The popular children's author has written an account of her own early years. Beverly was transplanted to city life in…
Portland, Oregon, when the family farm failed. There, her father, who loved the outdoors, spent years as a bank guard while her demanding and difficult mother devoted herself to Beverly. For grades 6-9 and older readersThe life of Benjamin Banneker
Par Silvio Bedini. 1972
Biography of the self-taught eighteenth-century black astronomer, mathematician, surveyor, and almanac maker. Also deals with the economy of eighteenth-century Maryland,…
contributions of the Ellicott family to the area, and the surveying of the District of ColumbiaColumbus and the world around him
Par Milton Meltzer. 1990
Meltzer, in this meticulously researched account, moves beyond Columbus's skills as a navigator to paint a picture of an arrogant,…
obsessive dreamer. Driven by greed for wealth and power and by a dubious interest in converting "the heathens," Columbus, like his comtemporaries, saw non-Europeans as inferior being ripe for enslavement, and their lands ripe for European exploitation. For grades 6-9 and older readersThe earliest relationship: parents, infants, and the drama of early attachment
Par T. Brazelton. 1990
A pediatrician and a psychiatrist combine their research and experience to create a unified picture of the birth and growth…
of the relationship between a child and its parents. They discuss pregnancy as the beginning of the attachment, the newborn as a participant, and the effects of emotions a parent brings from past experiencesCasey: from the OSS to the CIA
Par Joseph Persico. 1990
When William Casey was born in 1913, his Irish-American Catholic parents expected him to rise to a higher position than…
his father, but no one thought it would happen so quickly, Persico, granted exclusive access to Casey's personal papers, traces Casey's careers as a lawyer, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author, government official, and head of the CIA during the Iran-Contra affair. Some strong languageOdd perceptions
Par R. L Gregory. 1986
A British scientist describes with humor and wit how people experience the world through their senses and how signals from…
the senses interact with intelligence. He also explores the nature of humor, artificial intelligence, consciousness, aesthetics, and the effects of anesthesia on perceptionFunny business: an outsider's year in Japan
Par Gary Katzenstein. 1989
Katzenstein, chosen as one of fifteen Americans to be Luce Scholars, spent a year studying in Japan. With degrees in…
business and computer science, he felt well equipped to work at Sony. However, with no first-hand knowledge of Asia, he found a world so totally different from America that he made a cross-cultural mess of things. Sony gave up on him, but with ingenuity he found another job in JapanThe upstairs room
Par Johanna Reiss. 1972
Based on the author's experience as a Jewish child in Holland during World War II. After being separated from their…
parents, she and her sister hid from the Nazis in the upstairs room of a farmers's home for more than two years. The story shows the constant friction between the two pent-up sisters andf the nervous courage of the family that hid them. For grades 6-9 and older readers. Followed by "The Journey Back."