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Incorrigible
Par Velma Demerson. 2004
In 1939, young Velma Demerson was taken away by the police; her "crime", loving a Chinese man, was compounded by…
her pregnancy and subsequent mixed-race child. She was sent to Toronto's Reformatory for Females where she was locked in a cell for 12 hours a day and subjected to abusive medical treatments. It is the story of survival. 2004.In the eye of the typhoon
Par Ruth Earnshaw Lo, Katharine S Kinderman. 1980
I am Rosa Parks
Par Rosa Parks, James Haskins. 2001
Famous activist describes her role in the civil rights movement. In 1955, fed up with unequal treatment, Parks refused to…
give up her bus seat to a white man. Her arrest led to a yearlong boycott by blacks of Montgomery, Alabama, buses. Grades 2-4. 2001.I'm too young for this!: the natural hormone solution to enjoy perimenopause
Par Suzanne Somers. 2013
If you're in your thirties or forties, your body is changing, and so are your moods, sleep, health, and weight.…
Tired of being at the mercy of your hormones? Well, you don't have to be; perimenopause can be enjoyable if you know what to do. This book details how you can get your body and mind back on track, safely and without drugs. Bestseller. c2013.Call the midwife: shadows of the workhouse (Call the Midwife. #2.)
Par Jennifer Worth. 2013
When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the direst section of…
postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives, she also became the neighbourhood's most vivid chronicler. Woven into the ongoing tales of her life in the East End are the true stories of the people Worth met who grew up in the dreaded workhouse, a Dickensian institution that limped on into the middle of the twentieth century. Though these are stories of unimaginable hardship, what shines through each is the resilience of the human spirit and the strength, courage, and humour of people determined to build a future for themselves against the odds. Sequel to "Call the Midwife", followed by "Farewell to the East End". 2013.Buffalo Bill Cody (Legends of the Wild West)
Par Ronald A Reis. 2010
William "Buffalo Bill" Cody was a bullwhacker, cattle driver, and American Indian fighter on the Great Plains of the 1850's,…
all before becoming a teenager. He claimed to have killed 5,000 buffalo and to have ridden with the Pony Express. Later, he started his Wild West Show - part circus, part rodeo, part history - that played across the United Stares and Europe for three decades. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 5-8. 2011 Spur Award for Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction. 2010. (Legends of the Wild West)Her story III: women from Canada's past (Her Story Ser. #No. Iii)
Par Susan E Merritt. 1999
The third instalment of biographies of 14 notable Canadian women. Mostly born before the 1900s, they helped change society's attitudes…
about women. Included are athlete Bobbie Rosenfeld, ambulance driver Grace Livingston and investigative reporter Faith Fenton. Sequel to "Her story II : women from Canada's past". For junior and senior high readers. 1999.Her story: women from Canada's past (Her Story Ser.)
Par Susan E Merritt. 1993
This collection of brief biographies celebrates the courage, strength and determination of the women of Canada's past. Included are biographies…
of Laura Secord, Emily Carr, Lucy Maud Montgomery and others. For Junior and Senior High readers. c1993.Country roads: memoirs from rural Canada
Par Pam Chamberlain. 2010
For some, the country was a place of happiness and belonging; for others, it was a source of hardship and…
sorrow; for many, it was both. From Victoria to St. John's, three generations of Canadians, including Pamela Wallin, Brent Sutter, Sharon Butala and Rudy Wiebe, tell their stories of growing up in rural communities. 2010.This book explores the idea that sensing how long we can live is a latent capacity in us, currently unknown--just…
like the introduction of fire, the invention of flying, and the discovery of radio waves were before we "discovered" them. Understand how the knowledge of transcendence, consciousness, and self-healing are integral to your well-being. 2018.Barracoon: the story of the last "black cargo"
Par Zora Neale Hurston, Deborah G Plant. 2018
The true story of one of the last known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade--abducted from Africa on the last…
"Black Cargo" ship to arrive in the United States. In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Bestseller. 2018.Four great Americans: hour-long biographies of Washington, Franklin, Webster, and Lincoln
Par James Baldwin. 2018
Here is an engaging introduction to four of the greatest Americans: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Webster, and Abraham Lincoln.…
Their lives are set forth in a simple manner, yet with many interesting details. Grades 3-6. 2018.Eleanor Roosevelt: in her words : on women, politics, leadership, and lessons from life
Par Nancy Woloch, Eleanor Roosevelt. 2017
This book collects the most fascinating writing from Eleanor Roosevelt's life, much of which is just as relevant today as…
it was decades ago. She gives advice to women in politics, explains why she is a Democrat, and crusades against intolerance. Also included is political commentary on the New Deal, World War II, and the UN; memos to FDR; and intimate letters to Lorena Hickok. 2017. Uniform title: Works.Hannibal's oath: the life and wars of Rome's greatest enemy
Par John Prevas. 2017
According to ancient sources, Hannibal was only nine years old when his father dipped the small boy's hand in blood…
and made him swear eternal hatred of Rome. Whether the story is true or not, it is just one of hundreds of legends that have appeared over the centuries about this enigmatic military genius who challenged Rome for mastery of the ancient world. In this new biography, historian John Prevas reveals the truth behind the myths of Hannibal's life, wars, and character. 2017.Harriet Tubman: the road to freedom
Par Catherine Clinton. 2017
Illiterate but deeply religious, Harriet Tubman was raised on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in the 1820s, not far from…
where Frederick Douglass was born. As an adolescent, she incurred a severe head injury when she stepped between a lead weight thrown by an irate master and the slave it was meant for. She recovered but suffered from visions and debilitating episodes for the rest of her life. While still in her early twenties she left her family and her husband, a free black, to make the journey north alone. Yet within a year of her arrival in Philadelphia, she found herself drawn back south, first to save family members slated for the auction block, then others. She established herself as the first and only woman, the only black, and one of the few fugitive slaves to work as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. In the decade leading up to the Civil War, Tubman made over a dozen trips south in raids that were so brazen and so successful that a steep price was offered as a bounty on her head. When the Civil War broke out, she became the only woman to officially lead men into battle, acting as a scout and a spy while serving with the Union Army in South Carolina. 2017.Grace in the wilderness: after the liberation 1945-1948
Par Aranka Siegal. 1998
True story of a Hungarian-Jewish teenager’s emergence from the horrors of Bergen-Belsen. Liberated from the concentration camp with her sister…
after World War II but orphaned and haunted by the memory of her ordeal, Piri Davidowitz starts a strange new phase of her life with a loving foster family in Sweden. Sequel to "Upon the Head of the Goat." Junior and Senior High. 1998.Bausum compares and contrasts the childhoods of John Lewis and James Zwerg in a way that helps young readers understand…
the segregated experience of our nation's past. The book shows how a common interest in justice created the convergent path that enabled these young men to meet as Freedom Riders on a bus journey south. Grades 4-7. 2008.Forbidden fruit: love stories from the Underground Railroad (Griot audio)
Par Betty DeRamus. 2005
Despite the risks, some American slaves partook of the "forbidden fruit" of marriage. And when the dreaded separation inevitably occurred,…
slave spouses deeply felt a sorrowful anguish and sometimes made Herculean efforts to re-unite. DeRamus recounts these tales of soul mates who braved bloodhounds, bounty hunters, and bullets to preserve their vows of love. 2005. Love in a time of hate -- A love worth waiting for -- Special delivery package -- Man who couldn't grow a beard -- Even a blind horse knows the way -- Slave who knew his name -- Footprints in the snow -- Chased by wolves -- Woman on John Little's back -- Angeline's blues -- Suspicious lynchings -- Passing white -- Passing for black -- Mixed marriages in deadly times: a chronology -- Hound dogs hate red pepper -- Schoolteacher had to duck dead cats -- Guns and pickles.George Washington, spymaster: how the Americans outspied the British and won the Revolutionary War
Par Thomas B Allen. 2005
A biography of Revolutionary War general and first President of the United States, George Washington, focusing on his use of…
spies to gather intelligence that helped the colonies win the war. Junior High. 2005.