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1) Becoming
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IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 29
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In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America, she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private. A deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily...
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The romance of two Americans in Paris, both staying at the Ritz hotel. He is Peter Haskell, 44, a pharmaceutical executive working on a cancer cure who is the father of three sons. She is Olivia Thatcher, 34, wife of a U.S. senator with presidential ambitions, and she is grieving for her son, dead from cancer.
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Mrs. Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully adapt...
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For fans of The Hours and Fates and Furies, a bold, kaleidoscopic novel intertwining the lives of three women across three centuries as their stories of sex, power, and desire finally converge in the present day.
Lily is a mother and a daughter. And a second wife. And a writer, maybe? Or she was going to be, before she had children. Now, in her rented Brooklyn apartment she's grappling with her sexual and intellectual desires, while also trying to...
5) Michelle
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Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
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A picture-book biography of the first African-American first lady that features lyrical text and illustrations that are a tribute to a woman who has worked hard and achieved great things.
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Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
243 pages : b&w illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Describes the combined and individual lives of Senator Elliot Schewel and professor Rosel Hoffberger Schewel, whose passion for Central Virginia politics led to their public advocation for fairness and social justice for various causes.
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Molly Murphy mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
321 p. ; 22 cm.
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Private investigator Molly Murphy goes undercover within the household of a senator and his wife, the latter of whom frequently solicits the infamous Sorensen sister spiritualists for information about her presumed-dead son.
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Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
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Young Alice Lee Roosevelt made a name for herself in the White House through her many unconventional and amusing activities while living there with her family and president father.
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"She's one of the most beloved political figures in the country, and on the surface, seems to have led a charmed life. In many ways, she has. Beautiful family. Thriving career. Supportive friendship. Loving marriage. But she's no stranger to adversity. Many know of the strength she had shown after her son, Wade, was killed in a freak car accident when he was only sixteen years old. She would exhibit this remarkable grace and courage again when the...
11) Deadlock
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Targeted by a vengeful psychopath out to destroy his family, Savich receives three mysterious boxes containing clues leading to an unfamiliar community and a young wife of a congressman who must confront a decades-old secret.
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