Genre search:Biography & Memoir

Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna

by Joseph Lemasolai-Lekuton
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
*Africa, Autobiography, Biography, *Kenya, Education, Masai, Memoir, Multicultural, lions, African literature, HISTORY (940-999) — 2 more, GRADE 7 Curriculum: AFRICA, Africa
Collection
LS/GENERAL [#]
Barcode
5934
Status
Available

Jim Thorpe, Original All-American

by Joseph Bruchac
Paperback, 2008
Tags
Biography, PURCHASED_ACQUIRED in 2020-21, Athletes, Football, History, *Native American, Native American, Olympics, Sports, Sports_Biography, *Pennsylvania — 3 more, Jim Thorpe 1887-1953, Pentathlon, INVENTORY LS 2022_23
Collection
LS/GENERAL [#]
Barcode
6729
Status
Checked out
Due May 7, 2024

Walden and Civil Disobedience

by Henry David Thoreau
Paperback, 2012
Tags
INVENTORY HS 2023_24
Collection
HS/Book Nook
Status
Available

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

by Jose Antonio Vargas
Paperback, 2019
Tags
INVENTORY HS 2023_24
Collection
HS/Book Nook
Status
Available

Harriet Tubman: Freedom Leader (Townsend Library)

by Tanya Savory
Paperback, 2008
Tags
Biography, AFRICAN AMERICAN_HISTORY, Black History, *African American, Harriet Tubman, Black History Month, INVENTORY HS 2023_24
Collection
HS/Book Nook
Status
Available

Got Your Number: The Greatest Sports Legends and the Numbers They Own

by Mike Greenberg
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
Sports, INVENTORY HS 2023_24
Collection
HS/Book Nook
Status
Available

To the Elephant Graveyard

by Tarquin Hall
Hardcover, 2000
Tags
INVENTORY HS 2023_24
Collection
HS/Book Nook
Status
Available

All Creatures Great and Small (20th Anniversary Edition)

by James Herriot
Hardcover, 1992
Tags
Author's B-Day in October, INVENTORY HS 2023_24
Collection
HS/Book Nook
Series
All Creatures Great and Small - UK (1-2), All Creatures Great and Small - US (1)
Status
Available

The Lord God Made Them All

by James Herriot
Hardcover, 1981
Tags
Author's B-Day in October, INVENTORY HS 2023_24
Collection
HS/Book Nook
Series
All Creatures Great and Small - UK (7), All Creatures Great and Small - US (4)
Status
Available

Black Like Me

by John Howard Griffin
Paperback, 2003
Tags
AFRICAN AMERICAN_HISTORY, INVENTORY HS 2023_24
Collection
HS/Book Nook
Status
Available

The Lobster Chronicles: Life on a Very Small Island

by Linda Greenlaw
Paperback, 2003
Tags
INVENTORY HS 2023_24
Collection
HS/Book Nook
Status
Available

Who Is Michael Jordan? (Who Was?)

by Kirsten Anderson
Paperback, 2019
Tags
PURCHASED_ACQUIRED in 2022-23, INVENTORY LS 2022_23, who was_series, *Shelved in Who is_Series, (900) GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY, (921) BIOGRAPHY, Michael Jordan, Basketball, Sports, Sports_Biography, Sports_Heroes
Collection
LS/GENERAL [#]
Series
Who Was ...? (Who HQ) (161)
Barcode
7405
Status
Available

Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty

by Peter Collier
Hardcover, 2006
Tags
Weapons, Battles, War, Military, Armor, Warfare, History, Military History, DK_Eyewitness Books, (300) SOCIAL SCIENCES, (350) MILITARY — 1 more, INVENTORY LS 2022_23
Collection
LS/GENERAL [#]
Barcode
3565
Status
Available

I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)

by Malala Yousafzai
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
Malala_Yousafzai, Activists, WOMEN_BIOGRAPHY, PAKISTAN-SOCIAL CONDITIONS, MIDDLE EAST-BIOGRAPHY, GOOD-KIND-STRONG PEOPLE, WOMEN_RIGHTS, Heroes, Women, Equality, Feminists — 10 more, Courage, Heroism, (921) BIOGRAPHY, Autobiography, Education, *Pakistan, Taliban, Terrorism, PURCHASED_ACQUIRED in 2017-18, RED DOT
Collection
LS/GENERAL [#]
Barcode
6321
Status
Available

Pilgrim: A Biography of William Brewster

by Mary B. Sherwood
Hardcover, 1982
Tags
*Massachusetts, Mayflower, Biography, (900) GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY, (921) BIOGRAPHY, INVENTORY LS 2022_23, Genealogy, William Brewster, Plymouth, PILGRIMS (NEW PLYMOUTH COLONY), *New England — 1 more, 16th Century
Collection
LS/GENERAL [#]
Barcode
7519
Status
Available

See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

by Valarie Kaur
Paperback, 2021
Tags
INVENTORY HS 2023_24
Collection
HS/Book Nook
Status
Available

I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)

by Malala Yousafzai
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
INVENTORY HS 2023_24
Collection
HS/Book Nook
Status
Available

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Paperback, 2015
Tags
INVENTORY HS 2023_24
Collection
HS/Book Nook
Status
Available

American chronicle : six decades in American life, 1920-1980

by Lois G. Gordon
Paper Book, 1987
Tags
20th Century, American History
Collection
HS/Stone House Library
Barcode
10288
Status
Available

The color of water : a Black man's tribute to his white mother

by James McBride
Paper Book, 2006
Tags
Race Relations
Collection
HS/Stone House Library
Barcode
10289
Status
Available

Portraits of pride II : Chinese-American legacies, first 160 years in America

by L. P. Leung
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
Chinese Americans
Collection
HS/Stone House Library
Barcode
10291
Status
Available

Lincoln : a photobiography

by Russell Freedman
Paper Book, 1987
Tags
Civil War, Abraham Lincoln
Collection
HS/Stone House Library
Barcode
10286
Status
Available

Geronimo: Apache Freedom Fighter (Native American Biographies (Enslow))

by Spring Hermann
Hardcover, 1997
Tags
*Native American, (921) BIOGRAPHY, Geronimo, Apache Indians, Native American, Indigenous Peoples Day
Collection
LS/GENERAL [#]
Series
Native American Biographies - Enslow
Barcode
5696
Status
Available

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

by Anne Frank
Paperback, 1993
Tags
Holocaust Jewish 1939-1945, World War II, Anne Frank, (921) BIOGRAPHY, History, *Nederland, Photographic Memory, Concentration Camps, RED DOT, *Netherlands, INVENTORY LS 2022_23 — 1 more, Middle School
Collection
LS/PAPERBACKS [PB]
Barcode
894
Status
Available

Travels with Charley in Search of America

by John Steinbeck
Paperback, 1980
Tags
20th Century, *America, American Literature, Dogs, Memoir, Literature, Autobiography, Classics, Travel, RED DOT, INVENTORY LS 2022_23 — 2 more, History, Middle School
Collection
LS/PAPERBACKS [PB]
Barcode
1673
Status
Available
Call number
PB Ste

My Name Is Tani . . . and I Believe in Miracles: The Amazing True Story of One Boy’s Journey from Refugee to Chess Champion

by Tanitoluwa Adewumi
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
Refugees, Africa, *Africa, Chess, Champions, RED DOT, Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, *Nigeria, AFRICAN AMERICAN — 2 more, AFRICAN AMERICAN_BIOGRAPHY, Middle School
Status
Available

Conversations with J. K. Rowling

by Lindsey Fraser
Paperback, 2001
Tags
Short Biography (Small Green Dot), J.K.Rowling, Harry Potter, Series, Interviews, PURCHASED_ACQUIRED in 2018-19, INVENTORY LS 2022_23
Collection
LS/GENERAL [#]
Barcode
5566
Status
Available

Biographies for 8th Grade History:Twenty Remarkable Men and Women

Paperback, 2009
Tags
(920) BIOGRAPHY_GROUP, Biography, 8th grade History, Waldorf, Simón Bolivar, Marie Curie, Gandhi, Helen Keller, Mao Zedong, Nelson Mandela, MLK_Martin Luther King Jr — 40 more, César Chávez, Wangari Maathai, Harriet Tubman, 8th grade Reading Assignments (2016/17), 8th grade: Library on Wheels, Spanish Studies, African Biography, *China, Scientists, AFRICAN AMERICAN_BIOGRAPHY, India-Biography, *Shelved in Waldorf Section, Martin Luther King Jr., Hispanic Heritage Month (Sep_Oct), *India, John Harrison, Eli Whitney, Sequoyah, Benito Juarez, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Clara Barton (1821-1912), Janusz Korcsak, *Poland, *USA, *France, *Mexico, *England, *South America, *Kenya, *South Africa, Nien Cheng, Jomo Kenyatta, INVENTORY LS 2022_23, GRADE 8 Passport to the World_CHINA, GRADE 8 Passport to the World_INDIA, PURCHASED_ACQUIRED in 2022-23, Disability, visual disabilities, GOOD-KIND-STRONG PEOPLE
Collection
LS/GENERAL [#]
Barcode
7234
Status
Available

The Man Who Created Narnia: The Story of C.S. Lewis

by Michael Coren
Hardcover, 1996
Tags
Classics, Fantasy, 5th grade: Chapter Book: Classic and Near-Classic Tales, GRADE 5 Chapter Book: Classic and Near-Classic Tales, INVENTORY LS 2022_23
Collection
LS/GENERAL [#]
Barcode
5770
Status
Available

Maud

by Harry Bruce
Hardcover, 1992
Tags
(900) GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY, (921) BIOGRAPHY, INVENTORY LS 2022_23, Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874-1942
Collection
LS/GENERAL [#]
Barcode
5883
Status
Available

The Yards Between Us: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Football

by R.K. Russell
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
Sports, Memoir, INVENTORY HS 2023_24
Collection
HS/Book Nook
Status
Available

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World

by Vicki Myron
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
INVENTORY HS 2023_24
Collection
HS/Book Nook
Series
Dewey (1)
Status
Available

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Paperback, 2006
Tags
Friendship
Status
Available

Who Was Amelia Earhart?

by Kate Boehm Jerome
Paperback, 2002
Tags
Earhart_Amelia 1897-1937, Amelia Earhart, Aviators, Women, (921) BIOGRAPHY, Small Green Dot, Short Biography (Small Green Dot), INVENTORY LS 2022_23, PURCHASED_ACQUIRED in 2022-23, who was_series, *Shelved in Who is_Series
Collection
LS/GENERAL [#]
Series
Who Was ...? (Who HQ) (7)
Barcode
6851
Status
Available

First ladies

by Margaret Truman
Paper Book, 1995
Tags
American History, White House
Collection
HS/Stone House Library
Barcode
10278
Status
Available

Jefferson and the ordeal of liberty

by Dumas Malone
Paper Book, 2005
Tags
American History, Biography, Thomas Jefferson
Collection
HS/Stone House Library
Series
Jefferson and His Time (3)
Barcode
10283
Status
Available

Jefferson and his time

by Dumas Malone
Hardcover, 1977
Tags
American History, Biography, Thomas Jefferson
Collection
HS/Stone House Library
Series
Jefferson and His Time (1-6)
Barcode
10265
Status
Available

Native American Almanac: More Than 50,000 Years of the Cultures and Histories of Indigenous Peoples (The Multicultural History & Heroes Collection)

by Yvonne Wakim Dennis
Paperback, 2016
Collection
LS/Wishlist_Native American_TO BUY
Status
Available

Sequoyah: Father of the Cherokee Alphabet

by David Petersen
Hardcover, 1991
Tags
Native American, *Native American, Indigenous Peoples Day, Cherokee Language, NATIVE AMERICAN_Cherokee, Cherokee indians, Alphabet, GRADE 1 Curriculum: ALPHABET
Collection
LS/GENERAL [#]
Series
Picture-Story Biographies
Barcode
6262
Status
Available

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Dover Thrift Editions: Black History)

by Frederick Douglass
Paperback, 2016
Tags
INVENTORY HS 2023_24
Collection
HS/Book Nook
Series
Bedford Series in History and Culture (1993)
Status
Available

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass

by Frederick Douglass
Paper Book, 1995
Tags
Biography, AFRICAN AMERICAN_HISTORY
Collection
HS/Stone House Library
Barcode
10236
Status
Available

Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife

by Peggy Vincent
Paperback, 2003
Tags
Autobiography, homebirth, birth, Childbirth, Midwifery, midwife, pregnancy, EC Parenting, EC Motherhood, Memoir, Women_Health — 2 more, EC new collection 2022_23, INVENTORY LS 2022_23
Collection
EC/Parent Library [yellow dot]
Barcode
6958
Status
Available

Into These Hands: Wisdom from Midwives

by Geradine Simkins Editor
Paperback, 2011
Tags
Childbirth, Midwifery, pregnancy, INVENTORY LS 2022_23, Wisdom, EC Motherhood, EC new collection 2022_23
Collection
EC/Parent Library [yellow dot]
Barcode
6965
Status
Available

Who Was Alexander Hamilton?

by Pam Pollack
Paperback, 2017
Tags
Short Biography (Small Green Dot), Small Green Dot, who was_series, *Shelved in Who is_Series, PURCHASED_ACQUIRED in 2022-23, Alexander Hamilton, American Revolution, American History, Biography, (900) GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY, (921) BIOGRAPHY — 5 more, Founding Fathers, 18th Century, Revolutionary War, *West Indian, INVENTORY LS 2022_23
Collection
LS/GENERAL [#]
Series
Who Was ...? (Who HQ) (141)
Barcode
7173
Status
Available

Angela's ashes : a memoir

by Frank McCourt
Hardcover, 1996
Tags
Memoir, Pulitzer Prize, *Ireland, Immigration
Collection
HS/Stone House Library
Series
Frank McCourt's Memoirs (1)
Barcode
10224
Status
Available
Call number
920

JAMES HERRIOT'S CAT STORIES

by James Herriot
Hardcover, 1994
Tags
Cats, Autobiography, Biography, Short Stories, Veterinarians, *England, Yorkshire, Cats Stories, Pets, Memoir, Animal Stories — 2 more, Author's B-Day in October, INVENTORY LS 2022_23
Collection
LS/FICTION [F]
Series
All Creatures Great and Small - US (Stories)
Barcode
254
Status
Available

Who Was Marco Polo?

by Joan Holub
Paperback, 2007
Tags
(921) BIOGRAPHY, Biography, History, Explorers, 7th Grade Curriculum: Explorers, Marco Polo, *Italy, *China, INVENTORY LS 2022_23, PURCHASED_ACQUIRED in 2022-23, who was_series — 2 more, Small Green Dot, Short Biography (Small Green Dot)
Collection
LS/GENERAL [#]
Series
Who Was ...? (Who HQ) (27)
Barcode
6860
Status
Available

Wild Women of Michigan: A History of Spunk and Tenacity

by Norma Lewis
Paperback, 2017
Tags
PURCHASED_ACQUIRED in 2022-23, INVENTORY LS 2022_23, Women, Women's History, *Michigan, History, MICHIGAN_HISTORY, (900) GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY, (970) HISTORY_NORTH AMERICA
Collection
LS/GENERAL [#]
Barcode
7040
Status
Available

Menaboni's birds

by Athos Menaboni
Hardcover, 1989
Tags
(590) ANIMALS_ZOOLOGY, (598) BIRDS, Birds, (500) PURE SCIENCE, INVENTORY LS 2022_23, *U.S., Biology
Collection
LS/GENERAL [#]
Barcode
4455
Status
Available

Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times (The Midwife Trilogy)

by Jennifer Worth
Paperback, 2012
Tags
Autobiography, Biography, Childbirth, *England, History, midwife, Midwifery, *London, Memoir, Poverty, Nursing — 4 more, Women, EC new collection 2022_23, INVENTORY LS 2022_23, EC Motherhood
Collection
EC/Parent Library [yellow dot]
Series
Midwife Trilogy (1)
Barcode
6970
Status
Available
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