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1) Becoming
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
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Description
"An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States. When she was a little girl, Michelle Robinson's world was the South Side of Chicago, where she and her brother, Craig, shared a bedroom in their family's upstairs apartment and played catch in the park, and where her parents, Fraser and Marian Robinson, raised her to be outspoken and unafraid. But life soon look her much further afield, from the halls of Princeton,...
Author
Series
Innkeepers (Rochelle Alers) volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Corporate attorney Hannah DuPont-Lowell always pictured herself returning to New Orleans to retire-just not yet. But after her Manhattan company abruptly lays off its staff, there's no better place to figure out a next move than the porch of her plantation-style home.
Author
Language
English
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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Series
Publisher
Harlequin Kimani
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Betrayed by his fiancée, self-made billionaire Chance Castillo plans to sue his ex for her share of their million-dollar wedding. His unexpected attraction to his beautiful, brilliant new attorney sure takes his mind off his troubles. But Ngozi Johns has an ironclad rule: she never dates a client. Ngozi got where she is by following her own guidelines. Until one hot, steamy night with the gorgeous Dominican changes everything.
Author
Series
Notorious novels (Kiki Swinson) volume 3
Publisher
Melodrama Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Yoshi Lomax finds herself caught up in a ruthless power struggle that could end on the other side of the bars. Using her keen skills to outsmart her opponents has never been a problem for Yoshi, but with a new man by her side and new tests to endure, Yoshi must use her talents in new ways to defeat the chaos. She soon finds herself in yet another dilemma, where bodies are surfacing and drama seems to be the only thing on the menu. Amid all this turmoil,...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The late Civil Rights attorney and activist shares a poignant moment from her childhood beside her wise grandmother, who taught Roundtree the values of self-worth, strength and justice that inspired the co-author's boundary-breaking career.
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A prophetic memoir by the activist who "articulated the intellectual foundations" (The New Yorker) of the civil rights and women's rights movements. Poet, memoirist, labor organizer, and Episcopal priest, Pauli Murray helped transform the law of the land. Arrested in 1940 for sitting in the whites-only section of a Virginia bus, Murray propelled that life-defining event into a Howard law degree and a fight against "Jane Crow" sexism. Her legal brilliance...
10) Torn by the code
Author
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Authentic and gripping, Eureka debuts with a poignant novel about one woman's climb to success and those ready to pull her right back down. "Elana Dolvan lived through a treacherous childhood in Chicago, and wants to be more than another 'hood life' statistic, so she sets her sights on the top. Elana works her way up the steep ladder of white collar success, achieving one of the most impressive careers in her family's history. She becomes a powerful...
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Publisher
Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
This volume for young people is an honest and fascinating account of Michelle Obama's life led by example. She shares her views on how all young people can help themselves as well as help others, no matter their status in life. She asks readers to realize that no one is perfect, and that the process of becoming is what matters, as finding yourself is ever evolving. In telling her story with boldness, she asks young readers: Who are you, and what do...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Kimani
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A taste of passion: The exquisite night Maya North spends with a seductive stranger is the perfect prelude to her new life in Paris as co-owner of a French vineyard. Unitl she discovers that her mystery lover is her new business partner, Nicolas Rayo and he's trying to buy her out. That's when the LA corpporate consultant decides it's war-- even if her heart says Nic's the one... Ambitious seduction : Heir to his family's international empire, Leonardo...
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Language
English
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"She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could imagine in the New York of the 1930s--and without the strategy she devised, Lucky Luciano, the most powerful Mafia boss in history, would never have been convicted. When special prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey selected twenty lawyers to help him clean up the city's underworld, she was the only member...
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Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In this imaginatively illustrated book from the Work It, Girl series, discover how Michelle became an inspirational leader, FLOTUS, lawyer, author, and role model in this true story of her life. Then, learn 10 key lessons from her work you can apply to your own life. Michelle Obama grew up on the South Side of Chicago in a little bungalow with a close-knit family. She loved going to school, and she knew that, one day, she would use her voice to empower...
16) Michelle Obama
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Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an Imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As the first African American first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama has had a big role to fill. Readers will follow Obama's journey from her childhood in Chicago to her work as a lawyer and her achievements in the White House. They will also learn how she helped with her husband's political career and helped him win presidential elections in 2008 and 2012.
Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Independent, stunning, and smart, Kell Jameson has the life she's always dreamed about. A partner at a tony Atlanta law firm that represents famous--if guilty--clients, she's far from her days as a lonely orphan in rural Georgia. But one frantic phone call will bring her back to the place she's spent years trying to escape. The head of her childhood orphanage has been accused of murder, and Kell is her only hope for freedom. From the first moment...
18) Michelle Obama
Author
Series
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The My Itty-Bitty Bio series are biographies for the earliest readers. This book examines the life of Michelle Obama in a simple, age-appropriate way that will help children develop word recognition and reading skills. Includes a table of contents, author biography, timeline, glossary, index, and other informative backmatter"--
19) Michelle Obama
Author
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Language
English
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Description
"In this fast-paced thriller, Wanda M. Morris crafts a twisty mystery about a black lawyer who gets in over her head after the sudden death of her boss. A debut perfect for fans of Attica Locke, Alyssa Cole, Harlan Coben, and Celeste Ng, with shades of How to Get Away with Murder and John Grisham's The Firm. Everyone has something to hide... Ellice Littlejohn seemingly has it all: an Ivy League law degree, a well-paying job as a corporate attorney...
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