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"Michelle 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...
2) Becoming
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English
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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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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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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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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"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...
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The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Often photographed in a cowboy hat with her middle finger held defiantly in the air, Florynce "Flo" Kennedy (1916–2000) left a vibrant legacy as a leader of the Black Power and feminist movements. In the first biography of Kennedy, Sherie M. Randolph traces the life and political influence of this strikingly bold and controversial radical activist. Rather than simply reacting to the predominantly white feminist movement, Kennedy brought the lessons...
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Grosset & Dunlap, An Imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
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Presents the life and accomplishments of the First Lady of the United States, from her childhood in Chicago and her career as a lawyer to her marriage to Barack Obama and her initiatives in the White House.
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Plaza Janés
Pub. Date
2018.
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Español
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Una memoria íntima de la ex Primera Dama narra las experiencias que han dado forma a su extraordinaria vida, desde su infancia en el lado sur de Chicago hasta sus reveses y logros en la Casa Blanca.
An intimate memoir by the former First Lady chronicles the experiences that have shaped her remarkable life, from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago through her setbacks and achievements in the White House.
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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 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 of...
10) Michelle Obama
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Abdo Zoom
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"Learn all about US First Lady Michelle Obama and how she supported healthy living. Engaging photos and easy-to read text take readers into her story. Plus, quick stats, key dates, and bolded glossary terms make it easy to zoom in even deeper. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards."--Publisher's website.
12) The inheritance
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Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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A widowed attorney, still stinging from her late husband’s infidelities, returns home to the Garden District in New Orleans and convinces three of her friends to help her turn her family’s 200 year-old DuPont House into an inn.
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Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Stacey Abrams began her career in politics at the age of seventeen when she was hired as a typist for a congressional campaign. From there, she worked hard to get into Yale law school and, eventually, was elected into the House of Representatives. In 2018, she became the first Black woman in the United States to be a major party's nominee for governor when she was selected as the Democratic candidate. Although she didn't win that race, she decided...
15) Michelle Obama
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Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
Español
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"Simple text and photographs describe the life of Michelle Obama--in both English and Spanish"--
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Highway 61 Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In Michlle Obama 2024, filmmaker Joel Gilbert takes a deep dive into the life of the most popular woman in America. Gilbert's investigation takes him from Chicago to Princeton to Martha's Vineyard. He learns that Michelle's official life story if nothing like she claims, and that she has spent her life both running from and selling out the Black community. He also discovers that Michelle has been preparing to run for President by following the same...
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Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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This YA biography of the former First Lady considers her journey from Chicago to the White House in the larger context of African American history.
Michelle Obama grew up on Chicago's South Side, and while the world outside her door was chaotic and ever-changing, her family provided a stable environment in which she could grow and flourish. This biography of the former First Lady shows how a girl from a working class...
Michelle Obama grew up on Chicago's South Side, and while the world outside her door was chaotic and ever-changing, her family provided a stable environment in which she could grow and flourish. This biography of the former First Lady shows how a girl from a working class...