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Bellevue - Adult Biography
B O121b
1 available
B O121b
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Bordeaux - Adult Biography
B O121b
2 available
B O121b
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Donelson - Adult Biography
B O121b
1 available
B O121b
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Bellevue - Adult Large Print
B O121b Large Type
1 available
B O121b Large Type
1 available
Bordeaux - Adult Large Print
B O121b Large Type
1 available
B O121b Large Type
1 available
Edgehill - Adult Large Print
B O121b Large Type
1 available
B O121b Large Type
1 available
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Bellevue - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO B O121b
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CD AUDIO B O121b
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Donelson - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO B O121b
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CD AUDIO B O121b
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East - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO B O121b
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CD AUDIO B O121b
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Description
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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Edmondson Pike - Adult Biography
B P2183b
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B P2183b
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Madison - Adult Biography
B P2183b
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B P2183b
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Main Library - Adult Biography
B P2183b
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B P2183b
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"When Alexi Pappas was four years old, her mother committed suicide, drastically altering the course of Pappas's life and setting her on a perpetual search for female role models. When her father started signing her up for sports teams as a way to keep his bereaved daughter busy, female athletes became some of the first women Pappas looked up to, and she became a girl with a goal: to be an Olympian. Despite setbacks and hardships, Pappas held fast...
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Biography
B J761u
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B J761u
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Green Hills - Adult Biography
B J761u
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B J761u
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Memoir of former Miss World winner as well as producer and actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas. Takes readers from Priyanka's childhood in India, up through her formative and often lonely teenage years in the United States, to how she returned to India and began her career in pageantry, up through how she won Miss World and became an actress.
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Bordeaux - Teen Biography
YA B H8931o
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YA B H8931o
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Hadley Park - Teen Biography
YA B H8931o
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YA B H8931o
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Madison - Teen Biography
YA B H8931o
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YA B H8931o
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In Akilah Hughes's world, family--and life--are often complicated, but always funny. Through intimate and hilarious essays, Akilah takes readers along on her journey from the small Kentucky town where she was born--and eventually became a spelling bee champ and 15-year-old high school graduate--to New York City, where she took careful steps to fulfill her dream of becoming a writer and performer. Like Tiffany Haddish's The Last Black Unicorn or Mindy...
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Harvey Award Nominee, Best Children or Young Adult Book
A powerful and moving teen graphic novel memoir about immigration, belonging, and how arts can save a life—perfect for fans of American Born Chinese and Hey, Kiddo.
For as long as she can remember, it's been Robin and her mom against the world. Growing up as the only child of a single mother in Seoul,
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Green Hills - Adult Non-Fiction
818.5409 A584ai 2009
1 available
818.5409 A584ai 2009
1 available
Inglewood - Adult Non-Fiction
818.5409 A584ai 2009
1 available
818.5409 A584ai 2009
1 available
Main Library - Adult Non-Fiction
818.5409 A584ai 1993
1 available
818.5409 A584ai 1993
1 available
Checked Out
5 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
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Bellevue - Adult Audiobook
PLAYAWAY 818.5409 A584i
1 available
PLAYAWAY 818.5409 A584i
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Bellevue - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO 818.5409 A584i
1 available
CD AUDIO 818.5409 A584i
1 available
Bordeaux - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO 818.5409 A584i
1 available
CD AUDIO 818.5409 A584i
1 available
East - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO 818.5409 A584i
1 available
CD AUDIO 818.5409 A584i
1 available
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Main - Upon Request - Adult Book Club In A Bag
Book Club in a Bag
1 available
Book Club in a Bag
1 available
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"Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey,...
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Checked Out
9 copies, 51 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
9 copies, 51 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
12 copies, 53 people are on the wait list.
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"From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean-American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up the...
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Donelson - Adult Biography
B W536e
1 available
B W536e
1 available
East - Adult Biography
B W536e
1 available
B W536e
1 available
Goodlettsville - Adult Biography
B W536e
2 available
B W536e
2 available
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Bellevue - Adult Large Print
B W536e Large Type
1 available
B W536e Large Type
1 available
Donelson - Adult Large Print
B W536e Large Type
1 available
B W536e Large Type
1 available
Goodlettsville - Adult Large Print
B W536e Large Type
1 available
B W536e Large Type
1 available
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Bellevue - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO B W536e
2 available
CD AUDIO B W536e
2 available
Donelson - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO B W536e
1 available
CD AUDIO B W536e
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO B W536e
2 available
CD AUDIO B W536e
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"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure...
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Bellevue - Kids Biography
jB Y82i
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jB Y82i
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Donelson - Kids Biography
jB Y82i
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jB Y82i
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Hermitage - Kids Biography
jB Y82i
1 available
jB Y82i
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Bordeaux - Kids Audiobook
PLAYAWAY jB Y82i
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PLAYAWAY jB Y82i
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East - Kids Audiobook
PLAYAWAY jB Y82i
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PLAYAWAY jB Y82i
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Green Hills - Kids Audiobook
PLAYAWAY jB Y82i
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PLAYAWAY jB Y82i
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"I Am Malala. This is my story. Malala Yousafzai was only ten years old when the Taliban took control of her region. They said music was a crime. They said women weren't allowed to go to the market. They said girls couldn't go to school. Raised in a once-peaceful area of Pakistan transformed by terrorism, Malala was taught to stand up for what she believes. So she fought for her right to be educated. And on October 9, 2012, she nearly lost her life...
10) Bossypants
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Bellevue - Adult Biography
B F433b
1 available
B F433b
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East - Adult Biography
B F433b
1 available
B F433b
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Goodlettsville - Adult Biography
B F433b
1 available
B F433b
1 available
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Green Hills - Adult Large Print
B F433b Large Type
2 available
B F433b Large Type
2 available
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Inglewood - Adult Audiobook
PLAYAWAY B F433b
1 available
PLAYAWAY B F433b
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Southeast - Adult Audiobook
PLAYAWAY B F433b
1 available
PLAYAWAY B F433b
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Edgehill - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO B F433b
1 available
CD AUDIO B F433b
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Richland Park - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO B F433b
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CD AUDIO B F433b
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Description
From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon, comedian Tina Fey reveals all, and proves that you're no one until someone calls you bossy.
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Bellevue - Kids Non-Fiction
j338.04 U43b
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j338.04 U43b
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Edmondson Pike - Kids Non-Fiction
j338.04 U43b
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j338.04 U43b
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Fifteen-year-old lemonade entrepreneur Mikaila Ulmer discusses how she became an entrepreneur at the age of four and why bee conservation became an important part of her business plan. Ulmer details how her business has taken her on "Shark Tank" and to the Obama White House, and she offers other kids tips for pursuing their passions.
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Biography
B M9523p
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B M9523p
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Green Hills - Adult Biography
B M9523p
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B M9523p
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Growing up in New Jersey as the only African American Muslim at school, Ibtihaj Muhammad always had to find her own way. When she discovered fencing, a sport traditionally reserved for the wealthy, she had to defy expectations and make a place for herself in a sport she grew to love.
From winning state championships to three-time All-America selections at Duke University, Ibtihaj was poised for success, but the fencing community wasn't ready...
From winning state championships to three-time All-America selections at Duke University, Ibtihaj was poised for success, but the fencing community wasn't ready...
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Bellevue - Teen Biography
YA B G4935o
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YA B G4935o
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Edmondson Pike - Teen Biography
YA B G4935o
2 available
YA B G4935o
2 available
Main Library - Teen Biography
YA B G4935o
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YA B G4935o
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"The life and career of the fiercely principled Supreme Court Justice, now a popular icon, with dramatic accounts of herlandmark cases that moved the needle on legal protection of human rights, illustrated with b/w archival photographs"--
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Green Hills - Adult Non-Fiction
347.732634 R8131c
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347.732634 R8131c
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Hermitage - Adult Non-Fiction
347.732634 R8131c
1 available
347.732634 R8131c
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This is a remarkable and unique book, an informal portrait of Justice Ginsburg, drawing on a series of her conversations with Rosen, starting in the 1990s and continuing through the Trump era. Rosen, a veteran legal journalist, scholar, and president of the National Constitution Center, shares with readers the justice's observations on a variety of topics, and her intellect, compassion, sense of humor, and humanity shine through.
15) My own words
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Donelson - Adult Biography
B G4935m
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B G4935m
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Biography
B G4935m
1 available
B G4935m
1 available
Goodlettsville - Adult Biography
B G4935m
1 available
B G4935m
1 available
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Bellevue - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO B G4935m
1 available
CD AUDIO B G4935m
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO B G4935m
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CD AUDIO B G4935m
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"The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993--a witty, engaging, serious, and playful collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had a powerful and enduring influence on law, women's rights, and popular culture. My Own Words is a selection of writings and speeches by Justice Ginsburg on wide-ranging topics, including gender equality, the workways of the Supreme Court, on being Jewish, on law...
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Bordeaux - Kids Non-Fiction
j305.23089 D541m
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j305.23089 D541m
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Main Library - Kids Non-Fiction
j305.23089 D541m
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j305.23089 D541m
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Pruitt - Kids Non-Fiction
j305.23089 D541m
1 available
j305.23089 D541m
1 available
Description
In this accessible "keep-it-real" guide, Marley explores activism, social justice, volunteerism, equity and inclusion, and using social media for good. Drawing from her experience, Marley shows kids how they can galvanize their strengths to make positive changes in their communities, while getting support from parents, teachers, and friends to turn dreams into reality.
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Richland Park - Kids World Language
jB S7185p
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jB S7185p
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Southeast - Kids World Language
jB S7185p
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jB S7185p
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Thompson Lane - Kids World Language
jB S7185p
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jB S7185p
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"A Spanish translation of the picture book autobiography of Sonia Sotomayor, Turning Pages"--
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Goodlettsville - Kids Biography
jB S7185t
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jB S7185t
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Green Hills - Kids Biography
jB S7185t
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jB S7185t
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Main Library - Kids Biography
jB S7185t
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jB S7185t
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"As the first Latina Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor has inspired young people around the world to reach for their dreams. But what inspired her? For young Sonia, the answer was books! They were her mirrors, her maps, her friends, and her teachers. They helped her to connect with her family in New York and in Puerto Rico, to deal with her diabetes diagnosis, to cope with her father's death, to uncover the secrets of the world, and to dream...
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Biography
B H3148t
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B H3148t
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Green Hills - Adult Biography
B H3148t
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B H3148t
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Hermitage - Adult Biography
B H3148t
1 available
B H3148t
1 available
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Goodlettsville - Adult Large Print
B H3148t Large Type
1 available
B H3148t Large Type
1 available
Main Library - Adult Large Print
B H3148t Large Type
1 available
B H3148t Large Type
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Description
Senator Kamala Harris's commitment to speaking truth is informed by her upbringing. The daughter of immigrants, she was raised in an Oakland, California community that cared deeply about social justice; her parents--an esteemed economist from Jamaica and an admired cancer researcher from India--met as activists in the civil rights movement when they were graduate students at Berkeley. Growing up, Harris herself never hid her passion for justice, and...
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Bordeaux - Kids Biography
jB H3148t
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jB H3148t
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Thompson Lane - Kids Biography
jB H3148t
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jB H3148t
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Description
Now adapted for young readers, Senator Kamala Harris's empowering memoir about the values and inspirations that guided her life. The autobiographical memoir of the first woman, African American, and South Asian American to become attorney general of the State of California, and the second black woman ever elected to the United States Senate. Harris discusses the impact that her family and community had on her life, and how she came to discover her...