In this edition, meet great people (and animals) through picture book biographies. Some of these people you’ll have heard of, others may be completely new to you!
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 | Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez – Audiobook Download – $0.47 Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez – Audiobook Download – Author: Kathleen Krull; Narrator: Tavia Gilbert; Format: Audio Book (Digital Audiobook Download) |
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A biography of Cesar Chavez, from age ten when he and his family lived happily on their Arizona ranch, to age thirty-eight when he led a peaceful protest against California migrant workers’ miserable working conditions.
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A stray Labrador named Bella befriends Tarra, a former circus elephant and resident of the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee. While the pairing is unusual, the two are inseparable–even when a crisis threatens to separate them.
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 | Heart and Soul – Audiobook Download – $6.49 Heart and Soul – Audiobook Download – Author: Kadir Nelson; Narrator: Debbie Allen; Format: Audio Book (Digital Audiobook Download) |
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A simple introduction to African-American history, from Revolutionary-era slavery up to the election of President Obama.
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Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA’s African American women mathematicians to America’s space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes.
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 | Joey: The Story of Joe Biden – Audiobook Download – $1.49 Joey: The Story of Joe Biden – Audiobook Download – Author: Jill Biden; Narrator: Jill Biden; Format: Audio Book (Digital Audiobook Download) |
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The wife of former Vice President and presidential candidate Joe Biden recounts his childhood in Scranton, Pennsylvania, his perseverance and leadership from his earliest years, his struggles to overcome stuttering, his relationships with his family, and his political career.
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Discover the incredible story of a young daughter of immigrants who would grow up to defend the rights of people everywhere in this picture book biography of Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Alia Muhammad Baker is a librarian in Basra, Iraq. For fourteen years, her library has been a meeting place for those who love books. Until now. Now war has come, and Alia fears that the library–along with the thirty thousand books within it–will be destroyed forever.
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