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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 29
Language
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...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Lina Sparrow, an ambitious lawyer working on a class-action lawsuit seeking reparations for the descendants of American slaves, learns that the art of revered painter Lu Anne Bell is suspected to be that of her house slave, Josephine, and seeks a descendant of Josephine to join the lawsuit.
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Language
English
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A hysterical phone call from Henry Archer's ex-wife and a familiar face in a photograph upend his well ordered life and bring him back into contact with the child he adored, a short-term stepdaughter from a misbegotten marriage long ago. Henry is a lawyer, an old fashioned man, gay, successful, and lonely. Thalia is now 28, a hopeful actress, estranged from her newly widowed crackpot mother-Denise, Henry's ex. Hoping it will lead to better things...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Born to an aspirational blue-collar family during the Great Depression, Constance Baker Motley was expected to find herself a good career as a hair dresser. Instead, she became the first black woman to argue a case in front of the Supreme Court, the first of ten she would eventually argue. The only black woman member in the legal team at the NAACP's Inc. Fund at the time, she defended Martin Luther King in Birmingham, helped to argue in Brown vs....
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