Angelina Jolie
A biography of American actress Angelina Jolie, covering her upbringing, education, relationships, work in various films, and efforts as a human rights advocate, with illustrations, a chronology, and more.
920
year: 2009
copies: 3
call number/section: 920
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Beyonc? Knowles
A biography of American performer, music producer, and video director Beyonc? Knowles, covering her upbringing, success in the entertainment industry, participation in various commercial and philanthropic ventures, and role as a cultural icon.
920
year: 2009
copies: 3
call number/section: 920
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Jerry Garcia
A biography of rock guitarist Jerry Garcia, one of the original founders of the band The Grateful Dead, discussing his family and youth, the progression of his music career, his drug use, and other details of his personal life.
920
year: 2009
copies: 1
call number/section: 920
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Miley Cyrus
A brief biography of singer and actress, Miley Cyrus, that chronicles her personal and professional life and career.
920
year: 2009
copies: 3
call number/section: 920
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subjects: cyrus, miley, singers, television actors and actresses, motion picture actors and actresses
Bram Stoker
Biography of the author of "Dracula, " detailing his role as the manager of London's Lyceum Theatre, his cultivation of actor Henry Irving, and exploring the link between Stoker's life and his fiction.
920
year: 2002
copies: 5
call number/section: 920
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subjects: stoker, bram, novelists, english, theatrical managers, theaters, theater, dracula, count (fictitious character)
Florence Nightingale
A biography of the nurse and women's rights advocate who spent her life trying to improve medical standards.
920
year: 1999
copies: 20
call number/section: 920
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Marie Curie
A biography of the scientist who discovered radium and won two Nobel Prizes.
920
year: 1999
copies: 15
call number/section: 920
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Thomas Edison
A biography of the man who invented the phonograph, the electric light bulb, and the motion picture and patented 1,093 inventions.
920
year: 1999
copies: 17
call number/section: 920
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Young Davy Crockett
A biography of Davy Crockett, focusing on his childhood years and how he grew to be a freedom fighter at the Alamo.
921
year: 1996
copies: 2
call number/section: 921
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Andrew Jackson
A brief biography of the seventh president of the United States.
920
year: 1996
copies: 15
call number/section: 920
lexile: 620
Booker T. Washington
A brief biography of the man who was born a slave and worked in salt mines as a youth but went on to become a national leader for the education of African-Americans and founder of Tuskegee Institute.
920
year: 1997
copies: 21
call number/section: 920
lexile: 520
George Washington Carver
A brief biography of the African-American scientist who overcame tremendous hardship to make unusual and important discoveries in the field of agriculture.
920
year: 1997
copies: 22
call number/section: 920
lexile: 510
subjects: carver, george washington, african american agriculturists, agriculturists, african americans
John F. Kennedy
A brief biography of the thirty-fifth president of the United States.
920
year: 1996
copies: 21
call number/section: 920
lexile: 570
Malcolm X
A biography of the Black Muslim who became a leader of a movement to unite black people throughout the world.
920
year: 1998
copies: 11
call number/section: 920
lexile: 490
Theodore Roosevelt
A brief biography of the twenty-sixth president of the United States.
920
year: 1996
copies: 18
call number/section: 920
lexile: 570