2020 – 2021 New Biographies

Bibliography Sorted by Call Number / Author. 92 AND Anderson, Laurie Halse, author. Shout. Presents a memoir in poems from the author about her horrible experience as a thirteen-year-old when she was raped by a boy she trusted, offering poetic narration of what happened and how she found a path to recovery and now works and writes and advocates for other sufferers and survivors of sexual assault of any kind. 92 BAR Barakat, Ibtisam. Balcony on the moon : coming of age in Palestine. 1st ed., 2016. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2016. "Balcony on the Moon follows Ibtisam Barakat through her childhood and adolescence in Palestine from 1972-1981 and chronicles her desire to be a writer"--Provided by publisher. 92 BOW Bowden, Peg, author. A stranger at my door : finding my humanity on the U.S./Mexico border. Part 1. El desierto. The longest night ; Chicago roots ; Chiquita banana ; The journey ; The right thing ; Trust ; Connection ; Hope ; The plan ; Faith ; Hunted ; Free fallin' ; So near, so far ; Awakening ; Detention ; Back to square one ; A real tortilla ; Surviving -- Part 2. Guatemala. Glimmer ; Small miracles ; Welcome ; Fiesta ; A business plan ; Overload ; Spirit ; Questions ; Disparity ; Portrait of a president ; La tienda (the store) ; New life ; A crisis ; Entrepreneur ; Repercussions ; Happy New Year ; Firebird. Memoir of Peg Bowden, a retired nurse who lives near the U.S.-Mexico border, centering on her experiences attempting to help a migrant who appears at the doorstep of her family home in the Sonoran desert. Giving the man food, clothing, and shelter proves difficult in the current politics of what she thinks of as xenophobia and fear. 92 CHA Coy, Cissie. Dennis Chávez : the first Hispanic US Senator. Houston, Tex. : Piñata Books, Arte Público Press, [2017]. A biography of politician Dennis Chávez. Presented in English and Spanish. 92 CON Conley, Garrard, author. Boy erased : a memoir of identity, faith, and family. First Riverhead trade paperback edition. Memoir from Garrard Conley, a son of a Baptist pastor who experienced controversial conversion therapy after his parents found out he was gay. Discusses the program's tactics and the harrowing journey Conley endured to find his true self and learn to forgive those who hurt him. 92 DOR White, Jack McBride, author. In Carrie's footprints : the long walk of Warren Dorsey. The meeting -- The farmer and the nigger -- The education -- Freedom -- The Dorsey machine -- Love and war -- Of the colored persuasion -- All hell -- Smart enough to teach -- The spirit leaving the corpse -- Old radios -- Blue collars and jazz -- Baby, too, can fly -- Long live the king -- The end of the line -- Carrie's footprints -- Epilogue -- Dorsey family tree -- Dorsey family quick facts -- Many thanks. Chronicles the life of Warren Dorsey and his mother Carrie Dorsey while he was growing up in Sykesville, Maryland in the 1920s. Presents the struggles of being an African American in the early twentieth-century and Warren's commitment to overcome his family's poverty. 92 GRA Grande, Reyna, author. A dream called home : a memoir. First Washington Square Press/Atria Paperback edition. At age nine, Reyna crossed the Mexico-America border to seek out her lost family. She was bitterly disappointed to find, however, an indifferent mother and an alcoholic, abusive father. She takes refuge in words and becomes a voracious reader and writer. As she enters college she dreams of becoming a writer, but quickly learns that she doesn't know how to turn her dream into reality. Here, she reflects on her journey from undocumented immigrant to successful writer, and growing up feeling alienated from a culture she tries to hang on to. 92 GRI Grimes, Nikki. Ordinary hazards : a memoir. 1st ed. Honesdale, Pa. : WordSong, an imprint of Highlights, [2019]. "Author and poet Nikki Grimes explores the truth of a harrowing childhood in a compelling and moving memoir in verse"--OCLC. 92 HER Bobrow-Strain, Aaron, 1969- author. The death and life of Aida Hernandez : a border story. First edition. Prologue: the death of Aida Hernandez -- No country for young women -- Girl in a labyrinth -- English without barriers -- A sudden storm -- Miles of wall and no time to sleep -- The new millennium, her own quiet war -- Better living through border security -- Dance steps -- American dreaming -- No country for young women -- Trauma red -- Hunger is worse -- Madera -- Exile and belonging -- La roca -- The railroad yard -- The black palace -- Trauma red -- Slipknot -- Lucky Ema -- All the monsters at once -- The healer -- Leaving the world and fighting to rejoin it -- The "Show me your papers" state -- What care can do -- Slipknot -- Going away to come back -- Ema's journey -- The underworld -- Aida's voice -- Aida and Ema -- Going away to come back -- To Battery Park -- Epilogue: the life of Aida Hernandez. Explores the life of Aida hernandez, who was born in Agua Prieta, Mexico, in 1987, a border town whose fence separating Mexico and the United States was in disrepair. Aida's mother took her and her siblings across eight years later to live in Douglas, Arizona, and the border became heavily policed. Aida was undocumented in the U.S., but she learned English, watched the show "Friends," and tried to fit in as best she could until she had a baby at sixteen, and a misstep led to her deportation. Aida found herself back in a violent Mexican city, separated form her child. She determined to survive and make her way back to the United States. 92 LIN Fleming, Candace. The rise and fall of Charles Lindbergh. 1st ed. New York : Schwartz & Wade Books, [2020]. "A biography of one of America's most celebrated heroes, and most complicated, troubled men, Charles Lindbergh"--. 92 MUH Muhammad, Ibtihaj, 1985-. Proud : living my American dream. Young readers ed. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2018. An autobiography of the Olympic fencer, Ibthihaj Muhammad,and how she became the first American woman to compete in the Olympics wearing a hijab. 92 SHE Judge, Lita. Mary's monster : love, madness, and how Mary Shelley created Frankenstein. 1st ed., 2018. New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2018. An illustrated biography of the life of English novelist Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. 92 STE Stevenson, Bryan, author. : a story of justice and redemption. 2019 Spiegel & Grau trade paperback edition. Chronicles a young lawyer's founding of the , a legal practice committed to defending the poor, women and children, and the wrongly condemned, and the ways in which he was transformed by his first case, that of a man sentenced to die for a murder he claimed he didn't commit. 92 STE Stevenson, Bryan. Just mercy : adapted for young adults : a true story of the fight for justice. 1st Ember ed. New York : Ember, 2019. " details from his personal experience his many challenges and efforts as a lawyer and social advocate, especially on behalf of America's most marginalized people"--Provided by publisher. 92 TAK Takei, George, 1937-. They called us enemy. Marietta, GA : Top Shelf Productions, [2019]. Actor, author, and activist George Takei recounts his childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps for Japanese Americans during World War II and the impact the experience had on his later life.