
The Recommended Readings for May and June highlight authors that shaped global awareness through self-expression or research.
The Autobiographies and Primary Voices section focuses on authors around the globe who wrote about their life-experience and earned support beyond their local communities or governments. Oral histories, speeches, and collections of primary documents are also included the reading selection.
Additional sections highlight authors who influenced global awareness through fiction, interpretation, or extensive research. All book or DVD titles in the display can be reviewed by scrolling down.
Highlighted : Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
A life on our planet : my witness statement and a vision for the future
A two-spirit journey : the autobiography of a lesbian Ojibwa-Cree elder
A woman soldier's own story : the autobiography of Xie Bingying
An autobiography, or, The story of my experiments with truth
Angela Davis--an autobiography.
Ansel Adams, an autobiography
Becoming
Behind the Urals : an American worker in Russia's city of steel
Colonial entanglement : constituting a twenty-first-century Osage nation
Daring to drive : a Saudi woman's awakening
Fifth Chinese daughter
Helga's Diary : a young girl's account of life in a concentration camp
Hidden treasures : lives of first-generation Korean women in Japan
I am Malala : the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban
If it's not impossible-- : the life of Sir Nicholas Winton
In the shadow of man
Joothan
Kaffir boy : the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in Apartheid South Africa
Keep your airspeed up : the story of a Tuskegee airman
Long walk to freedom with Connections : the autobiography of Nelson Mandela
Los cuatro acuerdos : una guía práctica para la libertad personal
Mom and me and mom
My Life, My Love, My Legacy
My beloved world
Night
Nomad girl : my life on the gibber plains and beyond
Prague winter : a personal story of remembrance and war, 1937-1948
Red Tail captured, Red Tail free : memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman and POW
Rosa Parks : my story
Speaking while female : 75 extraordinary speeches by American women
Stride toward freedom : the Montgomery story
Talking back to civilization : Indian voices from the Progressive Era
The collected papers of Albert Einstein : English translation
The Downing Street years
The diary of a young girl : the definitive edition
The four agreements : a practical guide to personal freedom
The girl with seven names : a North Korean defector's story
The home I worked to make : voices from the new Syrian diaspora
The outcaste = Akkarmashi
The truth about stories : a native narrative
The weave of my life : a Dalit woman's memoirs
Thinking in pictures : and other reports from my life with autism
We are displaced : my journey and stories from refugee girls around the world
We crossed a bridge and it trembled : voices from Syria
What happened to you? : conversations on trauma, resilience, and healing
What I know for sure
Wild swans : three daughters of China
Castle in the sky
Ponyo
Porco Rosso
Spirited away
The wind rises
Dereliction of duty : Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the lies that led to Vietnam
Gulag : a history
Killers of the flower moon : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI
Labour and the Left in the 1930s
Musical echoes : South African women thinking in jazz
Stalinist perpetrators on trial : scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine
The paradox of Ukrainian Lviv : a borderland city between Stalinists, Nazis, and nationalists
Why we serve : Native Americans in the United States Armed Forces
The worst hard time : the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl
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Egan, Timothy
Women and climate change in Bangladesh
A pipe for February : a novel
All God's children need traveling shoes
An anthology of contemporary Russian women poets
Mãn
Ru
The collected poems of Langston Hughes
The woman warrior : memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts
Vi
Darkest hour
Jazz
The Post
The national parks : America's best idea
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