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Belle Starr : the truth behind the Wild West legend / Michael Wallis.
Wallis, Michael,
Branch: 0018
Call Number: B Sta Collection: TX
ISBN: 9781631494772 :
Pub. Info: New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2025.
Target Audience: Ages 14 & Up. Grades 9 & Up.
In the annals of legendary Wild West desperadoes, Belle Starr is remembered to this day as the Bandit Queen. Shortly after her murder in 1889, a highly romanticized, sensational book titled Bella Starr... The Bandit Queen, or the Female Jesse James was published -- the first in a series of high-profile portraits to brand Starr as a villain. Now, celebrated author Michael Wallis parses over a century of mythmaking to reveal the woman behind the renegade legend. Wielding compelling research, including correspondence, official records, and contemporary newspaper accounts, Wallis traces Starr's beginnings to Carthage, Missouri, where she was born Myra Maibelle Shirley in 1848 and was classically educated to be a Southern belle. Myra's early years were characterized by the chaotic violence of the Civil War -- she was traumatized by the death of her brother, who was killed riding with "bushwhackers," one of the many insurgent guerrilla groups supporting the Confederate Army. From then on, she swore revenge against all Yankees and became a willing "friend to any brave and gallant outlaw." The crimes committed by Starr's innermost circle -- stagecoach stickups, bank robbery, horse theft -- would take her from war-torn Carthage to rollicking Scyene, Texas, until she finally settled in Indian Territory (present Oklahoma). And although Starr indeed ran in the same circles as notorious outlaws Jesse James and the Younger brothers, the crimes ascribed to her were greatly embellished -- including the fact that the allegedly bloodthirsty Starr more than likely never killed a single person. Turning a redemptive eye to Belle Starr's tarnished legacy, Wallis crafts an illuminating portrait of a woman demonized for refusing to accept the genteel Victorian ideals expected of her, a woman who chose instead to live her life outside the law, riding sidesaddle with a pearl-handled Colt .45 strapped to her hip. -- Provided by publisher
Wallis, Michael,
Branch: 0018
Call Number: B Sta Collection: TX
ISBN: 9781631494772 :
Pub. Info: New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2025.
Target Audience: Ages 14 & Up. Grades 9 & Up.
In the annals of legendary Wild West desperadoes, Belle Starr is remembered to this day as the Bandit Queen. Shortly after her murder in 1889, a highly romanticized, sensational book titled Bella Starr... The Bandit Queen, or the Female Jesse James was published -- the first in a series of high-profile portraits to brand Starr as a villain. Now, celebrated author Michael Wallis parses over a century of mythmaking to reveal the woman behind the renegade legend. Wielding compelling research, including correspondence, official records, and contemporary newspaper accounts, Wallis traces Starr's beginnings to Carthage, Missouri, where she was born Myra Maibelle Shirley in 1848 and was classically educated to be a Southern belle. Myra's early years were characterized by the chaotic violence of the Civil War -- she was traumatized by the death of her brother, who was killed riding with "bushwhackers," one of the many insurgent guerrilla groups supporting the Confederate Army. From then on, she swore revenge against all Yankees and became a willing "friend to any brave and gallant outlaw." The crimes committed by Starr's innermost circle -- stagecoach stickups, bank robbery, horse theft -- would take her from war-torn Carthage to rollicking Scyene, Texas, until she finally settled in Indian Territory (present Oklahoma). And although Starr indeed ran in the same circles as notorious outlaws Jesse James and the Younger brothers, the crimes ascribed to her were greatly embellished -- including the fact that the allegedly bloodthirsty Starr more than likely never killed a single person. Turning a redemptive eye to Belle Starr's tarnished legacy, Wallis crafts an illuminating portrait of a woman demonized for refusing to accept the genteel Victorian ideals expected of her, a woman who chose instead to live her life outside the law, riding sidesaddle with a pearl-handled Colt .45 strapped to her hip. -- Provided by publisher
Angelica : for love and country in a time of revolution / Molly Beer.
Beer, Molly,
Branch: 0018
Call Number: B Chu Collection: TX
ISBN: 9781324050216 :
Pub. Info: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2025.
Target Audience: Ages 14 & Up. Grades 9 & Up.
Through the extraordinary life of Angelica Schuyler Church, a politically astute and socially influential figure, this story reveals how women shaped early American history through diplomacy, personal networks and a strategic presence in key revolutionary moments. Few women of the American Revolution have come through 250 years of US history with such clarity and color as Angelica Schuyler Church. She was Alexander Hamilton's "saucy" sister-in-law, and the heart of Thomas Jefferson's "charming coterie" of artists and salonniáeres in Paris. Her transatlantic network of important friends spanned the political spectrum of her time and place, and her astute eye and brilliant letters kept them well informed. A woman of great influence in a time of influential women (Catherine the Great and Marie-Antoinette were contemporaries), Angelica was at the red-hot center of American history at its birth: in Boston, when General Burgoyne surrendered to the revolutionaries; in Newport, receiving French troops under the command of her soon-to-be dear friend Marquis de Lafayette; in Yorktown, just after the decisive battle; in Paris and London, helping to determine the standing of the new nation on the world stage. She was born as Engeltje, a Dutch-speaking, slave-owning colonial girl who witnessed the Stamp Act riots in the Royal British Province of New York. She came of age under English rule as Angelica, the eldest daughter of the most important family on the northern part of Hudson's River, raised to be a domestic diplomat responsible for hosting indigenous chiefs and enemy British generals at dinner. She was Madame Church, wife of a privateer turned merchant banker, whose London house was a refuge for veterans of the American war fleeing the guillotine in France. Across nationalities, languages, and cultures, across the divides of war, grievance, and geography, Angelica wove a web of soft-power connections that spanned the War for Independence, the post-war years of tenuous peace, and the turbulent politics and rival ideologies that threatened to tear apart the nascent United States.
Beer, Molly,
Branch: 0018
Call Number: B Chu Collection: TX
ISBN: 9781324050216 :
Pub. Info: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2025.
Target Audience: Ages 14 & Up. Grades 9 & Up.
Through the extraordinary life of Angelica Schuyler Church, a politically astute and socially influential figure, this story reveals how women shaped early American history through diplomacy, personal networks and a strategic presence in key revolutionary moments. Few women of the American Revolution have come through 250 years of US history with such clarity and color as Angelica Schuyler Church. She was Alexander Hamilton's "saucy" sister-in-law, and the heart of Thomas Jefferson's "charming coterie" of artists and salonniáeres in Paris. Her transatlantic network of important friends spanned the political spectrum of her time and place, and her astute eye and brilliant letters kept them well informed. A woman of great influence in a time of influential women (Catherine the Great and Marie-Antoinette were contemporaries), Angelica was at the red-hot center of American history at its birth: in Boston, when General Burgoyne surrendered to the revolutionaries; in Newport, receiving French troops under the command of her soon-to-be dear friend Marquis de Lafayette; in Yorktown, just after the decisive battle; in Paris and London, helping to determine the standing of the new nation on the world stage. She was born as Engeltje, a Dutch-speaking, slave-owning colonial girl who witnessed the Stamp Act riots in the Royal British Province of New York. She came of age under English rule as Angelica, the eldest daughter of the most important family on the northern part of Hudson's River, raised to be a domestic diplomat responsible for hosting indigenous chiefs and enemy British generals at dinner. She was Madame Church, wife of a privateer turned merchant banker, whose London house was a refuge for veterans of the American war fleeing the guillotine in France. Across nationalities, languages, and cultures, across the divides of war, grievance, and geography, Angelica wove a web of soft-power connections that spanned the War for Independence, the post-war years of tenuous peace, and the turbulent politics and rival ideologies that threatened to tear apart the nascent United States.
Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb / by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin ; adapted by Eric Singer.
Singer, Eric,
Branch: 0018
Call Number: B Opp Collection: TX
ISBN: 9780593856451 :
Pub. Info: New York, New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2025.
Target Audience: Ages 10-13. Grades 5-8. 1010L Lexile.
"Young Readers Edition of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer."--Title page.
"The #1 New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus was the inspiration for the blockbuster film, OPPENHEIMER, and is now adapted for middle school readers"--Provided by publisher.
Singer, Eric,
Branch: 0018
Call Number: B Opp Collection: TX
ISBN: 9780593856451 :
Pub. Info: New York, New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2025.
Target Audience: Ages 10-13. Grades 5-8. 1010L Lexile.
"Young Readers Edition of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer."--Title page.
"The #1 New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus was the inspiration for the blockbuster film, OPPENHEIMER, and is now adapted for middle school readers"--Provided by publisher.
Lincoln's lady spymaster : the untold story of the abolitionist Southern belle who helped win the Civil War / Gerri Willis.
Willis, Gerri,
Branch: 0018
Call Number: B Lew Collection: TX
ISBN: 9780063333659 :
Pub. Info: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publisthers, 2025.
Target Audience: Ages 14 & Up. Grades 9 & Up.
"A historical account of wealthy Southern belle Elizabeth Van Lew, whose espionage for Abraham Lincoln and the Union helped win the Civil War"-- Provided by publisher.
Willis, Gerri,
Branch: 0018
Call Number: B Lew Collection: TX
ISBN: 9780063333659 :
Pub. Info: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publisthers, 2025.
Target Audience: Ages 14 & Up. Grades 9 & Up.
"A historical account of wealthy Southern belle Elizabeth Van Lew, whose espionage for Abraham Lincoln and the Union helped win the Civil War"-- Provided by publisher.
A most perilous world : the true story of the young abolitionists and their crusade against slavery / Kristina R. Gaddy.
Gaddy, Kristina R.,
Branch: 0018
Call Number: 920 Gad Collection: TX
ISBN: 9780593855522 :
Pub. Info: New York, New York : Dutton Books, 2025.
Target Audience: Ages 14 & Up. Grades 9 & Up. 1120L Lexile.
"Kristina R. Gaddy tells the story of America's tumultuous years leading up to the Civil War and of the war itself from the viewpoints of four children of famous abolitionists, including those of Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison. Gaddy crafts a surprisingly contemporary braided coming-of-age narrative, supported by meticulous research and featuring dozens of primary documents. Each of these four young people-two white, two Black-was strongly committed to the anti-slavery cause but felt just as keenly a need to make their own names, away from the often over-protective or disapproving shadows of the famous adults in their lives. This is a true story of how a torch of resistance is passed and how a new generation makes its mark"-- Provided by publisher.
Gaddy, Kristina R.,
Branch: 0018
Call Number: 920 Gad Collection: TX
ISBN: 9780593855522 :
Pub. Info: New York, New York : Dutton Books, 2025.
Target Audience: Ages 14 & Up. Grades 9 & Up. 1120L Lexile.
"Kristina R. Gaddy tells the story of America's tumultuous years leading up to the Civil War and of the war itself from the viewpoints of four children of famous abolitionists, including those of Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison. Gaddy crafts a surprisingly contemporary braided coming-of-age narrative, supported by meticulous research and featuring dozens of primary documents. Each of these four young people-two white, two Black-was strongly committed to the anti-slavery cause but felt just as keenly a need to make their own names, away from the often over-protective or disapproving shadows of the famous adults in their lives. This is a true story of how a torch of resistance is passed and how a new generation makes its mark"-- Provided by publisher.
At last she stood : how Joey Guerrero spied, survived, and fought for freedom / Erin Entrada Kelly.
Kelly, Erin Entrada,
Branch: 0018
Call Number: B Gue Collection: TX
ISBN: 9780063218901 :
Pub. Info: New York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2025.
Target Audience: Ages 10-13. Grades 5-8.
"A biography of the legendary and inspiring Josefina "Joey" Guerrero: World War II spy, Filipina guerrilla fighter, war hero, Medal of Freedom recipient, leprosy survivor, teacher, and peacemaker"--Provided by publisher.
Kelly, Erin Entrada,
Branch: 0018
Call Number: B Gue Collection: TX
ISBN: 9780063218901 :
Pub. Info: New York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2025.
Target Audience: Ages 10-13. Grades 5-8.
"A biography of the legendary and inspiring Josefina "Joey" Guerrero: World War II spy, Filipina guerrilla fighter, war hero, Medal of Freedom recipient, leprosy survivor, teacher, and peacemaker"--Provided by publisher.
Ours to tell : reclaiming indigenous stories / Eldon Yellowhorn ; Kathy Lowinger.
Yellowhorn, Eldon,
Branch: 0018
Call Number: 920 Yel Collection: TX
ISBN: 9781773219530 :
Pub. Info: Toronto : Annick Press, 2025.
Target Audience: Ages 14 & Up. Grades 9 & Up.
"A wide-ranging anthology that shines a light on untold Indigenous stories as chronicled by Indigenous creators, compiled by the acclaimed team behind Turtle Island and Sky Wolf's Call. For too long, stories and artistic expressions from Indigenous people have been written and recorded by others, not by the individuals who have experienced the events. In Ours to Tell, sixteen Indigenous creators relate traditions, accounts of historical events, and their own lived experiences. Novelists, poets, graphic artists, historians, craftspeople, and mapmakers chronicle stories on the struggles and triumphs lived by Indigenous people, and the impact these stories have had on their culture and history. Some of the profiles included are: Indigenous poet E. Pauline Johnson, acclaimed novelist Tommy Orange, brave warrior Standing Bear, poet and activist Rita Joe. With each profile accompanied by rich visuals, from archival photos to contemporary art, Ours to Tell brilliantly spotlights Indigenous life, past and present, through an Indigenous lens. Because each profile gives an historical and cultural context, what emerges is a history of Indigenous people."-- Provided by publisher
Yellowhorn, Eldon,
Branch: 0018
Call Number: 920 Yel Collection: TX
ISBN: 9781773219530 :
Pub. Info: Toronto : Annick Press, 2025.
Target Audience: Ages 14 & Up. Grades 9 & Up.
"A wide-ranging anthology that shines a light on untold Indigenous stories as chronicled by Indigenous creators, compiled by the acclaimed team behind Turtle Island and Sky Wolf's Call. For too long, stories and artistic expressions from Indigenous people have been written and recorded by others, not by the individuals who have experienced the events. In Ours to Tell, sixteen Indigenous creators relate traditions, accounts of historical events, and their own lived experiences. Novelists, poets, graphic artists, historians, craftspeople, and mapmakers chronicle stories on the struggles and triumphs lived by Indigenous people, and the impact these stories have had on their culture and history. Some of the profiles included are: Indigenous poet E. Pauline Johnson, acclaimed novelist Tommy Orange, brave warrior Standing Bear, poet and activist Rita Joe. With each profile accompanied by rich visuals, from archival photos to contemporary art, Ours to Tell brilliantly spotlights Indigenous life, past and present, through an Indigenous lens. Because each profile gives an historical and cultural context, what emerges is a history of Indigenous people."-- Provided by publisher
The daughter of Auschwitz : the girl who lived to tell her story / Tova Friedman.
Friedman, Tova,
Branch: 0018
Call Number: B Fri Collection: TX
ISBN: 9780063381544 :
Pub. Info: New York : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2025.
Target Audience: Ages 10-13. Grades 5-8.
At the tender age of five years old, Tola Grossman was sent to a Nazi labor camp. As World War II was breaking out around them, the only thing Tola and her parents were left with was the instinct to survive at all costs. Tola's life became a series of miraculous close calls, from being saved from a gas chamber to successfully hiding from the Nazis as they were rounding people up. In this evocative account of one young girl's survival, Tova Friedman chronicles the atrocities she witnessed while at Auschwitz and, ultimately, the sources of hope and courage she and her family found to persist against all odds.
Friedman, Tova,
Branch: 0018
Call Number: B Fri Collection: TX
ISBN: 9780063381544 :
Pub. Info: New York : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2025.
Target Audience: Ages 10-13. Grades 5-8.
At the tender age of five years old, Tola Grossman was sent to a Nazi labor camp. As World War II was breaking out around them, the only thing Tola and her parents were left with was the instinct to survive at all costs. Tola's life became a series of miraculous close calls, from being saved from a gas chamber to successfully hiding from the Nazis as they were rounding people up. In this evocative account of one young girl's survival, Tova Friedman chronicles the atrocities she witnessed while at Auschwitz and, ultimately, the sources of hope and courage she and her family found to persist against all odds.
Children of radium : a buried inheritance / Joe Dunthorne.
Dunthorne, Joe,
Branch: 0018
Call Number: B Dun Collection: TX
ISBN: 9781982180751 :
Pub. Info: New York : Scribner, 2025.
Target Audience: Ages 14 & Up Grades 9 & Up.
"Originally published in Great Britain in 2025 by Hamish Hamilton,an imprint of Penguin Books."
"In the tradition of When Time Stopped and The Hare with Amber Eyes, this extraordinary family memoir investigates the dark legacy of the author's great-grandfather, a talented German-Jewish chemist specializing in radioactive household products who wound up developing chemical weapons and gas mask filters for the Nazis. When novelist and poet Joe Dunthorne began researching his family history, he expected to write the account of their heroic escape from Nazi Germany in 1935. Instead, what he found in his great-grandfather's voluminous, unpublished, partially translated memoir was a much darker, more complicated story. "I confess to my descendants who will read these lines that I made a grave error. I betrayed myself, my most sacred principles," he wrote. "I cannot shake off the great debt on my conscience." Siegfried Merzbacher was a German-Jewish chemist living in Oranienburg, a small town north of Berlin, where he developed various household items, including a radioactive toothpaste called Doramad. But then he was asked by the government to work on products with a strong military connection-first he made and tested gas-mask filters, and then he was invited to establish a chemical weapons laboratory. Between 1933 and 1935, he was a Jewish chemist making chemical weapons for the Nazis. While he and his nuclear family escaped safely to Turkey before the war, Siegfried never got over his complicity, particularly after learning that members of his extended family were murdered in Auschwitz. Armed only with his great-grandfather's rambling, 2,000-page deathbed memoir and a handful of archival clues, Dunthorne traveled to Munich, Ammendorf, Berlin, Ankara, and Oranienburg-a place where hundreds of unexploded bombs remain hidden in the irradiated soil-to reckon with the remarkable, unsettling legacy of his family's past"-- Provided by publisher.
Dunthorne, Joe,
Branch: 0018
Call Number: B Dun Collection: TX
ISBN: 9781982180751 :
Pub. Info: New York : Scribner, 2025.
Target Audience: Ages 14 & Up Grades 9 & Up.
"Originally published in Great Britain in 2025 by Hamish Hamilton,an imprint of Penguin Books."
"In the tradition of When Time Stopped and The Hare with Amber Eyes, this extraordinary family memoir investigates the dark legacy of the author's great-grandfather, a talented German-Jewish chemist specializing in radioactive household products who wound up developing chemical weapons and gas mask filters for the Nazis. When novelist and poet Joe Dunthorne began researching his family history, he expected to write the account of their heroic escape from Nazi Germany in 1935. Instead, what he found in his great-grandfather's voluminous, unpublished, partially translated memoir was a much darker, more complicated story. "I confess to my descendants who will read these lines that I made a grave error. I betrayed myself, my most sacred principles," he wrote. "I cannot shake off the great debt on my conscience." Siegfried Merzbacher was a German-Jewish chemist living in Oranienburg, a small town north of Berlin, where he developed various household items, including a radioactive toothpaste called Doramad. But then he was asked by the government to work on products with a strong military connection-first he made and tested gas-mask filters, and then he was invited to establish a chemical weapons laboratory. Between 1933 and 1935, he was a Jewish chemist making chemical weapons for the Nazis. While he and his nuclear family escaped safely to Turkey before the war, Siegfried never got over his complicity, particularly after learning that members of his extended family were murdered in Auschwitz. Armed only with his great-grandfather's rambling, 2,000-page deathbed memoir and a handful of archival clues, Dunthorne traveled to Munich, Ammendorf, Berlin, Ankara, and Oranienburg-a place where hundreds of unexploded bombs remain hidden in the irradiated soil-to reckon with the remarkable, unsettling legacy of his family's past"-- Provided by publisher.
King : a life / Jonathan Eig ; with Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long.
Eig, Jonathan,
Branch: 0018
Call Number: B Kin Collection: TX
ISBN: 9780374393106 :
Pub. Info: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2025.
Target Audience: Ages 14 & Up. Grades 9 & Up.
"A young readers' adaptation of Jonathan Eig's bestselling biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., King: A Life"--Provided by publisher.
Eig, Jonathan,
Branch: 0018
Call Number: B Kin Collection: TX
ISBN: 9780374393106 :
Pub. Info: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2025.
Target Audience: Ages 14 & Up. Grades 9 & Up.
"A young readers' adaptation of Jonathan Eig's bestselling biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., King: A Life"--Provided by publisher.