"Nancy Pelosi is the first woman to serve as Speaker of the House--and she's done it twice. Learn how the most powerful woman in US politics is redefining leadership for future generations"--Provided by publisher.
A biography of the Brazilian soccer star who was tempted out of retirement by an invitation to come to the United States to interest its people in the sport for which he is world-famous.
A biography of the African-American woman who overcame crippling polio as a child to become the first woman to win three gold medals in track in a single Olympics.
the secret history of Koch Industries and corporate power in America
Leonard, Christopher
2019
"Tells the ambitious tale of how one private company [Koch Industries] consolidated power over half a century-and how in doing so, it helped transform capitalism into something that feels deeply alienating to many Americans today"--Amazon.
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.
A brief biography of Brazilian soccer player Pel?, and how he started out as a boy from a poor neighborhood to become a professional soccer player and a national hero in Brazil.
Collects "Soccer" and "Soccer on Sunday" in which Jack and Annie search for the fourth secret of greatness for Merlin the Magician in Mexico City at the 1970 World Cup Games where they hope to learn something new from soccer player great, Pele.
