'biographies'

Synthesizer Petting Zoo

Thurs, Feb 26 @ 6:00 pm

All Ages // Hands-on electronic music fun with special guest UND Librarian Alfred Wallace. Come explore a zoo unlike any other: where the animals bleep, bloop, and buzz!

This Thing Called Life

by Neal Karlen 

BIO -Arts -Music - PRINCE   

A warm and surprisingly real-life biography, featuring never-before-seen photos, of one of rock’s greatest talents: Prince. Neal Karlen was the only journalist Prince granted in-depth press interviews to for over a dozen years, from before Purple Rain to when the artist changed his name to an unpronounceable glyph. 

The Beatles Anthology

781.66 BEATLES 

What a book The Beatles Anthology is! Each page is brimming with personal stories and rare vintage images. Snapshots from their family collections take us back to the days when John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Richard Starkey were just boys growing up in Liverpool. They talk in turn about those early years and how they came to join the band that would make them known around the world as John, Paul, George and Ringo.  

Taylor Swift: the stories behind the songs

by Annie Zaleski 

 BIO -Arts -Music – SWIFT 

From her humble beginnings as a teenage country singer to her record-breaking Eras Tour, Taylor Swift’s career is incomparable both in her mastery over multiple genres and the pure scale of her fan base and success. By weaving effortlessly through country, rock, pop, indie, and folk music, Swift has created a style of her own. Taylor Swift: The Stories Behind the Songs is a comprehensive review of her entire songbook to date, covering all eleven studio albums and more than 200 songs. 

Who was David Bowie?

by Margaret Gurevich 

J NF BIO BOWIE 

David Bowie, born David Robert Jones, wasn't just an incredible singer; he had an amazing talent for keeping his fans happily guessing about what he would do next. He alternated between musical genres with ease, established a successful acting career, and even created a legendary persona, the rocker alien Ziggy Stardust. 

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Presidents' Day

The Library will be closed on February 16 in observance of Presidents Day. Presidents Day is a federal holiday officially designated as "Washington's Birthday". Originally established in 1885 to honor George Washington's Feb. 22 birthday, it now popularly honors all U.S. presidents, particularly Abraham Lincoln, whose birthday is also in February.   

Lincoln in Private

by Ronald C. White 

BIO -Political -Presidents – LINCOLN 

Lincoln historian Ronald C. White walks readers through twelve of Lincoln’s most important private notes, showcasing our greatest president’s brilliance and empathy, but also his very human anxieties and ambitions. 

Travels with George

by Nathaniel Philbrick 

MEMOIR -Travel - - PHILBRICK 

In the fall of 2018, Nathaniel Philbrick embarked on his own journey into what Washington called “the infant woody country” to see for himself what America had become in the 229 years since. 

JFK: Public, Private, Secret

by Randy J. Taraborrelli 

BIO -Political -Presidents – KENNEDY 

Drawing from hundreds of interviews conducted over twenty-five years, as well as candid, first-hand oral histories from the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Presidential Library, rare internal reports from the Secret Service, detailed files from the National Archives, and intelligence documents from both the CIA and FBI, this is JFK as never before captured by history: brilliant yet fallible, revered yet human. A figure whose legacy continues to shape America and the world. 

The Fall of Richard Nixon

by Tom Brokaw 

973.924 BROKAW 

Tom Brokaw, who was then the young NBC News White House correspondent, gives us a nuanced and thoughtful chronicle, recalling the players, the strategies, and the scandal that brought down a president. 

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Martin Luther King Jr Day

The library will be closed Mon, Jan 19 in honor of Martin Luther King Jr Day. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. federal holiday observed on the third Monday of January, honoring the life and achievements of the civil rights leader, advocating for racial equality and justice through nonviolent resistance. 

Letter From Birmingham Jail

by Martin Luther King Jr 

323.092 KING 

Martin Luther King, Jr. rarely had time to answer his critics. But on April 16, 1963, he was confined to the Birmingham jail, serving a sentence for participating in civil rights demonstrations. "Alone for days in the dull monotony of a narrow jail cell," King pondered a letter that fellow clergymen had published urging him to drop his campaign of nonviolent resistance and to leave the battle for racial equality to the courts. 

Dear Martin

by Nic Stone 

Young Adult STONE 

Justyce is a good kid, an honor student, and always there to help a friend, but none of that matters to the police officer who just put him in handcuffs without cause. When faced with injustice, Justyce looks to the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for answers. But do they hold up anymore? He starts a journal to Dr. King to find out. 

King: a life

by Jonathan Eig 

BIO -Political -Activists - KING 

Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr, and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement but was rarely at peace with himself.   

The March on Washington

by L.S. Summer 

J NF HISTORY 

Explains what events led Martin Luther King, Jr., to develop his famous speech, 'I Have a Dream.' 

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