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Mrs. Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully adapt...
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Lenny
Pub. Date
2017.
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102 pages
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"Michelle Obama?s legacy transcends categorization. Mrs. Obama was not only our first black first lady; she was President Obama?s equal partner in marriage and parenthood and a tireless advocate for women?s rights, education, healthy eating, and exercise. Her genre-busting personal style encouraged others to speak, to engage, even to dress as they wished. In an extension of his popular T, The New York Times Style Magazine feature, Nick Haramis has...
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Roadside Attractions LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
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1 DVD (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Chronicles the summer afternoon in 1989 when the future President of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed the future First Lady, Michelle Robinson, on an epic first date across Chicago's South Side.
4) Becoming
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Pub. Date
2018.
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"In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her-from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the world's most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and...
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Amistad
Pub. Date
c2012
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391 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), geneal. tables ; 24 cm.
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A family history traces the compelling story of Michelle Obama's ancestors, covering a journey from slavery to the White House in five generations that bears witness to the changes in the nation.
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Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
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xvii, 245 pages ; 20 cm
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Inspired by the life and quotations of former first lady Michelle Obama, this collection of essays on bullying, heartbreak, racism, and confidence taps into the author's own past as she shares the stories that made her who she is today.
8) The Obamas
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Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2012
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viii, 359 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Explores the Obama family's transition into the White House, capturing the emotions and personalities beneath the public façade as the president and the First Lady deal with their new roles.
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Aladdin
Pub. Date
2019.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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When Parker visits the museum with her mom and friend she is captivated by the portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama, a picture that inspires self-assurance and hope within herself.
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Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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56 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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In this imaginatively illustrated book from the Work It, Girl series, discover how Michelle became an inspirational leader, FLOTUS, lawyer, author, and role model in this true story of her life. Then, learn 10 key lessons from her work you can apply to your own life. Michelle Obama grew up on the South Side of Chicago in a little bungalow with a close-knit family. She loved going to school, and she knew that, one day, she would use her voice to empower...
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Clarkson Potter Publishers
Pub. Date
c2011
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xiii, 242 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cm.
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Evaluates the First Lady's emergence as a style icon and her growing influence on a changing American understanding of etiquette and femininity, in an illustrated account that also tours the cultural contributions of previous First Ladies.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008
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217 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
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Presents a portrait of Michelle Obama from her youth on the south side of Chicago and her education at Princeton and Harvard Law School to her relationship with Barack Obama and her views on political issues.
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Plaza Janes
Pub. Date
2022.
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298 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"Michelle Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully...
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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xvii, 406 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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"This volume for young people is an honest and fascinating account of Michelle Obama's life led by example. She shares her views on how all young people can help themselves as well as help others, no matter their status in life. She asks readers to realize that no one is perfect, and that the process of becoming is what matters, as finding yourself is ever evolving. In telling her story with boldness, she asks young readers: Who are you, and what...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
418 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
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A comprehensive portrait of the First Lady describes her working-class upbringing on Chicago's South Side, her education at Princeton and Harvard during the racially charged 1980s, and her marriage to the future forty-fourth president.
With disciplined reporting and a storyteller's eye for revealing detail, Peter Slevin follows Michelle to the White House from her working-class childhood on Chicago's largely segregated South Side.
17) Michelle Obama
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"Young Michelle grew up on the South Side of Chicago in a close-knit family. She loved school, achieving A's, and worked hard to blaze trails at the universities of Princeton and Harvard. Then, at the beginning of her legal career, she met Barack Obama. As first lady, she used her platform to advocate for women and girls and continues to inspire many with her powerful voice, and best-selling books. This empowering book features stylish and quirky...
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Morgan Reynolds
Pub. Date
c2009
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112 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Profiles the life and career of Michelle Obama, from her childhood on Chicago's South Side and her years at Harvard Law School to her marriage to Barack Obama and her role in assisting him on the path to the presidency.
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Plaza Janés
Pub. Date
2018.
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526 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
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An intimate memoir by the former First Lady chronicles the experiences that have shaped her remarkable life, from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago through her setbacks and achievements in the White House.
Protagonista de una vida plena y exitosa, Michelle Obama se ha convertido en una de las mujeres más icónicas y cautivadoras de nuestra era. Como primera dama de los Estados Unidos de América, y primera afroamericana en desempeñar esa...
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-- "Valerie has been one of Barack and my closest confidantes for decades... the world would feel a lot better if there were more people like Valerie blazing the trail for the rest of us."--Michelle Obama -- Finding My Voice Born in Iran (where her father, a doctor, sought a better job than he could find in segregated America), Jarrett grew up in Chicago in the 60s as racial and gender barriers were being challenged. A single mother stagnating in...
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