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Reference Books

  • 100 most important women of the twentieth century - REF CT 323.3 .M37 1999
  • 100 most influential women of all time - REF CT 3202 .F395 2001
  • 100 most popular  business leaders for young adults - REF HC 102.5 .A2 L64 2002
  • 100 most popular children's authors - REF PS 490 .M39 1999
  • 100 most popular picture book authors and illustrators - REF PS 490 .M395 2000eb
  • 1,000 years, 1,000 people - REF CT 103 .A16 1998
  • Activists, rebels, and reformers - REF HN 17.5 .E53 2001
  • African American biography - REF E 185.6 .A44 1994
  • African American firsts - REF CT 275 .P67 2002
  • African American fists in scientific technology - REF Q 141 .W43 1999
  • American civil rights biographies - REF E 184 .A1 E394 1999
  • American national biography - REF CT 213 . A68 1999
  • American women in science - REF Q 141 .A44 2002
  • Arab American biography - REF E 184 .A65 H35 1999
  • Artists from Latin American cultures - REF N 6502.5 .C657 2002
  • Artists of the Renaissance - REF N 6915 .E17 2004
  • Biographical dictionary of African Americans - REF E 185.96 .K73 1999
  • Biographical dictionary of mathematicians - REF QA 28 .B534 1991
  • Biographical dictionary of scientists - REF Q 141 .B528 2000
  • Biographical dictionary of the saints - REF BX 4655 .H6 1990
  • Biographical dictionary of women - REF CT 3202 .C48 1996
  • Black artists - REF N 40 .S78 1997
  • Black women in America - REF E 185.96 .F2 1996
  • Black writers - REF E 185.96 .F2 1996
  • Book of distinguished American women - REF CT 3260 .W5 1983
  • Brief lives:  twentieth century pen portraits from the Dictionary of American Biography - DA 28 .B854 1997
  • Business leader profiles for students - REF HD 38.25 .U6 B87 1999
  • Cambridge biographical encyclopedia - REF CT 163 .C26 1994
  • Colonial American biographies - REF E 187.5 .S23 2000
  • Concise dictionary of British literary biography - REF PR 19 .C64 1991 v.1-8
  • Contemporary American success stories:  famous people of Hispanic heritage - E 184 .S75 M384 1996
  • Contemporary Canadian artists - REF N 6598 .C66 1997
  • Current biography - REF CT 100 .C8 v.1-15
  • Dictionary of American biography - REF E 176 .D563
  • Dictionary of American Negro biography - REF E 185.96 .D53 1982
  • Dictionary of American religious biography - REF BL 72 .B68 1993
  • Directory of historical figures - REF CT 103 .D57 2000
  • Distinguished Asian American political and governmental leaders - REF E 184 .O6 N35 2002
  • Explorers and discoverers of the world - REF G 200 .E88 1993
  • Gay and lesbian biography - REF HQ 75.2 .G39 1997
  • Great composers and their works - REF ML 160 .S48 2000
  • Great leaders, great tyrants - REF D 107 .G6789 1995
  • Heroes of the faith - REF E 185.96 .M383 1994
  • Historic world leaders: Africa, Middle East, Asia, Pacific - REF D 412 .H57 1999 v.1
  • Historic world leaders: Europe A-K - REF D 412 .H57 1999 v.2
  • Historic world leaders: Europe L-Z - REF D 412 .H57 1994 v.3
  • Historic world leaders: North and South America - REF D 412 .H57 1994 v.4-51
  • In her footsteps:  100 remarkable Black women from the Queen of Sheba to Queen Latifah - REF CT 3230 .M33 2000
  • International dictionary of art and artists: artists - REF N 40 .I55 1990
  • International who's who - REF CT 120 .I5 2004
  • Jewish women in America - REF DS 115.2 .J49 1998
  • Korean War biographies - REF DS 918 .A553 B386 2002
  • Larousse dictionary of women - REF CT 3202 .L37 1996
  • Lives and legacies: philosophers and religious leaders - REF B 104 .P48 1999
  • Lives and legacies: scientists, mathmeticians, and inventors - REF Q 141 .S54 1999
  • Macmillan profiles: American Indian portraits - REF E 8.9 .A483 2000
  • Macmillan profiles: heroes and pioneers - REF CT 107 .H47 1998
  • Macmillan profiles: humanitarians and reformers - REF HV 27 .H34 1999
  • Macmillan profiles: Justices of the United States Supreme Court - REF KF 8744 .J875 2001
  • Macmillan profiles: Latino Americans - REF E 184 .S75 L3556 1999
  • Macmillan profiles: religious leaders of the world - REF BL 72 .R45 2000
  • Macmillan profiles: rescue and resistance--portraits of the Holocaust - REF D 804 .I95 R47 1999
  • Macmillan profiles: scientists and inventors - REF Q 141 .S294 1998
  • Macmillan profiles: tycoons and entrepreneurs - REF HC 79 .W4 T93 1998
  • Makers of science - REF Q 141 .B254 1998
  • Malcolm X encyclopedia - REF BP 223 .Z8 L573 2002
  • Men and women of the Bible - REF BS 571 .T57 2002
  • Merriam Webster's biographical dictionary - REF CT 103 .M47 1995
  • Modern African political leaders - REF DT 36 .R37 1998
  • Napoleon: a biographical companion - REF DC 203 .W53 1999
  • Native North American women - REF E 98 .W8 B38 2001
  • Native North American biography - REF E 89 .N395 1996
  • North American women artists of the twentieth century - REF N 6503 .N67 1995
  • Notable Asian Americans - REF E 184 .O6 N67 1995
  • Notable Black American men - REF E 185.86 .W68 1999
  • Notable Black American scientists - REF Q 141 .N726 1999
  • Notable Black American women - REF E 185.96 .N68 1992
  • Notable Hispanic American women - REF E 184 .S75 N68 1993
  • Notable Hispanic American women - REF E 184 .S75 N68 1998
  • Notable mathematicians - REF QA 28 .W66 1998
  • Notable Native Americans - REF E 89 .N67 1995
  • Notable scientists from 1900 to the present - REF Q 141 .N728 2001?
  • Notable women scientists - REF Q 141 .N736 1999
  • People of the century - REF CT 120 .P46 1999
  • Philosophy, the great thinkers - REF BD 21 .S77 2007
  • Political leaders of modern China - REF DS 755.2 .P64 2002
  • Presidents: from Hoover through Truman, from Nixon through Carter - REF E176.1 .P9217 2002
  • Presidents: from Reagan through Clinton - REF E 176.1 .P922 2002
  • Presidents: from Taylor through Grant - REF E 176.1 .P9227 2002
  • Presidents: from Theodore Roosevelt through Coolidge - REF E 176.1 .P9225 2002
  • Profiles in world history - REF D 21 .P94 1996
  • Prominent women of the twentieth century - REF CT 3235 .S2 1996
  • Reference library of American women - REF CT 3266 .R44 1999
  • Religious leaders of America - REF BL 72 .W458 1999
  • Remarkable mathematicians - REF QA 28 .J36 2002
  • Sacred biography:  saints and their biographers in the Middle Ages - PR 275 .R4 H44 1988?
  • Scientific 100 - REF Q 148 .S55 1996
  • Spiritual leaders - REF E 98 .R3 W67 1995
  • St. James guide to Hispanic arts - REF N 6538 .H58 S7 2002
  • St. James guide to Native North American artists - REF E 98 .A7 S8 1998
  • Thinkers of the twentieth century - REF CT 120 .T45 1987
  • Time: 100 leaders and revolutionaries:  artists and entertainers - REF CT 120 . T56 1998
  • Time: people of the century - REF CT 120 .P46 1999
  • Vietnam War biographies - REF DS 557.5 .H55 2001 V.2
  • Webster's dictionary of American women - REF CT 3260 .W43 1996
  • Webster's dictionary of scientists - REF Q 141 .H88 1997
  • Who's who in America - E 176 .W642 2001
  • Who's who among Asian Americans - REF E 184 .O6 W47
  • Who's who among Hispanic Americans - REF E 184 .S75 W36
  • Who's who in finance and industry - REF HF 3023 .A2 W5 1998
  • Who was who in Native American history - REF E 89 .W35 1990
  • Who's who in the ancient Near-East - REF DS 62.2 .L45 1999
  • Who's who in the ancient world - REF DE 7 .R33 1973
  • Who's who in the Bible - REF BS 570 .W47 1998
  • Who was who in world exploration - REF G 200 .W24 1992
  • Who's who of Noble Prize winners - REF AS 911 .N9 W53 2001
  • Who's who of Pulitzer Prize winners - REF AS 911 .P8 B74 1995
  • Women of consequence - REF CT 3260 .V37 1999
  • Women of the Bible - REF BS 575 .S92 2002
  • Women in world history - REF HQ 1115 .W6 1999
  • World leaders:   Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America - REF D 107 .W65 1994
  • World War I biographies - REF D 522.7 .P57 2001
  • World War II biographies - REF D 736 .H69 1999