Summary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSSummary: "This is the way it was--the story of the battle that was the turning point of the war in the Pacific, told wherever possible with actual film shot during combat. It exemplifies the combination of planning, courage, error and pure chance by which great events are often decided."--Title screens. In June of 1942, quite possibly the most important naval encounter of WWII took place in the middle...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIDBerry, Wendell
Summary: "Wendell Berry has never been afraid to speak up for the dispossessed. The Need to Be Whole continues the work he began in The Hidden Wound (1970) and The Unsettling of America (1977), demanding a careful exploration of this hard, shared truth: The wealth of the mighty few governing this nation has been built on the unpaid labor of others. Without historical understanding of this practice of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Shoemaker & Company 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.3 BERBerry, Wendell
Summary: This first volume collects thirty-three essays from nine different books, including his first, The Long-Legged House (1969), What are People For? (1990), with its still provocative essay "Why I am Not Going to Buy a Computer," and the complete text of his now classic The Unsettling of America (1975), whose argument about the enormous ecological, economic, and human costs of industrial...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 BERBerry, Wendell
Summary: At the age of 60, a Kentucky man decides to find out why half a century earlier his favorite uncle was shot, a crime for which the killer spent only two years in jail. The man was nine years old when the incident occurred and nobody would give him a reason.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint, c1996. 1996
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERBerry, Wendell
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1973
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 BERBerry, Wendell
Summary: Stories that explore the love, trust and wisdom of ordinary people.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1992
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERBerry, Wendell
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 1981
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 BERBerry, Wendell
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 1988
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERBerry, Wendell
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630.973 BERBerry, Wendell
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Shoemaker & Hoard 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.1 BERBerry, Wendell
Summary: Wendell Berry is a writer of great clarity and sureness. His love of language and his care for its music are matched only by his fidelity to the subjects he has written of during his first twenty-five years of work : land and nature, the family and community, tradition as the groundwork for life and culture. His graceful elegies sit easily alongside lyrics of humor and biting satire. Husbandman...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 1985
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Berry, Wendell
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Berry, Wendell
Summary: "For more than two decades, Wendell Berry has spent his Sonday mornings in a kind of walking meditation, observing the world and writing poems."--Jacket. This volume gathers all of these poems written to date.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 1998
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Berry, Wendell
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BERBerry, Wendell
Summary: At nine years old, Andy Catlett takes his first journey by himself, by bus, to visit his grandparents during the Christmas of 1943." ... this book is a perfect introduction into the whole world of Port William"--Publisher description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Shoemaker & Hoard 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERBerry, Wendell
Summary: In the latest installment in Wendell Berry's long story about the citizens of Port William, Hannah Coulter remembers. Her first husband, Virgil, was declared "missing in action" shortly after the Battle of the Bulge, and after she married Nathan Coulter about all he could tell Hannah about the Battle of Okinawa was "Ignorant boys, killing each other." The community was stunned and diminished by...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Shoemaker & Hoard 2004
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Berry, Wendell
Summary: "At the age of eighty, Andy Catlett is preparing himself to join the whole Membership of Port William, which includes those alive as well as those departed who still seem vividly alive. As he looks back on his own life through thirteen stories that range from his earliest childhood memories to the present day, from 1945 to 2001, How It Went reveals Andy at his most loving and retrospective,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERBerry, Wendell
Summary: Seven Kentucky stories set in the 1940s and featuring farmer Ptolemy Proudfoot and his schoolteacher wife, Miss Minnie. In The Solemn Boy, they invite a couple of hobos to a meal, while Nearly to the Fair comprises Proudfoot's amusing reflections on travel by car. By the author of What Are People For?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantehon Books 1994
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERBerry, Wendell
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 1986
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Berry, Wendell
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 1997
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 BERBerry, Wendell
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 1987
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 BERBerry, Wendell
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 811.54 BERBerry, Wendell
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1985