Summary: The true story of Rocky Dennis, a personable young man who has craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, a fatal disease which causes hideous facial disfigurement. Rocky is the son of biker Rusty and he is accepted without question by his mom's boyfriends and her cycle buddies, but treated with pity and disgust by much of the outside world. The local high school principal doesn't want to enroll Rocky, but...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MASGárdos, Péter
Summary: July 1945. Miklos is a twenty-five-year-old Hungarian who has survived the camps and has been brought to Sweden to convalesce. His doctor has just given him a death sentence: his lungs are filled with fluid and in six months he will be gone. But Miklos has other plans. He didn't survive the war only to drown from within, and so he wages war on his own fate. He acquires the names of the 117...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GARSummary: Five (1951) Black and White 93 minutes Not Rated Starring: William Phipps, Susan Douglas, James Anderson, Charles Lampkin, Earl Lee When a nuclear bomb destroys the world, only five survivors remain. A pregnant woman, a philosopher, a black man, a banker and an explorer seek shelter in an abandoned house. As the last living human beings, they must work together. However, their clashing visions...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR CLAHuseby-Darvas, Éva V.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 DTPGardot, Melody
Contents: It gonna come -- Preacherman -- Morning sun -- Same to you -- Don't misunderstand -- Don't talk -- If I ever recall your face -- Bad news -- She don't know -- Once I was loved.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ GARGurdon, Martin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Lyons Press 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.5 GURGardot, Melody
Contents: Don't Misunderstand (4:40) -- Don't Talk (4:12) -- It Gonna Come (5:31) -- Bad News (4:57) -- She Don't Know (3:55) -- Palmas Da Rua (0:50) -- Same To You (4:29) -- No Man's Prize (4:49) -- March For Mingus (1:02) -- Preacherman (6:16) -- Morning Sun (5:06) -- If Ever I Recall Your Face (6:52) -- Once I Was Loved (4:50) -- After The Rain (3:09) -- Burying My Troubles (7:46).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve Int'l 2015
View online at Hoopla
Kardos, Michael
Summary: "Everyone in the quiet Jersey Shore town of Silver Bay knows the story: on a Sunday evening in September 1991, Ramsey Miller threw a blowout block party, then murdered his beautiful wife and three-year-old daughter. But everyone is wrong. The daughter got away. Now she is nearly eighteen and tired of living in secrecy. Under the name Melanie Denison, she has spent the last fifteen years in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KARGaydos, Ellyn
Summary: "As a seasonal farmer in upstate New York and Vermont-living hand-to-mouth, but in love with the land and its creatures-Ellyn Gaydos understands the delicate balance between loss and gain. Choosing such work instead of moving to the city with her long-distance boyfriend, Gaydos recognizes her role in cycles bigger than herself. Yearning to be a mother, she recognizes, too, how new life is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GAYDOS, ELLYN GAYRocha, Ava
Contents: Boca do céu -- O jardim -- Você não vai passar -- Transeunte coração -- Auto das bacantes -- Hermética -- Beijo no asfalto -- Mar ao fundo -- Uma -- Tão tão -- Doce é o amor -- Oceanos.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN ROCBarry, Ava
Summary: "1940s Hollywood was an era of decadence and director Theodore Langley was its king. Paired with Eleanor Hayes as his lead actress, Theo ruled the Golden Age of Hollywood. That ended when Eleanor's mangled body was discovered in Theo's rose garden and he was charged with her murder. The case was thrown out before it went to trial and Theo fled L.A., leaving his crawling estate, Windhall, to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BARDVA Hiemotions
Contents: 1. Shudowncentral -- 2. Suzhou -- 3. Memoriesofofflineactivity -- 4. Ad 1_V1 -- 5. B It -- 6. Almostu -- 7. Dafuq -- 8. Notu_Uronlineu -- 9. Shutdowncentral 2.1 -- 10. Fd14 -- 11. Dreamflix -- 12. Shutdowncentral 3.0 -- 13. Wtsthewifipassword.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC DVAGordis, Daniel.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 GORKardos, Michael.
Summary: Three ordinary men find themselves completely out of their element, holding a young girl hostage without the slightest idea of what to do next. They are already guilty of kidnapping and robbery. It is only a matter of time before they find out just what else they are capable of. For these four people, three days will decide their fate, between freedom and prison, innocence and guilt, and life...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KARHoth, Iva.
Summary: Retells in comic book format stories from the Bible.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chariot Victor Pub. 1998
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 220 HOTSummary: Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the world's most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. Jiro meets and falls in love with Nahoko, and grows and cherishes his friendship...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME WINGurdon, Martin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lyon's Press 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.104 GURSummary: A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempts to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them. Operatic and disturbing, it deftly examines the lasting social and psychological effects of the Nazi regime.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NIGGardot, Melody
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ GARGardot, Melody.
Contents: Baby I'm a fool -- If the stars were mine -- Who will comfort me -- Your heart is as black as night -- Lover undercover -- Our love is easy -- Les etoiles -- The rain -- My one and only thrill -- Deep within the corners of my mind -- Over the rainbow -- If the stars were mine (orchestral version).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve Music Group 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ GARSummary: Ray Donovan is the go-to guy who makes the problems of Los Angeles celebrities, superstar athletes, and business moguls disappear. This powerful family drama unfolds when his Irish gangster father is unexpectedly released from prison, setting off a chain of events that shakes the Donovan family to its core.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV RAYBarry, Ava
Summary: Four years ago, a young heiress survived an attack that claimed the lives of both her parents. The crime made headlines all over Los Angeles, both for the vicious nature of the killings and the seemingly random nature of the attack: nothing was stolen, and the van Aust family had no obvious enemies. Melia van Aust fled the city soon after the murders, which were never solved, but her brother...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARChin, Ava
Summary: "Mott Street follows Chinese American writer Ava Chin, who grew up estranged from her father, as she seeks the truth about her family history--and uncovers a legacy of exclusion and resilience that speaks to the American experience past and present. Chin's ancestors became lovers, classmates, sworn enemies, and, eventually, through her birth, kin--all while converging at a single Chinatown...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023