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Ward, Logan.

Contents: Goodbye, New York -- Old year's eve -- Expedition to nowhere -- How I learn to drive -- Waiting for rain -- Picking, cleaning, shelling, shucking -- News from the future -- Under fire -- Home for the holidays -- Winter -- Breeding season -- Back to the future.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Dell 2009

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Garden Home Ward

Ward, Logan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.59 WAR

Summary: Documentary portrait of jazz visionary Sun Ra and his Arkestra.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC SUN

Marcovitz, Hal.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2002

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB SMITH MAR

Mitchell, Jerry

Summary: "An award-winning investigative reporter shares the real-life detective story of how Klansmen came to justice in notorious unsolved civil rights cold cases--decades after they had gotten away with murder"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 MIT

Bannister, Nonna

Contents: Boarding the train -- Baby Sarah -- Before the Holocaust -- Move to Taganrog -- Move to Rostov-on-Don -- A day in the park -- The depression in Russia: Stalin's power -- Winter vacation with babushka at the dacha -- Our journey by train -- Homecoming welcome -- Our fun time begins -- Christmas church service -- Christmas Day 1932 -- Reflections on childhood -- Back to reality: 1933 -- Troubled...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 BANNISTER, NONNA BAN

Levine, Karen

Summary: A biography of a Czech girl who died in the Holocaust, told in alternating chapters with an account of how the curator of a Japanese Holocaust center learned about her life after Hana's suitcase was sent to her.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.5318 LEV

Butcher, Bernard Lee

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1978

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3754 B
1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3754 Butch

Smith, Sally Bedell

Summary: "When the Duke of Windsor abdicated the throne in 1936, his shy, uncertain, unprepared younger brother became King. Sally Bedell Smith was granted by Queen Elizabeth II special access to the letters and diaries of George VI and Elizabeth, to tell the story of how their love, devotion, and strong marriage led George VI to overcome insecurities and difficulty speaking and to become an exceptional...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SMI

Capaldi, Gina.

Summary: Zitkala-Š̌̌̌a finds that she can sing through her music, but also by writing stories and giving speeches and being an activist for Native American rights.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2011

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Native Capaldi

Summary: Focusing on eight iconic works of art, this series reveals the history of visual imagination through the ages. A combination of reconstruction, photography and storytelling transport the viewer back to the intense moments when great works were conceived and born: the murderous, messianic world of Baroque Rome; opulent, parvenu Amsterdam; paranoid, revolutionary Paris; Victorian England...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SIM

Gordon-Reed, Annette.

Summary: Historian and legal scholar Gordon-Reed presents this epic work that tells the story of the Hemingses, an American slave family and their close blood ties to Thomas Jefferson.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.4 GOR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B Hemings Gor

Stanley, Diane.

Summary: "Born in 1452 to a peasant woman and a country gentleman, Leonardo da Vinci was one of the most amazing people who ever lived. He grew up to be a great painter, sculptor, architect, scientist, and inventor. As a boy, Leonardo was apprenticed to a famous artist. But he quickly became more skillful than his teacher, and his passionate interests went far beyond art. Fascinated with the human body,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow Junior Books 1996

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LEO

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 921 LEO

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Bio Davinci

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB DA VIN STA

Price, David A. (David Andrew)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.5425 PRI

McCartney, Martha W.

Summary: "A detailed look at the people associated with Jamestown from its founding in 1607 to 1800. Based on government records and private archives, it provides historical biographies of several distinct groups of people: Jamestown Island landowners, public officials, Native-American leaders, and African Americans associated with Jamestown. It also covers more than a thousand people who did not own...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3755 McCAR

Goodman, Joan E.

Summary: Traces the epic journey of the Portuguese explorer who, five years after Columbus set sail, traveled around the southernmost tip of Africa to find a sea route to India.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mikaya Press 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GAM

Woods, Sherryl.

Summary: Rich in narrative history and local color, A small town love story: Colonial Beach, Virginia is an homage to the town of Sherryl Woods's summers, a place that stole her heart long ago and provided the basis for the many fictional small towns in her bestselling novels.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 976 WOO

Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Summary: "A memoir from Ta-Nehisi Coates, in which he details the challenges on the streets and within one's family, especially the eternal struggle for peace between a father and son and the important role family plays in such circumstances"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 COA

Wayland-Smith, Ellen.

Summary: "Amidst the religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening, John Humphrey Noyes, a spirited but socially awkward young man, attracted a group of devoted followers with his fiery sermons about creating Jesus'' millennial kingdom here on earth. Noyes and his followers built a large communal house in rural New York where they engaged in what Noyes called "complex marriage," an elaborate system of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.7 WAY

Ferguson, Chris

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: C. Ferguson 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.5 FER

Chin, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHIN, AVA CHI

Isaacson, Walter

Summary: A portrait of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist explores the impact of James Watson's "The Double Helix" on her career and how her team's invention of CRISPR technology enabled revolutionary DNA-editing approaches to fighting disease, as well as curing diseases, fending off viruses, and enhancing our children

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 576.5 ISA

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 DOUDNA, JENNIFER ISA

Theroux, Paul

Summary: "Paul Theroux has spent fifty years crossing the globe, adventuring in the exotic, seeking the rich history and folklore of the far away. Now, for the first time, in his tenth travel book, Theroux explores a piece of America--the Deep South. He finds there a paradoxical place, full of incomparable music, unparalleled cuisine, and yet also some of the nation's worst schools, housing, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 975 THE

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975 THE

Darling, Lynn.

Summary: "Combining the soul-baring insight of Wild, the profound wisdom of Shop Class as Soulcraft, and the adventurous spirit of Eat, Pray, Love, Lynn Darling's powerful, lyrical memoir of self-discovery, full of warmth and wry humor, Out of the Woods. When hercollege-bound daughter leaves home, Lynn Darling, widowed over a decade earlier, finds herself alone--and utterly lost, with no idea of what...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DARLING, LYNN DAR

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