Filter By Subjects
Bagels Breakfasts Brooches Brunches Brunchs Cooking (Bagels) England Jewelry Jewelry making SandwichesFilter By Subjects
Bagels Breakfasts Brooches Brunches Brunchs Cooking (Bagels) England Jewelry Jewelry making SandwichesBurns, Cherie
Summary: Both a history of fine jewelry coming out of Paris in the Golden Age and a tour through the secretive world of high-end, privately-sold jewelry, Diving for Starfish is a stylish detective story with a glittering piece of jewelry at its heart. In the mid 1930s, in the workroom of the famous Parisian jeweler Boivin, a young jewelry designer named Juliette Moutard created one of the most coveted...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BURHope, Jessamyn
Summary: It's 1994 and Adam, a drug addict from New York City, arrives at a kibbutz in Israel with a medieval sapphire brooch. To make up for a past crime, he needs to get the priceless heirloom to a woman his grandfather loved when he was a Holocaust refugee on the kibbutz fifty years earlier. There Adam joins other troubled people trying to turn their lives around: Ulya, the ambitious and beautiful...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fig Tree Books 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOPAlbright, Madeleine Korbel.
Summary: Albright served as U.S. secretary of state from 1997 to 2001, the first woman ever to hold the position. Here, she tells the stories behind her many pins and jewelry collected on her diplomatic trips around the world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.929 ALBFiorenza, Sarah.
Summary: Presents instructions for children on creating jewelry and accessories using beads, fabric, and clay to produce such items as bracelets, brooches, necklaces, pendants, and hair accessories.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ryland Peters & Small 2012
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 745.594 FIOBrockes, Emma.
Summary: Documents the author's investigation into a shattering childhood trauma in South Africa, tracing the discovery of her grandfather's abuse of her mother, which compelled her mother's unsuccessful attempt to kill him before fleeing the country.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROCKES, PAULINE DULCIE BROSummary: "This collection of yummy recipes contains cool ideas for every day of the week - whether you need grab-and-go meals for busy mornings, want to surprise someone you love with a beautiful breakfast tray, or can't wait to host your friends for a superstar brunch party on the weekend."--Page 2 of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Weldon Owen 2017
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 641.52 AMEBrockes, Emma
Summary: "From the author of She Left Me The Gun, an explosive and hilarious memoir about the exceptional and life-changing decision to conceive a child on one's own via assisted reproduction. When British journalist, memoirist, and New York-transplant Emma Brockes decides to become pregnant, she quickly realizes that, being single, 37, and in the early stages of a same-sex relationship, she's going to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROCKES, EMMA BROSummary: A group of close friends meet for their monthly 'couples brunch'. What starts as a typical gathering, turns into an impromptu therapy session of airing out domestic grievances. Compounding the awkward situation is a sudden, mysterious attack on the city. Trapped in the house and unsure of their fates, these seemingly normal adults become increasingly unhinged to hilarious, surprising, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Laboratories 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY IT'SBarrow, Cathy
Summary: "This delightful cookbook makes it easy to bake fresh bagels in your own kitchen with just 5 base ingredients and simple techniques. With advice on mixing the dough, shaping the bagels, proofing, boiling, baking, slicing, and storing, this book will make you a master bagel maker in no time. If you've long dreamed of re-creating that perfect bagel from your favorite local joint (What's the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2022