Scott, Jonathan
Summary: "In 1977, a team led by the great Carl Sagan was put together to create a record that would travel to the stars on the back of NASA's Voyager probe. They were responsible for creating a playlist of music, sounds and pictures that would represent not just humanity, but would also paint a picture of Earth for any future alien races that may come into contact with the probe. The Vinyl Frontier...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Sigma 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.266 SCOWillis, Ellen.
Contents: Before the flood. Dylan (from Cheetah, 1967) -- The world-class critic. Two soul albums (November 1968) ; The Who sell (July 1969) ; Songs of innocence and experience (February 1970) ; New morning : Dylan revisited (December 1970) ; Breaking the vinyl barrier (July 1971) ; Morrison live (June 1972) ; Elvis Presley? In person? (July 1972) ; Bowie's limitations (October 1972) ; Frankenstein at...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.66 WILDoeden, Matt.
Summary: Describes the history of the NCAA men's basketball tournament, from the first intercollegiate basketball game in 1895 to the thrills and drama of the most recent Final Four competition.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.323 DOEDarlington, André
Summary: Whether you're planning your finest Ugly Christmas Sweater Party or spending a quiet evening by the stocking-lined fireside at home, make the season bright with this guide to 40 favorite holiday albums from the 1940s to the present. Each entry features liner notes on the album and accompanying boozy beverage recipes that complement the music or connect the drink to the artist. Select holiday...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.874 DARSummary: From the makers of the acclaimed Last Shop Standing, this new film charts the amazing revival of vinyl over the past several years. The film explores the whys and hows with industry pundits, artists, record shop owners, vinyl fans and many more. Directed and produced by Pip Piper, hear from passionate new record shop owners as well the established die-hards still going and thriving. The film...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC VINHolden, Angie
Summary: "Cricut authority and The Country Chic Cottage founder Angie Holden brings you the most comprehensive resource that will help you make the most of your Cricut machine. Packed with valuable tips, techniques and eye-catching projects, this book will quickly turn you into a certified Cricut expert! Discover the wonderful world of Design Space, the virtual interface where you'll utilize design...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing Co. 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.54 HOLCesarani, David
Summary: "A new one-volume history of the Nazi mass murder and persecution of the Jews by a noted historian that incorporates the material from newly-opened archives and research on the Nazi era"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 CESSummary: A fascinating intimate portrait of Yves Saint Laurent in his twilight years. The film takes viewers behind the scenes of the fabled fashion house and the couturier's complex relationship with business partner, and former lover, Pierre Berge. Banned following its 2007 release, the film is finally available for the first time in over ten years.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CELStrauss, Robert
Contents: Marshall's early years -- Marshall becomes a revolutionary and a sense of time and distance -- Marshall moves up the ladder in Virginia and the world shakes as America comes to be -- Marshall on the national and international stage and a small cadre makea large nation -- Marshall was almost president, so who else came close? -- The necessity of the American myth -- From XYZ to Marbury -- The...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press, An imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARSHALL, JOHN STRSilverman, Drew
Summary: The NBA Finals is one of Sports' Greatest Championships! Since the first championship in 1947, hundreds of thousands of people have followed the seven-game battle. Now, young readers can learn about the NBA Finals' history, the famous teams and players, the spectacular dunks, and the future of the sport from in their library. Informative sidebars add to the high impact photographs and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.32364 SILSummary: It all ends with a bang! In the final episodes, Emmy winners Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul bring the saga of Breaking Bad to a bloody conclusion in their roles as meth kingpin, Walter White and his guilt-ridden partner, Jesse Pinkman. As each tries to get clear of the wreckage they left behind in the meth world, DEA agent Hank Schrader's obsessive pursuit of "Heisenberg" gains steam, leading up...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRE RATED REgan, Sean.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: a cappella 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.66 EGAResendez, Andres
Summary: "The story of an uncovered voyage as colorful and momentous as any on record for the Age of Discovery-and of the Black mariner whose stunning accomplishment has been until now lost to history It began with a secret mission, no expenses spared. Spain, plotting to break Portugal's monopoly trade with the fabled Orient, set sail from a hidden Mexican port to cross the Pacific--and then,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Karl, Jonathan
Summary: As the reporter who has known Donald Trump longer than any other White House correspondent, Karl tells the story of Trump's downfall, complete with riveting behind-the-scenes accounts of some of the darkest days in the history of the American presidency. Packed with on-the-record interviews with central figures in this drama who are telling their stories for the first time, this is a definitive...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 KARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 KARSmith, Douglas
Summary: Examines the fate of two Russian aristocratic families in a detailed account of the Bolshevik Revolution's effect on the upper class, discussing the relentless lootings, harrowing escapes, humbling exile and imprisonment, and summary executions that tookplace during this violent time of transition.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.52 SMISummary: Skeptical of her parents' decision to re-side their home with polyvinyl chloride, Judith Helfand set out to find the truth behind the toxic effects of the material. Helfland & Daniel Gold travel from Long Island to Louisiana to Venice Italy, where thirty-one executives from a PVC-producing company now await trial for manslaughter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BLUBrandreth, Gyles Daubeney
Summary: This is the story of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh - the longest-serving consort to the longest-reigning sovereign in British history. It is an extraordinary story, told with unique insight and authority by an author who knew the prince for more than forty years. Philip - elusive, complex, controversial, challenging, often humorous, sometimes irascible - is the man Elizabeth II once...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Coronet 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PHILIP, PRINCE BRABirmingham, John
Summary: The Axis and Allied forces race to build an atom bomb while a revitalized Soviet Union threatens to unleash a new wave of destruction, and Admiral Kolhammer and his team confront the consequences of disturbing the historical timeline.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIRGwynne, S. C. (Samuel C.)
Summary: "S.C. Gwynne's Hymns of the Republic addresses the period from Ulysses S. Grant's appointment as general of all Union armies in March 1864 to the surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox a year later."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 GWYHertog, Thomas
Summary: "Stephen Hawking's closest collaborator offers the intellectual superstar's final thoughts on the cosmos--a dramatic revision of the theory that made him the heir to Einstein's legacy. Perhaps the biggest question Stephen Hawking tried to answer in his extraordinary life was how the universe could have created conditions so perfectly hospitable to life. Pondering this mystery led Hawking to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 523.1 HERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.1 HERLelyveld, Joseph
Summary: "Untangles the narrative threads of Roosevelt's final months, showing how he juggled the strategic, political, and personal choices he faced as the war, his presidency, and his life raced in tandem to their climax"--Dust jacket flap. "'By far the most enigmatic leading figure' of World War II. That's how the British military historian John Keegan described Franklin D. Roosevelt, who frequently...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN LELCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ROOSEVELT LELSwift, Earl
Summary: "In this follow-up to the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Chesapeake Requiem, Earl Swift rediscovers the final three Apollo Moon landings, arguing that these overlooked missions-distinguished by the use of the revolutionary Lunar Roving Vehicle-were the pinnacle of human exploration"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.45 SWISlocum, Joshua.
Summary: Discusses the flaws and corruption in the funeral and burial industry in the United States, from exorbitant funeral costs to black market sales of body parts, and provides legal guidelines to burial rights and trends in legal reform.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Upper Access 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 344.7304 SLOSummary: This is an unashamedly opinionated film. In Gore Vidal's America, the political coup has already happened. The right have triumphed and the human values of the liberals have been consigned to history. But how did this happen and who organized it? In this film Gore Vidal's acerbic, opinionated and informed approach rips away at the facade of the new America. The film dramatizes Gore's political...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Bullfrog Films 2014