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Bourne, Joel K.

Summary: In The End of Plenty, award-winning environmental journalist Joel K. Bourne Jr. puts our race to feed the world in dramatic perspective. With a skyrocketing world population and tightening global grain supplies spurring riots and revolutions, humanity must produce as much food in the next four decades as it has since the beginning of civilization to avoid a Malthusian catastrophe. Yet climate...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.8 BOU

Cramer, Deborah

Summary: Each year, red knots, sandpipers weighing no more than a coffee cup, fly a near-miraculous 19,000 miles from the tip of South America to their nesting grounds in the Arctic and back. Along the way, they double their weight by gorging on millions of tiny horseshoe crab eggs. Horseshoe crabs, ancient animals that come ashore but once a year, are vital to humans, too: their blue blood safeguards...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598 CRA

Child, Lydia Maria

Summary: "It's Thanksgiving Day, so hop in the sleigh and hold on tight as you journey through shimmering snow and a quiet but lively forest. Though the wind does blow, festive fun awaits at the end of the ride--along with plenty of pumpkin pie!"--Page [4] of cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC CHI

Bregman, Rutger

Summary: "A noted Dutch journalist and economist proposes an outline for a new worldwide Utopia, with central tenets including a shortened work week, a guaranteed basic income for all, wealth redistribution, and open borders everywhere"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330 BRE

Manning, Jack.

Summary: "Informative, engaging text and vivid photos introduce readers to igloos"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.1 MAN

Guthrie, Woody

Contents: This land is your land (2:16) -- Car song (1:49) -- Ramblin' round (2:13) -- Talking fishing blues (3:03) -- Philadelphia lawyer (2:28) -- Lindbergh (3:10) -- Hobo's lullaby (2:22) -- Pastures of plenty (2:24) -- Grand Coulee dam (2:09) -- End of the line (2:49) -- New York town (2:35) -- Gypsy Davy (2:48) -- Jesus Christ (2:36) -- This land is your land (2:43) -- Do-re-mi (2:30) -- Jarama...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 1997

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK GUT

Worth, Jennifer

Summary: The Call the midwife trilogy is comprised of Call the midwife (not included here, c2002), Shadows of the workhouse (not included here, c2005), and Farewell to the East End (this book, c2009). Together, this series chronicles Jennifer Worth's career as a midwife from start to finish, from her arrival in the war-scarred Docklands as a wide-eyed trainee, to the demolition of the tenements and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco/HarperCollins 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WORTH, JENNIFER WOR

Worth, Jennifer

Summary: The Call the midwife trilogy is comprised of Call the midwife (not included here, c2002), Shadows of the workhouse (this book, c2005), and Farewell to the East End (not included here, c2009). Together, this series chronicles Jennifer Worth's career as a midwife from start to finish, from her arrival in the war-scarred Docklands as a wide-eyed trainee, to the demolition of the tenements and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco/HarperCollins 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WORTH, JENNIFER WOR

Carreño, Carolynn

Summary: "Gorgeous, layered, satisfying bowls have become the next wave of healthy eating. From food blogs to Instagram, farm-to-table bistros to chain restaurants, "the bowl" has become part of our culinary vocabulary. And whole grains are not just for hippies and health nuts anymore! Hearty grains like quinoa, farro, millet, and spelt are replacing flour or corn tortillas, bread, pasta, white rice,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Life & Style 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.56 CAR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food Cook Carreno

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