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Newby, Eric.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Akadine Press 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.7 NEW

Swanson, Jennifer

Summary: Provides a brief history of zoology and profiles three women who are working in the field today.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nomad Press, a division of Nomad Communications 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 590 SWA

Hazan, Éric

Summary: "Eric Hazan, author of the acclaimed The Invention of Paris, takes us by the hand in this walk from Ivry to Saint-Denis, more or less following the dividing line between the east and west of Paris, or what you could call the "Paris meridian." He chose this itinerary without much consideration, but later on it became clear to him that it was no accident, that this line followed the meanders of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.4 HAZ

Danby, Jeff.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Casemate 2008

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 769.31 DAN

Kerby, Mona.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: F. Watts 1994

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB DOUGLASS KERBY

Irving, Debby

Summary: For twenty-five years, Debby Irving sensed inexplicable racial tensions in her personal and professional relationships. As a colleague and neighbor, she worried about offending people she dearly wanted to befriend. As an arts administrator, she didn't understand why her diversity efforts lacked traction. As a teacher, she found her best efforts to reach out to students and families of color...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Elephant Room Press 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 IRVING, DEBBY IRV

Applegate, Debby

Summary: "A biography of Pearl "Polly" Alder, New York City madam and icon of the Jazz Age"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADLER, POLLY APP

Martin, Erica (Halcyenda Erica)

Summary: "A powerful, impactful, eye-opening journey that explores through the Civil Rights Movement in 1950s-1960s America in spare and evocative verse, with historical photos interspersed throughout. In stunning verse and vivid use of white space, Erica Martin's debut poetry collection walks readers through the Civil Rights Movement-from the well-documented events that shaped the nation's treatment of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 323.1196 MAR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 323.1196 MAR

Morillo, Elio

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "Elio Morillo's life is abruptly spun out of orbit when economic collapse and personal circumstances compel his mother to flee Ecuador for the United States in search of a better future for her son. His itinerant childhood sets into motion a migration that will ultimately carry Elio to the farthest expanse of human endeavor: space. Overcoming a history of systemic adversity and inequality in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MORILLO, ELIO MOR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B MORILLO MOR

Enrich, David

Summary: "A searing exposé by an award-winning journalist of the most scandalous bank in the world, including its shadowy ties to Donald Trump's business empire"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.1 ENR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 332.1 ENR

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.1 ENR

Andrews, Arin.

Summary: "Seventeen-year-old Arin Andrews shares all the hilarious, painful, and poignant details of undergoing gender reassignment as a high school student in this winning teen memoir"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Larson, Erik

1 hold on 5 copies

Summary: "The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 LAR

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 LAR

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 LAR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B CHURCHILL LAR

Slader, Erik

Summary: "Despite the power and responsibility that comes with the oval office, the president of the United States is only human--and far from perfect. While some suffered just a few minor mishaps, others are remembered for leaving behind much bigger messes. In the newest installment in the Epic Fails series, explore the lives, legacies, and failures of some of our country's not-so-great presidents"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.09 SLA

Neri, Greg

Summary: Gail Ruffu was a rookie trainer known for her unconventional methods and ability to handle dangerous horses. When she became part owner of an untamed thoroughbred named Urgent Envoy, everything changed. After Urgent Envoy showed real promise, her co-owners forced Gail to speed up training and race him too early, causing the horse to develop a hairline fracture. Refusing to drug the horse to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: TU Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2018

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 NER

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 NER

Hort, Lenny.

Summary: Introductory biography of the first president of the United States. George Washington is often called the father of our country. He beat the odds to lead the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War, served as first president of the United States, and then retired from public life to farm Virginia's largest plantation. In this groundbreaking new series, DK brings together fresh...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2005

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Ervick, Kelcey

Summary: "A beautifully illustrated coming-of-age graphic memoir chronicling how sports shaped one young girl's life and changed women's history forever"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 ERVICK, KELCEY ERV

Larson, Erik

Summary: On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era's great...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4 LAR

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4 LAR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.4 LAR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wars Larson

Larson, Erik.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1999

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.4139 LAR

Sheinkin, Steve

Summary: "National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin tells the story of the 1929 Women's Air Derby, the first official all-female air race in the U.S."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 797.5 SHE

Larson, Erik

51 holds on 18 copies

Summary: "On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 LAR

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 973.711 LAR

Larson, Erik.

Summary: Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country's most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 LAR

Larson, Erik.

Summary: In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men--Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication--whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time. - goodreads

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2006

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.15 Lar

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Crime Larson

Prince, Erik

Summary: The founder of Blackwater, the world's most controversial military contractor, describes how the company took on high-risk security jobs around the world, completing nearly 100,000 missions in Afghanistan and Iraq, only to have opponents tarnish their reputation.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.35 PRI

Larson, Erik

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold the country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.54 LAR

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.54 LAR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP CHURCHILL LAR

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