Kramer, Barbara
Summary: "The story of how a young Southern girl who was raised on a pig farm became one of the most influential and inspiring people in the world. We all know Oprah Winfrey as a talk-show host, actress, producer, media mogul, and philanthropist, but the "Queen ofTalk" wasn't always so fortunate. She suffered through a rough childhood and went on to use her personal struggles as motivation. Oprah's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WINWakefield, Sarah F.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 1997
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.3 WAKSmarsh, Sarah
Summary: During Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the '80s and '90s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country's changing economic policies solidified her family's place among the working poor. Her personal history affirms the corrosive impact intergenerational poverty can have on individuals, families, and communities. Combining memoir with powerful analysis and cultural commentary, this...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMARSH, SARAH SMACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B SMARSH SMASaran, Suvir.
Summary: The author, born and raised in India and an acclaimed New York City restaurateur and chef, tells the story of moving to the country to raise goats, alpacas, ducks, geese, and chicken on 67 acres. Accompanied by more than 80 recipes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59747 SARFabiny, Sarah
Summary: "Georgia O'Keeffe is famously known for her colorful, large paintings of flowers, but this artist's portfolio expands far beyond Jack-in-the-pulpits. In this book, young readers will learn about O'Keeffe's childhood in Wisconsin and her years as a talented art school teacher. Her years as an artist in both New York and New Mexico, two areas that are heavily represented in her artwork, reveal...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2022
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Bennett, Juda
Summary: "What is a book club but an excuse to talk to friends? The Toni Morrison Book Club brings that experience to life by telling the story of four friends who turn to Toni Morrison as they search for meaning in their lives. In this startling group memoir, thewriters--black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and American born--allow Morrison's words, like music, to make them feel, confess, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Wisconsin Press 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 374 BENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 734 BENFabiny, Sarah
Summary: Presents the life and accomplishments of the American biologist, whose influential work, "The Silent Spring," inspired worldwide conservation movements.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CARHeathcote, Jud.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sagamore 1995
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.323 HEAApatow, Judd
Summary: "Before his name became synonymous with a new style of comedy; before he had written, directed, or produced his first movie or TV show; before he and his roommate Adam Sandler were performing stand up at dive bars in LA; before all that, Judd Apatow was a kid in Syosett, Long Island who was utterly obsessed with comedy. At 16, he started hosting a radio show for his local high school station,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792 APACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 792.7 APADuden, Jane.
Summary: Looks at the life of Betsy Ross from her Quaker childhood to her role in the Revolutionary War and her days as an independent businesswoman, examining the legend of the Besty Ross Flag and explaining the importance of its legacy today.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bridgestone Books 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ROSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB ROSS DUDAhmedi, Farah.
Summary: Ahmedi was born just as the war between the mujahideen and the Soviets reaches its peak in Afghanistan. The sounds of gunfire and fighter planes were as normal to her as the sounds of traffic or children playing are to a schoolgirl in America. When she stepped on a land mine on her way to school, she began to learn--slowly--that ordinary people, often strangers, have immense power to save lives...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight Entertainment 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AHMEDI, FARAH AHMFarah, Douglas.
Summary: What do the Taliban, Liberian war criminal Charles Taylor, and the U.S. government have in common? They have all done business with the man who put the "blood" in blood diamonds--an immensely wealthy and powerful arms dealer who has flooded Africa and Southwest Asia with weapons of war. Here, two respected journalists tell the story of Viktor Bout, the Russian weapons supplier whose global...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.133 FARJudge, Lita
Summary: A free verse biography of Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, featuring over 300 pages of black-and-white watercolor illustrations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 JUDHameister, Jade
Summary: Polar Explorer is an inspiring and empowering story by sixteen-year-old Jade Hameister, chronicling her feat of being the youngest person to complete the Polar Hat Trick.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 HAMHabib, Samaa.
Summary: "The thrilling and heart-wrenching true story of a former Muslim woman's journey to heaven and back when she was victim of a terrorist bombing"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Rel HabibSamaha, Albert
Summary: "A journalist's powerful and incisive account of the forces steering the fate of his sprawling Filipinx-American family reframes how we comprehend the immigrant experience. Nearing the age at which his mother had migrated to the U.S., part of the wave ofnon-Europeans who arrived after immigration quotas were relaxed in 1965, Albert Samaha began to question the ironclad belief in a better future...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SAMSardy, Marin
Summary: Shares highly informed meditations into how the author's childhood in Anchorage, her literary career, and the lives of beloved family members have been impacted by hereditary schizophrenia.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SARDY, MARIN SARMarsh, Sarah Glenn
Summary: "The inspiring true story of Alice Ramsey, the first woman to drive a car across America in 1909."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Dude Perfect (Group)
Summary: "From trick shots to mind-bending stunts to setting absurd records, Dude Perfect 101 Tricks, Tips, and Cool Stuff offers a full-color, at-home, screen-free adventure for young people eager to accept the challenge of performing the same unbelievable maneuvers that has made Dude Perfect a cultural phenomenon"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2021
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Salak, Kira
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 SALSarna, Igal
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 892.4 SARShah, Saira.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1 SHAKarsh, Yousuf
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: David R. Godine, Publisher 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779.2 KARSabar, Ariel
Summary: "In 2012, Dr. Karen King, a star professor at the Harvard Divinity School, announced a blockbuster discovery at a scholarly conference just steps from the Vatican: She had found an ancient fragment of papyrus in which Jesus calls Mary Magdalene "my wife." The discovery made front-page news around the world - if early Christians believed that Jesus was married, it would threaten not just the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020