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Howell, Dan

Summary: "YouTube sensations Dan Howell (danisnotonfire) and Phil Lester (AmazingPhil) were just two awkward guys who shared their lives on the Internet--until now. Dan Howell and Phil Lester, avoiders of human contact and direct sunlight, actually went outside. Traveling around the world on tour, they have collected hundreds of exclusive, intimate, and funny photos, as well as revealing and candid side...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 920 HOW

Vowell, Sarah

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.099 VOW

Vowell, Sarah

Summary: On August 16, 1824, an elderly French gentlemen sailed into New York Harbor and giddy Americans were there to welcome him. Or, rather, to welcome him back. It had been 30 years since the Revolutionary War hero the Marquis de Lafayette had last set foot in the United States, and he was so beloved that 80,000 people showed up to cheer for him. The entire population of New York at the time was...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 VOW

Podell, Albert

Summary: "In 2003, Albert Podell realized that he'd been to 110 countries in the world. What if, he wondered, he could go to them all? He would set foot in not just the well-known tourist destinations in Europe or the vacation spots in Latin America, but the little-known, far-off lands that most people don't know exist. In Around the World in 50 Years, Podell recounts the misunderstandings, detours,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2015

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 POD

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PODELL, ALBERT POD

Vowell, Sarah

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 VOW

Cosell, Howard

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Playboy Press 1973

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796 COS

Mak, Geert.

Summary: Journalist Mak spent the year of 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of Europe at the verge of a new millennium. In the voices of prominent figures and unknown players, Mak combines the larger story of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5 MAK

Lowell, Robert

Summary: "A new, expanded edition of Lowell's prose, with annotations"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOWELL, ROBERT LOW

Powell, Julie.

Summary: Julie Powell is 30 years old, living in a rundown apartment in Queens and working at a secretarial job that's going nowhere. She needs something to break the monotony of her life, and she invents a deranged assignment. She will cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child's 1961 classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking. In the span of one year. At first she thinks it will be easy, but as she moves...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2009

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: FoodPowell

Powell, Margaret

Summary: "A kitchen-maid's through-the-key hole memoir of life in the great houses of England--now a bestseller in the UK. At fifteen, she arrived at the servants' entrance to begin her life as a kitchen maid in 1920s England. The lowest of the low, her world was one of stoves to be blacked, vegetables to be scrubbed, mistresses to be appeased, and even bootlaces to be ironed. Work started at 5:30am and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POWELL, MARGARET POW

Powell, Michael

Summary: The moving story of a Navajo high school basketball team, its members struggling with the everyday challenges of high school, adolescence, and family, and the great and unique obstacles facing Native Americans living on reservations.--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2019

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Best, Mat

Summary: "Mat Best may be the only man alive known for both crazy-intense military ops and crazy-funny YouTube videos. In Freedom On!, he uses the gallows humor and ribald sensibility that earned him over a million Facebook followers to tell his personal story of military service and the bumpy transition to civilian life and successful entrepreneurship. Beginning as a teenager in a military family...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BEST, MAT BES

Howell, Dan

Summary: YouTube stars Dan Howell and Phil Lester tell the humorous story of growing up, becoming YouTube stars, and give advice to their teen followers.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 HOW

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 791.44

Powell, Julie.

Summary: The author recounts how she escaped the doldrums of an unpromising career by mastering every recipe in Julia Child's 1961 classic, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," a year-long endeavor that transformed her life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2006

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.5 POW

Powell, Margaret

Summary: A collection of accounts about life in the servants' halls of England's great houses shares the true story of under-parlourmaid Rose, who after eloping with her employer's only son was swept up in a maelstrom of gossip.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POWELL, MARGARET POW

Gonell, Aquilino

Summary: "Aquilino Gonell came to the United States from the Dominican Republic as a young boy. Although he spoke no English, he dedicated himself to his adopted land, striving for the American dream. Determined to be a success story, he joined the army to pay for college. He saw action in Iraq and returned home with PTSD. Believing in the promise of our government, he focused on healing himself and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GONELL, AQUILINO GON

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B GONELL GON

Sorell, Traci

Summary: "The true story of John Meyers and Charles Bender, who in 1911 became the first two Native American pro baseball players to face off in a World Series, teaches important lessons about resilience, doing what you love in the face of injustice, and the fight for Native American representation in sports"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.357 SOR

Rozell, Ned

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Duquesne University Press 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.98 ROZ

Powell, Julie.

Summary: Her marriage challenged by an insane, irresistible love affair, Julie decides to leave town and immerse herself in a new obsession: butchery.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2009

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.5 POW

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POWELL, JULIE POW

Mar, Alex

Summary: "A thought-provoking, masterfully told work of literary journalism about a shocking crime committed by a teenager-and its even more shocking aftermath In 1985 in Gary, Indiana, a black teenaged girl kills an elderly white woman in a robbery gone wrong. The shock and awe of the case captivates the state, whose citizens cry out for vengeance. Soon after, Paula Cooper, the fifteen-year-old killer,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.88 MAR

Unger, Zac.

Summary: A portrait of the tiny Manitoba community to which numerous scientists, conservationists, and tourists flock to observe regional polar bears explores how the species has become a lightning rod for environmental debate.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group 2013

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.7862 UNG

Barnett, Mac

3 holds on 1 copy

Summary: A picture book biography of the children's book author shares insights into her life and enduring literary influence.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019

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Odell, Amy

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: This definitive biography of the legendary fashion journalist and media mogul follows her journey from the trendy fashion scene of swinging 1960s London to becoming the editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WINTOUR, ANNA ODE

Lovell, Henrietta

Summary: Henrietta Lovell is best known as 'The Rare Tea Lady'. She is on a mission to revolutionise the way we drink tea by replacing industrially produced teabags with the highest quality tea leaves. Her quest has seen her travel to the Shire Highlands of Malawi, across the foothills of the Himalayas, and to hidden gardens in the Wuyi-Shan to source the world's most extraordinary teas. Infused invites...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Faber & Faber Limited 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 LOV

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