Pember, Phoebe Yates

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of South Carolina Press 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.782 PEM

Kates, James.

Summary: By 1910, the forest region of the Great Lakes states was largely denuded, logged over by industrialists who coveted its timber, particularly the giant white pine. After unsuccessful attempts to farm this "cutover" region of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan, a group of visionaries began to dream of restoring the North Woods as a place of solace and beauty, of recreation and retreat, for the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 634.956 KAT
1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 634.956 KAT

Kates, Gary

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 1995

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.034 KAT

Robinson, Phoebe

Summary: "New York Times bestselling author, comedian, actress, and producer Phoebe Robinson is back with a new essay collection that is equal parts thoughtful, hilarious, and sharp about human connection, race, hair, travel, dating, Black excellence, and more. Written in Phoebe's unforgettable voice and with her unparalleled wit, Robinson's latest collection, laced with spot-on pop culture references,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tiny Reparations Books 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 ROB

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 ROB

Catel, Patrick

Summary: "This book explores the people, places, and history of the New York Colony"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.7 CAT

Cotton, Phebe

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1974

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 912 COT

Zerwick, Phoebe

Summary: In May 1985, Darryl Hunt, a Black teenager in Winston-Salem, N.C. was falsely convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a young white copyeditor at the local paper. In 2003, an award-winning series of articles led to the DNA evidence that exonerated Hunt. Part true crime drama, part chronicle of a remarkable life cut short by systemic prejudice, this book powerfully...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 347.73 ZER

Yates, Kit

Summary: Are you more likely to become a professional footballer if your surname is Ball? How can you be one hundred per cent sure you will win a bet? Why did so many Pompeiians stay put while Mount Vesuvius was erupting? How do you prevent a nuclear war? Ever since the dawn of human civilisation, we have been trying to make predictions about what's in store for us. We do this on a personal level, so...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.49 YAT

Damrosch, Phoebe

Summary: Damrosch, former waiter at the New York City restaurant Per Se, details her career as a waiter, describing the intimate workings of restaurant table service at its best. Tales of critics and celebrities spice up the memoir with a few tips on how to earn a waiter's respect sprinkled throughout.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 647.95092 DAM

Kates, Bobbi Jane

Summary: Illustrations and simple rhyming text show that while the body parts of various human and Muppet characters may look different, they have similar uses.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KAT

Shulman, Alix Kates.

Summary: Alix Kates Shulman discusses the experiences she had after returning home to care for her aging parents during the last years of their lives.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHULMAN, ALIX KATES SHU

Batts, Brenda.

Summary: Potty training a child with developmental disorders can be a real challenge, and sometimes the extra difficulties make you feel as though you've tried everything, and failed. In this book, Brenda Batts shows how you can overcome problems, big and small, and provides tried and tested methods that really work, tailored to each individual child. Bursting with ideas on how to see past conventional...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 BAT

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Parents Batts

Camus, Albert

Summary: Withheld from publication in France for twenty-nine years after his death, and now in English for the first time, Camus's final journals give us our rawest and most intimate glimpse yet into one of the most important voices of French letters and twentieth-century literature. The first two volumes of his Notebooks began as simple instruments of his work; this final volume, recorded over the last...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ivan R. Dee 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 848.91403 CAM

Caper, William.

Summary: "In 1798 the Governor of Australia came across an odd-looking animal. It had a bill like a duck, a tail like a beaver, and webbed feet with claws. He shipped the mysterious creature to scientists in England. Perhaps they could figure out what it was. Little did the Governor of Australia know that it would take scientists almost 100 years to fully unravel the mystery of what this rare...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Pub. 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.29 CAP

Capps, Gil

Summary: Describes the record-breaking 1975 Masters Tournament, in which Lee Elder became the first African-American to compete at the exclusive golf club; the tournament resulted in a showdown between the three legends, Nicklaus, Miller, and Weiskopf.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.352 CAP

Chayes, Sarah

Summary: A former advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff explains the common role of corruption in today's international uprisings, tracing corruption since the 1990s while arguing that corrupt governments have been largely responsible for extreme acts of rebellion.

Format: text

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 CHA

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Pol Chayes

Davis, Camas

Summary: Camas Davis was at an unhappy crossroads. A longtime magazine writer and editor in the food world, she'd returned to her home state of Oregon with her boyfriend from New York City to take an appealing job at a Portland lifestyle magazine. But neither job nor boyfriend delivered on her dreams, and in the span of a year, Davis was unemployed, on her own, with nothing to fall back on....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAVIS, CAMAS DAV

Eaves, Elisabeth

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.7 EAV

Cate, Annette.

Summary: A conversational, humorous introduction to bird-watching featuring quirky full-color illustrations portray dozens of birds chatting about their distinctive characteristics, including color, shape, plumage, and beak and foot types.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 598.072 CAT

Voltaire

Summary: Extrait : ""Nous osons croire, à l'honneur du siècle où nous vivons, qu'il n'y a point dans toute l'Europe un seul homme éclairé qui ne regarde la tolérance comme un droit de justice, un devoir proscrit par l'humanité, la conscience, la religion ; une loi nécessaire à la paix et à la prospérité des États.""À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARANLes éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques de...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flammarion 1989

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 VOL FRENCH

Cotton, Phebe E.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Leader and the Kalkaskian 1971

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.465 COT