Patterson, James.
Summary: Daniel, an alien hunter, zeroes in on #7, the mastermind behind a plot that could result in the eventual takeover of the earth, but Daniel may need the help of Kildare, the alien villain's rebellious son, to bring him to justice.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown & Co. 2008
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 741.5 PATSummary: The show chronicles the unlikely partnership between Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine. This revealing, compelling and often gritty story takes place in recording studios, humble homes and massive mansions, in criminal courts and in the highest corridors of corporate power. Featuring interviews with those who worked closely with Jimmy and Dr. Dre, including Bono, David Geffen, and more. The docu-series...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEFLeopold, Aldo
Summary: A Sand County almanac is often hailed as a foundational work of the modern environmental movement. Here, it is paired with over fifty other pieces by Leopold: uncollected articles, essays, speeches, and other writings that chart the evolution of his ideas over the course of three decades.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2013
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.73 LEOLeopold, George
Summary: Unlike other American astronauts, Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom never had the chance to publish his memoirs save for an account of his role in the Gemini program before the tragic launch pad fire on January 27, 1967, which took his life and those of Edward White and Roger Chaffee. The international prestige of winning the Moon Race cannot be understated, and Grissom played a pivotal and enduring role...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Purdue University Press 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRISSOM, GUS LEOGrout, Pam.
Summary: Travelers are showing a huge interest in the fast-growing sector known as experiential tourism--vacations that encompass heritage, culture, nature, ecology, and soft adventure. In the footsteps of the briskly selling The 100 Best Vacations to Enrich Your Life featuring North American destinations, our new title extends these ardent travelers' sights to global scale. From helping to build a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.25 GROGott, Richard
Summary: This new look at the history of Cuba illuminates the islands entire revolutionary past as well as the most recent decades of the Castro regimeEvents in Fidel Castros island nation often command international attention and just as often inspire controversy. Impassioned debate over situations as diverse as the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Elian Gonzales affair is characteristic not only of modern...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.91 GOTLeopold, Aldo
Summary: In 1953 Aldo Leopold bought 80 acres of badly eroded farmland along a bend of the Wisconsin River. Leopold and his family began to manage and restore the land. Written with the knowledge of a scientist and the eye of a poet.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 508.73 LEOStokowski, Leopold
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1996
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL STODamrosch, Leopold
Summary: "In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk's Head Tavern in London to dine, drink, and talk until midnight. Eventually the group came to include among its members Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, and James Boswell. It was known simply as "the Club." In this captivating book, Leo...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 DAMLeopold, Les
Summary: "Layoffs upend people's lives, cause enormous stress, and lead to debilitating personal debt. The societal harm caused by mass layoffs has been known for decades. Yet, we do little to stop them. Why? Why do we allow whole communities to be destroyed by corporate decision-makers? Why do we consider mass layoffs a natural, baked-in feature of modern financialized capitalism? In Wall Street's War...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Grout, Pam.
Summary: Provides a broad spectrum of volunteering possibilities, spanning six continents and a hundred different opportunities ranging from archaeology and tourism to humanitarian aid and conservation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2009
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Damrosch, Leopold
Summary: "Leo Damrosch draws on discoveries made over the past thirty years to tell the story of Swift's life anew. Probing holes in the existing evidence, he takes seriously some daring speculations about Swift's parentage, love life, and various personal relationships and shows how Swift's public version of his life--the one accepted until recently--was deliberately misleading. Swift concealed...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SWIFT, JONATHAN DAMLeopold, Aldo
Summary: Nature writings of Aldo Leopold, one of the foremost conservationist of our century.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1968
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Leopold, Glenn.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1998
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC LeopoGut, Corey
Summary: Staying Strong for Smokey is a children's book on Pet Loss. Written by a veterinarian with guidance from an elementary counselor and children's therapist, this book gently introduces the emotionally provocative topic of the death of a family pet in a gentle, non-threatening way.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Corey Gut 0000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GUTLeopold, Allison Kyle.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter 1995
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Hout, Mies van
Summary: "From 1 to 10 is a counting book for young children featuring illustrations of animals with countable traits, for example the arms of an octopus or the whiskers of a cat."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pajama Press 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE VANGlut, Donald F.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press/Carol Publishing Group 1992
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 567.97 GLUStrauss, Linda Leopold
Summary: "This true story begins long ago in Spain, where a bride and groom are gifted a hand-painted haggadah. It is used at many Passover seders until the Spanish Inquisition when the family escapes. The haggadah survived for centuries in different countries. Scholars declared it a treasure. To protect it from the Nazis, a curator smuggled it out of a Sarajevo museum and hid it in a village mosque. On...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kar-Ben Publishing 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 296.4 STRFarah, 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 FARSummary: It tells the shocking story of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb; wealthy college students who had planned to abduct and kill a child at random just to prove they were smart enough to get away with it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Cott, Jonathan
Summary: "An extraordinary, path-breaking, and penetrating book on the life and work and creative inspirations of the great children's book genius Maurice Sendak, who since his death in 2012 has only grown in his stature and recognition as a major American artist, period. Polymath and master interviewer Jonathan Cott first interviewed Maurice Sendak in 1976 for Rolling Stone, just at the time when...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SENDAK, MAURICE COTGant, Lee.
Summary: "Master knitter, teacher, and widely published knitwear designer Lee Gant shares real-life stories about the power of knitting to comfort and calm, heal and renew"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 746.432 GANGola, Mark.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2004