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Lea, Bud.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Triumph Books 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.332 LEA

Smith, Bea.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 1995

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 SMI

Schyffert, Bea Uusma.

Summary: A biography of the astronaut, Michael Collins, who circled the moon in the Apollo 12 space capsule while his colleagues Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed the lunar module and walked on the moon.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2003

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Stacks, Call number: J 629.45 SCH

Summary: Pat Tillman chose to walk away from a multimillion-dollar football contract and join the military for no other reason than he felt it was the right thing to do. Documented are the facts surrounding the way the military manipulated his tragic death in the line of duty into a propaganda tool.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TIL
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TIL

Summary: Simone Bitton, a Jewish woman born in Morocco who identifies with both Arab and Jewish cultures, examines the personal, cultural, and monetary costs of the Israeli West Bank Barrier, a wall being built to separate Israelis and Palestinians.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Life Size Entertainment 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WAL

Summary: Examined Life takes philosophy into the hustle and bustle of the everyday. The "rock star" philosophers of our time take "walks" through places that hold special resonance for them and their ideas. These places include crowded city streets, deserted alleyways, Central Park, and a garbage dump.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Zeitgeist Films 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EXA

Flea

Summary: The co-founder of the Red Hot Chili Peppers chronicles his life from his birth in Australia and upbringing on the streets of Los Angeles through his rise to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FLEA FLE

Long, Michael G.

Summary: "This powerful and triumphant picture book biography tells the story of Bayard Rustin, an openly gay civils rights leader, who, with the support of Dr. King and future congressman John Lewis, led 250,000 people to the doorstep of the U.S. government demanding change"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2023

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

Summary: Roberto Miniverni tells the story of a black community in the American South during summer 2017, when a string of brutal killings of young African American men sent shockwaves throughout the country. A meditation on the state of race in America, this film is an intimate portrait of those who struggle for justice, dignity, and survival in a country that is not on their side.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kim Stim 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

3 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHA

Shaw, Bud

Summary: "The 1980s marked a revolution in the field of organ transplants, and Bud Shaw, M.D., who studied under Tom Starzl in Pittsburgh, was on the front lines. Now retired from active practice, Dr. Shaw relays gripping moments of anguish and elation, frustration and reward, despair and hope in his struggle to save patients."--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617 SHA

Cline-Ransome, Lesa

Summary: "The story of Katherine Johnson, an African American mathematician whose work was critical to the first US space flight"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: Documentary film that follows friends Jan Wiener and Arnošt Lustig on a trip to Europe in 1998. Holocaust survivors, Wiener and Lustig met in the United States, where both had fled from communist Czechoslovakia. The trip recreates the journey made by Wiener as he escaped from Nazi occupied Prague, through Slovenia and Italy, on his way to joining the British Royal Air Force before his return to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FIG

Summary: Tracks the overnight celebrity of Marla Olmstead, a toddler who creates gallery-worthy paintings on the dining room table of her family home. Sales of her paintings reach $300,000. Then the bubble burst. When a 2005 profile by '60 minutes' suggests that Marla had help making her paintings, the finger is pointed at her father, an amateur artist and night manager at Frito Lay. Almost overnight,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MY

Summary: Examines the long career of the Grateful Dead featuring new interviews with the surviving members of the group and never-before-seen footage of the group's performances.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2018

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Summary: Investigates the 2011 Penn State child molestation scandal, in which Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky was accused of several accounts of child sexual abuse and head coach Joe Paterno and university administration were implicated in a coverup. Looks at the effects of the scandal on the Penn State student body, Penn State alumni, and residents of State College, Pennsylvania. Covers...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HAP

Summary: Lain is accused of stealing people's secrets and is abandoned by her friends and family only to learn that her virtual self in the Wired is the one causing trouble for her.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Geneon Entertainment 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME SER

Lea, Sydney

Summary: "A collection of essays, organized by the changing of the seasons, about the author's strong connection to his family, friends, and the northern outdoors"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Pub. 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 LEA

Michele, Lea.

Summary: The star of the hit show Glee shares her experiences and insider tips on beauty, fashion, inner strength, and more in an illustrated book that's part memoir, part how-to, and part style guide.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.7 MIC

Tsemel, Lea

Summary: Profiles Israeli human rights lawyer Lea Tsemel.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement Llc 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ADV

VanderVelde, Lea.

Summary: In telling the life of Harriet, Dred's wife and co-litigant in the case, this book provides a compensatory history to the generations of work that missed key sources only recently brought to light. Moreover, it gives insight into the reasons and ways that slaves used the courts to establish their freedom.--From publisher description.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7115 SCOTT, HARRIET VAN

Smith, Brad (Brad Lee)

Summary: "In Tools and Weapons, Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne take us into the cockpit of one of the world's largest and most powerful tech companies as it finds itself in the middle of some of the thorniest emerging issues of our time. These are challenges thatcome with no preexisting playbook, including privacy, cybercrime and cyberwar, social media, the moral conundrums of artificial intelligence,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 SMI

Ames, Lee J.

Summary: Provides step-by-step instructions for drawing a variety of sharks, whales, and other sea creatures, including the hammerhead shark, humpback whale, and giant sea turtle.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1989

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 743 AME

Dorion, Leah

Summary: The story takes readers back to Canada's fur trade era by focusing on a Mé́tis family's preparations for a lobstick celebration and feast in the boreal forest.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gabriel Dumont Institute 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.004 DOR

Berman, Lea

Summary: "A guide to personal and professional empowerment through civility and social skills, written by two White House Social Secretaries who offer an important fundamental message-- everyone is important and everyone deserves to be treated well."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 BER

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