Nammar, Jacob J.
Summary: Autobiography of a boy who grew up in Palestine, endured the Nakba, and ultimately moved to Texas to start a new life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Branch Press 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NAMMAR, JACOB J. NAMPresser, J. (Jacob)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1969
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Hammer, Peter J.
Summary: The Honorable Damon J. Keith was appointed to the federal bench in 1967 and has served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit since 1977, where he has been an eloquent defender of civil and constitutional rights and a vigorous enforcer of civil rights law. In Crusader for Justice: Federal Judge Damon J. Keith, authors Peter J. Hammer and Trevor W. Coleman...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 347.732 KEIJacobs, A. J.
Summary: Raised in a secular family but interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A.J. Jacobs decides to attempt to obey the Bible as literally as possible for one full year. He vows to follow the Ten Commandments. To be fruitful and multiply. To love his neighbor. But also to obey the hundreds of less publicized rules: to avoid wearing clothes made of mixed fibers; to stone adulterers....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220 JACCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220 JACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 220 JacJacobs, A. J.
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically chronicles his hilarious adventures in attempting to follow the original meaning of the Constitution, as he searches for answers to one of the most pressing issues of our time: How should we interpret America's foundational document?"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 342.73 JACJacobs, A. J.
Summary: Chronicles the efforts of an NPR contributor to read the "Encyclopedia Britannica" from A to Z, sharing the humorous mishaps that occurred as a result of the endeavor, from changed family relationships to his efforts to join Mensa.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Misc JacobsJacobs, Barry J.
Contents: Prologue -- First days -- Defining commitments -- Utilizing support -- Handling sacrifice -- Weighing hope and acceptance, fantasy and reality -- Fostering awareness and flexibility -- Protecting intimacy -- Sustaining the spirit -- Last days -- Epilogue.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Guilford Press 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.8 JACSummary: Soraya, born in Brooklyn in a working class community of Palestinian refugees, discovers that her grandfather's savings were frozen in a bank account in Jaffa when he was exiled in 1948. Direct, stubborn, and determined to reclaim what is hers, she fulfills her life-long dream of "returning" to Palestine. Slowly she is taken apart by the reality around her and is forced to confront her own...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber Inc. 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SALJacobs, A. J.
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically goes on a journey to understand the enduring power of puzzles: why we love them, what they do to our brains, and how they can improve our world"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 793.73 JACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 793.73 JACJacobs, A. J.
Summary: Traces the author's three-year investigation into what constitutes family, describing how, after receiving an e-mail from a stranger who claimed to be a distant cousin, he embarked on an effort to build the biggest family tree in history.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 929.1 JACJacobs, A. J.
Summary: Traces the author's three-year investigation into what constitutes family, describing how, after receiving an e-mail from a stranger who claimed to be a distant cousin, he embarked on an effort to build the biggest family tree in history.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT 929.1 JACJacobs, A. J.
Summary: A book of essays on all of A.J.'s hilarious adventures as a human guinea pig, including "My Outsourced Life" and "The Truth About Nakedness."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 JACJacobs, A. J.
Summary: NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs chronicles his hilarious and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopedia Brittanica from A-Z.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 031 JACBacon, Carly J.
Summary: "Describes the responsibilities of cat care, including feeding, grooming, and veterinary care"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2016
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Lang, Andrew
Summary: A collection of fairy tales from the folklore of France, Germany, Scandinavia, Scotland, and England.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1965
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Gus and Joe eagerly anticipate another quiet, relaxing fishing trip. Only things don't go quite as they planned! Instead, they innocently create an unstoppable series of outrageous mishaps, destroying everything in their wake!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hollywood Pictures 2003
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GONSummary: With unprecedented access, this behind-the-scenes chronicle follows director Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald's encounters with whistle-blower Edward Snowden in a hotel room in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents that provide evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the NSA.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2015
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CIT RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CITSummary: Meet Josephine, Reena, Marie, Jeanette, Lou, and Terry. These intelligent and articulate women once had secure, active and fulfilling lives. That is until one day when everything unraveled. Now living out of their cars or in cheap hotels, they exist entirely under the radar, too proud to go to shelter or to even receive public assistance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ITYork, M. J.
Summary: "Provides useful words, numbers, greetings, and phrases in Tagalog"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J TAGALOG 499 YOREvanovich, Janet.
Summary: It's the last race of the season and Sam Hooker's NASCAR raceday spotter is Alexandra Barnaby. From her vantage point high above the grandstand she sees things going on in the infield that will change her life. From Miami, Florida to Concord, North Carolina and back to Miami, this is an action-packed multi-car crash of shady dealings, stolen technology, drive-thru windows, and destruction of...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC EVASummary: Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present, this powerful poetry anthology elicits vital conversations about race, belonging, history and faith to highlight Black joy and pain.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Tobin, Paul
Summary: Crazy Dave's brainy niece Patrice, neighborhood daredevil Nathan Timely, and a batch of bold plants discover a secret plan for a zombie uprising so the rare Boom Boom Mushroom must be found in order to save the humans above ground.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2017
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC TOBSummary: Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Star Trek through a personal, intimate look at the life and career of Leonard Nimoy and the enduring appeal of his alter ego, Mr. Spock, as told by his son, Adam Nimoy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FORJacobs
Summary: "Jacobs was a Civil War-era slave who was brutally murdered. In the present day, the author meets Jacobs's ghost and learns the story of his life as a slave, a runaway, and a vagrant in nineteenth-century America"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hampton Roads Pub. Co., Inc. 2008