Filter By Subjects
Baseball players United States Biography Keller, Helen 1880-1968 Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) Ku Klux Klan (19th century) Ruth, Babe 1895-1948 Sex role Biblical teaching Sex role Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines United States Women Biblical teaching Women Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrinesFilter By Subjects
Baseball players United States Biography Keller, Helen 1880-1968 Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) Ku Klux Klan (19th century) Ruth, Babe 1895-1948 Sex role Biblical teaching Sex role Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines United States Women Biblical teaching Women Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrinesRuth, Babe
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1992
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 RUTRoberts, Randy
Summary: "In War Fever, celebrated sports historians Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith explore the monumental changes taking place in Boston during the Great War through the stories of three men: Karl Muck, the German conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra;Charles Whittlesey, a Harvard Law Student who was called to service and became an unlikely leader; and perhaps the most famous baseball player of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.4 ROBFoner, Eric
Summary: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar, a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time. The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three constitutional amendments to establish that ideal as American law. The...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 342.73 FONCooper, Caren B. (Caren Beth)
Summary: "Think you need a degree in science to contribute to important scientific discoveries? Think again. All around the world, in fields ranging from astronomy to zoology, millions of everyday people are choosing to participate in the scientific process. Working in cooperation with scientists in pursuit of information, innovation, and discovery, these volunteers are following protocols, collecting...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 COOSummary: Documents the stories of American men and women who heeded the call for military service in Afghanistan and Iraq and the challenges they faced upon their return home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GROKelly, David A.
Summary: On January 5, 1920, the Boston Red Sox traded Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees. That's when, some say, that the Red Sox's reversal of fortune began.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE KELBest, 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 BESSmith, Sherri L.
Summary: "During World War II, black Americans were fighting for their country and for freedom in Europe, yet they had to endure a totally segregated military in the United States, where they weren't considered smart enough to become military pilots. After acquiring government funding for aviation training, civil rights activists were able to kickstart the first African American military flight program...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET TUSKEGEESummary: Authors David M. Chalmers (Hooded Americanism) and Wyn Craig Wade (The Fiery Cross) trace the history of the Klan from its birth in 1866 to the present.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV KUStabler, David
Summary: Sixteen "true tales from the childhoods of famous athletes, from Babe Ruth (so incorrigible that his parents put him in reform school at age 7) to Muhammad Ali (who learned to fight at age 12 after a thief stole his bicycle)"--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2015
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Gray, Rose
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5945 GRABarr, Beth Allison
Summary: Biblical womanhood--the belief that God designed women to be submissive wives, virtuous mothers, and joyful homemakers--pervades North American Christianity. From choices about careers to roles in local churches to relationship dynamics, this belief shapes the everyday lives of evangelical women. Yet biblical womanhood isn't biblical, says Baylor University historian Beth Allison Barr. It arose...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2021
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Montville, Leigh.
Summary: A portrait of the legendary slugger draws on interviews, recently discovered documents, and Ruth's personal scrapbooks to trace his life from his childhood in an orphanage to his rise to the heights of major league baseball.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 RUTH, BABE MontvilleRUSH
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1989
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Rosenstock, Barb
Summary: "When President Woodrow Wilson arrived in Washington, DC, to start his first term, women's rights leader Alice Paul was ready to demand an amendment to the Constitution that allowed women to vote. The president thought that idea was ridiculous! THEIR FIGHT BEGAN. For the next five years, Alice and her suffragists battered Wilson and his supporters with arguments and protests. Their peaceful...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6 ROSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6 RosRoth, Ruby
Summary: "Experts tell us the best way to teach kids healthy eating habits is to involve them in the process. This irresistible cookbook presents 60 appealing recipes kids will beg to make themselves, in fun and charming illustrations they will love. Bursting with color, humor, cute animal characters, and cool facts (did you know your brain actually shrinks when you're dehydrated? Drink water, quick!),...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 641.5636 ROTSummary: The Yes Men again pull off one bold prank after another in an effort to raise political consciousness. Posing as top executives of giant corporations, they lie their way into big business conferences and pull off the world's most outrageous pranks. When they engineer an announcement that Dow will clean up the site of the largest industrial accident in history, the Bhopal catastrophe, Dow's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC YESWark, Chris
Summary: "Two days before Christmas and at just 26-years-old, Chris Wark found himself diagnosed with stage-3 colon cancer. Before he knew it, he was wheeled into surgery, where a golf ball-sized tumor and a third of his colon were removed. Doctors told Wark thatas soon as he recovered from surgery, he would need 9 to 12 months of chemotherapy in order to prevent a recurrence. But when the first meal he...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House, Inc. 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.99 WARAntonson, Kathleen.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxmoor House 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 747.76 ANTRouth, Sarah.
Summary: The machines that help our military troops battle wars.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Meredith Books 2011
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J355.8 ROUSummary: Documentary about several traditions of ecstatic dance around the world, including San in Namibia, Kut in Korea, Yoruba in Nigeria, Gabrielle Roth in New York, Candomble in Brazil, whirling dervishes in Turkey, Hadra in Morocco, firedance in the U.S. and the Rainbow Serpent Festival in Australia.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DANThompson, Gare.
Summary: A biography of the woman who, with the assistance of her devoted teacher Annie Sullivan, achieved success and fame despite being blind and deaf.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KELRoth, Rita.
Summary: Presents a collection of thirteen Sephardic folk tales based on tales collected by the Israel Folktales Archives.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jewish Publication Society 2007