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Greenberg, Mark

Summary: Back in 2007, when Barack Hussein Obama announced his campaign, his election seemed to be a long shot. But he won in a decisive victory, also garnering a record 69.5 million votes, and on January 20, 2009, he became the 44th president of the United States and its first African American chief executive. Now, after two terms, this book explores Obama's journey in pictures, from his remarkable...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 921 OBAMA, BARACK GRE

Summary: A chance car accident introduces the Henderson family to the real-life Bigfoot, who is anything but a ferocious monster. He quickly becomes a true friend of the family. They're soon in a race against the clock to return "Harry' to his natural environment before the authorities capture him.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Harry

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HAR

Di Prima, Diane.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DI PRIMA, DIANE DIP

Jones, Rachel Pieh

Summary: "Somalia's Mother Teresa chose love over fear. Amid a volatile mix of disease, war, and religious fundamentalism in the Horn of Africa, what difference could one woman make? "I am nobody," she always insisted. Yet by the time she was killed for her work three decades later she had not only developed an effective cure for tuberculosis among nomadic peoples but also exposed a massacre,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Plough Publishing House 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TONELLI, ANNALENA JON

Obama, Michelle

1 hold on 7 copies

Summary: "Mrs. Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OBAMA, MICHELLE OBA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B OBAMA OBA

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio Obama

Souza, Pete

Summary: During Barack Obama's two terms, Pete Souza was with the President during more crucial moments than anyone else--and he photographed them all. Souza captured nearly two million photographs of President Obama, in moments highly classified and disarmingly candid. Obama: An Intimate Portrait reproduces more than 300 of Souza's most iconic photographs with fine-art print quality in an oversize...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B OBAMA SOU

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.932 SOU

Cloulas, Ivan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: F. Watts 1989

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 CLO

Amiry, Suad.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.95 AMI

Chamberlin, E. R. (Eric Russell)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 1974

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

Negendank, Megan

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "In Loving Someone Who Has Sexual Trauma, a sex therapist offers self-compassion and attachment-based communication skills to help readers nurture intimacy and trust, and cultivate a more secure relationship with a partner who has experienced past sexual trauma. In the book, readers will learn powerful, trauma-informed techniques to help them understand the full impact of their partner's past...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications 2023

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Summary: From the biggest festival to the smallest church social, Kenny Smyth delivers porta-potties to them all. A true unsung hero, Kenny does one of society's dirtiest jobs. Kenny struggles to juggle family tensions, fatherhood and sewage. Part philosopher, part comedian and all heart.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Xenon Pictures 2008

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

Fury, Dalton.

Summary: A firsthand account of the Battle of Tora Bora and the Delta Force operations outlines the experiences of its elite team of secret counter-terrorist members, tracing their siege against bin Laden within his cave sanctuary inside the Spin Ghar Mountain range.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 FUR

Fishman, Boris

Summary: The author shares the story of his family, their immigration, and the challenges of navigating two cultures.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FISHMAN, BORIS FIS

Katz, David

Summary: "A personal, intimate, photographic celebration of President Barack Obama in the years prior to his presidency, from friend and former aide David Katz"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.932 KAT

Scott-Clark, Cathy

Summary: The Exile joins Osama bin Laden as he escapes into Pakistan in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, bringing to vivid life the years leading up to his death spent on the run and in exile. It tells the human story, and illuminates the global political workings. It is a tale of evasion, collusion, betrayal and the deep pain of isolation. Staying with a small group of characters throughout, The Exile...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1 SCO

Shakespeare, William

Summary: Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spark Publishing 2003

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Play Shakespeare

Firstbrook, P. L.

Summary: The astonishing story of Barack Obama's Kenyan roots, "The Obamas" is the product of dozens of interviews with Obama's African relatives, presented by the first person to trace Obama's family history back 400 years and 23 generations.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 OBAMA FAMILY FIR

Maraniss, David.

Summary: Based on hundreds of interviews and documents, this book chronicles the forces that shaped the first black president of the United States and explains why he thinks and acts as he does.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OBAMA, BARACK MAR

Summary: Lessons from professional drummer Tommy Igoe to get any beginner started on drums.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Music 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 786.9 GET

Ray, Janisse

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.8784 RAY

Harry

Summary: It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mothers coffin as the world watched in sorrow--and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling--and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. With its raw,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 HARRY, PRINCE HAR

Trethewey, Rachel

Summary: "As complex in their own way as their Mitford cousins, Winston and Clementine Churchill's daughters each had a unique relationship with their famous father. Rachel Trethewey's biography, The Churchill Sisters, tells their story. Bright, attractive and well-connected, in any other family the Churchill girls - Diana, Sarah, Marigold and Mary - would have shone. But they were not in another...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 TRE

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 TRE

May-Levenick, Denise S.

Summary: A practical how-to guide for organizing your growing digital photo collection, digitizing and preserving heirloom family photos, and sharing your treasured photos.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Family Tree Books 2015

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.1 MAY

Buckley, Gail Lumet

Summary: Gail Lumet Buckley, daughter of actress Lena Horne, delves deeply into her family history, detailing the experiences of an extraordinary African American family from Civil War to civil rights.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2016

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 BUC

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BUC

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