Filter By Subjects
Capote, Truman 1924-1984 Manners and customs New York (N.Y.) Biography New York (N.Y.) Social conditions 21st century New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs 20th century New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs 21st century New York (State) New York Roosevelt, Theodore 1858-1919 Symbolism (Art movement)Filter By Subjects
Capote, Truman 1924-1984 Manners and customs New York (N.Y.) Biography New York (N.Y.) Social conditions 21st century New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs 20th century New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs 21st century New York (State) New York Roosevelt, Theodore 1858-1919 Symbolism (Art movement)Miller, Donald L.
Summary: An award-winning historian surveys the astonishing cast of characters who helped turn Manhattan into the world capital of commerce, communication and entertainment.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 MILMullen, Jim (Jim R.)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817.54 MULSummary: "For the first time in print, rich, provocative first-hand stories of life in the Bronx in the twentieth century. In Bronx Faces and Voices, sixteen men and women tell their personal, uncensored stories of the New York City borough--before, during, and after the troubled years of arson, crime, abandonment, and flight in the 1970s and 1980s. The voices in this volume are as eclectic as the Bronx...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Texas Tech University Press 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 BROLassieur, Allison
Summary: This encyclopedia offers readers the chance to explore the 63 national parks in the United States and its territories. Alongside photos of the parks, the text highlights each park's history, points of interest, and things to do. Features include glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopedias, an imprint of Abdo Reference 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "In 2011, construction workers were shocked to uncover the remains of a woman in an abandoned lot in Queens, New York. Follow forensic archaeologist Scott Warnasch and a team of historians and scientists as they investigate this woman' story, revealing a vivid picture of what life was like for free African American people in the North."--
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WOMZacks, Richard.
Summary: An unforgettable snapshot of turn-of-the-century New York in all its seedy glory and a brilliant miniature of one of America's most colorful presidents.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 363.2 ZACGolenbock, Peter
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow/HarperCollins 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 GOLZacks, Richard.
Summary: Recounts the effort by newly appointed police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt to shut down late nineteenth-century New York City's brothels, gambling houses, and after-hours saloons.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.23 ZACMacColl, Gail
Summary: Read about a unique set of American women cutting a swath through stodgy 19th century British aristocracy. The book covers not just who they were but the lows and the triumphs of their inter-continental marriages. Also included are many fascinating details on how they dressed and what they had to go through.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Pub. 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7104 MACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 974.7104 MACSteig, William
Summary: A peak at the life of William Steig in 1916 when he was a young boy living in the Bronx.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Joanna Cotler Books 2003
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC STESummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Raab, Scott
Summary: "The powerful story of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center, featuring dozens of never-before-seen color photos by the official site photographer"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 RAALemelman, Martin.
Summary: A memoir in graphic novel form. Lemelman, the son of Holocaust survivors, describes his experiences growing up in Brooklyn, NY in the 1950's and 1960's.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.71 LEMBaker, Kevin
Summary: "A hugely entertaining history of baseball in New York City, bursting with bigger than life figures, and long-forgotten heroes, spanning the game's founding to the early 1940s"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Hayes, Bill
Summary: From the beloved author of Insomniac City, a poignant and profound tribute in stories and images to a city amidst a pandemic. A bookstore where readers shout their orders from the street. A neighborhood restaurant turned to-go place where one has a shared drink--on either end of a bar--with the owner. These scenes, among many others, became the new normal as soon as the world began to face the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.71 HAYParlett, Jack
Summary: A definitive history of New York's Fire Island examines how it has been a vital space in the history of queer America and a key influence on art, literature, culture, and politics. Poet and scholar Jack Parlett's account of Fire Island chronicles its influence on art, literature, culture, and queer liberation over the past century. Fire Island, a thin strip of beach off the Long Island coast,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.725 PARPlaskin, Glenn.
Summary: "The heartwarming true story of how one special cocker spaniel turned four strangers into family"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 PLASummary: A life apart relates the story of the creation of the Hasidic post-Holocaust communities in the United States. Seven years in the making, this documentary explores Hasidic homes, schools, and ceremonies.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run/Icarus Films 1997
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LIFShopsin, Tamara
Summary: "'Arbitrary Stupid Goal is a completely riveting world--when I looked up from its pages regular life seemed boring and safe and modern like one big iPhone. This book captures not just a lost New York but a whole lost way of life'--Miranda July; In Arbitrary Stupid Goal, Tamara Shopsin takes the reader on a pointillist time-travel trip to the Greenwich Village of her bohemian 1970s childhood, a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar Straus & Giroux 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHOPSIN, TAMARA SHOShorto, Russell.
Summary: In a landmark work of history, Russell Shorto presents astonishing information on the founding of our nation and reveals in riveting detail the crucial role of the Dutch in making America what it is today. In the late 1960s, an archivist in the New York State Library made an astounding discovery: 12,000 pages of centuries-old correspondence, court cases, legal contracts, and reports from a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.71 SHOLeamer, Laurence
Summary: "'There are certain women,' Truman Capote wrote, 'who, though perhaps not born rich, are born to be rich.' Barbara 'Babe' Paley, Gloria Guinness, Marella Agnelli, Slim Hayward, Pamela Churchill, C. Z. Guest, Lee Radziwill (Jackie Kennedy's sister) -- they were the toast of midcentury New York, each beautiful and distinguished in her own way. These women captivated and enchanted Capote -- and at...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CAPOTE, TRUMAN LEACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B CAPOTE LEABerger, Joseph
Summary: Explores the ethnically diverse and constantly changing neighborhoods of New York City to bring to life its people, culture, cuisine, and sights, while demonstrating that people of varied backgrounds can live together in harmony.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.47 BERYandolino, Frank.
Summary: "Frank Yandolino rode the hippie counterculture movement alongside visionaries like Artie Kornfeld and Michael Lang, and he helped put together the Woodstock Festival of 1969. This memoir is an account of his life as a hippie, art director, entrepreneur, manager, and screenwriter (as well as various other hats he wore in the creative industry.)"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 YANHelmreich, William B.
Summary: The New York Nobody Knows is a representation of everyday lives of New Yorkers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2013