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Petterson, Per

Summary: On his first day of school, a teacher welcomes Audun to the class by asking him to describe his former life in the country. But there are stories about his family he would prefer to keep to himself, such as the weeks he spent living in a couple of cardboard boxes, and the day of his little brother's birth, when his drunken father fired three shots into the ceiling. So he refuses to talk and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Pr 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PET

Seierstad, Åsne

Summary: "On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside the Norwegian prime minister's office in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded to a youth camp on the wooded island of Utøya, where he killed sixty-nine more, most of them teenage members of the country's governing Labour Party. In [this book], the journalist Åsne Seierstad tells the story of this terrible day...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 948.1 SEI

Weinzweig, Ari.

Summary: A guide to understanding, eating and enjoying extra virgin olive oil.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Zingerman's 1995

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.6463 WEI

Khouw, Petta.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: State Library of Ohio 1992

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3771 Khouw

Mueller, Tom.

Summary: For millennia, fresh olive oil has been one of life's necessities, not just as food but also as medicine, a beauty aid, and a vital element of religious ritual. Today's researchers are continuing to confirm the remarkable, life giving properties of true extra-virgin, and "extra-virgin Italian" has become the highest standard of quality. But what if this symbol of purity has become deeply...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.6463 Mueller

Nowak, Margaret Collingwood

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1989

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 331.88 NOW

Gage, Fran.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stewart, Tabori & Chang 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.6463 GAG

Jolie, Raechel Anne

Summary: "Raechel Anne Jolie's early life in a working-class Cleveland exurb was full of race cars, Budweiser-drinking men covered in car grease, and the women who loved them. After her father came home from his third-shift job, took the garbage out to the curb and was hit by a drunk driver, her life changed. Raechel and her mother struggled for money: they were evicted, went days without utilities, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOLIE, RAECHEL ANNE JOL

Desmond, Matthew

Summary: "[The author] takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the 20 dollars a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.2 DES

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 339.4 DES

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.4 DES

Chandler, Matt

Summary: "This is the true story of one man's bravery, ingenuity, and daring determination as he trekked thousands of feet up in the mountains. Readers will learn about the struggles Sven Somme endured as he eluded 900 German soldiers set out to capture him."--Publisher's website.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 CHA

Kent, Lindsay.

Summary: "Join heroic Han Solo as he makes great friends--and some powerful enemies!"--p. [4] of cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE KEN

Urofsky, Melvin I.

Summary: From acclaimed legal historian, author of a biography of Louis Brandeis ("Remarkable" --Anthony Lewis, The New York Review of Books, "Definitive"--Jeffrey Rosen, The New Republic) and Dissent and the Supreme Court ("Riveting"--Dahlia Lithwick, The New York Times Book Review), a history of affirmative action from its beginning with the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to the first use of the term in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.13 URO

Fradin, Judith Bloom.

Summary: Documents the efforts of an Ohio community to secure the freedom of escaped slave John Price, examining various aspects of Price's escape from Kentucky, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, and the heroic showdown.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books for Young Readers 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7115 FRA

Margolin, Jamie

Summary: "The 1963 Children's March in Birmingham, Alabama. Tiananmen Square, 1989. The 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline protests. March for Our Lives, and School Strike for Climate. What do all these social justice movements have in common? They were led by passionate, informed, engaged young people. Jamie Margolin has been organizing and protesting since she was fourteen years old. Now the co-leader of a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: GO, Hachette Books 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 320.0835 MAR

Chau, Alina

Summary: "Jordan's days as the star player for her school's basketball team ended when an accident left her paralyzed...Now, she's still the team captain, but her competition days seem to be behind her...until an encounter with a mysterious elephant, who she names Marshmallow, helps Jordan discover a brand new sport. Will water polo be the way for Jordan to continue her athletic dreams--or will it just...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 CHA

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC CHA

Castillo, Linda

Summary: "Over a decade ago, beloved Amish bishop Ananias Stoltzfus disappeared without a trace. When skeletal remains showing evidence of foul play are unearthed, his disappearance becomes even more sinister. The town's elders arrive in Painters Mill to ask chief of police Kate Burkholder for help, but she quickly realizes she has a personal connection to the crime. The handsome Amish man who stands...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC CAS

Gulian, Jared

Summary: "For Jared Gulian, leaving the United States and moving to the capital of New Zealand was a big enough switch from the bright lights of big cities. So when his partner decided they just had to buy a rundown olive grove out in the middle of nowhere, it was almost too much. To get there they'd have to drive over a dangerous mountain road - and Jared was terified of heights. And them they'd have...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lucky Pony 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630.92 GUL

Koutalianos, Helen

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.6463 KOU

Milligan, Jim.

Summary: A collection of 66 recipes from area chefs and Fustini's own employees.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fustini's oils & vinegars 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: During this exciting pivotal season: Clark faces rogue Kryptonians, Lex Luthor launches a vicious political campaign, the Fortress of Solitude rises, Clark's love for Lana Lang deepens and he and Lois Lane remain friendly adversaries, Clark crosses paths with AC (aka Aquaman), Victor Stone (aka Cyborg) and the mysterious Milton Fine (aka Brainiac).

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD Series Smallville 2011 Season 5

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SMA

Sevigny, Melissa L.

Summary: "The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SEV

Frazier, Ian.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1994

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.1 FRA

Summary: Bill Nye illustrates how various types of transportation utilize friction, from traction in trains and the "roll" of ball bearings in skateboards and automobiles, to the lack of friction in a hovercraft.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BIL

Milligan, Jim.

Summary: Let Entertaining with Fustini's be your guide as your take your guests on a culiary adventure or discover new horizons with traditional holiday fare. Over 60 new recipes from chefs and home cooks promise memorable meals any time of the day or year!

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fustini's Oil & Vinegars 0000

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

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