Filter By Subjects
Amazon River Valley Description and travel Children Biography Historic sites Arkansas Guidebooks Historic sites Oklahoma Guidebooks Natural history Amazon River Valley Nineteen seventy-four, A.D Roosevelt, Theodore 1858-1919 Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition (1913-1914) Shawnee Chief Tecumseh 1768-1813 Youth BiographyFilter By Subjects
Amazon River Valley Description and travel Children Biography Historic sites Arkansas Guidebooks Historic sites Oklahoma Guidebooks Natural history Amazon River Valley Nineteen seventy-four, A.D Roosevelt, Theodore 1858-1919 Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition (1913-1914) Shawnee Chief Tecumseh 1768-1813 Youth BiographyLassieur, 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.DuLong, Jessica.
Summary: DuLong brings her two worlds vibrantly to life in this memoir that evokes the vitality of New York City's bygone working waterfront and the Hudson River, a birthplace of American industry. Blending four centuries of Hudson River history with unforgettable present-day characters and events, DuLong offers a porthole-view narrative of the river and its social tapestry as a microcosm of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.47 DULDuLong, Jessica.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 917.47 DULAdams, Noah.
Summary: The author journeys back to the America of his ancestors as he follows the New River into the heart of modern-day Appalachia on a 330-mile odyssey on foot, by mountain bike, by canoe, and by whitewater raft.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.47 AdaCleland, Charles E.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.3 CLECampbell, David G.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 981 CAMBlew, Mary Clearman
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1991
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BLESummary: Inside Wildsam Hudson Valley, you'll find Upstate stories from prize-winning writers, past and present; a detailed road trip plan and profiles of 10 idyllic towns; interviews with artists, preservationists, brewers and hardware store owners; delightful miscellany from the archives, selective recommendations about authentic Catskills experiences and a deep dive into the world of art history and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wildsam Field Guides 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.473 HUDSON VALLEY WILMillard, Candice.
Summary: The true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing 1914 exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth, a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron. After his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2005
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 918.1 MilCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Survival MillardJenkins, McKay
Summary: Their fate, and the fate of the people they hoped to teach about God, was about to take a tragic turn. Three days after reaching their destination, the two priests were murdered, their livers removed and eaten. Suddenly, after having survived some ten thousand years with virtually no contact with people outside their remote and forbidding land, the last hunter-gatherers in North America were...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 JENWard, Logan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.59 WARSummary: Into the Amazon tells the remarkable story of the journey taken by President Theodore Roosevelt and legendary Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon into the heart of the South American rain forest to chart an unexplored tributary of the Amazon. Two of the most celebrated men from their respective nations, Roosevelt and Rondon set out with twenty other adventurers in 1914. Over eight eventful weeks...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INTEckert, Allan W.
Summary: Recreates events which actually occurred in the opening up of the Northwest Territory in the period 1700 to 1900 based on written documents.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jesse Stuart Foundation 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.8 ECKDenissen, Christian.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Detroit Society for Genealogical Research 1987
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3774 D1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3774 Denis
Ward, Logan.
Contents: Goodbye, New York -- Old year's eve -- Expedition to nowhere -- How I learn to drive -- Waiting for rain -- Picking, cleaning, shelling, shucking -- News from the future -- Under fire -- Home for the holidays -- Winter -- Breeding season -- Back to the future.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Dell 2009
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Van Camp, Richard
Summary: "Curtis has returned to Fort Smith, six weeks sober and determined to stay that way. Can he find healing in his grandfather's ancient cultural practices? Notorious bootlegger, Benny the Bank stands in his way. With poison slowly killing him, Benny is uneasy about how he'll be remembered. Can he find a way to make amends?"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press 2023
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 VANFoley, Louise Pledge Heath.
Summary: Information was abstracted from land records and quit rent rolls.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Foley 1974
Copies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3755 FOL VOL 1Call number: R GEN 929.3755 FOL VOL 2
Call number: R GEN 929.3755 FOL VOL 3
Clinton, Chelsea
Summary: Profiles the lives of thirteen American women who have left their mark on U.S. history, including Harriet Tubman, Helen Keller, Margaret Chase Smith, and Oprah Winfrey.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2017
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J920 CLIGordon, Alice.
Summary: Historic towns, buildings, and natural wonders.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stewart, Tabori & Chang 1990
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.64 TEXAS GORBrownstein, Ronald
Summary: Documents the kaleidoscopic year during which transformative talents from Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard, and Beverly Hills heavily influenced pop culture, politics, and social movements.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Allen, P. David
Contents: Cast of characters -- Timeline -- Introduction -- Part I. making a federal case, by accident -- Green Bay convergence -- The Feds don't take Wisconsin's hint -- Inner turmoil at Fish and Wildlife -- Grand theft -- Part II. The Feds take the case -- Can't we all just get along? -- Making the case -- Escalation to the breaking point -- Afterword -- Epilogue -- References.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 ALLKirkpatrick, Jane
Summary: "Joining her husband in the fight to create a home out of a rugged stretch of sagebrush, rattelesnakes, and sand in Eastern Oregon, Jane Kirkpatrick discovers that disappoinment, isolation, and danger can't compete with the generosity of their rural community, the strength of family bonds, and the faithfulness of the God who planted in their hearts the dream of carving a refuge out of an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Waterbrook Press 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.5 KIRWeintraub, Aileen
Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Bowman, Fred Q.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1997