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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

Hill, Jemele

Summary: "An empowering, unabashedly bold memoir by the Atlantic journalist and former ESPN SportsCenter co-anchor about overcoming a legacy of pain and forging a new path, no matter how uphill life's battles might be"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HILL, JEMELE HIL

Copies Available at Interlochen

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

Summary: Dedicated insurance investigator Nate Ford becomes disillusioned with his job when the company he works for refuses a claim that allows his 8-year-old son to die. Assembling a team of con artists, professional thieves, and computer hackers, Nate turns his attention to aiding those who have been wronged by corrupt corporations, by stealing their money back for them.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV LEV

Edsel, Robert M.

Summary: "As the most destructive war in history ravaged Europe, many of the world's most cherished cultural objects were in harm's way. The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History recounts the astonishing true story of eleven men and one woman who risked their lives amidst the bloodshed of World War II to preserve churches, libraries, monuments, and works of art that for centuries defined the heritage of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Mullins, Matt.

Summary: Photographs and text introduce scientific concepts related to friction, explaining what friction is and what it affects, describing how people have used friction throughout human history, and providing additional facts, statistics, and a time line.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2012

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 531.1134 MUL

Spiro, Ruth

Summary: "Baby discovers the science behind spinning a dreidel on Hanukkah, exploring angular momentum, torque, friction, and gravity"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge Publishing 2021

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Angell, Roger

Summary: "From the acclaimed New Yorker writer and editor, a compendium of writings that celebrate the view from the tenth decade of his richly lived life"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 818 ANG

Franklin, Ruth.

Summary: What is the difference between writing a novel about the Holocaust and fabricating a memoir? Are Holocaust writings, by their very nature, exempt from criticism and interpretation? Do narratives about the Holocaust have a special obligation to be truthful--that is, faithful to the facts of history? Is a fictional account of the Holocaust, in the words of Elie Wiesel, "an insult to the dead"? In...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 FRA

Deford, Frank.

Summary: The eminent sportswriter traces his career from his early years at "Sports Illustrated" in the 1960s to the present, interweaving a narrative of the history of American sportswriting with his own personal story.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DEFORD, FRANK DEF

Summary: Everyone reads her scandalous Internet commentary on the lives of Manhattan's most privileged teenagers. But exactly who is Gossip Girl? No one knows, but she certainly adds spice to the lives of these fashionable prep schoolers, divulging some of their most closely guarded secrets.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GOS

Moss, Marissa

Summary: The gripping story of Lise Meitner, the physicist who discovered nuclear fission.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 921 MEI

Harwell, Ernie.

Summary: Hall of Fame broadcaster Ernie Harwell is turning 90 in January '08. But he's as active as ever. He writes weekly columns for the Detroit Free Press, is a health advocate for Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan and has made many guest appearances in the broadcast booth. Breaking 90 is the third collection of Harwell's Detroit Free Press columns.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Detroit Free Press 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 HAR

Reilly, Rick

Summary: "A collection of columns from ESPN sportswriter Rick Reilly"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796 REI

Summary: In the year 1897, Magda hopes to end the werewolf curse she placed on Quentin. She reveals to Barnabas that she has gained possession of the magical hand of Count Petofi. After the Collins family learns that Barnabas is a vampire, he is forced into hiding. When Jamison is possessed with the spirit of the dying David Collins from 1969, Count Petofi promises to save the boy if Barnabas reveals...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 1969

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Morris, Theresa

Summary: Examines the exponential increase in the United States of the most technological form of birth that exists -- the cesarean section -- and challenges most existing explanations of this unprecedented rise, arguing that there is a new culture within medicine that avoids risk or unpredictable outcomes and instead embraces planning and conservative choices, all in an effort to have perfect births.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.8 MOR

Apter, Bill

Summary: Complete with exclusive photographs and sensational backstage stories, Is Wrestling Fixed? is the much anticipated memoir from the biggest legend in wrestling fandom himself, Bill Apter As a kid growing up in New York in the late '50s, Bill Apter fell in love with professional wrestling, and it wasn't long before he was rubbing shoulders with the greats as a young reporter and photographer....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: ECW Press 2015

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Khouw, Petta.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: State Library of Ohio 1992

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

DiCaro, Julie

Summary: "Shrill meets Brotopia in this personal and researched look at women's rights and issues through the lens of sports, from an award-winning sports journalist and women's advocate"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2021

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Partridge, Elizabeth

Summary: "Legendary photographers Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams all photographed the Japanese American incarceration, but with different approaches-and different results. This nonfiction picture book for middle grade readers examines the Japanese-American incarceration-and the complexity of documenting it-through the work of these three photographers"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

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

Edsel, Robert M.

Summary: Describes two Americans in Italy--one an artist, the other a scholar--who tracked down and protected historic artwork worth billions by Michelangelo, Donatello, Titian, Caravaggio, and Botticelli in advance of the approaching Nazi army in 1943.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5345 EDS

Fagan, Kate

Summary: "Kate Fagan and her father forged their relationship on the basketball court, bonded by sweaty high fives and a dedication to the New York Knicks. But as Kate got older, her love of the sport and her closeness with her father grew complicated. The formerly inseparable pair drifted apart. The lessons that her father instilled in her about the game, and all her memories of sharing the court with...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FAGAN, KATE FAG

Rushin, Steve

Summary: A bittersweet memoir of the author's 1970s childhood nostalgically shares observations of his family life as it was shaped by influences ranging from the Steve Miller Band and Saturday morning cartoons to Bic pens and Schwinn Sting-Ray bikes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RUSHIN, STEVE RUS

Ryan, Bob

Summary: A respected sportswriter for the "Boston Globe" traces his early love of sports, experiences as a dedicated fan, and human observations behind pivotal sports moments.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RYAN, BOB RYA

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