Rissman, Rebecca
Summary: When Houston fifth-grader Audrey's ingenuity helps the Apollo 11 astronauts during their 1969 Moon landing, her dream of becoming a NASA scientist one day, despite sexism, seems possible.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2020
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE RISCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC RISSummary: An inner-city detective is investigating the murder of an elderly candy shop owner and finds odd clues along the way, while at the same time trying to find out who he has become.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY HOMSummary: Rachel is a dedicated teacher who forms a deep bond with her boyfriend's young daughter, loving the family she's found but yearning for one of her own in this soulful, sexy, resolutely grown-up story of the elusive quest for belonging.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OTHSummary: Shakespeare's tragedy about two teenagers who fall in love, encounter opposition from their feuding families, and take their own lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Ambrose Video Pub. 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS ROMSummary: Members of the rock band Foo Fighters move into an Encino mansion steeped in grisly rock n' roll history to record their much-anticipated tenth album.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Rickman, Phil.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quercus 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICLessman, Julie
Summary: As the Great War rages overseas, a smaller war brews in the O'Connor household as Faith O'Connor struggles to handle the jealousy she feels when the roguish Collin McGuire tries to win her sister Charity's hand.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Revell 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LESLessman, Julie.
Summary: The 1920s are drawing to a close, and feisty Katie O'Connor is the epitome of the new woman—smart and sassy with goals for her future that include the perfect husband and a challenging career in law. Her boyfriend Jack fits all of her criteria for a husband—good-looking, well-connected, wealthy, and head-over-heels in love with her. But when she is forced to spend the summer of 1929 with Cluny...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Publishing Group 2010
View online at OverDrive
Rickman, Phil.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICGassman, Julie.
Summary: While sitting in the naughty chair, Roger thinks of a way he can stop being crabby so often, but his family may not agree with his solution.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2011
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Gassman 2011Lessman, Julie.
Summary: Ten years ago, Emma Malloy fled Dublin for Boston as a battered woman, escaping the husband who scarred her beautiful face. The physical and emotional wounds have faded with time, and her life is finally full of purpose and free from the pain of her past. But when she falls for her friend Charity's handsome and charming brother, Sean O'Connor, fear and shame threaten to destroy her. Could Sean...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Publishing Group 2011
View online at OverDrive
Reisman, Nancy
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC REIRebeck, Theresa.
Summary: Their meeting in a parking lot outside a high school football game was both completely forgettable and utterly life-changing. Because no matter how you look at it, it is piss-poor luck to meet the love of your life before your life has even started. Fierce and ambitious, Alison is determined to shed her Midwestern roots and emerge an actress. Kyle, all heart and spiritual yearning, believes...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC REBRichman, Alyson.
Summary: A rapturous new novel of first love in a time of war-from the celebrated author of The Last Van Gogh . In pre-war Prague, the dreams of two young lovers are shattered when they are separated by the Nazi invasion. Then, decades later, thousands of miles away in New York, there's an inescapable glance of recognition between two strangers. Providence is giving Lenka and Josef one more chance....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA, Inc. 2011
View online at OverDrive
Hassman, Tupelo
Summary: Obsessively following the edicts of the Girl Scouts Handbook in spite of her lack of a troop, young Rory longs to escape the Reno trailer park where she lives with her bartender mother.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HASCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hassman 2012Hassman, Tupelo
Summary: Rosary, California, is not an easy place to grow up, particularly without a mom. So cut off from the rest of the world that even the Internet is blocked, Rosary is a town run by evangelicals but named by Catholics (and the evangelicals aren't particularly happy about that). It's a town on very formal relations with its neighbors, one that doesn't have much traffic in or out and that boasts an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HASReisman, Nancy
Summary: "During a vacation in Rome, the Murphy family experiences a life-altering tragedy. In the immediate aftermath, James, Nora, and their children find solace in their Massachusetts coast home, but as the years pass the weight of the loss disintegrates the increasingly fragile marriage and leaves its mark on each family member. Trompe l'Oeil seamlessly alternates among several characters' points of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House Books 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REIRichman, Alyson.
Summary: During the last moments of calm in prewar Prague, Lenka, a young art student, and Josef, who is studying medicine, fall in love. With the promise of a better future, they marry--only to have their dreams shattered by the imminent Nazi invasion. Like so many others, they are torn apart by the currents of war.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICRichman, Jana
Summary: Expressing public disdain for her childhood on a Utah ranch despite her secret cowgirl's heart, Dickie Sinfield becomes a journalist in Salt Lake City and is forced to make a difficult choice in the wake of a family funeral.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2008
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RichmGassman, Julie
Summary: Told in rhyme, a child is cautioned about the problems his dragon is likely to cause at school recess, even if it does not mean to.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Young Readers, a Capstone imprint 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GASCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GASGassman, Julie
Summary: A child brings a dragon to the library and learns a valuable lesson--libraries and dragons do not mix.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2016
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Gassman 2016Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GASSummary: A 13-year old girl and her estranged father learn what family is all about when they adopt an orphaned flock of geese and teach them how to fly.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment 2001
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY FLYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family FlyRebeck, Theresa.
Summary: "The pathos of Beautiful Ruins meets the hilarity of Crazy Rich Asians in this comedic and tender novel. Their meeting in a parking lot outside a high school football game was both completely forgettable and utterly life-changing. Because no matter howyou look at it, it is piss-poor luck to meet the love of your life before your life has even started. Fierce and ambitious, Alison is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Rebeck 2016Rebeck, Theresa.
Summary: With no parental guidance, Daria, Polly, and Amelia Heller are caught in a whirlwind rise to fame that quickly spirals out of control. Narrated in four parts by the three sisters and their quiet, neglected brother, this is a sharp, perceptive, and brilliantly written debut novel from an acclaimed playwright. -- back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008