Search
Type
Format
Sort
Location
Audience

Chadwick, Elizabeth.

Summary: Fictionalizes the life of William Marshal, who is appointed tutor to Prince Henry, heir to the throne, after he rescues the queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, but William quickly learns of the dangers that are attached to his reward.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHA

Barker, Pat.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, c1993 1994

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAR

Barker, Pat.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chivers Press 1997

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BAR

Summary: After a Prohibition-era gangster is released from prison, he longs for a simpler life, but he is lured back for one last heist by his old boss.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE HIG

Summary: An aging criminal is released from prison and decides to assemble the old gang to go on one last perfect heist.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2004

Sorry, no copies available

Place a hold to request this item.

Summary: Set in 1942, tells the story of the first B-25 crews, under the command of General Jimmy Doolittle, training for a bombing mission over Japan.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THI

Shaara, Jeff

Summary: Spring 1942. The United States is reeling from the blow inflicted at Pearl Harbor, but is determined to turn the tide. The key comes from Commander Joe Rochefort, a little known "code breaker" who cracks the Japanese military encryption. Admiral Chester Nimitz will know precisely what the Japanese are planning. On the Japanese side, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's key subordinates are Admiral...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHA

Maher, Kerri

Summary: "Some women make headlines; an icon defies them. A vivid reimagining of the exhilarating and sensationalized life of Princess Grace of Monaco from the acclaimed author of The Kennedy Debutante. Hungry for her art and hopeful for the future, young Grace Kelly has the world at her feet. MGM's rising queen is poised to win the Oscar, but she chafes at the studio's increasing restrictions on her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MAH

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAH

Summary: Tom and Kate Baker have made many sacrifices in their professional lives in order to raise their 12 children. When Tom is offered a job as a Division I college football coach, he moves the entire pack to a suburb in Chicago. This move shakes up the entire family, but when Kate's memoirs get published, she takes off on a book tour. The lack of parental guidance creates problems for all the Baker...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE CHE

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Cheaper 2003

Massey, Sujata

Summary: "November, 1921. Edward VIII, Prince of Wales and future ruler of India, is arriving in Bombay to begin a four-month tour. The Indian subcontinent is chafing under British rule, and Bombay solicitor Perveen Mistry isn't surprised when local unrest over the royal arrival spirals into riots. But she's horrified by the death of Freny Cuttingmaster, an eighteen-year-old female Parsi student, who...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAS

Summary: "Capped by one of the most famous speeches ever written, Shakespeare's Henry V recalls a truly great English victory. With comic sub-plots to be found among Henry's soldiers, the production boasts some terrific performances - including Sam Cox as the 'splendidly unhinged' Pistol (The Daily Telegraph). In the title role is Jamie Parker, who 'casts such a rapt spell that you feel the entire...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Opus Arte 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS HEN

McNees, Kelly O'Connor

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: In 1932, New York City, top reporter Lorena "Hick" Hickok starts each day with a front page byline--and finishes it swigging bourbon and planning her next big scoop. But an assignment to cover FDR's campaign--and write a feature on his wife, Eleanor--turns Hick's hard-won independent life on its ear. Soon her work, and the secret entanglement with the new first lady, will take her from New York...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCN

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCN

Summary: The story of the legendary country western singer Hank Williams, who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his meteoric rise to fame and its ultimately tragic effect on his health and personal life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA I

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE I

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie I 2016

Smith, Will

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: Tells the story of Richard Williams, father of legendary tennis players Venus and Serena Williams, whose dedication and perseverance helped his daughters achieve their tremendous success.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KIN

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KIN

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KIN

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie King 2022

Summary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KAT

Summary: "Fellow artists and lovers Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner are at the center of New York's 1940's art scene, but as Krasner neglects her work to push Pollock's career forward, Pollock begins to unravel emotionally. Pollock and Krasner escape to the country to marry, and soon, Pollock creates the work that makes him the first internationally-famous modern painter in America. But with fame and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA POL

Apostol, Gina

Summary: Two women, a Filipino translator and an American filmmaker, go on a road trip in Duterte's Philippines, collaborating and clashing in the writing of a film script about a massacre during the Philippine-American War. Chiara is working on a film about an incident in Balangiga, Samar, in 1901, when Filipino revolutionaries attacked an American garrison, and in retaliation American soldiers created...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press, Inc. 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC APO

Taylor, Mildred D.

Summary: Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year -- the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates Cassie in public simply because she's black -- to show Cassie that having a place of their own is the Logan family's lifeblood. It is the land that gives the Logans their courage and pride -- no matter how others may...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC TAY

Summary: A biography of American actress and singer Lillian Russell, from her discovery in 1890 by band leader Tony Pastor until her retirement in 1912, when she married newspaperman Alexander Moore.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS LIL

Summary: As a compassionate American Ambassador to the strife-torn Southeast Asian nation of Sarkhan, Brando tries to keep Communists in the North from overrunning the weakened democracy in the South by making sure a vital road into the country's inaccessible interior goes through.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2003

Sorry, no copies available

Place a hold to request this item.

Peck, Richard

Summary: In 1893, thirteen-year-old Rosie and members of her family travel from their Illinois farm to Chicago to visit Aunt Euterpe and attend the World's Columbian Exposition which, along with an encounter with Buffalo Bill and Lillian Russell, turns out to be a life-changing experience for everyone.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2001

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Peck 2001

Reasoner, James

Summary: William M. "Bill" Tilghman had one of the most illustrious careers of any Old West lawman, serving as sheriff, town marshal, and deputy United States marshal in some of the toughest places west of the Mississippi. But he faced perhaps his greatest and most dangerous challenge when he rode alone into the wild Oklahoma Territory settlement of Burnt Creek on the trail of a gang of rustlers and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC REA

Bonné, Mirko

Summary: Describes the quest of Sir Ernest Shackleton in his 1914 attempt to be the first man to cross the Antarctic on foot, with sixty-nine sled dogs, a crew of twenty-eight, and a seventeen-year-old stowaway.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BON

Whyte, Jack

Summary: "Some men strive for greatness. And some men find themselves thrust into the role of their nation's saviors. Such are the two heroes who reshaped and reconfigured the entire destiny of the kingdom of Scotland. Wallace the Braveheart would become the only legendary, heroic, commoner in medieval British history; the undying champion of the common man. The other, Robert Bruce, earl of Carrick,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHY

chat loading...
Back to Top