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McCartney, Paul

Summary: Taken with a 35mm camera by Paul McCartney, these largely unseen photographs capture the explosive period, from the end of 1963 through early 1964, in which The Beatles became an international sensation and changed the course of music history.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2023

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Joy, Angela

Summary: "The story of the mother of Emmett Till, and how she channeled grief over her son's death into a call to action for the civil rights movement"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TIL

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TIL

Dill, Khodi

Summary: An inspiring, life-affirming debut activist book in rhyming couplets and triplets about Black heroes for little ones, their families, and anyone who loves A is for Activist and Antiracist Baby.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Triangle Square 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD DIL

Johnson, Betsey

Summary: "A memoir by the internationally famous fashion designer and style icon Betsey Johnson. Mention the name "Betsey Johnson" and almost every woman from the age of 15 to 75 can rapturously recall a favorite dress or outfit; whether worn for a prom, a wedding, or just to stand out from the crowd in a colorful way. They may also know her as a renegade single mom who palled around with Edie Sedgwick,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOHNSON, BETSEY JOH

Tentler-Krylov, Victoria

Summary: "The city of Baghdad was full of thinkers, artists, and scientists, the littlest among them Zaha Hadid. Zaha knew from a young age that she wanted to be an architect. She set goals for herself and followed them against all odds. A woman in a man's world, and a person of color in a white field, Zaha was met with resistance at every turn. When critics called her a diva and claimed her ideas were...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books/Scholastic, Inc. 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HAD

1 hold on 7 copies

Summary: Directed by filmmaker Peter Jackson, this is a three-part documentary series that takes audiences back in time to the band₂s intimate recording sessions. The documentary showcases the warmth, camaraderie, and creative genius that defined the legacy of the iconic foursome, and is compiled from over 60 hours of unseen footage shot in January 1969 (by Michael Lindsay-Hogg) and more than 150 hours...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney 2022

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

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4 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BEA

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

Henley, Ariel

Summary: At only eight months old, identical twin sisters Ariel and Zan were diagnosed with Crouzon syndrome, a rare condition where the bones in the head fuse prematurely. They were the first twins known to survive the disease. They endured numerous appearance-altering procedures as they grew up. Surgeons would break the bones in their heads and faces to make room for their growing organs. While the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 HEN

Gill, Jonathan

Summary: The Cold War and the Golden Age of Hollywood meet in this story of the remarkable career of Boris Morros, film producer and Russian double agent. Boris Morros was a major figure in the 1930s and '40s. The head of music at Paramount, nominated for Academy Awards, he then went on to produce his own films with Laurel and Hardy, Fred Astaire, Henry Fonda, and others. But as J. Edgar Hoover would...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MORROS, BORIS GIL

Gill, Gillian

Summary: "An insightful, witty look at Virginia Woolf through the lens of the extraordinary women closest to her"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WOOLF, VIRGINIA GIL

Gill, Charlotte

Summary: "An award-winning writer retraces her dysfunctional, biracial, globe-trotting family's journey as she reckons with ethnicity and belonging, diversity and race, and the complexities of life within a multicultural household. Charlotte Gill's father is Indian. Her mother is English. They meet in 1960's London when the world is not quite ready for interracial love. Their union, a revolutionary act,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GILL, CHARLOTTE GIL

Ball, Erica

Summary: Madam C. J. Walker-reputed to be America's first self-made woman millionaire-has long been celebrated for her rags-to-riches story. Born to former slaves in the Louisiana Delta in the aftermath of the Civil War, married at fourteen, and widowed at twenty, Walker spent the first decades of her life as a laundress, laboring in conditions that paralleled the lives of countless poor and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WALKER, C.J. BAL

Bella, Timothy

Summary: The definitive biography of Charles Barkley exploring his early childhood, his storied NBA career, and his enduring legacy in American pop culture.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B BARKLEY BEL

Magoon, Kekla

Summary: Two-time Olympic gymnast Simone Biles reigns over gymnastics. With four impressive skills already named after her, Biles has amassed legions of fans. Explore this standout superstar's career and life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BIL

Bell, Cece

Summary: Starting a new school is scary, even more so with a giant hearing aid strapped to your chest. At her old school, everyone in Cece's class was deaf. Here she is different. She is sure the kids are staring at the Phonic Ear, the powerful aid that will help her hear her teacher. Too bad it also seems certain to repel potential friends. Then Cece makes a startling discovery. With the Phonic Ear she...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2020

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

Walters, Billy

Summary: "Anybody can get lucky. Nobody controls the odds like Billy Walters. Widely regarded as "the Michael Jordan of sports betting," Walters is a living legend in Las Vegas and among sports bettors worldwide. With an unmatched winning streak of thirty-six consecutive years, Walters has become fabulously wealthy by placing hundreds of millions of dollars a year in gross wagers, including one Super...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2023

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Merrell, Billy

Summary: "Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, and was raised by his grandmother, who told him many stories of the Black American experience and taught him to be proud of his race from a young age. With her guidance, Langston became a talented writer in high school, creating dramatic plays, poetry, and articles for the school paper. His career as a writer would continue to blossom. Langston...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2024

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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 921 HUG

Bell, Jo

Summary: "A fascinating page-a-day collection profiling extraordinary women of all races, eras, and nationalities. Our past is full of influential women. Whether politicians, troublemakers, explorers, artists, and even the odd murderer, women have shaped society around the globe. But too often, these women have been unfairly confined to the margins of history. On This Day She: Putting Women Back into...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.72 BEL

Janovitz, Bill

Summary: "Leon Russell is an icon, but somehow is still an underappreciated artist. He is spoken of in tones reserved not just for the most talented musicians, but also for the most complex and fascinating. His career is like a roadmap of music history, often intersecting with rock royalty like Bob Dylan, the Stones, and the Beatles. He started in the Fifties as a teenager touring with Jerry Lee Lewis,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RUSSELL, LEON JAN

O'Reilly, Bill

Summary: Drawing on exclusive interview materials and deep research, this book is an insider's portrait of the 45th President that includes previously undisclosed details about Trump's childhood, family life and career.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 TRUMP, DONALD ORE

O'Reilly, Bill.

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "By early 1945, the destruction of the German Nazi State seems certain. The Allied forces, led by American generals George S. Patton and Dwight D. Eisenhower, are gaining control of Europe, leaving German leaders scrambling. Facing defeat, Adolf Hitler flees to a secret bunker with his new wife, Eva Braun, and his beloved dog, Blondi. It is there that all three would meet their end, thus ending...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2015

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 943.086 ORE

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 943.0860 ORE

Bolz-Weber, Nadia

Summary: "Bolz-Weber invites readers into a surprising encounter with what she calls 'a religious but not-so-spiritual life.' Tattooed, angry, and profane, this former standup comic turned pastor stubbornly, sometimes hilariously, resists the God she feels called to serve. But God keeps showing up in the least likely of people--a church-loving agnostic, a drag queen, a felonious Bishop and a gun-toting...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Convergent Books 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248 BOL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 284.1 BOL

François, Bill

Summary: "Bill François' Eloquence of the Sardine is a charming narrative nonfiction book about the secret lives of fishes. If we listen to the ocean, what do we hear? What can it teach us? How can it change us? Written by a marine scientist (and winner of French eloquence competitions), this work of narrative non-fiction blends Bill François' personal story with that of sea creatures to create an...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 578.77 FRA

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 578.77 FRA

O'Reilly, Bill

Summary: "The King is dead. The Walrus is shot. The Greatest is no more. Elvis Presley, John Lennon, and Muhammad Ali. These three icons changed not only the worlds of music, film, and sports, but the world itself. Their faces were known everywhere, in every nation, across every culture. And their stories became larger than life-until their lives spun out of control at the hands of those they most...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 O'REI

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult O'Reilly

Shaffer, Bill

Summary: A sordid tale of bigamy, bribery, sex, and violence, set in the Gilded Age, explores the ill-fated saga of Ray, an Alexander Hamilton heir, and his wife, a con artist who tricked him into marriage using an abandoned infant, and who went to prison for stabbing their baby's nurse.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022

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

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