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Newman, Magdalena M.

Summary: "A moving memoir from the mother of a child with Treacher Collins Syndrome, with a foreword by R.J. Palacio, author of Wonder"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020

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

Naman, Christine Pisera

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: R to R Naman

Philbrick, Nathaniel

Summary: "The National Book Award-winning author of In the Heart of the Sea presents an account of the complicated middle years of the American Revolution that shares lesser-known insights into the tragic relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold,"--NoveList.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 PHI

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.3 PHI

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.3 PHI

Eyman, Scott

Summary: In the aftermath of World War Two, Charlie Chaplin was criticized for being politically liberal and internationalist in outlook. He had never become a US citizen, something that would be held against him as xenophobia set in when the postwar Red Scare took hold. Politics aside, Chaplin had another problem: his sexual interest in young women. He had been married three times and had had numerous...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAPLIN, CHARLIE EYM

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B CHAPLIN EYM

Newman, Tracy

Summary: Before becoming one of the greatest violinists of all time, Itzhak Perlman was simply a boy who loved music. Raised by a poor immigrant family in a tiny Tel Aviv apartment, baby Itzhak was transformed by the sounds from his family’s kitchen radio—graceful classical symphonies, lively klezmer tunes, and soulful cantorial chants. The rich melodies and vibrant rhythms spoke to him like magic,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2020

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

Newman, Melissa

Summary: An invitation to the private world of Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, one of America's most iconic couples, in a lavishly illustrated oversize photo book affectionately curated by their daughter Melissa Newman. Their love story is the stuff of Hollywood legend. Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman became not only movie stars and stage actors, but also artistic collaborators, political activists,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Voracious/Little, Brown and Company 2023

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 920 NEW

Eyman, Scott

Summary: "Scott Eyman, author of the New York Times bestseller JOHN WAYNE: The Life and Legend, has written an incisive, definitive biography of another great Hollywood legend, Cary Grant, drawing in part on new research into Grant's all-important early years, which permanently shaped his life"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRANT, CARY EYM

Eyman, Scott

Summary: Henry Fonda and James Stewart were two of the biggest stars in Hollywood for forty years. They became friends and then roommates as stage actors in New York, and when they began making films in Hollywood, they roomed together again. Between them they made such memorable films as The Grapes of Wrath, Mister Roberts, Twelve Angry Men, and On Golden Pond; and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Destry...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017

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

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Entertain Eyman

Berman, Geoffrey

Summary: "The gripping and explosive memoir of serving as US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, in the face of the Justice Department's attempts to protect Trump's friends and punish his enemies"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BERMAN, GEOFFREY BER

Herman, Gail

Summary: "An entertaining biography of the man behind Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web, two of the best loved children's books of all time"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2022

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

Lebrecht, Norman

Summary: "In a hundred-year period, a handful of men and women changed the way we see the world. Many of them are well known--Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Kafka. Others have vanished from collective memory despite their enduring importance in our daily lives. Without Karl Landsteiner, for instance, there would be no blood transfusions or major surgery. Without Paul Ehrlich, no chemotherapy. Without...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.009 LEB

Herman, Gail

Summary: Presents the life and achievements of Coretta Scott King, discussing her vital role in the Civil Rights Movement, her awareness campaigns, and her efforts to continue the work of her husband, Martin Luther King, Jr.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET KING

Norman, Philip

Summary: Philip Norman uses his unique skills to recreate the impetuous yet shy, modest yet steely willed Texan who was his first musical hero. He has gained exclusive access to an extraordinary archive of never-before-seen letters, contracts, and personal memorabilia, which dispel the many mysteries still lingering around Buddy's name and allow the reader to share some of the most intimate moments in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1996

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOLLY, BUDDY NOR

Summary: 1966, drought and an exploding population confronted India with the imminent threat of a severe famine, a potential disaster that many scientists and intellectuals feared only presaged global catastrophes to come, as the world's population outstripped its ability to produce food. In search of a lasting solution, India turned to Norman Borlaug, an unassuming plant breeder from Iowa whose...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAN

Norman, Philip

Summary: "Despite being hailed as one of the best guitarists of his era, George Harrison, particularly in his early decades, battled feelings of inferiority. He was often the butt of jokes from his bandmates owing to his lower-class background and, typically, was allowed to contribute only one or two songs per Beatles album out of the dozens he wrote. Now, acclaimed Beatles biographer Philip Norman...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARRISON, GEORGE NOR

Ohler, Norman

Summary: Harro Schulze-Boysen and Libertas Haas-Heye met in the summer of 1935, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of antifascist fighters that stretched across Berlin's bohemian underworld.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.53 OHL

Macadam, Heather Dune

Summary: "Paris, 1940. The City of Light has fallen under German occupation. Among patriotic Parisians, the pursuit of art, culture, and jazz has become a bold act of defiance. So has forbidden love for talented and spirited Jewish teenager Annette Zelman, a student at the Beaux-Arts, and dashing young Catholic poet Jean Jausion. Despite their devout families' vehement opposition, the young couple finds...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023

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Herman-Giddens, Marcia Edwina

Summary: "A deeply personal memoir that unearths a family history of racism, slaveholding, and trauma as well as love and sparks of delight. Marcia Herman's family moved to Birmingham in 1946, when she was five years old, and settled in the steel-making city dense with smog and a rigid apartheid system. Marcia, a shy only child, struggled to fit in and understand this world, shadowed as it was by her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Alabama Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HERMAN-GIDDENS, MARCIA EDWINA HER

Summary: Women were clearly at the core of legendary photographer Helmut Newton's work. The stars of his iconic portraits and fashion editorials, from Catherine Deneuve to Grace Jones, Charlotte Rampling to Isabella Rossellini, finally give their own interpretation of the life and work of this controversial genius. A portrait by the portrayed. Provocative, unconventional, subversive, his depiction of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HEL

Summary: Six books in the Who was? series, each offering a detailed account of a famous figure's life.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Summary: Features a showcase of the incredibly talented women who have created some of the funniest and most memorable characters on Saturday Night Live throughout its rich history. Beginning with a Real Housewives parody, hot Andy Cohen invites some of the women of SNL back to studio 8H for a comically charged reunion show with an honest 'Housewives-style' tell-all that lets us know what they've been...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Jaggar, Louisa

Summary: "The true story of James Herman Banning, the first African American pilot to fly across the United States"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BAN

Islam, Farhana

Summary: "Meet a handful of the men and women that helped shape the early life of Prophet Muhammad. In these pages, you will find his mother, Amina bint Wahb; the women that loved and protected him like their very own, Halimah Sa'diyyah and Barakah (Umm Ayman); and his beloved grandfather Abd al-Muttalib, alongside his uncle Abu Talib. This beautifully illustrated book introduces readers to Prophet...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Islamic Foundation 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 297.63 ISL

Summary: Albert Einstein, the most famous scientist of all time, was a world-renowned celebrity, greeted like a rock star in public. An anti-war firebrand, Einstein also spoke out on issues ranging from women's rights and racism to immigration and nuclear arms control. Using a wealth of rarely-seen archival footage, correspondence, and new interviews, the film makes the case that Albert Einstein's...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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