Summary: "For the first time in print, rich, provocative first-hand stories of life in the Bronx in the twentieth century. In Bronx Faces and Voices, sixteen men and women tell their personal, uncensored stories of the New York City borough--before, during, and after the troubled years of arson, crime, abandonment, and flight in the 1970s and 1980s. The voices in this volume are as eclectic as the Bronx...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Texas Tech University Press 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 BROParlett, Jack
Summary: A definitive history of New York's Fire Island examines how it has been a vital space in the history of queer America and a key influence on art, literature, culture, and politics. Poet and scholar Jack Parlett's account of Fire Island chronicles its influence on art, literature, culture, and queer liberation over the past century. Fire Island, a thin strip of beach off the Long Island coast,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.725 PARSummary: Society matron Norma Carlisle volunteers to accompany future Jazz Age star and free spirit Louise Brooks for a summer in New York. But why does she want to go? It's a story full of surprises, about who these women really are, and who they eventually become.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
4 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CHACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Chaperone 2019Thompson, Victoria (Victoria E.)
Summary: "Reformed gangster Jack Robinson is working hard to bolster his image in Gilded Age New York City society as he prepares to become a new father. But when Hayden Norcross, the man who nearly ruined his wife, is shot in cold blood, Jack knows the police will soon come knocking on his door. Frank Malloy has to agree ... things don't look good for Jack. But surely a man as unlikeable as Hayden had...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Thompson 2021Brownstein, Ronald
Summary: Documents the kaleidoscopic year during which transformative talents from Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard, and Beverly Hills heavily influenced pop culture, politics, and social movements.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.4 BROMcClurken, James M.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Museum 1991
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 MCC1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 970.1 MCC
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Native McClurkenSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Holub, Joan.
Summary: Describes the nineteenth century American gold rush, and includes information on gold rush "boomtowns," relations between Native Americans and gold rush pioneers, and the importance of the gold rush on American history.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979.4 HOLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J900 HOL (basket)Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT US Hist What HolubRiley, Vanessa
Summary: "An English spy must follow his neglected wife through the streets of London as she investigates her sister's death with the aid of the Widow's Grace. Can they find common ground and learn to work together?"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RILMorhain, Jorge Claudio
Summary: In this graphic novel adaptation of Oscar Wilde's classic story, Dorian Gray hides a monstrous secret in his attic--a portrait that ages and shows the results of his hedonistic and selfish lifestyle while he remains ever-youthful and handsome.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MORJenkins, Beverly
Summary: "Valinda Lacy's mission in the steamy heart of New Orleans is to help the newly emancipated community survive and flourish. But soon she discovers that here, freedom can also mean danger. When thugs destroy the school she has set up and then target her, Valinda runs for her life -- and straight into the arms of Captain Drake LeVeq. As an architect from an old New Orleans family, Drake has a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC JENJefferson, Margo
Summary: "Stunning for her daring originality, the author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperamental autobiography," comprised of visceral, intimate fragments that fuse criticism and memoir. Margo Jefferson constructs a nervous system with pieces of different lengths and tone, conjoining arts writing (poem, song, performance) with life writing (history, psychology). The book's structure is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JEFFERSON, MARGO JEFMohr, Tim
Summary: Tim Mohr brings us the secret history of punks in East Germany. Burning Down the Haus is a reclamation and an exaltation of youth culture and youthful idealism as not only an instigator for discourse, but as an actual catalyst for political upheaval - and radical, fierce, irrepressible change.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dialogue Books 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.1 MOHQuinn, Julia
Summary: "In 1761, on a sunny day in September, a King and Queen met for the very first time. They were married within hours. Born a German Princess, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was beautiful, headstrong, and fiercely intelligent--not precisely the attributes the British Court had been seeking in a spouse for the young King George III. But her fire and independence were exactly what she needed...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction QuinnHalls, Kelly Milner
Summary: "Have you ever wondered what life was like for individuals and families living through the Civil War? Learn about what their days consisted of, what they ate and wore, and more!"--Publisher's website.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Publishing 2015
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Belfoure, Charles
Summary: "St Petersburg, 1903. Prince Dimitri Markhov counts himself lucky to be a close friend of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra. Cocooned by the glittering wealth of the Imperial court, the talented architect lives a life of luxury and comfort, by the side of his beautiful but spiteful wife, Princess Lara. But when Dimitri is confronted by the death and destruction wrought by a pogrom, he is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELWolf, Naomi
Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Naomi Wolf, Outrages explores the history of state-sponsored censorship and violations of personal freedoms through the inspiring, forgotten history of one writer’s refusal to stay silenced.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.009 WOLSheehan, Sean
Summary: "Austria is a country known for its varied history and beautiful scenery. Popular figures from the country include Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the Von Trapp family, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. In this engaging book, readers learn about Austria's past, its present, and the ways in which it is working toward the future."--Publisher's website.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 943.6 SHETope, Lily Rose R.
Summary: "The Southeast Asian nation of the Philippines is made up of thousands of islands and is one of the most populous countries in the world. What is life like for the millions of people who live on these islands? Readers find out as they explore the unique culture of the Philippines. Through focused chapters that detail the nation's geography, history, arts, festivals, food, and more, they broaden...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square Publishing 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 959.9 TOPGordon, Linda.
Summary: Dorothea Lange's photographs define how the American Depression is remembered; this evocative biography defines her creative struggles and enduring legacy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LANGE, DOROTHEA GORStrasdin, Kate
Summary: "In 1838, a young woman was given a diary on her wedding day. Collecting snippets of fabric from a range of garments -- some her own, others donated by family and friends -- she carefully annotated each one, creating a unique record of their lives. Her name was Mrs. Anne Sykes. Nearly two hundred years later, the diary fell into the hands of Kate Strasdin, a fashion historian and museum...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC STRHerman-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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HERMAN-GIDDENS, MARCIA EDWINA HERSummary: Through narration and dramatic reconstruction, this three-part television program explores the unique relationship that Britons enjoyed with their homes during the Georgian era. Characters from all walks of life, from gentlewomen in their stately mansions to servants, are brought to life through their artifacts, letters, and diaries.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Limited 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ATBanville, John
Summary: "Born and bred in a small town a train ride away from Dublin, author John Banville ... saw the city as a place of enchantment when he was a child. It was first a birthday treat, the world his beloved, eccentric aunt inhabited. When he came of age and took up residence there, the city was a frequent backdrop for his dissatisfactions as a young writer (James Joyce had 'seized upon the city for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018