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Kalman, Bobbie.

Summary: This book introduces the life and times of the pioneers describing their homes, tools, jobs, clothes, and travel.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. Co. 2008

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.03 KAL

Withers, Ernest C.

Summary: "Ernest C. Withers was one of the most prominent African-American photographers during the civil rights years. During the course of his work, he took thousands photographs that document the Movement--from the Emmett Till trial in 1955 to the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968. What set his work apart was that he goes beyond the political struggles to show the human face of Movement....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: CityFiles Press 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 323.1196 WIT

Summary: "Many of us have vivid recollections of childhood visits to the public library: the unmistakable, slightly musty scent, the excitement of checking out a stack of newly-discovered books. Today's libraries also function as de facto community centers, and offer free access to the Internet, job-hunting assistance, or a warm place to take shelter along with the endless possibilities that spark your...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Architectural Press 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 027.7 DAW

Mallis, Fern

Summary: "No topic is off-limits to Fern Mallis, award-winning creator of the Fashion Week in New York, when she hosts 'Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis' at New York's prestigious 92nd Street Y, a series of riveting in-depth interviews with the fashion industry's most talented, successful, and legendary personalities. Featuring nineteen inspiring interviews with American fashion luminaries, this engaging...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli International Publicatoins, Inc. 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 643.9 MAL

Williams, Terry Tempest

Summary: America's national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why more than 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now Terry Tempest Williams presents The Hour of Land, a literary celebration of our national parks, an exploration of what they mean to us and what we mean to them. From the Grand Tetons in Wyoming to Acadia in Maine to Big...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016

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Luong, QT

Summary: Discover spectacular and less-traveled alternatives to bustling national parks with this superb coffee table book: the first photography book about the landscape-scale national monuments, including introductions from local conservationists and travel notes for each photograph.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Terra Galleria Press 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973 LUO

Fifty-Nine Parks (Firm)

Summary: "Explore the majesty of the National Parks through the eyes of contemporary artists"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Earth Aware Editions 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 917.3002 ART

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 920 NEW

Engler, Elise

Summary: "A powerful visual record of an unprecedented time, following the headlines from the first appearance of the coronavirus to the inauguration of President Joe Biden. Made in real time, Elise Engler's vibrant, immediate images recapture what it was like to live through 2020, bringing texture, feeling, and even charm to what we might not remember and what we will never forget"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709.2 ENG

Summary: "Strayhorn: An Illustrated Life is a stunning collection of essays, photographs, and ephemera celebrating Billy Strayhorn, one of the most significant yet under-appreciated contributors to 20th century American music. Released in commemoration of Strayhorn's centennial, this luxurious coffee-table book offers intimate details of the composer's life from musicians, scholars, and Strayhorn's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bolden an Agate Imprint 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STRAYHORN, BILLY STR

Summerour, Keith

Summary: From acclaimed architect and designer Keith Summerour comes an alluring new book of carefully crafted dwellings that redefine the idea of home for today. When we think about what home is, many of us would say a house that is soulful and welcoming, a place with an inviting porch and a lush garden, a welcoming entryway and well-crafted living spaces that will nurture our private moments and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 670 SUM

Walker, Cameron

Summary: "Divided into eight chapters covering the breadth of the US, pictographic maps locate each of the monuments explored, while double-page, poster-worthy scenes convey the beauty of the areas featured. Monuments covered include Statue of Liberty, Stonewall, Katahdin, the National Mall, Forts of the East, Jewel Cave, Pipestone, Pullman, Grand-Staircase Escalante, Chiricahua National Monument,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wide Eyed Editions, an imprint of the Quarto Group 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973 WAL

Souza, Pete

Summary: Go behind the scenes of the West Wing--into the Oval Office and Situation Room, aboard Air Force One, and beyond--with #1 bestselling author and former presidential photographer Pete Souza.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.932 SOU

McAlister, Caroline

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Before C.S. Lewis wrote The Chronicles of Narnia, he was a young boy named Jack who spent his days dreaming up stories of other worlds filled with knights, castles, and talking animals. His brother, Warnie, spent his days imagining worlds filled with trains, boats, and technology. One rainy day, they found a wardrobe in a little room next to the attic, and they wondered, What if the wardrobe...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2019

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McBurnett, Darren

Summary: Retired Navy SEAL and professional photographer Darren McBurnett takes readers behind the scenes into the elite SEAL training program, BUD/S, in Coronado, California. . . Striking, beautiful, and haunting, Uncommon Grit takes a unique, unprecedented look at the toughest training in the military -- and the world -- from the vantage point of someone who lived through it. Retired Navy SEAL Darren...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 359.984 MCB

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 359.984 MCB

Souza, Pete

Summary: As Chief Official White House Photographer, Pete Souza spent more time alongside President Barack Obama than almost anyone else. His years photographing the President gave him an intimate behind-the-scenes view of the unique gravity of the Office of the Presidency -- and the tremendous responsibility that comes with it. His latest collection is a portrait in Presidential contrasts, telling the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.932 SOU

Summary: "Based on the popular and groundbreaking PBS multiplatform documentary project, this is an inspiring and striking photographic portrait that brilliantly captures the tumultuous, historic year that was 2020. American Portrait offers an intimate look at what it really means to be an American today, revealed through the stories of ordinary people and in their own voices. Told by people of all...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 779.2 AME

Peterson, Chris

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "Plan your barn-conversion dream home guided by inspiring real-life examples and practical, cost-effective solutions. Move over she sheds, the next innovation in real estate is a full-on house! That's right: the customizable and cost-efficient barndominum, offering plenty of space and plenty of style. In Barndominiums, author Chris Peterson, a three-decade veteran home improvement author, tours...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cool Springs Press, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2023

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Fong-Torres, Ben.

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Summary: Grateful Dead fans are legendary for their Dead-ication to the band and its enduring legacy of freewheeling musical exploration. The Grateful Dead Scrapbook collects rare removable memorabilia and evocative images culled from the Grateful Dead Archives at the University of California, Santa Cruz, including never-before-published photos, flyers, fan letters, and other ephemera. To accompany the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2009

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Veblen, Sarah

Summary: "In First Time Garment Fitting, sewing and design expert Sarah Veblen takes you by the hand and teaches you everything you need to know to adapt patterns so you can sew garments that fit just right. With detailed descriptions of essential tools and techniques, the easy step-by-step instructions will have you altering patterns and sewing tops, pants, and skirts that fit you to a T in no time....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Publishing International 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.4 VEB

Summary: Complilation of 7 films with introduction to the work of designers Charles and Ray Eames. 'Toccata for toy trains' is a trip through a world of antique toys, and toy trains. 'House : after five years of living' illustrates the home and studio designed and built by Charles Eames on a hill in California overlooking the ocean. 'Lucia chase vignette' follows a sister chasing her brother through the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Pyramid Film & Video 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Eilish, Billie

Summary: The legendary recording artist shares an inside look at her life--both on and off the stage--through hundreds of never-before-seen photos.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EIL

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EILISH, BILLIE EIL

Jackson, Tom

Summary: Honey bees, bumblebees, mining bees, dwarf bees, carpenter, leafcutter, and mason bees: bees come in many different types, with more than 16,000 species worldwide. The bees we are most familiar with, bumblebees and honey bees, live in colonies and play a major role in pollinating the crops, plants, and flowers around us. And bees produce honey, reputedly the food of the gods—a function of bees'...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amber Books 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 595.79 JAC

Kobabe, Maia

Summary: "In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 741.5 KOB
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 KOB

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