Dumas, Alexandre
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUMBrugioni, Dino A.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Brassey's 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 770 BRUJunker, Patricia A.
Summary: As counterpoint to all his other work, especially in the 1880s, they serve to underscore Homer's passion for and dedication to fly-fishing. Examines Homer's lifelong devotion to fishing as it related to his connection to the American landscape, and his extraordinary ability to evoke the atmosphere of pastoral locales. Over 180 color and b/w figures, plates and photographs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Oversize, Call number: 702 HOMER JUNMartin, Patricia A. Fink
Summary: Describes several species of lower primates, including the lemur, aye-aye, galago, loris, and tarsier, and their endangered status.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2000
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 599.8 MARMartin, Patricia A. Fink
Summary: Describes the physical characteristics, habitats, life cycles, and behavior of several types of Old World monkeys, which live in Asia and Africa.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2000
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 599.8 MARSummary: A wide variety of creatures walk, fly, leap, slither, and swim through fairy-tale history. Some marvelous animal characters are deeply inscribed in current popular culture⁰́₄the beast redeemed by beauty, the wolf in pursuit of little girls and little pigs, the frog prince released from enchantment by a young princess. But like the adventures of many fairy-tale heroes, a curious reader's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398 FEAKoven, Suzanne
Summary: "A poignant, funny, personal exploration of authenticity in work and life by a woman doctor. In 2017, Dr. Suzanne Koven published an essay describing the challenges faced by women doctors, including her own personal struggle with "imposter syndrome"-a long-held, secret belief that she was not smart enough or good enough to be a "real" doctor. Accessed nearly 300,000 times by readers around the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KOVEN, SUZANNE KOVHuxford, Bob.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Collector Books 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 738 HUXCovey, Stephen R.
Summary: A guide to managing your time by learning how to balance your life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1994
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 COVBalio, Tino.
Summary: "Largely shut out of American theaters since the 1920s, foreign films such as Open City, Bicycle Thief, Rashomon, The Seventh Seal, Breathless, La Dolce Vita and L'Avventura played after World War II in a growing number of art houses around the country and created a small but influential art film market devoted to the acquisition, distribution, and exhibition of foreign-language and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Wisconsin Press 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 BALMorris, Ting.
Summary: Provides step-by-step instructions for such space crafts as models of the planet Earth, a space city, a space suit life support system, a solar mobile, a rocket, the moonscape, a star mural, aliens, a space shuttle, and a space station control center.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sea-to-Sea 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 629.4 MorriRaphael, Rina
Summary: "The wellness industry has grown from modest roots into a $4.4 trillion entity and a full-blown movement promising health and vitality. While wellness may have sprung from good intentions, we are now relentlessly flooded with exploitative offerings, questionable ideas, and a mounting pressure to stay devoted to the divine doctrine of wellness. What happens when the cure becomes as bad as the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 RAPGreenberg, Daniel A.
Summary: "Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, behavior, diet, life cycle, and conservation status of whales"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark 2010
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Miles, Tiya
Summary: "An award-winning historian shows how girls who found self-understanding in the natural world became women who changed America. Harriet Tubman, forced to labor outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned from the land a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendered expectations in New England. The Indigenous women's basketball team from Fort Shaw, Montana, recaptured a sense...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton and Company 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 MILMaslo, Lina
Summary: "The threads on Zlata's beautiful birthday blouse were knotted by her mother's hands. "Red is for love, and black is for sadness," her Papa says. Her Mama warns her not to show it off. Ever since the Communists came from Russia to Ukraine, they prohibited the teaching of Ukrainian culture. They've even taken the grain from Zlata's family's fields. But despite the danger, her parents refuse to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Morris, Ting.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sea-to-Sea Publications 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 745.5 MorriHomer
Summary: The centuries old epic about the wrath of Achilles is rendered into modern English verse by a renowned translator and accompanied by an introduction that reassesses the identity of Homer. In Robert Fagles' beautifully rendered text, the Iliad overwhelms us afresh. The huge themes godlike, yet utterly human of savagery and calculation, of destiny defied, of triumph and grief compel our own...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1998
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 883.01 HOMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Legend HomerHomer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1997
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 883.01 HOMMiles, Tiya
Summary: Most Americans believe that slavery was a creature of the South, and that Northern states and territories provided stops on the Underground Railroad for fugitive slaves on their way to Canada. In this paradigm-shifting book, celebrated historian Tiya Miles reveals that slavery was at the heart of the Midwest's iconic city: Detroit. In this richly researched and eye-opening book, Miles has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2017
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 MILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 MILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI South MilesBarseghian, Tina.
Summary: Introduces dozens of hobbies while citing their potential for decreasing anxiety and enhancing concentration, in a guide that makes recommendations for choosing a compatible hobby and getting started on such activities as quilting, ikebana, and storm chasing.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Collins 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 793 BARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Recreation BarseghianBrown, Tina
Summary: The author of The Diana Chronicles takes readers inside the British royal family since the death of Princess Diana, showing the Queen's stoic resolve as family drama raged around her.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.085 BROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.085 BROBrown, Tina.
Summary: "Ten years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she "the people's princess," who electrified the world with her beauty and humanitarian missions? Or was she a manipulative, media-savvy neurotic who nearly brought down the monarchy? Journalist Tina Brown knew Diana personally and has far-reaching insight into the royals and the Queen herself. In this book, you will meet a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES BroCassidy, Tina.
Summary: Tina Cassidy describes her grandmother's, her mother's, and her own experiences giving birth, highlighting how the birthing process has changed throughout history and exploring the cultural history of how and why people are born the way they are.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove 2006