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Golenbock, Peter

Summary: A biography of the Hall of Fame baseball player who broke Babe Ruth's career home run record.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2001

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB AARON GOL

Falk, Byron A.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Roxbury Data Interface 1976

Copies Available at Woodmere

7 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 071.471 FAL-1
Call number: R-GEN 071.471 FAL-2
Call number: R-GEN 071.471 FAL-3
Call number: R-GEN 071.471 FAL-4
Call number: R-GEN 071.471 FAL-5
Call number: R-GEN 071.471 FAL-6
Call number: R-GEN 071.471 FAL-7

Sánchez, Aarón

Summary: Chef and television personality Aarón Sánchez recounts his formative years and how he fell in love with the culinary world. From a summer spent in New Orleans with Paul Prudhomme during his adolescent years, to a short-lived stint in culinary school, to ups and downs in New York City's ever-changing restaurant scene, and ultimately to the dizzying world of food television, Sánchez draws...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SANCHEZ, AARON SAN

Nelson, Willie

Summary: "Music legend Willie Nelson and his sister and longtime bandmate Bobbie Nelson tell the story of their Texas childhood, and how music kept their family strong in good times and bad"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 NEL

Hanc, John.

Contents: The boy who walked to the zoo and ran to the ends of the earth -- The last race on earth -- Baby, we were born to run...but in Antarctica? -- All feet on deck -- Going south -- English lessons, Russian rules -- The Drake Lake effect -- The madness of King George Island -- At a glacial pace -- Bicycle-riding grandmas of the Antarctic -- Southern discomfort, northern exposure.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.42 HAN

Goldsberry, Kirk Patrick

Summary: Goldsberry's spatial and visual analyses of players, teams, and positions have helped teams understand who really is the most valuable player at any position. In this book, he combines stunning visuals, in-depth analysis, behind-the-scenes stories and gee-whiz facts to chart a modern revolution. He shows that, from the introduction of the 3-point line to today, the game has changed drastically....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.323 GOL

Bordowitz, Hank.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Schirmer Books 1998

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6 BOR

Baron, Martin

Summary: "A monumental work of nonfiction that gives a first-row seat to the epic power struggle between politics, money, media, and tech -- for fans of Maggie Haberman's Confidence Man and Jane Mayer's Dark Money. Marty Baron took charge of The Washington Post newsroom in 2013, after nearly a dozen years leading The Boston Globe. Just seven months into his new job, Baron received explosive news: Jeff...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.4 BAR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B BARON BAR

Stuever, Hank.

Summary: In "Tinsel," Hank Stuever turns his unerring eye for the idiosyncrasies of modern life to Frisco, Texas, a suburb at once all-American and completely itself, to tell the story of the nation's most over-the-top celebration: Christmas.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.4556 STU

Irish, Aarol W

Summary: "On May 26, 2006, one month and one day after her father's death, Teresa Irish raised the lid on the Army trunk that had resided in the family home her entire life. There, nestled in row after row, were her dad's nearly 1,000 handwritten letters from World War II. Carefully tucked away and visited only by him over the course of six decades, the letters were postmarked from November, 1942 to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: [ATLH Publications] 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 IRISH, AAROL W IRI

Hack, Richard.

Summary: Based on newly uncovered personal letters, sealed court testimony, recently declassified FBI files, and never-before-revealed autopsy findings, this book by an investigative journalist and Hollywood insider is the definitive biography of Howard Hughes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New Millennium Press 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUGHES, HOWARD HAC

Messick, Hank.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: McKay 1972

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Appelfeld, Aron.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 892.436 APP

Caron, Leslie.

Summary: From her childhood with her American mother and French father in occupied France to her early success as a young ballerina; to her meeting with Gene Kelly and her years in Hollywood; to her love affairs (including a very funny and very public one with Warren Beatty) and motherhood; to her alcoholosm and depression; and finally her recovery and continuing success in fim and television, Caron...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARON, LESLIE CAR

Aguon, Julian

Summary: "No Country for Eight-Spotted Butterflies is a collection of soulful ruminations about love, loss, struggle, resilience and power. Part memoir, part manifesto, the book is both a coming-of-age story and a call for justice-for everyone but, in particular, for indigenous peoples-his own and others"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Astra House 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.89 AGU

Woerden, Henk van

Summary: Publisher description: If ever one individual could be said to have embodied the tragedy of apartheid, Dimitri Tsafas would be that man. At a time when color was all, Tsafas, bastard son of a Greek father and an African mother, was untouchable -- too black for the whites and too white for the blacks. Stateless, homeless, and loveless, on September 6, 1966, he entered South Africa's Parliament...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 839.31 WOE

Sachs, Aaron (Aaron Jacob)

Contents: East : Humboldt and the influence of Europe -- South : J.N. Reynolds and the "more comprehensive promise" of the Antarctic -- West : Clarence King's experience of the frontier -- North : George Wallace Melville and John Muir in extremis.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.09 SAC

Duffy, Eamon.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press, in association with S4C 1997

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 262.13 DUF

Garen, Micah.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 GRE

Varon, Elizabeth R.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.785 Var

Jenner, Caryn

Summary: Shares the experiences of important women in history, including Aung San Suu Kyi, Arianna Huffington, and Madam C.J. Walker.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 JEN

Carmon, Irin

Summary: A visually rich, intimate, unprecedented look at the Justice and how she changed the world. From Ginsburg's refusal to let the slammed doors of sexism stop her to her innovative legal work, from her before-its-time feminist marriage to her perch on the nation's highest court, with the fierce dissents to match, get to know RBG as never before. As the country struggles with the unfinished...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 GINSBURG, RUTH BADER Car

Carmon, Irin

Summary: "Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers a visually rich, intimate, unprecedented look at the Justice and how she changed the world. From Ginsburg's refusal to let the slammed doors of sexism stop her to her innovative legal work, from her before-its-time feminist marriage to her perch on the nation's highest court--with the fierce dissents to match--get to know RBG as...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dey Street Books, An Imprint of William Morrow Publishers 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GINSBURG, RUTH BADER CAR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B GINSBURG CAR

Barton, Chris

Summary: "A picture book biography on Alton Yates, a Black man who served in the Air Force in the 1950s and contributed to key research on flight safety for pilots and passengers. After returning home, Alton dedicated his life to standing against Jim Crow and fighting for racial equality"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BAR

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