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Basu, Shrabani

Summary: "In the twilight years of her reign, after the devastating deaths of her two great loves--Prince Albert and John Brown--Queen Victoria meets tall and handsome Abdul Karim, a humble servant from Agra waiting tables at her Golden Jubilee. The two form an unlikely bond and within a year Abdul becomes a powerful figure at court, the Queen's teacher, her counsel on Urdu and Indian affairs, and a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2017

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 941.081 BAS

Shahani, Aarti Namdev

Summary: The Shahanis came to Queens-from India, by way of Casablanca-in the 1980s. They were undocumented for a few unsteady years and then, with the arrival of their green cards, they thought they'd made it. This is the story of how they did, and didn't; the unforeseen obstacles that propelled them into years of disillusionment and heartbreak; and the strength of a family determined to stay together....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHAHANI, AARTI NAMDEV SHA

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio Shahani

Bass, Rick

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence 1991

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.6 BAS

Alabed, Bana

Summary: Bana's mother tells her of the strong bana tree that grows in their homeland, Syria, and how Bana's strength helped her survive war, being a refugee, and starting fresh in a new country.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALA

Bass, Rick

Summary: A transformative journey written in gratitude to the author's mentors describes his midlife attempt to recapture the passions of his youth, an effort marked by encounters with famous contemporaries and a variety of colorful mishaps.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BASS, RICK BAS

Bair, Julene

Summary: "Julene Bair has inherited part of a farming empire and fallen in love with a rancher from Kansas's beautiful Smoky Valley. She means to create a family, provide her son with the father he longs for, and preserve the Bair farm for the next generation, honoring her own father's wish and commandment, 'Hang on to your land!' But part of her legacy is a share of the ecological harm the Bair Farm...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BAIR, JULENE BAI

Bausum, Ann.

Summary: How did two youths-one raised in an all-black community in the deep South, the other brought up with only whites in the Midwest-become partners for freedom during the civil rights movement of the 1960s? Freedom Riders compares and contrasts the childhoods of John Lewis and James Zwerg in a way that helps young readers understand the segregated experience of our nation's past. It shows how a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.092 BAU

Bade, Patrick

Summary: Gustav Klimt at Home explores the influences of Vienna and other places Klimt travelled to and called home on his life and work. Klimt was one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. He was both influenced by and shaped the city of Vienna at the turn of the century. His trips to Ravenna, as well as annual summer holidays with the Floge family on the shores of Attersee...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 702 KLIMT BAD

Kalb, Bess

Summary: "A funny, warm, original memoir in which a grandmother speaks to her granddaughter from beyond the grave, telling, with candor and humor, stories from both their lives--of kinship, loyalty, tenacity, and love"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KALB, BESS KAL

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio Kalb

Bass, Rick

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1989

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 622.3382 BAS

Bate, Jonathan.

Summary: Bate's Soul of the Age tells the story of the great dramatist while deducing the crucial events of Shakespeare's life, connecting those events to his world and work as never before, and revealing how this unsurpassed artist came to be.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM BAT

Riffenburgh, Beau

Summary: "The story of the legendary Pinkerton detective who took down the Molly Maguires and the Wild Bunch The operatives of the Pinkerton's National Detective Agency were renowned for their skills of subterfuge, infiltration, and investigation, none more so than James McParland. So thrilling were McParland's cases that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle included the cunning detective in a story along with...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 RIF

Wise, Beau

Summary: "From Beau Wise and Tom Sileo comes Three Wise Men, an incredible memoir of family, service and sacrifice by a Marine who lost both his brothers in combat--becoming the only "Sole Survivor" during the war in Afghanistan. Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, three brothers by blood became brothers in arms when each volunteered to defend their country. No military family has sacrificed more during the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Riffenburgh, Beau

Summary: The story of the legendary detective credited with the defeat of the Molly Maguires gang and Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch offers insight into his innovative "cloak-and-dagger" methods and his investigation into the Western Federation of Mines for the assassination of Idaho's former governor.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 MCPARLAND, JAMES Rif

Blas, Terry

Summary: "Discover how Mexican painter Frida Kahlo becomes one of the greatest artistic voices in the world as she travels from Mexico to New York City for her first-ever solo exhibition, setting the art world aflame"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB KAHLO BLA

Bausum, Ann

Summary: "The stories of the children whose families were torn apart as a result of a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in 1944"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 943.086 BAU

Bausum, Ann

Summary: "Revised and updated to include the winner of the 2020 presidential election, this photo-filled and fact-packed book is a timely reference. Key features include: Information about the 2021 president-elect and the 2020 election results, a brand-new thematic spread on the impeachment process and its history, revised terminology around the language of slavery and analysis of early presidents who...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.09 BAU

Bausum, Ann.

Summary: Bausum tells the story of a stray dog who becomes Sergeant Stubby--World War I dog veteran, decorated war hero, American icon, and above all, man's best friend.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 940.4 BAU

Rosenstock, Barb

Summary: Presents the story of Bill Monroe, whose deep Kentucky roots helped him to create the unique American music called bluegrass.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 781.6 ROS

Rosenstock, Barb

Summary: Describes how as a young artist, Claude Monet rejected a traditional life path while embracing initially unpopular new approaches to painting and seeing, launching the French Impressionism movement.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROS

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ROS

Rosenstock, Barb

Summary: Chronicles the story of the legendary baseball star, his favorite bat, Betsy Ann, and the longest hitting streak in baseball history, which united the country on the brink of World War II.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Boyds Mills Pr 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Rosenstock, Barb

Summary: "Known for both his paintings and stained-glass windows, Marc Chagall rose from humble beginnings to become one of the world's most renowned artists. Admired for his use of color and the powerful emotion in his work, Chagall led a career that spanned decades and continents, and he never stopped growing. This lyrical narrative shows readers, through many different windows, the pre-WWI childhood...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knoff 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Bausum, Ann

Summary: "The unlikely true story of why we know the name William Shakespeare today, and the four-hundred-year-old book that made it possible. Four hundred years ago, no one bothered to write down the exact words of stage plays. Characters' lines were scribbled on small rolls of paper (as in, an actor's role) and passed around, but no master script was saved for the future. The main reason we've heard...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Bausum, Ann

Summary: Explores the March Against Fear, a protest started by James Meredith and taken up by other civil rights leaders after Meredith was shot.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Partners 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 323 BAU

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