Aline
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1988
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5486 ALIRodari, Florian.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli 1994
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 709.2 MATAline
Summary: Sequel to: The Spy Wore Red. The memoirs of Aline, Countess of Romanones who is called out of semiretirement by the CIA to uncover a highly placed NATO mole.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's 1990
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5486 ALIBurgan, Michael
Summary: Presents the life of the business mogul who turned a small food packagaing company into a booming business known for its fair treatment of workers and pioneering safe food preparation standards.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HEIFlorman, Samuel C.
Summary: "Starting in the Navy Seabees at the end of WWII, Samuel C. Florman made his way as a general contractor in New York City through the period of explosive development, private exuberance and the historic growth of publicly supported housing--all amidst the rise of the notorious Mafia families, and evolution of the Civil Rights Movement. His storied career brought him into contact with a variety...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 624 FLOFlorio, John
Summary: Relates the story of how in the early 1920s, as a Red Scare gripped America, two Italian immigrants, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were wrongly accused, tried, and executed for murder, making front-page headlines as they maintained their innocence to the very end.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 345.73 FLOHaise, Fred
Summary: "The extraordinary autobiography of astronaut Fred Haise, one of only 24 men to fly to the moon"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAISE, FRED HAILee, Helie.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.4 LEEGörtemaker, Heike B.
Contents: Pt. 1. The meeting -- Heinrich Hoffmann's studio -- Munich After the First World War -- The Braun family -- Rise to power at Hitler's side -- pt. 2. Contrasting worlds -- Women in national socialism -- The myth of the Führer, or, Herr Hitler in private -- The mistress and the inner circle -- Life at the Obersalzberg -- pt. 3. Downfall -- Isolation during the war -- The events of July 20, 1944...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRAUN, EVA GORHainey, Michael
Summary: Traces the author's investigation into the mystery of his father's sudden death, describing his father's achievements as a reporter, inconsistencies in his father's medical records, and the honor code of secrecy that challenged his research.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAINEY, BOB HAIHenner, Marilu
Summary: Marilu Henner was moving on with her life after a divorce when her old college classmate Michael Brown, whom she had not seen in over twenty years, called her out of nowhere. Within days of their reconnecting in 2003, they became inseparable. But only months later, Michael was diagnosed with bladder cancer, and then lung cancer. Marilu refused to lose the love of her life so easily. With the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.994 HENFlorio, John
Summary: "...recount[s] the politically and racially charged rivalry between African-American boxing champion Joe Louis and white German boxer Max Schmeling, which grew between their 1936 and 1938 matches. Tracing both men's careers from inception until they hung up their gloves, the authors illuminate how emblematic each was to his country while exploring the social issues of the day."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.83 FLOHiner, Ed
Summary: "A Navy SEAL veteran's proven, battle-tested guide for developing grit and resilience, overcoming obstacles, and living life to the fullest. What does it take to set a goal or have a dream, and then actually achieve it? What does it take to turn fear and stress into foresight, motivation, and action? It takes GUTS. No one knows this better than decorated Navy SEAL veteran Brian "Iron Ed" Hiner....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw Hill 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 HINToumani, Meline.
Summary: A young Armenian-American goes to Turkey in a 'love thine enemy' experiment that becomes a transformative reflection on how we use-- and abuse-- our personal histories.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TOUMANI, MELINE TOUHeaney, Katie
Summary: "When Katie Heaney published her first book of essays, chronicling her singledom up to age twenty-five, she was still waiting to meet the right guy. Three years later, a lot changed. For one thing, she met the right girl. Here, for the first time, Katie opens up about realizing at the age of twenty-eight that she is gay. In these poignant, funny essays, she wrestles with her shifting sexuality...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEANEY, KATIE HEAForman, Vicki.
Summary: Vicki Forman gave birth to Evan and Ellie, weighing just a pound at birth, at twenty-three weeks' gestation. During the delivery she begged the doctors to "let her babies go" -- she knew all too well that at twenty-three weeks they could very well die and, if they survived, they would face a high risk of permanent disabilities. However, California law demanded resuscitation. Her daughter died...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618 FORDevine, Jack
Summary: A CIA veteran with extensive experience in covert operations presents a guide to the art of spycraft while illuminating the CIA's essential role, sharing a cautionary message about its recent transition toward paramilitary activities.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DEVINE, JACK DEVDevine, Miranda.
Summary: "The inside story of the laptop that exposed the president's dirtiest secret. When a drug-addled Hunter Biden abandoned his waterlogged computer at a Mac repair shop in Delaware in the spring of 2019, just six days before his father announced his candidacy for the United States presidency, it became the ticking time bomb in the shadows of Joe Biden's campaign. The dirty secrets contained in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Post Hill Press 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.934 DEVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Pol DevineStach, Reiner.
Summary: This volume of Reiner Stach's acclaimed and definitive biography of Franz Kafka tells the story of the final years of the writer's life, from 1916 to 1924--a period during which the world Kafka had known came to an end. Stach's riveting narrative, which reflects the latest findings about Kafka's life and works, draws readers in with a nearly cinematic power, zooming in for extreme close-ups of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 833.912 STAHine, Darlene Clark.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Published by the Historical Society of Michigan 1990
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 977.4 HIN1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 HIN
Fraser, Flora
Summary: "A biography of Flora MacDonald, the woman who aided "Bonnie" Prince Charlie and inspired the "Skye Boat Song""--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MACDONALD, FLORA FRAScott-Maxwell, Florida
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1979
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.26 SCOCooper, Helene.
Summary: The author traces her childhood in war-torn Liberia and her reunion with a foster sister who had been left behind when her family fled the region.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 966.6203 COOCooper, Helene.
Summary: The author traces her childhood in war-torn Liberia and her reunion with a foster sister who had been left behind when her family fled the region.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008