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Heiman, Lee.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1990

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 HEI

Gherman, Beverly.

Summary: Describes the life and work of the popular American artist who depicted subjects including children, family scenes, astronauts, and the poor.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2000

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB ROCKWELL GHE

Kerman, Piper.

2 holds on 3 copies

Summary: With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, the well-heeled Smith College alumna is now inmate #11187-424--one of the millions of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365 KER

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B KERMAN KER

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem Kerman

Harman, Claire.

Summary: "A groundbreaking biography that places an obsessive, unrequited love at the heart of the writer's life story, transforming her from the tragic figure we have previously known into a smoldering Jane Eyre. Famed for her beloved novels, Charlotte Brontë has been known as well for her insular, tragic family life. The genius of this biography is that it delves behind this image to reveal a life in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRONTE, CHARLOTTE HAR

Harman, Claire.

Summary: In Jane's Fame, Claire Harman gives us the complete biography--of both the author and her lasting cultural influence--making this essential reading for anyone interested in Austen's life, works, and remarkably potent fame.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.7 HAR

Ernman, Malena

Summary: "When climate activist Greta Thunberg was eleven, her parents, Malena and Svante, and her little sister, Beata, were facing a crisis in their own home. Greta had stopped eating and speaking, and her mother and father had reconfigured their lives to care for her. Desperate and searching for answers, her parents discovered what was at the heart of Greta's distress: her imperiled future on a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Borman, Tracy.

Summary: Chronicles the achievements of Matilda of Flanders, the ruthless wife of William the Conqueror, who eschewed the traditional views of women in medieval society.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MATILDA, QUEEN BOR

Harman, Patricia

Summary: Recounts how the author learned to deliver babies and her experiences in rural communes, political activism, and urban counterculture in the 1970s.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARMAN, PATRICIA HAR

Harman, Patricia

Summary: Patricia Harman, a nurse-midwife, manages a women's health clinic with her husband, Tom, an ob-gyn, in West Virginia--a practice where patients open their hearts, where they find care and sometimes refuge. Patsy's memoir juxtaposes the tales of these women with her own story of keeping a small medical practice solvent and coping with personal challenges.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARMAN, PATRICIA HAR

Cernan, Eugene.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.45 CER

Darman, Jonathan.

Summary: Jonathan Darman tells the story of two giants of American politics, Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan, and how these two men changed American politics forever.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 320 DAR

Dedman, Bill.

Summary: "When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed a property listing for a grand estate that had been unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled into one of the most surprising American stories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Empty Mansions is a rich tale of wealth and loss, complete with copper barons, Gilded Age opulence, and backdoor politics. At its heart is a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLARK, HUGUETTE DED

Hellman, Peter

Summary: In Vino Duplicitas marks a new, notorious legend in wine: the story of Rudy Kurniawan, a 20-something Indonesian immigrant who bursts onto the rarified scene of ultrafine wines in 2002. Blessed with the gift of a discerning palate and a knack for tracking down impossibly hard-to-find bottles, he transforms himself from a virtual unknown, living illegally in the US, into one of the most...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Experiment 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KURNIAWAN, RUDY HEL

Borman, Tracy

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "Anne Boleyn may be best known for losing her head, but as Tudor expert Tracy Borman reveals in a book that recasts British history, her greatest legacy lies in the path-breaking reign of her daughter, Elizabeth. Much of the fascination with Britain's legendary Tudors centers around the dramas surrounding Henry VIII and his six wives and Elizabeth I's rumored liaisons. Yet the most fascinating...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Hardman, Robert

Summary: "On today's world stage, there is one leader who stands apart from the rest. Queen Elizabeth II has seen more of the planet and its people than any other head of state and has engaged with the world like no other monarch in modern history. Since her coronation, she has visited over 130 countries across the ever-changing globe, acting as diplomat, stateswoman, pioneer, and peace-broker. She has...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B QUEEN ELIZABETH HAR

Borman, Frank

Summary: An autobiography by the former astronaut who flew Gemini 7 and Apollo 8 missions, and later served as a diplomat and then president of Eastern Airlines.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1988

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.45 BOR

Erdman, Sarah.

Summary: A Peace Corps worker offers a portrayal of an African village that stands on the brink of modernity, caught between ancient superstitions and the era of the cell phone as they struggle with AIDS and other life-threatening problems.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 966.68 ERD

Hermez, Sami

Summary: "In 1967, Sireen Sawalha's mother, with her young children, walked back to Palestine against the traffic of exile. My Brother, My Land is the story of Sireen's family in the decades that followed and their lives in the Palestinian village of Kufr Ra'i. From Sireen's early life growing up in the shadow of the '67 War and her family's work as farmers caring for their land, to the involvement of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Redwood Press 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 HER

Vinke, Hermann

Summary: Tells the life story of the German army captain who began as a strong supporter of Hitler and changed to a rescuer of Jews and others after witnessing Nazi brutalities.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Star Bright Books 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 HOS

Berman, Larry

Summary: Chronicles the life of Pham Xuan An, a Vietnamese journalist who worked in South Vietnam for Reuters and Time magazine during the Vietnam War while simultaneously spying for North Vietnam.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books/Collins 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 PHAM, XUAN AN BER

Heyman, Stephen

Summary: "How a literary idol of the Lost Generation launched America's organic and sustainable food movement. In interwar France, Louis Bromfield was equally famous as a writer and as a gardener. He pruned dahlias with Edith Wharton, weeded Gertrude Stein's vegetable patch, and fed the starving artists who flocked to his farmhouse outside Paris. His best-selling novels earned him a Pulitzer-and the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROMFIELD, LOUIS HEY

Larman, Alexander

Summary: A definitive account of the abdication of Edward VIII in 1936 draws on archival material and interviews with the king's closest friends to detail the role played by the king's opponents and supporters and the resulting scandal at a time when war was imminent.

Format: text

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.084 LAR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 941.084 LAR

Larman, Alexander

Summary: "The next volume in Alexander Larman's biographical chronicle of the Windsor family, as they go to war with Adolf Hitler--and each other. At the beginning of 1937, the British monarchy was in a state of turmoil. The previous king, Edward VIII, had abdicated the throne, leaving his unprepared and terrified brother Bertie to become George VI, surrounded by a gaggle of courtiers and politicians...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.084 LAR

Germano, Kate

Summary: The Marine Corps continues to be the only service where men and women train separately in boot camp or basic training. This segregation negatively affects interaction with male marines later on, and, lower expectations of female recruits are actively maintained and encouraged. But Lieutenant Colonel Kate Germano arrived at the Fourth Recruit Training Battalion at Parris Island--which...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GERMANO, KATE GER

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