Filter By Subjects
Ashbery, John 1927-2017 Guerre Secours aux malades et blessés Harris, Kamala 1964- Heroes Judges United States Speeches, addresses, etc., American Syrie Histoire 2011- (Guerre civile) Récits personnels United States United States. Congress. Senate Biography Juvenile literature United States. Supreme Court Officials and employeesFilter By Series
American music seriesFilter By Subjects
Ashbery, John 1927-2017 Guerre Secours aux malades et blessés Harris, Kamala 1964- Heroes Judges United States Speeches, addresses, etc., American Syrie Histoire 2011- (Guerre civile) Récits personnels United States United States. Congress. Senate Biography Juvenile literature United States. Supreme Court Officials and employeesFilter By Series
American music seriesHuffman, Alan.
Summary: Two opposition researchers take readers on a year-long journey across the United States as they investigate the backgrounds of political candidates, from presidential appointees to local school board hopefuls.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.70973 HUFRoffman, Karin
Summary: "The first biography of an American master. The Songs We Know Best, the first comprehensive biography of the early life of John Ashbery -- the winner of nearly every major American literary award -- reveals the unusual ways he drew on the details of his youth to populate the poems that made him one of the most original and unpredictable forces of the last century in arts and letters. Drawing on...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ASHBERY, JOHN ROFHuffman, Alan.
Summary: Isaac Ross died in 1836, and his will stipulated that his Mississippi plantation be sold and the proceeds used to provide passage for his slaves to the new colony of Liberia. This book discusses the battle over the will (which was ultimately upheld), and the results of those slaves' emigration to Liberia.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.2 HUFHuffman, Eddie
Summary: In "John Prine," Eddie Huffman traces the long arc of Prine's musical career, beginning with his early, seemingly effortless successes, which led paradoxically not to stardom but to a rich and varied career writing songs that other people have made famous. He recounts the stories, many of them humorous, behind Prine's best-known songs and discusses all of Prine's albums as he explores the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Texas Press 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PRINE, JOHN HUFHuffman, Alan.
Contents: Midstream, April 27, 1865 -- Getting there -- War -- The raids -- Somewhere, the little brother -- Captured -- Cahaba -- Andersonville -- Going off alone -- Release -- Sold up the river -- The disaster -- In a dead man's pocket -- The beginning of the end -- Home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.771 HUFCoffman, Steven.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons & Burford 1995
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.782 COFHodgman, George.
Summary: "A witty, tender memoir of a son's journey home to care for his irascible mother--a tale of secrets, silences, and enduring love. When George Hodgman leaves Manhattan for his hometown of Paris, Missouri, he finds himself--an unlikely caretaker and near-lethal cook--in a head-on collision with his aging mother, Betty, a woman of wit and will. Will George lure her into assisted living? When hell...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Adult 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HODGMAN, GEORGE HODScalia, Antonin
Summary: "By any measure, Antonin Scalia lived an extraordinary life. A Supreme Court justice for three decades, he transformed the way that judges and lawyers think about the law. Married to his beloved Wife, Maureen, for more than fifty years, a father to nine children, and a grandfather to dozens, he was devoted to his family and his faith. He was gregarious, energetic, and a friend to people of all...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Forum 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 815 SCAHarris, Kamala
Summary: Now adapted for young readers, Senator Kamala Harris's empowering memoir about the values and inspirations that guided her life. As the first woman, African American, and South Asian American to become attorney general of California, and the second black woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate, Kamala Harris has blazed trails on her path to the national stage. But how did she achieve her goals?...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HARHofmann, Corinne.
Summary: A former European entrepreneur recounts how she fell in love with Lketinga, a Masai warrior, while vacationing in Kenya and subsequently uprooted her life to move to the isolated bush country of Africa.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2005
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Jamali, Naveed
Summary: "In 2008, almost two decades after the Cold War was officially consigned to the history books, an average American guy in his twenties helped to bring down a top Russian spy based at the United Nations. This American had no formal espionage training. Everything he knew about spying he'd learned from books, movies, video games, and TV. And yet, with the help of an initially reluctant FBI duo, he...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JAMALI, NAVEED JAMMajd, Hooman.
Summary: Offers rare insight into a country and its people by following an Iranian-American writer and his young family on a year-long sojourn in Tehran during which U.S.-Iran relations were at a thirty-year low.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 955.06 MAJPossanza, Amelia
Summary: "When Amelia Possanza moved to Brooklyn to build a life of her own, she found herself surrounded by queer stories: she read them on landmark placards, overheard them on the pool deck when she joined the world's largest LGBTQ swim team, and even watched them on TV in her cockroach-infested apartment. These stories inspired her to seek out lesbians throughout history who could become her role...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POSSANZA, AMELIA POSHarris, Kamala
Summary: "Senator Kamala Harris's picture book memoir in which she tells her life story and shows how everyone can be a superhero"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HARHodgman, John
Summary: Presents a memoir of the author's cursed travels through the woods of Massachusetts and coastal Maine, describing his midlife transformation from an idealistic youth to an eccentric family man.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 HODCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HODGMAN, JOHN JODHofmann, Paul
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1998
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945 HOFLavin, Talia
Summary: The unapologetic journalist and anti-discrimination activist recounts her immersive investigation into white supremacy to reveal how it proliferates online, exposing a rampant Web subculture of religious extremism, misogyny, racism and anti-Semitism.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.56 LAVAmara, Philip
Summary: "This is an illustrated children's anthology of noteworthy Asian Americans: 20 groundbreaking men and women from diverse backgrounds and vocations"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 AMAHoffman, Edward
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 150 HOFHoffman, Peter
Summary: An influential chef and food thinker combines personal stories with explorations into the cultural, historical and botanical backstories of the food we eat and the ingredients we use.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 HOFHoagman, Walter J.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1954
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577.68 HOAHoffman, Carl
Summary: Retracing Rockefeller's steps, award-winning journalist Carl Hoffman traveled to the jungles of New Guinea to solve a decades-old mystery and illuminate a culture transformed by years of colonial rule.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 995 HOFHoffman, Alice.
Summary: Inspires readers to find the beauty in everyday life during tough times by re-envisioning everything from relationships to family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Pub Co 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9944 HOFHoffman, Carl
Summary: Hoffman takes readers around the globe the way most people experience it and provides an up-close-and-personal view of its most teeming cities and remotest places. An eye-opening look at how welcoming the everyday people of the world can be to a complete stranger.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2010