Angers, Trent.
Summary: The story of the U.S. Army helicopter pilot who risked his life to rescue South Vietnamese civilians and to put a stop to the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War in 1968. Revised Edition shows President Nixon and some of his political allies in the House of Representatives interfered in the judicial process to try to prevent any U.S. soldier from being convicted of war crimes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Acadian House Publishing 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THOMPSON, HUGH ANGEdgers, Geoff.
Summary: "A biography of the Beatles, the world's most famous rock band"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2006
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET BEATLESBender, Sue.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 1995
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 291.4 BENEdgers, Geoff
Summary: Profiles the life and accomplishments of Stanley Lieber, comic book author, publisher of Marvel Comics, and creator of such famous comic-book characters as Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, and the Fantastic Four.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 921 LEECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET LEEEvers, Medgar
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Civitas 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EVERS, MEDGAR EVEEdgers, Geoff.
Summary: Profiles the "King of Rock 'n Roll," focusing on how he got his start in singing and how his style influenced later musicians.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2007
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET PRESLEYElder, Robert
Summary: Describes the life of the American statesman and political theorist who served as Vice President under John Quincy Adams and argued in favor of slavery and laid the groundwork for the South to secede the Union.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CALHOUN, JOHN C. ELDMorley, Anders
Summary: "A coming-of-middle-age story in which the author skis across Canada in winter"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mountaineers Books 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MORLEY, ANDERS MORHuffington, Arianna Stassinopoulos
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1988
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Anders, Gigi.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rayo 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 ANDERS, GIGI ANDJekyll, Gertrude
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Antique Collectors' Club 1982
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 JEKBeasley, Gertrude
Summary: "Originally published in Paris in 1925, My First Thirty Years is a brutally honest memoir by Gertrude Beasley, who grew up in poverty in rural Texas and suffered unthinkable emotional and sexual abuse at the hands of her family. The themes in this book are still relevant to readers today, telling the story of a woman who grew up in brutal circumstances, but who ultimately found a way out....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BEASLEY, GERTRUDE BEAStein, Gertrude
Summary: "Stein's most famous work; one of the richest and most irreverent biographies ever written, now illustrated by Maira Kalman"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TOKLAS, ALICE B. STEEggers, Dave
Summary: "From bestselling author Dave Eggers, the incredible true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war. Mokhtar Alkhanshali is twenty-four and working as a doorman when he discovers the astonishing history of coffee and Yemen's central place in it. He leaves San...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALKHANSHALI, MOKHTAR EGGEggers, Dave.
Summary: One of the most mesmerizing memoirs of the literary season: a wrenching, hilarious, and stylistically groundbreaking story of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. "Well, this was when Bill was sighing a lot. He had decided that after our parents died he just didn't want any more fighting between what was...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2000
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Robillard, Evie
Summary: "Poems, paintings and Paris all come to life in this enchanting picture book biography of Gertrude Stein. This story of imagination and expression introduces young readers to Gertrude and her life partner, Alice B. Toklas, who lived in Paris during a fascinating time in history. Divided into short chapters that chronicle different episodes in Gertrude and Alice's life, this book celebrates two...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 ROBBender, Doug
Summary: From the influential and ever-growing movement "I Am Second" comes a remarkable collection of well-known lives transformed from restless to happy by the power of God. When I Am Second launched in 2008, the organization meant simply to tell stories of people whose lives changed utterly when they placed God first and themselves second. Although the organization has exploded in size and influence...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 277.3 BENEggers, Dave.
Summary: Describes how Abdulrahman Zeitoun remained in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, his subsequent efforts to help other victims, his disappearance a week later, and the effect of these events on his wife Kathy and their children.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2010
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Ende, Bernice
Summary: Riding 2,000 miles on horseback from Montana to New Mexico sounds like a crazy but thrilling dream or pure hardship and exhaustion. According to Bernice Ende, the trip was all that and more. Since swinging her leg over the saddle for that first long ride in 2005 (at the age of 51), Ende has logged more than 29,000 miles in the saddle, crisscrossing North America on horseback - alone. More than...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farcountry Press 2018
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: 921 ENDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ENDE, BERNICE ENDSanders, Ed.
Summary: "In 1971, Ed Sanders published The Family, his insider's account of the Manson family murders; it was an immediate sensation. Using the same investigative skills and insider contacts that informed his counterculture classic, Sanders delivers the definitive account of the brief and tragic life of Sharon Tate. The biography takes a close look at Tate's life-from her itinerant childhood and early...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TATE, SHARON SANSanders, Rob
Summary: Traces the life of the Gay Pride Flag, from its beginnings with social activist Harvey Milk and designer Gilbert Baker to its spanning of the globe and its role in today's world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Sanders, Bernard
Summary: "When Bernie Sanders began his race for the presidency, it was considered by the political establishment and the media to be a "fringe" campaign, something not to be taken seriously. After all, he was just an independent senator from a small state with little name recognition. His campaign had no money, no political organization, and it was taking on the entire Democratic Party establishment....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2016
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SANDERS, BERNIE SANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B SANDERSSanders, Chad
Summary: "When Chad Sanders landed his first job in lily-white Silicon Valley, he quickly concluded that to be successful at work meant playing a certain social game. Each meeting was drenched in white slang and the privileged talk of international travel or folk concerts in San Francisco, which led Chad to believe he needed to emulate whiteness to be successful. So Chad changed. He changed his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 SANSanders, Deion
Summary: "Deion "Coach Prime" Sanders is one of the greatest motivators and inspirational leaders of all time-on the field, in business, with family, and in his community. Now, with Elevate and Dominate, he delivers the ultimate playbook of inspiring personal stories, winning strategies, and the motivation required to help us "elevate and dominate" in all aspects of our lives. A natural born leader,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books /13A 2024