Filter By Subjects
Alva, Alfredo Juvenile literature Dogs Behavior Dogs Psychology Dogs Training Human-animal relationships Immigrants United States Biography Juvenile literature Mexican Americans Biography Juvenile literature Mexico Emigration and immigration Juvenile literature United States United States Emigration and immigration Juvenile literatureFilter By Subjects
Alva, Alfredo Juvenile literature Dogs Behavior Dogs Psychology Dogs Training Human-animal relationships Immigrants United States Biography Juvenile literature Mexican Americans Biography Juvenile literature Mexico Emigration and immigration Juvenile literature United States United States Emigration and immigration Juvenile literatureMills, Travis
Summary: "Retired U.S. Army staff sergeant Travis Mills, one of only five soldiers from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to survive a quadruple amputation, shares the story of his remarkable recovery"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 MILLS, TRAVIS MILMills, Billy
Summary: "The autobiographical story of Billy Mills, an Oglala Lakota orphan who achieved his dream of winning a gold medal as a runner in the 1964 Olympics despite racism, poverty, and debilitating health challenges"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Berman, Kathleen Cornell
Summary: Explores the childhood and early career of the noted jazz trumpeter who gained fame performing at the first Newport Jazz Festival in 1955.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Kids 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DAVSmiley, Tavis
Summary: A notable PBS and Public Radio International host recounts the story of his friendship with Maya Angelou, who took on the role of teacher and maternal figure to him after their initial meeting in 1986, when he was a recent college graduate.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SMIAtria, Travis
Summary: "By the 1930s, Briggs was considered "the Louis Armstrong of Paris," and was the peer of the greatest names of his time, from Josephine Baker to Django Reinhardt. In 1940, he was arrested and sent to the prison camp at Saint Denis. Based on groundbreaking research and including unprecedented access to Briggs's oral memoir, this is a crucial document of jazz history, a fast-paced epic, and an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRIGGS, ARTHUR BRIDandro, Travis
Summary: "From a child's-eye view, Travis Dandro recounts growing up with a drug-addicted birth father, alcoholic step-dad, and overwhelmed mother. As a kid, Dandro would temper the tension of his every day with flights of fancy, finding refuge in toys and animals and insects rather than the unpredictable adults around him. Dandro perceptively details the effects of poverty and addiction on a family...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.29 DANAlabanza, Travis
Summary: "A memoir exploring what it means to live outside the normative boundaries imposed by society, from an award-winning trans writer and performer. In None of the Above: Reflections on Life beyond the Binary, Travis Alabanza considers seven phrases people have directed at them throughout their life. These phrases-some deceptively innocuous, some deliberately loaded or violent, some...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALABANZA, TRAVIS ALARieder, Travis
Summary: "A bioethicist's eloquent and riveting memoir of opioid dependence and withdrawal -- a harrowing personal reckoning and clarion call for change not only for government but medicine itself, revealing the lack of crucial resources and structures to handle this insidious nationwide epidemic. Travis Rieder's terrifying journey down the rabbit hole of opioid dependence began with a motorcycle...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RIEDER, TRAVIS RIEEtinde-Crompton, Charlotte
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2020
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Blk Art Etinde-CromptonTravis, Randy
Summary: "Beloved around the world, Randy Travis has sold more than 25 million albums in both country and gospel and is considered one of the finest performers of his generation, admired by superstars across the musical landscape, from Garth Brooks to Mick Jagger. From a working-class background in North Carolina to a job as a cook and club singer in Nashville to his "overnight success" with his smash...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TRAVIS, RANDY TRAWills, Garry
Summary: For centuries, Augustine's writings have moved and fascinated readers. With the fresh, keen eye of a writer whose own intellectual analysis has won him a Pulitzer Prize, Gary Wills examines this famed fourth-century bishop and seminal thinker whose grounding in classical philosophy informed his influential interpretation of the Christian doctrines of mind and body, wisdom and God. Saint...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AUGUSTINE WILDe Milly, Walter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Wisconsin Press 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1536 DEMBilas, Jay
Summary: The basketball player, coach, and ESPN analyst examines his life and career through the prism of toughness, which he explains comes from discipline, a team-oriented mind-set, and belief in oneself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BILAS, JAY BILHulls, Tessa
Summary: "Tessa Hulls delves into her own family history and the intergenerational trauma caused by mental illness and political strife"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 HULLS, TESSA HULNyiszli, Miklos.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 1993
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 NYISZLI, MIKLOS NYIBiles, Simone
Summary: "Simone takes you through the events, challenges, and trials that carried her from an early childhood in foster care to a coveted spot on the 2016 Olympic team" --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2016
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Millan, Cesar
Summary: Looks at the positive effects that having and training dogs has on their owners, and shares personal stories of how the dogs in his life have given him important lessons in respect, confidence, resilience, and authenticity.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2017
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Ravin, Idan.
Summary: "Basketball's most unlikely-and most sought-after-training guru offers an inside look at his career, his methods, and the all-star players whose games he's helped transform. Where do the best basketball players in the world turn when they want to improve their game? Whom does a future NBA Hall of Famer thank at his press conference when he's named Rookie of the Year? Who is it that Sports...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RAVIN, IDAN RAVTraver, Robert
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1954
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 921 TRAWills, Garry
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.7 WILWills, Shomari
Summary: "The astonishing untold history of America's first black millionaires - former slaves who endured incredible challenges to amass and maintain their wealth for a century, from the Jacksonian period to the Roaring Twenties - self-made entrepreneurs whose unknown success mirrored that of American business heroes such as Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and Thomas Edison. Between the years of 1830...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WILMills, Dan
Summary: When Sgt. Mills and the rest of the 1st Battalion flew into Iraq in April, 2004, they were soon fighting for their lives. "Sniper One" is a breathtaking chronicle of endurance, camaraderie, dark humor, and courage in the face of relentless, lethal assault.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 MILMills, Deborah
Summary: Alfredo y su papá deben cruzar la frontera en un viaje difícil de México a los Estados Unidos. ¿Encontrarán el nuevo hogar que están buscando en el otro lado? Basándose en hechos reales, esta historia cobra vida gracias a la ilustradora Mexicana Claudia Navarro, y está repleta de notas al final del texto para iniciar conversaciones sobre inmigración.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 325 MILStaples, Mavis
Summary: "A memoir in poems of award-winning singer and Civil Rights activist Mavis Staples"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rocky Pond Books 2024