Filter By Subjects
African American athletes Biography Fairy tales Glickman, Marty 1917-2001 Jewish athletes United States Biography National socialism Philosophy Olympic Games (11th : 1936 : Berlin, Germany) Olympics Participation, American Racism Germany History 20th century Staten Island (New York, N.Y.) Drama Stoller, Sam 1915-1983Filter By Subjects
African American athletes Biography Fairy tales Glickman, Marty 1917-2001 Jewish athletes United States Biography National socialism Philosophy Olympic Games (11th : 1936 : Berlin, Germany) Olympics Participation, American Racism Germany History 20th century Staten Island (New York, N.Y.) Drama Stoller, Sam 1915-1983Schaaf, Fred.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 1998
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 520 SCHSummary: The stooge: Egotistical vaudevillian Bill Miller basks in the limelight with his successful musical-comedy act, but his success is due to his unheralded second banana.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JERDaywalt, Drew
Summary: "A picture book about a boy who wishes upon a star and a star who wishes upon a boy"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DAYSummary: Irish Catholic couple Sean and Claudia Finnerty live in Staten Island, New York, with their three children, Lily, Jimmy, and Henry. They get into all sorts of trouble, usually because of Sean's brother, Eddie, who's got connections all over town. Sean and Eddie's father, Walt, often drops by and shares in the disaster. Most adventures are later recalled and they find out exactly what happened,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GROSummary: 210 traditional tales with accompanying explanatory and historical material.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1972
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Soundtrack from the Ken Burns documentary series "The national parks: America's best idea."
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2009
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Two teenagers from New York City are falsely accused of murder while driving through rural Alabama. To defend them in court, one of them hires his cousin Vinny, a flamboyant personal injury lawyer with no trial experience whatsoever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MYSummary: Two carefree pals (Macchio and Whitfield) traveling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, Vincent Gambini (Pesci) is the cousin of one of them and he is a lawyer. Vinny is a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his sixth try and has never been in court. When cousin Vinny arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend (Tomei) to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MYCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MYSchaap, Jeremy.
Summary: Boxing's true Cinderella story: James J. Braddock, dubbed "Cinderella Man" by Damon Runyon, was a once promising light heavyweight for whom a string of losses and a broken right hand happened to coincide with the Great Crash of 1929. With one good hand, he was forced to labor on the docks of Hoboken. Only his manager still believed in him. The diminutive, loquacious Jew and the burly, quiet...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.83 SCHSummary: A struggling single mom takes a job as a chambermaid at a luxury hotel in New York. she meets and falls in love with a sauve and sophisticated heir to an American political dynasty, who mistakes her for a society woman. When her real identity is revealed, the reality about their seperate lives sets in.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Maid 2002Summary: Set in 1953, Katherine Watson is a free-spirited graduate of UCLA who accepts a teaching post at Wellesley College, a women-only school where the students are torn between the repressive mores of the time and their longing for intellectual freedom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MONCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MONCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Mona 2004Schaap, Rosie.
Summary: "A vivid, funny, and poignant memoir that celebrates the distinct lure of the camaraderie and community one finds drinking in bars. Rosie Schaap has always loved bars: the wood and brass and jukeboxes, the knowing bartenders, and especially the sometimes surprising but always comforting company of regulars. Starting with her misspent youth in the bar car of a regional railroad, where at...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Hardcover 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.2SCASchaal, Kristen
Summary: Twelve-year-old twins Dipper and Mabel Pines spend the summer in mysterious Gravity Falls with their great uncle Stan, who runs a tacky tourist trap.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertaiment 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV GRAFreud, Esther
Summary: "A sweeping story of three generations of women, crossing from London to Ireland and back again, and the enduring effort to retrieve the secrets of the past. It's London, 1960, and Aoife Kelly--once the sparkling object of young men's affections--runs pubs with her brusque, barking husband, Cash. Their courtship began in wartime London, before they returned to Ireland with their daughters in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FREFrid, Tage.
Contents: bk. 1. Joinery -- bk. 2 Shaping, veneering, finishing.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Taunton Press 1979
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 684.1 FRIWarrington, Freda
Summary: "A painting, depicting haunting scenes of a ruined palace and a scarlet-haired goddess in front of a fiery city, arrives unheralded in an art gallery with a cryptic note saying, "The world needs to see this." The painting begins to change the lives of the woman who is the gallery's curator and that of an ancient man of the fey Aetherial folk who has mysteriously risen from the depths of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARWarrington, Freda
Summary: A young woman studying art at a vast country estate near the site where a child was snatched by fairies decades earlier stumbles onto the portal to the Otherworld through which a handsome, charming, and innocent young man emerges and captures her heart.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2010
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: FIC WAR AT #2Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARSchaap, Jeremy.
Summary: In 1936, against a backdrop of swastikas flying and storm troopers looming, an African-American son of sharecroppers set three world records and won an unprecedented four gold medals, single-handedly crushing Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy. The story of Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympic Games is that of a high-profile athlete giving a performance that transcends sports--but it is also the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2007
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Red
Contents: Feed the machine -- Faceless -- Lie to me (Denial) -- Let it burn -- Buried beneath -- Not alone -- Watch you crawl -- The outside -- Who we are -- Best is yet to come -- Hymn for the missing.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Essential 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK REDFreud, Esther.
Summary: It is their first day at Drama Arts, and the circle of huddled, nervous students are told in no uncertain terms that here, unlike at any other drama school, they will be taught to Act. To Be. To exist in their own world on the stage. But outside is the real world—a pitiless, alluring place in which each of them in their most fervent dreams, hopes to flourish and excel. Nell, insecure and dumpy,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2011
View online at OverDrive
Schaap, Annet
Summary: Every night Lampie, the lighthouse keeper's daughter lights the lantern which warns the ships away from the rocks, but when the light goes out one night, a ship is wrecked and Lampie is sent to the Admiral's Black House in disgrace--there she finds and befriends the Admiral's son, who was born with a tail, and together they are pulled into an adventure of mermen and pirates, and secret...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCHCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCHSchaap, Jeremy.
Summary: In 1936, against a backdrop of swastikas flying and storm troopers goose-stepping, an African American son of sharecroppers won a staggering four Olympic gold medals and single-handedly crushed Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy. This is the intimate and complex tale of the courage of one remarkable man.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2007