Summary: Tripp is a thirtysomething slacker, but that doesn't mean that he is ready to give up the many benefits of living at home with his mom and dad. His desperate parents have had enough though, and after years of gentle nudging they soon realize that it is going to take a concerted effort to get Tripp out so they can enjoy their twilight years in peace. Realizing that their only hope for riding...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FAI

Summary: "For many, Milton Glaser is the personification of American graphic design. Best known for co-founding New York Magazine and creating the enduring I (heart) NY campaign, the full breadth of Glaser's remarkable artistic output is revealed in this documentary portrait, Milton Glaser: to inform & delight. From newspapers and magazine designs, to interior spaces, logos and brand identities, to his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MIL

Summary: Frank Underwood is a cunning career politician. Zoe Barnes is an ambitious young journalist. Together they forge a partnership that trades powerful secrets for political access, and so much more.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOU

Summary: Featuring an incredible array of the greatest musicians of the 1970's. Also featured are comedy performances by Andy Kaufman and Robert Klein.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Burt Sugarman, Inc. 2006

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MID 1979

Leitner, Tamara

Summary: "In April 1999, reporter Tamara Leitner woke to an active crime scene outside her Arizona apartment. Her neighbor had been sexually assaulted by a man who would later be identified as Claude Dean Hull II, a serial rapist who escaped justice for decades. New identities. New states. New victims--more than one hundred suspected across the country and thousands more victimized in myriad ways....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 LEI

Summary: Contains the entire third season of the television program "House" in which the controversial Dr. Gregory House and his team diagnose and treat mysterious illnesses. Includes special features.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HOU

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOU

Summary: Thanksgiving 1973. The climate is changing, both politically and physically. As the Watergate scandal unfolds in the background, the inhabitants of a small Connecticut town begin to slip into an existentialist void. Social taboos are shattered on whims and the line between adult authority and juvenile irresponsibility is practically nonexistant. Focuses on the Hood and Carver families....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA ICE

Kepner, Tyler

Summary: "From the New York Times baseball columnist, a ... history of the national pastime as told through the craft of pitching, based on years of archival research and interviews with more than three hundred people from Hall of Famers to the stars of today"--Dust jacket flap.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Roberts, Keiler

Summary: "Keiler Roberts mines the passing moments of family life to deliver an affecting and funny account of what it means to simultaneously exist as a mother, daughter, wife, and artist. Drawn in an unassuming yet charming staccato that mimics the awkward rhythm of life, no one's foibles are left unspared, most often the author's own....Roberts can get lost in the rewarding melodrama of playing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ROB

Summary: In this shocking and sensitive exploratory journey through the thunderstorms of the mind of paranoid-schizophrenic Larry 'Wild Man' Fischer, viewers follow his discordant encounters in the music business. Institutionalized at the age of sixteen after attacking his mother with a knife, Fischer wandered the mean streets of LA singing his unique brand of songs for ten cents a pop to passersby. He...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MVD Visual 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC DER

Katz, William Loren

Summary: "Generations of American history students have grown up believing that slave rebellion was relatively rare, that slaves accepted their lot and became attached to their masters, and that they were ultimately liberated with little or no effort of their own. Centering Black voices and slave narratives, celebrated historian and children's book author, William Loren Katz offers a thoroughly...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Triangle Square Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Seven Stories Press 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 326.0973 KAT

Kepner, Tyler

Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches, a highly-entertaining history of the World Series, based on years of archival research and interviews with hundreds of players and managers, filled with never-before-heard details of the most exciting and fascinating tales from 117 years of the Fall Classic. The World Series is baseball's greatest stage....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Chaudry, Rabia

Summary: "A memoir about food, body image, and growing up in a loving but sometimes oppressively concerned Pakistani immigrant family"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAUDRY, RABIA CHA

Malneck, Matty.

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: Robbins Music Corp. 1930

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHM

Summary: Documentary about Theodore Roosevelt. Explores the influence of Roosevelt's childhood, his rise to the U.S. Presidency, and the years after he left office.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TR

Kleiman, Kathy

Summary: "After the end of World War II, top-secret research continued across the United States as engineers and programmers rushed to complete their confidential assignments. Among them were six pioneering women, tasked with figuring out how to program the world's first general-purpose, programmable, all-electronic computer - a machine built to calculate a single ballistic trajectory in twenty seconds...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 004.092 KLE

Sabin, Paul

Summary: "The story of the dramatic postwar struggle over the proper role of citizens and government in American society. In the 1960s and 70s, an insurgent attack on traditional liberalism took shape in America, built on new ideals of citizen advocacy and the public interest. Environmentalists, social critics, and consumer advocates like Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Ralph Nader, and others crusaded...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 SAB

Summary: LBJ, Lyndon Baines Johnson -- Texan, Democrat, political virtuoso. He rises up out of the 1960s like a Colossus, like something from Shakespeare, filling the stage -- 10, 12 characters in one. He is admired and he is detested. But the real measure of a leader is what he gets done, the size of the problems he faces. Before Lyndon Johnson, we were essentially a segregated society. Inequality...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LBJ

Ruffin, Amber

Summary: "Families may not always see eye to eye; we get on each other's nerves, have different perspectives and lives-especially if we've grown up in different generations. But for the Ruffin family and many others, there has been one constant that connects them: racism hasn't gone anywhere. From her raucous musical numbers to turning upsetting news into laughs as the host of The Amber Ruffin Show or...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 RUF

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 RUF

Gilsinan, Kathy

Summary: "A deeply moving narrative of the coronavirus pandemic, told through portraits of eight individuals who worked tirelessly to help others. In March 2020, COVID-19 overtook the United States, and life changed for America. In a matter of weeks the virus impacted millions, with lockdown measures radically reshaping the lives of even those who did not become infected. Yet despite the fear, hardship,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.2 GIL

Leth, Kate

Summary: Liv Holme is not exactly thrilled to be moving to a new town with her mother. After all, high school can be brutal, even more so when you're a fifteen-year-old, bisexual goth. But Liv is determined to be who she is, bullies or not. Still, being the new kid and the only out student brings her a lot of unwelcome attention, and Liv flounders in her search for community. The only person who makes...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 LET

Stuart, Nancy Rubin

Summary: Benjamin Franklin: thrifty inventor, statesman of the Revolutionary era... lover of women. The most prominent among them was Deborah Read Franklin, his common-law wife and partner for 44 years. An independent, politically savvy woman and devoted wife, she raised their children, managed his finances, and fought off angry mobs at gunpoint while he traipsed about England. Stuart also introduces...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3092 STU

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B FRANKLIN STU

Ganeshram, Ramin

Summary: Philadelphia 1793. Hercules, President George Washington's chef, is a fixture on the Philadelphia scene. He is famous for both his culinary prowess and for ruling his kitchen like a commanding general. He has his run of the city and earns twice the salary of an average American workingman. He wears beautiful clothes and attends the theater. But while valued by the Washingtons for his prowess in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAN

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Ganeshram 2018