Summary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLISummary: A frustrated city girl decides to disguise herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. But little "Sue Sue" finds herself in a whole heap of grown-up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with handsome Major Kirby and he insists on taking her to his military academy after the train is stalled.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE MAJSummary: TURN: Washington's Spies takes viewers into the stirring and treacherous world of the Revolutionary War and America's first spy ring. In this season, the Patriot cause has suffered the crushing loss of their capital city of Philadelphia to the British. Washington's army faces desertion and death, and the embattled General faces conspirators from within his own ranks, as well as personal demons...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TURMilano, Alyssa
Summary: "Alyssa Milano, actress and activist, writes a collection of powerful personal essays that get to the heart of her life, career, and all-out humanitarianism. These essays will cover urgent topics of unity, communication, and treating all people the right way, a timely book that shows the importance of taking care of others. Milano has become one of the most visible, hard-working humanitarians...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MILANO, ALYSSA MILNuurali, Siman
Summary: After a family hike in a nearby park, Sadiq forms the Explorers Club with his friends, who then help a neighbor create a nature-themed scavenger hunt for the Fourth of July celebration.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE NUUNuurali, Siman
Summary: When Sadiq and his friends form a theater club Sadiq, as director, thinks he must do everything until the director of his big sister Aliya's show tells him about delegating. Includes glossary, discussion questions, and writing prompts.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE NUUNuurali, Siman
Summary: "Sadiq's third grade class decides that they want a classroom pet, and their teacher, Ms. Battersby, is okay with the idea, so the students form a club to decide what kind of pet to get, and to research how to take care of it." --
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2022
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Homans, Jennifer
Summary: "The New York Times called him "the Shakespeare of dancing." He appeared on the cover of Time magazine. Arguably the greatest choreographer who ever lived, George Balanchine was one of the cultural titans of the twentieth century. His radical approach to choreography reinvented the art of dance and his richly imaginative ballets made him a legend. Yet, Balanchine's life was as dramatic as his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BALANCHINE, GEORGE HOMElman, Ziggy.
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Bregman, Vocco and Conn Inc. 1939
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMEyman, Scott
Summary: In the aftermath of World War Two, Charlie Chaplin was criticized for being politically liberal and internationalist in outlook. He had never become a US citizen, something that would be held against him as xenophobia set in when the postwar Red Scare took hold. Politics aside, Chaplin had another problem: his sexual interest in young women. He had been married three times and had had numerous...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAPLIN, CHARLIE EYMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B CHAPLIN EYMEkman, Paul
Summary: In Nonverbal Messages, Paul Ekman reveals the motivations and the serendipity that led to his many remarkable accomplishments—mapping the vocabulary of gestures, providing a tool for measuring facial expressions, and proving the evidence of their universality.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Paul Ekman Group 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EKMAN, PAUL EKMSummary: "In this chilling adaptation of the best-selling novel by Thomas Harris, the astonishingly versatile director Jonathan Demme crafted a taut psychological thriller about an American obsession: serial murder. As Clarice Sterling, an FBI trainee who enlists the help of the infamous Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter to gain insight into the mind of another killer, Jodie Foster subverts classic gender...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Larson, Doran
Summary: "In Inside Knowledge incarcerated people step forth as the primary witnesses and documentarians of the American prison's historical and ongoing defeat of the four cardinal rationales for the legal caging of human beings: rehabilitations, deterrence, containment, and retribution"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 365 LAREyman, Scott
Summary: Henry Fonda and James Stewart were two of the biggest stars in Hollywood for forty years. They became friends and then roommates as stage actors in New York, and when they began making films in Hollywood, they roomed together again. Between them they made such memorable films as The Grapes of Wrath, Mister Roberts, Twelve Angry Men, and On Golden Pond; and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Destry...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 EYMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Entertain EymanMilne, David
Summary: "A new intellectual history of U.S. foreign policy from the late nineteenth century to the present. Worldmaking is a fresh and compelling new take on the history of American diplomacy. Rather than retracing a familiar story of realism versus idealism, David Milne suggests that U.S. foreign policy has also been crucially divided between those who view statecraft as an art and those who believe...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 MILNiman, Nicolette Hahn
Summary: "For decades it has been nearly universal dogma among environmentalists that many forms of livestock-goats, sheep, and others, but especially cattle-are Public Enemy Number One. They erode soils, pollute air and water, damage riparian areas, and decimate wildlife populations. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations bolstered the credibility of this notion with its 2007...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2021
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.2 NIMMartin, Bogan & the Armstrongs
Contents: Yes pappy yes (3:08) -- In the bottom (4:15) -- Marie (4:01) -- Ice cream freezer blues (3:56) -- That old gang of mine (4:05) -- Jamaica farewell (2:36) -- I'd do most anything for you (2:13) -- Nagging woman blues (4:37) -- Sheik of Araby (2:45) -- Streets of old Chicago (3:56) -- Let's give a party (3:32) -- Chinatown (3:36) -- Do you call that a buddy (4:42) -- They cut down the old pine...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Fish Records 1992
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK MARGorman, Amanda
Summary: "On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet, at age twenty-two, to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Her inaugural poem, "The Hill We Climb," is now available to cherish in this special edition."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 811 GORCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 GORCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 GORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 GORCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 GORButler, Larry
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Tree Pub. Co. and Press Music Co. 1975
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMHogan, Peter
Summary: "Living undercover as a semi-retired, small-town doctor, a stranded alien's only hope is to stay off humanity's radar until he can be rescued. When he's pulled into a surprising murder mystery by the town's desperate mayor and struggling police chief, "Dr. Harry Vanderspeigle" learns more about the human condition than he ever wanted to. Acclaimed creators Peter Hogan (2000 AD, Tom Strong) and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2020
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Kotlikoff, Laurence J.
Summary: "In 2016, Social Security rules changed radically. Do you know how - and how these changes might apply to you? Americans have left literally billions of Social Security dollars on the table - benefits we have earned, are eligible to take, but simply aren't aware of. Fully revised and carefully updated in light of the new law, Get What's Yours is the indispensable guide to collecting the maximum...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.6 KOTCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Aging KotlikoffHogan, Kristen
Summary: "From the 1970s through the 1990s more than one hundred feminist bookstores built a transnational network that helped shape some of feminism's most complex conversations. Kristen Hogan traces the feminist bookstore movement's rise and eventual fall, restoring its radical work to public feminist memory. The bookwomen at the heart of this story-mostly lesbians and including women of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Duke University Press 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 381 HOGSummary: Discover the stories, ideas, and methods behind today's most compelling artists; features sixteen artists from North America (Chicago, Mexico City, Los Angeles, and Vancouver).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ARTSummary: "Arriving in a sleepy Southern town on the eve of integration, slick charismatic Adam Cramer is an ominous influence, inciting its white citizens into a racial fervor, and plunging the once quiet community into a state of chaos."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2007