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Summary: In April 2003 Aron Ralston, a 27-year-old hiker, fell and was trapped in a narrow crevasse, his right arm wedged against the rock wall by a boulder. He had gone to Bluejohn Canyon, Utah for a rock-climbing weekend alone. Not telling anyone where he was going and finding himself stuck, he knows he can't expect anyone to come to his rescue. As a trained engineer and a skilled, albeit somewhat...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: Blu-ray 127

Summary: Professor Gates' journey continues as a weekly series that will look at an ever-widening spectrum of our nation's fascinating ethnic mixture.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

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: Fantastic voyage: A team of miniaturized scientists go on a remarkable journey through the human body. The lost world: Prehistoric beasts are discovered in the modern-day world. The towering inferno: Faulty wiring sparks a deadly fire in a high-rise building. Voyage to the bottom of the sea: Adventures aboard the submarine Seaview.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Fabiny, Sarah

Summary: Presents the life and accomplishments of the American biologist, whose influential work, "The Silent Spring," inspired worldwide conservation movements.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CAR

Zgheib, Yara

Summary: "Hadi and Sama are a young Syrian couple in the throes of new love, building a life in the country that brought them together. They'd met in Cambridge, Massachusetts: he, a shell-shocked refugee of a bloody civil war; she, a passionate dreamer who'd come to America years earlier in search of new horizons. Now, they giddily await the birth of their son, a boy whose native language would be...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZGH

Krasikov, Sana

Summary: "When the Great Depression hits, Florence Fein leaves Brooklyn College for what appears to be a plum job in Moscow-and the promise of love and independence. But once in Russia, she quickly becomes entangled in a country she can't escape. Many years later, Florence's son, Julian, will make the opposite journey, immigrating back to the United States. His work in the oil industry takes him on...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRA

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRA

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 CLI

Aaron, Jason

Summary: "Luke enters the Arena of Death while his friends rush to find him. Chewbacca and C-3PO are attacked by a mysterious bounty hunter. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards."--Amazon.com.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of the ABDO Group 2017

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC AAR

Aaron, Jason

Summary: "Who is Thor? That's the question on everyone's lips. Most especially Prince Odinson of Asgard. This volume, he starts to narrow down the list of suspects. Meanwhile, tensions continue to flare between the All-Mother and All-Father, Malekith forges his most dangerous pact yet, and Thor prepares to face her greatest challenge!"--provided from Amazon.com.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC. 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 THO

Aaron, Jason

Summary: "Luke trains for the Arena of Death, Chewbacca and C-3PO search for Luke, and Han and Leia convince Sana to help them rescue their friend. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards."--Amazon.com.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of the ABDO Group 2017

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC AAR

Aaron, Jason

Summary: "Luke gets his lightsaber back but is imprisoned by Grakkus the Hutt, while Han, Leia, and Sana escape from the Imperials. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards."--Amazon.com.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of the ABDO Group 2017

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC AAR

Zgheib, Yara

Summary: "Hadi and Sama are a young Syrian couple flying high on a whirlwind love, dreaming up a life in the country that brought them together. She had come to Boston years before chasing dreams of a bigger life; he'd landed there as a sponsored refugee from a bloody civil war. Now, they are giddily awaiting the birth of their son, a boy whose native language would be freedom and belonging. When Sama...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ZGH

Aaron, Jason

Summary: "After saving Chewbacca and C-3PO, Han, Leia, and Sana continue their search for Luke as the young Jedi fights for his life in the Arena of Death. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards."--Amazon.com.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of the ABDO Group 2017

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC AAR

Aaron, Jason

Summary: "With villainous scum running rampant on Tatooine, Ben Kenobi struggles to stay in hiding, but will he risk revealing himself when a certain young boy gets caught up in the middle of the action? Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards."--Amazon.com.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of the ABDO Group 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC AAR

Baron, Martin

Summary: "A monumental work of nonfiction that gives a first-row seat to the epic power struggle between politics, money, media, and tech -- for fans of Maggie Haberman's Confidence Man and Jane Mayer's Dark Money. Marty Baron took charge of The Washington Post newsroom in 2013, after nearly a dozen years leading The Boston Globe. Just seven months into his new job, Baron received explosive news: Jeff...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.4 BAR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B BARON BAR

Varon, Elizabeth R.

Summary: "An authoritative biography of the second-highest-ranking and most controversial Confederate general, who rejoined the Union after the Civil War, advising other Confederate soldiers to put that war behind them. After joining an interracial government in New Orleans, Longstreet fought against white supremacists when they attacked these postwar elected officials, for which he was vilified and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LONGSTREET, JAMES VAR

Wang, Daren

Summary: Rooted in the history of the only secessionist town north of the Mason Dixon Line, Daren Wang's The Hidden Light of Northern Fires tells a story of redemption amidst a war that tore families and the country apart. Mary Willis has always been an outcast, an abolitionist in a town of bounty hunters and anti-Union farmers. After college, she dreams of exploring the country, but is obligated to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAN

Horjus, Maren

Summary: "Discover Mother Nature's best-kept secret hikes. Nothing against the Bright Angel Trail, the Narrows, the Presidential Traverse, or Half Dome, which are all certainly worthy of their popularity, but hikers don't need another resource pointing them toward those conga lines. It's time we rewrite the backpacker's life list. Enter Backpacker Hidden Gems. For the first time ever, here is a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Falcon 2018

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Summary: Based on the 1913 U.S. Open golf championship - at which two equally sympathetic young men, both of whom grew up economically and socially disadvantaged, go club to club in one of the most exciting and dramatic athletic events of the 20th century.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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Marin, Cheech

Summary: "A memoir by the counterculture legend discusses how he formed one of the most successful comedy duos of all time, became a representative of the recreational drug movement, forged a successful solo career, and amassed a collection of renowned Chicano art,"--NoveList.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017

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Carmon, Irin

Summary: A visually rich, intimate, unprecedented look at the Justice and how she changed the world. From Ginsburg's refusal to let the slammed doors of sexism stop her to her innovative legal work, from her before-its-time feminist marriage to her perch on the nation's highest court, with the fierce dissents to match, get to know RBG as never before. As the country struggles with the unfinished...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 GINSBURG, RUTH BADER Car

Carmon, Irin

Summary: "Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers a visually rich, intimate, unprecedented look at the Justice and how she changed the world. From Ginsburg's refusal to let the slammed doors of sexism stop her to her innovative legal work, from her before-its-time feminist marriage to her perch on the nation's highest court--with the fierce dissents to match--get to know RBG as...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dey Street Books, An Imprint of William Morrow Publishers 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GINSBURG, RUTH BADER CAR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B GINSBURG CAR

Harmon, Amy

Summary: "In 1760, Deborah Samson is born to Puritan parents in Plympton, Massachusetts. When her father abandons the family and her mother is unable to support them, Deborah is bound out as an indentured servant. From that moment on, she yearns for a life of liberation and adventure. Twenty years later, as the American colonies begin to buckle in their battle for independence, Deborah, impassioned by...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2023

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