Higa, Susumu
Summary: "A peaceful, independent kingdom until its annexation by the Japanese Empire in the 19th century, Okinawa was the site of the most destructive land battle of the Pacific War. Today, the archipelago is Japan's poorest prefecture and unwilling host to 75% of all US military bases in Japan. Okinawa brings together two collections of intertwined stories by the island's pre-eminent mangaka, Susumu...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books, Inc. 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 HIGZurcher, Andrew
Summary: After their father's mysterious disappearance, Kay and her younger sister Ell set off on an epic quest to find him and, perhaps, to save the world's stories and storytellers, guided by kindly Wraiths.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ZURButler, Emily
Summary: Freya, a penguin, and Zoose, a mouse, become friends while stowaways on Salomon August Andreé's 1897 hot air balloon expedition to the North Pole.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BUTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BUTButler, Audrey, ED.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1964
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 903.21 EVESummary: Zumba Fitness was created in the mid-90's by Colombian native Alberto Peréz, a celebrity fitness trainer and choreographer for International pop superstars. Inspired by the traditional cumbia, salsa, samba and merengue music he grew up with, Beto paired his favorite pulsating Latin rhythms with the red-hot international dance steps his clients loved and Zumba Fitness (Spanish slang for "to move...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Guthy-Renker 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.71 ZUMSummary: This story begins on the steps on the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963 when a 34-year-old preacher galvanized millions with his dream for an America free of racism. It comes to a bloody end almost five years later on a motel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. In the years since those events unfolded, the man at the center, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has become a mythic figure, a minister whose...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CITBach, Johann Sebastian
Contents: Christ lag in Todes Banden = Cantata for Easter Sunday, Kantate zum 1. Ostertag, BWV 4 (18:58) -- Oratorium festo Paschali (Kommt, eilet und laufet) : Oster-Oratorium = Easter oratorio, BWV 249 (40:14).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1994
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL BACSummary: Situation comedy featuring six thirty-something friends who are either involved, formerly involved, or looking to become involved with each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV COUSummary: Reap the wild wind: Two sailors battle pirates and compete for the affections of a Southern belle in 1840s Key West.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD Movie John 2007Butchies
Contents: To be broadcast live -- Everything electrical with stay -- So, goodbye -- Madame -- The galaxy is gay -- Ellen D. -- Disco -- No you don't even know (STS) -- Salamander -- Shooting star / Cris Williamson -- Heartfelt -- Unbroken.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mr. Lady Records & Videos 1998
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ButchSummary: Francie lives with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother. The pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When his mother commits suicide and his friend, Joe, goes off to boarding school, Francie sinks ever deeper into paranoia thanks mainly to his nasty neighbour Mrs. Nugent. He begins to have a fantasy where he has visions of the Virgin Mary. After his father...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BUTSummary: From award-winning director/producer Peter Kunhardt, King in the Wilderness follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the volatile last three years of his life, from the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 to his assassination in April 1968. Drawing on revelatory stories from his inner circle of friends, the film provides a clear window into the civil rights leader's character, showing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV KINWoodrow, Allan
Summary: "Some stories are about happy, adorable penguins who form families, learn to dance, or make friends. This is not one of those stories. All orphan Bolt Wattle has ever wanted was to find his true family. When a mysterious baron in far-off Brugaria sends for Bolt, he wonders if he's getting closer to finding his long-lost parents. But Baron Chordata appears to be a twelve-year-old boy who wears...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WOOBuchet, Nelly
Summary: When Dog is handed a strawberry from the fruit bowl, she sizes it up, dances around it, and decides she is going to race the Strawberry--and win.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Buchet, Nelly
Summary: "A story of a blended family-- from the pets' point of view!"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BUCSummary: With arresting insight, vulnerability, and a delightful sense of humor, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty utilizes a mix of live action and diverse forms of animation, a collage of documentary and fantasy, and interplay of effects, voices, and music to capture the relationship between Terence and a lovely young woman (Namik Minter) as it teeters on the divide between platonic and romantic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OVESummary: Casanova has to begin searching for a wife. He is a womanizer with many conquests and If he cannot show he is living a more respectable life, the Church will throw him out of Venice. He is quickly engaged to Victoria, a woman with a pure reputation. As soon as that is arranged, he meets Francesca, a feminist who hates all he stands for. He pretends to be someone else to get into her good...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CASSummary: Essays by authors who have appeared on the podcast "Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books" explore the ever-increasing demands on mothers' time and topics inspired by things moms don't have time to do, including sleep, get sick, write, lose weight, and see friends.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2021
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Pinkney, Andrea Davis.
Summary: Explores the intersecting lives of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. and gospel singer Mahalia Jackson at the historic moment when their joined voices inspired landmark changes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.092 PINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB KING PINSummary: Join the Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, for an awe-inspiring journey to the surface of the mysterious red planet and discover what no human has ever seen or known before.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ROVPlatt, Christine A.
Summary: For Black History Month, Ana & Andrew join a research group at the Community Center. They learn many interesting things about Martin Luther King Jr.! Later, with the help of some other children, they make one of Martin's famous dreams come true.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PLASummary: Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent family who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. From...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005