Summary: "The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames is widely regarded as America's most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products ... But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life ... has been less widely understood. Narrated by James...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EAMLapierre, Alexandra
Summary: New York in the 1900s. A young girl fascinated by rare books defies all odds and becomes the director of one of the country's most prestigious private libraries. It belongs to the magnate J.P. Morgan, darling of the international aristocracy and one of the city's richest men. Flamboyant, brilliant, beautiful, Belle is among New York society's most sought after intellectuals. She also hides a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LAPSummary: Although the fighting lasted for only six days in June of 1967, the effects of the Six Day War are still apparent today. On its 40th anniversary, the region remains trapped in conflict and is every bit as explosive as it was then. For Israel, the 1967 war was a military success. But it also redrew the map of the Middle East and mired the region in a never-ending cycle of occupation, terrorism...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SIXBeebe, Terry.
Summary: Written for both the backgarden chicken keeper with a few free range birds for eggs and smallholders with larger flocks of non-intensive stock, covers all aspects of keeping chickens healthy and productive, with extensive sections on: Choosing healthy hens, maintaining a healthy environment, healthy housing, feeding for health, spotting early signs of problems, hens with special needs, a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.5 BEESummary: A collection of stories starring the Trolls and Bergens sees them hold a poetry slam, deal with a hair emergency, and hold a fashion show.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2016
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The advent of electronic music in the 20th century was a radical break from all musical traditions that came before it. Narrated by legendary multimedia artist Laurie Anderson, Lisa Rovner's superb Sisters with Transistors showcases the music of and rare interviews with female electronic pioneers Clara Rockmore, Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, Éliane Radigue, Maryanne Amacher, Bebe Barron,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC SISRosenstock, Barb
Summary: "A biographical account of engineer Otis Barton and naturalist Will Beebe's record-setting descent into the deep ocean in their Bathysphere craft, making the men the first humans to witness deep sea creatures in their natural habitat"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ROSRobbins, Trina
Summary: The world of comic strips always reflected the fashion of the time-- from R.F. Outcault's nightie-clad 'Yellow Kid' to Grace Drayton's 'Campbell Kids'. By the 1920s all the little roly-poly girls depicted in those early strips had grown up, bobbed their curls, and become flappers. Women got the vote in 1920, and suddenly they were equal to the boys-- at least in the voting booth. They smoked...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphic Books 2020
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Sawabatake, Iina
Summary: "A cookbook filled with over 50 recipes with clear step-by-step instructions for assembling elegant plates of amazing, all-vegan re-creations of classic rolls that mimic the flavor and texture of fish"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.56362 SAWSingh, Rina
Summary: A collection of Turkish folktales featuring Nasrudin Hoja and lessons taken from his experiences with his family, at the market, and with animals.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 SINTing, Jasmine
Summary: "Envision a brighter future with this STEM-based subset of True Books.We use a lot of energy to power our lives - from our homes and cars to our tablets and handheld games. The challenge facing us today is finding sustainable energy methods that will ensure a green future. There are seven different types of green energy - and they are the only types that don't pollute our Earth. We have learned...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 333.79 TINGrace, Sina
Summary: As teenager Clark Kent and his friends grieve the death of a classmate, Smallville's latest threat pushes Clark to grapple with life's biggest questions in order to become the hero his town needs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 SUPCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC SUPPeete, Holly Robinson
Summary: Teenagers Ryan Elizabeth Peete and RJ Peete discuss what it is like for RJ as a teenager with autism and Ryan as a teenager with an autistic sibling.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Maslo, Lina
Summary: When Malala Yousafzai was born, people shook their heads because girls were considered bad luck. But her father looked into her eyes and knew she could do anything. In Pakistan, people said girls should not be educated. But Malala and her father were not afraid. She secretly went to school and spoke up for education in her country. And even though an enemy tried to silence her powerful voice,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 YOUBalio, Tino.
Summary: "Largely shut out of American theaters since the 1920s, foreign films such as Open City, Bicycle Thief, Rashomon, The Seventh Seal, Breathless, La Dolce Vita and L'Avventura played after World War II in a growing number of art houses around the country and created a small but influential art film market devoted to the acquisition, distribution, and exhibition of foreign-language and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Wisconsin Press 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 BALBighorse, Tiana
Summary: Gus Bighorse's account of Navajo history as told to his daughter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Arizona Press 1990
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BIG HORSE TIANA BIGDiffley, Atina.
Summary: "A memoir of making these essential relationships work in the face of challenges as natural as weather and as unnatural as corporate politics, her book is a firsthand history of getting in at the "ground level" of organic farming. One of the first certified organic produce farms in the Midwest, the Diffleys' Gardens of Eagan helped to usher in a new kind of green revolution in the heart of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 DIFHahnemann, Trina
Summary: "The Scandinavians excel at comfort--family, friends, a good atmosphere, long meals, relaxation, and an emphasis on the simple pleasures. They even have a word for this kind of coziness that comes with spending quality time in hearth and home when the days are short: "hygge". Trine Hahnemann is the doyenne of Scandinavian cooking, and loves nothing more than spending time in her kitchen cooking...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quadrille 2016
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5948 HAHHoward, Tini
Summary: "Zoya the Destroya, Liberty Belle, the rest of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (and Sam, of course), find out there's no such thing as 'free' when they face off against new opponents: real lady wrestlers."--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: IDW Publishing 2019
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Miles, Tiya
Summary: "Sitting in the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture is a rough cotton bag, called "Ashley's Sack," embroidered with just a handful of words that evoke a sweeping family story of loss and of love passed down through generations. In 1850s South Carolina, just before nine-year-old Ashley was sold, her mother, Rose, gave her a sack filled with just a few things as...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.3 MILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 MILCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 MILMorris, Ting.
Summary: Provides step-by-step instructions for such space crafts as models of the planet Earth, a space city, a space suit life support system, a solar mobile, a rocket, the moonscape, a star mural, aliens, a space shuttle, and a space station control center.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sea-to-Sea 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 629.4 MorriPappas, Dina
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Martingale 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.46 PAPBeebe, Roger A.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Trellis Craft 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 684.18 BEEBeeby, Betty.
Summary: Tells the story of the author's childhood visit to her great-grandmother's picnic table workshop in Eastport, Michigan near Grand Traverse Bay.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: B. Beeby 2004