Filter By Subjects
African Americans Civil rights History Astronomers Eating disorders in literature McCartney, Paul Mitchell, Maria 1818-1889 Rock musicians England Biography Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc United States World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations Submarine World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, AmericanFilter By Series
The Library of American biographyFilter By Subjects
African Americans Civil rights History Astronomers Eating disorders in literature McCartney, Paul Mitchell, Maria 1818-1889 Rock musicians England Biography Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc United States World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations Submarine World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, AmericanFilter By Series
The Library of American biographyAslan, Reza
Summary: "The #1 New York Times best-selling author of Zealot recounts the spellbinding tale of an unrecognized American martyr for democracy. As a student of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton, Howard Baskerville was aflame not only with the gospel of Jesus, but with the Wilsonian gospel that constitutional democracy is the birthright of all nations. Rather than become a small-town minister like his father in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BASKERVILLE, HOWARD ASLBlain, Keisha N.
Summary: "Until I Am Free explores the political ideas and philosophies of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer"-- "Award-winning historian and New York Times best-selling author Keisha N. Blain situates Fannie Lou Hamer as a key political thinker alongside leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks and demonstrates how her ideas remain salient for a new generation of activists...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.092 BLATownley, Alvin
Summary: "Naval aviator Jeremiah Denton was captured in North Vietnam in 1965. As a POW, Jerry Denton led a group of fellow American prisoners in withstanding gruesome conditions behind enemy lines. They developed a system of secret codes and covert communicationsto keep up their spirits. Later, he would endure long periods of solitary confinement. Always, Jerry told his fellow POWs that they would one...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 DENEllin, Abby
Summary: Abby Ellin was shocked to learn that her fiancé was leading a secret life. But as she soon discovered, the world is full of people who aren't what they seem. From Abby Ellin's first date with the Commander, she was caught up in a whirlwind. Within six months he'd proposed, and they'd moved in together. But soon, his exotic stories of international espionage began to unravel. Finally, it all...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 ELLHarden, Blaine
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of Escape from Camp 14 returns with the untold story of one of the most powerful spies in American history, shedding new light on the U.S. role in the Korean War, and its legacy In 1946, master sergeant Donald Nichols was stationed on the sleepy island of Guam when he caught the eye of recruiters from the Army's Counter Intelligence Corps. After just three...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NICHOLS, DONALD HARTownley, Alvin.
Summary: "The story of the indomitable American POWs who endured "Alcatraz," the Hanoi prison camp where North Vietnam locked its most dangerous and subversive prisoners, and the wives who fought to bring them home. During the Vietnam War, hundreds of American prisoners of war faced years of brutal conditions and horrific torture at the hands of communist interrogators who ruthlessly plied them for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 TOWAntin, Evan
Summary: "Star of Animal Planet's Evan Goes Wild and People magazine's "Pet Vet" Dr. Evan Antin takes readers beyond his viral Instagram posts right into the wild world with him. World Wild Vet is an up close and personal look at planet earth, in all its wild glory. But beyond the laugh-out-loud stories and dangerous encounters with some of our planet's most exotic creatures, it is a clarion call to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANTIN, EVAN ANTRuksenas, Algis
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: D. McKay Co. 1973
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.49 RUKClein, Emmeline
Summary: "A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal culture of disordered eating they've wrought. In Dead Weight, Emmeline Clein tells the story of her own disordered eating alongside and through other women from history, pop culture and the girls she's known and loved. Tracing the medical and cultural history of Anorexia, Bulimia, and Orthorexia,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 CLEBlais, Madeleine
Summary: "In the 1970s, Madeleine Blais' in-laws purchased a vacation house on Martha's Vineyard for the exorbitant sum of $80,000. 2.2 miles down a poorly marked, one lane dirt road, the house was better termed a shack--it had no electricity, no modern plumbing, the roof leaked, and mice had invaded the walls. It was perfect. Sitting on Tisbury Great Pond--well-stocked with oysters and crab for foraged...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BLAIS, MADELEINE BLAAlary, Laura
Summary: "As a child, Maria Mitchell longed to see beyond her little island of Nantucket. With help from her father, she discovered that, if you knew how to read them, the stars could tell you where you were -- and where you needed to go. Maria spent hours on the roof of her house scanning the sky -- finding constellations, nebulae, meteors, double stars. When the King of Denmark offered a prize to the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB MITCHELL ALAAslan, Reza.
Summary: Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of history's most influential and enigmatic characters by examining Jesus through the lens of the tumultuous era in which he lived: first-century Palestine, an age awash in apocalyptic fervor. Scores of Jewish prophets, preachers, and would-be messiahs wandered through the Holy Land, bearing messages from God. This was...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 232.901 ASLHarden, Blaine
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14 returns with the riveting and revealing story of one of the most persistent "alternative facts" in American history: the story of a missionary, a tribe, a massacre, and a myth that shaped the American West In 1836, two missionaries and their wives were among the first Americans to cross the Rockies by covered wagon on what would...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.5 HARHarden, Blaine.
Summary: Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. This is the gripping, terrifying story of his escape from this no-exit prison-- to freedom in South Korea.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365 HARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B SHIN HARClavin, Thomas
Summary: In July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO--the first quick-draw duel on the frontier. Thus began the reputation that made him a marked man to every gunslinger in the Wild West. James Butler Hickock was known across the frontier as a soldier, Union spy, scout, lawman, gunfighter, gambler, showman, and actor. Wild Bill became a legend, crossing paths with...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US ClavinRowbottom, Allie
Summary: "A memoir that braids the evolution of one of America's most iconic branding campaigns with the stirring tales of the women who lived behind its facade--told by the inheritor of their stories. In 1899, Allie Rowbottom's great-great-great-uncle bought the patent to Jell-O from its inventor for $450. The sale would turn out to be one of the most profitable business deals in American history, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROWBOTTOM, ALLIE ROWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ROWBOTTOM ROBJones, Alden.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 JONVaughan, Alden T.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1975
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMIBarton, Chris
Summary: "A picture book biography on Alton Yates, a Black man who served in the Air Force in the 1950s and contributed to key research on flight safety for pilots and passengers. After returning home, Alton dedicated his life to standing against Jim Crow and fighting for racial equality"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BARHenderson, Caroline A. (Caroline Agnes)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.6 HENGreenspan, Alan
Summary: Alan Greenspan shares the story of his life with an eye toward doing justice to the extraordinary amount of history that he has experienced and shaped. One of his goals is to draw readers along the same learning curve he followed, so that they gain a grasp of his own understanding of the underlying dynamics that drive world events. The book is a distillation of a life's worth of wisdom and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 332.11092 GREHuffman, Alan.
Contents: Midstream, April 27, 1865 -- Getting there -- War -- The raids -- Somewhere, the little brother -- Captured -- Cahaba -- Andersonville -- Going off alone -- Release -- Sold up the river -- The disaster -- In a dead man's pocket -- The beginning of the end -- Home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.771 HUFSchom, Alan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1992
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.05 SCHAndrade, Allan
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tern Book Co. 1997