Broom, Sarah M.
Summary: "Sarah M. Broom's [memoir] The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America's most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother's struggle against a house's entropy, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2019
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROOM, SARAH M. BROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B BROOM BROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio BroomLemelman, Martin
Summary: "The thrilling true story of an ancient plant, wonderfully reborn in the modern era through the hard work of two female scientists. Thousands of years ago, in a time of rebellion, the Jewish people fought against their Roman rulers. The brutal Emperor Titus ordered the destruction of everything precious to the Jews: towns, villages, even their beloved Judean date palm trees. Centuries passed....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 634 LEMLerner, Gerda
Summary: "A landmark work of women's history originally published in 1967, Gerda Lerner's best-selling biography of Sarah and Angelina Grimke explores the lives and ideas of the only southern women to become antislavery agents in the North and pioneers for women's rights. This revised and expanded edition includes two new primary documents and an additional essay by Lerner. In a revised introduction...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 326 LERSummary: The definitive documentary of Garth Brooks, the best-selling solo artist of all time, offers an intimate look at Brooks' music and his life as a musician, father, and man. Fans will be delighted with seminal hit songs and the unforgettable moments that have defined his decade-spanning career. Featuring revealing interviews with Trisha Yearwood, Billy Joel, Keith Urban, George Strait, James...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC GARBrown, Daniel James
Summary: A chronicle of the mid-nineteenth-century wagon train tragedy draws on the perspectives of one of its survivors, Sarah Graves, recounting how her new husband and she joined the Donner party on their California-bound journey and encountered violent perils, in an account that also offers insight into the scientific reasons that some died while others survived.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2010
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Peanuts, Charles Schulz's beloved comic strip, has given the world a cast of characters for the ages--Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and Lucy among them. Here, in an unprecedented collection of thirty-two essays, artists and writers ranging from Ann Patchett to Chris Ware consider the deeper truths of Peanuts, its influence on their lives and on the culture more broadly, and the lessons it can teach us...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5973 PEASchulz, Charles M. (Charles Monroe)
Summary: In the Complete Peanuts: 1979-1980 Snoopy launches his beagle scout treks. Valentine's day sparks an unlikely romance, and Lucy promises she will finally let Charlie Brown kick the football!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagrphics Books 2021
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC SCHSchulz, Charles M. (Charles Monroe)
Summary: The definitive collection of Charles M. Schulz's timeless masterpiece of comic art presenting, for the very first time, every strip from 1950 to 2000.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2011
Copies Available at Kingsley
2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC SCHSummary: Collection of eight classic stories. Swashbuckling pirates, talking rabbits in top hats, majestic horses, and flittering fairies spring into action, setting into motion the tales that have delighted audiences for ages.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Gaiam 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY STOSwaby, Rachel
Summary: Aspiring scientists, young history enthusiasts, and children who enjoy learning about the world will be fascinated by these riveting snapshots--and parents who enjoyed the film Hidden Figures will find this to be the perfect extension. Covering important advancements made by women in fields such as biology, medicine, astronomy, and technology, author Rachel Swaby explains that people aren't...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yearling Books 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SWACooper, Andrew Scott
Summary: " An immersive, gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran's glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, written with the cooperation of the late Shah's widow, Empress Farah In this remarkably human portrait of one of the twentieth century's most complicated personalities, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Andrew Scott Cooper traces the Shah's life from childhood through his ascension to the throne in 1941. He draws...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 955 COOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 995.05 COODrew, Elizabeth
Summary: A rerelease of the 1975 account detailing the extraordinary upheaval of the Watergate months exposes the corruption, ethics, and humanity of period Washington and is updated with a new introduction that places the scandal in a present-day context.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 DRESimmons, Ruth
Summary: "I was born at a crossroads: a crossroads in history, a crossroads in culture, and a geographical crossroads in North Houston County in East Texas. Born in 1945, Ruth J. Simmons grew up the twelfth child of sharecroppers. Her first home had no running water, no electricity to light the two crowded rooms, no books to read. Yet despite this-or, in her words, because of it-Simmons would become one...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SIMMONS, RUTH SIMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio SimmonsCriswell, Shelby
Summary: "Follow the daily life of one queer artist from Texas as they introduce us to the lives of ten extraordinary people. The author shares their life as a genderqueer person, living in the American South, revealing their own personal struggle for acceptance and how they were inspired by these historical LGBTQIA+ people to live their own truth. Featuring biographies of Mary Jones, We'wha, Magnus...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Street Noise Books 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 CRISchulz, Charles M. (Charles Monroe)
Summary: Collects "Peanuts" strips featuring Charlie Brown, as he pines for the little red-haired girl, falls for Lucy's offer to hold the football, and contemplates life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2015
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Habib, Samaa.
Summary: "The thrilling and heart-wrenching true story of a former Muslim woman's journey to heaven and back when she was victim of a terrorist bombing"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Rel HabibSummary: The world according to Lucy! She's crabby, she's bossy, and she'll give advice for only five cents! It's all about life with Lucy in this collection of animated shorts straight from the source: Charles Schulz's beloved comic strips. Whether she's tormenting Charlie Brown, trying to get her brother Linus to give up his blanket or pining over her unrequited love, Schroeder, Lucy always has an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV PEACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD Juv PeSchulz, Charles M. (Charles Monroe)
Summary: Collects Thanksgiving stories from the comic strip Peanuts, in which Snoopy is invited to visit his brother Spike, writes a seasonal story, gets his holiday dinner from Charlie Brown, and protects Woodstock from being mistaken for a turkey.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Holiday SchulzMedicine Eagle, Brooke.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Wellspring 2000
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Joyce, James
Summary: A day in the life of Leopold Bloom, whose odyssey through the streets of turn-of-the-century Dublin leads him through trials that parallel those of Ulysses on his epic journey home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1993
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOYWood, Kevin
Summary: "An unlocked door to a secret science lab would be hard for any student to ignore. But what if you snuck in--and the door locked behind you? In this book, readers need to solve puzzles and find codes throughout the pictures and text in order to escape Science terms and concepts, such as animal classification, the human body, and the pH scale, are described as part of the story."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2023
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 793.73 WOOSmith, Tana.
Summary: Offers step-by-step, illustrated instructions for fifty imaginative projects for personalizing bedrooms, including a framed fabric bulletin board, an antler jewelry holder, sunburst mirror, a ruffle lampshade, and a ribbon chandelier.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media 2015
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Y 745.5 SMICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 747.7 SMICurrie, Lindsay
Summary: "Twelve-year-old Sarah Greene wants nothing more from her seventh-grade year than to beat the hardest escape room left in her town with her best friends, West, and Hannah. But when a foreclosure notice shows up on Sarah's front door, everything changes. Since her father became ill two years ago, things have been bad, but not lose your house bad . . . until now. Sarah feels helpless until the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Young Readers 2024
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CURNainy, Mamta
Summary: "Ammi weaves the most beautiful saris but never gets to wear any of them. Her two little daughters decide to do something about it--break their piggy bank! But when there isn't enough money to buy Ammi a sari, the two girls must work together to find a solution. Will they be able to buy Ammi the gift she so deserves? With a text full of heart, and bright, cheerful artwork, this story brings...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Crossing Kids 2021