Summary: What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and '40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and Bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman and a technological trailblazer who perfected a radio system to throw Nazi torpedoes off course during WWII.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BOMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BOM1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BOM
Billock, Jennifer
Summary: Michigan's beautiful Upper Peninsula plays host to some of the state's most spine-tingling ghost stories. At Old Victoria, a ghostly apparition continues to rock in her favorite chair. Visitors can still hear the screams of miners trapped and killed in the wreckage of the Mansfield Mine disaster. Trampled to death over false claims of fire, the victims of the Italian Hall Disaster linger on in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Haunted America 2018
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.1 BILTullock, John.
Summary: There's gold to be dug in backyard gardens! But to turn dirt into dough, amateur farmers need some business tips. In the face of rising food prices and food poisoning scares, people want locally grown food, giving small gardeners the chance to turn a profit—a healthy, green (not to mention good-for-you) profit. In this practical, step-by-step guide, you will learn how to: Sell overstock to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: F+W Media, Inc. 2010
View online at OverDrive
Suri, Jeremi
Summary: "In Civil War by Other Means, Jeremi Suri, shows how the victory of the Union was never secure and the resistance to it began immediately. Key Confederate figures fled to exile in Mexico after their defeat and returned when they could safely resume their former lives once the threat of Northern domination had been quashed. Many antebellum influences and attitudes lived on secretly, and their...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 SURSANDRA BULLOCK
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in VideoCassettes, Call number: VHS FIC SANDRBullock, Darryl W.
Summary: With the advent of recording technology, LGBT messages were for the first time brought to the forefront of popular music. Bullock covers the history of recorded music by and for the LGBT community, and shows how those records influenced the evolution of the music we listen to today. He discusses how gay, lesbian, and bisexual performers influenced jazz and blues; examines the almost forgotten...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Duckworth 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 BULHallock, Anita.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chilton Book Co. 1991
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.46 HallockPollock, Steven.
Summary: "Physics is the study of the natural world, an experimental science that lies at the heart of all other sciences. It is an effort to make sense of the world at a fundamental level, to unify and describe observable physical phenomena. 'Classical' refers to the pre-20th century developments in physics, a reductionistic, 'realist' approach that continues to be one of the most productive and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530 GREBullock-Prado, Gesine.
Summary: "A former Hollywood insider chucks it all to become a master baker in this hilarious, poignant morsel of a memoir. As head of her celebrity sister's production company, Gesine Bullock-Prado had a closet full of designer clothes and the ear of all the influential movie studio heads. But she was miserable. The only solace she found was in her secret passion: baking..."--Dust jacket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 BULHallock, Anita.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Krause Pub. 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.46 HallockBullock, Darryl W.
Summary: "Madame Jenkins couldn't carry a tune in a bucket: despite that, in 1944 at the age of 76, she played Carnegie Hall to a capacity audience and had celebrity fans by the score. Her infamous 1940s recordings are still highly-prized today. In his well-researched and thoroughly entertaining biography, Darryl W. Bullock tells of Florence Foster Jenkins meteoric rise to success and the man who stood...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JENKINS, FLORENCE FOSTER BULPeters, Jeremy (Jeremy W.)
Summary: "How, Peters asks, did conservative values that Republicans claimed to cherish, like small government, fiscal responsibility, and morality in public service, get completely eroded as an unshakable faith in Donald Trump grew to define the party? The answer is a tale traced across three decades--with new reporting and firsthand accounts from the people who were there--of populist uprisings that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.2734 PETNew Jersey
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1967
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3749 StrBullock-Prado, Gesine.
Summary: Presents recipes for a variety of cakes, discussing ingredients and techniques for such dishes as pound cakes, meringues, cheesecakes, and sponge cakes which have patterns and designs inside.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.815 BULTullock, John H.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley Pub. 2007
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Pollock, Steven.
Summary: Discover how something as minute as a subatomic particle can be marvelously complex and interesting, yet rendered comprehensible, in this enjoyable presentation by the University of Colorado's award-winning author, researcher, and teacher Steven Pollock.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 539.72 POLPollock, Steven.
Summary: Would you like to know how the universe works? The science that has found many of the answers to that profound and age-old question is particle physics, the study of those impossibly tiny particles with unbelievably strange names : bosons and leptons, quarks and neutrinos. Steven Pollock translates the language of the remarkable science that, in only 100 years, has unlocked the secrets of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
4 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 539.72 PAR Part 1Call number: 539.72 PAR Part 2
Call number: DVD 539.72 PAR Part 1
Call number: DVD 539.72 PAR Part 2
Jermyn, Leslie
Summary: "A book for middle and high school students about the history and culture of the South American nation Guyana."--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 988.1 JERJermyn, Leslie
Summary: Meaning River of the Colorful Birds, Uruguay is a small country in South America that is covered by crisscrossing rivers and lush hills. Home to approximately 3.5 million people, the country is often regarded as the most stable and prosperous country in Central and South America. Uruguay produces 95 percent of its electricity from renewable energy and is known as one of the most socially...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 989.5 JERIrons, Jeremy
Summary: Chronicles the 1915 battle to control the Dardanelles Strait during World War I, told from both the British/Australian and Turkish sides of the conflict; with reenactments and archive footage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Epoch 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GALMcCarter, Jeremy
Summary: "What does it mean to live for your ideals ... and to risk dying for them? This book tells the story of young American radicals who sensed a moment of unprecedented promise for American life--politically, socially, culturally--and struggled to bring it about, only to see a cataclysmic war sweep it away. Based on six years of extensive archival research, Jeremy McCarter's dramatic narrative...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MCCRoberts, Jeremy
Summary: Alphabetically listed entries identify and explain the characters, events, important places and other aspects of Chinese mythology.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 299 ROBScahill, Jeremy.
Summary: Presents an exposé of secret war programs being conducted behind the scenes of the War on Terror, revealing the human consequences of night raids, drone strikes, and other unofficial "dirty-war" tactics.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 SCATelford, Jeremy.
Summary: "Balloonology is the ultimate guide to balloon twisting! With simple instructions and step-by-step photos, you can go from beginner to super expert. Award-winning balloon artist Jeremy Telford shows you how to fold, twist, tie, and shape balloons into 32awesome creations, including a jet, princess, flamingo, octoput, helicopter, and more. You'll also learn how to come up with your own designs...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gibbs Smith 2010