Dante Alighieri
Summary: At dusk on the eve of Good Friday, Dante and Virgil embark on a journey that will lead Dante to Heaven where a contentment with God will be found and his beloved Beatrice awaits. But they must first pass through the Gates of Hell and enter the underground world of sinners. The living man and his un-dead guide witness a succession of terrible punishments being inflicted on those who led ungodly...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: CSA Word 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 851.1 DANSummary: Don't know who Tom Shadyac is? As a writer and a director, Shadyac first unleashed Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and The Nutty Professor remake on the world, and then a string of film fiascoes, but that's all behind him now. A bike accident left him with a host of debilitating maladies and brought him to the verge of suicide, so he took stock of his life and set out on a quest to answer some of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shady Acres, Inc. 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Doc IHall, Dave
Summary: In 1996, the Aryan Nations was the most dangerous white supremacist group in the United States. This brutally violent neo-Nazi organization dreamed of carving a homeland out of the American Northwest--a dream financed by robbery, intimidation, and murder. The FBI had sought to infiltrate them for years. Enter Dave Hall, a tattooed, 350-pound, six-foot-four former biker. A thoughtful, articulate...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.56 HALBurns, Bob
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 791.4361 BURBarker, Bob
Summary: The host of "The Price Is Right" shares experiences from his public and personal life, including favorite contestants and episodes, his childhood on a Native American reservation, his training as a WWII Navy pilot, and his marriage to the love of his life, Dorothy Jo.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Display, Call number: CD 921 BARKER, BOB BARTurke, Rosemarie Lengsfeld
Summary: "Set against a backdrop of Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the reign of Nazi Germany, and the entire course of World War II in Europe, American Shoes recounts the tumultuous childhood of a young American girl and her family trapped within a country that turned against itself, where human decency eroded and then vaporized. Forced to grow up in the midst of endemic fear stoked by a ravenous madman,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beyond Words 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TUR1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 TUR
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: YA 940.53 TURContents: Tema de Batman (Celio Balona) -- Era uma nota de (Loyce e os Gnomes) -- I wanna be your man (The Youngsters) -- Ourico (Serguei) -- Lindo sonho Delirante (Fabio) -- O carona (Tony e Som Colorido) -- God save the queen (14 Bis) -- Dia de chuva (Banda de 7 leguas) -- Vou sair do cativeiro (Ton & Sergio) -- As turbinas estao ligadas (Ely) -- Ele seculo xx (Com os Falcoes Reais) -- Cinturao de fogo...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tropicalia in Furs Records 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN BRASummary: Story of radio from 1906-1955 and the three men who made it happen: Lee de Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff. Combines archival photographs, newsreels of the period, interviews, and radio soundtrack.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS DVD Video 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV EMPHogarth, Burne.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill Publications 1992
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.2 HogarthHogarth, Burne.
Summary: 'Dynamic figure drawing' is the most essential - and the most difficult - of all skills for the artist to learn. The hardest problem is to visualize the figure in the tremendouse variety of poses which the body takes in action, poses which plunge the various forms of the body into deep space and show them in radical foreshortening. Foreshortening itself is, in fact, the single most challenging...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill Publications 1996
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Breathed, Berke.
Summary: "A Bloom County book."Selections from the author's comic strip, Bloom County.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1986
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BREHogarth, Burne.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill Publications 1981
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.2 HOGBreathed, Berke.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1995
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BRESummary: A journey through the art and life of the Brazilian landscape architect and painter best known for the iconic black-and-white mosaic promenades that line Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Beach.This documentary shows the full contribution of the landscape artist to the national flora. Directed and written by João Vargas Penna, the film is a walk through the art and personality of Roberto Burle Marx,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LANBourke, Anthony.
Summary: Describes the life of the lion who gained celebrity status as a cub living in a London flat with his owners, was flown to Kenya to be rehabilitated by George Adamson for life in the wild, and gained international fame with a touching reunion caught on YouTube.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.757 BOUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: 599.757092 BouBourke, Gregory
Summary: In this compelling and deeply affecting memoir, Greg Bourke recounts growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, and living as a gay Catholic. The book describes Bourke's early struggles for acceptance as an out gay man living in the South during the 1980s and '90s, his unplanned transformation into an outspoken gay rights activist after being dismissed as a troop leader from the Boy Scouts of America...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Univerity of Notre Dame Press 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOURKE, GREGORY BOUBurk, Rachelle
Summary: Toddlers are natural dancers and they love to move! Channel toddlers’ energy and help them develop balance, coordination, and control with the help of this engaging choice in dance books for toddlers. Moving along with the story will help stimulate little brains and provide a fun, creative way to build spatial awareness. Tons of colorful pictures offer toddlers visual clues for the movements,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rockridge Press 0000
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BURSummary: What is your definition of number? Defining the abstract idea of number is extremely difficult and today, we still struggle with the notion of what numbers mean. Numbers neither came to us fully formed in nature nor did they spring fully formed from the human mind. Like other ideas, they have evolved slowly throughout human history. Both practical and abstract, they are important in our...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 ZERSummary: Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric Vermont doctor, drove from San Francisco to New York City, in 1903 to became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent - a feat never before accomplished. It would mark the beginning of a new era in America and the end of another. It took Lewis & Clark over two years to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific - Horatio went the opposite...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HORBure, Candace.
Summary: Actress Candace Cameron Bure (Full House) offers a candid account of her struggles with food and tells how faith ultimately reshaped her life, giving her true freedom and fitness.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: B&H Publishing Group 2011
View online at OverDrive
Breathed, Berke.
Summary: Breathed's "Bloom County" was one of the most popular and critically acclaimed newspaper strips during its run from 1980 to 1989. This title will collect for the first time the entire run of the immensely popular "Bloom County" strip.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: IDW 2009
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BREBreathed, Berke.
Summary: With the release of this Bloom County book and the Billy and the Boingers Theme Song, chosen from the most bone-shaking, kidney-curdling entries from rock bands nationwide, Springsteen and Van Halen will become as distant a memory as Michael Jackson. 300 black-and-white and 44 color comic strips. -Goodreads
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1987