Teffi, N. A. (Nadezhda Aleksandrovna)

Summary: In 1918, in the immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution, Teffi, whose stories and journalism had made her a celebrity in Moscow, was invited to read from her work in Ukraine. She accepted the invitation eagerly, though she had every intention of returning home. As it happened, her trip ended four years later in Paris, where she would spend the rest of her life in exile. None of this was...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

Grossman, Vasily

Summary: "Vassily Grossman (1905 - 1964) has become well-known in the last twenty years - above all for his novel Life and Fate. This has often been described as a Soviet (or anti-Soviet) War and Peace. Most readers, however, do not realize that it is only the second half of a dilogy. The first half, originally titled Stalingrad but published in 1952 under the title For a just cause, has received...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

Summary: An American family moves to England, to the infamous Canterville Chase, the ancestral home that's been haunted for 300 years by the ghost, of Sir Simon de Canterville. When Sir Simon and the family's teenage daughter Virginia start plotting together to get her family back to New York, she discovers that Sir Simon has been cursed to be bound to the estate. After she uncovers the beautiful and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

Warner, Gertrude Chandler

Summary: The Aldens visit a farm that's famous for its corn maze and the festival held there every year. But someone is damaging the maze at night. Can the Boxcar Children catch the culprit and save the festival?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

Warner, Gertrude Chandler

Summary: When the Alden children accompany their grandfather on a trip to Seattle, they discover clues throughout the city, seemingly planted just for them.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

Warner, Gertrude Chandler

Summary: The Aldens investigate when an old wooden mask they have found is stolen.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: A. Whitman 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

Warner, Gertrude Chandler

Summary: The Alden children discover another mystery when the agree to help injured Mr. Yee tend to his plot in the community garden and find out that vegetables are going missing and plots are being vandalized.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

Warner, Gertrude Chandler

Summary: When the Boxcar children help out in a local garden, they dig up one strange thing after another! First, the tomato plants seem to move every day. Find out how that can be.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

Warner, Gertrude Chandler

Summary: The Aldens investigate when a new store called the Game Spot opens in town and the neighboring shops are robbed.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: A. Whitman 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

Warner, Gertrude Chandler

Summary: A local radio station is holding the Great Detective Race, and the Boxcar Children have entered the contest! They solve riddles and search all over town for clues leading to the grand prize. But when some of the clues turn out to be fake, it's clear that someone is playing unfairly! Who could be trying to ruin the race - and why?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Co. 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

Warner, Gertrude Chandler

Summary: When the children uncover a strange puzzle in a friend's back yard, it's the start of a "spy game" leading to gold. But first they must make sense of an old photo and a riddle, and learn just who is behind this mystery within a mystery.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Co. 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

Warner, Gertrude Chandler

Summary: "The Aldens visit the shore in New Jersey and help out at an amusement pier that is rumored to be unsafe"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

Warner, Gertrude Chandler

Summary: "One day in the park, the Aldens' dog, Watch, comes across a mysterious box with a note inside. 'Congratulations!' the note says. 'You've found it!' The box is part of a game called Geocaching. Soon, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny are searching all over town for hidden boxes and making friends with other kids in the geocaching club. But is one of the club members a thief?" -- p. [4] of cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Co. 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

Warner, Gertrude Chandler

Summary: The Boxcar children must track down an instrument thief in time to save Greenfield's music festival from disaster.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

Warner, Gertrude Chandler

Summary: The Aldens help out at a medieval fair and try to find a valuable sword which has been stolen from the fair.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

Warner, Gertrude Chandler

Summary: When their favorite author fails to arrive as scheduled to speak at the local library, the Alden children investigate how he could board a train and never be seen again.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: A. Whitman 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

Warner, Gertrude Chandler

Summary: Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny experience the fun of a drive-in movie theater when they visit a friend who owns one, but when strange pranks interrupt their fun, and a ghost is spotting walking the grounds, they wonder if the teenage staff might be hiding a secret.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Co. 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

Warner, Gertrude Chandler

Summary: The Alden children stumble upon a mystery when they enter their dog, Watch, in a contest that could lead to fame and fortune, but where things keep going wrong.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

Summary: Set in Glasgow, Scotland, Detective Chief Inspector Jim Taggart is a tough, sarcastic copper in the Maryhill Police Department. Funeral rites: Taggart tracks a ruthless killer in an investigation tinged with undertones of voodoo and black magic when a burnt corpse is found in an unused railway tunnel. Cold blood: a wife pumps six bullets into her cheating husband's body and Taggart perceives an...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Entertainment & Multimedia [distributor] 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

Summary: Set in Glasgow, Scotland, Detective Chief Inspector Jim Taggart is a tough, sarcastic copper in the Maryhill Police Department.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BFS Video 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

Summary: Set in Glasgow, Scotland, Detective Chief Inspector Jim Taggart is a tough, sarcastic copper in the Maryhill Police Department. Root of evil: Taggart and Jardine struggle to decipher the clues of pollen, a hanky, and an axe in the brutal murders of merciless local loan sharks. Double jeopardy: A woman's body is discovered in the woods-- an apparent suicide, but Taggart senses murder when he...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Entertainment & Multimedia 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere