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Baggett, Jennifer.

Summary: Three friends at a crossroads in their twenties quit their high pressure New York media jobs, leave their friends and everything familiar behind, and embark on a year-long backpacking adventure around the world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2010

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 910.4 BAG

Handford, Martin

Summary: "Where's Waldo? In the spotlight ... somewhere! Now that the rest of the scene has gone dark, finding him is a new challenge"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HAN

Weisbecker, A. C. (Alan C.)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.0009 WEI

Handford, Martin

Summary: "Do you have what it takes to become the ultimate search-and-find champion? Are your eagle eyes in focus? Waldo summons you to a search-off! Just take a seat opposite a friend or family member and open up this book of adventures, designed to lie perfectly flat between you so each can search one side of the spread. Try racing against the clock or go head-to-head with your fellow Waldo-hunter,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HAN

Fox, Margalit

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "Imprisoned in a remote Turkish prison camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors. To stave off despair and boredom, Jones takes a handmade Ouija board and fakes elaborate séances for his fellow prisoners. Word gets around camp,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FOX

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FOX

Clark, Mary Higgins

Summary: "A glamorous cruise on a luxurious ocean liner turns deadly in the latest mystery from "Queen of Suspense" and #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark. Fleeing a disastrous and humiliating arrest of her husband-to-be on the eve of their wedding, Celia Kilbride, a gems and jewelry expert, hopes to escape from public attention by lecturing on a brand-new cruise ship--the Queen...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLA

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CLA

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLA

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CLA

Brown, Molly McCully

Summary: "In sixteen intimate essays, poet Molly McCully Brown explores living within and beyond the limits of a body-in her case, one shaped since birth by cerebral palsy, a permanent and often painful movement disorder. In spite of-indeed, in response to-physical constraints, Brown leads a peripatetic life: the essays comprise a vivid travelogue set throughout the United States and Europe, ranging...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Persea Books 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 BRO

Thomas, M. J.

Summary: Peter, nine, Mary, ten, and their dog, Hank, journey into biblical history to the time of the battle of Jericho, where they meet Israelite spies.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: WorthyKids/Ideals 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC THO

Simeti, Mary Taylor.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.804 SIM

Summary: Join Billy Connolly on an adventurous journey of a lifetime from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean along the legendary North West Passage.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: E1 Films Canada 2010

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Rothman, Joshua D.

Summary: "In The Ledger and the Chain, prize-winning historian Joshua D. Rothman tells the disturbing story of the Franklin and Armfield company and the men who built it into the largest and most powerful slave trading company in the United States. In so doing, he reveals the central importance of the domestic slave trade to the development of American capitalism and the expansion of the American...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, Hachette Book Group 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 ROT

Marchese, C. Marina.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2009

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 638.10 Mar

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Garden Home Marchese

Mort, T. A. (Terry A.)

Summary: In the summer of 1874, Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer led an expedition of some 1000 troops and more than one hundred wagons into the Black Hills of South Dakota. This fascinating work of narrative history tells the little-known story of this exploratory mission and reveals how it set the stage for the climactic Battle of the Little Bighorn two years later. What is the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 MOR

Evans, Polly.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delta Trade Paperbacks 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951 EVA

Summary: David is a 12-year-old boy who escapes from a Communist concentration camp. He has little more with him than a compass, a sealed letter, a loaf of bread, and instructions to carry the letter to Copenhagen, Denmark. David is thrust into a world free of Communism for the first time in his young life as he travels across Europe. For David, this is a spiritual voyage of discovery, where he slowly...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA I

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie I 2005

Slaght, Jonathan C.

2 holds on 1 copy

Summary: "A young field scientist and conservationist tracks the elusive Blakiston's Fish Owl in the forbidding reaches of eastern Russia"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.9 SLA

Thomas, M. J.

Summary: "Peter, Mary, and Hank journey to the pyramid-studded desert of ancient Egypt. When the trio become friends with Pharaoh's daughter, they witness first-hand as Moses petitions Pharaoh for the Israelites' freedom. Plagues wreak havoc as the group races to decode the scroll, gets chased by a panther, and battles Pharaoh's cunning advisor, the Great Magician"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: WorthyKids/ideals 2018

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Hill, Clint

Summary: "Sparked by long-forgotten gifts and memorabilia discovered in an old trunk, the now ninety-year-old Hill reminisces about private moments, shared laughs, and crazy adventures with one of the world's most iconic women during her time as First Lady and the excruciating year following the assassination of her husband. After all, he notes that "when you travel with someone...you experience things...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HILL, CLINT HIL

Colby, Tanner.

Summary: Chronicles the United States' troubling relationship with race as reflected by four historical events, including the integration of a racist Birmingham school system and a Kansas City neighborhood's fight against housing discrimination.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 COL

Thomas, M. J.

Summary: Peter, nine, Mary, ten, and their dog, Hank, journey into biblical history to Babylon, where they meet Daniel and see Michael, the archangel, protect him in the lions' den.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: WorthyKids 2019

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC THO

Turk, Katherine

Summary: In the summer of 1966, crammed into a D.C. hotel suite, twenty-eight women devised a revolutionary plan. Betty Friedan, the well-known author of The Feminine Mystique, and Pauli Murray, a lawyer at the front lines of the civil rights movement, had called this renegade meeting from attendees at the annual conference of state women's commissions. Fed up with waiting for government action and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 TUR

Summary: Explore the edges of space and time with Morgan Freeman as your guide in Through The Wormhole. Ten thought-provoking episodes comprise Season Three. Viewers will hold in their hands answers to some of the world's greatest mysteries.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Discovery Communications 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV THR

Summary: A wagon train of three families has hired mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a shortcut, Meek leads the group on an unmarked path across the high plain desert, only to become lost in the dry rock and sage. Over the coming days, the emigrants face the scourges of hunger, thirst, and their own lack of faith in each other's instincts for survival....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA MEE

Thomas, M. J.

Summary: "The mysterious scroll transports the time-traveling trio back to Bethlehem where they quickly befriend a young David before he faces Goliath"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: WorthyKids/Ideals 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC THO

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