Filter By Subjects
Biographers Fiction Conflict of generations Fiction Epigenetics Fiction Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) 20th century Fiction Indians of North America Fiction Off-reservation boarding schools Fiction Recluses Fiction Sand Creek Massacre, Colo., 1864 Fiction United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.) Fiction Upper East Side (New York, N.Y.) FictionFilter By Series
There there ; 2Filter By Subjects
Biographers Fiction Conflict of generations Fiction Epigenetics Fiction Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) 20th century Fiction Indians of North America Fiction Off-reservation boarding schools Fiction Recluses Fiction Sand Creek Massacre, Colo., 1864 Fiction United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.) Fiction Upper East Side (New York, N.Y.) FictionFilter By Series
There there ; 2Orange, Tommy
Summary: Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity. Oakland, 2018. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield is barely holding her family together after the shooting that nearly took the life of her nephew Orvil. Now adrift, Opal searches for a way to heal her wounded family.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC ORAOrange, Tommy
Summary: "Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. "We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ORASilko, Leslie Marmon
Summary: Of mixed Laguna Pueblo, Cherokee, Mexican, and white heritage, Silko brings a unique perspective to her powerful works. In this deeply personal and spiritual book, she combines memoirs, traditional storytelling, and ruminations on the natural world.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 813.54 SILKO, LESLIE MARMON SilKrauss, Nicole.
Summary: A young novelist inherited the desk from a poet taken by Pinochet's police. Then the desk is stolen from her by the poet's supposed daughter. In its drawers, another man discovers a long-kept secret about his wife. And a Jerusalem antiques dealer uses the desk in his family's study, which was devastated by the Nazis in 1944.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KRASaks, Elyn R.
Summary: Professor of psychiatry Elyn R. Saks writes about her struggle with schizophrenia in this unflinching account of her mental illness. Saks draws readers into a nightmare world of medications, a misguided health care system, and social stigmas. But she would not be defeated. With a strength and force of will that most can only imagine, Saks reclaimed her life and went on to achieve great success.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 616.898 SAKSchein, Elyse
Summary: This is the true story of Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein, who shared a personal history for more than three decades--and didn't know it. In her mid-30s, Schein finally decided to call an adoption agency to learn about her biological mother. Not expecting much, she instead got the surprise of her life. Her identical twin sister, Bernstein, lived just minutes away.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 306.8750 SCHAllende, Isabel
Summary: A minor traffic accident becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster, a 60-year-old human rights scholar, hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes an...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ALLAlvarez, Julia
Summary: A literature professor tries to rediscover who she is after the sudden death of her husband, even as a series of family and political jolts force her to ask what we owe those in crisis in our families, biological or otherwise.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALVOrange, Tommy
Summary: Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ORAReid, Taylor Jenkins
Summary: Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself. Summoned to Evelyn's Upper East Side apartment, Monique listens as Evelyn unfurls her story: from making her way to Los...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2017