Summary: A ballet based loosely on Anton Chekhov's play Three sisters. Second program is a documentary portrait of the influential British choreographer, Kenneth MacMillan, with extracts from many of his ballets including The burrow, Romeo and Juliet, Gloria, Manon and The prince of the pagodas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Kultur 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS WINDuarte, John W.
Contents: Suite piemontese : op. 46 -- Toute en ronde : op. 57 -- Muiskones : op. 107 -- English suite : op. 31 -- Variations on a Catalan folk-song : op. 25 -- Birds : op. 66 -- Homage to Antonio Lauro : three waltzes -- Sonatinette, op. 35.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL DuaViviano, Frank.
Summary: The author journeys back into his own family's past to investigate the century-old murder of his great-great-grandfather, a revolutionary and legendary bandit known as "the Monk," and the conspiracy of silence that followed the crime.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.15 VIVElbee, Viviane
Summary: Trying to teach your giraffe to ski can be difficult--especially when she only wants to fly down the Big Scary Slope.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman and Company 2018
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ELBSchwarz, Viviane.
Summary: The reader is invited to lift the flaps and follow the cats as they play with yarn, boxes, pillows, and fish.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2008
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E SchDurant, Will
Contents: 1. Our oriental heritage; being a history of civilization in Egypt and the Near East to the death of Alexander, and in India, China and Japan from the beginning of our own day; with an introduction on the nature and foundations of civilization.--2. The life of Greece; being a history of Greek civilization from the beginnings, and of civilization in the Near East from the death of Alexander, to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1935
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 901.9 DURB Ryan J Durante
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: I.Berlin, Inc. 1933
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMElbee, Viviane
Summary: Daryl does not want to share his favorite dinosaur book, so when it is time to bring it back to the library he uses all his dinosaur skills to get it back until a friendly librarian encourages him to share.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2022
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ELBForrester, Viviane.
Summary: Winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt award for biography, this remarkable portrait sheds new light on Virginia Woolf's relationships with her family and friends and how they shaped her work. Forrester's biography draws on revelations about the author that often remain buried and carefully applies them to a narrative of her development and influence. Virginia Woolf: A Portrait blends...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WOOLF, VIRGINIA WOOSchwartz, Viviane
Summary: Tiny Cat is very confident at counting to four balls of yarn, but when more and more come bouncing into Tiny Cat's life, things get tricky! Of course, Tiny Cat finds the perfect way to settle the matter - sleep on it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCHSchwarz, Viviane.
Summary: After his mother mends his favorite pajamas, Timothy finds that he has super strength and decides to use it to help others, but when the pajamas rip again, he loses his strength just when he needs it most.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books 2008
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCHDuran Duran
Contents: The reflex -- New moon on Monday -- (I'm looking for) cracks in the pavement -- I take the dice -- Of crime and passion -- Union of the snake -- Shadows on your side -- Tiger tiger -- The seventh stranger.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1983
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DURDurango, Julia
Summary: In beauty, talent and skills, the housefly can't compete with other bugs. But as a pest he is a winner. Book also shows a beetle, firefly, cricket, cicada, housefly and spider.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2007
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC DurSummary: A character-driven documentary and cooking series that takes viewers inside the life of Chef Vivian Howard, who, with her husband Ben Knight, left the big city to open a fine dining restaurant in small-town Eastern North Carolina.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CHEMorante, Coco
Summary: "Preparing home-cooked meals is one of the best things you can do for your health, and using an Instant Pot makes it easy and convenient to incorporate cooking into any lifestyle. This electric, programmable pressure cooker has been an indispensable toolin my kitchen for years, especially when it comes to healthy cooking. Healthy cooking means different things to different people. For me, the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.587 MORDurrant, Sabine.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DURDurant, Penny Raife.
Summary: Explains why people sneeze, cough, hiccup, and yawn.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE DURDurant, Will
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1939
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 901.9 DURDurant, Will
Summary: On t.p.: Being a history of civilization in Egypt and the Near East to the death of Alexander, and in India, China and Japan from the beginning to our own day; with an introduction on the nature and foundations of civilization.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1963
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 901.9 DURDurant, Will
Contents: 1. Our oriental heritage; being a history of civilization in Egypt and the Near East to the death of Alexander, and in India, China and Japan from the beginning of our own day; with an introduction on the nature and foundations of civilization.--2. The life of Greece; being a history of Greek civilization from the beginnings, and of civilization in the Near East from the death of Alexander, to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1935
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 901.9 DURChong, Vivian
Summary: "In late 2004, Vivian Chong's life was changed forever when a rare skin disease, TEN (Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis), left her with scar tissue that would eventually blind her. As she was losing her sight, she put down as many drawings on paper as she could to document the experience. In Dancing After TEN, Chong teams up with cartoonist Georgia Webber -- whose graphic autobiography, Dumb,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CHOFrench, Vivian.
Summary: In this deadly funny fourth Tale from the Five Kingdoms, it's Gracie Gillypot's birthday, and Prince Marcus plans to show her a flight of dragons as a special gift. But when greedy, chocolate-hungry twins awaken the banished Old Malignant One, evil magic and Total Oblivion threaten the Five Kingdoms. Gracie must find a powerful, long-forgotten dragon's egg before the Old Malignant One does in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2011
View online at OverDrive
French, Vivian.
Summary: While helping Grandma in the garden, a child learns about the important role of the earthworm in helping plants grow.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2010
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FRECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction French 2010Swift, Vivian
Summary: An illustrated, round-the-world tour of idiosyncratic gardens from beloved traveler/writer/watercolorist Vivian Swift.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2016