Summary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Liima
Contents: 1982 -- David Copperfield -- Life is dangerous -- People like you -- 2-hearted -- Kirby's dream land -- Jonathan, I can't tell you -- My mind is yours
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: City Slang 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LIISummary: After she rescues dozens of children who survived a massacre in Jerusalem in 1948, Palestinian Hind Husseini establishes an orphanage that helps thousands of other children left homeless by violence. But the success of her peace-through-education institution is tested when pupil Miral gets a taste of radical politics in the region's refugee camps.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company Home Entertainment 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MIRSummary: The stooge: Egotistical vaudevillian Bill Miller basks in the limelight with his successful musical-comedy act, but his success is due to his unheralded second banana.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Shakespeare, William
Summary: Mark Antony, one of the three rulers of the Roman World, has become the thrall of the fascinating Cleopatra. Affairs of state call him to Rome, but the attractions of the Queen of Egypt prove impossible to resist.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [BBC Audiobooks America] 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 822.33 SHACondra, Estelle
Summary: Driving through mountain fog to the beach, two young brothers compete to see who will catch the first glimpse of the ocean, but it is their blind sister Nellie who senses it first.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Eager Minds Press 1994
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC CONMcCartney, Linda
Summary: Sharing personal stories and intimate family photos spanning three decades, this cookbook celebrating the original food pioneer's meat-free cooking legacy brings classic recipes up to date for the modern, plant-based cook.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Voracious, Little, Brown and Company 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5636 MCCSummary: A Hollywood movie crew is in the midst of making a western in a remote Peruvian village. When production wraps, the baleful stuntman Kansas remains, attempting to find redemption in the isolation of Peru and the arms of a former prostitute. Meanwhile, the local Indians have taken over the abandoned set and begun to stage a ritualistic re-enactment of the production with Kansas as their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LASLandy
Contents: A: Just a though--your words not mine--apology (valentine)--Every time it's over--BFF!--Retired sheep--Home--Day for night--Anniversary;--B:To no one in particular--I'll be around--LOST--Cry me a river--Second skin--Apology 2--The meating--I believe in Jack--The beginning (apology)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Apology music
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LANBridgforth, Glinda
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 BRIOrtega, Lindi.
Contents: Cigarettes & truckstops (4:29) -- The day you die (3:01) -- Lead me on (4:25) -- Don't wanna hear it (2:59) -- Demons don't get me down (3:55) -- Murder of crows (4:39) -- Heaven has no vacancy (3:52) -- High (3:54) -- Use me (3:03) -- Every mile of the ride (3:16).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Last Gang 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY ORTEstrela, Joana
Summary: "16-year-old Raquel lives in a small town in Portugal, the kind of place where everyone knows everyone else's business. Her parents are divorced and she's just been suspended for cursing out a school aide asking about her father's new marriage. She has two best friends, Luísa and Fred, but wants something more. Then, from afar, she sees Pardalita, a senior and a gifted artist who's moving to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ESTOrtega, Lindi
Contents: Ashes -- Faded gloryville -- Tell it like it is -- Someday soon -- To love somebody -- When you aint home -- Run-down neighborhood -- I ain't the girl -- Run amuck -- Half moon.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Distribution, Inc 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY ORTHarts, Minda
Summary: "A guide for girls of color looking to find their voice and claim space as they prepare for high school, college, and their careers"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.235 HAROrtega, Lindi
Contents: Hard as this -- Gypsy child -- Tin star -- Voodoo mama -- Lived and died alone -- I want you -- This is not surreal -- Something for you -- All these cats -- Waitin' on my luck to change -- Songs about.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Distribution, Inc 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY ORTAmer, Lindz
Summary: "A young informational storybook introducing the concept of pronouns and identifying one's pronouns to kids"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Bacon, Lindo
Summary: "Fat isn't the problem. Dieting is the problem. A society that rejects anyone whose body shape or size doesn't match an impossible ideal is the problem. A medical establishment that equates 'thin' with 'healthy' is the problem. The solution? Health at every size. Tune in to your body's expert guidance. Find the joy in movement. Eat what you want, when you want, choosing pleasurable foods that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2 BACLinde, Nancy.
Summary: 399 Games, Puzzles & Trivia is a lively mix of challenges, riddles, and brainteasers all vetted by a neuroscientist who specializes in aging brains and designed to work the six key areas of cognitive function that are vulnerable in normal aging: long-term memory, working memory, executive functioning, attention to detail, multitasking, and processing speed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Pub. 2012
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Ortega, Lindi
Contents: Through the dust part I -- Afraid of the dark -- You ain't foolin me -- Til my dyin day -- Nothing is impossible -- Through the dust part II -- The comeback kid -- Darkness be gone -- forever blue -- In the clear -- Pablo -- Lovers in love -- Through the dust part III -- Liberty -- Gracias a la vida.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY ORTRyan, Lindy
Summary: "A crackling mystery-horror novel with big-hearted characters and Southern charm with a bite, Bless Your Heart is a gasp-worthy delight from start to finish from debut author Lindy Ryan. Rise and shine. The Evans women have some undead to kill. It's 1999 in Southeast Texas and the Evans women, owners of the only funeral parlor in town, are keeping steady with...normal business. The dead die,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEHarts, Minda
Summary: "In these tumultuous times, as workplaces across the nation struggle to become truly inclusive, women of color need frank talk and honest advice on how to deal with microaggressions, how to heal from racialized trauma, how to find relief from invisible workplace burdens. The stakes are high, as even Lauryn Hill had put it: "How you gonna win when you ain't right within?" In Right Within, Harts...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.3008 HARMaslo, Lina
Summary: When Malala Yousafzai was born, people shook their heads because girls were considered bad luck. But her father looked into her eyes and knew she could do anything. In Pakistan, people said girls should not be educated. But Malala and her father were not afraid. She secretly went to school and spoke up for education in her country. And even though an enemy tried to silence her powerful voice,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 YOUAmer, Lindz
Summary: "An essential guide for parents and caregivers to raising queer-friendly children in a gender-affirming space. In the face of so many injustices across society for LGBTQ+ people, it can be easy for parents of young children to feel helpless and hopeless. While they may not be able to address every problem across the country, there's a simple place to start: right at home. Rainbow Parenting is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 AMESummary: 19 Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, with a foreword by CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour. International media coverage of the Arab world and its many complex, interconnected conflicts is dominated by the work of Western correspondents, many of whom are white and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019