Filter By Subjects
Astronomy Helms, Richard Hickam, Homer H 1943- Childhood and youth Hickam, Homer H 1943- Homes and haunts West Virginia Novelists, American 20th century Biography Rockwell, Norman 1894-1978 Rockwell, Norman 1894-1978 Juvenile literature Schiavo, Terri 1963-2005 Solar system United States. Central Intelligence Agency.Filter By Subjects
Astronomy Helms, Richard Hickam, Homer H 1943- Childhood and youth Hickam, Homer H 1943- Homes and haunts West Virginia Novelists, American 20th century Biography Rockwell, Norman 1894-1978 Rockwell, Norman 1894-1978 Juvenile literature Schiavo, Terri 1963-2005 Solar system United States. Central Intelligence Agency.Buckley, James
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley Pub. 2001
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR BLUE BUCWeintraub, Aileen
Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Weir, Alison
Summary: "Spanning the years from the Norman conquest in 1066 to the dawn of a new era in 1154, when Henry II succeeded to the throne and Eleanor of Aquitaine, the first Plantagenet queen, was crowned, this ... book brings to ... life five women: Matilda of Flanders, wife of William the Conqueror, the first Norman king; Matilda of Scotland, revered as 'the common mother of all England'; Adeliza of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballentine Books 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WEISobel, Dava.
Summary: Sobel paints an unforgettable portrait of the Copernican Revolution. Encouraged by his German protégé, Polish cleric Nicolaus Copernicus published his heliocentric model of the universe, tantalizing 16th-century mathematicians and scientists--and triggering a groundswell of opposition.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 SOBEL, DAVA SOBGopal, Jyoti Rajan
Summary: "This picture book biography in verse follows the life of beloved Rajasthani drag performer Queen Harish, known as the Whirling Desert Queen of Rajasthan. Lit by an inner fire and propelled by a family tragedy, Harish defied the gender conventions of middle class Indian life, battled discrimination and intimidation, and eventually grew up to dance with Bollywood movie stars and on stages across...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Sobel, Dava.
Summary: Traces the story of the reclusive sixteenth-century cleric who introduced the revolutionary idea that the Earth orbits the sun, describing the dangerous forces and complicated personalities that marked the publication of Copernicus's findings.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 520.9 SOBBerglund, Bruce R.
Summary: "In January 1925, many people in Nome, Alaska, and the surrounding area were sick and dying from an outbreak of diphtheria. A supply of medicine was found but there was one problem-it was hundreds of miles away. The only way to get it to Nome was by dogsled. Ride along with the heroic sled dog Togo and his owner, Leonhard Sepalla, as they make a dangerous journey across Alaska's unforgiving...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.73 BERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J636.73 BERFabiny, Sarah
Summary: "Brush up your knowledge on popular American painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell with this exciting Who Was? title. Norman Rockwell often painted what he saw around him in nostalgic and humorous ways. After hearing President Franklin Roosevelt's address to Congress in 1943, he was inspired to create paintings that described the principles for universal rights: four paintings that portray...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ROCMatthews, John
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Firebird Books 1988
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.14 MatthNowak, Margaret Collingwood
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1989
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 331.88 NOWEbrahim, Zak
Summary: "What is it like to grow up with a terrorist in your home? Zak Ebrahim was only seven years old when, on November 5th, 1990, his father El-Sayed Nosair shot and killed the leader of the Jewish Defense League. While in prison, Nosair helped plan the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. In one of his infamous video messages, Osama bin Laden urged the world to "Remember El-Sayed Nosair." In...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: TED Books, Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EBRAHIM, ZAK EBRIndyk, Martin
Summary: "A perceptive and provocative history of Henry Kissinger's diplomatic negotiations in the Middle East that illuminates the unique challenges and barriers Kissinger and his successors have faced in their attempts to broker peace between Israel and its Arabneighbors"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 INDBurleigh, Robert
Summary: "Iconic American artist Norman Rockwell's life is told in episodes based in American history of the late 20th century"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ROCHickam, Homer H.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2000
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Larson, Edward J. (Edward John)
Summary: "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, an entwined narrative of the most adventurous year of all time, when three expeditions simultaneously raced to the top, bottom, and heights of the world. As 1909 dawned, the greatest jewels of exploration--set at the world's frozen extremes--lay unclaimed: the North and South Poles and the so-called Third Pole, the "pole of altitude," located in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 LARHickam, Homer H.
Summary: In the summer of '61, Homer "Sonny" Hickam, a year of college behind him, is dreaming of sandy beaches and rocket ships. But before Sonny can reach the seaside fixer-upper where his mother is spending the summer, a telephone call sends him back to the place he thought he had escaped, the gritty coal-mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia. There, Sonny's father, the mine's superintendent, has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2001
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Ollestad, Norman.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2009
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Survival OllestadGilman, Dorothy
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1978
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 GILPeace, Breton
Summary: Actual Malice is a true crime thriller that will take you through the back rooms of political gamesmanship, deception, and cover-up. In May of 2001, the moderate Blue Dog Democrats - of which Gary Condit was a founding member - held significant power in Congress. The sky was the limit. When Chandra Levy, an Bureau of Prisons intern, disappeared in 2001, the wheels came off Gary's ambitions....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ghost Mountain Books 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 PEAMorley, Jefferson
Summary: "For the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in: The untold story of President Richard Nixon, CIA Director Richard Helms, and their volatile shared secrets that ended a presidency. Scorpions' Dance by intelligence expert and investigative journalist Jefferson Morley reveals the Watergate scandal in a completely new light: as the culmination of a concealed, deadly power struggle between...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 MORSimeti, 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 SIMFinch, Christopher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: H. N. Abrams 1975
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.13 FINRockwell, Norman
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Four S Corp. 1976
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.13 ROCBreedlove, Ally.
Summary: "An inspirational and heartrending memoir about Ben Breedlove, whose videos about his near-death experiences and visions of heaven went viral in 2012, written by his sister Ally Breedlove. On Christmas Day 2011, Ben Breedlove's soul went to heaven. But it wasn't his first time there. Ben suffered from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a heart condition that posed a constant risk of sudden...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013