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Gilpeer, Valerie

Summary: A remarkable memoir by a mother and her autistic daughter who'd long been unable to communicate--until a miraculous breakthrough revealed a young woman with a rich and creative interior life, a poet, who'd been trapped inside for more than two decades.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow & Company, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GIL

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GILPEER, VALERIE GIL

Godwin, Peter

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968.9105 GOD

Shores, Erika L.

Summary: How did the bananas on your breakfast cereal get to your local grocery store? This book explains how food gets from farms to stores and describes the role of the community workers who make it all possible.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone Imprint 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 641.3 SHO

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 641.3 Sho

Luckerson, Victor

Summary: "When Ed Goodwin moved with his parents to Greenwood, Tulsa, his family joined a growing community on the cusp of becoming the center of Black life in the West. But, just a few years later, on May 31, 1921, the teenaged Ed hid in a bathtub as a white mob descended on his neighborhood. They laid waste to 35 blocks and murdering as many as 300 people. The Tulsa Race Massacre was one of the worst...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.6 LUC

Yolen, Jane

Summary: Where is Wendy? Leading a labor strike against the Lost Boys, of course. A Scottish academic unearths ancient evil in a fishing village. Edgar Allan Poe's young bride is beguiled by a most unusual bird. Dorothy, lifted from Kansas, returns as a gymnastic sophisticate. Emily Dickinson dwells in possibility and sails away in a starship made of light. Alice's wicked nemesis has jaws and claws but...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tachyon Publications LLC 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC YOL

Brodie, Laura Fairchild.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370 BRO

Walker, Danielle.

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: A multicourse Paleo culinary journey from appetizers to dessert that omits grains, gluten, dairy, and refined sugar.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Victory Belt Pub. 2013

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Davis, Walter Goodwin

Contents: v. 1. Allanson-French -- v. 2. Gardner-Moses -- v. 3. Neal-Wright.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Publishing Co. 1996

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.2 DAV

Davis, Walter Goodwin

Contents: v. 1. Allanson-French -- v. 2. Gardner-Moses -- v. 3. Neal-Wright.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Publishing Co. 1996

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.2 DAV

Davis, Walter Goodwin

Contents: v. 1. Allanson-French -- v. 2. Gardner-Moses -- v. 3. Neal-Wright.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Publishing Co. 1996

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.2 DAV

Summary: Follows the journey of Frodo Baggins and his companions as they travel through Middle Earth towards Mount Doom in the quest to finally destroy the one ring.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY LOR

Summary: John and Jen are journalists who are a newly married couple. Marley is the adopted puppy that no one wants, a high-strung lab who is virtually untrainable. Marley shreds cushions, destroys floors and walls and most everything in between. Instead of taking him to the pound, they love their dog and he faithfully loves them in return. John and Jen eventually have three children and Jen gives up...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009

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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MAR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Marley 2008

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MAR

Gooden, Beverly

Summary: "When survivors of domestic violence reveal their predicaments, the first question many ask is "Why did you stay?" Here, an abuse survivor answers that question through her own story of survival and offers help to those who want to leave and rebuild theirlives"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.82 GOO

Grogan, John

Summary: A collection of newspaper columns written by John Grogan for the Philadelphia Inquirer on topics such as animals, family, and life's foibles and farces.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Phoenix Audio 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 818.602 BAD

Hopkinson, Deborah

Summary: "Carter G. Woodson was born ten years after the end of the Civil War, to parents who had both been enslaved. Their stories were not the ones written about in history books, but Carter learned them and kept them in his heart. Carter's father could not read or write, but he believed in being an informed citizen. So Carter read the newspaper to him every day, and from this practice, he learned...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishers 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WOO

Summary: Gotham City crime czars Scarface and Rupert Thorne battle evil masterminds like the Joker and the Penguin for money, power and respect. Just when fans thought they knew the good guys from the bad, the craziest villains try to go straight, triggering one dangerous blowout after another. Amidst all the terror one man walks the fine line between vengeance and justice as often as he balances his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2018

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BAT

Grogan, John

Summary: Collects more than seventy-five "Philadelphia Inquirer" columns by John Grogan that cover such topics as families, animals, and life in modern America.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.602 BAD

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Essay Grogan

Summary: Enjoy amazing encounters with Catwoman, duels with the Penguin, contests with the Riddler and of course, battles of wit with the Joker, plus exclusive extras from the minds that conceived this cutting edge version of the classic hero!

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BAT

Summary: Sword and sorcery, magic and superstition come together in a vibrant retelling of a much-loved legend. Cast as the savior or the common people by Herne the Hunter, God of the forest, young Robin of Loxley leads his gang of Merry Men against forces of corruption and evil.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ROB

Summary: In 1862 Paris, Emile Zola is barely scratching out a living writing muckraking articles about the poverty of the French people and the corruption of their leaders. Until "Nana," about the life of a prostitute, becomes a smash hit and turns Zola into a celebrity, champion of the people. As he churns out a string of similar books that make him quite rich, his old friend Paul Cezanne tells him "An...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Shepard, Ray Anthony

Summary: Here is the riveting dual biography of two little-known but extraordinary men in Civil War history George E. Stephens and James Henry Gooding. These Union soldiers not only served in the Massachusetts 54th Infantry, the well-known black regiment, but were also war correspondents who published eyewitness reports of the battlefields. Their dispatches told the truth of their lives at camp, their...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, An Imprint of Highlights 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 973.7 SHE

Moreci, Michael

Summary: "Before Batman trained him to be Robin, Dick Grayson was star of his family of trapeze artists, but when an enchanting new attraction opens nearby and threatens to lure away their remaining customers, Dick is among those drawn to its magical glow and may be too mesmerized to recognize the dangers ahead."--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2020

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Summary: The story of poet Emily Dickinson, whose genius, wit, intellectual independence, and pathos only came to be recognized after her death.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Kleist, Reinhard

Summary: The American boxing champion Emile Griffith gained notoriety in 1962 when he brutally defeated the Cuban fighter Benny Paret. Ten days after the fight, Paret, who had directed a homophobic slur at Griffith during the weigh-in, died from his injuries. In Knock Out!, Reinhard Kleist draws a powerful, emotive portrait of a bisexual black athlete who, facing racism and homophobia in 1960s America,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: SelfMadeHero 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.83 KLE

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