Araki, Hirohiko
Summary: Secco and Bruno Bucciarati are going head-to-head, quickly shifting between traveling underground and through zippers with their Stand powers in an attempt to gain the upper hand. Bucciarati has never faced a threat like this, but will the mysterious changes to his body and his enemy's overwhelming power crush him, or can he eke out a win just in time?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 JOJSummary: In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witness first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PERKuipers, Dean
Summary: "For readers of The Stranger in the Woods and H Is for Hawk, a beautifully written and emotionally rewarding memoir about a father, his three sons, and a scrappy 100-acre piece of land in rural Michigan. Bruce Kuipers was good at hunting and fishing, but not at anything else that makes a real father or husband. Distant, angry, and a serial cheater, he destroyed his relationship with his wife,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KUIPERS, DEAN KUICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B KUIPERS KUIEdelstein, Jean Hannah
Summary: 'In 2014 I moved back to the United States after living abroad for fourteen years, my whole adult life, because my father was dying from cancer. Six weeks after I arrived in New York City, my father died. Six months after that I learned that I had inherited the gene that would cause me cancer too.' When Jean Hannah Edelstein's world overturned she was forced to confront some of the big...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EDELSTEIN, JEAN HANNAH EDEEdelstein, Jean Hannah
Summary: "In 2014 I moved back to the United States after living abroad for fourteen years--my whole adult life--because my father was dying from cancer. Six weeks after I arrived in New York City, my father died. Six months after that I learned that I had inherited the gene that would cause me cancer too." When Jean Hannah Edelstein's world overturned she was forced to confront some of the big...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EDELSTEIN, JEAN HANNAH EDEKuklinski, Joanne Myrechuck.
Summary: Jan Majercak was born 22 May 1865 in Lapsze Wyzne, Poland. His parents were Joannes Majerzcak and Anna Nemecz. He married Barbora Penxa (1862-1945) in Budapest, Hungary. He died in 1915 in Chicago, Illinois. Their son, Andrew Joseph Myrechuck (1893-1937) married Katherine Ann Wanichek in 1916 in Plainfield, Wisconsin. Includes Wanechek, Vanicek, Vandehey and related families.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marc & Joanne Kuklinski 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.273 KUKSilbernagel, Robert
Summary: "The Cadotte family became involved in the fur trade during the French colonial period, and members of the family played key roles after the British takeover of the region and then during the American period. They worked with the North West Company, the American Fur Company, and other firms; they served in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and in numerous conflicts involving Native...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wisconsin Historical Society Press 2020
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US SilbernagelKimura, Yukie
Summary: "When Yukie Kimura was eight years old, her family lived on a tiny island near the coast of northern Japan, where her father was a lighthouse keeper. Her days were filled with adventure and nature: collecting seagull eggs to bake cookies, finding fresh seafood on the shore, and digging for fossils in a cave. But it was also 1945, the final year of World War II. Then, during one sunny weekend,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KIMDern, Laura
Summary: "Award-winning actresses and mother-daughter duo Laura Dern and Diane Ladd are the kind of women who draw strength from their lifelong friendships with other women, and most of all, from each other. Ever since Laura was born, the two have leaned on each other through the trials of everyday life and the tribulations that come with even the most storied Hollywood careers. They were always close,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 DERVaughan, Brian K.
Summary: At long last, Hazel and her star-crossed family are finally back in a new story arc. This story picks up three years after the events at the end of issue 54. Hazel, now ten years old, is living on the run with her mother Alana, who has partnered with a drug smuggler named Bombazine. Hazel acts confident and cheerful, but inside, she is torn up about her father's death. This collection features...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics, Inc. 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 VAUAbdoh, Salar
Summary: "A sweeping, propulsive novel about the families we are born into and the families we make for ourselves, in which two brothers struggle to find their place in an Iran on the brink of combusting Amid the alleyways of the Zamzam neighborhood of Tehran, a woman lights herself on fire in a desperate act of defiance, setting off a chain reaction of violence and protest. Haunted by the woman's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Araki, Hirohiko
Summary: "There is no progress without sacrifice... Giorno and the gang have survived long enough to secure an earth-shattering secret about the boss, but it may cost them their lives! Then, Bruno Bucciarati faces off alone against a powerful enemy, but a face from the past emerges during the bitter battle. Is this the surprise return of an old friend or the introduction of a new foe?!"--Publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 JOJPeschke, M. (Marci)
Summary: The Summer Olympics inspires Kylie Jean Carter to take gymnastics lessons, but even better than that is making a new friend, Abby, who is deaf, and starting to learn sign language.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2017
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: JBR RED PESSatrapi, Marjane
Summary: "Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir. Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2007
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Kingsbury, Karen
Summary: "Eighteen-year-old Tommy Baxter wants to become a police officer. His mother, who lost her own father on September 11, objects, but Tommy's father, Luke, is proud of his son's decision. Tommy is also planning to ask his girlfriend, Annalee Miller, to marry him someday. However, she hasn't been feeling well--and tests reveal the unthinkable. While his girlfriend begins the fight of her life,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Li, Zhuqing
Summary: "Sisters separated by war forge new identities as they are forced to choose between family, nation, and their own independence. Scions of a once-great southern Chinese family that produced the tutor of the last emperor, Jun and Hong were each other's best friends until, in their twenties, they were separated by chance at the end of the Chinese Civil War. For the next thirty years, while one...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LITaddonio, Lea
Summary: Damien is afraid of the dark. That's no big deal except for the fact that his dad happens to be the bogeyman, and worse, he expects Damien to grow up and follow in his footsteps, scaring human children on Halloween night. Can Damien convince his dad that he'd rather make candy than scare children?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spellbound, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE TADKrosoczka, Jarrett
Summary: "In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents -- two very loud, very loving,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Sorry, no copies available
Fishman, Boris
Summary: The author shares the story of his family, their immigration, and the challenges of navigating two cultures.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FISHMAN, BORIS FISLudwig, Trudy
Summary: A Japanese family mourns the loss of a wife and mother by making origami cranes and using the Wind Telephone to communicate their feelings of loss and yearning.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LUDAllende, Isabel
Summary: Cuando la hija de Isabel Allend, Paula, cayó en coma gravemente enferma, la autora comenzó a escribir la historia de su familia para su hija inconsciente. En el desarrollo de la historia aparecen ante nostros ancestros extraordinarios, oímos recuerdos maravillosos y amargos de la infancia, anécdotas increibles de los años jóvenes, los secretos más íntimos se oyen en murmullos.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Espanol, una división de Penguin Random House LLC 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 ALLMcNamara, Craig
Summary: Craig McNamara came of age during the political tumult and upheaval of the late '60s. While he would grow up to take part in antiwar demonstrations, his father, Robert McNamara, served as John F. Kennedy's secretary of defense and was the architect of the Vietnam War. This searching and revealing memoir offers an intimate portrait of one father and son at pivotal periods in American history....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 MCNCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCNAMARA, CRAIG MCNArroyo, Raymond
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author and news anchor Raymond Arroyo comes a picture book biography of Tad Lincoln and his father President Abraham Lincoln and a story about a father's love for his son and the wisdom of a child. Tad Lincoln was forever getting into trouble. He bounced around the White House making mischief and annoying the staff. Only President Lincoln was never annoyed--he...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Zonderkidz 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB LINCOLN ARRElliott, Laura
Summary: In 1941, after Hitler declares war on the United States, unleashing U-boat submarines to attack American ships, Louisa June, with the waves outside her house carrying dangerous enemies, must help her mother after her father and brother are caught in the crossfire.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022