Moby
Summary: From Moby, one of the most interesting and iconic musicians of our time, comes a piercingly tender, funny, and harrowing account of the path from suburban poverty and alienation to a life of beauty, squalor, and unlikely success. It's about making it, losing it, loving it, and hating it. It's about finding your people, your place, thinking you've lost them both, and then, somehow, when you...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOBY MOBHarnden, Toby
Summary: America is reeling; Al-Qaeda has struck and thousands are dead. The country scrambles to respond, but the Pentagon has no plan for Afghanistan--where Osama bin Laden masterminded the attack and is protected by the Taliban. Instead, the CIA steps forward to spearhead the war. Eight CIA officers are dropped into the mountains of northern Afghanistan on October 17, 2001. They are Team Alpha, an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1047 HARLester, Toby.
Contents: Awakening -- Old World. Matthew's maps ; Scourge of God ; The description of the world ; through the Ocean Sea ; Seeing is believing -- New World. Rediscovery ; Ptolemy the Wise ; the Florentine perspective ; Terrae incognitae ; Into African climes ; The learned men ; Cape of Storms ; Colombo ; The Admiral ; Christ-bearer ; Amerigo -- The whole world. Gymnasium ; World without end ; Afterworld...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 912.73 LESMusgrave, Toby.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hearst Books 2004
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 635 MusgrWarrick, Joby.
Summary: In December 2009, Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian double agent and a go-between for the CIA and al-Qaeda, detonated a suicide bomb at a CIA base, killing seven agents. Here, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick chronicles how this tragedy happened, examining al-Balawi's journey through the spy world and how the CIA failed to recognize the danger he posed.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 BALAWI, HUMAM KHALIL AL WarK, Toly.
Summary: Includes detailed explanations and numerous screen shots to help both beginners and more advanced learners.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: [MobileReference]
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 004.165 KINWarrick, Joby
Summary: "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Black Flags, the harrowing story of America's mission in Syria: to find and destroy Syria's chemical weapons and defeat ISIS--only to lose control of both In August 2012, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was clinging to power in a vicious civil war. Concerned that Assad might resort to chemical weapons, President Obama warned that any such use would...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.9104 WARTobey, Danny.
Summary: Enjoying a prestigious first year in law school marked by a covete job with a top professor and a relationship with a beautiful Rhodes scholar, Jeremy Davis is admitted into a mysterious club that promises him phenomenal successes and hides a deadly ancient secret.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOBSpitzer, Toba
Summary: "Toba Spitzer's God Is Here is a thoughtful exploration of the idea of God and how we can reconsider the deity through metaphors and daily practices."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Essentials 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296.3 SPITobe, Keiko.
Summary: "Born during the sunrise - an auspicious beginning - the Azumas' newborn son is named Hikaru, which means "light." But during one play date, his mother notices that her son is slightly different from the other children. In this alternately heartwarming and bittersweet tale, a young mother tries to cope with both the overwhelming discovery of her child's autism and the trials of raising him...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yen 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WITTobe, Keiko.
Summary: A little effort goes a long way--that's what Sachiko Azuma, her fellow parents, and the teachers learn as they struggle to work together to make life easier for the children in the Special Education class. With the help of innovative gadgets and the support of more people than meet the eye, the autistic Hikaru and Miyu become better able to communicate with the world around them. but when a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WITPearl, Tobey
Summary: "A brutal killing, an all-out manhunt, and a riveting account of the first murder trial in U.S. history--set in the 1600s in colonial New England against the backdrop of the Pequot War (between the Pequot tribe and the colonists of Massachusetts Bay), an explosive trial whose outcome changed the course of history, ended a two-year war, and brought about a peace that allowed the colonies to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 PEATobe, Keiko.
Summary: Heartwarming story of a young mother attempting to cope with a child with autism.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WITTobe, Keiko.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yen 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WITAmidor, Toby
Summary: "The Create-Your-Plate Diabetes Cookbook is the foolproof guide to diabetes meal planning you've been waiting for! The Diabetes Plate Method is an effortless way to plan diabetes-friendly meals without any counting, measuring, tracking, or calculations. The only tool you need is a plate! Learn how to build perfectly-portioned meals with a healthy balance of vegetables, protein, and just the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.56 AMIGreen, Toby
Contents: The end of tolerance -- Spreading the fires -- Tortured justice -- Escape 88 -- The enemy within -- Terror envelops the world -- The Islamic threat -- Purity at all costs -- Every aspect of life -- The administration of fear -- The threat of knowledge -- The neurotic society -- Paranoia -- The failure of fear and the fear of failure.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 272.2 GREHemenway, Toby
Contents: Introducing the ecological garden -- A gardener's ecology -- Designing the ecological garden -- Bringing the soil to life -- Catching, conserving, and using water -- Plants for many uses -- Bringing in the bees, birds, and other helpful animals -- Creating communities for the garden -- Designing garden guilds -- Growing a food forest -- Permaculture gardening in the city -- Pop goes the garden.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Pub. Company 2009
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 635 HEMMusgrave, Toby.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hearst Books 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.967 MUSOrd, Toby
Summary: From one of the world's leading moral voices, this urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time. If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Our species could survive for billions of years - enough time to end disease, poverty, and injustice, and to flourish in ways unimaginable today. But this vast future is at risk....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 300 OrdFerris, Toby
Summary: "At the age of 42, his father not long dead and his young sons growing fast, Toby Ferris set off on a seemingly quixotic mission to track down each of the 42 surviving paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, who, at the age of 42, had been approaching the end of his own short life. The results of his journey are a revelation: Bruegel's panels, their landscapes teeming with robust life, become a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.9493 FERHemenway, Toby
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Pub. 2001
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Garden Land HemenwayLester, Toby.
Summary: Recounts the intellectual journey behind the creation of Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man and how the drawing represents the momentous period in Western history when the Middle Ages gave way to the Renaissance.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEONARDO DA VINCI LesterMatthiesen, Toby
Summary: In 632, soon after the Prophet Muhammad died, a struggle broke out among his followers as to who would succeed him. Most Muslims argued that the leader of Islam should be elected by the community's elite and rule as Caliph. They would later become the Sunnis. Others―who would become known as the Shia―believed that Muhammad had designated his cousin and son-in-law Ali as his successor, and that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297.09 MATBuckland, Toby.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Laurel Glen 2002