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Freeman, Gregory A.

Summary: In 1944 the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped and sheltered for months by villagers behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia. Classified for over half a century for political reasons, the full account of Operation Halyard, a story of loyalty, self-sacrifice, and bravery, is now being told for the first time.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 940.54 FRE

Lauber, Patricia.

Summary: Describes changes in eating customs throughout the centuries and the origins of table manners.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 394.12 LAU

Lauber, Patricia.

Summary: An introduction to one of the curiosities of the sea--the multi-tentacled, highly intelligent octopus.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTrophy 1990

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 594.56 LAU

Lauber, Patricia.

Summary: Shows how our planet Earth contains everything that we need to survive, including water, food, and air with oxygen, and how it is able to renew its own resources.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1996

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LET

Lauber, Patricia.

Summary: Discusses the importance of trees as sources of food, oxygen, and other essential things.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1994

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LET

Lauber, Patricia.

Summary: Describes the physical characteristics of a variety of snakes and how they hunt, catch, and eat their prey.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1988

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LET

Lauber, Patricia.

Summary: Describes the 1994 discovery made in Chauvet, France, of a cave with Stone Age rock paintings, and discusses the significance of cave art to people living in prehistoric as well as modern times.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 1998

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 759.01 LAU

Lauber, Patricia.

Summary: An account of how and why Mount St. Helens erupted in May 1980 and the destruction it caused, and a discussion of the return of life to that area.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bradbury Press 1986

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Nature Lauber

Lauber, Patricia.

Summary: Explains the concept of a food chain and how plants, animals, and humans are ecologically linked.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1995

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 574.5 LAU

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 574.53 LAU

Summary: The harrowing true story of the crew of the USS Indianapolis, who were stranded in the Philippine Sea for five days after delivering the atomic weapons that would eventually end WWII. As they awaited rescue, they endured extreme thirst, hunger, and relentless shark attacks.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD USS

Bloomfield, Alan

Summary: "Now there's a low-cost divorce alternative -- The Michigan Divorce Book. With background information about divorce, step-by-step instructions, filled-in sample divorce forms and blank tear-out divorce forms, The Michigan Divorce Book is a complete do-it-yourself kit for doing an uncontested divorce in Michigan."--Back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder Bay Press 2017

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 346.016 BLO

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Reference, Call number: R 346.01 Bloomfield 2017

Wilson, Sloan

Summary: This largely autobiographical modern classic is Sloan Wilson's searing indictment of a society that had just begun to lose touch with its citizens. At once a scathing critique of corporate culture, a story of a young man confronting his past and future with honesty, and a testament to the enduring power of family and the importance of taking responsibility for one's own life. Universally...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC WIL

Wozniak, Steve

Summary: Once upon a time, computers looked like big, alien vending machines. They had large screens, cryptic switches, huge boxes, and odd lights. But in 1975, a young engineering wizard named Steve Wozniak had an idea: What if you combined computer circuitry with a regular typewriter keyboard and a video screen? The result was the first true personal computer, the Apple I. Widely affordable and easily...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 WOZNIAK, STEVE Woz

Antenori, Frank.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 956.7044 ANT

Kerasote, Ted.

Summary: Describes how the author adopted a dog living on its own in the wild and his decision to install a dog door in his house so that the dog could live both inside and outside, in a study of the human-dog partnership and animal consciousness and behavior.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 636.7092 KER

Brockmann, Suzanne.

Summary: Maverick movie producer Jane Mercedes Chadwick's newest film that frankly portrays the homosexuality of a real-life WWII hero is causing a storm of controversy, so Troubleshooters Incorporated is called in to provide her with round-the-clock bodyguards. Navy SEAL Chief Cosmo Richter is working at Troubleshooters during his vacation, so he gets the job. A bond forms between Cosmo and Jane that...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRO

Egan, Timothy.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 978.03 EGA

Twain, Mark

Summary: Set in a 19th-century town along the Mississippi River, Mark Twain's classic and much-loved novel presents a young and mischievous boy, Tom Sawyer, and his numerous antics. Through adventures and a cast of colorful characters, Tom learns much about becoming a young man even while clinging to his boyhood.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Blaser, Martin J.

Summary: A critically important and startling look at the harmful effects of overusing antibiotics from the field's leading expert.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 615.7922 BLA

Brockmann, Suzanne.

Summary: When history professor Alison Carter became a consultant to the film version of the Wild West legend she'd dedicated her career to researching, she couldn't possibly have known that she would not only get a front-row seat to a full-blown Hollywood circus but would innocently witness something that would put her life in peril. Nor did she expect that a tall stranger in a cowboy hat would turn...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRO

Contents: Allons à grand coteau (Cyndi Lauper) -- Two-step de grand mallet (Taj Mahal) -- Only the strong survive (Tom Tom Club) -- Baby please don't go (Darick Campbell ; Phillip Campbell ; Curley Taylor) -- Zydeco two-step (Nathan Williams & the Zydeco Cha-Chas) -- I'm coming home (Keith Frank ; Rosie Ledet ; Sean Ardoin ; N. Williams & the Zydeco Cha-Chas) -- Mon conné la cause (David Hidalgo) -- Mon...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard Records 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/NORTH AMERICAN CRE

Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAU

Roberts, Nora

Summary: ROMANCE. All I Want For Christmas: Identical twin boys Zeke and Zach only want one gift from Santa this year: a new wife for their lonely single dad, Mac Taylor, a builder who fixes things up in their small town. But convincing their love-wary dad that their music teacher, Nell Davis, is not only part of Santa's plan, but Mac's soul mate, isn't quite as easy as they'd hoped.. First Impressions:...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC ROB

Mortenson, Greg.

Summary: Three Cups of Tea traces Mortenson's decade-long odyssey to build school (especially for girls), throughout the region that gave birth to the Taliban and sanctuary to Al Qaeda. While he wages war with the root causes of terrorism - poverty and ignorance - Mortenson must survive kidnapping, fatwas issued by enraged mullahs, death threats from Americans who consider him a traitor, and wrenching...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2006

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 371.822 MOR

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