Arnow, Harriette Louisa Simpson
Summary: Strong-willed, self-reliant Gertie Nevel's peaceful life in the Kentucky hills was devastated by the brutal winds of change. Uprooted form their backwoods home, she and her family were thrust into the confusion and chaos of wartime Detroit. And in a pitiless world of unendurable poverty, Gertie would battle fiercely and relentlessly to protect those things she held most precious--her children,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARNSummary: A period of immense economic change, of huge fortunes made and lost, and the rise of disparity between old money and new. A wide-eyed young scion of a conservative family, Marian, embarks on a mission to infiltrate the wealthy neighboring clan or her aunts Agnes van Rhijn and Ada Brook, dominated by ruthless railroad tycoon George Russell, his rakish son, Larry, and his ambitious wife, Bertha....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GILSummary: Set over a tumultuous ten-year period in the early 20th century, this five-hour miniseries tells the story of an honorable Englishman coping with his growing disillusion at the end of a privileged era and the beginning of a new, egalitarian society. As the comfortable certainties of Edwardian England begin to give way to the chaos and destruction of WWI, nobleman Christopher Tietjens puts...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PARSummary: A collection of top-selected mystery writing from the past year is culled from a variety of respected sources and offers insight into evolving genre trends.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: With the emergance of the world's first mutant, Apocalypse, the X-men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE X-MESummary: A sniper who leaves no trace is terrorizing the city, and Jane Halifax is approached by Commander Tom Saracen to help find the killer. Currently a professor of forensic psychiatry, it's been almost 20 years since Jane worked with the police. As a celebrated academic in a long-term relationship with Ben Sailor, a gifted musician, her life now seems complete, along with his daughter, Zoe. Does...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HALSummary: After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE X-MECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD XMECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD XME RATED PG-13Summary: A never-before-seen woodsman mysteriously appears aboard a submarine that's been trapped deep under water for months with an unstable cargo. As the terrified crew make their way through the corridors of the doomed vessel, they find themselves on a voyage into the origins of their darkest fears.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FORSummary: When the war ended, his battle began. Based on Laura Hillenbrand's bestselling book, this begins where Unbroken ends, sharing the next amazing chapter of Olympian and World War II hero Louis Zamperini's powerful true story of forgiveness, redemption, and amazing grace.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UNBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UnSummary: In 1667, the powerful king of France, Louis XIV, is but 28 years old when he decides to build Versailles, the greatest palace in the world. After draining the budget, affairs and political intrigues complicate things.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV VERSummary: The story of the three Sackett brothers, Tye, Orrin, and Tell, who leave Tennessee to start new lives in the West; not being a man to settle down, cowhand Conn Conagher drifts in and out of widow Evie Teale's life; career outlaw Catlow attempts to take some Confederate gold, with his friend, a U.S. marshal, and a ruthless bounty hunter on his tail.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie L'Amour 2010Summary: Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOPSummary: The showfollows Meyer and her staff as they attempt to make their mark and leave a lasting legacy, without getting tripped up in the day-to-day political games that define Washington.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV VEENuurali, Siman
Summary: Sadiq's class is visiting the pond on a nature field trip, but the dead fish they find there is disturbing; when he finds that the likely cause is pollution, he and a group of his classmates form the Clean Water Crew to do what they can to help clean up not just their pond, but other bodies of water as well.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE NUUSummary: The show follows Meyer and her staff as they attempt to make their mark and leave a lasting legacy, without getting tripped up in the day-to-day political games that define Washington.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Ciraolo, Simona
Summary: "He's not the type to stand out. In fact, unless you were looking for him, you wouldn't know he was missing at all. But you know us, the shy ones, we can always spot one another. This delicate picture book about a quiet little octopus that keeps to himself in a school of lively fish explores the topic of shyness and friendship"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Eye Books 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CIRLimon, Martin
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIMSummary: When Juliette marries Jean, she comes to live with him aboard the barge "L'Atalante", where they travel along the Seine River. The bride, becomes bored and leaves the ship for Paris where she starts flirting with other men.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ATANuurali, Siman
Summary: Ms. Battersby has announced that Sadiq's third-grade class will be having elections for student government! Everyone is buzzing with excitement, but Sadiq isn't sure about any of it. Should he run for one of the positions? He does lots of research and gets good advice from his parents and siblings. Watching an inspiring speech finally helps him decide exactly what he wants to do. But when a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE NUUNuurali, Siman
Summary: In order to earn enough money to buy a birthday gift for his mother Sadiq, his siblings, and his friends start a cookie delivery business, but baking and delivering cookies proves to be more complicated (and messy) than they expected.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE NUUNuurali, Siman
Summary: Eight-year-old Sadiq wants to try out for the youth football team like his friends, but his parents feel he is too young, and instead suggest that he take up running and join the track club--Sadiq feels that running is wimpy, but the coach convinces him that running races can be fun as well.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE NUUSummary: The final Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental change.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE VICMills, Simeon
Summary: "A thought-provoking coming-of-age novel about two human-like teen robots navigating high school, basketball, and potentially life-threatening consequences if their true origins are discovered by the inhabitants of their intolerant 1980s Michigan hometown"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Skybound Books 2019