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Ndopu, Eddie

Summary: "Global humanitarian Eddie Ndopu's rousing memoir about being both profoundly disabled and profoundly successful without trading one for the other. Eddie Ndopu grew up loving pop music and reruns of The Bold and the Beautiful, and as an adult he would become a globe-trotting disability activist. By his early twenties, he had rocketed through every boundary put in front of him--a queer, Black...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy Lit 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NDOPU, EDDIE NDO

Brooks, Ben

Summary: "Boys can be anything they want to be! In this sequel to the New York Times bestseller Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different, Ben Brooks introduces seventy-six more boys and men who will inspire young readers to live boldly and true to themselves."--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: RP Kids 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J920 BRO

Brooks, Ben

Summary: More true tales of amazing boys who found the courage to be themselves, and achieved something remarkable at the same time. This is the follow-up to the much loved and hugely successful Stories for boys who dare to be different, the bestselling book that changed countless boys' lives around the world and gave them the confidence to be themselves. What have the footballer Kylian Mbappe, the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT 305.31 Brooks

Herrera, Adriana

Summary: "As his twenty-sixth birthday approaches, Desta Joy Walker finds himself in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the one place he's been actively avoiding most of his life. For Desta, the East African capital encompasses some of the happiest and saddest parts of his life -- his first home and the place where his father died. When an unavoidable work obligation lands him there for twelve weeks, he may finally...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Adriana Herrera 2020

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HER

Green, Simon R.

Summary: The Droods are all about control, making people do what they're told for the greater good. The Nightside is all about choice: good and bad and everything in between. The Droods want to make the world behave. The Nightside wants to party. They were never going to get along. For centuries, ancient Pacts have kept the Droods out of the Nightside, but now the Droods see the Nightside as a threat to...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Olson, Tod

Summary: "World War II, October 21, 1942. A B-17 bomber drones high over the Pacific Ocean, sending a desperate SOS into the air. The crew is carrying America's greatest living war hero on a secret mission deep into the battle zone. But the plane is lost, burning through its final gallons of fuel. At 1:30 p.m., there is only one choice left: an emergency landing at sea. If the crew survives the impact,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 OLS

Wukovits, John F.

Summary: "The forgotten story of American war hero Eddie Rickenbacker's crash landing in the Pacific during World War II, and his incredible 23-day crusade to keep his crew alive"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Caliber 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 WUK

Summary: A musical comedy based on the life of vaudevillian Eddie Foy. When Eddie's wife dies, leaving him with seven children, he puts the kids into the act and takes the show on the road.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Brentwood Home Video 2000

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD Classic Seven

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SEV

Summary: "Join TV's funniest new family and flashback to the '90s! Twelve-year-old hip-hop enthusiast Eddie Huang and his family make their way from D.C.'s Chinatown to Orlando where his dad, Louis, tries to make his new steakhouse a success. His mom, Jessica aims to understand the culture clash and dominate suburbia. While his brothers fit right in, Eddie's still tries to get a seat at the table--any...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: Welcome to Saturday Night Live's celebration of the outrageous humor of Eddie Murphy. Laught along with Eddie Murphy originals including: Mr. Robinson, Buckwheat, Velvet Jones, Little Richard Simmons, Gumby, Dion Dion.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Chuculate, Eddie D.

Summary: "Award-winning author Eddie Chuculate recounts his experience growing up in rural Oklahoma, from boyhood to young manhood, in an evocative and vivid voice. "Granny was full-blooded Creek, but the Bureau of Indian Affairs insisted she was thirteen-sixteenths. She showed her card to me. I'd sit at the kitchen table and stare at her when she was eating, wondering how you could be...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 CHU

Green, Simon R.

Summary: Call me Drood, Eddie Drood. Some know me as Shaman Bond and most simply don't want to know me at all. For centuries, my family has been keeping the things that lurk on the darker side of existence as far away as possible from humans like you, without you even knowing we're there. Unfortunately for us, not everybody appreciates what we Droods do. Recently, I personally managed to survive yet...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: Portrait of the relationship between two eccentric recluses, Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and talk about their past behind the walls of their East Hampton mansion.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC GRE

Summary: Based on the life stories Edith "Big Edie" Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale who are the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Onassis. They were raised as Park Avenue débutantes, but withdrew from New York society. They took shelter at their Long Island summer home called 'Grey Gardens.' As their wealth and contact with the outside world dwindled, so did...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: Wake Island: A handful of U.S. Marines holdout against an overwhelming Japanese air, land and sea assault.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CLA

Blake, Kevin

Summary: In 1880, citizens of Bodie, California, crowded onto Main Street to celebrate the Fourth of July. Among them were prospectors, miners, gamblers, and even gunfighters. They had all come to this dusty, remote spot in the mountains for one reasonto find gold. Within fifty years, however, the towns Main Street would be abandoned and filled with a ghostly silence. Where did everyone go? What...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979.4 BLA

Moorehead, Caroline

Summary: "Edda Mussolini was the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's oldest and favorite child. At 19, she was married to Count Galleazzo Ciano, Il Duce's Minister for Foreign Affairs during the 1930s, the most turbulent decade in Italy's fascist history. In the years preceding World War II, Edda ruled over Italy's aristocratic families and the cultured and middle classes while selling Fascism on the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B MUSSOLINI MOO

LaPlante, Walter

Summary: During the early 1800s, it was difficult and expensive to transport goods from the East Coast to the Great Lakes region. The Erie Canal connected these two areas, causing a population boom in western New York and encouraging settlement around the Great Lakes. Readers learn the history of this important canal through the main content and fun fact boxes, and also discover the many ways travelers...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974 LAP

Summary: Story of radio from 1906-1955 and the three men who made it happen: Lee de Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff. Combines archival photographs, newsreels of the period, interviews, and radio soundtrack.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS DVD Video 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV EMP

Purple, Edwin R. (Edwin Ruthven)

Summary: "Between 1875 and 1879, Edwin Purple contributed several articles to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record on the first three or four generations of some of the ancient families of New York. Those articles, collected in this volume, feature the surnames Van Schaick, Siecken, Tymens, Brevoort, Varleth, Gouverneur, and those of other ancient and allied families. This volume also...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.37471 PUR

Stahr, Walter

Summary: "Walter Stahr, author of the ... bestseller Seward, now tells the amazing story of Lincoln's secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, the most powerful and controversial of the men close to the president. Stanton raised an army of a million men and directed it from his Washington telegraph office, with Lincoln often at his side. He arrested and imprisoned thousands for "war crimes," some serious and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 STANTON, EDWIN Sta

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: O'Meara-Brown Publications 1998

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Reference, Call number: R 797.1097 Lake

Jón Karl Helgason

Summary: Tolkien’s wizard Gandalf, Wagner’s Valkyrie Brünnhilde, Marvel’s superhero the Mighty Thor, the warrior heading for Valhalla in Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song,” and Donald Crisp’s portrayal of Leif Eriksson in the classic film The Viking—these are just a few examples of how Icelandic medieval literature has shaped human imagination during the past 150 years. Echoes of Valhalla is a unique look...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Reaktion Books 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398 JON

Summary: Contains thirteen exciting adventures. Bert and Ernie search for buried treasure as pirates, visit outer space in Planet Bert, and swim with the fishes in deep sea. The adventures continue as they help out an arctic friend in Penguins, run from dinosaurs in Cavemen, and cook up a mess in Bakers. Children will delight in the cool claymation look and the fun and creative stories.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010

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