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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

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

Lewis, Tom

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Edward Burlingame Books 1991

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621 LEW

Summary: A behind-the-scenes look at the life of the former Saturday Night Live comedian turned author, radio host, and political satirist.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF AL

Scearce, Phil

Summary: The true story of the men and missions of the 11th Bombardment Group as it fought alone and unheralded in the South Central Pacific, while America had its eyes on the war in Europe.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Texas Press 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5449 SCE

Spence, Gerry.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.4502 SPE

Hinojosa, Maria

Summary: Hinojosa relates the history of US immigration policy that has brought us to where we are today, as she shares her experience growing up Mexican American on the south side of Chicago. For thirty years she has reported on stories and communities in America that often go ignored by the mainstream media, documenting the existential wasteland of immigration detention camps for news outlets that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2020

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HIN

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HIN

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B HINOJOSA HIN

Hinojosa, Maria

Summary: "María Hinojosa es una periodista galardonada que ha colaborado con las cadenas más respetadas y se ha distinguido por realizar reportajes con un toque humano. En estas memorias escritas con gran belleza, nos relata la historia de la política de inmigración de los EE.UU. que nos ha llevado al punto en que estamos hoy, al mismo tiempo que nos comparte su historia profundamente personal. Durante...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Español 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 HIN

Napoli, Lisa

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: In the years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, women in the workplace still found themselves relegated to secretarial positions or locked out of jobs entirely. This was especially true in the news business, a backwater of male chauvinism where a woman might be lucky to get a foothold on the "women's pages." But when a pioneering nonprofit called National Public Radio came along in the 1970s,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 NAP

Ellis, Jason

Summary: "From the pro-skater, satellite radio star, and New York Times-bestselling author of I'm Awesome comes a hilarious follow-up about how a man should live, everything from the etiquette of threesomes to why the only bands that matter are Metallica, AC/DC, and Pantera, to living life to the fullest and without fear of judgment"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.22 ELL

Keillor, Garrison.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 320.973 KEI

Bishop, Bryan

Contents: Breaking bald, or: a not-so-mini biography -- Making ADHD pay, or: how I turned a disorder into a career -- Falling in love, or: "will you stop talking please? I'm trying to kiss you" -- Signs of trouble, or: "Christie, I'm sick" -- Diagnosis, or: "whatever you do, don't google 'low-grade glioma'" -- The worst phone call of my life, or: "Mom and dad? I have some bad news" -- Telling Adam, or...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BISHOP, BRYAN BIS

Roberts, Cokie.

Summary: When Cokie and Steve Roberts got married, some "friends" said it wouldn't last because she's Catholic and he's Jewish. In this book, Cokie and Steve discuss issues of their own marriage as well as tell tales of famous unions in history, like that of John and Abigail Adams, as seen from their different perspectives as man and wife. Conversations with contemporary couples show the foundation of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ROB

Rogak, Lisa

Summary: "The first biography of the most popular anchor in cable news. Rachel Maddow has beaten the odds in a way that's novel in today's America: she uses her brain. In a world of banal and opinionated soundbites, she regularly crushes Sean Hannity's ratings thanks to her deeply researched reports. And in our highly polarized world, Maddow amiably engages the staunchest conservatives, while never...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MADDOW, RACHEL ROG

Carlin, Kelly

Summary: "Truly the voice of a generation, George Carlin gave the world some of the most hysterical and iconic comedy routines of the last fifty years. From the "Seven Dirty Words" to "A Place for My Stuff," to "Religion is Bullshit," he perfected the art of making audiences double over with laughter while simultaneously making people wake up to the realities (and insanities) of life in the twentieth...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARLIN, KELLY CAR

Rehm, Diane

Summary: "In a deeply personal and moving book, the beloved NPR radio hostess speaks out about the long drawn-out death (from Parkinson's) of her husband of 54 years, and of her struggle to reconstruct her life without him"--

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 REHM, DIANE Reh

Boilen, Bob.

Summary: From the beloved host and creator of NPR’s All Songs Considered and Tiny Desk Concerts comes an essential oral history of modern music, told in the voices of iconic and up-and-coming musicians, including Dave Grohl, Jimmy Page, Michael Stipe, Carrie Brownstein, Smokey Robinson, and Jeff Tweedy, among others—published in association with NPR Music.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780 BOI

Keillor, Garrison.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 320.973 KEI

Geist, Mary Ellen.

Summary: Mary Ellen Geist decided to leave her job as a CBS Radio anchor to return home to Michigan when her father's Alzheimer's got to be too much for her mother to shoulder alone. She chose to live her life by a different set of priorities: to be guided by her heart, not by outside accomplishment and recognition. Through her own story and through interviews with doctors and other women who've...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Springboard Press 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.196 GEI

Duran, Elvis

Summary: Elvis Duran, host of one of the nation's top morning shows and the voice millions of Americans wake up to, shares his wildest stories and hardest-learned lessons all with his trademark heart, honesty, and plenty of humor. Elvis Duran's nationally syndicated radio program, Elvis Duran and the Morning Show, is America's most-listened-to Top 40 morning show and one of the 10 most-listened-to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DURAN, ELVIS DUR

Norton, Jim

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight Entertainment 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.702 NOR

Rehm, Diane.

Summary: "In a deeply personal and moving book, the beloved NPR radio hostess speaks out about the long drawn-out death (from Parkinson's) of her husband of 54 years, and of her struggle to reconstruct her life without him"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 REHM, DIANE REH

Totenberg, Nina

Summary: Celebrated NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg delivers an extraordinary memoir of her personal successes, struggles, and life-affirming relationships, including her beautiful friendship of nearly fifty years with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 TOT

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B TOTENBERG TOT

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation Totenberg

Keillor, Garrison.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 KEI

Summary: "On May 8, 1945, Adolf Hitler and his Thousand Year Reich were crushed to extinction between Russia and the Allied forces. Join The History Channel in a look back at the individuals and events surrounding this watershed day. It captures both the celebrations and the heartbreak of the end of the European war; chronicling our reentry into a post-Hitler world that could never be the same...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2005

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD V-E

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