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Sadler, Anthony

Summary: "On August 21, 2015, Ayoub al-Khazzani boarded the 15:17 train in Brussels, bound for Paris. Khazzani's mission was clear: he had an AK-47, a pistol, a box cutter, and enough ammunition to obliterate every passenger on the crowded train. Slipping into the bathroom in secret, he armed his weapons and prepared to launch his attack. But when he emerged, he encountered something he hadn't...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 SAD

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 SAD

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 363 SAD

Summary: An investigation into the disputed cause of death of black activist Sandra Bland, who died in police custody in Waller County, Texas, after a routine traffic stop by state trooper Brian Encinia.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SAY

Summary: Witness Adam Sandler's zaniest SNL moments, including the characters of Lucy, the Gap Girl, Canteen Boy, Opera Man, Brian host of the "Denise Show", Bruce Springsteen, and Cajun Man.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: NBC Home Entertainment 2003

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Swofford, Anthony.

Summary: Describes how the author found redemption from a life of drugs, alcohol, fast cars, and women by taking a series of RV trips with his ailing, Vietnam veteran father and a chance encounter with his future wife.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SWOFFORD, ANTHONY SWO

Light, Kate

Summary: "The Salem witch trials marked one of the darkest moments in U.S. history. In 1692, two young children were accused of being bewitched and were arrested. More than 150 arrests occurred over the next two months, and a special court was created to try the cases. A total of 20 people were found guilty of being witches, and all of them were hanged. Inside this compelling volume, readers are...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 345.744 LIG

Wagler, Ira

Summary: "With his singular voice, Ira reveals his experience in BROKEN ROADS. Through difficult reunions, struggles confronted, and betrayals revisited, Ira explores burning questions of faith and identity shared by millions, whether Amish or not. Readers may recognize themselves along these paths with Ira, as he grapples with choices, faith, family, the past, and the future. Ira unapologetically, but...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: FaithWords 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WAGLER, IRA WAG

Greenberg, Robert

Summary: Examines the life and works of Gustav Mahler.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAHLER, GUSTAV GRE

Summary: On the lonely roads of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, two men forge an improbable friendship that will change both of their lives forever. Solo is a Senegalese cab driver working to provide a better life for his young family. William is a tough Southern good ol' boy with a lifetime of regrets. Solo's American dream is just beginning, while William's is quickly winding down. Despite their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Francis, Richard

Summary: Biographer and novelist Francis looks at the Salem witch hunt of 1692 with fresh eyes, through the story of Samuel Sewall, New England Puritan, Salem trial judge, antislavery agitator, defender of Native American rights, utopian theorist, family man. The second-generation colonists were pitted against the pagan Native Americans and a hostile mother country intent on imposing control. Out of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fourth Estate 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEWALL, SAMUEL FRA

Horton, James

Contents: Preface and Acknowledgements -- Foreword by Judith Jadinger, RE (Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers) -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 : Defining a Wood Engraving -- Chapter 2 : History of Wood Engraving as It Pertains to Commercial Engraving -- Chapter 3 : The Commercial Wood Engraver -- Chapter 4 : The Tools and Specialized Processes of the Wood Engraver -- Chapter 5 : The Sander Engraving...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Craft Wood Horton 2020

Fels, Tony

Summary: In Switching Sides, Tony Fels traces a remarkable shift in scholarly interpretations of the Salem witch hunt from the post{u2013}World War II era up through the present. Fels explains that for a new generation of historians influenced by the radicalism of the New Left in the 1960s and early 1970s, the Salem panic acquired a startlingly different meaning. Determined to champion the common people...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.4 FEL

Kulling, Monica

Summary: "It's not fair." Susan B. Anthony was very concerned about fairness and equality for women and girls in America. She knew it wasn't fair to pay a woman less than a man for the same job. She knew it wasn't fair not to allow women to vote in elections. In fact, it was illegal for women to vote. But she felt so strongly, she voted in an election--and was arrested--anyway. Young readers will learn...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN KUL

O'Connell, Jennifer

Summary: "This nonfiction picture book tells the story of Lawrence Anthony and the deep bond he forged with the matriarch of the herd he saved at his animal reserve in South Africa. When Lawrence died, the matriarch led all the elephants from remote parts of the reserve in a procession to his home, where they gathered to mourn him. They returned on the same day at the same time for the next two years...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House Publishers 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.67 O'CO

Pollack, Pam

Summary: Profiles the life and accomplishments of the schoolteacher who became the most famous leader of the women's rights movement.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET ANTHONY

Summary: "Jennifer Shannon loves scouring garage sales to look for items to sell in her resell shop. But when she realizes a series of burglaries and a friend's murder may have a connection to the sales, she not only helps the cops, but does some undercover sleuthing of her own. As she gets closer to the truth, she becomes the murderer's next target. Now she must fight for her own survival in order to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Starkey, Marion Lena.

Summary: This historical narrative of the Salem witch trials takes its dialogue from actual trial records but applies modern psychiatric knowledge to the witchcraft hysteria. Starkey's sense of drama also vividly recreates the atmosphere of pity and terror that fostered the evil and suffering of this human tragedy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 1989

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.744 STA

LaPlante, Eve

Summary: Traces the story of the judge responsible for executing twenty Salem witch trial victims, discussing how he came to regret his actions, and his later efforts to oppose slavery and further Native American relations and sexual equality.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEWALL, SAMUEL LAP

Baker, Emerson W.

Summary: "Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers--mainly young women--suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe, shriek, and contort their bodies, complaining of pins stuck into their flesh and of being haunted by specters. Believing that they suffered from assaults by an...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.744 BAK

Behling, Steve

Summary: "Bunga may be the bravest animal around. But is he the wisest, too?--Page [4] of cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE BEH

Summary: Sinbad, a daring and notorious rogue, has spent his life sailing the seven seas asking for trouble. Now he has been framed for stealing a priceless and powerful treasure--the Book of Peace. Sinbad has one chance to find and return the precious book, and battle the Goddess of Chaos or his best friend Proteus will die.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SIN

Fankhouser, Kris

Summary: "A biography on the American women's rights leader Susan B. Anthony"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, Inc. 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ANT

Range

Contents: Regular -- Copper wire -- Florida -- Superimpose -- Five Four -- Falling out of phase -- No loss -- Skeptical -- Retune -- So -- 1804.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC RAN

Summary: Tom Sawyer enters a cave with Huck and Becky to save Muff Potter, witness to murder.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: After 300 years, three sister witches are resurrected in Salem Massachusetts on Halloween night, and it us up to two teenagers, a young girl, and an immortal cat to put an end to the witches' reign of terror once and for all.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HOC

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Fam Hocus

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HOC

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HOC

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