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Summary: Oprah shares what she sees as a guide for activating your deepest vision of yourself and creating a life of success and significance.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2019
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 121 WINCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 128 WINCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 128 WINWinfrey, Oprah
Summary: "With dishes created and prepared alongside her favorite chefs, paired with personal essays and memories from Oprah herself, this cookbook offers a candid, behind-the-scenes look into the life (and kitchen) of one of the most influential and respected celebrities in the world"--Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.563 WINWinfrey, Oprah
Summary: "Everyone has a purpose. And, according to Oprah Winfrey, "Your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you are meant to be, and begin to honor your calling in the best way possible." That journey starts right here."--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 128 WINWinfrey, Oprah.
Summary: "After film critic Gene Siskel asked her, "What do you know for sure?" Oprah Winfrey began writing the "What I Know For Sure" column in O, The Oprah Magazine. Saying that the question offered her a way to take "stock of her life," Oprah has penned one column a month over the last fourteen years, years in which she retired The Oprah Winfrey Show (the highest-rated program of its kind in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2014
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 WINCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 WINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 791.4502 WINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Self-help WinfreyWinfrey, Oprah
Summary: Tells the story of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman whose cells were used in the 1950s to create the first immortal human cell line resulting in medical breakthroughs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2017
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD IMM NOT RATEDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE IMMCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV IMMWinfrey, Oprah
Summary: Oprah Winfrey says Super Soul Sunday is the television show she was born to do. "I see it as an offering," she explains. "If you want to be more fully present and live your life with a wide-open heart, this is the place to come to." Now, for the first time, the aha moments of inspiration and soul-expanding insight that have enlightened millions on the three-time Emmy Award-winning Super Soul...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 204 WINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 204 WINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 204 WINKramer, Barbara
Summary: "The story of how a young Southern girl who was raised on a pig farm became one of the most influential and inspiring people in the world. We all know Oprah Winfrey as a talk-show host, actress, producer, media mogul, and philanthropist, but the "Queen ofTalk" wasn't always so fortunate. She suffered through a rough childhood and went on to use her personal struggles as motivation. Oprah's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WINWatson, Renee
Summary: "A biography of Oprah Winfrey, part of the She Persisted chapter book series"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WINPerry, Bruce D. (Bruce Duncan)
Summary: Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain development and trauma expert Dr. Bruce Perry discuss the impact of trauma and adverse experiences and how healing must begin with a shift to asking what happened to a person, rather than what's wrong with them.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD 616.85 PERMeltzer, Brad
Summary: "This picture book biography focuses on critically acclaimed talk show host Oprah Winfrey, who used her struggles in childhood as motivation to become "Queen of All Media.""--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: J Bio I am WinfreySummary: A compelling combination of storytelling and science, this series uses genealogy, oral histories, family stories and DNA to trace roots of several accomplished African Americans down through American history and back to Africa.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AFRSummary: After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe & Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BELSummary: A small but brave donkey and his animal friends become the unsung heroes of the first Christmas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY STACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STAHaygood, Wil
Summary: When acclaimed Washington Post writer Wil Haygood had an early hunch that Obama would win the 2008 election, he thought he'd highlight the singular moment by exploring the life of someone who had come of age when segregation was so widespread, so embedded in the culture, as to make the very thought of a black president inconceivable. He struck gold when he tracked down Eugene Allen, a butler...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audioworks 2013
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.92 HAYSummary: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historical struggle to secure voting rights for all people. A dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1964.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SELCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SELCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Selma 2015Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SEL RATED PG-13Summary: An artful and intimate meditation on the life and works of the acclaimed novelist. From her childhood in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio to '70s-era book tours with Muhammad Ali, from the front lines with Angela Davis to her own riverfront writing room, Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics, and colleagues on an exploration of race, America, history and the human condition as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TONSummary: Although he has been missing for several years and the entire town thinks her father has abandoned her family, Meg steadfastly believes the best and protects her younger brother, Charles Wallace, from the brunt of the rumors and taunting. It is he, however, who convinces her to join him, the school sports star Calvin, and three unusual women on an interplanetary voyage to rescue their father...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2018
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3 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY WRICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WRICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WRIBrooks, Arthur C.
Summary: "Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey combine their decades of experience studying happiness from every angle to show readers how to improve their lives right now, instead of waiting for the outside world to change. They offer a research-based work plan that shows the reader how to manage their emotions so they no longer control their outlook and behavior; turn life's inevitable difficulties and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 BROCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 BROGorman, Amanda
Summary: "On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet, at age twenty-two, to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Her inaugural poem, "The Hill We Climb," is now available to cherish in this special edition."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 811 GORCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 GORCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 GORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 GORCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 GORSummary: Inspired by a true story about Cecil Gaines, a devoted husband, father, and White House butler who served eight Presidential administrations during the turbulent politics and civil rights battles of twentieth century America.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BUTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BUT RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BUTCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BUTCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Butler 2013Summary: Examines the life and legacy of African American poet, memoirist, and civil rights worker Maya Angelou, from her upbringing in the Depression-era South to her work with Malcolm X in Ghana to the recitation of her inaugural poem for President Bill Clinton. Includes Angelou's own words woven together with archival photographs and videos as well as interviews with Angelou's friends and family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAYSummary: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historical struggle to secure voting rights for all people. A dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1964.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA SELSummary: Profiles the life and career of Tina Turner, featuring her personal reflections, archival interviews, and contributions from others.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021