Roosevelt, Eleanor
Summary: The long and eventful life of Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) was full of rich experiences and courageous actions. The niece of Theodore Roosevelt, she married a Columbia University law student named Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who gradually ascended in the world of New York politics to reach the presidency in 1932. Throughout his three terms, Eleanor Roosevelt was not only intimately involved in...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Bell-Scott, Patricia.
Summary: Describes the unlikely friendship between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Pauli Murray, a granddaughter of a mixed race slave and a lesbian, who became a lawyer and civil rights pioneer, and the important work they each did for justice and freedom.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.917 BELCatton, Eleanor
Summary: It is 1866, and young Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: A wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CATEstes, Eleanor
Summary: The disappearance of a new puppy named Ginger and the appearance of a mysterious man in a mustard yellow hat bring excitement into the lives of the Pye children.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD ESTBrown, Eleanor
Summary: The Andreas family is one of readers. Their father, a renowned Shakespeare professor who speaks almost entirely in verse, has named his three daughters after famous Shakespearean women. When the sisters return to their childhood home to care for their ailing mother, and to lick their wounds and bury their secrets, they are horrified to find the others there. But the sisters soon discover that...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BROLipman, Elinor
Summary: "Daphne Maritch doesn't quite know what to make of the heavily annotated high-school yearbook she inherits from her mother. The late June Winter Maritch was the teacher to whom the class of '69 had dedicated its yearbook, and she, in turn, went on to attend every reunion. Each year, she scribbled notes and observations after each one -- not always charitably -- and noted who overstepped...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC LIPGable, Michelle
Summary: In 1942, London, Nancy Mitford jumps at the chance to manage the Heywood Hill bookshop while the owner is away at war. Between the shop's brisk business and the literary salons she hosts for her eccentric friends, Nancy's life seems on the upswing. But when a mysterious French officer insists that she has a story to tell, Nancy must decide if picking up the pen again and revealing all is worth...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GABGaiman, Neil
Summary: Challenged to retrieve a fallen star, Tristran Thorn leaves the sleepy English village of Wall and crosses into the land of Faerie and the realm of Stormhold. Locating the star, he discovers it is no meteorite, but a young woman, Yvaine. When Yvaine evades him and escapes, Tristran discovers he is not the only one in pursuit of the star: there are dark forces in this magical land, and he must...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015