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Albus, Kate

Summary: "When 12-year-old Dory Byrne's pop left New York City's Lower East Side to fight Hitler, he promised her and her brothers that they'd be safe. Like he always said, "the neighborhood will give you what you need." There's the lady from the bakery, who saves them leftover crullers. The kind landlord who checks in on them. And every Thursday night, the Byrnes enjoy a free bowl of seafood stew at...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books/Holiday House 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALB

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ALB

Summary: "On the mean streets on New York's Lower East Side, Drina hopes to save her brother from a life of crime. But notorious hoodlum Baby Face Martin has come back to his old haunts looking for trouble and threatening to drag the boy down with him. Drina turns to her childhood friend Dave for help. But can he stop Martin without becoming just like him?"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DEA

Benoit, Peter

Summary: The story of the forced re-location of five southeastern U.S. Indian nations in the 19th century.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.3 BEN

Martin, Wednesday.

Summary: "Like an urban Dian Fossey, Wednesday Martin decodes the primate social behaviors of Upper East Side mothers in a brilliantly original and witty memoir about her adventures assimilating into that most secretive and elite tribe. After marrying a man from the Upper East Side and moving to the neighborhood, Wednesday Martin struggled to fit in. Drawing on her background in anthropology and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARTIN, WEDNESDAY MAR

Bethea, Nikole Brooks

Summary: Gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the invention of the assembly line. Additional features include a table of contents, a Fast Facts spread, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, an index, and sources for further research.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2017

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 609 BET

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629 BET

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J609 MOM

Dunn, Rob R.

Summary: "The Man Who Touched His Own Heart tells the raucous, gory, mesmerizing story of the heart, from the first "explorers" who dug up cadavers and plumbed their hearts' chambers, through the first heart surgeries-which had to be completed in three minutes before death arrived-to heart transplants and the latest medical efforts to prolong our hearts' lives, almost defying nature in the process....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610 DUN

CenturyLink

Summary: Includes -- Bear Lake -- Benzonia -- Beulah -- Burdickville -- Cedar -- Elk Rapids -- Empire -- Fife Lake -- Glen Arbor -- Glen Lake -- Hannah -- Honor -- Interlochen -- Karlin -- Kingsley -- Lake Ann -- Lake Leelanau -- Lime Lake -- Little Traverse Lake -- Maple City -- Mayfield -- Northport -- Summit City -- Suttons Bay -- Traverse City -- Williamsburg.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: CenturyLink 0000

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1 available in Reference, Call number: R PHONE 2017 CenturyLink

Warren, Mark

Summary: Shunted from his entrepreneurial ambitions to profit from the boomtowns of the frontier, Wyatt Earp returns to law enforcement. In Wichita, Kansas the town leaders become disenchanted with his hardline methods, and so he moves to a place where an iron-rule is needed - Dodge City. With him comes Mattie Blaylock, a runaway prostitute, who, like Wyatt, is searching for a chance at a better life....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAR

Heat Moon, William Least

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads. William Least-Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map--if they get on at all--only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill: Remote, Oregon; Simplicity,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 1999

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.304 HEA

Lowery, Jack

Summary: "By the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was deeply impacting gay and lesbian communities in America, and disinformation about the disease was running rampant. Out of the activist group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), an art collective that called itself Gran Fury was formed, to create graphics and media that campaigned against corporate greed, government inaction, and public...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bold Type Books 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.19697 LOW

O'Brien, Dan

Summary: Describes a rancher's efforts to make a success of his ranch, the Broken Heart, at the foot of South Dakota's Black Hills and restore the grasslands of the region by bringing back the buffalo to the Great Plains.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.292 OBR

7 holds on 7 copies

Summary: Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice--from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ATW

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

Attenberg, Jami

Summary: "Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and bawdy, she's the truth-telling proprietress of The Venice, the famed New York City movie theater. It's the Jazz Age, with romance and booze aplenty--even when Prohibition kicks in--and Mazie never turns down a night on the town. But her high spirits mask a childhood rooted in poverty, and her diary, always close at hand, holds her dearest secrets. When the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATT

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ATT

Steel, Danielle

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: The story of two World War II concentration camp survivors, the life they build together, and the son who faces struggles of his own as a first generation American determined to be his own person and achieve success.

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 STE

Cook, Robin

Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Robin Cook takes on the cutting-edge world of gene modification in this pulse-pounding new medical thriller.</strong> When an unidentified, seemingly healthy young woman collapses suddenly on the New York City subway and dies upon reaching the hospital, her case is an eerie reminder for veteran medical examiner Jack Stapleton of the 1918 flu pandemic. Fearful...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COO

Dev, Sonali

Summary: Dr. Nikhil 'Nic' Joshi had it all-marriage, career, purpose. Until, while working for Doctors Without Borders in a Mumbai slum, his wife, Jen, discovered a black market organ transplant ring. Before she could expose the truth, Jen was killed. Two years after the tragedy, Nic is a cruise ship doctor who spends his days treating seasickness and sunburn and his nights in a boozy haze. On one of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEV

Weinstein, Ellen

Summary: "Five children, from five different cultures and in five different decades, grow up in the same building on the Lower East Side of New York City"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024

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Cook, Robin

Summary: "The explosive new medical thriller from New York Times-bestselling author Robin Cook. After a young, seemingly healthy woman collapses suddenly on the NYC subway and dies by the time she reaches the hospital, her case is initially chalked up to a virulent strain of influenza. That is, until she ends up on Dr. Jack Stapleton's autopsy table, where Jack discovers something eerily fishy: First,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COO

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COO

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION COO

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cook 2018

Summary: After more than a decade of sober political dramas and social-minded periodpieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials, adapted from writer Lafcadio Hearn's collections of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Edsel, Robert M.

Summary: Describes two Americans in Italy--one an artist, the other a scholar--who tracked down and protected historic artwork worth billions by Michelangelo, Donatello, Titian, Caravaggio, and Botticelli in advance of the approaching Nazi army in 1943.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5345 EDS

Barnett, Mac

Summary: To escape a burning building, Zapfino must confront the fears that forced him out of the circus.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BAR

West, Paul

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WES

Edsel, Robert M.

Summary: Edsel provides an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy's vast store of priceless monuments and art during World War II. While American warriors were fighting the length of the country, other Americans were courageously working alongside to preserve the irreplaceable best of Italy's culture.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.53 EDS

Summary: Henry Heath, a grieving lawman whose daughter has recently died, is assigned custody of the ghoulish Jean Baptiste, a notorious robber of 300 graves. Against the perilous Utah desert terrain, the contempt of an entire community, and his own prejudice, Heath must somehow keep a marked man alive.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Monterey Media 2012

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Redemption 2011

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