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Anciens combattants Romans, nouvelles, etc Classes sociales Romans, nouvelles, etc FICTION / Historical / General FICTION / Sagas Grande-Bretagne Histoire 1910-1936 (George V) Romans, nouvelles, etc HISTORY / Social History Social classes Fiction Traumatisme psychique Romans, nouvelles, etc United States World historyPetroski, Henry
Summary: This ultimate book on books tells how they came to be and how we keep them, from papyrus scrolls boxed at Alexandria through Gutenberg's era to books shelved upright at the Library of Congress.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 022.4 PETWilkerson, Isabel
Summary: The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how people's lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 305.5 WILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 305.5 WILKoppel, Lily
Summary: Reveals for the first time the stories and secrets of America's unsung heroes-the wives of our original astronauts.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 629.45 KOPWinchester, Simon
Summary: Land--whether meadow or mountainside, desert or peat bog, parkland or pasture, suburb or city--is central to our existence. Simon Winchester examines what we human beings are doing, and have done, with the billions of acres that together make up the solid surface of our planet.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 333.3 WINStandage, Tom.
Summary: Standage chronicles the increasingly sophisticated ways people shared information with each other, spontaneously and organically, down the centuries. With the rise of newspapers in the nineteenth century, then radio and television, 'mass media' consolidated control of information in the hands of a few moguls. However, the Internet has brought information sharing full circle, and the spreading...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 302.2 STAFollett, Ken
Summary: The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLO'Reilly, Bill
Summary: O'Reilly revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events of 1692 and 1693 in Salem Village, Massachusetts. What began as a mysterious affliction of two young girls who suffered violent fits and exhibited strange behavior soon spread to other young women. Rumors of demonic possession and witchcraft consumed Salem. Soon three women were arrested...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973 ORECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 973 OREFarid, Diana
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Ava loves to surf and to sing. Singing and reading Rumi poems settle her mild OCD, and catching waves with her best friend, Phoenix, lets her fit in--her olive skin looks tan, not foreign. But then Ava has to spend the summer before ninth grade volunteering at the hospital, to follow in her single mother's footsteps to become a doctor. And when Phoenix's past lymphoma surges...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC FARHenríquez, Cristina
Summary: "Dicen que la construcción del canal será la hazaña más grande en la historia de la ingeniería. Pero ¿quién va a construirlo? Para Francisco, un pescador lugareño que no tolera que las potencias extranjeras saqueen a pedazos su país, nada es más desagradable que la decisión de su hijo, Omar, de trabajar como excavador en la zona de perforación. Pero para Omar, cuya crianza fue tranquila y...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HENBrown, Monica
Summary: A powerful and accesible bilingual picture book that highlights "the power and impact of ordinary but dedicated citizens." Every day, thousands of farmworkers harvested the food that ended up on kitchen tables all over the country. But at the end of the day, when the workers sat down to eat, there were only beans on their own tables. Then Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez teamed up. Together they...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BROSee, Lisa
Summary: The latest historical novel from New York Times bestselling author Lisa See, inspired by the true story of a woman physician from 15th-century China--perfect for fans of Sees classic Snowflower and the Secret Fan and The Island of Sea Women. According to Confucius, "an educated woman is a worthless woman," but Tan Yunxian--born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: PA Fiction SeeAustin, Lynn N.
Summary: New York, 1898. Three generations of women in one family must reckon with the choices they have made and their hopes for the future.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC AUSBradford, Barbara Taylor
Summary: James Falconer, a tycoon and a self-made man, seems to have the world in the palm of his hand. But the Great War looms, and James decides to fight for king and country. The fighting is bloody and brutal, and James returns a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental. His beloved wife is dead, but a new woman returns to help nurse him back to health. Georgiana Ward once held James in her...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2023