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Fischer, David Hackett

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "A brilliant synthesis of African and African-American history that shows how slavery differed in different regions of the country, and how the Africans and their descendants influenced the culture, commerce, and laws of the early United States"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 FIS

Breen, Benjamin

Summary: ""It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents." Far from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the '40s and '50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainstream culture, where they were...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 154.4 BRE

Baker, Gerard

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: American breakdown dissects how, in the space of a generation, the pillars that sustained the once-dominant superpower have been dangerously eroded. From government to business, from media to medicine—the strength and security of the American experiment have been weakened by a widening gap between the elites who control these institutions and the public. At the root of this breakdown is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 BAK

Summary: A documentary about adults who share their most embarrassing childhood diaries, letters, and poems and art; with total strangers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: Offers a glimpse into the history of the Hopewell Culture and Ohio's Scioto River area and the enormous monuments still visible there.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Camera One 2013

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Dychtwald, Maddy

Summary: Life expectancy has soared to age seventy-seven and promises to rise further, and we are starting to make decisions based less on age and more on lifestyle and life stage. Maddy Dychtwald, a leading expert on generational marketing, offers a radical new view of how Americans live, work, and buy according to the new freedoms and responsibilities of our shifting age demographics, and the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.4 DYC

Hill, Marc Lamont

Summary: "A riveting exploration of how the power of visual media over the last few years has shifted the narrative on race and reignited the push towards justice by the New York Times bestselling author of the "worthy and necessary" (The New York Times) Nobody, Marc Lamont Hill, and the bestselling author and acclaimed journalist Todd Brewster. With his signature "clear and courageous" (Cornel West)...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.3 HIL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 303.3 HIL

Smiley, Jane.

Summary: On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different yet equally remarkable children: Frank, the brilliant, stubborn first-born; Joe, whose love of animals makes him the natural heir to his family's land; Lillian, an angelic child who enters a fairy-tale marriage with a man only she will fully know; Henry, the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SMI

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