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Summary: When an overenthusiastic Maya accidentally embarrasses the Empress of Buzztropolis, she is forced to unite with a team of misfit bugs and compete in the Honey Games for a chance to save her hive.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MAY

Wilson, Joseph S.

Summary: This book provides an introduction to the roughly 4,000 different bee species found in the United States and Canada, dispelling common myths about bees while offering tips for telling them apart in the field. The book features more than 900 color photos of the bees living all around us -- in our gardens and parks, along nature trails, and in the wild spaces between. It describes their natural...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 595.79 WIL

Summary: Maya is a little bee with a big heart. While most bees believe that other insects should be feared, Maya can't help but make friends with Flip the violin-playing grasshopper, Kurt the dung beetle and even Sting, a young hornet. This group of 'fearsome' friends causes some bees to avoid Maya. But when the Queen's royal jelly is stolen, it will take Maya and all of her bug buddies to figure out...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Shout Factory 2015

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

Summary: This program examines the ramifications of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, where Viet Minh revolutionaries defeated French forces and changed the future of Southeast Asia.

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000

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Morgan, Ted

Summary: "Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ted Morgan has now written a definitive account of the fateful battle that ended French rule in Indochina - and led inexorably to America's Vietnam War. Dien Bien Phu was a remote valley on the border of Laos along a simple rural trade route. But it would also be where a great European power fell to an underestimated insurgent army and lost control of a crucial...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 MOR

Windrow, Martin.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 WIN

Rosenstock, Barb

Summary: "A biographical account of engineer Otis Barton and naturalist Will Beebe's record-setting descent into the deep ocean in their Bathysphere craft, making the men the first humans to witness deep sea creatures in their natural habitat"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.46 ROS

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ROS

Hobey, Jack.

Summary: "Recounts the case of The People vs. Herman Swift, a story which ran on front pages of newspapers throughout Michigan for three years in the early 20th century. It is one of the most sensational cases to ever go to the Michigan Supreme Court and was reviewed on appeal by famous Michigan governors, Chase Osborn and Nathaniel Ferris. The story revolves around the complex, tragic figure of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harbor House Publishers 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.76 HOB
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 362.76 HOB

Siegel, Siena Cherson

Summary: "Siena Cherson Siegel dreamed of being a ballerina. Her love of movement and dedication to the craft earned her a spot at the School of American Ballet.. Siena has worked hard her whole life to be a professional ballet dancer, then makes the difficult decision to quit dancing and tries to figure out what comes next. But what do you do when you have spent your entire life working toward a goal,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 SIE

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 SIE

Hewitt, Catherine

Summary: "Comtesse Valtesse de la Bigne was a celebrated nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan. She was painted by Manet and inspired Emile Zola, who immortalized her in his scandalous novel Nana. Her rumored affairs with Napoleon III and the future Edward VII kept gossip columns full. But her glamorous existence hid a dark secret: she was no Comtesse. She was born into abject poverty, raised on a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LA BIGNE, VALTESSE de, HEW

Finkelstein, Daniel

2 holds on 1 copy

Summary: "An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy families uprooted by war, their incredible suffering in Hitler's and Stalin's camps, and the near-miraculous survival and rescue of the author's parents who met after the war. Daniel Finkelstein's grandfather Alfred Wiener was a German Jewish intellectual leader who tolled an early warning of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FIN

Summary: "The Palio is the oldest horse race in the world, and turns the Italian city of Siena into a high-stakes battleground of strategy, intrigue, and simmering machismo. ... Palio follows the legendary maestro Gigi Bruschelli, winner of 13 races and master of the intrigues that surround the Palio, and his former protégé Giovanni Atzeni ..."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

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