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Summary: For centuries, the tobacco pipe has been a symbol of contentment and contemplation. Through the window of this transcendental artifact and its sacred origins, the film is a cinematic exploration of legacy, family, and love. The film follows Lee Erck, a world-renowned pipe maker from far northern Michigan, as he travels the globe to explore the nearly forgotten art of tobacco pipe making.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: Farce about an entire Iowa town that tries to give up smoking in order to win $25 million.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY COL

Gately, Iain

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.14 GAT

Parker-Pope, Tara.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 679.73 PAR

Buckley, Christopher

Summary: Nick Naylor, chief spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies, undertakes a media blitz to defend the rights of smokers, a job that has unexpected repercussions when he is targeted by someone out to prove just how hazardous smoking can be.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trade Paperbacks 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUC

Summary: Ross McElwee explores his family's roots as tobacco farmers in North Carolina.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: A charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco struggles with the twin demands of being successful at his job and acting as a good role model for his son.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THA

Yolen, Jane

Summary: A Taino Indian boy on the island of San Salvador recounts the landing of Columbus and his men in 1492.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1992

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YOL

Kessler, David A.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.194 KES

Myers, Adele

Summary: In 1946 North Carolina, seamstress Maddie Sykes, a dressmaker for Bright Leaf's most influential women--the wives of powerful tobacco executives, uncovers dangerous truths about this lucrative industry in a place where everyone depends on Big Tobacco to survive.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MYE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MYE

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MYE

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MYE

Tolli, Jenna

Summary: "Most cigarette smokers try tobacco for the first time before they turn 18, and hundreds of young people become smokers every day. The age-appropriate text in this volume explains the immediate physical changes and future health risks of tobacco use. Young readers will learn about the history of tobacco use in our country and the dangers of this highly addictive drug. Photographs are paired...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Health DangerTolli

Morgan, C. E.

Summary: Moving to a remote tobacco farm that her lover inherited when the rest of his family was killed in a terrible accident, a young woman in 1984 Kentucky struggles with their isolated life, her lover's grief, and a budding friendship with a dynamic young preacher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOR

Queen, William.

Summary: In 1998, William Queen was a veteran law enforcement agent with a lifelong love of motorcycles and a lack of patience with paperwork. When a "confidential informant" made contact with his boss at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, offering to take an agent inside the San Fernando chapter of the Mongols (the scourge of Southern California, and one of the most dangerous gangs in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1066 QUE

Stinson, Timothy.

Summary: Explores peer pressure and cigarette smoking for children.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Standard House Publishing 1900

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Stacks, Call number: P-J Basket STI

Parker, T. Jefferson.

Summary: Charlie Hood must determine if ATF undercover agent Sean "Oz" Ozburn--deep undercover supporting the "sicarios" of the Baja Cartel--has suffered a permanent break with his mission and his moral compass--or if he has his reasons for going "completely dark."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAR

Summary: Jess and Moss are second cousins in the dark-fire tobacco fields of rural Western Kentucky. Without immediate families that they can relate to, and lacking friends their own age, they only have each other. Over the course of a summer, they venture out on a journey exploring deep secrets, identity, and hopes for the future.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Baxter Bros. 2012

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JES

Mills, Kyle

Summary: A heart-stopping corporate thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of Burn Factor and Storming Heaven Through an inexplicable series of unwanted promotions, Trevor Barnett has become the lead spokesman for the tobacco industry just as it's on the verge of extinction. Plaintiff's attorneys have filed a $200 billion lawsuit...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Nesbit, Jeffrey Asher

Summary: "An incredible expose of the Koch brothers and the tobacco industry's twenty-year plot to manufacture a phony grassroots uprising, this is the true story of the Tea Party"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 NES

Croke, Ken

Summary: "Longtime ATF agent Ken Croke had earned the right to coast to the end of a storied career, having routinely gone undercover to apprehend white supremacists, gun runners, and gang members. But after a chance encounter with an associate of the Pagan Motorcycle Gang created an opening, he transformed himself into "Slam," a monstrous, axe-handle wielding enforcer whose duty was to protect the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.2 CRO

Davis, Barbara

Summary: Longing to rid herself of a family plantation that holds disturbing memories, Leslie returns after a long absence and meets the farm's reclusive caretaker, with whom she uncovers haunting family mysteries surrounding a cryptic grave.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013

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Ducharme, Jamie

Summary: "A work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the rise of Juul, the most prominent e-cigarette company, and the birth of a new addiction"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 DUC

Henningfield, Jack E.

Summary: Presents the latest information on the physical and psychological effects of smoking, the reasons people smoke, and the treatment for quitting this drug addiction.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 1992

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Lustbader, Eric.

Summary: A troubled ATF agent receives a call from the President-elect of the United States when his daughter is kidnapped.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2008

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Summary: When former executive Jeffrey Wigand is fired by his employer, one of the largest tobacco companies in America, Wigand agrees to become a paid consultant for a story by veteran 60 minutes producer Lowell Bergman, regarding alleged unethical practices within the tobacco industry. But what begins as a temporary alliance leads to a lengthy battle for both men to save their reputations and more.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INS

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INS

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