Author: Andrews, Kehinde, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 325.3209
Format: Books
Summary: A damning exploration of the many ways in which the effects and logic of anti-black colonialism continue to inform our modern world. Andrews takes the reader from genocide to slavery to colonialism, deftly explaining the histories of these phenomena, how their justifications are linked, and how they continue to shape our world to this day. The New Age of Empire is a damning indictment of white-centered ideologies from Marxism to neoliberalism, and a reminder that our histories are never really over.
Author: Rajghatta, Chidanand, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: B HARRIS
Format: Books
Summary: On 20 January 2021, Kamala Harris was sworn in as the Vice President of the United States of America, making her the first person of Indian descent, and the first woman to reach this position. This was hardly surprising, for Kamala--the daughter of a breast-cancer scientist Indian mother and a Stanford University emeritus professor of economics Jamaican father--has been known to blaze a trail for herself in her chosen fields. Fun 'momala' and aunt at home but hard-nosed, unsparing prosecutor and senator elsewhere, Kamala dons many hats. This biography focuses on the micro-histories that shaped Kamala Harris and celebrates her Asian and Jamaican heritage--with special attention to her India connect--and her barrier-shattering ascent as a woman of colour coming to occupy one of the highest offices in the USA. Chidanand Rajghatta's masterful chronicling of Kamala's life--her rise to candidature, the struggles and triumph in a messy, hard-won election despite coming from a 'non-traditional' background--delivers an inspirational story of a phenomenal woman.
Author: Walters, Eric, 1957- author. Trafford, Tanya, editor.
Published: 2020
Call Number: Y ORCA
Format: Books
Summary: "In this high-interest novel for middle readers, 14-year-old Dylan, sent to live on a remote island with his estranged grandfather, discovers a stranded orca."-- Fourteen-year-old Dylan is sent to live with his estranged grandfather, Angus. Basically strangers, the two avoid each other as best they can. One day Dylan discovers a young orca stranded high up on the rocky beach. Dylan runs to tell his grandfather. There's nothing that can be done, says Angus. The sun is coming up, and soon the orca will die of exposure. But Dylan knows he has to try to save the whale.
Author: Joel, Alexandra, 1953- author.
Published: 2020
Call Number: F JOEL
Format: Books
Summary: A stunning novel of love, betrayal and family secrets for all fans of Fiona McIntosh and Natasha Lester. Raised on a vast Australian sheep farm, the beautiful Grace Woods is compelled to travel to tumultuous, postwar Paris in order to start a new life. While working as a glamorous model for Christian Dior, the world's newly acclaimed emperor of fashion, Grace mixes with counts and princesses, authors and artists, diplomats and politicians. Amongst those she befriends are Pablo Picasso, Julia Child, and the future Jackie Kennedy. But when Grace falls in love with the handsome Phillippe Boyer, she doesn't know that he is leading a double life, nor that his past might hold secrets and lies that will turn her life upside down. Based on a true story, The Paris Model by debut fiction author Alexandra Joel, is an unforgettable tale of glamour, family secrets, and heartbreak.
Author: Blaskey, Sarah, author. Nehamas, Nicholas, author. Ostroff, Caitlin, author. Weaver, Jay (Journalist), author.
Published: 2020
Call Number: 973.933
Format: Books
Summary: The authors, journalists with the Miami Herald, present a look at some of the people that have visited and events that have occurred at the Palm Beach club Mar-a-Lago, during President Donald Trump's time in office. Offers an inside look through the gilded gates of Mar-a-Lago, the palatial resort where President Trump conducts government business with little regard for ethics, security, or even the law. Donald Trump's opulent Palm Beach club Mar-a-Lago has thrummed with scandal since the earliest days of his presidency. Long known for its famous and wealthy clientele, the resort's guest list soon started filling with political operatives and power-seekers. Meanwhile, as Trump re-branded Mar-a-Lago "the Winter White House" and began spending weekends there, state business spilled out into full view of the club's members, and vast sums of taxpayer money and political donations began flowing into its coffers, and into the pockets of the president. The Grifter's Club is a breakthrough account of the impropriety, intrigue, and absurdity that has been on display in the place where the president is at his most relaxed. In these pages, a team of prize-winning Miami Herald journalists reveal the activities and motivations of the strange array of charlatans and tycoons who populate its halls. Some peddle influence, some seek inside information, and some just want to soak up the feeling of unfettered access to the world's most powerful leaders.
With the drama of an expose and the edgy humor of a Carl Hiaasen novel, The Grifter's Club takes you behind the velvet ropes of this exclusive club and into its bizarre world of extravagance and scandal.
Author: Wright, Deborah Rowan, author.
Published: 2020
Call Number: 577.7
Format: Books
Summary: "Rather than continue to focus on discrete, geographically bounded bodies of water, ocean advocate and marine-policy researcher Deborah Wright urges a Plan Sea, which reimagines the oceans as the continuous ecosystem it is, not disconnected buckets of salt and plankton. This book proposes that the global marine environment be protected under the precautionary principle. It argues that the policy framework for such protection already exists -- it just needs to be enforced. In a series of case studies, with first-person vignettes woven throughout, Wright encourages us to begin every conversation about ocean policy with the assumption that any extractive or polluting activities in the world's oceans should require special permission. Her argument invokes the Public Trust Doctrine already embedded in many constitutions, and hinges on the Law of the Sea, which was established by the U.N. in 1982 to protect the "high seas," or the remote parts of the ocean considered international waters. To some, Wright's plan may seem idealistic, but its audacity might also be seen as a welcome nudge to our collective imagination. Many scientists are convinced that ocean ecosystems are on the brink of collapse -- there's something to be said, then, for a book that's radical enough to unlock new thinking about what might be possible, and maybe necessary, in terms of their protection"--
Author: Braswell, Liz author.
Published: 2018
Call Number: Y BRASWELL
Format: Books
Summary: What if Ariel had never defeated Ursula? It's been five years since the infamous sea witch defeated the little mermaid ... and took King Triton's life in the process. Ariel is now the voiceless queen of Atlantica, while Ursula runs Prince Eric's kingdom on land. But when Ariel discovers that her father might still be alive, she finds herself returning to a world--and a prince--she never imagined she would see again.--
Author: Waldman, Ayelet author.
Published: 2014
Call Number: LP F WALDMAN
Format: Large print
Summary: In 1945 on the outskirts of Salzburg, victorious American soldiers capture a train filled with unspeakable riches: piles of fine gold watches; mountains of fur coats; crates filled with wedding rings, silver picture frames, family heirlooms, and Shabbat candlesticks passed down through generations. Jack Wiseman, a tough, smart New York Jew, is the lieutenant charged with guarding this treasure - a responsibility that grows more complicated when he meets Ilona, a fierce, beautiful Hungarian who has lost everything in the ravages of the Holocaust. Seventy years later, amid the shadowy world of art dealers who profit off the sins of previous generations, Jack gives a necklace to his granddaughter, Natalie Stein, and charges her with searching for an unknown woman - a woman whose portrait and fate come to haunt Natalie, a woman whose secret may help Natalie to understand the guilt her grandfather will take to his grave and to find a way out of the mess she has made of her own life.
Author: Connelly, Michael, 1956- author.
Published: 2013 1995
Call Number: PB CONNELLY
Format: Books
Summary: Harry attacked his commanding officer and is suspended indefinitely, pending a psychiatric evaluation. At first he resists the LAPD shrink, but finally recognizes that something is troubling him and has for a long time. In 1961, when Harry was twelve, his mother, a prostitute, was brutally murdered, and no one has ever been accused of the crime. With the spare time a suspension brings, Harry opens up the thirty-year-old file on the case and is irresistibly drawn into a past he has always avoided. It's clear that the case was fumbled and the smell of a cover-up is unmistakable. Someone powerful was able to divert justice and Harry vows to uncover the truth. As he relentlessly follows the broken pieces of the case, the stirred interest causes new murders and pushes Harry to the edge of his job--and his life.
Author: Hosseini, Khaled.
Published: 2013
Call Number: F HOSSEINI
Format: Books
Summary: Presents a story inspired by human love, how people take care of one another, and how choices resonate through subsequent generations. Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and step-mother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters. To Adbullah, Pari, as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy for which she was named, is everything.
Author: Tolkien, J.R.R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973, author. Tolkien, Christopher, editor, writer of foreword, writer of preface. Nasmith, Ted, illustrator.
Published: 2004 1977
Call Number: F TOLKIEN
Format: Books
Summary: The story of the creation of the world and of the First Age, this is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back and in whose events some of them, such as Elrond and Galadriel, took part. The three Silmarils were jewels created by Feanor, most gifted of the Elves. Within them was imprisoned the Light of the Two Trees of Valinor before the Trees themselves were destroyed by Morgoth, the first Dark Lord. Thereafter, the unsullied Light of Valinor lived on only in the Silmarils, but they were seized by Morgoth and set in his crown, which was guarded in the impenetrable fortress of Angband in the north of Middle-earth. The Silmarillion is the history of the rebellion of Feanor and his kindred against the gods, their exile from Valinor and return to Middle-earth, and their war, hopeless despite all their heroism, against the great Enemy. This edition has been revised and expanded to encompass forty-eight color paintings, and also features a letter written by J.R.R. Tolkien describing his intentions for the book, which serves as a exposition of his conception of the earlier Ages of Middle-earth. --From publisher description.
Author: Emoto, Masaru, 1943-2014.
Published: 2004
Call Number: 613
Format: Books
Summary: Using high-speed photography, Dr. Masaru Emoto demonstrates that crystals formed in frozen water reveal changes when specific, concentrated thoughts are directed toward them. Water that flows from clear springs or has been exposed to loving words shows brilliant, complex, and colorful snowflake patterns, while polluted water, or water exposed to negative thoughts, forms incomplete, asymmetrical, dull-colored patterns. Since humans and the earth are composed mostly of water, these findings have profound significance.
Author: Adams, Charles J. (Charles Jesse), 1947-
Published: 2003
Call Number: NJ 133.1 ADAMS
Format: Books
Author: Hannah, Kristin.
Published: 2003
Call Number: F HANNAH
Format: Books
Author: Trupp, Philip Z. (Philip Zber)
Published: 1998
Call Number: 551.46
Format: Books
Summary: "Taking on the major mysteries of the deep, author/explorer Phil Trupp invites us on a personal journey to explore a world within a world: one of hidden mountains and glowing volcanoes larger than any on Earth, a land of alien creatures living miles below the ocean surface" --
Open to ages 6-36 months. Registration required. Enjoy stories, rhymes & songs designed to develop early literacy skills with your little one.We ask that guardians remain present.
Open to all ages. Registration required. Stories, songs, and fun! This storytime will feature stories in English and Spanish and is for the whole family. We ask that guardians remain present during the event. Face masks are optional, but social distancing is still in effect. All programs are subject to change or cancellations.
Open to ages 3-5. Our bilingual storytime will feature fun picture books, presented in English and Spanish. Children will learn and practice new words each week. We ask that guardians remain present during the activity.Face masks are optional, but social distancing is still in effect. All programs are subject to change or cancellations.
Open to adults. Registration required. Decorate a wooden picture frame with quilled paper roses or buttons. All materials provided. Face masks are optional, but social distancing remains in effect. Programs subject to changes or cancellation.
Open to all ages. Registration required.The Wetlands Institute will lead a fun and interactive explanation about habitats & food chains of local sea life. See and touch sea stars, sea urchins, hermit crabs and more.
Sponsored by the Atlantic County Library Foundation Face masks are optional. Social distancing still in effect. Guardians must remain present. All programs subject to change or cancellation.
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