Author: Mukherjee, Abir, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F MUKHERJE
Format: Books
Summary: "Calcutta, 1923. When a Hindu theologian is found murdered in his home, the city is on the brink of all-out religious war. Can the officers of the Imperial Police Force--Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant "Surrender-Not" Banerjee--track down those responsible in time to stop a bloodbath? Set at a time of heightened political tension, beginning in atmospheric Calcutta and taking the detectives all the way to bustling Bombay, the latest instalment in this remarkable series presents Wyndham and Banerjee with an unprecedented challenge. Will this be the case that finally drives them apart?"--
Author: Perry, Sylvie, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F PERRY
Format: Books
Summary: Claudia Morgan is a single parent trying the best that she can, but her four-year-old son, Henry, is a handful. When Claudia hears about a school with an atypical teaching style, she has to visit. The Hawthorne School is good for Henry. But there's something a bit off about the school. When Henry brings home stories of ceremonies in the woods and odd rules, Claudia's instincts tell her that something isn't quite right, and she begins to realize she's caught in a web of manipulations and power.
Author: Hooper, Kay, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F HOOPER
Format: Books
Summary: The small town of Salem has been quiet for months--or so Bishop and his elite Special Crimes Unit believe. But then Hollis Templeton and Diana Hayes receive a warning in Diana's eerie "gray time" between the world of the living and the realm of the dead that a twisted killer is stalking Salem, bent on destroying in the most bloody and horrifying way possible the five families that founded the town. The stakes are high, especially for new friends Nellie Cavendish and Finn Deverell, both members of the Five, and this time Bishop and his wife Miranda will lead the team to hunt down a vicious killer and uncover a dark and ancient curse haunting Salem.--adapted from front jacket flap
Author: Murphy, Julie, 1985- author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: Y MURPHY
Format: Books
Summary: From Julie Murphy, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin', comes the exciting conclusion in the origin story of fan-favorite comic character Faith--a fierce, plus-size superhero. Faith Herbert can finally admit that she's not a regular teen--and take advantage of her new flying superpowers. After the chaos of her first semester, Faith just wants to end her senior year in a normal way--enjoying all the hallmarks of graduating high school, like prom, with her best friends Matt and Ches. But a cryptic warning about psiots going missing and a rash of inexplicable fires means things are off to a strange start. Life goes from weird to worse when Colleen Bristow, the quiet nerd-turned-supervillain, reappears, acting like nothing ever happened. As if that weren't enough, rumored sightings of Faith's ex, the beautiful Dakota Ash, who was thought to have died months ago in the warehouse fire that exposed more than a few secrets, start to emerge. Faith can't seem to shake Dakota's betrayal from that tragic day, but she also can't help hoping the rumors are true. As Faith tries to balance her quest for a memorable senior year and the heartbreak of Grandma Lou's increasing decline, she learns to have faith in herself--and that sometimes fate will point you in the right direction.
Author: Vaynerchuk, Gary, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 650.1
Format: Books
Summary: "In his sixth business book, bestselling author, entrepreneur, and investor Gary Vaynerchuk explores the twelve essential emotional skills that are integral to his life-and business-success and provides today's (and tomorrow's) leaders with critical tools to acquire and develop these traits"-- For decades leaders have relied on "hard" skills to make smart decisions, while dismissing soft skills like self-awareness and curiosity. Vaynerchuk argues that soft skills can actually accelerate business success. Here he explores twelve human ingredients that have led to his success and happiness, and provides exercises to help you develop these traits yourself. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Patterson, James, 1947- author. Container of (work): Patterson, James, 1947- French Kiss. Container of (work): Patterson, James, 1947- Christmas Mystery. Container of (work): Patterson, James, 1947- French Twist. DiLallo, Richard, author.
Published: 2021 2016
Call Number: F PATTERSO
Format: Books
Summary: A new bind-up with three exciting thrillers featuring NYPD Detective Luc Moncrief, a Paris detective who's about to learn that NYC is a whole other ballgame in the world of crime. French Twist: Gorgeous women are dropping dead at upscale department stores in New York City. Detective Luc Moncrief and Detective Katherine Burke are close to solving the mystery, but looks can be deceiving. French Kiss: Very handsome and charming French detective Luc Moncrief joined the NYPD for a fresh start, but someone wants to make his first big case his last. Welcome to New York. The Christmas Mystery: In the heart of the holiday season, priceless paintings have vanished from a Park Avenue murder scene. Now, dashing French detective Luc Moncrief must become a quick study in the art of the steal, before a coldblooded killer paints the town red. Merry Christmas, Detective.
Author: Bissell, Tom, 1974- author. Bissell, Tom, 1974- Bridge under water. Bissell, Tom, 1974- My interview with the avenger. Bissell, Tom, 1974- Punishment. Bissell, Tom, 1974- Love story, with cocaine.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F BISSELL
Format: Books
Summary: "From the best-selling author of The Disaster Artist, a new collection of stories that range from laugh-out-loud funny to disturbingly dark--unflinching portraits of people struggling to bridge the gap between art and life. A young and ingratiating assistant to a movie star makes a blunder that puts his boss and a major studio at grave risk. A writer and his wife hire a partner for a threesome to rejuvenate their relationship after the birth of their child. An assistant at a prestigious literary journal reconnects with a middle school frenemy and finds his carefully constructed world of refinement cannot protect him from his past. In these and other stories, Tom Bissell vividly renders the complex worlds of characters on the brink of artistic and personal crisis - writers, actors, and other creative types who see things slightly differently than the rest of us do. Surreal, poignant, squirmingly awkward--and always just a little bit off--this collection is a brilliant new offering from one of the most versatile and talented writers in America today"--
Author: Woods, Stuart, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F WOODS
Format: Books
Summary: "Stone Barrington uncovers a complicated scheme when he learns that a new client is in danger and putting his business and the safety of New York in jeopardy in the latest novel of the series following Class Act."-- "After a dangerous adventure has him traveling up and down the coast, Stone Barrington is looking forward to some down time at his Manhattan abode. But when an acquaintance alerts him to a hinky plot being hatched across the city, he finds himself eager to pursue justice. After the mastermind behind it all proves more evasive than anyone was expecting, Stone sets out on an international chase to places he's never gone before. With the help of old friends-and alluring new ones-Stone is determined to see the pursuit through to the end, even if it means going up against a foe more unpredictable than he has ever faced.."--
Author: Ruiz Zafón, Carlos, 1964-2020, author, translator. Graves, Lucia, translator. Container of (work) : Ruiz Zafón, Carlos, 1964-2020. Blanca and the departure. Container of (work) : Ruiz Zafón, Carlos, 1964-2020. Nameless. Container of (work) : Ruiz Zafón, Carlos, 1964-2020. Young lady from Barcelona.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F RUIZZAFO
Format: Books
Summary: Presents a complete collection of the author's short stories, some of which were not previously published, featuring such characters as a boy who decides to become a writer to impress the rich girl he has fallen in love with and an architect with plans for an impregnable library.
Author: Black, Holly, author.
Published: 2021 2010
Call Number: Y BLACK
Format: Books
Summary: Cassel Sharpe comes from a family of curse workers, people who have the power to change emotions, memories, and luck with the slightest touch of their hands. And since curse work is illegal, they're also all criminals. Many become mobsters and con artists, but not Cassel. He doesn't have magic, so he's an outsider, the straight kid in a crooked family--except for the small detail that he killed his best friend, Lila, three years ago. Cassel has carefully built up a facade of normalcy, blending into the crowd. But his facade starts to crumble when he finds himself sleepwalking, propelled into the night by terrifying dreams about a white cat that wants to tell him something. He's noticing other disturbing things, too, including the strange behavior of his two older brothers, who are keeping secrets from him. As Cassel begins to suspect he's an unwitting pawn in a huge con game, he must unravel his past, and his memories. To find the truth, Cassel will have to out-con the conmen.
Author: Albertalli, Becky, author. Silvera, Adam, 1990- author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: Y ALBERTAL
Format: Books
Summary: "Ben survived freshman year of college, but he's feeling more stuck than ever. His classes are a slog, his part-time job working with his father is even worse, and his best friend Dylan has been acting weird for weeks. Ben's only real bright spot is his writing partner Mario, who's been giving him a lot of Spanish lessons and even more kisses... Arthur is back in New York City for the first time in two years, ready to take the theater world by storm as the world's best ... intern to the assistant of an off-Broadway director. Of course, it sucks to be spending the summer apart from his sweet, reliable boyfriend, Mikey, but he knows their relationship is strong enough to weather the distance." --Front jacket flap
Author: Messenger, Tony, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 362.5
Format: Books
Summary: "In Profit and Punishment, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist exposes the tragedy of modern-day debtors prisons, and how they destroy the lives of poor Americans swept up in a system designed to penalize the most impoverished. "His Pulitzer Prize winning series on debtors' prisons in Missouri made a serious difference in real people's lives and his book will be a must read for a nation seeking a bipartisan path forward on criminal justice reform." -Claire McCaskill, former US Senator and analyst for MSNBC As a columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Tony Messenger has spent years in county and municipal courthouses documenting how poor Americans are convicted of minor crimes and then saddled with exorbitant fines and fees. If they are unable to pay, they are often sent to prison, where they are then charged a pay-to-stay bill, in a cycle that soon creates a mountain of debt that can take years to pay off. These insidious penalties are used to raise money for broken local and state budgets, often overseen by for-profit companies, and it is one of the central issues of the criminal justice reform movement. In the tradition of Evicted and The New Jim Crow, Messenger has written a call to arms, shining a light on a two-tiered system invisible to most Americans. He introduces readers to three single mothers caught up in this system: living in poverty in Missouri, Georgia, and South Carolina, whose lives are upended when minor offenses become monumental financial catastrophes. As these women struggle to clear their debt and move on with their lives, readers meet the dogged civil rights advocates and lawmakers fighting by their side to create a more equitable and fair court of justice. In this remarkable feat of reporting, Tony Messenger exposes injustice that is agonizing and infuriating in its mundane cruelty, as he champions the rights and dignity of some of the most vulnerable Americans"--
Author: Herron, Mick, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F HERRON
Format: Books
Summary: "Mick Herron, author of the Slough House novels, is on his way to becoming one of the most critically acclaimed and culturally important crime fiction writers of the twenty-first century. He has been awarded both the Gold and Steel Daggers by the Crime Writers' Association and has been called "the John Le Carré of the future" (BBC). But Mick Herron does more than "just" write flawlessly suspenseful spy thrillers. He is a craftist of the highest order, irrepressibly versatile in form (novels, novellas, short fiction) and mood (witty, taut, spooky, laugh-out-loud funny), whose "efficient, darkly witty, tipped-with-imagery sentences . . . feel purpose-built to perforate [our] private daze of illiteracy" (The Atlantic). Now, for the first time, Herron's short fiction has been collected into one volume. In Dolphin Junction, devoted fans and future converts alike will find much to amuse, delight, and terrify them. Five standalone nerve wrackingly thrilling crime fiction stories are complemented by four mystery stories featuring the Oxford wife-and-husband detective team of shrewd Zoë Boehm and hapless Joe Silvermann. The collection also includes a peek into the past of Jackson Lamb, irascible top agent at Slough House"--
Author: Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936- author. Mitchell, David, writer of introduction.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F BYATT
Format: Books
Summary: "A ravishing, luminous selection of short stories from the prize-winning imagination of A. S. Byatt, drawn from her entire career. Mirrors shatter at the hairdressers when a middle-aged client explodes in rage. Snow dusts the warm body of a princess, honing it into something sharp and frosted. Summer sunshine flickers on the face of a smiling child who may or may not be real. Medusa's Ankles celebrates the very best of A. S. Byatt's short fiction, carefully selected from a lifetime of writing. Peopled by artists, poets, and fabulous creatures, the stories blaze with creativity and color. From ancient myth to a British candy factory, from a Chinese restaurant to a Mediterranean swimming pool, from a Turkish bazaar to a fairy-tale palace, Byatt transports her readers beyond the veneer of the ordinary--even beyond the gloss of the fantastical--to a place rich and strange and wholly unforgettable"--
Author: Higashino, Keigo, 1958- author. Murray, Giles, translator.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F HIGASHIN
Format: Books
Summary: "A popular young girl disappears without a trace, her skeletal remains discovered three years later in the ashes of a burned out house. There's a suspect and compelling circumstantial evidence of his guilt, but no concrete proof. When he isn't indicted, he returns to mock the girl's family. And this isn't the first time he's been suspected of the murder of a young girl, nearly twenty years ago he was tried and released due to lack of evidence. Detective Chief Inspector Kusanagi of the Homicide Division of the Tokyo Police worked both cases." --
Author: McCallin, Luke, 1972- author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F MCCALLIN
Format: Books
Summary: "It's the final days of the Great War and four years of grinding conflict has warped more than one man's mind. When a secret meeting of top brass is called someone sets off a bomb that kills all the attendees. It looks for sure that one of the men in Gregor Reinhardt's company is the culprit. But since that man killed himself, the General is looking for someone else to share the blame. Reinhardt must prove his trooper innocent if he hopes to avoid the fate of a co-conspirator. The search for answers leads Reinhardt deep into a potential conspiracy populated by mutinous soldiers, a mysterious Russian nobleman, and a pair of doctors who may be doing more than treating battlefield injuries. The trenches are home to any number of horrors, but what if the greatest danger is right next to you?"--
Author: Samet, Elizabeth D., author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 940.5373
Format: Books
Summary: "From the acclaimed author of No Man's Land and Soldier's Heart, a wide-ranging work of cultural history and criticism that reexamines the impact of post-World War II myths of the "good war.""-- "In Looking for the good war, Elizabeth D. Samet examines the literature, art, and culture that emerged after World War II, bringing her expertise as a professor of English at West Point to bear on the complexity of the postwar period in national life. She exposes the confusion about American identity that was expressed during and immediately after the war, and the deep national ambivalence toward war, violence, and veterans--a history that was suppressed in subsequent decades by a dangerously sentimental attitude toward the United States' supposedly exceptional history and destiny." --Front jacket flap
Author: Rodsky, Eve, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 158.1
Format: Books
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Fair Play and "the Marie Kondo of relationships" comes an inspirational guide for setting new personal goals, rediscovering your interests, cultivating creativity, and reclaiming your Unicorn Space"-- Eve Rodsky realized that even when the domestic workload becomes more balanced, people still report something missing in their lives--that is, unless they prioritize and devote time for activities that not only fill their calendars but also unleash their creativity. Rodsky calls this vital time Unicorn Space--the active and open pursuit of creative self-expression in any form that makes you uniquely you. To help readers embrace all the unlikely, surprising, and delightful places where their own Unicorn Space may be found, she speaks with trailblazers, thought leaders, academics, and countless others who have discovered theirs everywhere--from activism to artistic endeavors to second careers. --adapted from front jacket flap
Author: Kane, Darby, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F KANE
Format: Books
Summary: "Can one man be that unlucky? Elisa Wright is a mom and wife, living a nice, quiet life in a nice, quiet town. She's also convinced her brother-in-law is a murderer. Josh has one dead wife and one missing fiancée, and though he grieved for them he starts dating someone new. Elisa fears for that woman's safety, and she desperately wants to know what happened to her friend, Josh's missing fiancée. Searching for clues means investigating her own family. And she doesn't like what she finds. A laptop filled with incriminating information. Other women. But when Elisa becomes friends with Josh's new girlfriend and starts to question things she thinks are true, Elisa wonders if the memories of a horrible incident a year ago have finally pushed her over the edge and Josh is really innocent. With so much at stake, Elisa fights off panic attacks and a strange illness. Is it a breakdown or something more? The race is on to get to the truth before another disappearance because there's a killer in the family...or is there?"--
Author: Faye, Lyndsay, author. Faye, Lyndsay. Adventure of the stopped clocks. Faye, Lyndsay. Song of a want. Faye, Lyndsay. Our common correspondent. Faye, Lyndsay. River of silence.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F FAYE
Format: Books
Summary: "A new collection of Sherlockian tales that shows the Great Detective and his partner, Watson, as their acquaintances saw them"-- How well did those who worked with Sherlock Holmes know him? The peripheral characters-- Irene Adler, Geoffrey Lestrade; witnesses to the cases; even his cook and housekeeper, Martha Hudson-- what did they think of the man and his methods? Discover aspects of Holmes and Watson that you have never seen before. -- adapted from jacket
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