Author: Goldberg, E. (Emma), author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 362.1962
Format: Books
Summary: Weaving together in-depth interviews with doctors, their diaries, and notes, this page-turning account follows the medical students who received their degrees early to help treat thousands of critically ill COVID-19 patients in New York City during the height of the pandemic. In March 2020, soon-to-graduate medical students in New York City were nervously awaiting "match day," when they would learn where they would begin their residencies. In one week, they discovered they would be sent to the front lines to save lives as the coronavirus plunged the city into crisis. In this powerful book, New York Times journalist Emma Goldberg offers an up-close portrait of six bright yet in-experienced health professionals, each of whom defies a stereotype about who gets to don a doctor's white coat. Goldberg illuminates how the pandemic redefines what it means for them to undergo this trial by fire as caregivers, colleagues, classmates, friends, romantic partners, and concerned family members. --adapted from front jacket flap
Author: Agius, Warren, 1999- author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 001.942
Format: Books
Summary: "With analysis of more than forty cases, discover UFO encounters from around the world that prove extraterrestrials are visiting the Earth"-- Discover an in-depth, case-by-case analysis that proves the existence of extraterrestrials. Beginning with the Aurora Crash in 1897 and the famous battle of Los Angeles in 1942, this book tells the definitive stories and provides impeccable documentation for these extraordinary encounters. Learn whether the bodies recovered at Roswell were test dummies or extraterrestrials. Explore the truth behind the military's peculiar response to the Phoenix lights. Read about the Petit-Rechain photograph of the Belgian UFO wave, the Lubbock Lights photograph, and the Mariana film footage. You will explore lesser-known incidents such as the shutdown of China's Xiaoshan Airport as well as the famous Tic Tac encounter. Additionally, Evidence of Extraterrestrials details the influence of six government UFO programs on the quest for disclosure. Whether you are a seasoned UFOlogist or just have a casual interest in unexplained phenomena, this book reveals detailed answers that prove once-and-for-all that aliens are real and they are visiting the Earth.
Author: Simonet, Andrew, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: Y SIMONET
Format: Books
Summary: "In this young adult novel, a teenage girl sets out by foot to find her autistic brother in the aftermath of a catastrophic power outage"-- What do you call the difference between what you should feel and what you do feel? Life? The blackout has been going on for three weeks. But Alex feels like she's been living in the dark for a year, ever since her brother, who has autism, was removed from the house, something Alex blames herself for. So when her best friend, Anthony, asks her to trek to another town to figure out the truth about the blackout, Alex says yes. On a journey that ultimately takes all day and night, Alex's relationships with Anthony, her brother, and herself will transform in ways that change them all forever. In this honest and gripping young adult novel, Andrew Simonet spins a propulsive tale about what it means to turn on the lights and look at what's real.
Author: Gilbert, Victoria, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F GILBERT
Format: Books
Summary: When the president of a reclusive writer's fan club is found dead after a book signing, Charlotte Reed, the owner of Chapters B&B, her neighbor Ellen and Ellen's trusty Yorkshire terrier must page through the clues to catch a killer before the author meets the same fate. Beaufort, North Carolina. Charlotte Reed's historic 18th-century inn draws in voracious readers from far and wide with its special events. This July weekend, a visit by one of the biggest names in romantic fantasy attracts throngs of admirers to the quaint coastal village. She's have a "Tea and Talk" meet-and-greet at the B&B celebrating her bestselling series, followed by a quick book signing at Bookwaves, the hip indie bookstore across town. When the president of the reclusive writer's fan club is found dead in the harbor, a spectacularly successful book series--and its author--may come to a sudden, lethal conclusion. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Davis, Brooke Lauren, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: Y DAVIS
Format: Books
Summary: After years on the run, sixteen-year-old Phoenix and mom Nina travel back to Nina's hometown to get revenge on the man she says ruined her life. Phoenix and mom Nina have spent years on the road, swindling and stealing to get by. Now they've back in Mom's hometown, Jasper Hollow. The plan: bring down Ellis Bowman, the man who ruined Nina's life. After Phoenix gets caught spying, she spins a convincing story that inadvertently gives her full access to the Bowman family. Digging deeper into their secrets, she finds herself entrenched in the tale of a death and a disappearance that doesn't entirely line up with what Mom has told her. Who, if anyone, is telling the whole truth? -- adapted from jacket
Author: Maclean, John N., author. Bates, Wesley W., illustrator.
Published: 2021
Call Number: B MACLEAN
Format: Books
Summary: "A universal story about the power of place to shape families: In the spirit of his father's beloved classic A River Runs Through It, comes John N. Maclean's meditation on fly fishing and life along Montana's Blackfoot River, where four generations of Macleans have fished, bonded, and drawn timeless lessons from its storied waters"--
Author: Phelps, Wayne, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 355.0019
Format: Books
Summary: Throughout history society has determined specific rules of engagement between adversaries in armed conflict. With advances in technology, from armor in the Middle Ages to nerve gas in World War I to weapons of mass destruction in our own time, the rules have constantly evolved. Today, when killing the enemy can seem palpably risk-free and tantamount to playing a violent video game, what constitutes warfare? What is the effect of remote combat on individual soldiers? And what are the unforeseen repercussions that could affect us all? Lt Col Wayne Phelps, former commander of a Remotely Piloted Aircraft unit, addresses these questions and many others as he tells the story of the men and women of today's "chair force." Exploring the ethics of remote military engagement, the misconceptions about PTSD among RPA operators, and the specter of military weaponry controlled by robots, his book is an urgent and compelling reminder that it should always be difficult to kill another human being lest we risk losing what makes us human.
Author: Wertheim, L. Jon, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 796.0904 WERTHEIM
Format: Books
Summary: "A rollicking guided tour of one extraordinary summer, when some of the most pivotal and freakishly coincidental stories all collided and changed the way we think about modern sports"--
Author: Menashe, Ori, author. Gergis, Genevieve, author. Suter, Lesley, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 641.5956
Format: Books
Summary: "From the most sought-after dinner reservation in Los Angeles comes the dishes and stories behind the wildly popular Bavel restaurant, with recipes celebrating the diversity and variety of Middle Eastern cuisines"--
Author: Baszile, Natalie, author. Twitty, Michael, 1977- Everyone beneath their own vine and fig tree. Baszile, Natalie. Writing Queen sugar. Williams, Richard, 1942- Black and white. Selections. Hughes, Stanley. Resilence and reinvention.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 920.0092 BASZILE
Format: Books
Summary: The author of the novel Queen Sugar gathers together essays, poems, photographs, quotes, conversations, and first-person stories to examine black people's connection to the American land from Emancipation to today. "In this impressive anthology, Natalie Baszile brings together essays, poems, photographs, quotes, conversations, and first-person stories to examine black people's connection to the American land from Emancipation to today. In the 1920s, there were over one million black farmers; today there are just 45,000. Baszile explores this crisis, through the farmers' personal experiences. In their own words, middle aged and elderly black farmers explain why they continue to farm despite systemic discrimination and land loss. The Returning Generation--young farmers, who are building upon the legacy of their ancestors, talk about the challenges they face as they seek to redress issues of food justice, food sovereignty, and reparations."--
Author: Ricciardi, David, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F RICCIARD
Format: Books
Summary: "Someone is assassinating CIA field officers and Jake Keller's name is next on the list in the latest thrilling novel from the author Publishers Weekly calls "a fresh voice in the crowded spy-thriller field." Jake doesn't know who is trying to kill him and he doesn't know why, but it's a threat he can't ignore. When his small plane crashes in the Alps, Jake is the only survivor. A rescue helicopter soon arrives, but the men inside are not there to save anyone. They are determined to complete the murderous job they started. Jake escapes from the mountainside death trap, but it won't be the only attempt on his life. If he's to have any chance at surviving, he'll have to find out who's behind the killings. But the circle of people Jake can trust is distressingly small as he suspects that someone inside the Agency is feeding his every move to the very people who are trying to end his life. Jake's quest takes him to the candlelit cathedrals of Paris and the rain-slicked streets of London. He makes contact with old friends and new enemies along the way-but his true nemesis may be closer than he imagines"--
Author: Probst, Jennifer, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F PROBST
Format: Books
Summary: "Workaholic, career-obsessed Francesca is fiercely independent and successful in all areas of life except one: family. She struggles to make time for her relationship with her teenage daughter, Allegra, and the two have become practically strangers to each other. When Allegra hangs out with a new crowd and is arrested for drug possession, Francesca gives in to her mother's wish that they take one epic summer vacation to trace their family roots in Italy. What she never expected was to be faced with the choice of a lifetime. . . . Allegra wants to make her grandmother happy, but she hates the idea of forced time with her mother and vows to fight every step of the ridiculous tour, until a young man on the verge of priesthood begins to show her the power of acceptance, healing, and the heartbreaking complications of love. Sophia knows her girls are in trouble. A summer filled with the possibility for change is what they all desperately need. Among the ruins of ancient Rome, the small churches of Assisi, and the rolling hills of Tuscany, Sophia hopes to show her girls that the bonds of family are everything, and to remind them that they can always lean on one another, before it's too late."--
Author: Rhodes, Ben, 1977- author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 909.831
Format: Books
Summary: "In 2017, as Ben Rhodes was helping former president Barack Obama begin his next chapter, the legacy they worked to build for eight years was being taken apart. To understand what was happening in his own country, Rhodes decided to look outward, at the wider world. Over the next three years, he traveled to dozens of countries, meeting with politicians, dissidents, and activists confronting the same forces that produced the Trump presidency: spreading nationalism, authoritarianism, and disinformation. Along the way, he was spied on by former Mossad operatives and the Chinese government, met with Hong Kong protesters and Russian oppositionists, and found people from Europe to Asia to the United States struggling to reconcile their own identities with the crude nationalism of their leaders--all while pursuing new strategies to fight back. Equal parts memoir and reporting, 'After the Fall' is an ambitious and essential work of discovery. Throughout, Rhodes reflects on how the 2008 financial crisis completed a collapse of public confidence in America, globalization, and democracy itself, opening a door to the wave of strongman leaders who have transformed our world--men like Viktor Orban in Hungary, Vladimir Putin in Russia, and Xi Jinping in China. He wrestles with how peoples' yearning for identity and belonging has been weaponized by nationalists. And he learns from a diverse set of characters--from Obama to rebels to rising politicians--how we can choose a more hopeful story going forward"--
Author: Rubin, Julia Lynn, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: Y RUBIN
Format: Books
Summary: High schoolers Trixie and Lux pack light for a weekend getaway, but after a single night of violence derails their trip they become wanted fugitives and the face of a #MeToo movement. When Trixie picks up her best friend Lux for their weekend getaway, she is looking to escape for a little while, to forget the despair of being trapped in their dead-end Rust Belt town and the daunting responsibility of caring for her ailing mother. When a single night of violence derails their trip, they go from ordinary high-schoolers to wanted fugitives. Trying to stay ahead of the cops and a hellscape of media attention, the girls grapple with an unforgiving landscape, rapidly diminishing supplies, and disastrous decisions at every turn. Transformed by the media into the face of a #MeToo movement they didn't ask to lead, Trixie and Lux realize that they can only rely on each other, and that the love they find together is the one thing that truly makes them free. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Rothschild, Talia, author. Harvey, A. C. (Ashleigh Claire), author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: Y ROTHSCHI
Format: Books
Summary: Tells, from multiple viewpoints, of exiled eighteen-year-old goddess Galene who, having failed her Immortality Trial, goes on a quest to clear her name and save Mount Olympus, with the help of her friends. Galene, daughter of Poseidon, desperately wants to earn her place among the gods. When a violent attack leaves Mount Olympus in chaos and ruins, she is accused of the crime and banished from Olympus. Galene sets out to prove her innocence and discovers a plot that threatens even the oldest of Immortals. Fortunately, she has allies who willingly join her in exile. Their choices could save Olympus from total annihilation... or be the doom of them all. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Lund, Cameron, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: Y LUND
Format: Books
Summary: When popular high school senior-to-be Penny Harris kisses her best friend's boyfriend at a summer party hosted by Penny's boyfriend, she spends the summer trying to set things right. When Penny Harris wakes up on Jordan Parker's lawn the morning after his first-day-of-summer bash, she knows something went terribly wrong the night before. She kissed Kai Tanaka, her long-time nemesis. Her BFF Olivia's boyfriend. Jordan seems to be seeking comfort in Olivia, but Kai wants to save his relationship too. Maybe seeing Penny and Kai together will make Jordan and Olivia change their minds. But is the life she's fighting so hard to get back the one she really wants? -- adapted from jacket
Author: Romm, James S., author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 938.4
Format: Books
Summary: Romm's dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great's destruction of Thebes--and the saga of the greatest military corps of the age, the Theban Sacred Band, a unit composed of 150 pairs of male lovers. The story of the Sacred Band, an elite 300-man corps recruited from pairs of lovers, highlights a chaotic era of ancient Greek history, four decades marked by battles, ideological disputes, and the rise of vicious strongmen. At stake was freedom, democracy, and the fate of Thebes, at this time the leading power of the Greek world. The tale begins in 379 BC, with a group of Theban patriots sneaking into occupied Thebes. Disguised in women's clothing, they cut down the agents of Sparta, the state that had cowed much of Greece with its military might. To counter the Spartans, this group of patriots would form the Sacred Band, a corps whose history plays out against a backdrop of Theban democracy, of desperate power struggles between leading city-states, and the new prominence of eros, sexual love, in Greek public life. After four decades without a defeat, the Sacred Band was annihilated by the forces of Philip II of Macedon and his son Alexander in the Battle of Chaeronea--extinguishing Greek liberty for two thousand years. Buried on the battlefield where they fell, they were rediscovered in 1880--some skeletons still in pairs, with arms linked together. From violent combat in city streets to massive clashes on open ground, from ruthless tyrants to bold women who held their era in thrall, The Sacred Band follows the twists and turns of a crucial historical moment: the end of the treasured freedom of ancient Greece.
Author: Brammer, John Paul, 1991- author. Container of (work): Brammer, John Paul, 1991- How to answer a letter, part 1. Container of (work): Brammer, John Paul, 1991- How to lose rabbit. Container of (work): Brammer, John Paul, 1991- How to kiss your girlfriend. Container of (work): Brammer, John Paul, 1991- How to be a real Mexican.
Published: 2021
Call Number: B BRAMMER
Format: Books
Summary: The popular LGBTQ advice columnist and writer presents a memoir-in-essays chronicling his journey growing up as a queer, mixed-race kid in America's heartland to becoming the "Chicano Carrie Bradshaw" of his generation. The first time someone called Brammer "Papi" was on the gay hookup app Grindr. At first he took this as white-guy speak for "hey, handsome." What started as a racialized moniker given to him on the hookup app soon became the inspiration for his now wildly popular advice column. Here Brammer shares his story of growing up biracial and in the closet in America's heartland, while attempting to answer some of life's toughest questions. This book is for anyone-- gay, straight, and everything in between-- who has ever taken stock of their unique place in the world. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Miller, Kirsten, 1973- author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: Y MILLER
Format: Books
Summary: "Bram moves to the small town of Louth in order to help her uncle start his new inn, but when she discovers a legacy of silenced women tied to her new home, she sets out to investigate the truth behind the town's 'Dead Girl' myths"-- People say the house is cursed. It preys on the weakest, and young women are its favorite victims. Bram wanted was to disappear from her old life and the scandal that continues to haunt her. She ends up in Louth, a tiny town on the Hudson River where her uncle, James, has been renovating an old mansion. Months earlier his beloved wife died in a fire that people say was set by her daughter. The old manor is creepy--and the people of Louth don't want outsiders in their town. They tell legends about the Dead Girls. Girls whose lives were cut short in the very house Bram now calls home. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Kåss, Anita, 1979- author. Jelstad, Jørgen, 1979- author. McCullough, Alison, translator.
Published: 2021
Call Number: B KASS
Format: Books
Summary: Our bodies are protected by a complex defense system--an army that stands ready to combat dangerous invaders. But sometimes wires get crossed and our defenders turn against the body they are supposed to protect. Then we fall prey to autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, or type 1 diabetes. In all, there are more than a hundred such diseases, which can ruin lives and sometimes end them prematurely. And these diseases are on the rise. The Immune Mystery, by rheumatologist and researcher Anita Kåss, is the story of Kåss's quest to solve the puzzle of autoimmune disease and find a potential cure. It is a highly personal quest: Kåss's mother contracted rheumatoid arthritis after giving birth to her, and died when her daughter was only thirteen. The book follows Kåss's journey as a researcher--from the day of her mother's funeral in 1993, when she first started reading about rheumatoid arthritis, to the moment in 2017 when she is interviewed on Scandinavia's biggest talk show about a potentially revolutionary discovery that has earned her a record-breaking deal with a Japanese pharmaceutical company. Inspirational and compelling, The Immune Mystery is both a window into the body's most enigmatic workings and the moving story of a brilliant researcher's persistence against the odds.--
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