Author: Anderson, Carol (Carol Elaine), author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 323.1196
Format: Books
Summary: Investigates the history and impact of the Second Amendment, how it was designed, and how it has been constructed from the start to keep African Americans powerless and vulnerable. "From the seventeenth century, when it was encoded into law that the enslaved could not own, carry, or use a firearm whatsoever, until today, with measures to expand and curtail gun ownership aimed disproportionately at the African American population, the right to bear arms has been consistently used as a weapon to keep African Americans powerless--revealing that armed or unarmed, Blackness, it would seem, is the threat that must be neutralized and punished." --Front jacket flap
Author: Hale, Jenny, author.
Published: 2021 2015
Call Number: F HALE
Format: Books
Summary: "The one summer Faith will never forget is the time she fell in love as an enamored teenager. She thought their love was forever, only for her younger sister, Casey, to steal the man of her dreams. Faith and Casey have been estranged ever since, but at the request of her beloved ninety-year-old grandmother, Faith agrees to a family reunion. Both sisters will spend the summer holidays at their childhood beach house, the place where their feud began. Faith hasn't seen Casey in years, but she's spent too long holding on to the pain of her sister's betrayal. She's finally ready to forget -- if not forgive -- old hurts and enjoy the sunshine. What she's not ready for is her unexpected chemistry with Jake Buchanan -- the present-day owner of her beloved beach house -- or the feelings he ignites in her. But before she can make this summer the one to remember, Faith will need to learn to open her heart and rekindle the close bond she and Casey once shared." --
Author: Shalvis, Jill, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: LP F SHALVIS
Format: Large print
Summary: Starting a new life after waking up from a coma, Emma Harris finds her plans of opening up a doggy day care derailed by her childhood nemesis, but she soon learns that life isn't what you are given, it's what you make of it. Emma Harris wakes up from a coma to learn that her fiancé and her BFF have fallen in love-- and she's lost her job. The life she knew is gone, but she's grateful to be alive. Desperate for a new start, Emma opens a doggy day care. The only space she can afford is owned by her childhood nemesis, Ali Pratt. Then a friend drops his grandpa off at the doggy day care because he can't find senior care. Another grandparent shows up. And another. In the midst of all that, Emma realizes she is falling for Simon, her Evil Physical Therapist. As Ali starts becoming her best friend, Emma comes to learn that life isn't what you're given, it's what you make of it. -- adapted from back cover
Author: Kay, Michael, 1961-, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 791.4502
Format: Books
Summary: "An impressive range of sports and entertainment stars sit down for friendly chats." -- "For nearly two decades as CenterStage's host, Michael Kay has conducted hourlong conversations with American pop culture's most intriguing personalities--well over two hundred men and women. For this collection, he has gathered the thirty-five conversations that best exemplify the show's distinctive blend of humor, inspiration, and self-revelation. Also included are fascinating behind-the-scenes stories, such as ones of interviews that almost didn't happen." --Front jacket flap.
Author: Power, Chris, 1974- author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F POWER
Format: Books
Summary: "An existential mystery that explores the uncertain intersection between fiction and reality, and the disastrous consequences of a chance encounter"-- Two British writers meet by chance in Berlin. Robert is trying and failing to finish his next book while balancing his responsibilities as a husband and father. Patrick, a recent arrival in the city, is secretive but reveals that he has been ghostwriting the autobiography of a Russian oligarch. The oligarch has turned up dead, and Patrick claims to be a hunted man himself. Robert doubts the truth of Patrick's story-- but it might hold the key to his own foundering novel. Now he must decide what is his for the taking-- and whether some stories are too dangerous to tell. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Thompson, Aggie Blum, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F THOMPSON
Format: Books
Summary: "An accomplished photographer and the devoted mom of an adorable little boy, Allie Ross has just moved to an upscale DC suburb, the kind of place where parenting feels like a competitive sport. Allie's desperate to make a good first impression. Then she's framed for murder. It all starts at a neighborhood party when a local dad corners Allie and calls her by an old, forgotten nickname from her dark past. The next day, he is found dead. Soon, the police are knocking at her door, grilling her about a supposed Tinder relationship with the man, and pulling up texts between them. She learns quickly that she's been hacked and someone is impersonating her online. Her reputation--socially and professionally--is at stake; even her husband starts to doubt her. As the killer closes in, Allie must reach back into a past she vowed to forget in order to learn the shocking truth of who is destroying her life"--
Author: Shriver, Lionel. author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: LP F SHRIVER
Format: Large print
Summary: When her father dies, Kay Wilkinson can't cry. Over ten years, Alzheimer's had steadily eroded this erudite man into a paranoid lunatic. Surely one's own father passing should never come as such a relief. Both medical professionals, Kay and her husband Cyril have seen too many elderly patients in similar states of decay. Although healthy and vital in their early fifties, the couple fears what may lie ahead. Determined to die with dignity, Cyril makes a modest proposal. To spare themselves and their loved ones such a humiliating and protracted decline, they should agree to commit suicide together once they've both turned eighty. When their deal is sealed, the spouses are blithely looking forward to another three decades together. But then they turn eighty. By turns hilarious and touching, playful and grave, Should We Stay or Should We Go portrays twelve parallel universes, each exploring a possible future for Kay and Cyril. Were they to cut life artificially short, what would they miss out on? Something terrific? Or something terrible? Might they end up in a home? A fabulous luxury retirement village, or a Cuckoo's Nest sort of home? Might being demented end up being rather fun? What future for humanity awaits--the end of civilization, or a Valhalla of peace and prosperity? What if cryogenics were really to work? What if scientists finally cure aging? Both timely and timeless, Lionel Shriver addresses serious themes--the compromises of longevity, the challenge of living a long life and still going out in style--with an uncannily light touch. Weaving in a host of contemporary issues, from Brexit and mass migration to the coronavirus, Shriver has pulled off a rollicking page-turner in which we never have to mourn perished characters, because they'll be alive and kicking in the very next chapter.--Amazon.
Author: Lansdale, Joe R., 1951- author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F LANSDALE
Format: Books
Summary: "Daniel Russell was only thirteen years old when his father tried to kill them both by driving their car into Moon Lake. Miraculously surviving the crash and growing into adulthood, Daniel returns to the site of this traumatic incident in the hopes of recovering his father's car and bones. As he attempts to finally put to rest the memories that have plagued him for years, he discovers something even more shocking among the wreckage that has ties to a twisted web of dark deeds, old grudges, and strange murders"--
Author: Johnson, Theodore R., III (Theodore Roosevelt), author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 305.8009
Format: Books
Summary: ""Racism is an existential threat to America," Theodore R. Johnson declares at the start of his profound and exhilarating book, a refutation of the American Promise enshrined in our Constitution--that all men and women are inherently equal. And yet racism continues to corrode our society. If we cannot overcome it, Johnson argues, while the United States will remain a geopolitical entity, the promise that made America unique on earth will have died. When the Stars Begin to Fall makes a compelling, ambitious case for a pathway to the national solidarity necessary to overcome racism. Weaving memories of his own family's experiences and strands of history into his elegant narrative, Johnson posits that a blueprint for national solidarity can be found in the exceptional citizenship long practiced in Black America, augmented by a more enduring version of the solidarity among members of the military or in communities recovering from a natural disaster. Understanding that racism is a structural crime of the state, he argues that overcoming it requires us to recognize that a color-conscious society--not a color-blind one--is the true fulfillment of the American Promise. Alive to the power of writers from James Baldwin to Isabel Wilkerson to Jon Meacham, When the Stars Begin to Fall is an urgent call to undertake the process of overcoming what has long seemed intractable"--
Author: Bird, Kai, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: B CARTER
Format: Books
Summary: "Four decades after Ronald Reagan's landslide win in 1980, Jimmy Carter's one-term presidency is often labeled a failure; indeed, many Americans view Carter as the only ex-president to have used the White House as a stepping-stone to greater achievements. But in retrospect the Carter political odyssey is a rich and human story, marked by both formidable accomplishments and painful political adversity. In this deeply researched, brilliantly written account, Kai Bird expertly unfolds the Carter saga as a tragic tipping point in American history. As president, Carter was not merely an outsider, but an outlier. He was the only president in a century to grow up in the heart of the Deep South, and his born-again Christianity made him the most openly religious president in memory. This outlier brought to the White House a rare mix of humility, candor-and unnerving self-confidence that neither Washington nor America was ready to embrace. Decades before today's public reckoning with the vast gulf between America's ethos and its actions, Carter looked out on a nation torn by race and demoralized by Watergate and Vietnam and prescribed a radical self-examination from which voters recoiled. The cost of his unshakable belief in doing the right thing would be a second term-and the ascendance of Reagan. In these remarkable pages, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Bird traces the arc of Carter's administration, from his aggressive domestic agenda to his controversial foreign policy record, taking readers inside the Oval Office and through Carter's battles with both a political establishment and a Washington press corps that proved as adversarial as any foreign power. Bird shows how issues still hotly debated today--from national health care to growing inequality and racism to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict--burned at the heart of Carter's America, and consumed a president who found a moral duty in solving them. Drawing on interviews with Carter and members of his administration and recently declassified documents, Bird delivers a profound, clear-eyed evaluation of a leader whose legacy has been deeply misunderstood. The Outlier is the definitive account of an enigmatic presidency--both as it really happened and as it is remembered in the American consciousness"--
Author: Brunson, Quinta, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: B BRUNSON
Format: Books
Summary: "From comedian Quinta Brunson comes a deeply personal and funny collection of essays about trying to make it when you're broke, overcoming self-doubt and depression, and how she's used humor to navigate her career in unusual directions"-- "Quinta Brunson is a master at breaking the internet. Before having any traditional background in media, her humorous videos were the first to go viral on Instagram's platform. From there, Brunson's wryly observant POV helped cement her status in the comedy world at large, with roles on HBO, Netflix, ABC, Adult Swim, BuzzFeed, the CW, and Comedy Central. Now, Brunson is bringing her comedic chops to the page in She Memes Well, an earnest, laugh-out-loud collection about this unusual road to notoriety." --Front jacket flap
Author: Levien, Marissa, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F LEVIEN
Format: Books
Summary: "In fifty years, Myrra will be free. Until then, she's a contract worker. Ever since she was five, her life and labor have belonged to the highest bidder on her contract--butchers, laundries, and now the powerful, secretive Carlyles. But when one night finds the Carlyles dead, Myrra is suddenly free a lot sooner than she anticipated--and at a cost she never could have imagined. Burdened with the Carlyles' orphaned daughter and the terrible secret they died to escape, she runs. With time running out, Myrra must come face to face with the truth about her world--and embrace what's left before it's too late"--
Author: Sharratt, Mary, 1964- author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F SHARRATT
Format: Books
Summary: "A kind of fifteenth-century 'Eat, Pray, Love,' 'Revelations' illuminates the intersecting lives of two female mystics who changed history--Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich"-- "Bishop's Lynn, England, 1413. At the age of forty, Margery Kempe has nearly died giving birth to her fourteenth child. Fearing that another pregnancy might kill her, she makes a vow of celibacy, but she can't trust her husband to keep his end of the bargain. Desperate for counsel, she visits the famous anchoress Dame Julian of Norwich and confesses that she has been haunted by visceral religious visions. Julian offers up a confession of her own: she has written a secret, radical book about her own visions, Revelations of Divine Love. Nearing the end of her life and fearing Church authorities, Julian entrusts her precious book to Margery, who sets off on the adventure of a lifetime to secretly spread Julian's words. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Beck, Kristin, 1979-, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F BECK
Format: Books
Summary: "When the Nazi occupation of Rome begins, two courageous young women join the Italian Resistance to fight for their freedom. Rome, 1943: Lucia Colombo has had her doubts about Fascism for years, but as a single mother in an increasingly unstable country, politics are for other people--she needs to focus on keeping herself and her son alive. Then the Italian government falls and the German occupation begins, and suddenly, Lucia finds that complacency is no longer an option. Francesca Gallo has always been aware of injustice and suffering. A polio survivor who lost her father when he was arrested for his anti-Fascist politics, she came to Rome with her fiancé to start a new life. But when the Germans invade and her fiancé is taken by the Nazis, Francesca decides she has only one option: to fight back. As Lucia and Francesca struggle against the Nazi occupation, they learn to resist alongside the partisans to drive the Germans from Rome. As winter sets in though, the occupation tightens its grip on the city, and the resistance is in constant danger. In the darkest days, Francesca and Lucia face their pasts, and find the courage to love and strive for a future that is finally free"--
Author: Rovin, Jeff, author. Pieczenik, Steve R., creator. Clancy, Tom, 1947-2013, creator.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F ROVIN
Format: Books
Summary: "In this action-packed thriller in the New York Times bestselling Tom Clancy's Op-Center series, America's elite task force must take down a group of ruthless domestic terrorists determined to paralyze the country through extreme acts of violence. They are known as the Black Order. Self-proclaimed patriots and survivalists, they refuse to surrender their values and beliefs to the left-leaning cultural and progressive forces threatening their nation. Military veterans and high-tech specialists, they've begun a savage war from public assassinations of politicians and celebrities to high-profile bombings, striking without warning or mercy. The Black Order wants nothing less than complete capitulation from the US government, giving them free rein to make their ideologies the law of the land. Only Op-Center's Black Wasp, a skilled team of military operatives answerable to the President, can defeat these militant revolutionaries. But even as Admiral Chase Williams and his agents force them on the run, the Black Order possesses a weapon of mass destruction that they will not hesitate to unleash against millions of innocent civilians"--
Author: Schwarzlose, Rebecca, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 612.8
Format: Books
Summary: "A path-breaking journey into the brain, showing how perception, thought, and action are products of "maps" etched into your gray matter--and how technology can use them to read your mind"-- "In Brainscapes, Rebecca Schwarzlose combines unforgettable real-life stories, cutting-edge research, and vivid illustrations to reveal brain maps' surprising lessons about our place in the world--and about the world's place within us." --Front jacket flap.
Author: Mendez, Paul, 1982- author.
Published: 2020
Call Number: F MENDEZ
Format: Books
Summary: "An essential and revelatory coming-of-age narrative following nineteen-year-old Jesse McCarthy as he grapples with his racial and sexual identities against the backdrop of his Jehovah's Witness upbringing"-- "In the 1950s, ex-boxer Norman Alonso is a determined and humble Jamaican who has immigrated to Britain with his wife and children to secure a brighter future. Blighted with unexpected illness and racism, Norman and his family are resilient, but are all too aware that they will need more than just hope to survive in their new country." --Front jacket flap.
Author: Vandome, Nick, author.
Published: 2020
Call Number: 006.3
Format: Books
Summary: Provides instructions for seniors on how to use Alexa, Amazon's voice-controlled digital personal assistant, to perform a range of everyday tasks, including setting and controlling smart home devices such as smart heating and smart lighting, making hands-free phone calls, and shopping online.
Author: Vandome, Nick, author.
Published: 2020
Call Number: 004.165
Format: Books
Summary: A new edition of the MacBook reference guide covers the features of macOS Big Sur, including such topics as navigating the operating system, finding and obtaining apps, networking, battery issues, and general troubleshooting. MacBook in easy steps, 7th edition is perfect for those wanting to get a grasp of their new MacBook quickly, in easy steps. Learn the basics first-- the Mac Desktop, the Dock, the Finder-- then explore the great features of this popular Apple laptop. Demystifies Mac jargon and MacBook versions; Explains the Dock, Desktop and the Finder; Shows how to use Family Sharing with other family members; Covers iCloud and the iCloud Drive for backing up and sharing files; Shows how to customize your MacBook; Demonstrates the Launchpad; Reveals all about finding and obtaining apps; Addresses battery issues and security; Covers using MacBook for work and for leisure; Ideal for those new to the MacBook, including Senior readers.
Author: Molesworth, Helen, author. Davis, Noah, 1983-2015, artist. David Zwirner (Gallery), host institution. Underground Museum, host institution.
Published: 2020
Call Number: 759.13 MOLESWOR
Format: Books
Summary: Providing a crucial record of the painter Noah Davis's extraordinary oeuvre, this monograph tells the story of a brilliant artist and cultural force through the eyes of his friends and collaborators.Despite his exceedingly premature death at the age of 32, Noah Davis created emotionally charged work that places him firmly in the canon of great American painting. Stirring, elusive, and attuned to the history of painting, his compositions infuse scenes from everyday life with a magical realist atmosphere and contain traces of his abiding interest in artists such as Marlene Dumas, Kerry James Marshall, Fairfield Porter, Mark Rothko, and Luc Tuymans. This catalogue is published on the occasion of the 2020 exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, which travels to the Underground Museum in Los Angeles, a space that Davis founded with his wife, artist Karon Davis. In her introduction, catalogue essay, and interviews with important figures in Davis's life, curator Helen Molesworth shows how the artist's generosity and sense of responsibility galvanized a uniquely supportive artistic community, culture, and vision. Through color illustrations and archival photographs, the book captures the intimate yet expansive spirit of a studio visit with the artist. Exhibition: David Zwirner, New York, USA (16.01-22.02.2020) / Underground Museum, LA, USA.
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