Author: Donoghue, Emma, 1969- author.
Published: 2020
Call Number: F DONOGHUE
Format: Books
Summary: A novel set in 1918 Dublin offers a three-day look at a maternity ward during the height of the Great Flu pandemic. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have fallen sick are quarantined into a separate ward to keep the plague at bay. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders, a woman doctor who is a rumored Rebel, and a teenage girl, Bridie, procured by the nuns from their orphanage as an extra set of hands. At first, this Bridie seems unschooled in life, she makes up a bed with only the rubber mat and savors the weak tea and barely edible porridge from the hospital kitchen. But in the intensity of this ward, over three brutal days, Julia and the women come together in unexpected ways.
Author: Henderson, Alexis, author.
Published: 2020
Call Number: F HENDERSO
Format: Books
Summary: "A young woman living in a rigid, repressive society discovers dark powers within herself, with terrifying and far-reaching consequences, in this stunning, feminist fantasy debut. In the lands of Bethel, where the Prophet's word is law, Immanuelle Moore's very existence is blasphemy. The daughter of an union with an outsider that cast her once-proud family into disgrace, Immanuelle does her best to worship the Father, follow Holy Protocol, and lead a life of submission, devotion, and absolute conformity, like all the women in the settlement. But a chance mishap lures her into the forbidden Darkwood surrounding Bethel, where the first prophet once chased and killed four powerful witches. Their spirits are still walking there, and they bestow a gift on Immanuelle: the diary of her dead mother, who Immanuelle is shocked to learn once sought sanctuary in the wood. Fascinated by secrets in the diary, Immanuelle finds herself struggling to understand how her mother could have consorted with the witches. But when she begins to learn grim truths about the Church and its history, she realizes the true threat to Bethel is its own darkness. And she starts to understand that if Bethel is to change, it must begin with her"--
Author: Johnston, E. K., author.
Published: 2020
Call Number: Y JOHNSTON
Format: Books
Summary: When -year-old Padmé Naberrie wins the election for Queen of Naboo, she adopts the name Amidala and leaves her family to the rule from the royal palace. To keep her safe, she'll need a group of skilled handmaidens who can be her assistants, confidantes, defenders, and decoys. Each girl is selected for her particular talents, but it will be up to Padmé to unite them as a group. When Naboo is invaded by forces of the Trade Federation, Queen Amidala and her handmaidens will face the greatest test-- of themselves, and of each other. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Cook, Walter J., editor. Klaas, Kelsey M., editor. Mayo Clinic, issuing body.
Published: 2020
Call Number: 649.122
Format: Books
Summary: "Mayo Clinic guide to your baby's first years is an essential resource for new and experienced parents. This fully updated second edition extends practical guidance on caring for your child from the newborn days to age 3. Inside you'll find evidence-based advice on issues such as eating and nutrition, healthy sleep habits, fussiness and tantrums, and bonding with your child. You'll also get monthly growth and development updates, tips for juggling work and family, and more"--Back cover.
Author: Immergut, Debra Jo, author.
Published: 2020
Call Number: F IMMERGUT
Format: Books
Summary: "From Edgar Award nominee Debra Jo Immergut: A taut, twisting work of psychological suspense about a woman chasing down the ghosts of her past"-- Abigail Willard first spots her from the back of a New York cab: the spitting image of Abby herself at age twenty-two--right down to the silver platforms and raspberry coat she wore as a young artist with a taste for wildness. But the real Abby is now forty-six and married, with a corporate job and two kids. As the girl vanishes into a rainy night, Abby is left shaken. Was this merely a hallucinatory side effect of working-mom stress? A message of sorts, sent to remind her of passions and dreams tossed aside? Or something more dangerous?
Author: Louis, Lia, author.
Published: 2020
Call Number: LOU
Format: Books
Summary: "A novel about teenager Emmie Blue, who releases a balloon with her email address and a big secret into the sky, only to fall head-over-heels for the boy who finds it; now, fourteen years later, the one thing Emmie has been counting on is gone for good, and everything she planned is up in the air"-- At sixteen, Emmie Blue stood in the fields of her school and released a red balloon into the sky. Attached was her name, her email address...and a secret she desperately wanted to be free of. Weeks later, on a beach in France, Lucas Moreau discovered the balloon and immediately emailed the attached addressed, sparking an intense friendship between the two teens. Now, fourteen years later, Emmie is hiding the fact that she's desperately in love with Lucas. She has pinned all her hopes on him and waits patiently for him to finally admit that she's the one for him. So dedicated to her love for Lucas, Emmie has all but neglected her life outside of this relationship--she's given up the search for her absentee father, no longer tries to build bridges with her distant mother, and lives as a lodger to an old lady she barely knows after being laid off from her job. And when Lucas tells Emmie he has a big question to ask her, she's convinced this is the moment he'll reveal his feelings for her. But nothing in life ever quite goes as planned, does it? Emmie Blue is about to learn everything she thinks she knows about life (and love) is just that: what she thinks she knows. Is there such thing as meant to be? Or is it true when they say that life is what happens when you are busy making other plans? A story filled with heart and humor, Dear Emmie Blue is perfect for fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and Evvie Drake Starts Over. --Amazon
Author: McLaughlin, Kate, 1971- author.
Published: 2020
Call Number: Y MCLAUGHL
Format: Books
Summary: "Raw, unflinching, and authentic, Kate McLaughlin's thoughtful What Unbreakable Looks Like carefully crafts a story exposing the vulnerability of underage trafficked girls and what it takes to begin the process of healing from sexual trauma."-Christa Desir, author, advocate, and founding member of The Voices and Faces Project Lex was taken-trafficked-and now she's Poppy. Kept in a hotel with other girls, her old life is a distant memory. But when the girls are rescued, she doesn't quite know how to be Lex again. After she moves in with her aunt and uncle, for the first time in a long time, she knows what it is to feel truly safe. Except, she doesn't trust it. Doesn't trust her new home. Doesn't trust her new friend. Doesn't trust her new life. Instead she trusts what she shouldn't because that's what feels right. She doesn't deserve good things. But when she is sexually assaulted by her so-called boyfriend and his friends, Lex is forced to reckon with what happened to her and that just because she is used to it, doesn't mean it is okay. She's thrust into the limelight and realizes she has the power to help others. But first she'll have to confront the monsters of her past with the help of her family, friends, and a new love. Kate McLaughlin's What Unbreakable Looks Like is a gritty, ultimately hopeful novel about human trafficking through the lens of a girl who has escaped the life and learned to trust, not only others, but in herself"--
Author: Burford, Tim.
Published: 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016
Call Number: 918.95 3RD ED.
Format: Continuing Resources
Author: Tooke, Hana, author.
Published: 2020
Call Number: J TOOKE
Format: Books
Summary: In all the years that Elinora Gassbeek has been matron of the Little Tulip Orphanage, not once have the Rules for Baby Abandonment been broken. Until the autumn of 1880, when five babies are left in outrageous circumstances; one in a tin toolbox, one in a coal bucket, one in a picnic hamper, one in a wheat sack, and finally, one in a coffin-shaped basket. Those babies were Lotta, Egg, Fenna, Sem, and Milou. And although their cruel matron might think they're "unadoptable," they know their individuality is what makes them special--and so determined to stay together. When a most sinister gentleman appears and threatens to tear them apart, the gang make a daring escape across the frozen canals of Amsterdam. But is their real home--and their real family--already closer than they realize?--
Author: National Geographic Society (U.S.). Book Division.
Published: 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016
Call Number: 917.304 5TH ED.
Format: Continuing Resources
Author: O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972- author.
Published: 2020
Call Number: F OFARREL
Format: Books
Summary: "A thrilling departure: a short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's 11 year old son Hamnet--a name interchangeable with Hamlet in 15th century Britain--and the years leading up to the production of his great play. England, 1580. A young Latin tutor--penniless, bullied by a violent father--falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman--a wild creature who walks her family's estate with a falcon on her shoulder and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer. Agnes understands plants and potions better than she does people, but once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose gifts as a writer are just beginning to awaken when his beloved young son succumbs to bubonic plague. A luminous portrait of a marriage, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss, and a hypnotic recreation of the story that inspired one of the greatest masterpieces of all time, Hamnet is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put down--a magnificent departure from one of our most gifted novelists"--
Author: Smyth, Ciara (Young adult author), author.
Published: 2020
Call Number: Y SMYTH
Format: Books
Summary: "Two girls embark on a summer of montage-worthy dates (with a few strings attached)."-- If happy endings were real, Saoirse's mother would still be able to remember her name and not be in a care home with early onset dementia. And if she inherits the condition, Saoirse doesn't see the point in igniting any romantic sparks when she's bound to burn out. Until Saoirse meets Ruby, a girl with one blue freckle, an irresistible sense of mischief, and a passion for rom-coms. Ruby proposes a loophole: They don't need true love to have one summer of fun, complete with every cliché, rom-com montage-worthy date they can dream up. And they make a binding agreement to end their romance come fall. It's the perfect plan.... -- adapted from jacket
Author: Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016
Call Number: 917.2 2019
Format: Continuing Resources
Author: Caletti, Deb, author.
Published: 2020
Call Number: Y CALETTI
Format: Books
Summary: While spending a summer with her famous mother and her criminal boyfriend, Sydney Reilly, age fifteen, finds love with Nicco but her premonition of something bad coming proves dreadfully accurate. Sydney Reilly's mother is the Lila Shore, a film star who prizes her beauty and male attention above all else... certainly above her daughter. Lila is involved with Jake, an art dealer with shady connections. He loves all beautiful objects, and Syndey can feel his eyes on her whenever he's around. Sydney is starting to attract attention wherever she goes: from sweet, handsome Nicco Ricci, from the unsettling construction worker next door, and even from Lila. One night something life-changing happens on the stairs that lead to the beach. Something goes very wrong, and Sydney learns a terrible truth: beautiful objects can break. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Benson, John Hart. Dorling Kindersley, Inc.
Published: 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016
Call Number: 915.2045 2019
Format: Continuing Resources
Summary: Discover Japan with this essential travel guide, designed to help you create your own unique trip and to transport you to this fascinating country before you've even packed your case - catch the buzz of futuristic Tokyo, step back in time in Kyoto, hike in mountainous Hokkaido or snorkel in Okinawa's clear waters.
Author: Lonely Planet Publications (Firm)
Published: 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016
Call Number: 917.471 2020
Format: Continuing Resources
Author: Cosby, S. A., author.
Published: 2020
Call Number: F COSBY
Format: Books
Summary: "A gritty, voice-driven thriller about a former getaway driver who thought he had escaped the criminal life who is pulled back in by race, poverty, and his own former life of crime. Beauregard "Bug" Montage is a man with many different titles: husband, father, friend, honest car mechanic. But before he gave it up, Bug used to be known from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida as the best Wheel Man on the East Coast. After a series of financial calamities, Bug feels he has no choice but to take one final job as the getaway driver for a daring diamond heist that could solve all his money troubles and allow him to go straight once and for all. Like "Ocean's Eleven" meets "Drive" (but with a mostly black cast of characters), Blacktop Wasteland is a searing, operatic story of sons living up (or down) to their fathers; of a heist gone sideways; of a man ground down by economic desperation; of fast cars and daring chases and identity and love"--
Author: Waite, Jen, author.
Published: 2020
Call Number: F WAITE
Format: Books
Summary: "By the bestselling author of A Beautiful, Terrible Thing, a haunting thriller about a mother and daughter who need to draw strength from each other when they find themselves trapped in a cabin with a man who wants to either control them--or kill them"-- Anne meets the man of her dreams right out of college. But after they get married, Anne notices that Ethan begins acting differently. Ten years later, Anne and her twelve-year-old daughter, Thea, are safely living in Vermont. Anne is a successful therapist, Thea has friends at her new school, and they receive love and support from Anne's mom, Rose. When Thea takes to brooding and showing classic signs of teen angst, a trip for the three women to the White Mountains of New Hampshire seems like the perfect chance to bond. A man follows the three women on a hike at a nature reserve and drags them at gunpoint to an abandoned cabin in the woods. It isn't clear what he wants from them, but it is increasingly clear that they won't all get out of the cabin alive. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Matsuki, Tatsuya, author. Usazaki, Shiro, artist.
Published: 2020
Call Number: Y PB MATSUKI V.1
Format: Books
Summary: Is there a method to Kei Yonagi's madness when it comes to acting? The young actor has a family of siblings to feed, but she finds herself struggling with her psychological demons when playing a role. Her desperate acting catches the eye of a famous director, Sumiji Kuroyama, who's looking for raw talent to mold. Can he help Yonagi navigate the cutthroat world of acting without losing her sanity?
Author: Downing, Samantha, author.
Published: 2020
Call Number: F DOWNING
Format: Books
Summary: "In the latest thrillingly savage stand-alone from the twisted mind behind mega hit My Lovely Wife comes the story of a family--not unlike your own--just with a few more violent tendencies thrown in.... Beth, Portia, and Eddie Morgan haven't all been together in years. And for very good reasons--we'll get to those later. But when their wealthy grandfather dies and leaves a cryptic final message in his wake, the siblings and their respective partners must come together for a cross-country road trip to fulfill his final wish and--more importantly--secure their inheritance. But time with your family can be tough. It is for everyone. It's even harder when you're all keeping secrets and trying to forget a memory--a missing person, an act of revenge, the man in the black truck who won't stop following your car--and especially when at least one of you is a killer and there's a body in the trunk. Just to name a few reasons. But money is a powerful motivator. It is for everyone"--
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