Author: DeRoux, Margaux, author.
Published: 2020
Call Number: F DEROUX
Format: Regular print
Summary: In the wake of her father's death, Rose Newlin finds solace in her work as a book restorer. Then, one rainy Connecticut afternoon, a struggling painter appears at her door. William Lomazzo brings with him a sixteenth-century treatise on art, which Rose quickly identifies as a palimpsest: a document written over a hidden diary that had purposely been scraped away. Yet the restoration sparks an unforeseen challenge when William--a married man--and Rose experience an instant, unspoken attraction. Five centuries earlier, Renaissance-era Venetians find themselves at the mercy of an encroaching Ottoman fleet preparing for a bloody war. Giovanni Lomazzo, a portrait artist grappling with tragedy, discovers that his vision is fading with each passing day. Facing the possibility of a completely dark world, Gio begins to document his every encounter, including what may be his final artistic feat: a commission to paint the enchanting courtesan of one of Venice's most powerful military commanders. Soon, however, Gio finds himself enraptured by a magnificent forbidden love. Spellbound by Gio's revelations, Rose and William are soon forced to confront the reality of their own mystifying connection.
Author: Higgins, Kristan, author.
Published: 2020
Call Number: F HIGGINS
Format: Books
Summary: "Sometimes you have to break a family to fix it. From the New York Times bestselling author of Life and Other Inconveniences comes a new novel of heartbreaking truths and hilarious honesty about what family really means. Barb and John Frost are testy and bored with each other after fifty years of marriage. At least they have their daughters- Barb's favorite, Juliet; and John's darling, Sadie. The girls themselves couldn't be more different, but at least they got along, more or less. Until the day John has a stroke, and their house of cards came tumbling down. Now Sadie has to come home to care for her beloved dad-and face the love of her old life. Now Juliet has to wonder if people will notice that despite her perfect life, she's spending an increasing amount of time in the closet having panic attacks. And now Barb and John will finally have to face what's been going on in their marriage all along"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Bauermeister, Erica, author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: F BAUERMEI
Format: Books
Summary: "Erica Bauermeister, the national bestselling author of The School of Essential Ingredients, presents a moving and evocative coming-of-age novel about childhood stories, families lost and found, and how a fragrance conjures memories capable of shaping the course of our lives. The Scent Keeper explores the provocative beauty of scent, the way it can reveal hidden truths, lead us to the person we seek, and even help us find our way back home. Emmeline lives an enchanted childhood on a remote island with her father, who teaches her about the natural world through her senses. What he won't explain are the mysterious scents stored in the drawers that line the walls of their cabin, or the origin of the machine that creates them. As Emmeline grows, however, so too does her curiosity, until one day the unforeseen happens, and Emmeline is vaulted out into the real world--a place of love, betrayal, ambition, and revenge. To understand her past, Emmeline must unlock the clues to her identity, a quest that challenges the limits of her heart and imagination. "--
Author: Sittenfeld, Curtis author.
Published: 2018
Call Number: SITTENFELD
Format: Books
Summary: Curtis Sittenfeld has established a reputation as a sharp chronicler of the modern age who humanizes her subjects even as she skewers them. Now, with this first collection of short fiction, her "astonishing gift for creating characters that take up residence in readers' heads" (The Washington Post) is showcased like never before.--Dust jacket.
Author: Jeffery, Keith, author.
Published: 2010
Call Number: 327.1241
Format: Books
Summary: Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (also commonly known as MI6) was born a century ago amid fears of the rising power of other countries, especially Germany. The next forty years saw MI6 taking an increasingly important role in shaping the history of Europe and the world. MI6's early days were haphazard but it was quickly forged into an effective organization in the crucible of World War I. During these war years, MI6 also formed ties with the United States -- harbingers of a relationship that would become vital to both countries' security as the century progressed. These early years also saw the development of techniques that would become plot devices in a thousand books and films: forgery, invisible ink, disguises, concealing mechanisms, and much more. The interwar years were nominally peaceful, but Britain perceived numerous threats, all of which MI6 was expected to keep tabs on. The outbreak of World War II once again caught MI6 off balance, and high-profile blunders (and the memoirs of MI6 operatives such as Graham Greene) created an impression of ineffectiveness. At the same time, however, the service was pioneering cryptography at Bletchley Park (where the Enigma code would be broken) and devising the very methods and equipment that would inspire Ian Fleming's novels. In a way, the aftermath of World War II was as dramatic as the war itself had been, because 1945-49 saw not only the end of the British Empire but also the emergence of a new sort of conflict: the Cold War. We witness MI6 wrestling with these epic developments as it tightens its bonds with the newly christened CIA, changes that would dictate the shape of the service -- and the world -- for decades to come.
Author: Piven, Frances Fox, author. Minnite, Lorraine Carol, author. Groarke, Margaret, author.
Published: 2009
Call Number: 324.62
Format: Books
Summary: "In recent years, the Republican party, the Bush administration, and the conservative movement have made strategies to demobilize likely Democratic voters a key campaign tactic, even overshadowing the Republican efforts to mobilize the Republican party's base. From misinformation campaigns, new voter ID rules, and inordinately long lines at the polls to sloppy and inaccurate registration records and the abuse of felon disenfranchisement laws, party efforts to suppress voters have become the under-the-radar dynamic determining American elections. Keeping Down the Black Vote reveals that the effort to rig the system is not all that new. Party competition in America has frequently taken the form of blocking voters in the opposition, and race has often been at the heart of the game." "In this sharply argued new book, three of America's leading experts on party politics and elections revisit gripping stories of the rise of black voting power in the cities, including Harold Washington's historic bid for mayor of Chicago in 1983, and trace the voter suppression tactics that have been employed to counteract the contemporary mobilization of black voters across the nation over the last twenty-five years. Today, over forty years after the Voting Rights Act of 1965 demolished bars to voting for African Americans, the effort to prevent black people - as well as Latinos and the poor in general - from voting is resurging. New tactics to suppress the vote are invented, and old tactics are revived, ironically usually under the mantle of "election reform." Despite the historic election of an African American president, the dynamics of vote suppression and the methods rooted in the encumbering system of electoral administration still exist." "With clear analysis of the methods of contemporary voter suppression, Keeping Down the Black Vote is a plea for a system of election administration that fosters the most basic right in a democracy - the right to vote."--Jacket.
Author: Andrew, Christopher M., author.
Published: 2009
Call Number: 327.1241
Format: Books
Summary: "Defend the Realm" reveals the precise role of the Security Service in twentieth-century British history, from its foundation by Captain Kell of the British Army in October 1909, through two world wars, up to and including its present roles in counterespionage and counterterrorism.
Author: Haynes, John Earl, author. Klehr, Harvey, author. Vassiliev, Alexander, author. Redko, Philip, translator. Shabad, Steven, translator.
Published: 2009
Call Number: 327.1247
Format: Books
Summary: "This stunning book, based on KGB archives that have never come to light before, provides the most complete account of Soviet espionage in America ever written. In 1993, former KGB officer Alexander Vassiliev was permitted unique access to Stalin-era records of Soviet intelligence operations against the United States. Years later, living in Britain, Vassiliev retrieved his extensive notebooks of transcribed documents from Moscow. With these notebooks John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr have meticulously constructed a new, sometimes shocking, historical account. Along with general insights into espionage tactics and the motives of Americans who spied for Stalin, Spies resolves specific, long-seething controversies. The book confirms, among many other things, that Alger Hiss cooperated with Soviet intelligence over a long period of years, that journalist I.F. Stone worked on behalf of the KGB in the 1930s, and that Robert Oppenheimer was never recruited by Soviet intelligence. Spies also uncovers numerous American spies who were never even under suspicion and satisfyingly identifies the last unaccounted for American nuclear spies. Vassiliev tells the story of the notebooks and his own extraordinary life in a gripping introduction to the volume."--Publisher description.
Author: Larson, Erik, 1954-
Published: 2004 2003
Call Number: 364.1523 LARSON
Format: Books
Summary: An account of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 relates the stories of two men who shaped the history of the event--architect Daniel H. Burnham, who coordinated its construction, and serial killer Herman Mudgett.
Author: Highsmith, Patricia, 1921-1995.
Published: 2001 1950
Call Number: F HIGHSMIT
Format: Books
Summary: The world of Patricia Highsmith has always been filled with ordinary people, all of whom are capable of very ordinary crimes. This theme was present from the beginning, when her debut, Strangers on a Train, galvanized the reading public. Here we encounter Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno, passengers on the same train. But while Guy is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno turns out to be a sadistic psychopath who manipulates Guy into swapping murders with him. "Some people are better off dead," Bruno remarks, "like your wife and my father, for instance." As Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy is trapped in Highsmith's perilous world, where, under the right circumstances, anybody is capable of murder.
Author: Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014. Myers, Christopher A. ill.
Published: 1999
Call Number: Y MYERS
Format: Books
Summary: While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
Author: Hinton, S. E.
Published: 1995
Call Number: Y PB HINTON
Format: Books
Summary: The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.
Author: Yan, Cathy, film director. Unkeless, Bryan, film producer. Kroll, Sue, 1961- film producer. Hodson, Christina, screenwriter. Robbie, Margot, 1990- actor, film producer.
Published: 2020
Call Number: BIRDS
Format: Video disc
Summary: A twisted tale told by Harley Quinn herself, as only Harley can tell it. When Gotham?s most nefariously narcissistic villain, Roman Sionis, and his zealous right-hand, Zsasz, put a target on a young girl named Cass, the city is turned upside down looking for her. Harley, Huntress, Black Canary and Renee Montoya?s paths collide, and the unlikely foursome has no choice but to team up to take Roman down.
Author: Wadlow, Jeff, film director, screenwriter, film producer. Roach, Chris, screenwriter. Jacobs, Jillian, screenwriter. Blum, Jason, film producer. Toberoff, Marc, film producer.
Published: 2020
Call Number: BLUMHOUS
Format: Video disc
Summary: The enigmatic Mr. Roarke makes the secret dreams of his lucky guests come true at a luxurious but remote tropical resort. But when the fantasies turn into nightmares, the guests have to solve the island's mystery in order to escape with their lives.
Author: Wilson, David S. F., film director. Heisserer, Eric, screenwriter. Wadlow, Jeff, screenwriter. Moritz, Neal H., film producer. Jaffe, Toby, film producer.
Published: 2020
Call Number: SUSPENSE BLOODSHO
Format: Video disc
Summary: Ray Garrison is a soldier recently killed in action and brought back to life as a superhero by the RST Corporation, which now controls Ray's body, mind, and memories. With an army of nanotechnology in his veins, he's an unstoppable force, stronger than ever and able to heal instantly. Faced with the reality that he can't believe anything -- even his own thoughts -- he's on a mission to discover his true reality.
Author: Morano, Reed, 1977- film director. Burnell, Mark, screenwriter. Lively, Blake, actor. Law, Jude, 1972- actor. Brown, Sterling K., actor.
Published: 2020
Call Number: RHYTHM
Format: Video disc
Summary: Stephanie is out for revenge against the people that arranged the plane crash that killed her family.
Author: Shults, Trey Edward, film director, screenwriter. Turen, Kevin, 1979- film producer. Wilson, James (Producer), film producer. Harrison, Kelvin, Jr., 1994- actor. Hedges, Lucas, 1996- actor.
Published: 2020
Call Number: DRAMA WAVES
Format: Video disc
Summary: Set against the vibrant landscape of South Florida, and featuring an astonishing ensemble of award-winning actors and breakouts alike, this film traces the epic emotional journey of a suburban African-American family, led by a well-intentioned but domineering father, as they navigate love, forgiveness and coming together in the aftermath of a loss. A heartrending story about the universal capacity for compassion and growth even in the darkest of times.
Author: D'sa, Lisa Barros, film director. Leyburn, Glenn, film director. McCafferty, Owen, 1961- screenwriter. Falconer, Brian J., film prooducer. Neeson, Liam, actor.
Published: 2020
Call Number: DRAMA ORDINARY
Format: Video disc
Summary: Joan and Tom have been married for many years. When Joan is unexpectedly diagnosed with breast cancer, the course of her treatment shines a light on their relationship as they are faced with the challenges that lie ahead and the prospect of what might happen if the best possible outcome doesn't occur.
Author: Eubank, William, film director. Duffield, Brian, screenwriter. Cozad, Adam, screenwriter. Chernin, Peter, 1951- film producer. Topping, Jenno, film producer.
Published: 2020
Call Number: UNDERWAT
Format: Video disc
Summary: A crew of aquatic researchers works to get to safety after an earthquake devastates their subterranean laboratory. But the crew has more than the ocean seabed to fear.
Author: Robinson, Todd, 1958- film director, screenwriter. Jákl, Petr, 1973- film producer Watson, John (John K.), film producer. Bassick, Michael, 1969- film producer Cohen, Adi, 1970- film producer
Published: 2020
Call Number: DRAMA LAST
Format: Video disc
Summary: The true story of William Pitsenbarger, an Air Force medic who saved more than sixty men in one of the bleakest battles of the Vietnam War. Presented the chance to escape on the last helicopter, Pitsenbarger stayed behind to save and defend his comrade in arms. Twenty years later, Pitsenbarger's fellow soldiers and father seek the help of investigator Scott Huffman and other surviving veterans to finally secure him The Congressional Medal of Honor he deserved.
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