Author: Gray, John, 1948- author.
Published: 2018
Call Number: 211.809 GRAY
Format: Books
Summary: The public debate on atheism is often corroded by a shrill, narrow derision of religion in the name of an often vaguely understood 'science.' Gray provides a stimulating description of the complex world of older atheisms; a tradition that is, he writes, in many ways intertwined with and as rich as religion itself. He explores a spectrum that ranges from the convictions of 'God-haters' to the search for truth in mathematics, to secular political religions like Jacobinism and Nazism. In exploring the questions of salvation, purpose, progress, and evil, Gray sheds light on what it is to be human. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Zoboi, Ibi Aanu, author. Adaptation of (work): Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Pride and prejudice.
Published: 2018
Call Number: Y ZOBOI
Format: Books
Lexile Measure 760
Summary: Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley. She especially can't stand the judgmental and arrogant Darius. Yet as Zuri and Darius are forced to find common ground, their initial dislike shifts into an unexpected understanding. But with four wild sisters pulling her in different directions, cute boy Warren vying for her attention, and college applications hovering on the horizon, Zuri fights to find her place in Bushwick's changing landscape, or lose it all. In a timely update of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, critically acclaimed author Ibi Zoboi skillfully balances cultural identity, class, and gentrification against the heady magic of first love in her vibrant re-imagining of this beloved classic. -- From dust jacket.
Author: Spiegelman, Erica, author. Stone, Marsha, author.
Published: 2017
Call Number: 616.86
Format: Books
Summary: "Offering practical applications and everyday guidance, The Rewired Workbook takes the breakthrough addiction recovery method of best-selling book Rewired by Erica Spiegelman and expands on it, providing new and improved ways to rewire your brain and restore your health. The Rewired Workbook helps readers to discover new healing strategies and coping methods ideally suited for those trying to achieve true and lasting sobriety. Featuring discussion questions, group and individual activities, and intuitive self-inventories to help you better understand your addiction, the workbook provides a framework healing for those in addiction recovery. An essential companion piece to Rewired and a guide to anyone wanting to work through their addiction and rewire their mind, The Rewired Workbook is the brand new solution for beating addiction for good"--Amazon.com.
Author: Pullman, Philip, 1946- author.
Published: 2017
Call Number: Y PUL
Format: Books
Summary: When Malcolm finds a secret message inquiring about a dangerous substance called Dust, he finds himself embroiled in a tale of intrigue featuring enforcement agents from the Magisterium, a woman with an evil monkey daemon, and a baby named Lyra. First volume in the Book of Dust trilogy.
Author: Campbell, Michele, 1962- author.
Published: 2017
Call Number: F CAMPBELL
Format: Books
Summary: "Kate, Aubrey, and Jenny. They first met as college roommates and soon became inseparable, even though they are as different as three women can be. Twenty years later, one of them is standing at the edge of a bridge, and someone else is urging them to jump. How did things come to this? As the novel cuts back and forth between their college years and their adult years, you see the exact reasons why these women love and hate each other--but can feelings that strong lead to murder? Or will everyone assume, as is often the case, that it's always the husband?"--
Author: Cermele, Joe, author.
Published: 2017 2013
Call Number: 799.1
Format: Books
Summary: When it comes to fishing, nobody knows more than the writers and editors at Field & Stream magazine--unless it's the local guides, prizewinners, and other experts they interviewed for this book. The Total Fishing Manual is chock full of 318 field-tested tools, techniques and tactics, collected and written by the Field & Stream editors and accompanied by amazing photos and handy illustrations. GEAR UP: How to pick the best lures, baits, flies, and tackle for every situation and every style of water you plan to fish. Learn how to customize your rod and reel, and to get the most out of your equipment. HIT THE WATER: From small streams to major rivers, ponds to big lakes, and bays to the open ocean, hundreds of field-tested strategies will help you catch more fish with or without a boat. FIND THE FISH: Professional fishing guides from across the country tell you how and where to find lunker bass, trophy walleyes, huge trout, and more--right in your home waters. SET THE HOOK: Whether you're bobber fishing for bluegills with the kids or heading out after the muskie of a lifetime, the techniques and tactics in this book will make your trip a success. Whether you're a beginner, a weekend angler or a serious sport fisher this book has the information you need to hook'em.
Author: Cornwall, Claudia Maria, author.
Published: 2016
Call Number: 616.99
Format: Books
Summary: Melanoma is a deadly disease, and rates of diagnosis have been rising for the last 30 years. This story of one couple's battle to beat melanoma illustrates how a new treatment, immunotherapy, can defeat even aggressive forms of the disease. With vivid firsthand accounts from their diaries, as well as Claudia's intimate narrative of the ups and downs of cancer treatment, this book will be a ready resource for melanoma patients and their families.
Author: Livingstone, Natalie, author.
Published: 2016 2015
Call Number: 942.0099
Format: Books
Summary: "For fans of Downton Abbey comes an immersive historical epic about a lavish English manor and a dynasty of rich and powerful women who ruled the estate over three centuries of misbehavior, scandal, intrigue, and passion. Five miles from Windsor Castle, home of the royal family, sits the Cliveden estate. Overlooking the Thames, the mansion is flanked by two wings and surrounded by lavish gardens. Throughout its storied history, Cliveden has been a setting for misbehavior, intrigue, and passion--from its salacious, deadly beginnings in the seventeenth century to the 1960s Profumo Affair, the sex scandal that toppled the British government. Now, in this immersive chronicle, the manor's current mistress, Natalie Livingstone, opens the doors to this prominent house and lets the walls do the talking. Built during the reign of Charles II by the Duke of Buckingham, Cliveden attracted notoriety as a luxurious retreat in which the duke could conduct his scandalous affair with the ambitious courtesan Anna Maria, Countess of Shrewsbury. In 1668, Anna Maria's cuckolded husband, the Earl of Shrewsbury, challenged Buckingham to a duel. Buckingham killed Shrewsbury and claimed Anna Maria as his prize, making her the first mistress of Cliveden. Through the centuries, other enigmatic and indomitable women would assume stewardship over the estate, including Elizabeth, Countess of Orkney and illicit lover of William III, who became one of England's wealthiest women; Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, the queen that Britain was promised and then denied; Harriet, Duchess of Sutherland, confidante of Queen Victoria and a glittering society hostess turned political activist; and the American-born Nancy Astor, the first female member of Parliament, who described herself as an 'ardent feminist' and welcomed controversy. Though their privileges were extraordinary, in Livingstone's hands, their struggles and sacrifices are universal. Cliveden weathered renovation and restoration, world conflicts and cold wars, societal shifts and technological advances. Rich in historical and architectural detail, The Mistresses of Cliveden is a tale of sex and power, and of the exceptional women who evaded, exploited, and confronted the expectations of their times; Praise for The Mistresses of Cliveden: 'An utterly fascinating and completely beguiling account of three centuries of high living, high politics, and high drama at one of Britain's most famous stately homes. A page-turner from start to finish, it's history with all the good stuff left in'--Amanda Foreman, author of A World on Fire; 'A wonderful voyage through the fascinating history of Cliveden--this is a brilliant book full of gripping personalities and beautiful detail'--Kate Williams, author of Ambition and Desire"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Adams, Richard, 1920-2016 author.
Published: 2005
Call Number: F ADAMS
Format: Books
Summary: An allegorical tale of survival about a band of wild rabbits who leave their ancestral home to build a more humane society chronicles their adventures as they search for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace.
Call Number: YA BABA
Format: Books
Call Number: YA BABA
Format: Books
Author: Grunberg, Adrian, film director. Cirulnick, Matt, screenwriter. Stallone, Sylvester, screenwriter, actor. Gordon, Dan, 1947- screenwriter. Lerner, Avi, 1947- film producer.
Published: 2019
Call Number: ACTION RAMBO
Format: Video disc
Summary: Former U.S. soldier John Rambo has settled into a peaceful retirement on his father's ranch after years of fighting and facing his PTSD. But the desire for revenge urges him to travel to Mexico, where he confronts a drug cartel. He quickly finds that his past has caught up with him. As the cartel chases him down, Rambo must use all his deadly combat skills to enact vengeance. With his trusty machete and bow, he prepares to draw the last blood for his final great mission.
Author: Gray, James, 1969- film director, screenwriter, film producer. Gross, Ethan, screenwriter. Pitt, Brad, 1963- film producer, actor. Gardner, Dede, film producer. Kleiner, Jeremy, film producer.
Published: 2019
Call Number: AD
Format: Video disc
Summary: Army Corps engineer and astronaut Roy McBride is searching for answers in the depths of space. Twenty years ago, Roy's father went in search of proof of the existence of extraterrestrial life on Neptune during a one-way mission. The mission was designated officially as a failure. Roy searches the solar system for the truth about both his father's mission and a recent mystery that has unfolded that threatens Earth. What Roy doesn't know is that this journey will do more than test him physically and mentally. The answers he finds will challenge everything he understands about the existence of humans.
Author: Sullivan, Chris, 1980- actor. Marshall-Green, Logan, 1976- film director. Hawke, Ethan, 1970- actor. Hendrix, Elaine, 1970- actor. RLJ Entertainment, film distributor.
Published: 2019
Call Number: ADOPT
Format: Video disc
Summary: Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a third strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn't recognize, including trying to learn how to use the internet, he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast-food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between impulses of kindness and panic, Russ soon realizes this could be his chance at redemption.
Author: Fitch, Anna, film director. Allen, David (Documentary filmmaker), film producer, screenwriter. Scheel, David, narrator. Passion Planet (Firm), production company. Thirteen Productions, production company.
Published: 2019
Call Number: 594.56
Format: Video disc
Summary: Visits marine biology professor David Scheel, who has hosted an octopus in his home. Examines Octopus behaviors and traits, focusing on the relationship that evolves between Heidi the octopus and Dr. Scheel and his teenage daughter.
Author: McCarthy, Tom, 1966- screenwriter, creator. Metcalf, Alex, screenwriter, creator. Isaac, Tamara, television producer. Barnes, Agatha, television producer. Crowe, Russell, 1964- actor.
Published: 2019
Call Number: LOUDEST
Format: Video disc
Summary: Seven-part limited series about Roger Ailes, the founder of Fox News. It focuses on the past decade which Ailes arguably became the Republican Party's de facto leader, and the sexual harassment accusations that brought his career to an end.
Author: Utt, Hannah Pearl, actor, film director, screenwriter. Tullock, Jen, screenwriter, actor. Mayeri, Ayden, actor. Qian, Ruibo, actor. Light, Judith, 1949- actor.
Published: 2019
Call Number: BEFORE
Format: Video disc
Summary: A pair of sisters find out that the mother they thought was dead is alive and starring on a soap opera. Rachel is a level-headed stage manager who keeps the family balanced and Jackie is an off-kilter actress.
Author: Schor, Paul, author.
Published: 2020 2017
Call Number: 317.3 SCHOR
Format: Books
Summary: "How could the same person be classified by the US census as black in 1900, mulatto in 1910, and white in 1920? The history of categories used by the US census reflects a country whose identity and self-understanding--particularly its social construction of race--is closely tied to the continuous polling on the composition of its population. By tracing the evolution of the categories the United States used to count and classify its population from 1790 to 1940, Paul Schor shows that, far from being simply a reflection of society or a mere instrument of power, censuses are actually complex negotiations between the state, experts, and the population itself. The census is not an administrative or scientific act, but a political one. Counting Americans is a social history exploring the political stakes that pitted various interests and groups of people against each other as population categories were constantly redefined. Utilizing new archival material from the Census Bureau, this study pays needed attention to the long arc of contested changes in race and census-making. It traces changes in how race mattered in the United States during the era of legal slavery, through its fraught end, and then during (and past) the period of Jim Crow laws, which set different ethnic groups in conflict. And it shows how those developing policies also provided a template for classifying Asian groups and white ethnic immigrants from southern and eastern Europe--and how they continue to influence the newly complicated racial imaginings informing censuses in the second half of the twentieth century and beyond. Focusing in detail on slaves and their descendants, on racialized groups and on immigrants, and on the troubled imposition of U.S. racial categories upon the populations of newly acquired territories, Counting Americans demonstrates that census-taking in the United States has been at its core a political undertaking shaped by racial ideologies that reflect its violent history of colonization, enslavement, segregation and discrimination.
Author: Perry, Thomas, 1947- author.
Published: 2020
Call Number: F PERRY
Format: Books
Summary: "In A Small Town, twelve conspirators meticulously plan to throw open all the gates to the prison that contains them, so that more than a thousand convicts may escape and pour into the nearby small town. The newly freed prisoners rape, murder, and destroy the town-burning down homes and businesses. An immense manhunt ensues, but the twelve who plotted it all get away. After two years, all efforts by the local and federal police agencies have been in vain. The mayor and city attorney meet, and Leah Hawkins, a six-foot, two-inch former star basketball player and resident good cop, is placed on sabbatical so that she can tour the country learning advanced police procedures. The sabbatical is merely a ruse, however, as her real job is to track the infamous twelve. And kill them. Leah's mission takes her across the country, from Florida to New York, from California to an anti-government settlement deep in the Ozarks. Soon, the surviving fugitives realize what she is up to, and a race to kill or be killed ensues. Full of exhilarating twists and surprisingly resonant, A Small Town will sweep readers along on Leah's quest for vengeance"--
Author: Thiel, Kristin, 1977- author.
Published: 2020
Call Number: Y 613.9 THIEL
Format: Books
Summary: Though teen birth rates have fallen in recent years, the issue of teen pregnancy remains a pressing topic. Each year, more than two hundred thousand babies are born to teen parents. This guide presents an objective and respectful look at both how to prevent teen pregnancy and how to thrive as a teen parent. This book emphasizes making informed health decisions and also demonstrates the importance of a high school and college education for teen parents.
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