Author: Chiaverini, Jennifer, author.
Published: 2025
Call Number: LP F CHIAVERI
Format: Large print
Summary: As fall paints the Pennsylvania countryside in flaming colors, Sylvia Bergstrom Compson is contemplating the future of her beloved Elm Creek Quilts. The Elm Creek Quilt Camp remains the most popular quilter's retreat in the country, but unexpected financial difficulties have beset them and the Bergstrom family's stately nineteenth-century manor. Now in her eighth decade, Sylvia is determined to maintain her family's legacy, but she needs new resources both financial and emotional.
Author: Mahurin, Shelby, author.
Published: 2025
Call Number: Y MAHURIN
Format: Books
Summary: "Celie gave in to the darkness and desire, a decision that may have cost her everything--her title as Chasseur, her fianc, even her life. But, as a vampire, Michal has never let death stop him before--and true love, after all, is eternal. Pick up where the heart-stopping, pulse-pounding events of The Scarlet Veil left off and discover how the duology ends--how the sparks of one heart can bring light to a world of darkness, even after it stops beating"--
Author: Thomson, James (Writer of A better ending), author.
Published: 2025
Call Number: 362.28
Format: Books
Summary: "For fans of We Keep the Dead Close and The Night of the Gun, a propulsive and moving memoir about a brother's decades-long investigation into the circumstances surrounding his sister's tragic death-and his own journey to forgiveness and closure"-- "On a summer evening in 1974, Jim Thomson arrived home from a baseball game to the news that his younger sister, Eileen, had taken her own life. To Jim, his parents, and his brother, Keith, the loss was unexpected and devastating. Only twenty-seven years old, Eileen had been living in California with her high school sweetheart, Vic, a cop, surrounded by a circle of close friends and working at a job she loved. It seemed unfathomable that she would kill herself, but as the family gathered in Pittsburgh to say goodbye, more details emerged that seemed to explain the tragedy: Eileen had confided in her parents that she had been suffering from depression, and her storybook marriage had been plagued by bitter fights, infidelity, and guilt. When Jim eventually sat down with his brother-in-law to talk about the final hours of Eileen?s life, Vic looked him in the eye and explained that he had stormed out of the room in the midst of a volatile argument. Moments later, a gunshot went off. Sensing no lies or evasion, Jim believed him. He recounted the story to the rest of the family, and they got on with their lives as best they could." --Amazon.com
Author: Andrew, Kelly, author.
Published: 2025
Call Number: Y ANDREW
Format: Books
Summary: "Following the death of his father, Thomas Walsh had to grow up quickly, taking on odd-jobs to keep food on the table and help pay his gravely ill mother's medical bills. When he's offered a highly paid position as an interpreter for an heiress who exclusively signs, Thomas -- the hearing child of a Deaf adult -- jumps at the opportunity. But the job is not without its challenges. Thomas is expected toaccompany Vivienne wherever she goes, but from the start, she seems determined to shake him. To make matters worse, her parents keep her on an extremely short leash. She is not to go anywhere without express permission. She is not to deviate from her routine. She is, most importantly, not to be out after dark."--
Author: Chewins, Hayley, author.
Published: 2025
Call Number: Y CHEWINS
Format: Books
Summary: "As far back as anyone can remember, the women of the Strand family have been magical. Their gifts manifest when they each turn fifteen, always in different ways. But Nell Strand knows that her family's magic is a curse. . . . Nell sees the way magic rips her family apart again and again. When Nell's own magic arrives in the form of ladybugs alighting on the keys of her beloved piano, the first thing she feels is joy. . . . But soon enough, the rest come. . . . Worst of all are the wasps. It doesn't matter how deep she buries her rage, the wasps always come"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Rudnick, Paul, author.
Published: 2025
Call Number: F RUDNICK
Format: Books
Summary: A diverse cast of eccentric characters--including a tech billionaire, a flight attendant, a disgraced book editor, and a TikTok rapping Wall Street bro--collide at a lavish private island wedding, where love, chaos and self-discovery intertwine in unexpected ways. "A tech billionaire and the flight attendant he's marrying. A TV superhero who used to be married to the flight attendant. A Manhattan book editor and the sensitivity associate who got him fired. A twenty-three-year-old wild-child prodigy who's perhaps the savior of American literature. A vengeful Arkansas sheriff who sells a vitamin-enriched, ten-pounds-off-today demulsifier. A Wall Street bro who raps on TikTok. Two dentists--possibly stalking each other. What do these people have in common? Invited or not, they're all headed to the most anticipated destination wedding ever, on the billionaire's private island, to seek romance, to cause mayhem, and to figure out everyone else's futures, maybe even their own"--
Author: Gray, R. M. (Rebekah), author.
Published: 2025 2023
Call Number: Y GRAY
Format: Books
Summary: Seventeen-year-old pirate Violet Oberon, seeking revenge for her brother's murder, becomes entangled in a plot to overthrow the royal family while working as a kitchen maid at Bludgrave Manor, where she wrestles with her complex feelings for her captor, Will. "Six hundred years ago, Nightweavers, cursed beings with untamed power, claimed the continents for their own. The ocean was meant to be a safe haven for humanity, including seventeen-year-old Aster Oberon and her pirate family. But after Aster's brother is killed in an epic battle at sea against Nightweavers, Aster and her family are thrust into a new life on land. When a handsome Nightweaver named?Will offers the Oberons protection and work at his opulent estate, Aster is suspicious. As the arrogant and entitled right hand to the wicked prince, Will is everything that she has been taught to hate." --Amazon.com
Author: Rose, Lucy, 1996- author.
Published: 2025
Call Number: F ROSE
Format: Books
Summary: "From an incendiary new talent, a contemporary folktale in which a mother and daughter take in passersby and eat them, exploring queerness, first loves, and tense mother-daughter relationships. Margot and Mama have lived by the forest ever since Margot can remember. They spend quiet days together in their cottage, waiting for strangers to knock on their door. Strays, Mama calls them. People who have strayed too far from the road. Mama loves the strays. She feeds them wine, keeps them warm. Then she picks apart their bodies and toasts them off with some vegetable oil. But Mama's want is stronger than her hunger sometimes, and when a beautiful, white-toothed stray named Eden turns up in the heart of a snowstorm, Margot must face the possibility that her life is changing for good. The Lamb is a folktale, a horror story, a love story, an enchantment. With this teeming, gothic debut, Lucy Rose wrings the relationship between mother and daughter until blood drips from it"--
Author: LaHaye Fontenot, Jordan, 1996- author.
Published: 2025
Call Number: 362.882
Format: Books
Summary: "On January 16, 1983, Aubrey LaHaye's body was found floating in the Bayou Nezpique. His kidnapping ten days before sparked "the biggest manhunt in the history of Evangeline Parish." But his descendants would hear the story as lore, in whispers of the dreadful day the FBI landed a helicopter in the family's rice field and set out on horseback to search for the seventy-year-old banker. Decades later, Aubrey's great-granddaughter Jordan LaHaye Fontenot asked her father, the parish urologist, to tell the full story. He revealed that to this day, every few months, one of his patients will bring up his grandfather's murder, and the man accused of killing him, John Brady Balfa, who remains at Angola Prison serving a life sentence. They'll say, in so many words: "Dr. Marcel, I really don't think that Balfa boy killed your granddaddy." For readers of Maggie Nelson's THE RED PARTS and Emma Copley Eisenberg's THE THIRD RAINBOW GIRL, HOME OF THE HAPPY unravels the layers of suffering borne of this brutal crime-and investigates the mysteries that linger beneath generations of silence. Is it possible that an innocent man languishes in prison, still, wrongly convicted of murdering the author's great-grandfather?"--
Author: Meltzer, Brad, author.
Published: 2025
Call Number: 158
Format: Books
Summary: "Based on bestselling author Brad Meltzer's viral commencement speech for his son's graduating class at the University of Michigan, Make Magic is the little book of hope for anyone who has ever wished for more. More authenticity. More empathy. More gratitude. A more fulfilling life. With charming, thoughtful insights from his remarkable life and career, Meltzer uses magic as allegory, sharing the secret that there are only four types of magic tricks: 1. you make something appear, 2. you make something disappear, 3. you make two things switch places, and 4. you turn one thing into something else-the hardest trick of all, transformation. Embracing each of these easy-to-follow tricks-and unleashing your kindness and empathy-will inspire you to craft a life filled with wonder and awe. Make Magic is an uplifting message from one of today's most inspiring voices"--
Author: Rooks, Noliwe, 1963- author.
Published: 2025
Call Number: 379.2
Format: Books
Summary: "A powerful, incisive reckoning with the impacts of school desegregation that traces four generations of the author's family to show how the implementation of integration decimated Black school systems and did much of the Black community a disservice"-- On May 17, 1954 the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education determined that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional. Heralded as a massive victory for civil rights, the decision's goal was to give Black children equitable access to educational opportunities and clear a path to a better future. Yet in the years following the ruling, schools in predominantly Black neighborhoods were shuttered or saw their funding dwindle, Black educators were fired en masse, and Black children faced discrimination and violence from their white peers as they joined resource-rich schools that were ill-prepared for the influx of new students. Award-winning interdisciplinary scholar of education and Black history Noliwe Rooks weaves together sociological data and cultural history to challenge the idea that integration was a boon for Black children. She tells the story of her grandparents, who were among the thousands of Black teachers fired following the Brown decision; her father, who was traumatized by his experiences at an almost exclusively-white school; her own experiences moving from a flourishing, racially diverse school to an underserved inner-city one; and finally her son and his Black peers, who over half-century after Brown still struggle with hostility and prejudice from white teachers and students alike. She also shows how present-day discrimination lawsuits directly stem from the mistakes made during integration. At once assiduously researched and deeply engaging, Integrated tells the story of how education has remained both a tool for community progress and a seemingly inscrutable cultural puzzle. Rooks' deft hand turns the story of integration's past and future on it's head, and shows how we may better understand and support generations of students to come.
Author: Chiaverini, Jennifer, author.
Published: 2025
Call Number: F CHIAVERI
Format: Books
Summary: "As fall paints the Pennsylvania countryside in flaming colors, Sylvia Bergstrom Compson is contemplating the future of her beloved Elm Creek Quilts. The Elm Creek Quilt Camp remains the most popular quilter's retreat in the country, but unexpected financial difficulties have beset them and the Bergstrom family's stately nineteenth-century manor. Now in her eighth decade, Sylvia is determined to maintain her family's legacy, but she needs new resources--financial and emotional. Summer Sullivan--a founding Elm Creek Quilter--arrives to discuss an antique quilt that she wants to display at the Waterford Historical Society's quilt exhibit. When Sylvia and her sister Claudia were teenagers, they had entered a quilt in the Sears National Quilt Contest for the 1933 Century of Progress Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair. The Bergstrom sisters' quilt would be perfect for the Historical Society's exhibit, Summer explains. Sylvia is reluctant to lend out the quilt, which has been stored in the attic for decades, nearly forgotten. In keeping with the contest's 'Century of Progress' theme, the girls illustrated progress of values--scenes of the Emancipation Proclamation, woman's suffrage, and labor unions. But although it won ribbons, the quilt also drove a wedge between the sisters. As Sylvia reluctantly retraces her quilt's story for Summer, she makes an unexpected discovery--one that restores some of her faith in this unique work of art, and helps shine some light on a way forward for the Elm Creek Quilts community"--
Author: Bourne, Val, 1950- author.
Published: 2025
Call Number: 635
Format: Books
Summary: "A stylish and modern guide to plants that flourish in the extreme weather conditions that have become the new norm. There's nothing more soul-destroying than cultivating your beloved garden with beautiful plants, only to see them die a death from heatwave, frostbite or flooding. In extreme weather, the go-to plants of the past are no longer tough enough to survive and thrive. Enter Tough Plants: 40 of the most irrepressible species that will flourish whatever the weather. With species from across the world, expert advice on planting and garden structure, five perfect partners for each entry and multiple variations for the ultimate garden inspiration, this book is a stylish, practical guide to plants that can literally weather the storm"--Publisher's description.
Author: Nelson, Willie, 1933- author. Nelson, Annie, author. Ritz, David, author. Tangredi, Mia, author. Drummer, Andrea, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: 641.6379
Format: Books
Summary: "In the Nelson family's first ever cookbook, we're cooking with good vibes only. Drawn from their favorite meals on nationwide tours, at the ranch, at home, and in their favorite cities along the way, these recipes have stories to tell--and what better way to enjoy a good meal than with a high-flying tale and a relaxing buzz? Each recipe provides a cannabis kick to ease the mind as much as the body, making their cookbook an exciting, comforting, and lively way to dive into their story, as they draw from meals shared with family, friends, and fans alike. The recipes themselves are delicious and easy to make at home. Buffalo wings, chocolate cake, fried chicken. Only the good stuff. And it includes an additional chapter providing a full suite of cannabis-infused base ingredients--cannabutter, finishing oil, simply syrups, sugars, salts, and tinctures"--
Author: Mometrix Media LLC, publisher, author, editor.
Published: 2024
Call Number: 636.089
Format: Books
Summary: "Mometrix Test Preparation's VTNE Secrets Study Guide is the ideal prep solution for anyone who wants to pass their Veterinary Technician National Exam. The exam is extremely challenging, and thorough test preparation is essential for success. Our study guide includes: Practice test questions with detailed answers,tips and strategies to help you get your best test performance; and a complete review of all VTNE test sections. Mometrix Test Preparation is not affiliated with or endorsed by any official testing organization. All organizational and test names are trademarks of their respective owners. The Mometrix guide is filled with the critical information you will need in order to do well on your VTNE exam: the concepts, procedures, principles, and vocabulary that the American Association of Veterinary State Boards (AAVSB) expects you to have mastered before sitting for your exam" -- Amazon.
Author: Law School Admission Council, author, publisher.
Published: 2024
Call Number: 340.076
Format: Books
Summary: "Before you take the LSAT, you need to be prepared for and familiar with the kinds of questions that will be asked, and you must have accurrate, up-to-date information about categories of questions, scoring, and strategies. Experts from the Law School Admission Council cover all these essentials and more. Discover: Instructions for simulating actual test conditons ; LSAT answer sheets ; Information for converting raw scores to the 120-180 scale."--Back cover.
Author: Kellogg, Kathryn, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: 640.286
Format: Books
Summary: "In America, more than 20 percent of all food waste comes from residential kitchens. Here's how you can make a difference right now. The average family of four spends $1,500 a year on food that they don't eat. It's time to make better choices that can make your kitchen routines better for the planet, more manageable, and even more enjoyable. Not sure where to start or what to do? Kathryn Kellogg shows you how to plan and prep effectively. She provides scores of practical, easy-to-follow tips and recipes"--
Author: Tóibín, Colm, 1955- author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: 818.5409 TOIBIN
Format: Books
Summary: "Colm Tóibín's personal account of encountering James Baldwin's work, published in Baldwin's centenary year. Acclaimed Irish novelist Colm Tóibín first read James Baldwin just after turning eighteen. He had completed his first year at an Irish university and was struggling to free himself from a religious upbringing. He had even considered entering a seminary and was searching for literature that would offer illumination and insight. Inspired by the novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, Tóibín found a writer who would be a lifelong companion and exemplar. From On James Baldwin, Baldwin was interested in the hidden and dramatic areas in his own being, and was prepared as a writer to explore difficult truths about his own private life. In his fiction, he had to battle for the right of his protagonists to choose or influence their destinies. He knew about guilt and rage and bitter privacies in a way that few of his White novelist contemporaries did. And this was not simply because he was Black and homosexual; the difference arose from the very nature of his talent, from the texture of his sensibility. 'All art,' he wrote, 'is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up'. On James Baldwin is a magnificent contemporary author's tribute to one of his most consequential literary progenitors."--
Author: Mometrix Exam Secrets Test Prep Team, author, editor. Mometrix Media LLC, issuing body.
Published: 2024
Call Number: 327.73
Format: Books
Summary: "Mometrix Test Preparation's FSOT Study Guide 2023-2024 - FSOT Prep Secrets is the ideal prep solution for anyone who wants to pass their Foreign Service Officer Test. The exam is extremely challenging, and thorough test preparation is essential for success. Our study guide includes: Practice test questions with detailed answer explanations; Step-by-step video tutorials to help you master difficult concepts; Tips and strategies to help you get your best test performance; A complete review of all FSOT test sections...The Mometrix guide is filled with the critical information you will need in order to do well on your FSOT exam: the concepts, procedures, principles, and vocabulary that the U.S. Department of State expects you to have mastered before sitting for your exam..."--Amazon
Author: Mikics, David, 1961- editor.
Published: 2024
Call Number: 741.59
Format: Books
Summary: A mainstay of countless American childhoods, MAD magazine exploded onto the scene in the 1950s and gleefully thumbed its nose at all the postwar pieties. MAD became the zaniest, most subversive satire magazine ever to be sold on America's newsstands, anticipating the spirit of underground comix and 'zines and influencing humor writing in movies, television, and the internet to this day. Edited by David Mikics, The MAD Files celebrates the magazine's impact and the legacy of the Usual Gang of Idiots who transformed puerile punchlines and merciless mockery into an art form. 26 essays and comics present a varied, perceptive, and often very funny account of MAD's significance, ranging from the cultural to the aesthetic to the personal.
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