Author: Nichols, Cindy, author.
Published: 2020
Call Number: F NICHOLS
Format: Books
Summary: With Jen and Carrie at the beach full time, it's gotten harder by the week for Faith to return to her job inland as a new life has been unfolding for her at the beach on the weekends. Her part time job at the boutique has taken more and more of her time as the owner becomes increasingly scarce. Her daughter, Maggy, has been visiting more frequently, with all the ups and downs that brings. Jen's son, Max, has been spending time in Newport as well, and Faith still holds out hope that Maggy and Max might end up together.
Author: Wall, D. K, author.
Published: 2020
Call Number: PB WALL
Format: Books
Summary: During a raging snowstorm, a deputy rescues a teenager stumbling along the side of a highway. Battered and starving, the boy reveals only his name -- Jaxon with an X. Ten years earlier, six-year-old Jaxon Lathan disappeared from a small North Carolina mountain town. The sheriff thought he had solved the crime, but the boy's return leads to a house of secrets, a mass grave, and the horror of missed opportunities. As the victims are identified one-by-one, the story of what really happened comes to light. While the police piece together the crimes, Jaxon's family struggles to rebuild their relationship with their long-lost son, now a barely recognizable shadow recovering in a hospital bed. His return rekindles the guilt each of them carries about the day he disappeared. Jaxon craves the warmth and love of the family he barely remembers. But why does he deserve to be happy when his best friend from those dark years will never return?
Author: Jenkins-El, Nadira, author. Dujardin, Hélène, photgrapher.
Published: 2020
Call Number: 641.5636
Format: Books
Summary: "If you love classic soul food but are hungry for options that don't rely on meat or dairy, the Vegan Soul Food Cookbook is here to delight your taste buds. It's full of mouthwatering, plant-based versions of comforting favorites like Gumbo, Biscuits and Gravy, and Cajun Fried "Chicken" that are totally vegan but still hearty, delicious, and satisfying. This vegan soul food cookbook features: Authentic flavors for everyone--Dig in to 101 modern twists on soul food staples that use only wholesome, plant-based ingredients. Easy and accessible--These recipes only include vegan ingredients that are affordable, easy to find, and easy to prepare at home. The vegan basics--Get a crash course in what it means to go vegan, how it helps your health (and the environment), and the fundamentals of veganizing comfort foods. Savor a new take on beloved soul food favorites with the Vegan Soul Food Cookbook.
Author: Barnes, Jennifer Lynn author.
Published: 2020
Call Number: Y BARNES
Format: Books
Summary: Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why--or even who Tobias Hawthorne is. To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man's touch--and his love of puzzles, riddles, and codes. Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed. This includes the four Hawthorne grandsons: dangerous, magnetic, brilliant boys who grew up with every expectation that one day, they would inherit billions. Heir apparent Grayson Hawthorne is convinced that Avery must be a con-woman, and he's determined to take her down. His brother, Jameson, views her as their grandfather's last hurrah: a twisted riddle, a puzzle to be solved. Caught in a world of wealth and privilege, with danger around every turn, Avery will have to play the game herself just to survive.
Author: McDiarmid, Jessica, author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: 362.88 MCDIARMI
Format: Books
Summary: In the vein of the astonishing and eye-opening bestsellers "I'll Be Gone in the Dark" and "The Line Becomes a River," this stunning work of investigative journalism follows a series of unsolved disappearances and murders of Indigenous women in rural British Columbia.
Author: Nichols, Cindy, author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: F NICHOLS
Format: Books
Summary: Jen Watson can't believe this trip might be her last at the family beach house in Newport. She finally has a summer all to herself with her kids grown and gone and she's been waiting for this for decades -- she's earned it after raising three boys on her own. Now that she's an empty-nester, the summer is a long stretch of a little bit of work and a lot of fun with her two best friends. They've all raised their kids on the beach, taught them how to swim in the harbor and made sandcastles until well after the sun set. And now it's their turn. A summer project of fixing up the old house sounds fun until things go south. Peeling paint is one thing, but the house is old and needs a little more than just a patch here and there. The rest of the family doesn't want to sink money into any repairs, and Jen and her friends put their heads together to come up with a plan. Faith is teaching summer school and Carrie has her own clinic, but they're ready with hammers, nails and paintbrushes to do what's needed to keep the house in the family -- and create even more memories, no matter what it takes.
Author: Lee, Harper author.
Published: 2015
Call Number: BC LEE
Format: Books
Summary: "Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch -- "Scout"--Returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt. Featuring many of the iconic characters from To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman perfectly captures a young woman, and a world, in a painful yet necessary transition out of the illusions of the past -- a journey that can be guided only by one's conscience. Written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman imparts a fuller, richer understanding and appreciation of Harper Lee. Here is an unforgettable novel of wisdom, humanity, passion, humor, and effortless precision -- a profoundly affecting work of art that is both wonderfully evocative of another era and relevant to our own times. It not only confirms the enduring brilliance of To Kill a Mockingbird, but also serves as its essential companion, adding depth, context, and new meaning to an American classic."--Jacket.
Author: Carlisle, Kate, 1951- author.
Published: 2015 2014
Call Number: LP F CARLISLE
Format: Large print
Summary: Shannon Hammer, owner of a successful home renovation and repair business in the seaside town of Lighthouse Cove in northern California, is the prime suspect in the murder of real estate agent Jerry Saxton. After the two of them go on a disastrous blind date, Jerry's body is found in a run-down Victorian home that Shannon has been hired to restore. The town's attractive new police chief suspects Shannon, who, with the help of her friends, her eccentric father, and a handsome crime writer who's just moved into town, tries to clear her name.
Author: Brown, Daniel James, 1951-
Published: 2013
Call Number: 797.123
Format: Books
Summary: Daniel James Brown's robust book tells the story of the University of Washingtons 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal, a team that transformed the sport and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans.
Author: See, Lisa.
Published: 2010 2009
Call Number: F SEE
Format: Books
Summary: Two sisters leave Shanghai to find new lives in 1930s Los Angeles in this fresh, fascinating adventure.
Author: See, Lisa.
Published: 2007
Call Number: F SEE
Format: Books
Summary: '?I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.? For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, amid the scent of ginger, green tea, and jasmine, a small theatrical troupe is performing scenes from this epic opera, a live spectacle few females have ever seen. Like the heroine in the drama, Peony is the cloistered daughter of a wealthy family, trapped like a good-luck cricket in a bamboo-and-lacquer cage. Though raised to be obedient, Peony has dreams of her own. Peony?s mother is against her daughter?s attending the production: ?Unmarried girls should not be seen in public.? But Peony?s father assures his wife that proprieties will be maintained, and that the women will watch the opera from behind a screen. Yet through its cracks, Peony catches sight of an elegant, handsome man with hair as black as a cave?and is immediately overcome with emotion. So begins Peony?s unforgettable journey of love and destiny, desire and sorrow?as Lisa See?s haunting new novel, based on actual historical events, takes readers back to seventeenth-century China, after the Manchus seize power and the Ming dynasty is crushed. Steeped in traditions and ritual, this story brings to life another time and place?even the intricate realm of the afterworld, with its protocols, pathways, and stages of existence, a vividly imagined place where one?s soul is divided into three, ancestors offer guidance, misdeeds are punished, and hungry ghosts wander the earth. Immersed in the richness and magic of the Chinese vision of the afterlife, transcending even death, Peony in Love explores, beautifully, the many manifestations of love. Ultimately, Lisa See?s new novel addresses universal themes: the bonds of friendship, the power of words, and the age-old desire of women to be heard"--Amazon.
Author: Larson, Erik, 1954-
Published: 2006
Call Number: 364.152
Format: Books
Summary: In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men?Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication?whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time. Set in Edwardian London and on the stormy coasts of Cornwall, Cape Cod, and Nova Scotia, Thunderstruck evokes the dynamism of those years when great shipping companies competed to build the biggest, fastest ocean liners; scientific advances dazzled the public with visions of a world transformed; and the rich outdid one another with ostentatious displays of wealth. Against this background, Marconi races against incredible odds and relentless skepticism to perfect his invention: the wireless, a prime catalyst for the emergence of the world we know today. Meanwhile, Crippen, ?the kindest of men,? nearly commits the perfect murder. With his unparalleled narrative skills, Erik Larson guides us through a relentlessly suspenseful chase over the waters of the North Atlantic. Along the way, he tells of a sad and tragic love affair that was described on the front pages of newspapers around the world, a chief inspector who found himself strangely sympathetic to the killer and his lover, and a driven and compelling inventor who transformed the way we communicate.
Author: Stewart, Joyce, author. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Published: 1995 1988
Call Number: 635.9
Format: Books
Summary: The author briefly traces the history of orchids from their first introductions through modern hybridizing, and presents culturation and propagation information for a wide variety of orchids. Almost half the book is devoted to an A-Z listing of recommended species and hybrids for various conditions.
Author: Miller, David, author. Warren, Richard, author Miller, Izabel Moura, photographer
Published: 1994
Call Number: 584.15
Format: Books
Summary: A detailed account of the rich orchid flora of the Mata Atlantica forests. 230 species from 56 genera, 192 species in colour photographs.
Author: McQueen, James, 1934- McQueen, Barbara, author.
Published: 1992
Call Number: 584.15
Format: Books
Summary: Miniature Orchids have a special attraction for orchard growers with limited space. Provided they are given a spell outdoor, in bad weather many miniatures can be grown to perfection on bright window sills or in sunny rooms. But there is more to miniatures than mere spatial economy, they have a charm all their own and frequently outshine their larger relatives in brilliance of color, diversity of shape, delicacy of perfume and elegance.-- Back cover.
Author: Baynton, Mathew, 1980- creator, actor, screenwriter. Farnaby, Simon, creator, actor, screenwriter. Howe-Douglas, Martha, 1980- creator, actor, screenwriter. Howick, Jim, creator, actor, screenwriter. Rickard, Laurence, 1975- creator, actor, screenwriter.
Published: 2024 2023
Call Number: TV GHOSTS SEASON 4 BRITISH
Format: Video disc
Summary: The crumbling country pile of Button House is home to numerous restless spirits who have died there over the centuries, each ghost very much a product of their time, resigned to squabbling with each other for eternity over the most inane of daily gripes. But their lives, or, rather, afterlives, are thrown into turmoil when a young couple, Alison and Mike, surprisingly inherit the peaceful derelict house and make plans to turn it into a bustling family hotel. As the ghosts attempt to oust the newcomers from their home, and Mike and Alison discover the true scale of the project they've taken on, fate conspires to trap both sides in an impossible house share, where every day is, literally, a matter of life and death.
Author: Baynton, Mathew, 1980- creator, actor. Adefope, Lolly, 1990- actor. Ritchie, Charlotte, 1989- actor. Smith-Bynoe, Kiell, actor. Farnaby, Simon, actor.
Published: 2024
Call Number: TV GHOSTS SEASON 5 BRITISH
Format: Video disc
Summary: "With their guesthouse dream in ashes, Alison and Mike must find a new way to make money from their ailing estate, as a major revelation sees their plight become even more pressing. Meanwhile life (death) goes on for the Ghosts as they investigate Kitty's untimely demise, Food Club loses its appeal, Lady Button discovers hidden talents, and Robin makes a prediction that prompts the Ghosts to consider their pasts and their futures. As the bond between Alison, Mike and the Ghosts deepen, they must all decide what will come next. Laughter, tears and surprises abound as this modern classic draws to a close"--Container insert.
Author: Television adaptation of (work): Endō, Tatsuya, 1980- Supai famiri. English. SPY x FAMILY Project (Firm), production company. Crunchyroll Inc., publisher.
Published: 2024 2022
Call Number: SPY SEASON 1 PART 2 JPN
Format: Video disc
Summary: Now that Twilight has a wife and daughter, the next phase of his mission begins. But with clairvoyant dogs, secret police brother-in-laws, and love-obsessed spies, can he keep his cover amid the chaos? Peace between the East and the West demands it!
Author: Libii, Kobi, 1980- film director, screenwriter, film producer. Lebedev, Julia, film producer. Vaisman, Eddie, film producer. López, Angel (Film producer), film producer. Smith, Justice, 1995- actor.
Published: 2024
Call Number: AMERICAN
Format: Video disc
Summary: The American Society of Magical Negroes is a fresh, satirical comedy about a young man, Aren, who is recruited into a secret society of magical Black people who dedicate their lives to a cause of utmost importance: making white people's lives easier.
Author: Miyazaki, Hayao, 1941- film director, screenwriter. Suzuki, Toshio, 1948 August 19- film producer. Hisaishi, Jō, 1950- composer (expression) Yonezu, Kenshi, composer, lyricist, performer. Santoki, Soma, 2005- voice actor.
Published: 2024 2023
Call Number: BOY JPN BLU-RAY
Format: Video disc
Summary: A young boy named Mahito yearning for his mother ventures into a world shared by the living and the dead. There, death comes to an end, and life finds a new beginning. A semi-autobiographical fantasy about life, death, and creation, in tribute to friendship, from the mind of Hayao Miyazaki.
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