Author: McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948- author. Published: 2019 Call Number: F MCCALLSM Format: Books Summary: "In the latest book in the widely beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Precious Ramotswe takes on a case for a childhood acquaintance but her inquiries will require an even more delicate touch than usual. Mma Ramotswe reconnects with an old friend who has been having problems with her daughter. Though Precious feels compelled to lend a hand, she discovers that getting involved in family affairs is always a delicate proposition. Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni finds himself embroiled in familial drama as well, when one of his clients asks for help evicting an unwanted houseguest who turns out to be the man's own brother. Elsewhere, Charlie and Fanwell are also involved in tricky matters of the heart, as Queenie-Queenie, Charlie's girlfriend, seems to have transferred her affections to Fanwell. It's up to Mma Makutsi to set things right, but she may be be too distracted by her nemesis Violet Sephotho, who has somehow been appointed to the board of a charity. What is Violet up to now? As all of these mysteries are unraveled, Mma Ramotswe and the entire No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency will be reminded of the value of tried-and-true wisdom--never judge a book by its cover"--
Author: Galvan, Liz Marie, author. Vandenberg, Anna, photographer. Published: 2019 Call Number: 747 Format: Books Summary: "Create a cozy corner of the world that you long to come home to. In Cozy White Cottage, Liz Marie Galvan of the Liz Marie Blog shares one hundred of her best home décor tips, budget-friendly tricks, and project how-tos for adding comfort and warmth to every room in your house. Whether you live in a fixer-upper farmhouse, a modern urban flat, or a rented townhouse, Liz will inspire you with ways to bring cozy cottage style into your life today. Let Liz's room-by-room tips and inspiration help you create the sanctuary you long for so you can love the feeling of being at home."--Page [4] of cover.
Published: 2019 Call Number: 616.02 Format: Books Summary: Peterson's Master™ the EMT Certification Exam is a comprehensive source that offers the essential test prep needed to help readers score their best on the qualifying exam to become an emergency medical technician. This new edition covers all of the segment categories on the test itself as well as CPR, shock, and incident management. Also provided are valuable techniques to physically and mentally prepare for the exam, tips to manage your study time, and ways to reduce test anxiety so that you can focus and do your absolute best.
Author: Funderburg, Lise, author. Published: 2019 Call Number: 814.009 Format: Books Summary: "Apple, Tree features a slate of compelling, original essays that eloquently consider a trait they've each inherited from a parent, exploring how it affects the lives they lead today, how it shifts their relationship, and how it changes their sense of self." --
Author: Goyoaga, Aran, author, photographer. Published: 2019 Call Number: 641.5 Format: Books Summary: "As a cook, food stylist, and photographer, Aran Goyoaga has earned fans around the globe who flock to her Instagram feed not only for delicious photos of food, but also for glimpses into her life. In this new book, Aran invites us into her kitchen to share her naturally gluten-free recipes, style, and ideas for nourishing herself, her family, and her friends. Aran's cooking mirrors her lifelong path to self-care which is all about simplicity and renewal. She believes in sharing daily meals with her family and inviting friends to gather without fuss. In uncertain times, she also finds joy and comfort in her kitchen where she prepares family-friendly modern foods that are free from the pressure of perfection and unnecessary steps and ingredients. Recipes take us through the day where you might start off with spicy carrot, grapefruit, and sunflower juice or soft-cooked eggs with greens and dukkah. For lunch, there is tomato, corn, and bread salad or peas and ham with buttermilk dressing. There are everyday dinners like spaghetti and meatballs or braised chicken with apples and cider, or something light like crispy chickpeas with rice, sweet potato, avocados, and greens. You'll also find a baking chapter with recipes for the kind of tender and delicious gluten-free baked goods Aran is known for, like sourdough bread, caramelized onion and fennel biscuits, and apple tarte tatin (and flour substitutions for those who aren't gluten-free). There is also a special chapter with complete menus for larger gatherings and another with suggestions and ideas for making your home a welcoming space with flowers, linens, tableware, lighting, and music. Everything comes together with ease in the kitchen and around the table in this gorgeous cookbook that also includes over 100 photos shot and styled by Aran"-- "A cookbook from Basque-born Aran Goyoaga, who is an award-winning author, photographer, and professionally trained pastry chef. Her food blog of the same name, Cannelle et Vanille, is a two-time James Beard finalist"--
Author: Flay, Bobby, author. Banyas, Stephanie, author. Jackson, Sally, 1978- author. Published: 2019 Call Number: 641.5 Format: Books Summary: Celebrity chef Flay (Boy Meets Grill, etc.) returns with what he calls his most personal cookbook yet: the recipes he shares with friends and family at his apartment in New York and house in the Hamptons. Several of those friends, as well as co-writers and assistants, offer recipes, inspiration, or ingredients throughout: there are brownies and coffee cake, as well as Johnny Cake Waffles with cactus pear syrup, bananas, and blackberries from Flay's pastry chef, and a Calabrian chile crab spaghetti (friend Jimmy Ventura sends Flay 60 pounds of crab claws annually). Flay includes recipes from his previous cookbooks, restaurants, and shows, but even if it feels a bit like he's coasting, he still presents plenty of excellent recipes:
Author: Thayer, Nancy, 1943- author. Published: 2019 Call Number: F THAYER Format: Books Summary: Christina Antonioni is preparing for the holidays at her Nantucket toy shop, unpacking last-minute shipments and decorating for her loyal Christmas shoppers. But when her Scrooge of a landlord, Oscar Bittlesman, raises her rent, it seems nearly impossible for Christina to continue business on the wharf. Even so, Christina hopes there is a warm heart underneath Oscar's steely exterior. When she bonds with Wink, his sweet, young granddaughter who frequents the shop, it becomes clear that perhaps he isn't so cold after all. And with the help of Wink's uncle, who happens to be a charming and very handsome bachelor, this may be the best Christmas any of them could have ever imagined. Nancy Thayer's enchanting Nantucket setting provides the perfect backdrop for this holiday love story.
Author: Christie, Judy Pace, 1956- author. Wingate, Lisa, author. Published: 2019 Call Number: 362.73 Format: Books Summary: "From the 1920s through 1950, Georgia Tann ran a black-market baby business at the Tennessee Children's Home Society in Memphis. She offered up more than 5,000 orphans tailored to the wish lists of eager parents--hiding the fact that many weren't orphans at all, but stolen children of poor families, desperate single mothers, and women told in maternity words that their babies died. The publication of Lisa Wingate's novel Before We Were Yours brought new awareness of Tann's lucrative career in child trafficking. Adoptees who knew little about their pasts gained insight into the startling facts behind their family histories. Encouraged by their contact with Wingate and award-winning journalist Judy Christie, who documented the fifteen family stories in this book, many determined survivors set out to trace their roots and find their families. Often raised by older parents as only children, many have joyfully reunited with siblings in the final decades of their lives. Wingate and Christie tell of first meetings that are all the sweeter and more intense for time missed, and of families from very different social backgrounds reaching out to embrace better-late-than-never brothers, sisters, and cousins. In a poignant culmination of art-meets-life, long silent victims of the tragically corrupt system return to Memphis with the authors to reclaim their stories at a Tennessee Children's Home Society reunion . . . with extraordinary results"--
Author: Raza, Azra, author. Published: 2019 Call Number: 616.994 Format: Books Summary: A world-class oncologist delivers a devastating and deeply personal examination of cancer, offering a searing account of how both medicine and society (mis)treats cancer, how people can do better, and why they must.
Author: Mallery, Susan, author. Published: 2019 Call Number: F MALLERY Format: Books Summary: "Wedding coordinator Renee Grothen isn't meant for marriage. Those who can, do. Those who can't, plan. But she never could have planned on gorgeous, talented thriller writer Jasper Dembenski proposing--a fling, that is. Fun without a future. And the attraction between them is too strong for Renee to resist. Now she can have her no-wedding cake ... and eat it, too. After years in the military, Jasper is convinced he's too damaged for relationships. So a flirtation--and more--with fiery, determined Renee is way too good to pass up ... until his flame becomes his muse. Renee is an expert at averting every crisis. But is she finally ready to leap into the one thing that can never be controlled: love?"--
Author: Woods, Stuart, author. Published: 2019 Call Number: F WOODS Format: Books Summary: "Stone Barrington must trap a ruthless defector in this heart-stopping thriller from fan favorite Stuart Woods"-- Stone Barrington is trying to enjoy some downtime at his English retreat when he's unceremoniously sent off to the remote reaches of the UK and into a deadly snare. As it turns out, this is only the first volley by a rival power, one that has its eyes set on disrupting the peace of the nation. With the help of two brilliant and stunning women, Stone must leverage a new position of power to capture a villain with a lethal agenda. But the closer he comes to nabbing the culprit, the more he realizes there's a bigger plan at work, and a true mastermind who's a force to be reckoned with . . .
Author: Harnetiaux, Trish, author. Published: 2019 Call Number: F HARNETIA Format: Books Summary: "A crackling Christmas mystery that combines murder and blackmail at a holiday office party,"--
Author: Smith, Andrew (Andrew Anselmo), 1959- author. Published: 2019 Call Number: Y SMITH Format: Books Summary: Arek, having lived his sixteen years in a hole with his small family, sets out into a monster-filled world with his friend Mel to find his fathers and, perhaps, another human.
Author: Peterson's (Firm) Published: 2019 Call Number: 351.076 Format: Books Summary: "5 full-length practice tests (including a diagnostic test) with detailed answer explanations; latest information on applying for federal, state, and local government jobs; comprehensive review and practice for the most-tested civil service exam question types"--Cover.
Author: Connelly, Michael, 1956- author. Published: 2019 Call Number: LP F CONNELLY Format: Large print Summary: Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case. Now that mentor, John Jack Thompson, is dead, but after his funeral his widow hands Bosch a murder book that Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD 20 years before -- the unsolved killing of a troubled young man in an alley used for drug deals. Bosch brings the murder book to Renee Ballard and asks her to help him find what about the case lit Thompson's fire all those years ago. That will be their starting point. The bond between Bosch and Ballard tightens as they become a formidable investigation team. And they soon arrive at a worrying question: Did Thompson steal the murder book to work the case in retirement, or to make sure it never got solved?
Author: McKinlay, Jenn, author. Published: 2019 Call Number: LP F MCKINLAY Format: Large print Summary: "Lindsey Norris is finally getting married to the man of her dreams--but it's not all roses for Briar Creek's beloved library director, as gardening enthusiast and town newcomer Aaron Grady gives the term "book lover" a whole new meaning. Inappropriate looks and unwelcome late-night visits to Lindsey's house have everyone--from the crafternooners to Lindsey's fiancé, Sully--on edge. When Grady's dead body is found staged outside the library and all the clues point to Sully, Lindsey knows it's up to her to dig through the hidden chapters of Grady's previous life to find the real culprit and clear Sully's name. But becoming a thorn in the killer's side is not without its consequences, and the closer Lindsey gets to the truth, the more determined the murderer is to make her just a footnote."--Back cover.
Author: Connelly, Michael, 1956- author. Published: 2019 Call Number: F CONNELLY Format: Books Summary: Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case. Now that mentor, John Jack Thompson, is dead, but after his funeral his widow hands Bosch a murder book that Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD 20 years before -- the unsolved killing of a troubled young man in an alley used for drug deals. Bosch brings the murder book to Renee Ballard and asks her to help him find what about the case lit Thompson's fire all those years ago. That will be their starting point. The bond between Bosch and Ballard tightens as they become a formidable investigation team. And they soon arrive at a worrying question: Did Thompson steal the murder book to work the case in retirement, or to make sure it never got solved?
Author: DeMille, Nelson, author. DeMille, Alex, author. Published: 2019 Call Number: F DEMILLE Format: Books Summary: When Captain Kyle Mercer of the Army's elite Delta Force disappeared from his post in Afghanistan, a video released by his Taliban captors made international headlines. But circumstances were murky: Did Mercer desert before he was captured? Then a second video sent to Mercer's Army commanders leaves no doubt: the trained assassin and keeper of classified Army intelligence has willfully disappeared. When Mercer is spotted two years later in Caracas, Venezuela by an old army buddy, top military brass task Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor of the Criminal Investigation Division fly to Venezuela and bring Mercer back to America, dead or alive. Brodie knows this is a difficult mission, made more difficult by his new partner's inexperience and by his suspicion that Maggie Taylor is reporting to the CIA.
Author: Lauren, Christina, author. Published: 2019 Call Number: F LAUREN Format: Books Summary: "Sam Brandis was Tate Jones's first: Her first love. Her first everything. Including her first heartbreak. During a whirlwind two-week vacation abroad, Sam and Tate fell for each other in only the way that first loves do: sharing all of their hopes, dreams, and deepest secrets along the way. Sam was the first, and only, person that Tate--the long-lost daughter of one of the world's biggest film stars--ever revealed her identity to. So when it became clear her trust was misplaced, her world shattered for good. Fourteen years later, Tate, now an up-and-coming actress, only thinks about her first love every once in a blue moon. When she steps onto the set of her first big break, he's the last person she expects to see. Yet here Sam is, the same charming, confident man she knew, but even more alluring than she remembered. Forced to confront the man who betrayed her, Tate must ask herself if it's possible to do the wrong thing for the right reason... and whether "once in a lifetime" can come around twice."--Amazon.com.
Author: Sinek, Simon, author. Published: 2019 Call Number: 658.4 Format: Books Summary: How do we win a game that has no end? Finite games, like football or chess, have known players, fixed rules and a clear endpoint. The winners and losers are easily identified. Infinite games, games with no finish line, like business or politics, or life itself, have players who come and go. The rules of an infinite game are changeable while infinite games have no defined endpoint. There are no winners or losers--only ahead and behind. The question is, how do we play to succeed in the game we're in? In this revelatory new book, Simon Sinek offers a framework for leading with an infinite mindset. On one hand, none of us can resist the fleeting thrills of a promotion earned or a tournament won, yet these rewards fade quickly. In pursuit of a Just Cause, we will commit to a vision of a future world so appealing that we will build it week after week, month after month, year after year. Although we do not know the exact form this world will take, working toward it gives our work and our life meaning. Leaders who embrace an infinite mindset build stronger, more innovative, more inspiring organizations. Ultimately, they are the ones who lead us into the future.
