Author: Forster, Gwynne. Published: 2002 Call Number: F FORSTER Format: Books Summary: "With a young daughter to support, recently divorced Alexis Stevenson jumps at the chance to become home manager for wealthy businessman Telford harrington and his two brothers. Though she knows it won't be easy turning their bachelor mansion into a home, she is determined to handle any obstacles, while maintaining an independent life for herself and her daughter." -- Back cover.
Author: Whitehead, Colson, 1969- Published: 1999 Call Number: F WHITEHEA Format: Books Summary: An elevator inspector becomes the center of controversy when an elevator crashes. The inspector, Lila Mae Watson, is a black woman who inspects by intuition, as opposed to visual observation, and now she must prove her method was not at fault. A study of society's attitude to technology and a debut in fiction.
Author: King, Stephen, 1947- Published: 1975 Call Number: F KING Format: Books Summary: The town knew darkness ... and the awful, heavy silence of terrifying images grotesquely dancing in and out of the shadows ... and stark white faces, huge empty eyes and long gnarled hands that reached out with lustful insistence ... and the paralyzing fear of a diabolical corruption and a hideous peril more dreadful than death.
Author: Eggers, Dave, author. Published: 2019 Call Number: F EGGERS Format: Books Summary: A spare, powerful, timeless parable of two men, Western contractors sent to work far from home, tasked with paving a road to the capital in a dangerous and largely lawless country. "Four and Nine are partners, working for the same company, sent without passports to a nation recovering from ten years of civil war. Together, operating under pseudonyms and anonymous to potential kidnappers, they are given a new machine, the RS-90, and tasked with building a highway that connects the country's far-flung villages with the capital. Four, nicknamed the Clock, is one of the company's most experienced operators, never falling short of his assigned schedule. He drives the RS-90, stopping only to sleep and eat the food provided by the company. But Nine is an agent of chaos: speeding ahead on his vehicle, chatting and joking with locals, eating at nearby bars and roadside food stands, he threatens the schedule, breaks protocol, and endangers the work that they must complete in time for a planned government parade. His every action draws Four's ire, but when illness, corruption, and theft compromise their high-stakes mission, Four and Nine discover danger far greater than anything they could pose to each other."--
Author: Subramanian, Mathangi, 1980- author. Published: 2019 Call Number: F SUBRAMAN Format: Books Summary: "In Bangalore, India, five young women fight to save their homes, which are really only shacks and lean-tos, in a slum named "Heaven," which the city wants to bulldoze in order to accommodate its growing tech industry"--
Author: Reinhardt, Dana, author. Published: 2019 Call Number: F REINHARD Format: Books Summary: "A private Mexican villa is the backdrop to a hilarious, smart story of a milestone vacation in a tropical paradise gone wrong, wrong, wrong Two families arrive in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, for a once-in-a-lifetime vacation. The resort town is known for its stunning views, exotic wildlife, and welcoming locals, and Jenna has organized the trip to celebrate her husband's fiftieth birthday--she's been looking forward to it for months. Their friends the Solomons, can be overbearing at times, but Jenna is sure everything is going to be just perfect--and the margarita refills delivered by the house staff certainly don't hurt, either. What could go wrong? Yet as the families settle into their vacation routines, their best friends suddenly seem like annoying strangers, and even Jenna's reliable husband, Peter, seems to be staying up late with his friend Solly and sharing clandestine phone calls with someone--but who? Jenna's teenage daughter, Clem, is spending an awful lot of time with Malcolm, Solly's son, whose questionable rep got him expelled from school. Jenna's dream of the ultimate celebration begins to crack and eventually crumbles completely, leaving her wondering whom she can trust, and whether her privileged life is about to be changed forever"--
Author: Gottfried, Sara, author. Published: 2019 Call Number: 610 Format: Books Summary: "New York Times bestselling author and Harvard-MIT educated women's health expert, Sara Gottfried, M.D., delivers a revolutionary program to prevent and reverse the myriad symptoms and diseases that result from an unhealthy connection between the brain and the body"-- "While we often think of weight gain, anxiety, digestive trouble, and disease prevention as separate issues, these and other minor and chronic symptoms are actually the result of one root cause: a malfunction in the connection between the brain and the body. For the first time, America's most trusted women's health physician, Dr. Sara Gottfried, offers cutting-edge science and practical prescriptions to restore the critical signals between brain and body systems. Designed for the female brain--which is medically unique from the male brain--the breakthrough protocol in the Brain Body Diet will help you: change the set point in the brain that makes it difficult to lose weight; clear out toxins that generate negative habits and obsessions, and that increase your risk of cognitive impairment; recover the gray matter lost from pregnancy and/or excess alcohol; regain and stabilize mental health and prevent burnout, depression, and anxiety; solve sleep issues; and reclaim the balance in your gut flora that prevents inflammation, autoimmunity, and weight gain. Filled with incredible success stories, the most up-to-date scientific research, and the rich insights that are the hallmarks of her previous bestsellers, Brain Body Diet is the solution you have been searching for and the key to achieving lasting health."--Dust jacket.
Author: Dean, Janice, 1970- author. Published: 2019 Call Number: B DEAN Format: Books Summary: Fox & Friends meteorologist Janice Dean explains how she purposefully finds the silver lining in every cloud, no matter what challenge she faces. Janice is well-known for the infectious joy she brings to segments on Fox & Friends, no matter the weather. Yet many of her fans know there's more to her story than blizzards that are brewing or National Pancake Day celebrations. In this honest yet optimistic book, Janice reveals obstacles she's faced that could have severely impacted any professional woman's career, from online trolls to health issues to abusive and sexist bosses. In Mostly Sunny, she talks about it all, including the fateful path meeting her firefighting husband after he lost his colleagues on 9/11; the day she had to talk to her two small children about her multiple sclerosis; and how the pressure on women in television led her to a cosmetic procedure that could have ended her career. But no matter what storms life throws at her, Janice refuses to let setbacks and challenges rain on her parade or cloud her outlook. Thanks to supportive coworkers and an upbeat attitude, she's mastered turning countless would-be losses into victories. Now, she shares her stories, alternately funny, heartwarming, and touching, in the hopes that they will help others make it through their rainiest days.
Author: Klein, Christopher, author. Published: 2019 Call Number: 971.04 KLEIN Format: Books Summary: "The outlandish, untold story of the Irish-American revolutionaries who tried to free Ireland by invading Canada. Just over a year after Robert E. Lee relinquished his sword, a band of Union and Confederate veterans dusted off their guns. But these former foes had no intention of reigniting the Civil War. Instead, they were bound by a common goal: to seize the British province of Canada and to hold it hostage until the independence of Ireland was secured. By the time that these invasions--known together as the Fenian Raids--began in 1866, Ireland had been Britain's unwilling colony for seven hundred years. Thousands of Civil War veterans considered themselves Irishmen before they were Americans. They were those who fled rather than perish in the wake of the Great Hunger, and now they took their cue from a previous generation of successful American revolutionaries. With the tacit support of the U.S. government, the Fenian Brotherhood established a state in exile, planned prison breaks, weathered infighting, stockpiled weapons, and assassinated enemies. Defiantly, this motley group, including a one-armed war hero, an English spy infiltrating rebel forces, and a radical who staged his own funeral, managed to seize a piece of Canada--if only for three days. When the Irish Invaded Canada is the untold tale of a band of fiercely patriotic Irish-Americans and their chapter in Ireland's centuries-long fight for independence. Inspiring, lively, and often undeniably comic, this is a story of fighting for what's right in the face of impossible odds"-- "The outlandish history of a group of Irish-American revolutionaries who executed a daring set of Civil War-era raids on the British province of Canada to hold the territory hostage in hopes of securing Ireland's independence"-- Just over a year after Robert E. Lee relinquished his sword, a band of Union and Confederate veterans found a common goal: to seize the British province of Canada and to hold it hostage until the independence of Ireland was secured. By the time that these invasions-- known as the Fenian Raids-- began in 1866, Ireland had been Britain's unwilling colony for seven hundred years. Thousands of Civil War veterans were Irishmen who had fled rather than perish in the wake of the Great Hunger. Klein shows that-- with the tacit support of the U.S. government-- the Fenian Brotherhood established a state in exile, planned prison breaks, weathered infighting, stockpiled weapons, and assassinated enemies. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Chien, Vivien, author. Published: 2019 Call Number: PB CHIEN Format: Books Summary: "Lana Lee's stake in her family's Chinese restaurant is higher than ever now that she's been made manager. So when she enters Ho-Lee into Cleveland's Best Noodle Contest, Lana makes it her business to win--at all costs. But when a local food critic receives a threatening note in a fortune cookie and is later found dead, face-down in a bowl of lo mein, all bets are off... Now, along with her sweet-and-sour boyfriend Detective Adam Trudeau, Lana decides to take matters into her own hands and dig into the lives of everyone involved in the contest. But when she receives an ill-fated fortune, Lana realizes that in order to save the reputation of her restaurant, she needs to save herself first..."--Amazon.com.
Author: Mason, Lizzy, author. Published: 2019 Call Number: Y MASON Format: Books Summary: At a party Harley Langston discovers her boyfriend, Mike hooking up with her younger sister, Audrey. She abandons them both in a rage, and when Mike drunkenly drives Audrey home, he crashes--and Audrey ends up in a coma. Harley is left with guilt, grief, pain and the undeniable truth that her relatively unscathed ex-boyfriend has a drinking problem. Raf, a neighbor and childhood friend who's recently out of rehab, is still wrestling with his own demons. As Audrey awakens and slowly recovers, Raf starts to show Harley a path forward that she never would have believed possible--one guided by honesty, forgiveness, and redemption. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Trelease, Gita, author. Published: 2019 Call Number: Y TRELEASE Format: Books Summary: After smallpox takes their parents, seventeen-year-old Camille supports herself and her sister by magically transforming herself into a baroness in the court at Versailles, then faces difficult choices as the French Revolution looms. When smallpox kills her parents,Camille Durbonne must find a way to provide for her brother and sister. Relying on magic, she transforms into 'the Baroness de la Fontaine' and is swept up into life at the Palace of Versailles. Camille is astonished to find that her would-be suitor Lazare, a handsome young inventor whom she thought shared her dreams of liberty, is also living a double life. But 'la magie' has its costs. When a scheming courtier blackmails her, Camille loses control of her secrets. Then revolution erupts, and she must make choices-- before Paris burns. -- adapted from jacket.
Author: Ciotta, Beth, author. Published: 2019 Call Number: F CIOTTA Format: Books Summary: Most people would kill to be famous. I'd kill to be normal. Sadly, with my unwanted ability to hear disembodied voices, that's impossible. So instead, I, Zoe Albright, learned to manage my weirdness--which was going pretty well until a recent string of unfortunate events. First my muse turned dark, torpedoing my ability to write whimsical adventures and jeopardizing my career and bank account. Then I inherited a nightmare job--tracking murderous beings alongside Gabriel Bennett, a dimension-traveling avenger. If that sounds like something out of a sci-fi, fantasy book that's because it is. Sort of. It's complicated. Now, instead of writing fairy tales for kids, I'm battling villains, while fighting an intense, forbidden attraction to my dark, deadly, and sexy mentor. Protecting mankind sure as sunshine isn't my dream gig, but according to Bennett, it's my destiny. Unfortunately, he doubts I'm up for the job. I'll prove him wrong or die. Literally.
Author: Daugherty, Christi, author. Published: 2019 Call Number: F DAUGHERT Format: Books Summary: From Christi Daugherty, author of The Echo Killing, comes another pulse-pounding suspenseful thriller featuring crime reporter Harper McClain. For a woman, being killed by someone who claims to love her is the most ordinary murder of all. With its antebellum houses and ancient oak trees draped in a veil of Spanish moss, Savannah's graceful downtown is famous around the world. When a woman is killed in the heart of that affluent district, the shock is felt throughout the city. But for crime reporter Harper McClain, this story is personal. The corpse has a familiar face. Only twenty-four years old, Naomi Scott was just getting started. A law student, tending bar to make ends meet, she wanted to change the world. Instead, her life ended in the dead of night at the hands of an unseen gunman. There are no witnesses to the crime. The police have three suspects: Scott's boyfriend, who has a criminal past he claims he's put behind him, her boss, who stalked another young bartender two years ago, and the district attorney's son, who Naomi dated until their relationship ended in acrimony. All three men claim to love her. Could one of them be her killer? With the whole city demanding answers, Harper unravels a tangled story of obsession and jealousy. But the pressures on her go beyond the murder. The newspaper is facing more layoffs. Her boss fears both their jobs are on the line. And Harper begins to realize that someone is watching her every move. Someone familiar and very dangerous. Someone who told her to run before it's too late...