Author: Shamsky, Art, author. Sherman, Erik, author. Published: 2019 Call Number: 796.357 Format: Books Summary: "The boys of summer of the 1969 'Miracle Mets,' this book brings together members of that team, including the author, and Mets' star player, Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver, as they reminisce about what made that team great"--
Author: Smith, Jennifer E., 1980- author. Published: 2019 Call Number: Y SMITH Format: Books Summary: Two teens, Hugo and Mae, are strangers until they share a cross-country train trip that teaches them about love, each other, and the futures they can build for themselves. British-born Hugo is determined to take his last-hurrah-before-college train trip across the United States. One snag: the companion ticket is already booked under the name of his ex, Margaret Campbell. Nontransferable, no exceptions. Enter the new Margaret C. (Mae for short), an aspiring filmmaker with big dreams, looking for an opportunity to expand her horizons. As Mae pushes Hugo to explore his dreams for his future, he encourages her to channel a new, vulnerable side of her art. But when life intervenes, will they manage to keep their new love on track? -- adapted from Goodreads.com
Author: Wees, Alyssa, author. Published: 2019 Call Number: Y WEES Format: Books Summary: "When the lives of a girl, who has terrifying visions, and a witch, who grants wishes to children in the woods, collide in the most unexpected of ways, a dark, magical truth threatens to doom them both"-- The waking forest has secrets. To Rhea, it appears like a mirage, dark and dense, at the very edge of her backyard-- but when she reaches out to touch it, the forest vanishes. To the Witch it is her home, where she sits on her throne of carved bone, waiting for dreaming children to beg her to grant their wishes. Something is stirring in the forest; mysterious strangers offer Rhea and the Witch their heart's desire. But when a treacherous and deadly truth surfaces, how much are they willing to risk to survive? -- adapted from jacket
Author: Boyle, William, 1978- author. Published: 2019 Call Number: F BOYLE Format: Books Summary: An unlikely trio of women in New York find themselves banding together to escape the clutches of an unhinged Mafia enforcer.
Author: Said, Edward W., interviewee. Barsamian, David, interviewer. Published: 2019 Call Number: 956.053 Format: Books Summary: Edward W. Said discusses the centrality of popular resistance to his understanding of culture, history, and social change. He reveals his thoughts on the war on terrorism, the war in Afghanistan, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and lays out a compelling vision for a secular, democratic future in the Middle East and globally.
Author: Comerford, Hope, author. Matthews, Bonnie, 1963- photographer. Published: 2019 Call Number: 641.5884 Format: Books Summary: "Putting a wholesome meal on the table every night can be exhausting-- and expensive! But it doesn't have to be! Fix-It and Forget-It Healthy 5-Ingredient Cookbook is chock full of slow cooker recipes that are guaranteed to need only a handful of ingredients and to be: quick to fix; healthy for you and your family; delicious and satisfying."--Page [4] of cover.
Author: Ahmed, Samira (Fiction writer), author. Published: 2019 Call Number: Y AHMED Format: Books Summary: "A terrifying, futuristic United States where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, and seventeen-year-old Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence"--
Author: Berry, Julie, 1974- author. Published: 2019 Call Number: Y BERRY Format: Books Summary: "In the perilous days of World Wars I and II, the gods hold the fates -- and the hearts -- of four mortals in their hands. They are Hazel, James, Aubrey, and Colette. A classical pianist from London, a British would-be architect-turned-soldier, a Harlem-born ragtime genius in the U.S. Army, and a Belgian orphan with a gorgeous voice and a devastating past. Their story, as told by goddess Aphrodite to her husband, Hephaestus, and her lover, Ares, is filled with hope and heartbreak, prejudice and passion, and reveals that, though War is a formidable force, it's no match for the transcendent power of Love"--Adapted from jacket
Author: Reynolds, Justin A., author. Published: 2019 Call Number: Y REYNOLDS Format: Books Summary: After falling for Kate, her unexpected death sends Jack back in time to the moment they first met. He soon learns that his actions have consequences when someone else close to him dies.
Author: Lasdun, James, author. Published: 2019 Call Number: LAS Format: Books Summary: When expat English journalist Marco Rosedale is accused of sexual assault in a former girlfriend's memoir, he confides in a close friend, who finds himself caught between loyalty to Marco and an urgent desire to uncover the truth.
Author: Strogatz, Steven H. (Steven Henry), author. Published: 2019 Call Number: 515 Format: Books Summary: This is the captivating story of mathematics' greatest ever idea: calculus. Without it, there would be no computers, no microwave ovens, no GPS, and no space travel. But before it gave modern man almost infinite powers, calculus was behind centuries of controversy, competition, and even death. Taking us on a thrilling journey through three millennia, professor Steven Strogatz charts the development of this seminal achievement from the days of Aristotle to today's million-dollar reward that awaits whoever cracks Reimann's hypothesis. Filled with idiosyncratic characters from Pythagoras to Euler, Infinite Powers is a compelling human drama that reveals the legacy of calculus on nearly every aspect of modern civilization, including science, politics, ethics, philosophy, and much besides.
Author: Lee, Rob, 1992- author. Published: 2019 Call Number: B LEE Format: Books Summary: An activist, pastor, and indirect descendant of Confederate general Robert E. Lee traces his upbringing in the American South with a name associated with the double-sided realities of honor, privilege, inequality, and the misinterpretation of Christian values. After the 2017 Charlottesville protests Lee, a descendant of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, went public with his denunciation of white supremacy. Support-- and threats-- poured in from around the country, and Lee was ousted from the church where he was a pastor. Here he describes his gradual awakening to the unspoken assumptions of white supremacy which had, almost without him knowing it, distorted his values and even his Christian faith. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Perkins, Mitali, author. Published: 2019 Call Number: Y PERKINS Format: Books Summary: Told in separate voices, Kat and Robin leave Boston on a church mission to help combat human trafficking in India while Kat recovers from a sexual assault and Robin seeks his birth mother.
Author: Montanari, Richard, author. Published: 2019 Call Number: F MONTANAR Format: Books Summary: New York psychologist Will Hardy had it all, until the night it all ended in a tempest of fire and ash, leaving only Will and his fifteen-year-old daughter Bernadette to stand in the ruins. Haunted and grief-stricken, Will and Bernadette move to the small town of Abbeville, Ohio to begin their lives anew. Meanwhile, Abbeville Chief of Police Ivy Holgrave is investigating the death of a local girl, convinced this may only be the latest in a long line of murders dating back decades--including her own long-missing sister. But what place does Will's new home have in the story of the missing girls? And what links the killings to the diary of a young woman written over a century earlier? The disappearances in Abbeville have happened before, and now Will's own daughter might be next...
Author: Clare, Cassandra, author. Chu, Wesley, author. Published: 2019 Call Number: Y CLARE Format: Books Summary: High Warlock Magnus Bane learns that a demon-worshipping cult, the Crimson Hand, is wreaking havoc across Europe, threatening more than just his romantic getaway with new boyfriend, Alec Lightwood.
Author: Thomas, Angie, author. Published: 2019 Call Number: LP Y THOMAS Format: Large print Summary: Sixteen-year-old Bri hopes to become a great rapper, and after her first song goes viral for all the wrong reasons, must decide whether to sell out or face eviction with her widowed mother.
Author: Berry, Steve, 1955- author. Published: 2019 Call Number: LP F BERRY Format: Large print Summary: "A deadly race for the Vatican's oldest secret fuels New York Times bestseller Steve Berry's latest international Cotton Malone thriller. The pope is dead. A conclave to select his replacement is about to begin. Cardinals are beginning to arrive at the Vatican, but one has fled Rome for Malta in search of a document that dates back to the 4th century and Constantine the Great. Former Justice Department operative, Cotton Malone, is at Lake Como, Italy, on the trail of legendary letters between Winston Churchill and Benito Mussolini that disappeared in 1945 and could re-write history. But someone else seems to be after the same letters and, when Malone obtains then loses them, he's plunged into a hunt that draws the attention of the legendary Knights of Malta. The knights have existed for over nine hundred years, the only warrior-monks to survive into modern times. Now they are a global humanitarian organization, but within their ranks lurks trouble -- the Secreti -- an ancient sect intent on affecting the coming papal conclave. With the help of Magellan Billet agent Luke Daniels, Malone races the rogue cardinal, the knights, the Secreti, and the clock to find what has been lost for centuries. The final confrontation culminates behind the walls of the Vatican where the election of the next pope hangs in the balance"--
Author: Johansen, Iris, author. Published: 2019 Call Number: LP F JOHANSEN Format: Large print Summary: "New York Times bestseller Iris Johansen is back with another high octane thriller that will leave your mind racing and your heart pounding. Despite her tragic childhood, violin prodigy Cara Delaney has finally found peace in her career as a professional musician and stability in her relationship with her guardians, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan and ex-Navy SEAL Joe Quinn. If only Jock Gavin, Cara's lifelong friend and a man with his own twisted history, would come back into her life, everything would be perfect. But the carefully constructed world Cara has built for herself is suddenly threatened when she is kidnapped by a mysterious man trying to settle a score against her family, setting off a violent chain of events that puts everyone Cara loves in danger. Now, Cara will have to use every instinct she has to stay one step ahead, or else she will pay the deadly tribute of her familys dark past."--
Author: O'Meara, Mallory, author. Published: 2019 Call Number: B PATRICK Format: Books Summary: Mallory O'Meara uncovers the life and work of Milicent Patrick, one of Disney's first female animators and the only woman in history to create one of Hollywood's classic movie monsters. O'Meara discovered that Patrick's contribution had been claimed by a jealous male colleague, and she soon after had disappeared from film history. O'Meara set out to right the wrong, and in the process discovered the full, fascinating story of an ambitious, artistic woman ahead of her time. The 1954 motion picture Creature from the Black Lagoon featured a monster designed by a woman, Milicent Patrick. But Patrick's contribution was claimed by a jealous male colleague, her career was cut short, and she soon after disappeared from film history. Working in the horror film industry, O'Meara set out to right the wrong and in the process discovered the full, fascinating story of an ambitious, artistic woman ahead of her time. Patrick began her career as one of Disney's first female animators, and O'Meara establishes Patrick in her rightful place in film history while calling out a Hollywood culture where little has changed. --Adapted from jacket.
Author: O'Neill, Eric, author. Published: 2019 Call Number: B ONEILL Format: Books Summary: "A cybersecurity expert and former FBI "ghost" tells the thrilling story of how he helped take down notorious FBI mole Robert Hanssen, the first Russian cyber spy. Eric O'Neill was only twenty-six when he was tapped for the case of a lifetime: a one-on-one undercover investigation of the FBI's top target, a man suspected of spying for the Russians for nearly two decades, giving up nuclear secrets, compromising intelligence, and betraying US assets. With zero training in face-to-face investigation, Eric found himself in a windowless, high-security office in the newly formed Information Assurance Section, tasked officially with helping the FBI secure its outdated computer system against hackers and spies--and unofficially with collecting evidence against his new boss, Robert Hanssen, an exacting and rage-prone veteran agent with a disturbing fondness for handguns. In the months that follow, Eric's self-esteem and young marriage unravel under the pressure of life in Room 9930, and he questions the very purpose of his mission. But as Hanssen outmaneuvers an intelligence community struggling to keep up with the new reality of cybersecurity, he also teaches Eric the game of spycraft. Eric will just have to learn to outplay his teacher if he wants to win. A tension-packed stew of power, paranoia, and psychological manipulation, Gray Day is also a cautionary tale of how the United States allowed Russia to become dominant in cyberespionage--and how we might begin to catch up"--