Author: Gilmore, Brad, 1992- author. Kalinowski, Mike, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: 791.4375 Format: Books Summary: "Explore the cinematic history of the James Bond series, discuss the high and low points, and also celebrate its incredible achievements throughout its nearly 60 years of existence. The audience is James Bond fanatic that owns the Blu Rays, the board games, never misses a premier and is looking for a 21st century discussion on their favorite agent. Yet we aim to write the book in a very approachable manner."
Author: Allen, Maria Fernanda, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: 469.8 Format: Books Summary: "Everything you need to understand and speak Portuguese. Free audio app helps you perfect your pronunciation by imitating native speakers. Builds vocabulary through word lists, key phrases, and model sentences. Explains essential grammar. Develops conversation through exercises based on real-life scenarios"--Back cover.
Author: Barrios, Joi, author. Camagong, Julia, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: 499.2118 Format: Books Summary: Let Filipino experts Barrios and Camagong teach you how to speak this beautiful language! Learning Tagalog brings the national language and culture of the Philippines to life, providing you with all the basics you need to speak, read and write the language correctly and naturally. Designed for beginners, this invaluable guide presents a series of progressive lessons with a focus on conversational communication. It includes useful notes on pronunciation and grammar, greetings, sentence structure, verb conjugations, idiomatic expressions and etiquette dos and don'ts. It also includes a comprehensive glossary of useful vocabulary and phrases. Suitable for beginning learners with no prior Tagalog knowledge, the key features of this book include: A focus on the everyday speech style of contemporary Manila Manga illustrations with short dialogues and key vocabulary Clear explanations of Tagalog verb forms and sentence structure Extensive exercises and drills plus native-speaker audio recordings (available for free download online) This is a complete language learning course for beginners! -- amazon.com.
Author: Dorsey, Jenny, author. Nickelodeon (Television network) Published: 2021 Call Number: 641.5 Format: Books Summary: "From the shores of Kyoshi Island to the crowded streets of Ba Sing Se, this official cookbook collects signature dishes from all four nations, like vegetarian plates of the Air Nomads, fiery entrees from the Fire Nation, seafood from the North and South Poles, and delectable cuisine from the Earth Kingdom."--Amazon
Author: Sawada, Hiroshi (Barista), author. Published: 2018 2013 Call Number: 641.877 Format: Books Summary: "Most people simply buy their caffeinated beverages from their local coffee shop and are done with it. To others, however, their morning cup is more than just a swipe of a credit card and a quick energy boost -- it's an art form. With this book, world-renowned latte artist and barista Hiroshi Sawada offers step-by-step instructions on how to make more than fifty delicious coffee drinks, including: lattes, Americanos, cappuccinos, café au laits, espressos, iced drinks, and many other delectable beverages!" - Back cover.
Author: Reid, Iain, 1981- author. Published: 2016 Call Number: F REID Format: Books Summary: Jake and a woman known only as The Girlfriend are taking a long drive to meet his parents at their secluded farm. But when Jake takes a sudden detour, leaving The Girlfriend stranded at a deserted high school, the story transforms into a twisted combination of the darkest unease, psychological frailty, and a look into the limitations of solitude.
Author: Doncaster, Lucy, editor. Published: 2015 Call Number: 641.552 Format: Books Summary: "Frugal cooking does not mean going without, and this lavishly illustrated collection of 500 recipes will show you how to eat a wonderfully varied diet that is well within your means"--Back cover.
Author: Stupak, Alex, author. Rothman, Jordana, author. Published: 2015 Call Number: 641.84 Format: Books Summary: Superstar pastry chef Alex Stupak's love of real Mexican food changed his life; it caused him to quit fine dining and open the smash-hit Empell. "Tacos is a deep dive into the art and craft of one of Mexico's greatest culinary exports. Start by making fresh tortillas from corn and flour, and variations that look to innovative grains and flavor infusions. Next, master salsas, from simple chopped condiments to complex moles that simmer for hours and have flavor for days. Finally, explore fillings, both traditional and modern--from a pineapple-topped pork al pastor to pastrami with mustard seeds. But Tacos is more than a collection of beautiful things to cook. Wrapped up within it is an argument: Through these recipes, essays, and sumptuous photographs by Evan Sung, the 3-Michelin-star veteran makes the case that Mexican food should be as esteemed as the highest French cooking." --Amazon.com
Author: Vetri, Marc, author. Joachim, David, author. Anderson, Ed (Edward Charles), photographer (expression) Published: 2015 Call Number: 641.822 Format: Books Summary: Loaded with useful information, including the best way to cook and sauce pasta, suggestions for substituting pasta shapes, and advance preparation and storage notes, this book offers you all of the wisdom of award-winning chef Marc Vetri. "Award-winning chef Marc Vetri wanted to write his first book about pasta. Instead, he wrote two other acclaimed cookbooks and continued researching pasta for ten more years. Now, the respected master of Italian cuisine finally shares his vast knowledge of pasta, gnocchi, and risotto in this inspiring, informative primer featuring expert tips and techniques, and more than 100 recipes. Vetri's personal stories of travel and culinary discovery in Italy appear alongside his easy-to-follow, detailed explanations of how to make and enjoy fresh handmade pasta. Whether you're a home cook or a professional, you?ll learn how to make more than thirty different types of pasta dough, from versatile egg yolk dough, to extruded semolina dough, to a variety of flavored pastas--and form them into shapes both familiar and unique. In dishes ranging from classic to innovative, Vetri shares his coveted recipes for stuffed pastas, baked pastas, and pasta sauces. He also shows you how to make light-as-air gnocchi and the perfect dish of risotto.
Author: Penny, Louise. Published: 2011 Call Number: F PENNY Format: Books Summary: Investigating a murder at a solo artist's Quebec village home, Chief Inspector Gamache and his team encounter deceptive nuances in the art world that distort every clue they find with tales of duality and broken hearts.
Author: Mosley, Walter, author. Published: 2010 2009 Call Number: F MOSLEY Format: Regular print Summary: Leonid McGill is an ex-boxer, a hard drinker, and not one to turn down a shady job for a quick buck. He's an old-school PI working a New York City that's gotten fancy all around him. Meanwhile, he's just trying to get by--at least for his wife and kids. Maybe it's time for McGill to turn over a new leaf. Or at least go from crooked to slightly bent.
Author: Moore, Christopher, 1957- Published: 2008 1995 Call Number: F MOORE Format: Books Summary: A budding young writer falls in love with a vampire. He is Tommy of Indiana who moved to San Francisco in search of inspiration and is working in a supermarket. Shopping there is Jody, a secretary still trying to adjust to her new vampire status, after being bitten by one on her way home. A zany tale by the author of Coyote Blue.
Author: Moore, Christopher, 1957- Published: 2007 2006 Call Number: F MOORE Format: Regular print Summary: Charlie Asher, a neurotic and anxious hypochondriac who hates change, confronts the challenges of being a widower and a single parent when his wife dies of a freak medical condition on the day his new daughter, Sophie, is born.
Author: Howard, Leslie, 1953- author. Published: 2024 Call Number: F HOWARD Format: Books Summary: "Keep sweet no matter what, for this is the way to be lifted up Keep sweet with every breath, for it is a matter of life or death 1964. Fifteen-year-old Daisy Shoemaker dreams of life beyond her small, isolated fundamentalist Mormon community of Redemption on the Canada--US border--despite Bishop Thorsen's warning that the outside world is full of sin. According to the Principle, the only way to enter the celestial kingdom is through plural marriage. While the boys are taught to work in the lucrative sawmill that supports their enclave, Daisy and her best friend, Brighten, are instructed to keep sweet and wait for Placement--the day the bishop will choose a husband for them. But Daisy wants to be more than a sister-wife and a mother. So when she is placed with a man forty years her senior, she makes the daring decision to flee Redemption. Years later, Daisy has a job and a group of trustworthy friends. Emboldened by the ideas of the feminist and counterculture movements, she is freer than she has ever been...until Brighten reaches out with a cry for help and Daisy's past comes hurtling back. But to save the women she left behind, Daisy must risk her newfound independence and return to Redemption, where hellfire surely awaits. For readers of Emma Cline's The Girls and Ami McKay's The Virgin Cure comes an arresting coming-of-age novel about a fearless young girl's fight for freedom at a time of great historic change."--
Author: Hessler, Peter, 1969- author. Published: 2024 Call Number: 378.1 Format: Books Summary: "More than two decades after teaching English during the early part of China's economic boom, an experience chronicled in his book River Town, Peter Hessler returned to Sichuan province to instruct students from the next generation. At the same time, Hessler and his wife enrolled their twin daughters in a local state-run elementary school, where they were the only Westerners. Over the years, Hessler had kept in close contact with many of the people he had taught in the 1990s. By reconnecting with these individuals-members of China's "Reform generation," now in their forties-while teaching current undergrads, Hessler gained a unique perspective on China's incredible transformation. In Peter Hessler's hands, China's education system is the perfect vehicle for examining the country's past, present, and future, and what we can learn from it, for good and ill"--
