Author: Wilde, Caleb, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: 155.937 Format: Books Summary: "All the Ways Our Dead Still Speak takes readers on a lyrical and tender quest to encounter the hereafter. As Wilde picks up bodies, organizes funerals, and meets with grieving families in a small town in Pennsylvania, those who remain share with him--and us--what they experience in the thin places between life and death."--
Author: Patterson, James, 1947- author. DiLallo, Richard, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: PB PATTERSON Format: Books Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Midwife Murders comes a twisted psychological thriller about a mother-to-be trying to find proof that she's being stalked, even when everyone around her distrusts her mother's intuition. Emily Atkinson leads a complicated life in New York City. She's a successful marketing executive who lives in a luxury apartment and enjoys a glamorous existence until she lands in the hospital with a double diagnosis: she parties too much--and she's pregnant. Her nurse and new best friend, Betsey, helps Emily rediscover how much she loves morning runs in the park and quiet nights at home. But as a series of women in her wealthy social circles go missing, Emily's pregnancy becomes decidedly high-risk.
Author: Hilderbrand, Elin author. Published: 2021 2014 Call Number: F HILDERBR Format: Books Summary: Storied matchmaker and Nantucket resident Dabney Kimball has her own life and match turned upside down when her true love of twenty-seven years prior returns to the island. "48-year-old Nantucketer Dabney Kimball Beech has always had a gift for matchmaking. Some call her ability mystical, while others - like her husband, celebrated economist John Boxmiller Beech, and her daughter, Agnes, who is clearly engaged to the wrong man - call it meddlesome, but there's no arguing with her results: With 42 happy couples to her credit and all of them still together, Dabney has never been wrong about romance. Never, that is, except in the case of herself and Clendenin Hughes, the green-eyed boy who took her heart with him long ago when he left the island to pursue his dream of becoming a journalist. Now, after spending 27 years on the other side of the world, Clen is back on Nantucket, and Dabney has never felt so confused, or so alive. But when tragedy threatens her own second chance, Dabney must face the choices she's made and share painful secrets with her family. Determined to make use of her gift before it's too late, she sets out to find perfect matches for those she loves most. The Matchmaker is a heartbreaking story about losing and finding love, even as you're running out of time"--
Author: Regev, Limor, author. Hyman, Jerry, translator. Published: 2021 Call Number: 940.5318 Format: Books Summary: "January, 1945. 14-year-old Moshe Kessler steps off the train at Buchenwald concentration camp. Having endured the horrors of Auschwitz-Birkenau, lost touch with his entire family, and survived the death march in the freezing European winter, he has seen more than his share of tragedy. Moshe knows only one thing about Buchenwald. Everyone knows it. If you want to survive, you have to get to Block 66. The Germans are cruel and determined - but they are not prepared for Buchenwald's secret resistance, which rises up with one mission only: to protect the camp's children from harm. This is the incredible true story of Moshe Kessler and Block 66-- the children's block that was at the forefront of one of the most shocking and inspiring stories of Holocaust survival."--Publisher marketing.
Author: Eyck, Jan van, 1390-1440, artist. Martens, Maximiliaan P. J., editor, author of introduction, author. Borchert, Till, editor, author of introduction, author. Dumolyn, Jan, editor, author of introduction, author. Smet, Johan de, editor, author. Published: 2020 Call Number: 759.9493 Format: Books Summary: "With his unprecedented technique, scientific knowledge and unparalleled powers of observation, Van Eyck lifted oil painting to previously unseen heights and helped determine the course of Western art. In 2020 the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent will host the largest ever exhibition of Van Eyck's work. "An Optical Revolution" includes artworks by Van Eyck, several pieces from his studio and international masterpieces from the late Middle Ages. This tie-in exhibition catalogue unravels some of the myths that surround Van Eyck and his technique while showing his complete oeuvre and his influence in a new perspective. Central to the exhibition are the eight restored exterior panels of the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, a highly exceptional loan from St Bavo's Cathedral in Ghent. After the exhibition the panels will return to their original place in the cathedral and never again be shown elsewhere. This tie-in exhibition catalogue unravels some of the myths that surround Van Eyck and his technique while showing his complete oeuvre and his influence in a new perspective. With essays by leading experts from around the world, this book is an indispensable resource for Van Eyck fans and scholars alike." "Flemish painter Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441) towered above his contemporaries. With his unprecedented technique, scientific knowledge and unparalleled powers of observation, he lifted oil painting to previously unseen heights and helped determine the course of Western art. Published to accompany the largest Van Eyck exhibition ever held, this book tells the broader stroy of a revolutionary moment in Western art history. As well as reproducing artworks by Van Eyck, it also includes several pieces from his studio and other international masterpieces from the late Middle Ages, making the world of Van Eyck more tangible than ever before. Central to this book and the exhibition are the eight restored exterior panels of the Ghent Altarpiece--the Adoration of the Lamb--which allow the reader to see Van Eyck's multifaceted oeuvre with a completely new eye. Essays by leading authorities from around the world offer the latest insights into the artist's works, and set the standard for the further study of this master of Western art."
Author: Carr, Robyn. author. Published: 2020 2007 Call Number: PB CARR Format: Books Summary: When Paige Lassiter, scared and covered with bruises, comes into his bar with her three-year-old son, Marine John "Preacher" Middleton, immediately drawn to this courageous woman, offers her a safe haven in his arms. "John 'Preacher' Middleton is about to close the bar when a young woman and her three-year-old son come in out of the wet October night. A marine who has seen his share of pain, Preacher knows a crisis when he sees one--the woman is covered in bruises. He wants to protect them, and to punish whoever did this, but he knows immediately that this is more than just instinct. Paige Lassiter has stirred up emotions in this gentle giant of a man--emotions that he has never allowed himself to feel.Then Paige's ex-husband turns up in Virgin River. And if there's one thing the marines' motto of Semper Fi--always faithful--has taught Preacher, it's that some things are worth fighting for. "--Publisher.
Author: Swain, James, author. Published: 2020 Call Number: F SWAIN Format: Books Summary: "The shocking suicide of Beth Daniels's father--a prominent surgeon--has thrown the FBI agent into a tailspin. But when Beth heads to Saint Augustine, Florida, for the funeral, she'll need more than the emotional support of her boyfriend, retired detective Jon Lancaster. She'll need his gut instinct for solving a mystery. No sooner do they arrive than suspicions are aroused. There's the pair of Russians who seem to be watching every move the family makes. A final, cryptic phone call Martin Daniels made to his granddaughter. Strange blood evidence on his estate. More than
Author: Slater, Mike, author. Roache, Thomas, editor. Komoda, Kurt, illustrator. Published: 2019 Call Number: 641.5 Format: Books Summary: "A Lovecraft-inspired cookbook with recipes to whet your appetite and threaten your sanity Reading about the slime- covered, non- Euclidean ruins of the sunken city of R'lyeh or the squamous, tentacled deity who slumbers there would make anyone hungry. Starting with the puns and working from there, authors Mike Slater and Thomas Roache have summoned forth 50 funny, bizarre, and horrible dishes such as: The Deep Fried Deep One Nog Sothoth Cthus-Koos The Great Old Buns The Gin and Miskatonic Like H. P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon, the legendary and forbidden book of the dead that is "alien to all sane and balanced readers," this cookbook contains many dark (but still delicious) secrets within its pages. The book comes infested with sanity- melting and mouth- watering illustrations, as well as annotations full of crazed discoveries and desperate warnings about the recipes that brave readers will undertake"--
Author: Olsen, Gregg, author. Published: 2018 Call Number: PB OLSEN Format: Books Summary: For years Liz and Owen have admired their neighbors, Carole and David, who seem to have it all: security, happiness, and a beautiful son, Charlie. Then Charlie vanishes without a trace. In a heartrending accident, Liz has changed the lives of everyone she loves--and is concealing it. As two marriages buckle in grief and fear, Liz retreats into guilt and paranoia...and another neighbor has his own secrets, his own pain, and his own reasons for watching Liz's every move.
Author: Macomber, Debbie, author. Novak, Brenda, author. Woods, Sherryl, author. Container of (work): Macomber, Debbie. Silver bells. Container of (work): Novak, Brenda. On a snowy Christmas. Published: 2017 1996 Call Number: F MACOMBER Format: Books Summary: Silver Bells: A single dad's rambunctious teenage daughter hatches a plot to find her father a wife, and she has just the woman in mind. He may claim he's not interested in remarriage, but perhaps the magic of the holiday season will help him change his mind. On a Snowy Christmas: When their private plane crashes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains shortly before Christmas, two political enemies discover that survival means more than just staying alive. In their case, it also means falling in love. The Perfect Holiday: What's a holiday without a handsome husband? To a matchmaking aunt, it isn't very festive at all! So she sends the perfect man to her single niece. But will he become the perfect groom-to-be by Christmastime?
Author: Chee, Traci author. Schoenherr, Ian illustrator. Published: 2017 Call Number: Y CHEE Format: Books Summary: "Sefia and Archer's adventure continues as Archer searches for a way to combat his nightmares of his time with the impressors and Sefia becomes more and more consumed by her study of the Book"--
Author: Elkins, Kimberly, author. Published: 2014 Call Number: F ELKINS Format: Books Summary: At age two, Laura Bridgman lost four of her five senses to scarlet fever. At age seven, she was taken to Perkins Institute in Boston to determine if a child so terribly afflicted could be taught. At age twelve, Charles Dickens declared her his prime interest for visiting America. And by age twenty, she was considered the nineteenth century's second most famous woman, having mastered language and charmed the world with her brilliance. Not since The diving bell and the butterfly has a book proven so profoundly moving in illuminating the challenges of living in a completely unique inner world. With Laura--by turns mischievous, temperamental, and witty--as the book's primary narrator, the fascinating kaleidoscope of characters includes the founder of Perkins Institute, Samuel Gridley Howe, with whom she was in love; his wife, the glamorous Julia Ward Howe, a renowned writer, abolitionist, and suffragist; Laure's beloved teacher, who married a missionary and died insane from syphilis; an Irish orphan with whom Laura had a tumultuous affair; Annie Sullivan; and even the young Helen Keller.
Author: Hilderbrand, Elin, author. Published: 2013 2012 Call Number: F HILDERBR Format: Books Summary: After a fatal car crash during a summer celebration on Nantucket island, four teenagers question if the roots of the accident lie further in the past than they seem; is true healing possible, in even these most devastating circumstance; and, can true friendship ever really die?
Author: Harris, Thomas, 1940- author. Published: 2013 1988 Call Number: F HARRIS Format: Books Summary: "A serial murderer known only by a grotesquely apt nick name--Buffalo Bill--is stalking particular women. He has a purpose, but no one can fathom it, for the bodies are discovered in different states. Clarice Starling, a young trainee at the FBI Academy, is surprised to be summoned by Jack Crawford, chief of the bureau's behavioral science section. Her assignment: to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and grisly killer now kept under close watch in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Lecter's insight into the minds of murderers could help track and capture Buffalo Bill"--Page 2 of cover.
Author: Duncan, Elizabeth J. Published: 2012 Call Number: F DUNCAN Format: Books Summary: When the pregnant teenage daughter of a wealthy newcomer to Llanelen is found dead in the nearby woods, spa owner Penny Brannigan investigates the family's suspicious financial dealings while her paramour, Detective Inspector Davies, tracks down the killer.
Author: Carr, Robyn. Published: 2009 Call Number: PB CARR Format: Books Summary: "In the space of a few months Vanessa buried her husband, Matt, and gave birth to their son --breaking her heart while filling it with a whole new kind of love. But the one man she longs to share this love with now acts as if she doesn't exist. Paul Haggerty lives by the marine motto: Semper Fi. Ever faithful to his best friend, he's done right by Matt's widow as best he can ... considering he's been secretly in love with her for years. Now, just as he's about to make his move, another woman has staked her claim on him --a claim that will be tough to escape. With courage, humility and not a little meddling from the good folks of Virgin River, Vanni and Paul might just get a second chance to have the love they both desire and deserve."--P. [4] of cover.
Author: Carr, Robyn. Published: 2007 Call Number: PB CARR Format: Books Summary: A twice-married, decorated U.S. Marine Corps reservist who had been wounded in the line of duty, LAPD officer Mike Valenzuela finds peace and healing in the town of Virgin River, as well as new love in the person of Brie Sheridan, a Sacramento prosecutor who has sought refuge in Virgin River after nearly losing her life at the hands of a deranged criminal.
Author: Barclay, Linwood, author. Published: 2007 Call Number: PB BARCLAY Format: Books Summary: When his friend Trixie Snelling becomes the prime suspect in a bizarre murder and implicates him in the discovery of a corpse strapped to her basement bondage cross, Zack Walker races to uncover the truth.
Author: Barclay, Linwood. Published: 2006 Call Number: PB BARCLAY Format: Books Summary: When a mutilated corpse turns up at his father's lakeside fishing camp, supposedly the victim of a vicious bear attack, journalist and family man Zack Walker begins to suspect something far more sinister and finds himself taking on a deadly predator with a host of terrifying weapons with a fanatical thirst for mayhem.
Author: Barclay, Linwood. Published: 2004 Call Number: PB BARCLAY Format: Books Summary: Staging a demonstration of his latest worst-case scenario phobia for his family, paranoid writer Zack Walker inadvertently finds himself in possession of a stolen purse and must find a connection between its contents, a dead environmentalist, and real estate thugs--before his wife gets home from work.
