Author: Perry, Thomas, author. Published: 2025 Call Number: LP F PERRY Format: Large print Summary: "Charles Warren, Los Angeles attorney, has dedicated his career to aiding people in financial straits. In his newest case, helping a young widow find the money missing from her late husband's investment accounts. Charlie recognizes a familiar scheme--one that echoes the con job that targeted his widowed mother years before. Within hours of starting his investigation, Charlie is followed, shot at, and has briefcase stolen. It's clear that someone doesn't want him following the trail of the missing money, but he quickly becomes too entangled in the web of fraud, betrayal, and criminals surrounding the theft to escape its deadly snare"--
Author: Deveraux, Jude, author. Published: 2025 Call Number: LP F DEVERAUX Format: Large print Summary: "To Kaley Arens, a PhD student and expert in folklore, fairy stories have always had a power and an allure beyond mere entertainment. It's only when Kaley accompanies her lifelong friend Jobi on a visit to his home that she realizes how much she still has to learn. Bellis isn't the remote island that she believed it to be. It's another world--a stunningly beautiful and seductive one, with its own royalty, its own rules, and inhabitants who breathe life into the tales she was taught were fiction. Kaley's presence is no simple holiday. She has a mysterious connection with Jobi and with Bellis, and abilities that may help determine this world's fate. Tasked with locating a lost prince, Kaley and her companions--the enigmatic Tanek, a member of the Order of Swans, and Sojee, Kaley's colossal bodyguard--journey through a land both thrilling and terrifying, where the uncanny and the familiar go hand in hand. But in fairy tales, heroes and villains are easy to discern. Here, nothing is quite as it seems. And though Kaley is discovering that she can change the outcome of the fairy tales she knows so well, her own story is unfolding in ways impossible to predict, with a destiny she could never have foretold..." --
Author: Patterson, James, 1947- author. Born, James O., author. Published: 2025 Call Number: LP F PATTERSO Format: Large print Summary: "At every death scene, Bennett says a prayer over the victim. But recently, too many of departed have been fellow cops. 'I want you to look at these deaths on special assignment,' NYPD Inspector Celeste Cantor says. 'Report only to me.' Bennett excels as a solo investigator. But he's chasing a killer who feeds on isolation--and paranoia"--
Author: Jones, Sarah, 1988- author. Published: 2025 Call Number: 305.5 Format: Books Summary: A powerful blend of narrative and reporting reveals America's systemic racial and income inequality, spotlighting essential workers and vulnerable communities disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 and argues for a future where no one is deemed disposable amid persistent social injustices.
Author: Unger, Lisa, 1970- author. Published: 2025 Call Number: F UNGER Format: Books Summary: A single mother joins a deadly island game set up by a charismatic daredevil and extreme adventurer, but a monstrous storm and an unseen menace transform the social media stunt into a ruthless fight for survival.
Author: Stone, Daniel (Daniel Evan), 1985- author. Published: 2025 Call Number: 363.7384 Format: Books Summary: "From the national bestselling author of The Food Explorer comes the untold story of Alice Hamilton, a trailblazing doctor and public health activist who took on the booming auto industry--and the deadly invention of leaded gasoline, which would poison millions of people across America. At noon on October 27, 1924, a factory worker was admitted to a hospital in New York City, suffering from hallucinations and convulsions. Before breakfast the next day, he was dead. Alice Hamilton was determined to prevent such a tragedy from happening again. By the time of the accident, Hamilton had pioneered the field of industrial medicine in the United States. She specialized in workplace safety years before the Occupational Safety and Health Administration was created. She was the first female professor at Harvard. She spent decades inspecting factories and mines. But this time, she was up against a formidable new foe: America's relentless push for progress, regardless of the cost. The 1920s were an exciting decade. Industry was booming. Labor was flourishing. Automobiles were changing roads, cities, and nearly all parts of American life. And one day, an ambitious scientist named Thomas Midgley Jr. triumphantly found just the right chemical to ensure that this boom would continue. His discovery--tetraethyl leaded gasoline--set him up for great wealth and the sort of fame that would land his name in history books. Soon, Hamilton would be on a collision course with Midgley, fighting full force against his invention, which poisoned the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the basic structure of our brains. American Poison is the gripping story of Hamilton's unsung battle for a healthy planet-and the ramifications that continue to echo today"--
Author: Miller, C. L. (Cara L.), author. Published: 2025 Call Number: F MILLER Format: Books Summary: "When a painting vanishes from a maritime museum and a dead body is found nearby, Freya Lockwood and her Aunt Carole -- the newly established Lockwood Antique Hunter's Agency -- are called to investigate. Following a lead that takes them aboard a glamorous antiques cruise sailing toward the Red Sea and Jordan, they quickly discover that the ship's art gallery is filled with stolen antiquities. Each antique is also listed in Freya's late mentor's journals of unsolved cases. In chasing a murderer, they may have found something more sinister than they could've imagined. Their hunt soon takes a turn for the worse when they learn the enigmatic and dangerous art trafficker nameed The Collector could be on board. But on a ship full of antiques enthusiasts -- plus some unexpected familiar faces -- will Freya and Carole be able to discover The Collector's identity and stop their murderous plans before the ship docks? Or will the killer strike again? --
Author: Taggart, Sam (Founder of D2D Experts), author. Published: 2025 Call Number: 658.85 Format: Books Summary: "From the founder and CEO of multimillion dollar sales empire D2D Experts, a battle guide to closing more deals than you ever thought possible"-- "Just ten years ago, Sam Taggart was beating the streets as a door-to-door salesman selling solar and alarm systems, getting thousands of doors slammed in his face--and worse--every day. Now, Sam is the founder and CEO of D2D Experts, a seven-figure sales empire that offers training to an active userbase of 30,000 members. Eat What You Kill is the key to mastering the art of sales--and it all starts with a simple mindset shift..." --Amazon.com
Author: Smith, Emily J, author. Published: 2025 Call Number: F SMITH Format: Books Summary: "Edie Walker's life is not going as planned. At thirty-five she feels stuck: in her career, in her love life, and in her tiny San Francisco studio apartment. It doesn't help that her best friend, Peter Masterson, is basically the über successful male version of her--and she's hopelessly, unrequitedly in love with him. But when Peter breaks up with his girlfriend of seven years, Edie thinks her life might finally be turning around. He'll discover how toxic dating-app culture is and realize Edie has been right for him all along. Except Peter almost immediately lands a date with Anaya Thomas, a gorgeous, whip-smart professor and writer of feminist literature whom even Edie - reared in the culture of tech bros - is smitten by. Unlike the women Peter has dated before, Anaya is like an alternative-reality version of Edie, one with shampoo-commercial hair and a meaningful career, who definitely doesn't spend her weekends scrolling social media alone in her apartment. It's only a matter of time before Peter falls head over heels for this woman; Edie herself is infatuated after one meeting. Then Anaya is found dead in her apartment. Right after a date with Peter. Driven by her near-fanatic love of Anaya's work and a desperate need to prove Peter's innocence, Edie begins searching for clues to what really happened that night. As her obsession with the investigation grows, so do her doubts about Peter. When the truth finally comes to light, Edie must decide where her loyalties lie, who deserves justice - and who deserves to be punished. Provocative, tense, and copulsively readable, Nothing Serious is a shrewdly obsereved, astonishingly heartfelt debut combining a darkly funny takedown of online dating with an honest examination of the challenges women face every day - but don't dare discuss - from a brilliant new voice in contemporary fiction." -- Jacket flap.
Author: McCluskey, Laura, author. Published: 2025 Call Number: F MCCLUSKE Format: Books Summary: "Eilean Eadar is a barren, windswept rock inhabited by a few hundred humans and sheep. Until now, the island was best known for the disappearance of three lighthouse keepers in 1919, a mystery that was never solved. But when a young man is found dead at the foot of the same lighthouse and the injuries are inconsistent with suicide, two detective inspectors are sent from Glasgow to investigate. Georgina 'George' Lennox is finally back from leave after a devastating accident and happy to be on the case with her partner, Richie Stewart, despite being greeted by hostile locals who seem determined to thwart their investigation. While they struggle to gather details surrounding the young man's death, George and Richie uncover more about the island itself, the community and their strange beliefs, all tied to a powerful, enigmatic priest. Richie wants to close the case, and head home to his family, but he hasn't heard the wolves at night or seen the dark figures at their window. George is certain there's something going on-but can she trust her own instincts, or have the painkillers and sleeping pills she has grown dependent on impaired her judgment? But Eilean Eadar holds a far darker secret, and George's investigation will eventually lead her to a terrible truth that will threaten both her sanity and her life"--
Author: Salvatore, R. A., 1959- author. Published: 2025 Call Number: F SALVATOR Format: Books Summary: "From the legendary author and creator of Drizzt Do'Urden comes the next installment in the New York Times bestselling DemonWars fantasy series, about the traitorous invasion by the Xoconai of the eastern realms of Corona. However, the heroes of the last war against their demon god may be forgotten, but they are not powerless. Treaties are discarded as the full invasion of the Xoncai has begun and war returns to Corona. Consolidating resistance on land in Behren and within the abbeys as a last stand against the golden warriors is the catalyst for the return of the most powerful gem-wielding witch the world has ever known. Yet, as the rumor of a witch of gemstone magic reaches the Xoconai they send a hunter, so brutal he is known as the Coyote, to find her in this novel set at the beginning of a new war in R. A. Salvatore's bestselling world of heroic fantasy"--
Author: Peters, Amanda, author. Published: 2025 2024 Call Number: F PETERS Format: Books Summary: Stories of Indigenous experiences across time, from early European contact to modern water-rights activism, depicting resilience through characters like a residential school survivor, a water protector, and a young dancer, all revealing strength and dignity amid systemic hardships.
Author: Maehrer, Hannah Nicole, author. Published: 2024 Call Number: F MAEHRER Format: Books Summary: "Evie Sage has never been happier to be the assistant to The Villain. Who would have thought that working for an outrageously handsome (shhh, bad for his brand) evil overlord would be so rewarding? Still, the business of being bad is demanding, the forces of good are annoyingly persistent, and said forbidding boss is somewhat ... er, out-of-evil-office. But Rennedawn is in grave trouble, and all signs, Kingsley's included, point to catastrophe. Something peculiar is happening with the kingdom's magic, and it's made The Villain's manor vulnerable to their enemies ... including their nemesis, the king"--Publisher's description.
Author: Kissinger, Henry, 1923-2023, author. Mundie, Craig, author. Schmidt, Eric, 1955 April 27- author. Runde, Eleanor, author. Ferguson, Niall, writer of foreword. Published: 2024 Call Number: 006.3 Format: Books Summary: "As it absorbs data, gains agency, and intermediates between humans and reality, AI (Artificial Intelligence) will help us to address enormous crises, from climate change to geopolitical conflicts to income inequality. It might well solve some of the greatest mysteries of our universe and elevate the human spirit to unimaginable heights. But it will also pose challenges on a scale and of an intensity that we have never seen--usurping our power of independent judgment and action, testing our relationship with the divine, and perhaps even spurring a new phase in human evolution. The last book of elder statesman Henry Kissinger, written with technologists Craig Mundie and Eric Schmidt, Genesis charts a course between blind faith and unjustified fear as it outlines an effective strategy for navigating the age of AI."--Provided by publisher.
Author: Yi, Esther, author. Published: 2024 2023 Call Number: F YI Format: Books Summary: "Surreal, hilarious, and shrewdly poignant--a novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends her to Seoul on a journey of literary self-destruction."-- The narrator, a Korean American woman living in Berlin, is obsessed with Moon: anything not-Moon in her life fell away when she beheld the K-pop idol in concert. Moon dances as if his movements are creating their own gravitational field. Seized by ineffable desire, she begins writing Y/N fanfic-- in which you, the reader, insert [Your/Name] and play out an intimate relationship with the unattainable star. When Moon suddenly retires from the wildly popular K-pop group, the woman journeys to Korea in search of the object of her love. She locates the headquarters of the company that manages the boyband; at a secret location, together with Moon at last, art and real life approach their final convergence. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Hoag, Tami, author. Published: 2024 Call Number: LP F HOAG Format: Large print Summary: A murder victim dumped at the dead end of a lonely country road, face and hands obliterated by a shotgun blast, is not the way sheriff's detective Nick Fourcade wants to start his week. His only lead takes him to the family of a hometown hero suddenly gone missing. Marc Mercier left his home for a weekend hunting trip and hasn't been seen since. Meanwhile, sheriff's detective Annie Broussard begins her first day back on the job after suffering a brutal attack by taking on the case of B'Lynn Fontenot, a mother desperate to find her grown son, a recovering drug addict. Robbie Fontenot has been missing for eight days, but the local police have no interest in the case, telling B'Lynn that an adult has the right to disappear, and a missing addict is no big surprise.
Author: Stevenson, Gary (Economist), author. Published: 2024 Call Number: B STEVENSO Format: Books Summary: "A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the trading floor, a rags-to-riches tale of Citibank's one-time most profitable trader, and why he gave it all up--a Liar's Poker for a new generation" -- "If you were gonna rob a bank and you saw the vault door there, left open, what would you do? Would you wait around? Ever since he was a kid, kicking broken soccer balls on the run-down streets of East London, Gary Stevenson dreamed of something bigger. As luck would have it, he was good at numbers. At the London School of Economics, wearing tracksuits and sneakers, Stevenson shocked his posh classmates by winning a competition called "The Trading Game." The prize? A golden ticket to a new life, as the youngest trader at Citibank. A place where you could make more money than you'd ever imagined. Where your colleagues are dysfunctional geniuses and insecure bullies yet start to feel like family. Where against the odds you become the bank's most profitable trader, closing deals worth nearly a trillion dollars. A day..." --Amazon.com
Author: Vaughn, Bill, 1948- author. Published: 2024 Call Number: 973.0497 Format: Books Summary: "Between 1859 and the 1960's missionaries and the U.S. government operated more than five hundred assimilation centers. Their ostensible goal was to solve the "Indian problem" by transforming Indigenous children into English-speaking Christians who could hold down a job or run a farm or manage a household. But as the government finally admitted, the real objective was to steal tribal land. Most of these boys and girls were taken forcibly from their families and sent far away in order to alienate them from their tribes and erase their languages, spirituality, and cultures. Despite the plot against Native America, Indigenous cultures have endured. With inspiring efforts, tribal councils are now building their own bison herds, teaching their children indigenous languages, as well as striving to build self-sufficient economies in this new era that is upon us."--Dust jacket.
Author: Martin, Celestine, author. Published: 2024 Call Number: F MARTIN Format: Books Summary: Ex-celebrity chef Sirena Caraway has had the wackiest October ever. Her cooking powers are on the fritz, she failed to land a career-saving job, and she embarrassed herself at the town's Halloween party. Just before midnight, she makes a desperate wish for a second chance to fix her life. The next morning Sirena wakes up and realizes that she's repeating the entire pumpkin spice-flavored month. Even sweeter, she runs into Gus Dearworth, whose magic leaves her spellbound. A former reality star, Gus moved to Freya Grove to rebuild his reputation and heal his broken heart, but his restless magic is tempting him to return to the spotlight. And his secret crush on Sirena is making him want to try something dangerous like fall in love again. When Sirena realizes he can help her fix her powers, Gus makes her a deal. If she'll help decipher a mysterious cookbook in his collection, he'll help get her magical groove back. Every encounter offers a new adventure--from tasting menus, harvest mazes, and a growing attraction that's taking on an irresistible enchantment of its own. But as the month winds down and the wish grows stronger, Sirena and Gus have a decision to make. Will their second chance be their happy-ever-after ending or a bittersweet memory?--
Author: Anthony, Jessica, 1974- author. Published: 2024 Call Number: F ANTHONY Format: Books Summary: "An expertly compressed, post-modern historical novella set over the course of a single, unseasonably warm day in November of 1957. Kathleen, a standout college tennis player, mother of two boys and wife to flagrantly handsome, aimless life insurance salesman, Virgil, decides to get into the pool in their Delaware apartment complex instead of going to church. And she won't come out. As Sputnik 2 orbits the earth carrying that poor little doomed Soviet space dog, Kathleen and Virgil hurtle toward each other, and toward a reckoning that will either shatter the smooth edifice of their marriage or transform it, at last, into something real"--
