Author: Bay, Samara, author. Published: 2023 Call Number: 808.51 Format: Books Summary: "Find your voice and use it to lead us to a better future, with this game-changing blueprint for redefining what power and authority sound like--from a Hollywood communication expert. Anyone who has ever been told "You should speak up!" during a meeting at the office, a group project at school, or even a conversation among friends can attest to the misunderstanding at the heart of that demand. For those of us--including women, people of color, immigrants, and queer folks--who find it hard to speak up, the issue is not just about willpower. Many of us have internalized the same messages since birth: that because of the pitch of our voice, the accent we possess, or the slang we use, we will not be taken seriously. Power, we're told, sounds like the mostly white, straight, wealthy men who wield it. Samara Bay--one of the most in-demand speech and dialect coaches in Hollywood--has made it her mission to change that, and with Permission to Speak she presents a fun and practical road map for making big cultural change while embracing our natural strengths. Drawing on her experience plus the latest research in public speaking, linguistics, and social science, she identifies tools for unlocking the potential in each of our voices--whether you're an entrepreneur, a new political candidate, a creative type with a bold vision, or a mom going back to work. Giving yourself permission means more than landing your message--it's about showing up when you show up and finding joy in speaking to your public. With simple tools, big ideas, and a whole lot of heart, Permission to Speak offers a revolutionary take on public speaking and a new definition of what power sounds like. Namely, you"--
Author: Parker, T. Jefferson, author. Published: 2023 Call Number: F PARKER Format: Books Summary: The Rescue is a gripping thriller that explores the strength of the human-animal bond and how far we will go to protect what we love by three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker. While reporting on a Tijuana animal shelter, journalist Bettina Blazak falls in love with one of her story's subjects-an adorable Mexican street dog who is being treated for a mysterious gunshot wound. Bettina impulsively adopts the dog, who she names Felix after the veterinarian who saved him. In investigating Felix's past, Bettina discovers that his life is nothing like what she assumed. For one thing, he's not a Mexican street dog at all. A former DEA drug-sniffing dog, Felix has led a very colorful, dangerous, and profitable life. With Bettina's story going viral, some interesting people are looking for Felix, making him a target-again. Bettina soon finds herself drawn into a deadly criminal underworld from which she and her beloved dog may not return.
Author: Nagorski, Andrew, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: 150.19 Format: Books Summary: Part incisive new biography of Freud, part group biography of the extraordinary friends who saved his life, this riveting story shows how a group of those closest to Freud persuaded him to escape to London following the German annexation of Austria. In March 1938 Hitler absorbed the country of Austria into the Third Reich. Many Jews had already fled, but Sigmund Freud--eighty-one years old and ill with cancer--was unconvinced that his life was in danger. Nagorski tells of how several prominent people coaxed Freud from his deep state of denial, and extricated him and his family to London. -- Adapted from jacket.
Author: Fraser, Matt, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: 133.9013 Format: Books Summary: "From America's top psychic medium and the author of When Heaven Calls comes a new book that reveals all the secrets of the afterlife, including the truth about heaven, what happens to our loved ones when they pass away, and why we never truly die"--Publisher's website. Psychic medium Matt Fraser, author of When Heaven Calls, is back to unpack the number one question folks ask him: "What happens after death?" Although we might expect a complicated answer, it's actually pretty simple: We never die! Drawing from thousands of conversations with Spirit, Matt pulls back the curtain on life's hidden revelations: What happens when we cross over; The beautiful realities of heaven and eternal life; The guardian angels who keep us safe on Earth (including our pets who have passed); The role of dreams and how souls appear to the living; Love, romance, and soul mates beyond life; Ghosts, hauntings, negative souls, energy vampires, and psychic protection; Destiny, free will, and second chances; Regrets, amends, and forgiveness from heaven; Figuring out your gifts and purpose; Karma, kindness, and living in the divine flow; How to recognize the signs and messages our loved ones send us from heaven; As Matt explains, "We all have our own "phone line" to communicate with heaven. All we have to do is figure out how to use it." Revealed through never-before-told stories and Matt's conversations with the dearly departed, the wisdom in We Never Die is perfect for anyone seeking uplifting answers about life's biggest questions. Discover the healing and fulfillment that await us and our loved ones in the afterlife--plus how these truths can bring us comfort, meaning, and guidance in our earthly lives.
Author: Greenwalt, Dale E., 1949- author. Published: 2022 Call Number: 572.86 Format: Books Summary: "We usually think of fossils as being composed of rock, the original contents of the organisms lost to time. However, this is changing. Due to new technologies scientists are able to access the ancient biomolecules--the pigments, proteins, chemicals, and DNA--that once performed critical roles in organisms and have been preserved across millions of years. In this book, Dale Greenwalt introduces readers to the new science of ancient biomolecules and what it tells about the lives of long extinct life. Ancient biomolecules, as we learn, give us a whole new view into the past. After an introductory explanation of what biomolecules are (and are not), each chapter treats an ancient biomolecule and what it can teach us about a long-dead organism and how it may have lived. For example, analysis of preserved pigmentation has improved our understanding of the evolution of camouflage, feathered dinosaurs, and flight. Ancient proteins aid taxonomic identification and determinations of sex. And ancient DNA-perhaps the best-known ancient biomolecule--can shed light on species' ancestry, including our own. Drawing on a wealth of paleontological research, including his own, Greenwalt traces ancient organic material back millions of years. Throughout, he emphasizes the infancy of this science while the book's conclusion looks ahead to its possible future in everything from the search for life on other planets to de-extinction"--
Author: Tschiesche, Jenny, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: 641.77 Format: Books Summary: "An air-fryer is the latest kitchen must-have and this is the recipe book to go with it! This nifty, counter-top appliance is similar to an oven, as it bakes and roasts, but the key difference is its heating elements are located at the top and are enhanced by a large, powerful fan. The result is food that's crisp and delicious in no time and, most notably, it makes the perfect alternative to a deep-fat fryer for anyone adopting a healthier lifestyle. But air-fryers offer plenty of other benefits too: they require practically no heat up time, cook food fast and evenly, can be used away from home (making them popular for camping trips, stay-cations, and student living), plus clean-up is easy too. Nutritionist Jenny Tschiesche has developed 101 tried-and-tested recipes to help you get the very best out of your air-fryer. Her appealing ideas take their inspiration from all styles of world cuisine, and there is something here to suit every occasion, from snacks and sides, to complete meals and sweet treats"--provided by publisher.
Author: Armstrong, Kelley, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: Y ARMSTRON Format: Books Summary: When their friend Gabrielle is found covered in blood in front of their dead principal, with no recollection of what happened, Blythe, Tucker, and Tanya soon discover their lives are a lie as the walls built around their real memories come crashing down. Blythe and her friends--Gabrielle, and brother and sister Tucker and Tanya--have always been a tight-knit group, attending a local high school and falling in and out of love with each other. But an act of violence has caused a rift between Blythe and Tucker... and unexpected bursts of aggression and disturbing nightmares have started to become more frequent in their lives. The strange happenings culminate in a shocking event at school: Gabrielle is found covered in blood in front of their deceased principal, with no memory of what happened." --Front jacket flap
Author: Karadsheh, Suzy, author. Puckett, Susan, 1956- author. Bensel, Caitlin, photographer. Published: 2022 Call Number: 641.59 Format: Books Summary: "The highly anticipated debut cookbook from Suzy Karadsheh, founder of the blog The Mediterranean Dish, with more than 120 recipes for bright and flavorful Mediterranean diet-inspired meals. What began as one of the first online Mediterranean food blogs in 2014 has now blossomed into the long-awaited cookbook from Suzy Karadsheh who now has the most visited Mediterranean food blog. The Mediterranean Dish brings cross-culturally inspired dishes from throughout the Mediterranean into American home kitchens. Suzy's approach is practical and weeknight easy-a mom of two teenage daughters, Suzy is well versed in having to make dinner on the fly. Born in Egypt, Suzy lived in Michigan and Des Moines with her Palestinian husband before moving to Atlanta. Suzy's recipes reflect the rich and complex history of the Mediterranean and the Middle East from Tunisia to Greece and Jordan to southern Spain. Her winning combination of approachable instructions, friendly voice, reliable recipes, and simple assemblies create a package that is sure to thrill her hungry followership"--
Author: Good Housekeeping Institute (New York, N.Y.) Published: 2022 Call Number: 641.5612 Format: Books Summary: Delicious meals for your table of two. The Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen created 125 perfectly portioned (and easy!) recipes so you can enjoy something exciting every night.-- Recipes for four or more are great if you're feeding a family, or enjoy having leftovers. Dividing recipes in half (or less) doesn't always work. Here the editors of Good Housekeeping share recipes designed for two. They also include tips on small-batch cooking techniques, adjusting recipes, storing food properly, and even giving new life to ingredients when you have to purchase more than the recipe requires. -- adapted from information in Foreword and Chapter 1.
Author: Elledge, Audrey, author. Moore, Elizabeth (Penguin Random House), author. Published: 2022 Call Number: 242.8 Format: Books Summary: "Sixty contemporary, comforting liturgies that break through the noise of modern life to offer time-tested wisdom for readers navigating burnout, anxiety, and other stresses"--
Author: Jennings, Greg, 1955- editor. Published: 2022 2018 Call Number: 639.34 Format: Books Summary: "This updated, comprehensive, full-color reference covers 500 of the most popular freshwater aquarium fish. It provides concise at-a-glance information on their behavior, diet and breeding along with guidance and recommendations on setting up a freshwater aquarium. Species include: Cichlids, Catfish, Cyprinids, Characoids, Loaches and suckers, Gouramis, Rainbow fish and blue-eyes, Livebearers, and others. Includes glossary."--
Author: Rushkoff, Douglas, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: 303.483 RUSHKOFF Format: Books Summary: "The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind. Five mysterious billionaires summoned theorist Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The topic? How to survive the "Event": the societal catastrophe they know is coming. Rushkoff came to understand that these men were under the influence of The Mindset, a Silicon Valley-style certainty that they and their cohort can break the laws of physics, economics, and morality to escape a disaster of their own making-as long as they have enough money and the right technology. In Survival of the Richest, Rushkoff traces the origins of The Mindset in science and technology through its current expression in missions to Mars, island bunkers, AI futurism, and the metaverse. In a dozen urgent, electrifying chapters, he confronts tech utopianism, the datafication of all human interaction, and the exploitation of that data by corporations. Through fascinating characters-master programmers who want to remake the world from scratch as if redesigning a video game and bankers who return from Burning Man convinced that incentivized capitalism is the solution to environmental disasters-Rushkoff explains why those with the most power to change our current trajectory have no interest in doing so. And he shows how recent forms of anti-mainstream rebellion-QAnon, for example, or meme stocks-reinforce the same destructive order. This mind-blowing work of social analysis shows us how to transcend the landscape The Mindset created-a world alive with algorithms and intelligences actively rewarding our most selfish tendencies-and rediscover community, mutual aid, and human inter-dependency. In a thundering conclusion, Survival of the Richest argues that the only way to survive the coming catastrophe is to ensure it doesn't happen in the first place"--
Author: Kimmerer, Robin Wall, author. Gray Smith, Monique, 1968- adapter. Neidhardt, Nicole, illustrator. Adaptation of (work): Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding sweetgrass. Published: 2022 Call Number: 305.897 Format: Books Summary: "Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer's best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass is adapted for a young adult audience by children's author Monique Gray Smith, bringing Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation"--
Author: Lund, Natalie, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: Y LUND Format: Books Summary: The night little Madison disappears from her crib, Luce sees a pair of eyes-two points of gold deep in the forest behind her house-and feels certain they belong to a wolf. Her town, Picnic, Illinois, is the kind of place where everyone knows one another and no one locks their doors. It's not the kind of place where a toddler goes missing without a trace, where wolves lurk in the shadows. In town, people are quick to blame Madison's mom. But when Luce's English teacher shares an original script about the disappearance of another little girl in Picnic back in 1870, Luce begins to notice similarities that she can't ignore. Certain that something deeper is going on, Luce tracks the wolf she saw into the woods and uncovers the truth about her town: magical animal-women, who have remained hidden in shadows for centuries, have taken her cousin for their own purposes-and they have no intention of bringing her back. A chilling mystery that weaves elements of magical realism, drama, and folklore into a story of one teen's bravery as she confronts her town's past and tries to save the future. --Jacket flap.
Author: Gale, Patrick, 1962- author. Published: 2022 Call Number: F GALE Format: Books Summary: "Laura, an impoverished Cornish girl, meets her husband when they are both in service in Teignmouth in 1916. They have a baby, Charles, but Laura's husband returns home from the trenches a damaged man, already ill with the tuberculosis that will soon leave her a widow. In a small, class-obsessed town she raises her boy alone, working as a laundress, and gradually becomes aware that he is some kind of genius. An intensely private young man, Charles signs up for the navy with the new rank of coder. His escape from the tight, gossipy confines of Launceston to the colour and violence of war sees him blossom as he experiences not only the possibility of death, but the constant danger of a love that is as clandestine as his work."--Publisher.
Author: Young, Francis (Francis Kendrick), author. Published: 2022 Call Number: 203.0941 Format: Books Summary: "Belief in magic was, until relatively recent times, widespread in Britain, yet the impact of such belief on determinative political events has frequently been overlooked. In his wide-ranging new book, Francis Young explores the role of occult traditions in the history of the island of Great Britain: Merlin's realm. He argues that while the great magus and artificer invented by Geoffrey of Monmouth was a powerful model for a succession of actual royal magical advisers (including Roger Bacon and John Dee), monarchs nevertheless often lived in fear of hostile sorcery while at other times they even attempted magic themselves. Successive governments were simultaneously fascinated by astrology and alchemy, yet also deeply wary of the possibility of treasonous spellcraft. Whether deployed in warfare, rebellion or propaganda, occult traditions were of central importance to British history and, as the author reveals, these dark arts of magic and politics remain entangled to this day"--
Author: Olsen, Gregg, author. Olsen, Gregg. Bitter almonds. Revision of: Published: 2022 1993 Call Number: 364.152 Format: Books Summary: An account of the crimes of Stella Nickell and her look-alike daughter describes how Nickell--with the possible help of her daughter--killed her husband in order to collect on an insurance policy. At 5:02 pm on June 5, 1986, an emergency call came into the local sheriff's office in the small town of Auburn, Washington State. A distressed housewife, Stella Nickell, said her husband Bruce was having a seizure. Officers rushed to the Nickell's mobile home, to find Stella standing frozen at the door...Bruce was on the floor fighting for his life. As Stella became the beneficiary of over $175,000 in a life insurance pay-out, forensics discovered that Bruce had consumed painkillers laced with cyanide. A week later, fifteen-year-old Hayley was getting ready for another school day. Her mom, Sue, called out "I love you" before heading into the bathroom and moments later collapsed on the floor. Sue never regained consciousness, and the autopsy revealed she had been poisoned by cyanide tainted headache pills. Just like Bruce. While a daughter grieved the sudden and devastating loss of her mother, a young woman, Cindy, was thinking about her own mom Stella. She thought about the years of neglect and abuse, the tangled web of secrets Stella had shared with her, and Cindy contemplated turning her mom into the FBI...Gripping and heart-breaking, Gregg Olsen uncovers the shocking true story of a troubled family. He delves into a complex mother-daughter relationship rooted in mistrust and deception, and the journey of the sweet curly-haired little girl from Oregon whose fierce ambition to live the American Dream led her to make the ultimate betrayal. Originally published as Bitter Almonds. Revised and updated edition.
Author: Gay, Ross, 1974- author. Published: 2022 Call Number: 814.6 Format: Books Summary: "A collection of long-form essays on joy, in which the author turns his curious and poetic mind to everything from skateboarding and cover songs, basketball and race, dancing and academia, death and laughter, and, always, the garden and the natural world"-- In these gorgeously written and timely pieces, prizewinning poet and author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other, especially during life's inevitable hardships. Throughout Inciting Joy, he explores how we can practice recognizing that connection, and also, crucially, how we can expand it. In "We Kin," Gay thinks about the garden (es­pecially around August, when the zucchini and tomatoes come in) as a laboratory of mutual aid; in "Share Your Bucket," he explores skateboard­ing's reclamation of public spaces; he considers the costs of masculinity in "Grief Suite"; and in "Through My Tears I Saw," he recognizes what was healed in caring for his father as he was dying. In an era when divisive voices take up so much airspace, Inciting Joy offers a vital alternative: What might be possible if we turn our attention to what brings us together, to what we love? Taking a clear-eyed look at injustice, political polarization, and the destruction of the natural world, Gay shows us how we might resist, how the study of joy might lead us to a wild, unpredictable, transgressive, and unbounded solidarity. In fact, it just might help us survive. --Provided by publisher.
Author: Tebow, Tim, 1987- author. Gregory, A. J., 1976- author. Published: 2022 Call Number: 242.2 Format: Books Summary: "In his first devotional, the New York Times bestselling author and athlete challenges you to find your mission and pursue a bolder, brighter, more fulfilling life--by building your faith every single day"-- "Tim Tebow knows a thing or two about living a mission-possible life... In his first devotional, Tim reveals how you can find your mission and take a step each day to reach your purpose and your best future. Through 365 Bible-based readings, you'll discover how to: align your responsibilities ; identify your priorities ; elevate your convictions ; make decisive, wise choices ; fuel your drive and passion ; set your sights on eternity. The secret to a truly meaningful life doesn't involve more comfort or ease. It requires a clear focus on who God made you to be and a proven guide to get you there." --Back cover
Author: Renkl, Margaret, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: 814.6 Format: Books Summary: "From New York Times contributing opinion writer and author of Late Migrations Margaret Renkl, a selection of her beloved weekly essays presenting a multifaceted view of the contemporary American South"-- For the last four years Renkl's writing has offered readers of the New York Times a weekly dose of natural beauty, human decency, and persistent hope from her home in Nashville. This collection of her essays provide a patchwork quilt of the complexities of her homeland, demonstrating along the way how much more there is to this tangled region than many people understand. As she highlights people who are fighting for a better future of the region, Renkl's book is full of gifts for Southerners and non-Southerners alike.--
