Author: Kuehn, Stephanie, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: Y KUEHN Format: Books Summary: Beatrice Fletcher, great-grandniece of famous mystery writer Jessica Fletcher, is obsessed with the unsolved mysteries and murders of Cabot Cove, Maine, but this time the case becomes personal when her best friend Jackson disappears and she must rely on the help of three students from the elite Broadmoor Academy to find him.
Author: Joseph, Lauren John, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: F JOSEPH Format: Books Summary: "It's four in the morning, and our narrator is walking home from the club when they realize that it's February 29th--the birthday of the man who was something like their first love. Piecing together art, letters and memory, they set about trying to write the story of a doomed affair that first sparked and burned a decade ago. Ten years earlier, and our young narrator and a boy named Thomas James fall into bed with one another over the summer of their graduation. Their ensuing affair, with its violent, animal intensity and its intoxicating and toxic power play will initiate a dance of repulsion and attraction that will cross years, span continents, drag in countless victims - and culminate in terrible betrayal. At Certain Points We Touch is a story of first love and last rites, conjured against a vivid backdrop of London, San Francisco and New York--a riotous, razor-sharp coming-of-age story that marks the arrival of an extraordinary new talent."--Provided by publisher.
Author: Green, Simon James, author. Published: 2022 2020 Call Number: Y GREEN Format: Books Summary: "When their ex-boyfriends get together and start Instagramming a disgustingly perfect summer of love, Jack and Nate decide to concoct a mutual Insta-worthy summer adventure of their own to prove they're just fine and everything's great. Of course, it's hard to have an epic summer road trip when they're stuck in a van with Nate's mid-life crisis-bound parents and his annoying younger sister. And it's been years since Jack and Nate have said more than a few sentences to each other. But their followers don't have to know any of that. How hard could faking the high life be? Posting as @TheHeartBreakBoys, the duo stumbles into one hilarious situation after another--and each discover that maybe the cure for heartbreak has been the boy riding next to him all along"--
Author: Smith, Sasha Peyton, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: Y SMITH Format: Books Summary: "Months after the devastating battle between the Sons of St. Druon and the witches of Haxahaven, Frances has built a quiet, safe life for herself, teaching young witches and tending the garden within the walls of Haxahaven Academy. But one thing nags; her magic has begun to act strangely. When an opportunity to visit Paris arises, Frances jumps at the chance to go, longing for adventure and seeking answers about her own power"-- 1913. Months after the battle between the Sons of Saint Druon and the witches of Haxahaven, Frances has build a quiet life for herself within Haxahaven Academy. Her magic is acting strangely, but when an opportunity to visit Paris arises she jumps at the chance to find answers about her power. Traveling with classmates Maxine and Lena, Francis learns that the spell she used to speak to her dead brother has created a rift in the veil between the living and the dead, and a group of magicians are using the rift for their own gain. To write this wrong, Frances must team up with the person she sword she'd never trust again--and risks her own life in the process. -- adapted from jacket.
Author: LaRocca, Eric, author. Container of (work): Rocca, Eric. Enchantment. Container of (work): Rocca, Eric. You'll find it's like that all over. Published: 2022 Call Number: F LAROCCA Format: Books Summary: "A whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet between two lonely young women in an internet chat room in the early 2000s--a darkness that threatens to forever transform them once they finally succumb to their most horrific desires. A couple isolate themselves on a remote island in an attempt to recover from their teenage son's death, when a mysterious young man knocks on their door during a storm... And a man confronts his neighbor when he discovers a strange object in his backyard, only to be drawn into an ever more dangerous game. Three devastating, beatifully written horror stories from one of the genre's most cutting-edge voices"--
Author: Hay Hinsdale, Emily L., author. Harris, Loni, illustrator. Published: 2022 Call Number: 635.965 HINSDALE Format: Books Summary: "Keep your house plants alive and thriving with this illustrated, accessible guide to popular house plants for new and experienced plant-parents alike"-- Your plants speak to you! Once you understand what they're saying, you will be able to help them thrive. Healthy plants are a boon to any environment: they can enliven your peace or mood, and it has been shown that nurturing plants is great for our mental health. But keeping a plant healthy can be a mystery. What does it mean if your plant has brown tips? Rotting roots? Yellow leaves? What Is My Plant Telling Me? answers all these and dozens of other questions about houseplant health. With beautiful illustrations and information on "listening" to the fifty most popular houseplants, this book will help you become a n expert plant whisperer and teach you how to: Choose plants that work best for your space ; Spot the best location in your home for each plant ; Identify classic distress signals and tend to them ; Find exactly the right size pot for replanting ; and more! Whether you're raising a cactus, an orchid, or the popular fiddle-leaf fig, What Is My Plant Telling Me? will enable you to decipher all your plants' messages so that they will grow beautifully in any home. --
Author: Webster, Michael Mehta, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: 333.72 Format: Books Summary: "The Rescue Effect shows us the regenerative systems that help nature survive in the face of stressors like climate change, and how we can use this natural resiliency to help reverse it"-- As climate change continues to intensify, the outlook for life on Earth often seems bleak. Yet hope for the future can be found in the "rescue effect," which is nature's innate ability to help organisms persist during hard times. Like a thermostat starting the air conditioning when a room gets too warm, the rescue effect automatically kicks in when organisms are stressed or declining. In The Rescue Effect, Michael Mehta Webster reveals the science behind nature's inherent resilience, through compelling stories of species that are adapting to the changing world--including tigers in the jungles of India, cichlid fish in the great lakes of Africa, and corals in the Caribbean. In some cases, like the mountain pygmy-possum in the snowy mountains of southeast Australia, we risk losing species without intensive help from people. As observers to--and the cause of--species declines, we must choose whether and how to help, while navigating challenging questions about emerging technologies and the ethics of conservation actions. Ultimately, Webster argues that there are good reasons to expect a bright future, because everywhere we look, we can see evidence that nature can rescue many species from extinction; and when nature alone is not up to the task, we can help. Combining rigorous research with gripping storytelling, The Rescue Effect provides the cautious optimism we need to help save life on Earth.
Author: Mora, Lucy, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: 635 Format: Books Summary: The Kitchen Garden features fifty-five plant profiles ranging from the everyday to the unique. Each profile is illustrated and has an easy-to-comprehend table detailing the most important information: when to sow and harvest; growing time; space needed between plants; optimal soil pH; whether the plant will tolerate pots and frost; and each plant's companions and dislikes. A planting chart summarizing the most useful information from the plant profiles is also included, along with guidance on the different climate zones and how best to start your kitchen garden. With an emphasis on seasons rather than months, the book is a beautiful and practical gift for a garden enthusiast, whether they live in the northern or southern hemisphere. --
Author: Chima, Cinda Williams, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: Y CHIMA Format: Books Summary: Desperate to escape her demon master, runecaster Reggin Eiklund flees to the Grove, while Eiric Halvorsen, falsely accused of murdering his modir and stepfadir, journeys to the Grove at the behest of a powerful jarl interested in restoring magic to the world. Ever since Ragnarok, the human realm of the Midlands has been bereft of magic, and most lead lives of desperation. Eiric Halvorsen's family has remained prosperous--until he is convicted by a rigged jury of murdering his modir and stepfadir. His half-systir, Liv, has an interest in seidr, or magic--and has become a figure of suspicion. A powerful jarl offers to pay the blood price if Eiric will lead a mission to the fabled Temple at the Grove--stronghold of the wyrdspinners, the last practitioners of sorcery. Spellsinger, musician, and runecaster Reggin Eiklund has spent her life traveling, performing at alehouses for the benefit of her master, Asger, the fire demon she is desperate to escape. Then two wyrdspinners in the audience ask her to return with them to the temple to be trained in seidr, forever free of Asger. In New Jotunheim Eiric and Asger will discover that a great evil lurks beneath the dazzling surface--and another cataclysmic war looms. --adapted from jacket
Author: June, Brandie, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: Y JUNE Format: Books Summary: Nor and King Casper are captured by the fay army and forced to face the indomitable Faerie Queen, Marasina. At her command, Casper is thrown into a mysterious prison while an even sinister fate is in store for Nor--a deadly fay poison that reveals Nor's true nature. She's not only half-fay. She is Queen Marasina's heir. Revealed to be like the very creatures she despises, Nor must not only find a way to free Casper but also navigate a court that is as deadly as it is beautiful. Her allies are few, and though Pel claims to want friendship, Nor finds she cannot forgive his betrayal. As tensions mount and war looms between the kingdoms, Nor must choose a side, before it's too late. In this epic conclusion to the Gold Spun duology, Nor discovers that a glamour and a curse may be two sides of the same coin.
Author: Landers, Melissa, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: Y LANDERS Format: Books Summary: In a world where magical Mystics exist alongside humans, sixteen-year-old Talia is thrust into the most powerful and secretive Mystic family--and accused of trying to murder them. Boarding school student Talia Morris has no idea her boyfriend, Nathaniel, is a Mystic, let alone second in line to the throne of a secretive, aspirational magical community--one no mortal has ever been allowed to step inside. Until now. Nathanial's cousin is about to be married in the biggest wedding the magical world has ever seen, and Nathaniel is allowed to bring a date. Talia is the lucky recipient of the golden ticket every Mystic wannabe in the world would kill for--only she doesn't want it. Talia thinks Mystic worship unnecessarily aggrandizes people for being born a certain way. When she finds out Nathaniel is "one of them," she almost jumps ship. But Nathaniel loves her, and she loves him. So when he begs her to give his family and their community a shot, she reluctantly agrees. Enter the most fantastical world any mortal has ever seen, and a magical wedding straight out of a dream. After a few days of bonding with Nathaniel's family on the island, of seeing how beautiful their magic is and how peaceful their community, Talia's about to be won over--until the entire wedding party suddenly falls into an unexplainable coma and the community goes on lock-down. Talia, the outsider, is pegged as the culprit and has to do everything in her meager non-power to prove her innocence. As she embarks on a journey to find the truth, Talia soon discovers reality is not all it seems, and her past may put her in more danger than she ever imagined.
Author: French, Gillian, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: Y FRENCH Format: Books Summary: Partially deaf, seventeen-year-old Owl feels the most free hiking the forested areas around her family's New Hampshire farm, but the apperance of Cody, a magnetic young man hired to help with the sugaring off, forces Owl to make difficult decisions about their relationship and her relationship with her family.
Author: Robin, Emery, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: F ROBIN Format: Books Summary: "Princess Altagracia has lost everything. After a bloody civil war, her twin sister has claimed not just the crown of their planet Szayet but the Pearl of its prophecy, a computer that contains the immortal soul of Szayet's god. Stripped of her birthright, Gracia flees the planet-just as Matheus Ceirran, Commander of the interstellar Empire of Ceiao, arrives in deadly pursuit with his volatile lieutenant, Anita. When Gracia and Ceirran's paths collide, Gracia sees an opportunity to win back her planet, her god, and her throne...if she can win the Commander and his right-hand officer over first. But talking her way into Ceirran's good graces, and his bed, is only the beginning. Dealing with the most powerful man in the galaxy is almost as dangerous as war, and Gracia is quickly torn between an alliance that fast becomes more than political and the wishes of the god-or machine-that whispers in her ear. For Szayet's sake, and her own, Gracia will need to become more than a princess with a silver tongue. She will have to become a queen as history has never seen before-even if it breaks an empire"--
Author: Green, M. R. (Matthew Robert), author. Published: 2022 Call Number: 941.03 Format: Books Summary: A "brilliant London historian" (BBC Radio) tells the story of Britain as never before--through its abandoned villages and towns. Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale of Britain's eerie and remarkable ghost towns and villages; shadowlands that once hummed with life. Peering through the cracks of history, we find Dunwich, a medieval city plunged off a cliff by sea storms; the abandoned village of Wharram Percy, wiped out by the Black Death; the lost city of Trellech unearthed by moles in 2002; and a Norfolk village zombified by the military and turned into a Nazi, Soviet, and Afghan village for training. Matthew Green, a British historian and broadcaster, tells the astonishing tales of the rise and demise of these places, animating the people who lived, worked, dreamed, and died there. Traveling across Britain to explore their haunting and often-beautiful remains, Green transports the reader to these lost towns and cities as they teeter on the brink of oblivion, vividly capturing the sounds of the sea clawing away row upon row of houses, the taste of medieval wine, or the sights of puffin hunting on the tallest cliffs in the country. We experience them in their prime, look on at their destruction, and revisit their lingering remains as they are mourned by evictees and reimagined by artists, writers, and mavericks. A stunning and original excavation of Britain's untold history, Shadowlands gives us a truer sense of the progress and ravages of time, in a moment when many of our own settlements are threatened as never before.
Author: Corcoran, Katherine, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: 364.152 Format: Books Summary: A former Associated Press bureau chief describes the story of Mexican Gulf Coast journalist Regina Martinez, who was murdered in cold blood for uncovering and publicizing the disappearance of thousands of Mexican people. "Regina Martínez was no stranger to retaliation. A journalist out of Mexico's Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, Regina's stories for the magazine Proceso laid out the corruption and abuse underlying Mexican politics. She was barred from press conferences, and copies of Proceso often disappeared before they made the newsstands. In 2012, shortly after Proceso published an article on corruption and two Veracruz politicians, and the magazine went missing once again, she was bludgeoned to death in her bathroom. The message was clear: No journalist in Mexico was safe. Katherine Corcoran, then leading the Associated Press coverage of Mexico, admired Regina Martínez's work. Troubled by the news of her death, Corcoran journeyed to Veracruz to find out what had happened. Regina hadn't even written the controversial article. But did she have something else that someone didn't want published? Once there, Katherine bonded with four of Regina's grief-stricken mentees, each desperate to prove who was to blame for the death of their friend. Together they battled cover-ups, narco-officials, red tape, and threats to sift through the mess of lies--and discover what got Regina killed. A gripping look at reporters who dare to step on the deadly "third rail," where the state and organized crime have become indistinguishable, In the Mouth of the Wolf confronts how silencing the free press threatens basic protections and rule of law across the globe"--
Author: Gill, Nikita, author, illustrator. Published: 2019 Call Number: 821.92 Format: Books Summary: With lyrical prose and striking verse, beloved poet Nikita Gill uses the history of Ancient Greece and beyond to explore and share the stories of the mothers, warriors, creators, survivors, and destroyers who shook the world. In pieces that burn with empathy and admiration for these women, Gill unearths the power and glory of the very foundations of mythology and culture that have been too-often ignored or pushed aside. Complete with beautiful hand-drawn illustrations, Gill's poetry and stories weave old and forgotten tales of might and love into an empowering collection for the modern woman.
Author: McLeod, Kimberly, author. Published: 2019 Call Number: 745.5 Format: Books Summary: Presents craft projects that can be made out of recycled materials, including a homemade kaleidoscope, a dinosaur terrarium, and a cardboard castle. Kimberly McLeod, creator of The Best Ideas for Kids, provides a varied selection of budget-friendly, eco-conscious projects that are great for imaginary play, bedroom decorations, gift giving and more! You'll be so proud of the projects you've created and customized with your own hands--and they are as fun to make as they are to play with!
Author: Harder, Lori, 1980- author. Published: 2019 2018 Call Number: 158.2 HARDER Format: Books Summary: Today, we live in an uber-connected era, where anyone is able to make thousands of friends and participate in their lives with the swipe of a finger. Why then, in such a connected time in history, do so many women feel disconnected, confined, misunderstood, defeated, or think that success is a solo project? The benefits of a having a tribe are undeniable. Women who have strong social circles are living longer, happier, healthier lives in comparison to those who lack connections and are exhausting themselves trying to quench external desires in isolation. In A Tribe Called Bliss Lori Harder bridges the gap between inspiration and action, providing a lasting resource for positive change and a guidebook for establishing a support tribe. With crucial and fascinating lessons and contextual self-work exercises, this is the ultimate guidebook to discover the key to a lifetime of blissful happiness.
Author: White, Karen (Karen S.), author. Published: 2017 2007 Call Number: F WHITE Format: Books Summary: Brenna O'Brien doesn't believe in happy endings. Not since the love of her life, Pierce McGovern, left her years ago without a word. Now, she leads a quiet life surrounded by her four matchmaking sisters, running a historic movie theater and collecting old wartime letters. But she leaves the letters unopened, preferring to imagine their possibilities rather than risk being disappointed. Then Pierce comes back to town, shattering Brenna's hard-earned peace-and forcing her to re-examine everything, and realize that if she doesn't come to terms with the life she let slip away, she may never have the courage to go after the life she wants.
Author: Wiseman, Ellen Marie, author. Published: 2015 Call Number: F WISEMAN Format: Manuscript Summary: "As a child, Emma Malloy left isolated Coal River, Pennsylvania, vowing never to return. Now, orphaned and penniless at nineteen, she accepts a train ticket from her aunt and uncle and travels back to the rough-hewn community. Treated like a servant by her relatives, Emma works for free in the company store. There, miners and their impoverished families must pay inflated prices for food, clothing, and tools while those who owe money are turned away to starve. Though Emma's actions draw ire from the mine owner and police captain, they lead to an alliance with a charismatic miner who offers to help her expose the truth. And as the lines blur between what is legal and what is just, Emma must risk everything to follow her conscience."--Provided by publisher.
