Author: Lüsted, Marcia Amidon, author. Elman, Miriam Fendius, consultant. Published: 2018 Call Number: 956.04 Format: Books Summary: "The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict covers the history of the Middle East, the perspectives on each side of the conflict, and the efforts that have been made to bring peace to the region"--
Author: Burstein, Jane R., author. Published: 2016 Call Number: 371.2 Format: Books Summary: "To ensure a standard degree of professional readiness and competence in candidates for teaching certification, many states (36 at the time of publication) are in the process of evaluating and/or adopting the teacher preparation assessment known as the edTPA assessment"--Page 1
Author: Orwell, George, 1903-1950. Pynchon, Thomas. Fromm, Erich, 1900-1980. Published: 2016 1949 Call Number: CL ORWELL Format: Books Summary: Portrays a terrifying vision of life in the future when a totalitarian government, considered a "Negative Utopia," watches over all citizens and directs all activities, becoming more powerful as time goes by.
Author: Benchley, Peter author. Published: 2013 1974 Call Number: F BENCHLEY Format: Books Summary: When three people are killed by a great white shark in three different incidents, the police chief of a Long Island resort town is forced to take action.
Author: Penny, Louise. Published: 2008 2007 Call Number: F PENNY Format: Books Summary: Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the S^urete du Quebec is called to investigate the death of a villager at an Easter seance that was held at the Old Hadley House.
Author: Rubin, Julia Lynn, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: Y RUBIN Format: Books Summary: While at the college prep Camp Rockaway, sixteen-year-old Arlee Gold is tapped to join a secret society, with deadly consequences. Arlee Gold has always lived in the shadow of her successful mom; even after everything Arlee's been through, her mother still expects nothing but the best. In an effort to get her daughter back on track after a less-than-stellar few school years, she's enrolled Arlee as a legacy at Camp Rockaway, an elite college prep summer camp deep in the North Carolina wilderness. On her own for the first time and buzzing with anxiety, Arlee is intimidated by the camp's shiny exterior, suffocated by the relentless, thick summer heat...and tormented by the ceaseless stream of crawling, slimy, flapping bugs that seem to come straight from her nightmares. In the midst of her brewing dread, Arlee is relieved to find a queer sanctuary in her bunkmates, and is especially drawn to Winnie, the enigmatic girl who sleeps in the bunk above her. Except Arlee starts to notice whispers in her wake, and how so many others recoil from her as if she were as creepy as the insects that terrify her. Struggling in her prep classes and feeling increasingly paranoid, Arlee can no longer suppress her panicked "glitches." Winnie, too, seems to become wary, and Arlee's worst fear is confirmed: even here, in the place her mother promised was "going to change everything," she's been found out as a freak. Just as she's facing a summer completely alone, another rising junior slips her a mysterious invitation, and Arlee finds herself caught up in a secret society that expects its sisterhood to protect each other from any and all who would harm them--by any means necessary. Here, finally, Arlee feels like a part of something bigger, something that matters. Guided by their cunning leader, Lisha, a rising senior with a smile sharp enough to cut bone, the sisterhood will stand against any threat, unquestioningly. But when Winnie is put in grave danger, Arlee is forced to confront just how far her sisters will go, and whether they truly protect the girls.
Author: Capin, Hannah, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: Y CAPIN Format: Books Summary: A year ago at the elite Marshall Summer Naval School, Margaret Moore presumably drowned herself from heartbreak, but this summer, the remaining girls from Deck Five will ensure Margaret's story is heard. Each summer the girls of Deck Five come back to Marshall Naval School. They sail on jewel-blue waters; they march on green drill-fields; they earn sunburns and honors. They push until they break apart and heal again, stronger. Each summer Margaret and Rose and Flor and Nisreen come back to the place where they are girls, safe away from the world: sisters bound by something more than blood. But this summer everything has changed. Girls are missing and a boy is dead. It's because of Margaret Moore, the boys say. It's because of what happened that night in the storm. Margaret's friends vanish one by one, swallowed up into the lies she has told about what happened between her and a boy with the world at his feet. Can she unravel the secrets of this summer and last, or will she be pulled under by the place she once called home?
Author: Lupica, Mike, author. Parker, Robert B., 1932-2010, creator. Published: 2022 Call Number: LP F LUPICA Format: Large print Summary: "PI Sunny Randall's landlord and former client, Melanie Joan Hall, is being threatened and blackmailed. But as Sunny looks in to the identity of Melanie Joan's stalker, she learns that much of the author's past is a product of her imagination, and her loyalty to her old friend is challenged as she searches for the truth. At the same time, Sunny springs into action when her aging father is threatened by a lawyer with a desire to settle an old score. Sunny must use all of her savvy to protect those she loves. And one thing is for sure with both cases: this time, it's personal"--
Author: Kingsbury, Karen, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: LP F KINGSBUR Format: Large print Summary: "A storm builds as Elizabeth Baxter prepares to celebrate her daughter Kari's wedding to Tim Jacobs, and there are dark currents of conflict coursing through the Baxter family. In the midst of them, Kari Baxter is starting to panic. Is marrying Tim a mistake? And what about her family? Her brother Luke is angry and resentful of their sister Ashley, who has recently returned from Paris. At the same time, Ashley and their sister Brooke have lost the faith that is the family's glue. When the storm reaches a terrifying crescendo, a shocking moment of danger brings important truths to light. At the end of the long day, can the Baxters remain a family, tested but stronger?"--
Author: Foley, Lucy (Novelist), author. Published: 2022 Call Number: LP F FOLEY Format: Large print Summary: "Jess needs a fresh start. She's broke and alone, and she's just left her job under less-than-ideal circumstances. Her half-brother, Ben, didn't sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a bit, but he didn't say no, and surely everything will look better from Paris. Only when she shows up, to find a very nice apartment--could Ben really have afforded this?-- he's not there. The longer Ben stays missing, the more Jess starts to dig into her brother's situation, and the more questions she has. Ben's neighbors are an eclectic bunch, and not particularly friendly. Jess may have come to Paris to escape her past, but it's starting to look like it's Ben's future that's in doubt. Everyone's a neighbor. Everyone's a suspect. And everyone knows something they're not telling."--Back cover.
Author: Higgins, Kristan, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: F HIGGINS Format: Books Summary: "An evocative new novel from the New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins. Beware the wrath of a woman scorned--she just might save the world. Lillie knew the empty nest would be hard when her son left for college, but she had no idea of the full extent to which her world would come crashing down--until her husband announced out of the blue that he was in love with another woman, and he would be leaving, too. Besides the fact that this announcement was a complete surprise (to say the least), what surprised her most was that she wasn't...sad. She was furious. What was she supposed to do now? She surely couldn't look for help from her mother, who had left the family on Cape Cod to live with her new wife when Lillie was still a little girl. Lillie's sister, Hannah, had abandoned her to live a more interesting life and wouldn't be any help now either. Her father was usually her rock, but recently, he'd betrayed her by taking Ben Hallowell under his wing--the man who almost ruined her life in a car accident when she was in high school. Her dad had put the guy up in the family guesthouse, which was certainly no help to Lillie at all. And she sure as hell wasn't going to get any help from Melissa, her husband's gold-digging new wife (or her oddly lost teenage niece, Ophelia). So, who was going to help her? Actually, maybe all of them. And maybe she would save them, too"--
Author: Miller, Linda Lael, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: LP F MILLER Format: Large print Summary: "Rancher and military veteran J.P. McCall loves simple pleasures. But ever since his two closest friends have married and started families of their own, J.P. realizes what he's been missing. And then Sara Worth comes crashing back into his life. Single mom Sara Worth has her hands full. After a disastrous early marriage, she is now writing bestselling books by day and caring for her two teenagers by night. When an innocent request for J.P.'s help leads to an unforgettable kiss, she's intrigued. But when the man from Sara's past resurfaces, J.P. will do whatever it takes to protect the woman who's stealing his heart"--
Author: McCrina, Amanda, 1990- author. Published: 2022 Call Number: Y MCCRINA Format: Books Summary: In July 1944, as the Red Army drives the Nazis out of Poland, sixteen-year-old Maria Kami?ska must work with a captured Ukrainian nationalist to find her brother, who is a special operations agent and leader of a Polish Resistance squad, when he disappears while on a mission. Poland, July 1944. Maria is making her way home after years of forced labor in Nazi Germany, only to find her village destroyed and her parents killed in a war between the Polish Resistance and Ukrainian nationalists. The local Resistance unit is commanded by her older brother, Tomek--who she thought was dead. He is now a "Silent Unseen," a special-operations agent with an audacious plan to resist a new and even more dangerous enemy sweeping in from the East. When Tomek disappears, Maria is determined to find him. But the only person who might be able to help is a young Ukrainian prisoner. He is the last person Maria trusts--even as she feels a growing connection to him that she can't resist. --Adapted from jacket.
Author: Housewright, David, 1955- author. Published: 2022 Call Number: F HOUSEWRI Format: Books Summary: "In David Housewright's next hardboiled mystery Something Wicked, Rushmore McKenzie, who promised to retire after his last nearly-fatal case, gets talked into doing an old friend a favor involving a castle, a family fighting over an inheritance, and at least one mysterious death. Rushmore McKenzie was a detective with the St. Paul, Minnesota PD until unlikely events made him first a millionaire and then a retiree. Since then, he's been an occasional unofficial private investigator - looking into things for friends and friends of friends - until his most recent case put him into a coma and nearly into a coffin. Now, at the insistence of his better half Nina Truhler, he is again retired. That is, until a friend of Nina finds herself in dire straights and in desperate need of a favor. Jenness Crawford's grandmother owned the family castle - a nineteenth century castle that has been operating as a hotel and resort for over a hundred years. Since her grandmother's death, the heirs have been squabbling over what to do with it. Some want to keep it in the family and running as a hotel. Some want to sell it and reap the millions a developer will pay for it. And Jenness is convinced that someone - probably in the latter group - killed her grandmother. A conclusion with which the police do not agree. Now McKenzie finds himself back in action, trapped in a castle filled with feuding relatives with conflicting agendas, long serving retainers, and a possible murderer. And if McKenzie makes one wrong move, it could be lights out"--
Author: Robotham, Mandy, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: F ROBOTHAM Format: Books Summary: In 1942 Norway, Rumi helps smuggle British agents, fugitives, and supplies across the North Sea, but when one mission goes awry, resulting in tragedy, she retreats from the clandestine group until her childhood friend is taken by the Nazis, forcing her to face her fears to save her. "War rages, and, under cover of darkness, Rumi Orlstad and her fellow resistance fighters smuggle British agents, fugitives and supplies across the North Sea into Nazi-occupied territory. One night, when he braves a storm to complete an ill-fated mission, Rumi's fiancé is lost to the dangerous waters. Broken-hearted, she withdraws from the clandestine group, vowing never to let her loved ones put themselves in the line of fire again. But months later, Rumi stumbles across a Nazi secret that lays Hitler's plans for Norway bare, and she knows she has no choice but to risk her life for her country once more."--Back cover.
Author: Donnelly, Kathleen (Writer of fiction), author. Published: 2022 Call Number: PB DONNELLY Format: Books Summary: "After losing her military K-9, former marine Maya Thompson swears she'll never work with dogs again. But when she returns home to Colorado and accepts a job with US Forest Service law enforcement, fate brings K-9 Juniper into her life just as another tragedy unfolds. Juniper, a beautiful two-year-old Malinois, isn't the only new addition to Maya's life. Josh Colten, the local deputy sheriff, insists on helping with her new case. Handsome and mysterious, he's all anyone in town can talk about, but Maya can't let herself like him, let alone trust him. When Maya's grandfather goes missing amid a growing drug war, Maya must put her faith in Josh, and her own battered instincts, to find him. But there's a web of secrets tying her grandfather to the tragedy that brought Juniper into her life--secrets someone would kill to keep hidden" --Back cover.
Author: Carson, Ben, author. Carson, Candy, author. King, Alveda C. (Alveda Celeste), writer of foreword. Published: 2022 Call Number: 305.8009 Format: Books Summary: "External physical characteristics that are genetically encoded are things over which no individual has control. But rather than appreciating the gift of diversity, some have chosen to use it to drive wedges between groups of people. Some of these external characteristics are associated with the past moral failing of slavery. Though slavery in America formally ended in the 1860s, the vestiges of that evil institution are still with us today, and those vestiges often inflict guilt on some and facilitate feelings of victimhood in others. In Created Equal, Dr. Carson uses his own personal experiences as a member of a racial minority, along with the writings and experiences of others from multiple backgrounds and demographics, to analyze the current state of race relations in America. Instead of using race as an excuse to remake America into something completely antithetical to the Constitution, Dr. Carson suggests ways to enhance and bring great success to our nation and all multiethnic societies by magnifying America's incredible strengths instead of her historical weaknesses"--
Author: Hyslop, Leah, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: 641.86 Format: Books Summary: "Whether you prefer a rich fudgy brownie or a comforting cakey blondie, dive into these 50-plus brownie-based solutions to all of life's challenges, big or small"--Back cover. Fifty modern, mouthwatering recipes for the world's favorite chocolatey treat. Fun and user-friendly, The Brownie Diaries offers brownie-based solutions to all life's challenges, big and small. From brownies for comfort, like the "Feeling Lonesome Tonight" brownie (an indulgent concoction made from pantry staples such as peanut butter and crumbled cookies), to brownies for celebration, such as the "I Think I Love You" Brownie (with raspberry cheesecake swirl), you'll find the perfect brownie for every occasion among these pages. Stuck indoors on a rainy Sunday afternoon? There's a brownie for that, too, along with brownie-inspired twists on classic recipes for cookies and ice-cream sundaes. Complete with a cocoa-dusted smattering of brownie trivia and quick-fixes to stop your brownies from sinking, The Brownie Diaries is the perfect book for brownie lovers everywhere.
Author: Jones, Gayl, author. Jones, Gayl. Song for Anninho. Published: 2022 1981 Call Number: 811.54 Format: Books Summary: "Two epic poems, the love songs of fugitive slaves, set in 17th-century Brazil"-- "From the highly acclaimed author of Corregidora and The Healing, two epic poems set in seventeenth-century Brazil, the narratives in verse of the former slave Almeyda and her warrior husband, Anninho, who are separated as they flee from the Portuguese destruction of the last fugitive slave enclave in Brazil, a place known as Palmares. Gayl Jones's powerful poetry stands alongside the unforgettable journey told in her masterful novel Palmares." --Front jacket flap
