Author: Bradford, Chris, author. Published: 2017 2015 Call Number: Y BRADFORD Format: Books Summary: Teenage bodyguard Connor is assigned to protect a French diplomat's family on safari in Africa, but deep in the savanna the journey takes a terrifying turn when their convoy is ambushed by brutal gunmen. Connor Reeves is selected to protect a French diplomat's family on a safari in Africa. Their convoy is ambushed by brutal gunmen seeking bloodshed and riches. Connor and those under his protection become the prey in a deadly hunt across the African plains. --adapted from back cover
Author: Bradford, Chris, author. Published: 2017 2014 Call Number: Y BRADFORD Format: Books Summary: Teenage bodyguard Connor Reeves continues to put his life on the line for Alicia, the U.S. President's daughter, while the terrorist plot to kidnap her proceeds. Connor Reeves battles to protect the US president's daughter, Alicia, from mortal danger...even if it means putting his own life at risk. Connor is an invisible shield kept secret from everyone, to protect the president's daughter. Alicia doesn't even know about him. Yet danger lurks around every corner, and the terrorist plot to kidnap Alicia is already under way, the net tightening as the enemy prepares to strike. -- adapted from back cover
Author: Apatow, Judd, 1967- author. Published: 2016 2015 Call Number: 792.76 APATOW Format: Books Summary: "Before his name became synonymous with a new style of comedy; before he had written, directed, or produced his first movie or TV show; before he and his roommate Adam Sandler were performing stand up at dive bars in LA; before all that, Judd Apatow was a kid in Syosett, Long Island who was utterly obsessed with comedy. At 16, he started hosting a radio show for his local high school station, and he would call up the biggest comics of the day - comics like Jerry Seinfeld, Jay Leno, Steve Allen, Sandra Bernhard; none of whom, by the way, had any idea they were talking to a kid in his parents' garage -- and talk to them about what got them into comedy, and what made them stay in. Thirty years later, Apatow is still that comedy nerd, and still interviewing comics about what drives them and why they do what they do. That obsession has made him one of the most recognizable and influential comedic filmmakers working today. This book is a collection of 30 years worth of conversations -- always funny, often poignant, and incredibly intimate -- that not only span Apatow's career, but his adult life. Featuring interviews with luminaries like Mel Brooks and Chris Rock and modern icons like Louis CK and Amy Schumer, this is a book for fans of comedy, from the nerdiest fan of all" --Provided by publisher.
Author: End?, Sh?saku, 1923-1996, author. Published: 2016 Call Number: F ENDO Format: Books Summary: "Shusaku Endo's classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times "Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama."--The New York Times Book Review Seventeenth-century Japan: Two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to a country hostile to their religion, where feudal lords force the faithful to publicly renounce their beliefs. Eventually captured and forced to watch their Japanese Christian brothers lay down their lives for their faith, the priests bear witness to unimaginable cruelties that test their own beliefs. Shusaku Endois one of the most celebrated and well-known Japanese fiction writers of the twentieth century, and Silence is widely considered to be his great masterpiece"--
Author: Bishop, Anne, author. Published: 2014 2013 Call Number: PB BISHOP Format: Books Summary: Blood prophet Meg Corbyn, who can see the future when her skin is cut, escapes enslavement by her Controller and teams up with a shape-shifter who employs her as a Human Liaison.
Author: Sebag Montefiore, Simon, 1965- author. Published: 2014 Call Number: F SEBAGMON Format: Books Summary: "The engrossing, heartbreaking new novel about two forbidden and deadly love affairs set in the corridors of Moscow's most elite school in 1945 by the brilliant and bestselling historian Simon Sebag Montefiore."--
Author: Gabaldon, Diana, author. Published: 2014 2001 Call Number: F GABALDON Format: Books Summary: The Fiery Cross is the fifth book in a series written by Diana Gabaldon about Claire Fraser, who can travel through time by touching stones (think Stonehenge). The first time she time traveled, it was an accident. She traveled two-hundred years backward to the 1740s and met the love of her life, Jamie Frasier, a Scottish highlander. Their love story has developed through out each of the books as Gabaldon details the historical setting that surrounds them. In The Fiery Cross, the year is 1771 and the unrest and dissatisfaction of the colonists in the New World are humming.
Author: Smith, Lee, 1944- author. Published: 2011 1988 Call Number: F SMITH Format: Books Summary: Ivy Rowe never strays far from her Virginia mountains, but through the years, the letters she writes take her on a journey of passion and wonder. Ivy Rowe, Virginia mountain girl, then wife, mother, and finally "Mawmaw," never strays far from her home--but the letters she writes take her across the country and over the ocean. Writing "to hold onto what's passing," she tells stories that are rich with the life of Appalachia in words that are colloquial, often misspelled, but always beautiful. From childhood, when teachers encouraged her gift for language, to her rebellious teenage years when she swore against motherhood--only to then become a mother--and on through life, Ivy writes with insight, honesty, and a passion for living that is sure to be infectious.
Author: DeLillo, Don, author. Published: 2009 1985 Call Number: F DELILLO Format: Books Summary: Winner of the National Book Award, White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney; his fourth wife, Babette; and four ultramodern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. When an industrial accident unleashes an "airborne toxic event", a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the "white noise" engulfing the Gladneys - radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings - pulsing with life yet suggesting something ominous.
Author: Clare, Cassandra, author. Published: 2007 Call Number: Y CLARE Format: Books Summary: Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizzare world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.
Author: Hirsch, E. D., Jr. (Eric Donald), 1928- editor. Published: 2005 Call Number: 372.242 WHAT Format: Books Summary: A resource book that presents the knowledge that should be learned in the fifth grade as identified by the Core Knowledge Foundation, and includes math, language arts, science, history, geography, art, and technology.
Author: Butler, Octavia E., author. Published: 2000 1989 Call Number: F BUTLER Format: Books Summary: All of humanity must share the world with uncanny, unimaginable alien creatures after war destroys Earth, in an omnibus edition containing three class science fiction novels--Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago. The acclaimed trilogy that comprises Lilith's Brood is multiple Hugo and Nebula award-winner Octavia E. Butler at her best. Presented for the first time in one volume, with an introduction by Joan Slonczewski, Ph. D., Lilith's Brood is a profoundly evocative, sensual--and disturbing--epic of human transformation. Lilith Lyapo is in the Andes, mourning the death of her family, when war destroys Earth. Centuries later, she is resurrected, by miraculously powerful unearthly beings, the Oankali. Driven by an irresistible need to heal others, the Oankali are rescuing our dying planet by merging genetically with mankind. But Lilith and all humanity must now share the world with uncanny, unimaginably alien creatures: Their own children. This is their story.
Author: Krakauer, Jon author. Rackliff, Randy, illustrator. Published: 1999 1997 Call Number: GV199.44.E85 K72 1997 Format: Books Summary: "Reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion, Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996. He hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours. As he turned to begin the perilous descent from 29,028 feet (roughly the cruising altitude of an Airbus jetliner), twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly to the top, unaware that the sky had begun to roil with clouds..." "This is the terrifying story of what really happened that fateful day at the top of the world, during what would be the deadliest season in the history of Everest. In this harrowing yet breathtaking narrative, Krakauer takes the reader along with his ill-fated expedition, step by precarious step, from Katmandu to the mountain's pinnacle where, plagued by a combination of hubris, greed, poor judgment, and plain bad luck, they would fall prey to the mountain's unpredictable fury."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Muller, Marcia, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F MULLER Format: Books Summary: "When two women are brutally murdered in northern California, their deaths are the latest atrocities in a surge of violence targeting Indigenous women in the area. Despite all evidence to the contrary, local officials rule the deaths isolated incidents, and they soon join the ranks of other unsolved homicides, quickly forgotten by law enforcement. Private Investigator Sharon McCone knows better, and so does the organization known as Crimes Against Indigenous Sisters, which hires Sharon to go undercover in Meruk county, a tiny region on the mountainous Oregon border, to uncover the murderer. In an isolated cabin in the freezing, treacherous woods, Sharon must unravel a mystery that is rooted in ignorance, profound hatred, and vengeance -- before another victim is claimed"--
Author: McGrath, Amy, 1975- author. Published: 2021 Call Number: B MCGRATH Format: Books Summary: "A memoir of the author's journey to becoming a fighter pilot; her twenty years in the military; and the events that led to her decision to run for U.S. Senate"--
Author: Slimani, Leïla, 1981- author. Taylor, Sam, 1970- translator. Published: 2021 2020 Call Number: F SLIMANI Format: Books Summary: "In her first new novel since The Perfect Nanny launched her onto the world stage and won her acclaim for her "devastatingly perceptive character studies" (The New York Times Book Review), Leila Slimani draws on her own family's inspiring story for the first volume in a planned trilogy about race, resilience, and women's empowerment. Mathilde, a spirited young Frenchwoman, falls in love with Amine, a handsome Moroccan soldier in the French army during World War II. After the war, the couple settles in Morocco. While Amine tries to cultivate his family farm's rocky terrain, Mathilde feels her vitality sapped by the isolation, the harsh climate, the lack of money, and the mistrust she inspires as a foreigner. Left increasingly alone to raise her two children in a world whose rules she does not understand, and with her daughter taunted at school by rich French girls for her secondhand clothes and unruly hair, Mathilde goes from being reduced to a farmer's wife to defying the country's chauvinism and repressive social codes by offering medical services to the rural population. As tensions mount between the Moroccans and the French colonists, Amine finds himself caught in the crossfire: in solidarity with his Moroccan workers yet also a landowner, despised by the French yet married to a Frenchwoman, and proud of his wife's resolve but ashamed by her refusal to be subjugated. All of them live in the country of others--especially the women, forced to live in the land of men--and with this novel, Leila Slimani issues the first salvo in their emancipation"--
Author: Jeng, Sarah Zachrich, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F JENG Format: Books Summary: "Perfect for fans of Russian Doll and Dark Matter--an edge-of-your-seat story of a failed artist who, on her twenty-ninth birthday, accidentally opens a door to an alternate reality where she never pursued her dreams and must uncover the forces behind the switch before time runs out. On her twenty-ninth birthday, Chicago artist Kelly steps through a door at a gallery opening and emerges in her Michigan hometown. Suddenly her life is unrecognizable: She's got twelve years of the wrong memories in her head and she's married to Eric, a man she barely knew in high school. Racing to get back to her old life, Kelly's search leads only to more questions. In this life, she loves Eric and wants to trust him, but everything she discovers about him--including a connection to a mysterious tech startup--tells her she shouldn't. And strange things keep happening. The tattoos she had when she was an artist briefly reappear on her skin, she remembers fights with Eric that he says never happened, and her relationships with loved ones both new and familiar seem to change without warning. But the closer Kelly gets to putting the pieces together, the more her reality seems to shift. And if she can't figure out what happened on her birthday, the next change could cost her everything.."--
Author: Fielding, Joy, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F FIELDING Format: Books Summary: "A shooting lays bare the secrets harbored by five families in a sleepy suburban cul-de-sac in this riveting psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of All the Wrong Places"-- Maggie, is a perfectionist wife--her husband, Craig, can't quite live up to her expectations. They've fled their life in California, hoping for a fresh start in Florida with their two children, only to find the demons of the past hovering on their doorstep. Nick, a highly respected oncologist, and his wife Dani, a successful dentist, have well-kept secrets of their own. Julia is an elderly widow. Her troubled grandson has moved in along with his unsavory habits and unsavory acquaintances. Olivia's husband, Sean, after losing his job at an advertising agency, is drinking heavily and prone to increasingly violent fantasies. The marriage of newlyweds Aiden and Heidi is already on the rocks, due to his reluctance to stand up to his intrusive mother. Someone on this quiet cul-de-sac will be shot dead tonight. All bear scars... and all have access to guns. -- adapted from jacket
Author: McGinty, Sean, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: Y MCGINTY Format: Books Summary: High school senior Rainbow is trapped with three other teens in a game-like world that may or may not be real, in this darkly comic novel about identity, giving up, and finding the way home. "You find yourself alone in the dark, and you can't remember your name. You were just on the beach, but it's gone now. How does a person lose track of an entire ocean?" --Front jacket flap