Author: Johnson, Lizzie, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: 363.379 Format: Books Summary: "The definitive firsthand account of California's Camp Fire-the nation's deadliest wildfire in a century-and a riveting examination of what went wrong and how to avert future tragedies as the climate crisis unfolds. On November 8, 2018, the people of Paradise, California, awoke to a mottled gray sky and gusty winds. Soon the Camp Fire was upon them, gobbling an acre a second. Less than two hours after the fire ignited, the town was engulfed in flames, the residents trapped in their homes and cars. By the next morning, eighty-five people were dead. San Francisco Chronicle reporter Lizzie Johnson was there as the town of Paradise burned. She saw the smoldering rubble of a historic covered bridge and the beloved Black Bear Diner and she stayed long afterward, visiting shelters, hotels, and makeshift camps. Drawing on years of on-the-ground reporting and reams of public records, including 911 calls and testimony from a grand jury investigation, Johnson provides a minute-by-minute account of the Camp Fire, following residents and first responders as they fight to save themselves and their town. We see a young mother fleeing with her newborn; a school bus full of children in search of an escape route; and a group of paramedics, patients, and nurses trapped in a cul-de-sac, fending off the fire with rakes and hoses. Johnson documents the unfolding tragedy with empathy and nuance. But she also investigates the root causes, from runaway climate change to a deeply flawed alert system to Pacific Gas and Electric's decades-long neglect of critical infrastructure. A cautionary tale for a new era of megafires, Paradise is the gripping story of a town wiped off the map and the determination of its people to rise again"--
Author: Tucker, Nancy, 1993- author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F TUCKER Format: Books Summary: "Chrissie is eight years old and she has a secret: she has just killed a boy. The feeling of it made her belly fizz like soda pop. Across her neighborhood, Chrissie's playmates and their parents are tearful and terrified. But Chrissie rules the roost - she's the best at wall-walking, she knows how to get free candy, and now she has a secret, thrilling power she doesn't get to experience much at home, where food is scarce and attention scarcer. Twenty years later, Chrissie has a new identity and a new name. As "Julia," she is working in a cafe to support herself and her five-year-old daughter, Molly. All she wants is a fresh start, but the past hasn't seemed to let her and Molly alone, and when, suddenly, their future together is threatened, Chrissie/Julia must find a new way to take matters into her own hands. Nancy Tucker leaves the reader breathless as she considers what happens when innocence and survival instincts collide. Tucker writes from professional experience in pediatric mental health, and she inhabits the voices of her young protagonists with a shocking authenticity and precision that moves the reader from sympathy to humor to horror to heartbreak and back again."--Provided by publisher.
Author: MacGregor, Janna, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: PB MACGREGO Format: Books Summary: After her husband Meri's death, businesswoman Katherine Vareck discovers that he married two other women and develops a friendship with these women while developing strong feelings for Meri's brother, the Duke of Ranford. Katherine is in for the shock of her life when she learns upon her husband Meri's accidental death that he had married two other women. Her entire business, along with a once-in-a-lifetime chance to be a royal supplier, is everything she's been working for and now could be destroyed if word leaks about the three wives. Meri's far more upstanding brother Duke of Randford has no clue how to be of assistance. He spent the better part of his adult years avoiding Meri, so to be dragged back into the fold is problematic. Even more so is the intrepid and beautiful Katherine, whom he cannot be falling for because she's Meri's widow. Or can he? With a textile business to run and a strong friendship forming with Meri's two other wives, Katherine doesn't have time for much else. But there's something about the warm, but compellingly taciturn Duke that draws her to him. When an opportunity to partner in a business venture brings them even closer, they'll have to face their pasts if they want to share each other's hearts and futures.
Author: Major, Michelle, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: PB MAJOR Format: Books Summary: "When Emma Cantrell's marriage imploded, she learned a fast and painful lesson about trusting her heart. Then, on a visit to Magnolia, North Carolina, to see her brother, an elegant, if dilapidated, mansion for sale presents the opportunity to start over"--
Author: Stage, Zoje, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F STAGE Format: Books Summary: Two sisters and their best friend go on a hiking getaway at the Grand Canyon, but tensions from their shared past flare up as someone appears to be stalking them. Imogen and Beck, two sisters, have been friends with Tilda since high school. Over two decades the women have grown apart--taking different career paths. When Imogen survives a traumatic attack, Beck suggests they all reunite to hike deep into the Grand Canyon's backcountry. They will have a week away in nature. As the terrain grows tougher, tensions from the past bubble up. And when supplies begin to disappear, the women realize that secrets aren't the only thing they're being stalked by. --adapted from front jacket flap
Author: Zakaria, Rafia, 1978- author. Published: 2021 Call Number: 305.42 Format: Books Summary: "A radically inclusive, intersectional, and transnational approach to the fight for women's rights. Elite white women have branded feminism, promising an apolitical individual empowerment along with sexual liberation and satisfaction, LGBTQ inclusion, and racial solidarity. As Rafia Zakaria expertly argues, those promises have been proven empty and white feminists have leant on their racial privilege and sense of cultural superiority. Drawing on her own experiences as an American Muslim woman, as well as an attorney working on behalf of immigrant women, Zakaria champions a reconstruction of feminism that forges true solidarity by bringing Black and brown voices and goals to the fore. Ranging from the savior complex of British feminist imperialists to the condescension of the white feminist-led "development industrial complex" and the conflation of sexual liberation as the "sum total of empowerment," Zakaria presents an eye-opening indictment of how whiteness has contributed to a feminist movement that solely serves the interests of upper middle-class white women"--
Author: Abrego, Rii, author, illustrator. Whitt, Joe, author. Crank! (Letterer), letterer. Published: 2021 Call Number: Y GN WHITT Format: Books Summary: "Long, long ago, sprites were the caretakers of gardens. Every flower was grown by their hand. But when humans appeared and began growing their own gardens, the sprites' magical talents soon became a thing of the past. When Wisteria, an ambitious, kind-hearted sprite, starts to ask questions about the way things used to be, she'll begin to unearth her long-lost talent of gardening. But her newly honed skills might not be the welcome surprise she intends them to be."--Provided by publisher.
Author: Preston, Douglas J., author. Child, Lincoln, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F PRESTON Format: Books Summary: "Agent Pendergast faces his most unexpected challenge yet when bloodless bodies begin to appear in Savannah, GA"-- On the evening of November 24, 1971, D. B. Cooper hijacked Flight 305--Portland to Seattle--with a fake bomb, collected a ransom of $200,000, and then parachuted from the rear of the plane, disappearing into the night. Fifty years later, Agent Pendergast takes on a bizarre and gruesome case: in the ghost-haunted city of Savannah, Georgia, bodies are found with no blood left in their veins--sowing panic and reviving whispered tales of the infamous Savannah Vampire. As the mystery rises along with the body count, Pendergast and his partner, Agent Coldmoon, race to understand how--or if--these murders are connected to the only unsolved skyjacking in American history.--adapted from front jacket flap
Author: Hannah, Kristin, author. Published: 2021 2001 Call Number: F HANNAH Format: Books Summary: Struggling comedian Ruby Bridge confronts the legacy of her mother's abandonment while a secret from the past of Nora Bridge, now a syndicated columnist known for her moral advice, draws the two women together. Years ago, Nora Bridge walked out on her marriage and left her daughters behind. She has become a celebrity radio talk-show host and newspaper columnist beloved for her moral advice. Her youngest daughter, Ruby, is a struggling comedian who uses her famous mother--and her bitterness toward her--for her comedy shows. When the tabloids unearth a scandal in Nora's past, her career implodes and Ruby gets her big break: She is offered a fortune to write an unflattering tell-all article about her mother. Under false pretenses, Ruby returns home to talk to the woman she hasn't spoken to for almost a decade. --adapted from back cover
Author: Steel, Danielle, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F STEEL Format: Books Summary: After four years of renovations and the death of its beloved manager, a popular Paris boutique hotel reopens with new staff looking to make good impressions and guests seeking luxurious accommodations, but what they all find is unrelenting drama. "The Louis XVI Hotel on the rue Boissy d'Anglas just off the Faubourg St. Honore in Paris had been closed for renovations for four years. The street it was on was particularly appropriate, open only to foot traffic. It was guarded by a policeman, who would open the barrier for a car to pass carrying an important person, or guests of the exclusive hotel. Smaller than the grand 'palaces', the five-star hotels of Paris, it was a favorite among those in the know, the jet set, royalty, and the internationally chic. It had a loyal following of the world's elite, and offered its clients exquisite rooms, enormous suites, all filled with stunning antiques, draperies in the finest silks and satins, beautiful floors reminiscent of Versailles, and a magnificent art collection"--
Author: Rutledge, Lynda, 1950-, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F RUTLEDGE Format: Books Summary: 1938: The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic. What follows is a twelve-day road trip in a custom truck to deliver Southern California's first giraffes to the San Diego Zoo. Behind the wheel is the young Dust Bowl rowdy Woodrow Wilson Nickel. Present day: At 105, Woody feels his life ebbing away. When he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling an experience he cannot take to his grave. In retelling his story, he explores what it means to be changed by the grace of animals, the kindness of strangers, and the passing of time. -- adapted from jacket "'Few true friends have I known and two were giraffes...' Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. It's 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic. What follows is a twelve-day road trip in a custom truck to deliver Southern California's first giraffes to the San Diego Zoo. Inspired by true events, the tale weaves real-life figures with fictional ones, including the world's first female zoo director, a crusty old man with a past, a young female photographer with a secret, and assorted reprobates as spotty as the giraffes. Part adventure, part historical saga, and part coming-of-age love story, West with Giraffes explores what it means to be changed by the grace of animals, the kindness of strangers, the passing of time, and a story told before it's too late"--Publisher.
Author: Preston, Douglas J., author. Child, Lincoln, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: LP F PRESTON Format: Large print Summary: "Agent Pendergast faces his most unexpected challenge yet when bloodless bodies begin to appear in Savannah, GA"-- On the evening of November 24, 1971, D. B. Cooper hijacked Flight 305--Portland to Seattle--with a fake bomb, collected a ransom of $200,000, and then parachuted from the rear of the plane, disappearing into the night. Fifty years later, Agent Pendergast takes on a bizarre and gruesome case: in the ghost-haunted city of Savannah, Georgia, bodies are found with no blood left in their veins--sowing panic and reviving whispered tales of the infamous Savannah Vampire. As the mystery rises along with the body count, Pendergast and his partner, Agent Coldmoon, race to understand how--or if--these murders are connected to the only unsolved skyjacking in American history.--adapted from front jacket flap
Author: Galchen, Rivka, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F GALCHEN Format: Books Summary: "Drawing on real historical documents but infused with the intensity of imagination, sly humor, and intellectual fire for which award-winning author Rivka Galchen's writing is known, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch is a tale for our time-the story of how a community becomes implicated in collective aggression and hysterical fear"-- 1618, Württemberg, a German duchy. Plague is spreading. The Thirty Years' War has begun. Fear and suspicion are in the air throughout the Holy Roman Empire. In the small town of Leonberg, Katharina Kepler, an illiterate widow known for her herbal remedies, is accused of being a witch by Ursula Reinbold, who accuses Katharina of offering her a bitter, witchy drink that has made her ill. Her son Johannes, the Imperial Mathematician and renowned author of the laws of planetary motion, must turn his attention from the music of the spheres to the job of defending his mother. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Rodkey, Kelsey, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: Y RODKEY Format: Books Summary: Working at her family's independent bookstore during the summer before she leaves for college, Madeline Moore is determined to make the store succeed when she discovers that her crush, Jasper, works at the competing chain bookstore across the street. At Books & Moore, the musty bookstore her family has owned for generations, Madeline knows nothing is going to stop her from coming back after college to take over the store from her aunt. Then a chain bookstore called Prologue opens across the street and threatens to shut them down. Jasper, the guy who works over at Prologue, seems intent on ruining her life. Not only is he taking her customers, he has the unbelievable audacity to be extremely cute! But that doesn't matter: Jasper is the enemy and he will be destroyed. Madeline knows: all's fair in love and (book) wars. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Higashimura, Akiko, author, artist. Lindholm, Sarah Alys, translator. Vanstiphout, Carl, letterer. Published: 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 Call Number: Y GN HIGASHIM V.2 Format: Books Summary: Volume 1: "Tsukimi Kurashita has a strange fascination with jellyfish. She's loved them from a young age and has carried that love with her to her new life in the big city of Tokyo. There, she resides in Amamizukan, a safe-haven for girl geeks who regularly gush over a range of things from trains to Japanese dolls. However, a chance meeting at a pet shop has Tsukimi crossing paths with one of the things that the residents of Amamizukan have been desperately trying to avoid--a beautiful and fashionable woman! But there's much more to this woman than her trendy clothes! This odd encounter is only the beginning of a new and unexpected path for Tsukimi and her friends."--Publisher's description. Volume 2: "With the geeky paradise of Amamizukan threatened by redevelopment plans, Tsukimi and Amars must spring into action. But the wily Inari-san and her hold on Shu forces Kuranosuke to pull out all the stops: money, blackmail, and ... fashion?! Though Amamizukan still struggles with Kuranosuke's stylish ways, the neighborhood fashionista has too much to lose, whether it's a hidden identity or priceless friendships. Tsukimi gets the chance to make her jellyfish dreams into a glamorous reality, but that means breaking out of her bubble! Can these misfit princesses save their castle? -- Publisher's description. Volume 3: "Inari, the aggressive vixen of redevelopment, ramps up her efforts to buy out Amamizu-kan, where Tsukimi and her freinds live. But Kuranosuke has a fabulous plan of attack--turn Tsukimi's jellyfish designs into a reality! Will becoming real fashion designers be more that Amars can handle? Meanwhile, Shu's interest in Tsukimi drives Kuranosuke to confront some feelings he's never dealt with before ..."--Publisher's description. Volume 4: "The night of the fashion show for Tsukimi and Kuranosuke's jelly fish brand has finallly arrived. They pulled out all the stops to make Amamizu-kan into an enchanting wonderland--even Mayaya has transformed into a chic model! The show brings some much-needed attention to the tetro building, but will exposure be enough to save the Amars and their home? When their fashion line becomes a hit success, the girls scramble to satisfy their customers. With the help of their new colleague Nisha, a savvy Indian expat who knows all about the textile insutry, the just might make it work! ... But is Tsukimi ready to leave her quiet life behind for good?"--Publisher's description. Volume 5: "With the help of Amars and their savvy new ally Nisha, Tsukimi's jellyfish designs are slowly taking shape as a real clothing line. There's no time to waste if the group wants to save Amamizukan and make a splash in the fashion world, and that means churning out new dresses--and fast! As if Tsukimi weren't already overwhelmed, Shu makes it clear that he's ready to make a romantic commitment to her. For a geek girl who's never even had a boyfriend, these advances may be too much to handle. And Tsukimi isn't the only one struggling--with his brother's feelings out in the open, Kuranosuke must figure out how he fits into Tsukimi's life."--Publisher's description.
Author: Tesson, Sylvain, 1972- author. Published: 2021 2019 Call Number: 915.1 Format: Books Summary: "The Art of Patience is an account of an expedition to the mountains of Tibet in search of the elusive snow leopard. After recovering from an accident, adventurer Sylvain Tesson and his traveling companions embraced the virtues of patience and silence, and were rewarded when the snow leopard revealed itself"--
Author: Winter, W. Chris, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: 618.928 Format: Books Summary: "A comprehensive guide to the varied sleep disorders that affect children from infancy to adolescence, many of which are commonly misdiagnosed, offering new wisdom to parents about how to ease their child's troubles"-- "Sleep is essential to the healthy development of children from infancy to adolescence. And with nearly 10 percent of children presenting with diagnosable sleep disorders, there is much that we can do to help them get the sleep they need... The rested child is an indispensable resource for parents in their quest to uncover the root of their children's problems, and more important, it provides the answers on how to help." --Front jacket flap
Author: Richards, Alex, 1979- author. Published: 2021 Call Number: Y RICHARDS Format: Books Summary: Seventeen-year-old Evie, devastated by her father's death and the knowledge that he was leaving his family for his pregnant mistress, finds strength through a prestigious photography class and handsome classmate Declan. Evie Parker is devastated in the wake of her father's sudden death, but she knows something her mother doesn't: the day of his heart attack, her dad was planning to move out. He had been dating his twenty-two-year-old receptionist, Bree, who is now six months pregnant. Desperate to distract herself, Evie signs up for a summer photography class, but can't stop thinking about her father's mistress. What starts as a little bit of spying on Bree with a telephoto lens quickly becomes full-blown stalking. And when an emergency forces Evie to help Bree, she learns there's more to the story than she ever knew. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Freud, Esther, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F FREUD Format: Books Summary: "A sweeping story of three generations of women, crossing from London to Ireland and back again, and the enduring effort to retrieve the secrets of the past. It's London, 1960, and Aoife Kelly--once the sparkling object of young men's affections--runs pubs with her brusque, barking husband, Cash. Their courtship began in wartime London, before they returned to Ireland with their daughters in tow. One of these daughters--fiery, independent-minded Rosaleen--moves back to London, where she meets and begins an affair with the famous sculptor Felix Lehmann, a German-Jewish refugee artist over twice her tender eighteen years. When Rosaleen finds herself pregnant with Felix's child, she is evicted from her flat, dismissed from her job, and desperate to hide the secret from her family. Where, and to whom, can she turn? Meanwhile, Kate, another generation down, lives in present-day London with her young daughter and husband, an unsuccessful musician and destructive alcoholic. Adopted and floundering to find a sense of herself in the midst of her unhappy marriage, Kate sets out to track down her birth mother, a search that leads her to a Magdalene Laundry in Ireland and the harrowing history that it holds"--FantasticFiction.com.
Author: Pettersen, Siri, 1971- author. Mackie, Siân, translator. Garrett, Paul Russell, translator. Precedes (work) : Pettersen, Siri, 1971- Rot. Precedes (work) : Pettersen, Siri, 1971- Might. Published: 2021 2013 Call Number: Y PETTERSE Format: Books Summary: Hirka has always been a little bit different, ostracized because her tail was cut off when she was an infant, so it is unexpected that she's summoned to take place in this year's Rite -- and even more shocking that her adoptive father reveals she is a tailless, powerless, human whose kiss rots flesh. The Rite also looms for Rime, a popular young man whose discovery of Hirka's secret threatens his destiny on the Council, and Urd, who would literally sell his soul for what Rime has.
