Author: Price, Shannon, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: Y PRICE Format: Books Summary: Seventeen-year-old Rowan is about to become one of the famed Leonodai Warriors--the elite shapeshifting fighters who protect the floating city Heliana from the world of Men--but when disaster strikes the city's children, Rowan sets out on her own, risking everything to save her beloved city. "After years of brutal training, seventeen-year-old Rowan is ready to prove her loyalty to the city and her people in order to become one of the Leonodai warriors. But before Rowan can take the oath, a deadly disease strikes the city's children. Soon the warriors--including two of Rowan's closest friends-- are sent on a dangerous mission to find a fabled panacea deep within enemy lands." --Front jacket flap
Author: Andrews, Donna, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: LP F ANDREWS Format: Large print Summary: Meg Langslow's in for a busy summer. Her husband is directing a production of Macbeth, and most of the cast and crew are occupying spare bedrooms in their house. She also has to keep an eye on Camp Birnam, where a group of medieval reenactors are commemorating the real-life Macbeth by setting up what they fondly believe is an authentic medieval Scottish military camp. And then there's Damien Goodwin, a filmmaker who has been hanging around, trying to document the production. When Goodwin hosts a showing of some of the footage he's taken, he manages to embarrass or offend just about everyone. The next morning Meg isn't exactly surprised to find that someone has murdered him. But who?
Author: Brunstetter, Wanda E., author. Published: 2021 Call Number: LP F BRUNSTET Format: Large print Summary: "For the past two years Belinda King, along with her two grown daughters and teenage son, has been struggling to keep the family greenhouse running. Despite disconcerting events that have threatened to put them out of business, they have survived two growing seasons. And now Belinda can focus on the two suitors vying for her attention. Herschel Fisher, a new acquaintance, makes her feel relaxed, and Monroe Esh, an admirer from her past, reminds her of her youth. But just when Belinda thinks she can choose between her suitors, life throws more trials her way. Her son, Henry, becomes bitter about the idea of her dating anyone, and attacks on the greenhouse start again. When can Belinda hope to experience the peace and love her weary heart longs for?"--
Author: Patterson, James, 1947- author. Barker, J. D. (Jonathan Dylan), 1971- author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F PATTERSO Format: Books Summary: "In the shadow of Mount Hood, sixteen-year-old Tennant is checking rabbit traps with her eight-year-old sister Sophie when the girls are suddenly overcome by a strange vibration rising out of the forest, building in intensity until it sounds like a deafening crescendo of screams. From out of nowhere, their father sweeps them up and drops them through a trapdoor into a storm cellar. But the sound only gets worse ..."--
Author: Bennett, Bethany (Romance author), author. Published: 2021 Call Number: PB BENNETT Format: Books Summary: Living as a boy to escape an arranged marriage, Ophelia Hardwick, working as a steward for the Earl of Carlyle, finds her life--and heart--in danger when he discovers her secret. While most young ladies attend balls and hunt for husbands, Ophelia Hardwick has spent the last ten years in disguise. As the land steward for the Earl of Carlyle, she's found safety from the uncle determined to kill her and freedoms a lady could only dream of. Ophelia's situation would be perfect--if only she wasn't hopelessly attracted to her employer. Calvin, Earl of Carlyle, is determined to see his sister married this season. And he'll do it with the help of his trusted right-hand man. But when he finds out Ophelia's secret, and that her life is in danger, his priorities change. Their attraction is passionate, all-consuming, and if they aren't careful, it could turn downright deadly--for both of them.
Author: Fossen, Delores, author. Housing Quality Network (Great Britain), publisher. Published: 2021 Call Number: PB FOSSEN Format: Books Summary: Thrown together with the sexy rancher who shares her tragedy, one that engulfed their lives in scandal, they quickly realize they have more in common that even the gossips realize and discover that all a broken heart needs is the right person to put it back together. Millie Parkman Dayton is still healing from the fatal car accident that claimed her husband and subjected her to local gossip. When she's thrown together with the attractive rancher who shares her tragic past, new rumors begin to fly in Last Ride, Texas. Single dad Joe McCann is focused on running his ranch and raising his daughter. His daughter teams up with Millie, and the widower cowboy finds himself agreeing to help them with a project, thus opening the door to a relationship he thought he'd never find again.
Author: Pleiter, Allie, 1962- author. Published: 2021 Call Number: PB PLEITER Format: Books Summary: Opening a yarn shop along the Chester River, Libby Beckett lands famous knitting celebrity Perle Langager to host a knitting tutorial but when Perle is found dead in the back of her shop, Libby must find the truth before her new life unravels. "Libby Beckett has come home to Collinstown, Maryland, to fulfill a dream and start over. Last year's messy divorce from her devious pharmaceutical executive husband has given her enough money to finally open her own yarn shop along the Chester River. Opening Y.A.R.N. has taken creativity, funds, and nerve--and Libby finally has enough of all three. To Libby, Y.A.R.N. stands for "You're Absolutely Ready Now," but the acronym changes whenever it needs to, and customers add to the list of suggestions that fill the blackboard wall in the shop. Libby is thrilled when she lands famous Norwegian knitting celebrity Perle Langager to host a knitting tutorial at Y.A.R.N. Libby's English bulldog, Hank, has been modeling one of Perle's doggie sweaters, and customers just can't wait to see Perle in action. But once she arrives in Collinstown, Perle seems distracted and on edge. And when she's found dead in the back of Libby's shop, Libby knows she has to solve a knotty mystery and save Y.A.R.N before her new life unravels."--
Author: Monroe, Mary Alice, author. Published: 2021 2002 Call Number: F MONROE Format: Books Summary: At her mother's request, Caretta Rutledge travels back to the beach house she spent most of her childhood summers at, where she begins to reconnect with her estranged family. Caretta Rutledge thought she'd left her Southern roots and troubled family far behind. But an unusual request from her mother--coming just as her own life is spinning out of control--has Cara heading back to the scenic Lowcountry of her childhood summers. Before long, the rhythms of the island open her heart in wonderful ways as she repairs the family beach house, becomes a bona fide "turtle lady" and renews old acquaintances long thought lost. But it is in reconnecting with her mother that she will learn life's most precious lessons--true love involves sacrifice, family is forever and the mistakes of the past can be forgiven.
Author: Smyth, Ciara (Young adult author), author. Published: 2021 Call Number: Y SMYTH Format: Books Summary: A teen girl, Aideen, makes a journey from self-protectively tough to ready and willing to face her main problem: her single mother's alcoholism. Aideen's best (and only) friend is pulling away. Her mother's drinking problem is a constant concern. She's running out of diseases to fake so she can skip PE. When she sees her nemesis, overachiever Meabh Kowalski, in the midst of a full-blown meltdown, she sees a problem that-- unlike her own disaster of a life-- seems refreshingly easy to solve. She volunteers to help Meabh escape her crushing pile of extracurriculars... by pushing Meabh down the stairs. When another student learns about their little scheme and brings Aideen another 'client" who needs her "help" it kicks off a semester of traded favors, ill-advised hijinks, and an unexpected chance at love. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Lore, Pittacus, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: Y LORE Format: Books Summary: Sixteen-year-old half-alien Sydney Chambers leaves Earth to seek his long-missing father, and unearths a devastating, centuries-old secret about humanity. Syd Chambers knows that there's life on other planets because he's descended from it. His father was from a distant world called Denza and has been missing--presumed dead--for years. When Syd discovers a device his father left behind which shows not only that he's alive, but where he is, Syd must set out on a mission of his own. But along the way, he discovers a deadly, unbearable secret that could destroy Denza, Earth, and the universe.
Author: Montano, Samantha, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: 363.7 Format: Books Summary: "In Disasterology, Dr. Montano, a disaster researcher, brings readers with her on an eye-opening journey through some of our worst disasters, helping readers make sense of what really happened from a emergency management perspective. She explains why we aren't doing enough to prevent or prepare for disasters, the critical role of media, and how our approach to recovery was not designed to serve marginalized communities. Now that climate change is contributing to the disruption of ecosystems and worsening disasters, Dr. Montano offers a preview of what will happen to our communities if we don't take aggressive, immediate action. In a section devoted to the COVID-19 pandemic, what is thus far our generation's most deadly disaster, she casts light on the many decisions made behind closed doors that failed to protect the public"--
Author: Zentner, Jeff, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: Y ZENTNER Format: Books Summary: Attending an elite prep school in Connecticut on a scholarship with his best friend (and secret love) science genius Delaney Doyle, sixteen-year-old Cash Pruitt, from a small town in East Tennessee, struggles with emotional pain and loss until his English teacher suggests writing poetry. Cash lost his mother to an opioid addiction and his Papaw is dying slowly from emphysema. Dodging drug dealers and watching out for his best friend (and person of his heart), Delaney, is second nature. When Delaney makes a scientific discovery that gets them both full rides at an elite prep school in Connecticut, Cash has to make a choice. Will he go with her to Connecticut, or stay in Tennessee with the grandparents who saved him? -- adapted from jacket
Author: Stixrud, William R., author. Johnson, Ned, 1970- author. Published: 2021 Call Number: 155.4 Format: Books Summary: "If you're a parent, you've had a moment--maybe many of them--when you've thought, "How did that conversation go so badly?" At some point after the sixth grade, the same kid who asked "why" non-stop at age four suddenly stops talking to you. And the conversations that you wish you could have--ones fueled by your desire to see your kid not just safe and healthy, but passionately engaged--suddenly feel nearly impossible to execute. The good news is that effective communication can be cultivated, learned, and taught. And as you get better at this, so will your kids"--
Author: North, Phoebe, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: Y NORTH Format: Books Summary: "Tells the story about a girl whose brother mysteriously disappears, the family and friends he leaves behind, and the stories, real and imagined, that they tell themselves to fill the empty spaces"--Provided by publisher. From the moment that Annie was born, she and her older brother, Jamie, were inseparable. Facing the challenges of growing up different in suburban America, they created their own space in the woods behind their house: a fantasy world of their own making, where no one else could find them. But as they grew, Jamie grew dark and distant. He found new friends, a girlfriend, and a life away from Annie and their shared world. By the time Annie was in eighth grade, it was as if she hardly knew the brother who was her other half. One day, he disappears. As days turn into months turn into years, Annie comes to believe that Jamie, somehow, has entered the world they created... and she is the only one who can bring him back. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Taylor, Mary Ellen, 1961- author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F TAYLOR Format: Books Summary: "While caring for her ailing grandmother, hospice nurse Zara Mitchel immerses herself in stories of heroism and loss set against the backdrop of war-torn Italy in 1943 that change everything she thinks she knows about love, regret and seizing the day"-- As a hospice nurse, Zara Mitchell has already seen more death than most people will experience in a lifetime. So when her older sister asks her to help care for their ailing grandmother, Zara agrees--despite strained family relationships. Though pale and tired, Nonna has lost none of her sharp mind. She's fixated on finding something long forgotten, and she immediately puts Zara to work cleaning out the attic. Unexpectedly, amid the tedium of sifting through knickknacks and heirlooms, Zara also reconnects with a man she's attracted to but whose complicated past makes romance seem impossible. But then Zara finds what Nonna was looking for: a wooden chest, an emerald broach, a leather-bound journal. As she immerses herself in stories of heroism and loss set against the backdrop of war-torn Italy in 1943, Zara finds answers to questions she didn't know she had. And they change everything she thinks she knows about love, regret, and seizing the day.
Author: Brody, Jessica, author. Rendell, Joanne, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: Y BRODY Format: Books Summary: Three months after the Patriarche was beheaded, Laterre seems to be flourishing under General Bonnefaçon, but as dangerous rifts threaten the peace, Alouette, Marcellus, and Chatine reunite. "It's been three months since the Patriarche was beheaded, leaving behind no known heir. Now the planet of Laterre is unrecognizable as General Bonnefaçon attempts to restore peace while the next leader is decided upon. At the same time dangerous rifts threaten to shatter the planet from within." --Front jacket flap
Author: Moreno-Garcia, Silvia, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F MORENOGA Format: Books Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a riveting noir about a daydreaming secretary, a lonesome thug, and the mystery of the missing woman that brings them together. 1970s Mexico City. Maite is a secretary who lives for one thing: the latest issue of Secret Romance. While student protests and political unrest consume the city, Maite escapes into stories of passion and danger. Her next-door neighbor, Leonora, a beautiful art student, seems to live a life of intrigue and romance that Maite envies. When Leonora disappears under suspicious circumstances, Maite finds herself searching for the missing woman--and journeying deeper into Leonora's secret life of student radicals and dissidents. Meanwhile, someone else is also looking for Leonora at the behest of his boss, a shadowy figure who commands goon squads dedicated to squashing political activists. Elvis is an eccentric thug who longs to escape his own life: He loathes violence and loves old movies and rock 'n' roll. But as Elvis searches for the missing woman, he comes to observe Maite from a distance--and grows more and more obsessed with this woman who shares his love of music, and the unspoken loneliness of his heart. Now as Maite and Elvis come closer to discovering the secrets behind Leonora's disappearance, they can no longer escape the danger that threatens to consume their lives, with hitmen, government agents, and Russian spies aiming to protect Leonora's secrets--at gunpoint"--
Author: Stanley, Jessamyn, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: 613.7046 Format: Books Summary: "Remember Jessamyn Stanley? How could you not? She's the proudly fat, Black, queer yoga teacher and charismatic author of Every Body Yoga, who drops a lot more f-bombs than namastes and refuses to pray at the church of Lululemon. Now she's back, here to take us even further on a personal and provocative journey into what it means to "practice yoga." Where Every Body Yoga, with 59,000 copies in print, taught us how to do yoga, Yoke tells us why. In Yoke, which draws its name from a literal translation of the Sanskrit root "yuj," from which the word "yoga" derives, Jessamyn writes about what she calls the yoga of the everyday--a yoga that is not just about poses but about applying the hard lessons we learn on the mat to the even harder daily project of living. This yoga of the everyday is about finding within life's toughest moments the same flexibility, strength, grounding energy, and core awareness found in a headstand or Tadasana or cobra pose. In a series of deeply honest, funny, gritty, thoughtful, and largely autobiographical essays, Yoke explores issues of self-love, body-positivity, race, sex and sexuality, cannabis, and more, all through the lens of an authentic yoga practice. Every reader is invited to find this authentic spirit of yoga in their own lives and practice. To yoke"--
Author: Ireland, Justina, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: Y IRELAND Format: Books Summary: "Sylvestri Yarrow is drawn into a squabble between two of the Republic's most powerful families over a patch of space on the frontier. Tangled up in familial politics is the last place Syl wants to be, but the promise of a big payoff is enough to keep her interested ... Meanwhile, Jedi Knight Vernestra Rwoh and her Padawan Imri Cantaros arrive at the capital along with Jedi Master Cohmac Vitus and his Padawan, Reath Silas--and are asked to assist with the property dispute on the frontier. But why? What is so important about an empty patch of space? The answer will lead Vernestra to a new understanding of her abilities, and take Syl back to the past ... and to truths that will finally come out of the shadows"--
Author: Smith, Colby Cedar, author. Smith, Colby Cedar, illustrator. Published: 2021 Call Number: Y SMITH Format: Books Summary: "This novel in verse captures one young woman's struggle for independence, equality, and identity as the daughter of Greek and French immigrants in tumultuous 1930s Detroit"--Back cover. Through Depression-era hunger strikes, joblessness, and violent riots, sixteen-year-old Mary struggles to create her own identity as the American-born daughter of Greek and French immigrants living in the 1930s. Loosely based on author Colby Cedar Smith's paternal grandmother, Call Me Athena is written from the shifting perspectives of three vividly drawn narrators and delivers a timeless message of love and loss, tradition and heritage, freedom and equality, courage and, most importantly, hope. -- adapted from back cover
