Author: Mock-Pike, Rita, author. Published: 2020 Call Number: 641.568 Format: Books Summary: "Make every meal magical with this cookbook created for the most devoted of Potterheads. Inside you'll discover delicious recipes ranging from traditional English fare to magic-inspired treats and sweets. Enchant your friends and family with sumptuous fall and winter feasts, delectable desserts, and teatime treats." -- Back cover.
Author: Smith, Chris, 1982- author. Published: 2019 Call Number: 641.656 SMITH Format: Books Summary: The Whole Okra includes classic recipes like okra fries (as well as unexpected delights like okra seed pancakes and okra flower vodka), along with dishes from some of America's most beloved chefs, including: Spicy Okra by Marcus Samuelsson, Okra Soup by culinary historian Michael Twitty, Limpin' Susan by chef BJ Dennis, and Bhindi Masala by chef Meherwan Irani. A must-have for gardeners and food-lovers alike--The Whole Okra is a roving and rich collection of okra history, lore, recipes, craft projects, growing advice, and so much more.
Author: Sanmao, author. Fu, Mike, translator. Teo, Sharlene, writer of introduction. Published: 2019 1976 Call Number: B SANMAO Format: Books Summary: The book that has captivated millions of Chinese readers, translated into English for the very first time. 'Hypnotic . . . A record of one person's fierce refusal to follow a path laid down for her by the rest of the world' Tash Aw, Paris Review Books of the Year Sanmao: author, adventurer, pioneer. Born in China in 1943, she moved from Chongqing to Taiwan, Spain to Germany, the Canary Islands to Central America, and, for several years in the 1970s, to the Sahara. Stories of the Sahara invites us into Sanmao's extraordinary life in the desert: her experiences of love and loss, freedom and peril, all told with a voice as spirited as it is timeless. At a period when China was beginning to look beyond its borders, Sanmao fired the imagination of millions and inspired a new generation. With an introduction by Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti, this is an essential collection from one of the twentieth century's most iconic figures.
Author: Bradford, Chris, author. Published: 2018 2016 Call Number: Y BRADFORD Format: Books Summary: "When surfing champion Charley Hunter is assigned to protect teenage rock idol Ash Wild on his sold-out US tour, she soon finds out what it really means to live the rock star lifestyle. Faced with a growing number of death threats, several suspicious accidents, and an unruly celebrity, Charley has her work cut out for her keeping Ash alive on the tour"--
Author: Bradford, Chris, author. Published: 2018 2016 Call Number: Y BRADFORD Format: Books Summary: Young bodyguard Charley Hunter is all that stands between demanding rock star Ash Wild and his would-be killer as his sold-out U.S. tour continues. Charley Hunter learns the hard way that it's not easy to keep up with teen rock star, Ash Wild--even though she is supposed to be protecting him. Yet she is all that stands between him and the business end of a gun...and fame makes for an easy target. Can she spot a killer in a crowd of fifty thousand screaming fans before it's too late? --adapted from back cover
Author: Ragnar Jónasson, 1976- author. Bates, Quentin, translator. Published: 2017 2013 Call Number: F JONASSON Format: Books Summary: Two days before Christmas, a young woman is found dead beneath the cliffs of the deserted village of Kálfshamarsvík. Did she jump, or did something more sinister take place beneath the lighthouse and the abandoned old house on the remote rocky outcrop? With winter closing in and the snow falling relentlessly, Ari Thór Arason discovers that the victim's mother and young sister also lost their lives in this same spot, twenty-five years earlier. As the dark history and its secrets of the village are unveiled, and the death toll begins to rise, the Siglufjordur detectives must race against the clock to find the killer, before another tragedy takes place. Dark, chilling and complex, Whiteout is a haunting, atmospheric and stunningly plotted thriller from one of Iceland's bestselling crime writers.
Author: Gaiman, Neil author. Published: 2017 Call Number: 293.13 Format: Books Summary: Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction. Now he presents his fashioning of the primeval Norse myths into a novel, which begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds, delves into the exploits of the deities, dwarves, and giants, and culminates in Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods and the rebirth of a new time and people. Gaiman stays true to the myths while vividly recreating the characters--the gods with their fiercely competitive natures, their susceptibility to being duped and to dupe others, and their tendency to let passion ignite their actions--and making these long-ago myths breathe pungent life again.--
Author: Bradford, Chris, author. Published: 2017 2014 Call Number: Y BRADFORD Format: Books Summary: As the son of a British bodyguard who sacrificed his life in the line of duty, teenage kickboxing champion Connor Reeves is proud to join the ranks of a top-secret young bodyguard squad, but his first assignment, to guard the First Daughter, may test his limits. Connor Reeves, a teenage kickboxing champion, is determined to make his father, a former special forces soldier, proud. Connor is in a top-secret young bodyguard squad known as Guardian, where he is doing anti-bush exercises, hostage survival and unarmed combat. He is preparing for dangerous missions, including when he will need to protect the president's daughter. --adapted from back cover
Author: Bradford, Chris, author. Published: 2017 2015 Call Number: Y BRADFORD Format: Books Summary: After their convoy is ambushed by rebel soldiers, teenage bodyguard Connor along with Amber and Henri, whom he is sworn to protect, must fight for their lives in the African plains, evading lethal hunters, both human and animal. With their safari vacation cut short, and a band of heavily armed rebel soldiers in hot pursuit, Connor must use every skill and trick he's learned during his Guardian training to ensure their survival. However, Connor realizes the gunmen are the least of their problems--no amount of bodyguard training can prepare him for the bloodthirsty predators who roam the savanna. --adapted from back cover
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.
