Author: Sugiura, Misa, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: Y SUGIURA Format: Books Summary: "When Nozomi Nagai pictured the ideal summer romance, a fake one wasn't what she had in mind. That was before she met the perfect girl. Willow is gorgeous, glamorous, and...heartbroken? And when she enlists Nozomi to pose as her new girlfriend to make her ex jealous, Nozomi is a willing volunteer. Because Nozomi has a master plan of her own: one to show Willow she's better than a stand-in, and turn their fauxmance into something real. But as the lies pile up, it's not long before Nozomi's schemes take a turn toward disaster...and maybe a chance at love she didn't plan for"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Steinberg, David, 1942 August 9- author. Published: 2021 Call Number: 792.23 Format: Books Summary: "A personal history of comedy from the 1950s to the present, with interviews conducted by the author." --publisher. The world of comedy and comedians of the last five decades. By the man the New York Times calls "a comic institution himself," the only comedian (twenty-six years in stand-up) to have made Elie Wiesel laugh, as well as having appeared on The Tonight Show 140 times, second only to Bob Hope (but who's counting). From the director of TV comedy series Mad About You, Seinfeld, Friends, Weeds and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Author: Kleypas, Lisa, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F KLEYPAS Format: Books Summary: A strong-willed young widow running her late husband's shipping company, Lady Merritt Sterling avoids scandal until she meets a rough-and-tumble Scottish whisky distiller on the run from a very determined killer. A strong-willed young widow who is running her late husband's shipping company, Lady Merritt Sterling knows London society is dying to catch her in a scandal. She meets Keir MacRae, a rough-and-rugged Scottish whisky distiller, and their attraction is powerful, raw and irresistible. Keir doesn't know why someone wants him dead until fate reveals his secret connection to one of England's most powerful families. Now the only one he trusts is Merrill. And as danger draws closer, she will do whatever it takes to save the man she loves-- even knowing he might be the devil in disguise. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Woods, Stuart, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: LP F WOODS Format: Large print Summary: Returning to New York from Maine, Stone Barrington helps out a former client who mistakenly thought an old feud would remain in the past. Stone Barrington takes down old and new enemies in the latest thriller from perennial fan favorite Stuart Woods. After a rocky jaunt in Maine, Stone Barrington is settling back in New York City when an old client reaches out for help with a delicate matter. A feud they thought was put to rest long ago has reemerged with a vengeance, and reputations--and money--are now on the line. As Stone sets out to unravel a tangled web of crime and secrets, his mission becomes even more complicated when he makes an irresistible new acquaintance. In both the underbelly and upper echelons of New York, everyone has something to hide--and if Stone has learned anything, it's that history has a way of repeating itself... --adapted from back cover
Author: Chiaverini, Jennifer, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F CHIAVERI Format: Books Summary: Inspired by actual events, this novel offers a fascinating account of a crucial but little-remembered moment in American history that follows three courageous women who bravely risked their lives and liberty in the fight to win the vote. Alice Paul returns to New Jersey after several years on the front lines of the suffrage movement in Great Britain, determined to invigorate the stagnant suffrage movement in her homeland. Nine states have already granted women voting rights, but only a constitutional amendment will secure the vote for all. She organizes a procession down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC, the day before the inauguration of President-elect Woodrow Wilson, a firm antisuffragist. Joining the march is Maud Malone, librarian and advocate for women's and workers' rights. Civil rights activist and journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett resolves that women of color must also be included in the march--and the proposed amendment. On March 3, 1913 the march commences, but police allow crowds of belligerent men to block the parade route, assaulting the marchers and endangering not only the success of the demonstration but the women's very lives. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Milligan, Benjamin H., 1978- author. Published: 2021 Call Number: 359.984 Format: Books Summary: A former Navy SEAL chronicles the history of the special operations unit, from their beginnings as unarmed World War II frogmen to their rise to American's first permanent commando force, deployed on counter-terrorism and capture-kill missions. Told through the eyes of remarkable leaders and racing from one longshot, hair-curling raid to the next, By Water Beneath the Walls is the tale of the unit's heroic naval predecessors, and the evolution of the SEALs themselves. But it's also the story of the forging of American special operations as a whole--and how the SEALs emerged from the fires as America's first permanent commando force when again and again some other unit seemed predestined to seize that role. Here Milligan thrillingly captures the outsize feats of the SEALs' frogmen forefathers in World War II, the Korean War, and elsewhere, even as he plunges us into the second front of inter-service rivalries and personal ambition that shaped the SEALs' evolution. In equally vivid, masterful detail, he chronicles key early missions undertaken by units like the Marine Raiders, Army Rangers, and Green Berets, showing us how these fateful, bloody moments helped create the modern American commando--even as they opened up pivotal opportunities for the Navy. Finally, he takes us alongside as the SEALs at last seize the mantle of commando raiding, and discover the missions of capture/kill and counter-terrorism that would define them for decades to come.
Author: Lewis, John, 1940-2020, author. Sehgal, Kabir, author. Young, Andrew, writer of foreword. Published: 2021 Call Number: 153.4 Format: Books Summary: The final reflections, words, and wisdom of esteemed civil rights champion and late Congressman John Lewis, who continued to offer inspiration and hope to millions even while he battled the cancer that ultimately ended his life.
Author: Downing, Samantha, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F DOWNING Format: Books Summary: "USA Today bestselling author Samantha Downing teaches all the wrong lessons in her latest sneaky thriller about a calculating teacher in a privileged private school who knows he has the power to make or break your kid's future...and he uses it.... Teddy Crutcher has just won Teacher of the Year at the prestigious Belmont Academy, home to the best and brightest. He says his wife couldn't be more proud--though no one has seen her in a while. But Teddy can't be bothered with any of the rumors and the recent string of murders on campus. His main focus is on these kids. Sure, his methods can be a little unorthodox and maybe just a few of them don't actually deserve a bright future. But someone's got push these kids to their full potential. It's really too bad that sometimes excellence can come at such a high cost"--
Author: Graham, Heather, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F GRAHAM Format: Books Summary: "Playing the victim of a vampire king on an island off New Orleans is actress Avalon Morgan's creepiest role to date. Its also scary good fun-- until the victim of a real killer is discovered on set, laid out for all to see. With production shut down, Avalon can't stop thinking about the chilling crime scene, or Finley Stirling, the FBI agent working the case." --Front jacket flap
Author: Hirahara, Naomi, 1962- author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F HIRAHARA Format: Books Summary: "Chicago, 1944: twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, the California concentration camp where they have been 'interned' by the US government since the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, together with thousands of other Japanese Americans. The life the Itos were forced to leave behind is gone; instead, they are being resettled in Chicago, where Aki's older sister, Rose, was sent months earlier as a forerunner of the new Japanese American neighborhood near Clark and Division streets. But on the eve of the Ito family's reunion, Rose is killed by a subway train. Aki, who worshipped her sister, is stunned. Officials are ruling Rose's death a suicide, in part because the coroner's examination revealed Rose had recently had an abortion. Aki cannot believe her perfect, polished, and optimistic sister would end her life--nor can she imagine Rose carelessly getting pregnant. Her instinct tells her there is much more to the story, and she knows she is the only person who could ever learn the truth. Based on a true crime that terrorized the resettled Japanese American community in Chicago, and inspired by historical events, Clark and Division infuses an atmospheric and heartbreakingly real crime fiction plot with rich period details and delicately wrought personal stories Naomi Hirahara has gleaned from thirty years of research and archival work in Japanese American history"--
Author: McConaghy, Charlotte, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F MCCONAGH Format: Books Summary: "From the author of the beloved national bestseller Migrations, a #1 IndieNext pick, a gorgeous and pulse-pounding new novel set in the wild Scottish Highlands. Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team of biologists tasked with reintroducing fourteen gray wolves into the remote Highlands. She hopes to heal not only the dying landscape, but Aggie, too, unmade by the terrible secrets that drove the sisters out of Alaska. Inti is not the woman she once was, either, changed by the harm she's witnessed-inflicted by humans on both the wild and each other. Yet as the wolves surprise everyone by thriving, Inti begins to let her guard down, even opening herself up to the possibility of love. But when a farmer is mauled to death, Inti knows where the town will lay blame. Unable to accept her wolves could be responsible, Inti makes a reckless decision to protect them. But if the wolves didn't make the kill, then is something more sinister at play? Charlotte McConaghy's Once There Were Wolves is the unforgettable story of a woman desperate to save the creatures she loves-if she isn't consumed by a wild that was once her refuge"--
Author: Davids, Patricia, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: LP F DAVIDS Format: Large print Summary: "Amish widow Maisie Schrock is determined to care for her newborn niece and nephew, and no one will stand in her way--not even their father. But Nathan Weaver refuses to accept help from the identical sister of his late wife, who abandoned him. Before the next bus home leaves, can Maisie convince Nathan she's the ideal guardian for the twins ... and his wounded heart?"--Back cover.
Author: Gaynor, Hazel, author. Webb, Heather, 1976 December 30- author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F GAYNOR Format: Books Summary: Two estranged sisters fulfill their dying grandmother's final wish by traveling across Europe and delivering three goodbye letters to those who she has not seen since traveling to Europe four decades earlier. 1937. Estranged sisters Clara and Madeleine Sommers agree to fulfill their grandmother's last wish: travel across Europe together and deliver three letters, in which Violet will say goodbye to those she hasn't seen since traveling to Europe herself forty years earlier. Clara sees the trip as an inconvenient detour before her wedding to millionaire Charles Hancock, but also a chance to embrace her love of art. Budding journalist Madeleine relishes the opportunity to report on the growing threat of Hitler's Nazi party and Mussolini's control in Italy. As they explore the sights of Paris and Venice, Clara and Madeleine are faced with a shocking truth about their family. Reaching Vienna to deliver the final letter, political tensions rise. The pair are glad to head home on the Hindenburg, but fate will play its hand in the final stage of their journey. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Vindman, Alexander S., author. Published: 2021 Call Number: B VINDMAN Format: Books Summary: Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who found himself at the center of a firestorm for his decision to report the infamous phone call that led to presidential impeachment, tells his own story for the first time. HERE, RIGHT MATTERS is a stirring account of Vindman's childhood as an immigrant growing up in New York City, his career in service of his new home on the battlefield and at the White House, and the decisions leading up to, and fallout surrounding, his exposure of President Trump's abuse of power. 0900, Thursday, July 25, 2019: President Trump called Ukraine's President Zelensky, supposedly to congratulate him on his recent victory. In the months that followed, the American public would only learn what happened on that call because Alexander Vindman felt duty-bound to report it up the chain of command: that the President of the United States had extorted a foreign ally to damage a political challenger at home. Vindman's actions and subsequent testimony before congress would lead to Trump's impeachment and affirm Vindman's belief that he had done the right thing in the face of intense pressure to stay silent. But it would come at an enormous cost, straining relationships with colleagues, superiors, and even his own father, and eventually end his decorated career in the US Army, by a Trump administration intent on retribution. --adapted from front jacket flap
Author: Adkins, Mary, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F ADKINS Format: Books Summary: When they both start working for billionaire Cecil Stone and his wife in Palm Beach, New York transplants Rebecca and Mickey become fixtures in the Forbes-list family until Rebecca uncovers a shocking secret that forces her to make a difficult decision. "Living in a tiny Queens apartment, Rebecca and her husband, Mickey, are struggling thirty-something New Yorkers -- he's an actor who makes his living catering, and she's a freelance journalist. What they can't provide materially for their baby son, they make up for in affection. But everything changes when Mickey's offered a sweet deal managing the household of a multimillionaire Democratic donor in sunny Palm Beach." --Front jacket flap
Author: Butler, Nickolas, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F BUTLER Format: Books Summary: "In this riveting new novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Shotgun Lovesongs, three troubled construction workers get entangled in a dangerous plan to finish building a home against an impossible deadline"-- Cole, Bart, and Teddy, the three principals of True Triangle Construction, are hired to finish a project for a mysteriously wealthy homeowner. Nestled in the mountains outside of Jackson, Wyoming, the house is a masterpiece, unlike anything they've done before. Once finished, it promises to be the architectural prize of Jackson and could put True Triangle on the map. But the owner is intent on having it built in a matter of months, an impossible task made irresistible by the exorbitant bonus that awaits them if they succeed. Cole, Bart, and Teddy are willing to do anything to get the money, even if it means risking life, limb, and family. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Awad, Mona, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F AWAD Format: Books Summary: "ALL'S WELL is about Miranda Fitch whose life is a waking nightmare after an accident ruins her acting career, and leaves her with chronic back pain, a failed marriage, and a deepening dependence on painkillers and alcohol. On the verge of losing her job as a college theater director, Miranda lives out her broken dreams through an upcoming production of Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, when the unimaginable happens. She suddenly recovers, but at what cost?"--
Author: Rothschild, Mike, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: 973.93 ROTHSCHI Format: Books Summary: A journalist who specializes in conspiracy theories draws on interviews with QAnon converts and victims, as well as psychologists, sociologists, and academics to explain the origin and growth of the movement, its embrace by right-wing media and politicians, and why it is important to understand it rather than mock it
Author: Glatt, John, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: 364.152 Format: Books Summary: "New York Times bestselling author John Glatt tells the true story of Thomas Gilbert Jr., the disturbed young man accused of murdering his father, a Manhattan millionaire and hedge fund founder. By all accounts, Thomas Gilbert Jr. led a charmed life. The son of a wealthy hedge fund manager and a financier, he grew up surrounded by a loving family and all the luxury an Upper East Side childhood could provide: education at the elite Buckley School and Deerfield Academy, summers in a sprawling seaside mansion in the Hamptons. He was strikingly handsome, moving with ease through glittering social circles and following in his father's footsteps to Princeton. His friends saw him as a leader; his parents adored him. But Tommy always felt different, and the cracks in his façade began to show. What started as quiet exhaustion turned into warning signs of OCD, increasing paranoia, and-most troubling-an indescribable, inexplicable hatred of his father. As his parents begged him to seek psychiatric help, Tommy pushed back by self-medicating with drugs and escalating violence. When a fire destroyed his recently-estranged best friend's Hamptons home, Tommy was the prime suspect-but he was never charged. Just months later, he arrived at his parents' apartment, calmly asked his mother to leave, and shot his father point-blank in the head. Now, journalist John Glatt takes an in-depth look at the devastating crime that rocked Manhattan's upper class. With exclusive access to sources close to Tommy, including his own mother, Glatt constructs the agonizing spiral of mental illness that led Thomas Gilbert Jr. to the ultimate unspeakable act"--
Author: Matthews, Owen, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F MATHHEWS Format: Books Summary: "A thriller set at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis"-- 1962. KGB Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vasin is chasing the long-rumored existence of an American spy embedded at the highest echelon of Soviet power. Engaged in high-stakes espionage against a rival State agency, he first hears whispers of an ominous top-secret undertaking: Operation Anadyr. As tensions flare between Nikita Khrushchev and President Kennedy over Russian missiles hidden in Cuba, four Soviet submarines are ordered to make a covert run at the American blockade in the Caribbean-- each sub carrying tactical ballistic missiles armed with thermonuclear warheads. The fate of the world rested with the itchy trigger finger of one lone Soviet naval officer, 100 meters under the sea, out of all contact with his commanders. -- adapted from jacket
