Author: Nedd, Alexis, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: Y NEDD Format: Books Summary: Sixteen-year-old Emilia, secretly a dedicated gamer, competes with her elite team in a major tournament at the same time she and her best friend are running for class president and vice president. By day, Emilia is a field hockey star with a popular boyfriend and a mother obsessed with her academic future. By night, she's kicking virtual butt as the only female member of a highly competitive eSports team. Emilia has mastered the art of keeping her two worlds thriving, which hinges on them staying completely separate. When a major eSports tournament comes to her city, Emilia is determined to prove herself to the male-dominated gaming community. Her perfectly balanced life is thrown for a loop when Jake, a member of a rival team, recognizes her. He's had a crush on Emilia since he met her at an arcade. Will the pressures from their teams, and their nongaming worlds, pull them apart? -- adapted from jacket
Author: Vani, Supriya, author. Harte, Carl A., author. Published: 2021 Call Number: B ARDERN Format: Books Summary: Jacinda Ardern was swept to office in 2017 on a wave of popular enthusiasm dubbed 'Jacindamania'. In less than three months, she rose from deputy leader of the opposition to New Zealand's highest office. Her victory seemed heroic. Few in politics would have believed it possible; fewer still would have guessed at her resolve and compassionate leadership, which, in the wake of the horrific Christchurch mosque shootings of March 2019, brought her international acclaim. Since then, her decisive handling of the COVID-19 pandemic has seen her worldwide standing rise to the point where she is now celebrated as a model leader. In 2020 she won an historic, landslide victory and yet, characteristically, chose to govern in coalition with the Green Party. Jacinda Ardern: Leading with Empathy carefully explores the influences - personal, social, political and emotional - that have shaped Ardern.
Author: Oppedisano, Tony, author. Ross, Mary Jane, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: 782.4216 Format: Books Summary: "An intimate, revealing portrait of Frank Sinatra--from the man closest to the famous singer during the last decade of his life. More than a hundred books have been written about legendary crooner and actor Frank Sinatra. Every detail of his life seems to captivate: his career, his romantic relationships, his personality, his businesses, his style. But a hard-to-pin-down quality has always clung to him--a certain elusiveness that emerges again and again in retrospective depictions. Until now. From Sinatra's closest confidant and an eventual member of his management team, Tony Oppedisano, comes an extraordinarily intimate look at the singing idol. Deep into the night, for more than two thousand nights, Frank and Tony would converse--about music, family, friends, great loves, achievements and successes, failures and disappointments, the lives they'd led, the lives they wished they'd led. In these full-disclosure conversations, Sinatra spoke of his close yet complex relationship with his father, his conflicts with record companies, his carousing in Vegas, his love affairs with some of the most beautiful women of his era, his triumphs on some of the world's biggest stages, his complicated relationships with his talented children, and, most important, his dedication to his craft. Toward the end, no one was closer to the singer than Oppedisano, who kept his own rooms at the Sinatra residences for many years, often brokered difficult conversations between family members, and held the superstar entertainer's hand when he drew his last breath. Featuring never-before-seen photos and offering startlingly fresh anecdotes and new revelations that center on some of the most famous people of the past fifty years--including Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Sam Giancana, Madonna, and Bono--Sinatra and Me pulls back the curtain to reveal a man whom history has, in many ways, gotten wrong"--
Author: White, Linda J., 1949- author. Published: 2021 2019 Call Number: LP F WHITE Format: Large print Summary: "Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake. Job 4:13-14. After a brutal incident, Jessica Chamberlain changes jobs, moves, and adopts a rowdy, partially trained German Shepherd, Luke. The two begin training with a Virginia K-9 search-and-rescue group. The group's training director, Nathan Tanner, a former military war dog handler with scars of his own, sees signs of stress in Jess. He'd like to share the hope he's found -- if she'd let him. On their first big test, Jess's dog makes an unplanned discovery: the body of a young woman, a murder victim, lying in the woods. Drawn into the FBI's hunt for a serial killer, Jess finds herself tormented by her past -- and terrified of her future. Can the secrets of her late father give her the strength she needs to carry on?"--
Author: Lee, John, 1969- author. Sainsbury, Brendan, author. Lonely Planet Publications (Firm) Published: 2020 Call Number: 917.1104 Format: Books Summary: Lonely Planet's Vancouver & Victoria is your most up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Shop for shoes in Gastown, hit the slopes of Grouse Mountain and sample an ale in a hidden microbrewery--all with your trusted travel companion.
Published: 2020 Call Number: 351.076 Format: Books Summary: The General Aptitude and Abilities Series provides functional, intensive test practice and drill in the basic skills and areas common to many civil service, general aptitude or achievement examinations necessary for entrance into schools or occupations. The Mechanical Aptitude Passbook® prepares you by sharpening the skills and abilities necessary to succeed in a wide range of mechanical-related occupations. It includes supplementary text on machines and provides hundreds of multiple-choice questions that include, but are not limited to: use and knowledge of tools and machinery; basic geometry and mathematics; mechanical comprehension; and more.
Author: Princeton Review (Firm) Published: 2020 Call Number: 650.076 Format: Books Summary: "The all-in-one solution for your highest GMAT score! This comprehensive guide includes 6 computer-adaptive (CAT) practice tests, access to free online tools, and detailed topic reviews."--Provided by publisher.
Author: Wheeler, Donna (Travel writer), contributor. Published: 2020 Call Number: 914.3604 Format: Books Summary: Coffee, cake and culture - welcome to Austria. Whether you want to hike in the alps, visit remarkably well-preserved medieval towns or simply indulge in Vienna's decadent cafe culture, your DK Eyewitness travel guide makes sure you experience all that Austria has to offer.
Author: Spring, Janis Abrahms, author. Spring, Michael, author. Published: 2020 Call Number: 306.73 Format: Books Summary: "There is nothing quite like the devastation caused when a partner has been unfaithful. Hurt partners often experience a profound shattering of their familiar and valued sense of self and fall into a depression that can last for years. For the relationship, infidelity is often a death blow. This new third edition of After the Affair, with more than 600,000 copies sold, helps guide both hurt and unfaithful partners through three stages of healing: normalizing the crisis, deciding whether to recommit to their partner, and rekindling trust and sexual intimacy. It includes a new section in which patients ask questions not addressed in previous editions, and the author provides concrete strategies for earning trust and forgiveness."--
Author: Gaynor, Hazel, author. Published: 2017 Call Number: F GAYNOR Format: Books Summary: 1917... It was inexplicable, impossible, but it had to be true--didn't it? When two young cousins, Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright from Cottingley, England, claim to have photographed fairies at the bottom of the garden, their parents are astonished. But when one of the great novelists of the time, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, becomes convinced of the photographs' authenticity, the girls become a national sensation, their discovery offering hope to those longing for something to believe in amid a world ravaged by war. Frances and Elsie will hide their secret for many decades. But Frances longs for the truth to be told. One hundred years later... When Olivia Kavanagh finds an old manuscript in her late grandfather's bookshop she becomes fascinated by the story it tells of two young girls who mystified the world. But it is the discovery of an old photograph that leads her to realize how the fairy girls' lives intertwine with hers, connecting past to present, and blurring her understanding of what is real and what is imagined. As she begins to understand why a nation once believed in fairies, can Olivia find a way to believe in herself?
Author: Giffin, Emily, author. Giffin, Emily. Something borrowed. Giffin, Emily. Something blue. Published: 2015 2004 Call Number: F GIFFIN Format: Books Summary: Something borrowed: After a night of indiscriminate partying, Rachel sleeps with a close friend's fiancé and is consumed with guilt, until the intensity of her feelings forces her to make a difficult choice. Something blue: Her belief in the power of beauty shattered when her fiancé dumps her for a plain woman, a pregnant Darcy flees to London and struggles to rebuild her glamorous life before realizing that her past methods no longer work.
Author: Meissner, Susan, 1961-, author. Published: 2012 Call Number: F MEISSNER Format: Books Summary: Meg Pomeroy's grandmother promised that one day she would take her to Florence, Italy. But her death leaves the trip on the shoulders of Meg's father, whose divorce from her mother has led to a strained relationship with Meg. Still, when Meg is 30, her father tells her to go ahead and book the trip. When Meg arrives in Florence, her father isn't there. Instead, he has left instructions for would-be memoir writer Sofia Borelli to show Meg the sites. For her part, Sofia claims to be the last surviving member of the Medici family. She also claims that Nora Orsini, a Medici princess, communicates with her through paintings.
Author: Meissner, Susan, 1961-, author. Published: 2011 Call Number: F MEISSNER Format: Books Summary: Susannah was rumored to be a Civil War spy for the North, a traitor to her Virginian roots. Her great-granddaughter Adelaide, the current matriarch of Holly Oak, doesn't believe that Susannah's ghost haunts the antebellum mansion looking for a pardon, but rather the house itself bears a grudge toward its tragic past. When Marielle marries into the family, she must sort out the truth about Susannah and Holly Oak-- and make peace with the sacrifices she has made for love.
Author: Meissner, Susan, 1961- author. Published: 2010 Call Number: F MEISSNER Format: Books Summary: After her husband leaves her, Jane Lindsay finds an old ring in a box of relics from a British jumble sale and discovers a Latin inscription in the band along with just one other word: "Jane." Feeling instant connection to the mysterious ring bearing her namesake, Jane begins a journey to learn more about the ring--and perhaps about herself and the lives of a sixteenth century dressmaker, Lucy Day, and the innocent young woman known in history as Lady Jane Grey.
Author: White, Karen (Karen S.) Published: 2010 Call Number: F WHITE Format: Books Summary: "At twenty, Cassie Madison left her hometown of Walton, Georgia, without so much as a backward glance, but when a family crisis calls her home, she must part with the satisfaction of her Upper East Side life--and return to the tumult of the one she left...."--Cover p. [4]
Author: Meissner, Susan, 1961-, author. Published: 2009 Call Number: F MEISSNER Format: Books Summary: The Janviers have the idyllic life. A beautiful home, great jobs, two wonderful kids. And surrounding it all is the proverbial white picket fence that protects them, offers them a serene sense of security-- and hides all their secrets. "When her black sheep brother disappears, Amanda Janvier eagerly takes in her sixteen-year-old niece Tally. The girl is practically an orphan: motherless and living with a father who raises Tally wherever he lands--in a Buick, a pizza joint, a horse farm--and regularly takes off on wild schemes. Amanda envisions that she, her husband, Neil, and their two teenagers can offer the girl stability and a shot at a 'normal' life, even though their own storybook lives are about to crumble." --Back cover.
Published: 2009 Call Number: 641.597 Format: Books Summary: The AC Hog Chapter Ladies of Harley collected a variety of recipes, and shared a brief history of their Atlantic County Chapter #2911. --perusal of cookbook
Author: Orwell, George, 1903-1950. Published: 1996 1946 Call Number: PB O Format: Books Summary: The animals of the farmyard rebel against Farmer Jones in the name of equality.
Author: Bailine, Debbie, editor. Lounsberry, Charles F., illustrator. Published: 1990 Call Number: 641.597 Format: Books Summary: Greetings from Atlantic City gives a variety of recipes, and shares some of the history of Atlantic City throughout the cookbook. --perusal of cookbook
Author: Carnegie, Dale, 1888-1955. Published: 1981 1936 Call Number: BF637.S8 C37 1981 Format: Books Summary: Six ways of making people like you, twelve ways of winning people to your way of thinking and nine ways to change people without giving offense or arousing resentment.
