Author: Larsen, Timothy, 1967- editor. Published: 2024 Call Number: 813.009 Format: Books Summary: "Celebrate this magical season with some of the greatest literary figures in history, including Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, G. K. Chesterton, and other classic storytellers. Larsen includes the history and inspiration behind the literature. Contemplate and savor all that is good and true about God's redemptive story"--
Author: Benn, James R., author. Published: 2024 Call Number: F BENN Format: Books Summary: "Months after the Liberation of France, ex-Boston cop Billy Boyle has landed in its war-torn capital city, still carrying with him the weight of his last mission. He witnesses a Paris ailing from the carnage it has endured--blocked roadways, buildings marked by bullet holes--but with the nascent hope that the war might be coming to its end. When Billy and his long-time comrade Kaz survive a tense shoot-out in the Père Lachaise Cemetery, they discover a rare piece of artwork left behind in an unmarked grave. Could the artwork be connected to the Syndicat du Renard, a shadowy network of Nazi sympathizers known to be smuggling stolen artwork out of France? Billy's investigation takes him through a shadowy underworld of art thieves and the heroic squad of cultural protectors, like the real-life Monuments Men, trying to stop them. Trailing the Syndicat and its unknown leader, the Fox, Billy discovers that someone with a high level of security and communications clearance--someone in the Phantom regiment of the British Army--may be using his position to aid the thefts. Determined to stop the gang of looters, Billy heads up to the frontlines of the war, to a tense, frostbitten Calvary, where the Phantom unit's headquarters is based. There, the Battle of the Bulge--one of the bloodiest campaigns in the history of World War II--unfurls in the Ardennes Forest, on the border of Belgium and Luxembourg. Can Billy and his team survive the bracing onslaught, and return a throng of stolen artwork to its rightful owners?"--
Author: Choi, Gyu-Seok, 1977- author, artist. Eskow, Lynn, translator, letterer. Published: 2024 Call Number: GN CHOI V.1 Format: Books Summary: "Soo-in Lee is a former military officer, his aspirations crushed by mundane injustices and dishonesty, who's now entered the workforce during a time of financial crisis for his country. Living the life of a Produce Department manager, he thought his days of hierarchical struggles were behind him...until an edict from his employer commands that his team must be massively and quickly downsized. Go-shin Gui is a boisterous labor activist and the head of a consultation agency in defense of local workers. Initially doubtful of Soo-in's motivations, he nonetheless introduces Soo-in to his world, that of the never-ending struggle against economic authority"--Back cover of volume one.
Author: Mladjenovic, Paul, author. Published: 2024 Call Number: 332.6322 7TH ED. Format: Books Summary: Updated with new and revised material to reflect the current market, this new edition of Stock Investing For Dummies gives you proven strategies for selecting and managing profitable investments. no matter what the conditions. You'll find out how to navigate the new economic landscape and choose the right stock for different situations--with real-world examples that show you how to maximize your portfolio.
Author: Levy-Gantt, Rebecca, Dr., author. Published: 2024 Call Number: 618.175 Format: Books Summary: "Women approaching menopause start experiencing natural shifts in their bodies as early as the 30s. Perimenopause For Dummies explains what's going on, giving you all the information you need to reduce symptoms and navigate this life transition. You'll learn about changes in your weight, muscles, bladder, bones, and hormones. And you'll discover how to combat sleep loss, hot flashes, low libido and other pesky problems that herald the end of your fertility. Celebrate the new chapter in your life with this Dummies guide"--
Author: Tyson, Eric (Eric Kevin), author. Schell, Jim, author. Published: 2024 Call Number: 658.022 6TH ED. Format: Books Summary: This guide takes current and would-be entrepreneurs through the step-by-step process of starting, buying, or sustaining a small business. Discover whether entrepreneurship is for you and turn your business idea into a solid plan. Dig into jargon-free guidance on marketing, managing, and growing your business. Employee benefits, small business taxes, staying financially solvent -- it's all in here, in terms anyone can understand. If you're itching to become your own boss, start with this guide.
Author: Goudge, Eileen, author. Published: 2024 Call Number: F GOUDGE Format: Books Summary: On the run from her abusive husband, Kyra Smith hits the road. Destination unknown. With a neglected dog she rescued in tow, she lands in the peaceful California town of Gold Creek and is immediately befriended by an openhearted group of women called the Tattooed Ladies Club. They're there for Kyra--and for each other. The maternal Frannie is a tattoo artist struggling with a troubled daughter. Suzy is a self-described fashionista grandma bearing a painful estrangement from her son. Then there's Jo, whose enviable marriage is coming undone. And bookstore owner Marisol. She longs for the kind of romance she only reads about. For them, and for Kyra, fortunes can change. Just as Kyra parlays her artistic talents into a new career, and finally meets a man she can trust in and love, her ex tracks her down. He has a twisted plan to upend everything she now holds dear. Marshaling her renewed power and wisdom, Kyra will stop at nothing to put the past behind her. Once and for all. Whatever it takes. --
Author: Williams, Beatriz, author. Willig, Lauren, author. White, Karen (Karen S.), author. Published: 2024 Call Number: LP F WILLIAMS Format: Large print Summary: "There's been a sensational murder at historic Castle Kinloch, a gothic fantasy of grey granite on a remote island in the Highlands of Scotland. Literary superstar Brett Saffron Presley has been found dead--under bizarre circumstances--in the castle tower's book-lined study. Years ago, Presley purchased the castle as a showpiece for his brand and to lure paying guests with a taste for writerly glamour.Now it seems, the castle has done him in--or possibly, one of the castle's guests has. Detective Chief Inspector Euan McIntosh, a localwith no love for literary Americans, finds himself with the unenviable task of extracting statements from three American lady novelists"--
Author: Hechtman, Betty, 1947- author. Published: 2024 Call Number: LP F HECHTMAN Format: Large print Summary: When the perennially cloudy skies of Cadbury unleash a torrential downpour, yarn retreat host Casey Feldstein watches in dismay as the streets surrounding Vista Del Mar become flooded and she and her retreat guests are trapped there. But the storm is the least of their worries when a man is found dead in his room, and the guests begin to speculate that he may have been murdered. With the police unable to reach them, Casey is forced to fill their soggy shoes and investigate. She's quick to discover evidence pointing to foul play, but with the guests growing restless and suspicious, it's everything Casey and the staff can do to keep them fed, distracted - and safe. Then another body is found, and as the weather finally begins to clear, Casey realises she has to act fast before the killer makes a clean getaway. Because the culprit has tampered with the evidence and is tying up loose ends, and Casey fears she may be left high and dry - or drenched and dead.
Author: Gregory, Lena, author. Published: 2024 Call Number: LP F GREGORY Format: Large print Summary: Never one to let a day off work go to waste, café owner Gia Morelli and a friend head out for a blissful kayaking trip through the local national forest. But the peacefulness of the day is soon shattered when they come across Cole, her head cook, standing over a dead body. Worse still, the victim was a lifelong enemy of Cole's, and clues found on the body point to the cook as the culprit. When the police take Cole in and subject him to an intense grilling, Gia vows to do everything she can to prove his innocence. As even more incriminating evidence surfaces - including when the murder weapon itself is found hidden at the café - Gia knows she's up against someone brutal enough to kill and devious enough to frame Cole for the deed. With the police ready to make an official arrest and wrap up what they consider an open-and-shut case, Gia turns for help to an old friend who's not above breaking the law himself. Because if she can't find the killer, Cole may go from serving up hot dishes to serving a life sentence.
Author: Armstrong, Kate J., author. Published: 2024 Call Number: Y ARMSTRON Format: Books Summary: "The Nightbirds were once their city's best-kept secret, but now the secret's out. What's more, they can do feats of magic no one has seen in centuries...As the new leader of Eudea works to lift the prohibition on magic, the churchmen who do not support it and the gang lords who profit from it whisper rebellion. The secret resistance who once sheltered the Nightbirds is rallying, too...As war looms, and the empire's fate hangs from a knife's edge, the Nightbirds have to decide if becoming more than that are...to protect Simta is worth losing themselves entirely and the lives and loves they might have had"--
Author: Delany, Vicki, 1951- author. Published: 2024 Call Number: LP F DELANEY Format: Large print Summary: Members of the Reynolds and Hill families are staying at Lily's grandmother's bed and breakfast, and now they've gathered at Tea by the Sea to sip some delicious blends while they shower bride-to-be Hannah Hill with presents. But the last package Hannah unwraps contains a beheaded Raggedy Ann doll and triggers a bloodcurdling scream. Lily senses that the shocking anonymous gift just might be related to other tensions she's picking up on. The mothers-in-law have been sniping at each other - and then Lily, out walking her dog, overhears the groom's father, Ralph, offering his son a very sizable bribe to call off the wedding. She's relieved when Greg angrily turns him down, but with so many people steamed at each other, can this event possibly go smoothly? The answer is no. It suddenly has to be postponed - when Ralph is found dead in his bed, a bottle of whiskey beside him. When tests indicate the booze was infused with a lethal substance, it becomes a murder case, and of course, accusations are flying wildly with the guests all too willing to believe the worst about each other.
Author: Baker, Kylie Lee, author. Published: 2024 Call Number: Y BAKER Format: Books Summary: "Since Zilan entered the world of royal alchemists, she has learned firsthand that alchemy comes at a price. She has lost her family and her beloved prince in her search for justice against the evil Empress. All Zilan wants now is to find some way to bring them back. Resurrection is her specialty, after all. In search of Penglai Island, where the infamous myth says life can be fully restored, Zilan starts a new adventure. But Penglai Island has been kept well hidden by a group of unpredictable, and often dangerous, alchemists. Uncovering the secret means challenging some of the most powerful alchemists to ever live. And when old threats come back to haunt Zilan, she will have to decide just how much she is willing to sacrifice to save her loved ones--and the practice of alchemy that has long defined her and the world around her"--
Author: Donne, Alexa, author. Published: 2024 Call Number: Y DONNE Format: Books Summary: Students from an elite prep school travel to a remote ski cabin for their senior excursion, but as the temperature drops and a blizzard traps them inside, tensions rise, secrets and betrayals are revealed, and when classmates begin to die, the group must uncover the killer among them to survive. "The student of LA's elite Warner Prep can't wait for their Senior Excursion--five days of Instagrammable adventure in one of the world's most exclusive locations. This is not your average field trip. Which is why eight students can't believe their bad luck when they end up on a digital detox in an isolated colorado shi chalet. Their epic trip is panning out to be an epic bore... until their classmates start dropping in a series of disturbing deaths. The message is clear: this trip is no accident. And when a blizzard strikes, secrets are revealed, betrayals are exposed, and survival is at stake in a race tot he bitter."--
Author: Lufkin, Robert B., author. Lisec, Joshua, author. Published: 2024 Call Number: 616.3 Format: Books Summary: "In Lies I Taught in Medical School, Robert Lufkin, MD, explains that metabolic dysfunction is the common underlying cause of most chronic diseases that has been overlooked for decades, providing the tools needed to prevent and reverse them in ourselves. He draws on expansive, peer-reviewed evidence, proving that standard medical recommendations are killing us"--
Author: Anderson, Lily, 1988- author. Published: 2024 Call Number: Y ANDERSON Format: Books Summary: "Red Solo cups? Check. Snacks? Check. Abandoned mansion full of countless horrors that won't let you leave? Check. The Deinhart Manor has been a looming shadow over town for as long as anyone can remember, and it's been abandoned for even longer. When the final Deinhart descendent passes, the huge gothic manor is up for sale for the first time ever. Which means Arden can steal the keys from her mom's real estate office... It's time for a graduation party that no one will ever forget. Arden and her best friends Maddy, Remi, and Shane, each have different reasons for wanting to throw the party to end all parties. But when the manor doors bar everyone inside and the walls begin to bleed, all anyone wants to do is make it out alive." --
Author: Leede, CJ, author. Published: 2024 Call Number: F LEEDE Format: Books Summary: "A virus is spreading across America, transforming the infected and making them feral with lust. Sophie, a good Catholic girl, must traverse the hellscape of the midwest to try to find her family while the world around her burns. Along the way she discovers there are far worse fates than dying a virgin... The end times are coming"--
Author: Kashiwai, Hisashi, 1952- author. Kirkwood, Jesse, translator. Published: 2024 2014 Call Number: F KASHIWAI Format: Books Summary: "Chef Nagare and his daughter Koishi serve their customers more than delicious food at their Kamogawa Diner down a quiet street in Kyoto. They can help recreate meals from their customers' most treasured memories. Through ingenious investigations, these "food detectives" untangle flavors and pore through old shopping lists to remake unique dishes from the past. From the swimmer who misses his father's lunchbox to the model who longs for fried rice from her childhood, each customer leaves the diner forever changed--though not always in the ways they expect... A beloved bestseller in Japan, The Restaurant of Lost Recipes is a tender and healing novel that celebrates the power of community and delicious food"--
Author: Joyce, Jessica, author. Published: 2024 Call Number: F JOYCE Format: Books Summary: "Estranged exes must stick close together to save their best friend's wedding after a string of disasters in this swoony and steamy second-chance romance from the USA Today bestselling author of You, with a View. Georgia Woodward lives by her lists, none more so than the one about her ex, Eli Mora. It's full of the ironclad dos and don'ts they've been following since she returned to the Bay Area after their cataclysmic breakup five years ago. With the wedding of their mutual best friend, Adam, looming, and them about to step into their roles as best woman and man, Georgia's never needed it more. She refuses to threaten their tight-knit friend group with her messy-and still very present-feelings. The rules on that list will keep her cool, calm, and compartmentalized. What's not on her list? Eli arriving from New York with a new rule-breaking attitude or the all-inclusive venue burning to the ground, leaving the bride and groom in dire straits. Nor does she anticipate Adam asking her and Eli to help him make a miracle happen. Together. As Georgia and Eli rush up to Napa Valley to pull off the perfect wedding, their old chemistry comes back in technicolor. Somewhere between cake tastings gone wrong, disastrous DJ auditions, and Eli's heated attention, Georgia starts recognizing the man she fell in love with before. And if she lets herself break her rules, she might find what they're building isn't the something old that ruined them-it's a chance at something new"--
Author: DeLozier, Elizabeth, author. Published: 2024 Call Number: F DELOZIER Format: Books Summary: "Gorgeously drawn, full of captivating historical drama, and rich with unforgettable characters, Eleanore of Avignon is the story of a woman who is unwilling to bend to the limitations her society places upon her when she becomes the unlikely apprentice to the pope's physician at the most challenging and dangerous moment in medieval European history"-- "Provence, 1347. Eleanore (Elea) Blanchet is a young midwife and herbalist with remarkable skills. but as she learned the day her mother died, the most dangerous thing a woman can do is draw attention to herself. She attends patients in her home city of Avignon, spends time with her father and twin sister, gathers herbs in the surrounding woods, and dreams of the freedom to pursue her calling without fear. In a chance encounter, Elea meets Guigo de Chauliac, the enigmatic personal physician to the powerful Pope Clement, and strikes a deal with him to take her on as his apprentice. Under Chauliac's tutelage she hones her skills as a healer, combining her knowledge of folk medicine with anatomy, astrology, and surgical techniques. . ."--
