Author: Gottfried, Sara, author. Published: 2024 Call Number: 616.978 GOTTFRIE Format: Books Summary: Reveals how trauma can rewire your body to trigger autoimmune diseases--and provides a comprehensive plan for readers to reset their immune system and finally heal.
Author: Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., author. Published: 2024 Call Number: 908.9 Format: Books Summary: "A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country's history. Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s legendary Harvard introductory course in African American Studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race, is the story of Black self-definition in America through the prism of the writers who have led the way. From Phillis Wheatley and Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, to Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison--these writers used words to create a livable world--a "home"--for Black people destined to live out their lives in a bitterly racist society. It is a book grounded in the beautiful irony that a community formed legally and conceptually by its oppressors to justify brutal sub-human bondage, transformed itself through the word into a community whose foundational definition was based on overcoming one of history's most pernicious lies. This collective act of resistance and transcendence is at the heart of its self-definition as a "community."..."--
Author: Gentill, Sulari, author. Published: 2024 Call Number: F GENTILL Format: Books Summary: "Theo Benton decides to move to the United States to finally finish her novel, and she is soon drawn into a literary labyrinth where identity is something that can be lost and remade for the sake of sales and readership. When her mentor and lover is brutally murdered, Theo wants the killer to be found and justice to be served. But when the prime suspect turns out to be her older brother, Gus, Theo does what is necessary to protect him--to save him. Then she disappears. But the writer has left a trail, a thread out of the labyrinth in the form of a story. When Gus finds that thread, he follows it, and in attempting to find his sister, inadvertently, or perhaps recklessly, threatens the foundations of the labyrinth itself. In order to protect the carefully constructed deceit, Theo Benton, and everyone who ever looked for her, will have to die."--
Author: Serle, Rebecca, author. Published: 2024 Call Number: LP F SERLE Format: Large print Summary: "Daphne Bell believes the universe has a plan for her. Every time she meets a new man, she receives a slip of paper with his name and a number on it--the exact amount of time they will be together. She has been receiving the papers for over twenty years, always wondering when there might be one without an expiration. Finally, the night of a blind date at her favorite restaurant, there's only a name: Jake. But as Jake and Daphne's story unfolds, Daphne finds herself doubting the paper's prediction, and wrestling with what it means to be both committed and truthful. Because Daphne knows things Jake doesn't, information that--if he found out--would break his heart"--
Author: McTiernan, Dervla, author. Published: 2023 Call Number: F MCTIERNA Format: Books Summary: "Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family's cabin in Vermont, and only Simon comes home"-- "What happened to Nina? Nobody knows. Simon?s explanation about what happened in their last hours together doesn?t add up. Nina?s parents push the police for answers, and Simon?s parents rush to protect him. They hire expensive lawyers and a PR firm that quickly ramps up a vicious, nothing-is-off-limits media campaign..." --Amazon.com
Author: Ferguson, Sarah, Duchess of York, 1959- author. Published: 2023 Call Number: LP F FERGUSON Format: Large print Summary: "Victorian London was notorious for its pickpockets. But wealthy victims--with their pride and reputations at stake--would never go to the police when preyed upon by con men and jewel thieves. What they needed was a society insider, a person of discretion with finely tuned powers of observation. Enter Lady Mary Montagu Douglas Scott, the youngest child of Queen Victoria's close friends the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch. Fiercely intelligent, Mary is also bookish and quiet, which means she's overlooked and significantly underestimated. It's the perfect cover for a sleuth, a role she stumbles into at a house party hosted by her parents at their stately Scottish home, Drumlanrig Castle..."--Back cover.
Author: Weiner, Jennifer, author. Published: 2023 Call Number: LP F WEINER Format: Large print Summary: "Thirty-four-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. She's got good friends, her bike, and her bike club in Philadelphia. She's at peace with her plus-size body--at least, most of the time--and she's on track to marry her childhood sweetheart. Abby and Mark met at the weight-loss camp Abby's perpetually dieting mother, Eileen, forced her daughter to attend. Yet Abby can't escape the feeling that something isn't right ... or the memories of one mind-blowing night spent with a man named Sebastian two years ago. So when Abby gets a last minute call to lead a group bike trip from New York City to Niagara Falls, she's happy to have time away from Mark, and a chance to make up her mind. But on the first day, Abby is shocked when she sees a familiar face in the tour group--Sebastian, the one-night stand she never thought she'd see again..."--
Author: Jenkins, Jerry B., author. Published: 2023 Call Number: F JENKINS Format: Books Summary: To the Pharisees, Jesus is a blasphemer. To the Roman authorities, he's a threat to their rule and order. But to the masses, he's a miraculous healer and a profound teacher. Jesus heals the sick, preaches the Sermon on the Mount, feeds the five thousand, and raises the dead. And his enemies growing ever more determined to silence him. Meanwhile, his very human disciples struggle with their own questions and concerns, believing in but not yet understanding their Messiah.
Author: Washington, C. J., author. Published: 2023 Call Number: F WASHINGT Format: Books Summary: When contract killer Cooper Franklin makes a deathbed confession, his revelations upend the lives of two strangers, setting them on an intersecting and ruinous path that imperils them both. Widow and single mom Tamara Foster must reckon with the mystery of her late husband's death and the secrets he left behind. As she digs deeper into his past to discover that she never truly knew him at all, her carefully reconstructed world begins to crumble all over again. Cindy Fremont has worked hard for the perfect life, and she's working even harder to keep it. So when Tamara shows up at her door seeking answers about her husband's past, Cindy must reexamine the tracks she thought she'd carefully covered. As the two women scramble to keep their lives together in the wake of Cooper's confession, they soon realize that no matter how deeply the past is buried, it can always come back to find you.
Author: Decker, Kevin S., editor. Published: 2023 Call Number: 813.54 Format: Books Summary: "He who controls the spice controls the universe." Frank Herbert's Dune saga is the epic story of Paul, son of Duke Leto Atreides, and heir to the massive fortune promised by the desert planet Arrakis and its vast reservoirs of a drug called "spice." To control the spice, Paul and his mother Jessica, a devotee of the pseudo-religious Bene Gesserit order, must find their place in the culture of the desert-dwelling Fremen of Arrakis. Paul must contend with both the devious rival House Harkonnen and the gargantuan desert sandworms--the source of the spice. The future of the Imperium depends upon one young man who will need to lead a new jihad to control the universe. Dune and Philosophy recruits 23 philosophers to sift wisdom from Frank Herbert's Duniverse, including the first of an expected series of films following Paul "Muad'Dib" Atreides and his descendants, captivatingly brought to the big screen by Denis Villeneuve in 2021. Part of the New Wave of science fiction of the 60s and 70s, Dune is characterized by literary experimentation with shifting styles, differing narrative points of view, and with the "psychedelic" culture of the period. In Dune, the long-term strategies and intricate plots of warring Great Houses are driven not just by Heighliner spacecraft and lasguns, but also by mind-expanding drugs, psychic powers, dystopian themes, race memories, and martial arts allowing control of the mind and the body. Substantial yet accessible chapters address philosophical questions including: Is it morally right to create a savior? Would interplanetary travel change human nature? What is the deeper meaning of desert ecologies? In conflict, how can you stay light years ahead of your opponents? Are there some drugs we would want to be addicted to? Does history repeat itself? Tens of thousands of years into an intergalactic future, can humans endure or will we sacrifice what is most important in our humanity for power, glory, religion and of course, the control of the spice? Dune and Philosophy sets an intellectual course through sand and stars to find out.
Author: Slocumb, Brendan, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: LP F SLOCUMB Format: Large print Summary: "Ray McMillian loves playing the violin more than anything, and nothing will stop him from pursuing his dream of becoming a professional musician. Not his mother, who thinks he should get a real job, not the fact that he can't afford a high-caliber violin, not the racism inherent in the classical music world. And when he makes the startling discovery that his great-grandfather's fiddle is actually a priceless Stradivarius, his star begins to rise. Then with the international Tchaikovsky Competition-the Olympics of classical music-fast approaching, his prized family heirloom is stolen. Ray is determined to get it back. But now his family and the descendants of the man who once enslaved Ray's great-grandfather are each claiming that the violin belongs to them. With the odds stacked against him and the pressure mounting, will Ray ever see his beloved violin again?"--
Author: Cesare, Adam, author. Published: 2021 2020 Call Number: Y CESARE Format: Books Summary: "Quinn Maybrook just wants to make it to graduation. She might not make it to morning. When Quinn and her father move to a tiny town with a weird clown for a mascot, they're looking for a fresh start. But ever since the town's only factory shut down, Kettle Springs has been cracked in half. Most of the town believes that the kids are to blame. After all, the juniors and seniors at Kettle Springs High are the ones who threw the party where Arthur Hill's daughter died. They're the ones who set the abandoned factory on fire and who spend all their time posting pranks on YouTube. They have no respect and no idea what it means to work hard. For the kids, it's the other way around. And now Kettle Springs is caught in a constant battle between old and new, tradition and progress. It's a fight that looks like it will destroy the town. Until one homicidal clown with a porkpie hat and a red nose decides to end it for good. Because if your opponents all die, you win the debate by default."-- "Quinn Maybrook and her father have moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs, to find a fresh start. But what they don't know is that ever since the Baypen Corn Syrup Factory shut down, Kettle Springs has cracked in half. On one side are the adults, who are desperate to make Kettle Springs great again, and on the other are the kids, who want to have fun, make prank videos, and get out of Kettle Springs as quick as they can. Kettle Springs is caught in a battle between old and new, tradition and progress. It's a fight that looks like it will destroy the town. Until Frendo, the Baypen mascot, a creepy clown in a pork-pie hat, goes homicidal and decides that the only way for Kettle Springs to grow back is to cull the rotten crop of kids who live there now."--Amazon
Author: Rodsky, Eve, author. Published: 2019 Call Number: 650.1082 Format: Books Summary: "Fair Play: a time- and anxiety-saving system that offers couples a completely new way to divvy up domestic responsibilities. Rodsky interviewed more than five hundred men and women from all walks of life to figure out what the invisible work in a family actually entails and how to get it all done efficiently." -- inside front jacket cover. "A revolutionary, real-world solution to the problem of unpaid, invisible work that women have shouldered for too long--from a woman tapped by Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine as the expert on this topic for a new generation of women"--
Author: Gigantino, James J., II, 1983- editor, author. Published: 2015 Call Number: 974.903 Format: Books Summary: Battles were fought in many colonies during the American Revolution, but New Jersey was home to more sustained and intense fighting over a longer period of time. The nine essays inThe American Revolution in New Jersey, examine the many challenges New Jersey residents faced at the intersection of the front lines and the home front. Using a wide historical lens, the contributors capture the decades before and after the conflict as they interpret the causes of the war and the consequences of New Jersey{u2019}s reaction to the Revolution.
Author: Cho, Charlotte, author. Published: 2015 Call Number: 646.726 Format: Books Summary: In Korea, glowing skin is the ideal form of beauty, achievable by anyone, and skin-first philosophy has taken the world by storm. The author guides you through the celebrated Korean ten-step skincare routine and far bayong, for the clearest and most radiant skin of your life, with step-by-step tutorials, skin-care tips, advice on products at all price lebels, and exclusive interviews with beauty experts around the world. You'll love pampering your skin at home and learning the secrets behind the "no-makeup makeup" look we've seen and admired on women in the streets of Seoul.
Author: Díaz Canales, Juan, 1972- author. Guarnido, Juanjo, 1967- illustrator. Flores, Anthya, translator. Rivera, Patricia, translator. Studio Cutie, letterer. Published: 2010 Call Number: GN DIAZCANA Format: Books Summary: "Private investigator John Blacksad is up to his feline ears in mystery and intrigue, digging up the backstories behind murders, child abductions, and nuclear secrets during the 1950s Red Scare in the United States. Former Disney artist Juanjo Guarnido reinvents anthropomorphism in these pages, with sumptuous paintings and a rich cinematic style that brings the world of midcentury America to vibrant life, and writer Juan Díaz Canales weaves fascinating tales of passion, conspiracy, racial tension, and Communist witch hunts throughout. Whether John Blacksad is falling for dangerous women or getting beaten to within an inch of his life, his stories are, simply put, unforgettable" -- Back cover.
Author: Rizzo, Dennis C. author. Published: 2008 Call Number: 973.7 Format: Books Summary: For slaves escaping on the Underground Railroad, names like Springtown and Snow Hill promised sanctuary and salvation. Under the pressures of racial prejudice, free blacks, runaway slaves and even many Native Americans formed island communities on the periphery of South Jersey towns. While Lawnside and others continue to thrive today, "fringe communities" like Marshalltown and Timbuctoo now exist only in memory. In this discussion of these primarily African American communities, Dennis Rizzo validates their role in the preservation of tradition, definition of extended family and creation of a social bond between diverse peoples; together they formed parallel communities based on, but independent of, the larger towns and villages familiar to us all.
Author: Bingham, John, 1948- Hadfield, Jenny. Published: 2003 Call Number: 796.4252 Format: Books Summary: Once considered a feat for superhuman athletes, the marathon is now within every mortal's grasp. Former couch potato John Bingham has joined forces with coach Jenny Hadfield to create a winning plan that works for every mortal. In Marathoning for Mortals, you'll find 8 training programs to run, run-walk, walk-run, or walk the half-marathon and marathon, Advice for you to physically, mentally, and spiritually reach your dreams, tips to help you customize your training, buy the right shoes and apparel, and eat the best foods, and guidance for common motivational, physical, and emotional roadblocks.
