Author: Theroux, Paul, author. Published: 2025 Call Number: F THEROUX Format: Books Summary: "From the bestselling novelist, travel writer, and "master of the short story" (NPR) comes a brilliant new collection. The stories in Paul Theroux's fascinating new collection are both exotic and domestic, their settings ranging from Hawaii to Africa and New England. Each focuses on life's vanishing points--a moment when seemingly all lines running through one's life converge, and one can see no farther, yet must deal with the implications. With the insight, subtlety, and empathy that has long characterized his work, Theroux has written deeply moving stories about memory, longing, and the passing of time, reclaiming his status, once again, as a master of the form"--
Author: Hall, Stephanie Barron, author. Published: 2025 Call Number: 155.26 Format: Books Summary: In Enneagram in Real Life, Hall explains how to apply the Enneagram to your life. Finding your type is just the beginning of your story. Drawn from her years of study and practice coaching thousands of people, Enneagram In Real Life includes relatable stories from real clients, tangible growth practices and frameworks, and actionable advice you can use to incorporate the Enneagram's transformative power into your life, career, communication, and relationships.
Author: Morgan, Leanne, 1965- author. Published: 2024 Call Number: B MORGAN Format: Books Summary: "For a long time, no one pulling the strings in the comedy world thought that an over-fifty woman from rural Tennessee could make it in the industry. But Leanne Morgan has defied the odds, reaching millions with her musings on hormones, low-rise britches, Weight Watchers, and her opposites-attract relationship with her husband, Chuck. In her charming southern accent, Morgan brings readers inside her quest to find her voice after spending many years trying to figure out what that meant. Along the way, we learn how she grew up as a butcher's daughter, landed a husband with health insurance, honed her stand-up technique selling jewelry at house parties, embraced the glories of aging, and surrendered to the comfort of wearing big flesh-toned panties"--
Author: Auslander, Shalom, author. Published: 2024 Call Number: B AUSLANDE Format: Books Summary: "A memoir of the author's attempt to escape the biblical story he'd been raised on and his struggle to construct a new story for himself and his family"-- "Shalom Auslander was raised like a veal in a dysfunctional family in the Orthodox community of Monsey, New York: the son of an alcoholic father; a guilt-wielding mother; and a violent, overbearing God. Now, as he reaches middle age, Auslander begins to suspect that what plagues him is something worse, something he can't so easily escape: a story. The story. One indelibly implanted in him at an early age, a story that told him he is fallen, broken, shameful, disgusting, a story we have all been told for thousands of years, and continue to be told by the religious and secular alike, a story called 'Feh.'" --Amazon.com
Author: Rogovoy, Seth, 1960- author. Published: 2024 Call Number: 782.42 Format: Books Summary: "Within You Without You: Listening to George Harrison by Seth Rogovoy is a highly personal exploration of George Harrison's essential contributions to the Beatles and his solo work as well as his significant role as a Western proponent of Indian music and beliefs. Through close examination of his guitar playing in the Fab Four and his songwriting in and out of the Beatles, the book attempts to demystify the enigma of this most reluctant of rock stars. Drawing upon the insights of the author - a rock critic and historian of over forty years standing, whose previous books include Bob Dylan: Prophet Mystic Poet -- as well as those of expert observers including English rock singer-songwriters Robyn Hitchcock and John Wesley Harding and Beatles filmmaker Michael Lindsay-Hogg among others, Within You Without You will forever change the way readers hear the music of the Beatles and view Harrison's role in the group, as well as enhancing appreciation of Harrison as a cultural figure above and beyond his work as a musician"--
Author: Barraclough, Eleanor Rosamund. Published: 2024 Call Number: 948.022 Format: Books Summary: "A "brilliantly written, brilliantly conceived" (Tom Holland) history of the Viking Age, from mighty leaders to rebellious teenagers, told through their runes and ruins, games and combs, trash and treasure" -- "A "brilliantly written, brilliantly conceived" (Tom Holland) history of the Viking Age, from mighty leaders to rebellious teenagers, told through their runes and ruins, games and combs, trash and treasure. In imagining a Viking, a certain image springs to mind: a barbaric warrior, leaping ashore from a longboat, and ready to terrorize the hapless local population of a northern European town. Yet while such characters define our imagination of the Viking Age today, they were in the minority. Instead, in the time-stopping soils, water, and ice of the North, Eleanor Barraclough excavates a preserved lost world, one that reimagines a misunderstood society. By examining artifacts of the past--remnants of wooden gaming boards, elegant antler combs, doodles by imaginative children and bored teenagers, and runes that reveal hidden loves, furious curses, and drunken spouses summoned home from the pub--Barraclough illuminates life in the medieval Nordic world as not just a world of rampaging warriors, but as full of globally networked people with recognizable concerns. This is the history of all the people--children, enslaved people, seers, artisans, travelers, writers--who inhabited the medieval Nordic world. Encompassing not just Norway, Denmark, and Sweden, but also Iceland, Greenland, the British Isles, Continental Europe, and Russia, this is a history of a Viking Age filled with real people of different ages, genders, and ethnicities, as told through the traces that they left behind. "Embers of the hands" is a poetic kenning from the Viking Age that referred to gold. But no less precious are the embers that Barraclough blows back to life in this book--those of ordinary lives long past"--
Author: Aitken, Molly, author. Published: 2024 Call Number: F AITKEN Format: Books Summary: "A fierce, electrifying novel inspired by the true story of the first woman to be condemned as a witch in Ireland. In thirteenth-century Ireland, a woman with power is a woman to be feared. Alice, the daughter of a wealthy innkeeper in Kilkenny, grows up watching her mother wither under the constraints of family responsibilities-and she vows that she will never suffer the same fate. In time, she discovers she has a flair for making money, and takes her father's flourishing business to new heights. But as her riches and stature grow, so too do rumors about her private life. By the time she marries her fourth husband-the three earlier are dead-a storm of local gossip and resentment culminates in a life-threatening accusation . . . A breathtaking act of imagination, Bright I Burn gives voice to a woman lost to history, who dared to carve a space of her own in a man's world"--
Author: Anderson, Ferin Davis, author. McPherson, Stephanie Sammartino, author. Published: 2024 Call Number: Y 363.37 Format: Books Summary: "Environmental scientist Ferin Anderson and author Stephanie Sammartino McPherson examine how Indigenous people, farmers, and forestry departments have used fire to manage resources and how climate change is impacting the future of fire"--
Author: Mix, Rebecca, author. Burns, Heather, artist. Da Silva, Luiz Fernando, artist. Published: 2024 Call Number: Y GN MIX Format: Books Summary: "The Giant Omelette is a staple in Neopets. Each day, hungry Neopets approach the Giant Omelette and manage to take a slice. But this isn't a story about how the Giant Omelette came to be. It is the story of how we almost lost the Giant Omelette--forever. Join Sabre-X, a disgraced Fire Faerie named Seraphina, and their Petpets, Fang and Faellie, on this epic fantastical journey through Neopia to restore one of the most popular parts of the site."--Back cover.
Author: Dyson, Michael Eric, author. Favreau, Marc, 1968- author. Published: 2024 Call Number: 323.042 Format: Books Summary: "An exploration of the ongoing fight for democracy in the United States, from the American Revolution to the present day"-- "Renowned thought leader Michael Eric Dyson and widely celebrated author Marc Favreau shine a light on the fight for democratic representation, an ongoing and epic quest to build the democracy promised in the Constitution. Each chapter takes on a new battle between champions of freedom and those who stand in the way of their right to vote--from the American Revolution straight up to the present day as we approach the 2024 presidential election. Drawing clear lines from then to now, with impeccable research and exhilarating prose, Represent weaves this crucial struggle for democracy into an enthralling American drama that will help readers understand our past, present, and future"--
Author: Bock, Charles, author. Published: 2024 Call Number: B BOCK Format: Books Summary: The novelist Charles Bock was a reluctant parent, tagging along for the ride of fatherhood, obsessed primarily with his dream of a writing career. But when his daughter Lily was six months old, his wife, Diana, was diagnosed with a complex form of leukemia. Two and half years later, when all treatments and therapies had been exhausted, Bock found himself a widower--devastated, drowning in medical bills, and saddled with a daunting responsibility. He had to nurture Lily, and, somehow, maybe even heal himself. I Will Do Better is Charles's pull-no-punches account of what happened next. Playdates, music classes, temper tantrums, oh-so-cool babysitters, first days at school, family reunions, single-parent dating, and a citywide crippling natural disaster--were minefields especially treacherous for Charles and Lily because of their preexisting vulnerability: their grief. Charles sought help from friends, family, and therapists, but this overgrown, middle-aged boy-man and his plucky child became, foremost, a duo--they found their way together. By turns comical and heartbreaking, I Will Do Better does not shy from moments of sadness, anger, or awkwardness. It's the remarkable journey of two defiant and wounded people, and their personal growth in the name of love.
Author: Naspini, Sacha, 1976- author. Botsford, Clarissa, translator. Published: 2024 2023 Call Number: F NASPINI Format: Books Summary: Tuscany, November 1943. The village of Le Case is miles away from any big city and appears rooted in an earlier century. Seen from there, even the war looks different--it is mostly a matter of waiting, praying, and mourning. As a fierce winter threatens, an order is issued by the local Fascist authorities: all Jews must be rounded up and detained in the bishop's villa to await deportation. Shy, solitary, and taciturn René is the town's cobbler. His only friend is the widow Anna, a woman with whom he has been secretly in love for years. One evening, Anna disappears into the woods. René later learns that a group of Resistance fighters has been ambushed and the survivors are imprisoned in the bishop's villa. A woman is among them, they say, a former inhabitant of Le Case. René can no longer stand by and watch as his town, his country, and his one great love become victims of the Nazis and their Fascist enablers, and, perhaps for the first time in his life, he decides to take action" -- Book jacket.
Author: Goh, Li Kim, author. Published: 2023 Call Number: 736.982 Format: Books Summary: "Find peace and calm through origami. Relaxing paper folding projects for all abilities, each illustrated with step-by-step instructions. Fold it calm includes all the origami techniques you need to know, plus 25 beautiful models to create. From classics such as the paper crane to the author's own creations, including a mini cactus, these are easy projects for mindful moments."--Front flap.
Author: Yoder, Rachel, 1978- author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F YODER Format: Books Summary: An artist turned stay-at-home mom becomes convinced that she is turning into a dog and, as her symptoms intensify, struggles to keep her alter-canine-identity a secret, until she meets a group of mothers who may also be more than what they seem. An ambitious mother puts her art career on hold to stay at home with her newborn son, but the experience does not match her imagination. Two years later she steps into the bathroom for a break from her toddler's demands, only to discover a dense patch of hair on the back of her neck; her canines look sharper than she remembers. Her husband dismisses her fears from faraway hotel rooms. She struggles to keep her alter-canine-identity secret, and discovers the mysterious academic tome which becomes her bible, A Field Guide to Magical Women: A Mythical Ethnography. A group of mothers involved in a multilevel-marketing scheme may also be more than what they seem. -- adapted form jacket
Author: Yanagihara, Hanya author. Published: 2015 Call Number: F YANAGIHA Format: Books Summary: "When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition ... Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is [their center of gravity] Jude, ... by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he'll not only be unable to overcome--but that will define his life forever"--Amazon.com.
Author: Johnson, Paul, 1928-2023 author. Published: 2014 Call Number: B EISENHOWER Format: Books Summary: Acclaimed historian Paul Johnson's lively, succinct biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower explores how his legacy endures today with a focus on Eisenhower's years as a five-star general and his time as the thirty-fourth President of the United States.
Author: Su, Maggie, author. Published: 2025 Call Number: F SU Format: Books Summary: After getting dumped, lonely college dropout Vi Liu discovers a strange blob in an ally outside a bar and takes it home where she works with the increasingly sentient creature and molds it into her ideal partner. "The daughter of a Taiwanese father and white mother, Vi Liu never quite fit into her Midwestern college town. Not at twenty-three, after getting dumped and dropping out of college, Vi works as a front desk attendant at a hotel where she refills cucumber water samovars and fends off overtures of friendship from her bubbly blond coworker, Rachel. But when Vi decides to accompany Rachel to a local drag shoe, her life changes forever. In the alley outside the bar, next to a trash can, is a blob with beady black eyes. Unable to leave it behind, Vi picks up the creature and, in moment of drunken desperation, take it home with her. . ."--
Author: Shapiro, Ilya, author. Published: 2025 Call Number: 340.071 Format: Books Summary: "A high-profile law professor who endured cancel culture firsthand discusses radicalism in American law schools"-- "When protestors at Columbia broke into a buildƯing and created illegal encampments, the student-led Columbia Law Review demanded that finals be canceled because of "distress." Law schools used to teach students how to think critically, advance logical arguments, and respect oppoƯnents. Now those students cannot tolerate disagreement and reject the validity of the law itself.
Author: Barker, Susan, 1978- author. Published: 2025 Call Number: F BARKER Format: Books Summary: "In Osaka, two strangers, Jake and Mariko, miss a flight, and over dinner, discover they've both brutally lost loved ones whose paths crossed with the same beguiling woman no one has seen since. Following traces this mysterious person left behind, Jake travels from country to country gathering chilling testimonies from others who encountered her across the decades--a trail of shattered souls that eventually leads him to Theo, a dying sculptor in rural New Mexico, who knows the woman better than anyone--and might just hold the key to who, or what, she is. Part horror, part western, part thriller, Old Soul is a fearlessly bold and genre-defying tale about predation, morality and free will, and one man's quest to bring a centuries-long chain of human devastation to an end." -- Publisher annotation.
Author: Dugoni, Robert, author. Langholz, Jeff A. (Jeff Alan), author. Crabtree, Chris, author. Published: 2025 Call Number: F DUGONI Format: Books Summary: "Sam Carlson is a projectionist in small-town Minnesota, where fantasies unspool in glorious black and white--for him and for his sweetheart, college-bound math whiz Sarah Haber. When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Sam is sent to the Philippines and captured as a POW. Brutalized but unbroken by the Bataan Death March and POW camps, Sam is one of eighteen hundred starved and weakened prisoners herded into the cargo hold of a barbaric hell ship called the Arisan Maru, his survival doubtful. Determined to use her math skills on the home front, Sarah is recruited to Washington, DC, into the covert field of code breaking. When Sarah intercepts a message about a Japanese convoy, the US Navy's mission is clear: sink the Arisan Maru and send it to the bottom of the South China Sea. Now, the lives of the two young lovers are about to inadvertently collide in one of the most shocking acts of World War II"--
