Author: Andersen, Sarah (Sarah C.), author, artist. Published: 2022 Call Number: GN ANDERSEN Format: Books Summary: "Do you hate social gatherings? Dodge cameras? Enjoy staying up just a little too late at night? You might have more in common with your local cryptid than you think! Enter the world of Cryptid Club, a look inside the adventures of elusive creatures including Mothman, the Loch Ness Monster, Jackalopes, and Fresno Nightcrawlers"--Back cover.
Author: Kruse, Kevin Michael, 1972- editor. Zelizer, Julian E., editor. Published: 2022 Call Number: 973 Format: Books Summary: "The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Inaccurate interpretations and outright misrepresentations of the past-cultivated within and promoted by the conservative movement and right-wing media over the last several decades-hold sway among large numbers of Americans, damaging our public discourse. In Myth America, historians Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer have assembled an all-star team of historians to provide textured analysis that explains what we get wrong about the past. Drawing on their immense knowledge of scholarship and their own primary research, these contributors provide correctives to the ways conservatives distort history to serve the needs of their anti-democratic agenda. For instance: Erika Lee shows how, far from posing a relentless threat to America, immigrants have long been recruited and even coerced to come to the United States. Joshua Zeitz traces how the welfare programs of the Great Society, criticized by the right as wasteful failures, have provided millions of Americans with food security, health care, and education. Carol Anderson uncovers how racism and anxiety over the nation's changing demographics, not voter fraud, are motivating Republicans' assault on voting rights. Elizabeth Hinton reveals that, rather than curbing crime, patrolling low-income communities with outside police forces has historically intensified violence and made everyone less safe. Taken together, the essays unveil how corporate interests and right-wing politicians use bad history to fan the flames of white resentment and unravel America's social safety net. Replacing myths with research and reality, Myth America is essential reading amid today's heated debates about our nation's past"--
Author: Breslin, Kate, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: F BRESLIN Format: Books Summary: "Captain Marcus Weatherford arrives in Russia on a secret mission with a ballerina posing as his fiancée, but his sense of duty battles his desire to return home to Clare. Clare Danner fears losing her daughter to the father's heartless family, but only Marcus can provide the proof to save her. Can she trust Marcus, or will he shatter her world yet again?"--
Author: Shinkai, Makoto, author. Nagakawa, Naruki, author. Takemori, Ginny Tapley, translator. Published: 2022 Call Number: F SHINKAI Format: Books Summary: "A collection of inter-related short stories in which four women and their feline companions explore the frailty of life, the pain of isolation, and the limits of communication"--From dust jacket.
Author: Davis, Krista, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: LP F DAVIS Format: Large print Summary: "Old Town's midsummer festivities are getting a tasty addition this year. To coincide with a public performance of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Bobbie Sue Bodoin, the Queen of Cheesecake, has hired Sophie to organize a dinner with a dessert buffet on the waterfront. Bobbie Sue's homegrown company is thriving, and since her baking dish overfloweth, she wants to reward her employees. Bobbie Sue has only one menu demand: no cheesecake! But her specialty isn't the only thing missing from the evening--Tate, Bobbie Sue's husband, is too, much to her annoyance. Next morning, however, Tate's dead body is discovered. Bobbie Sue insists she didn't kick her spouse to the curb, and begs for Sophie's help finding the real killer. Digging in, Sophie discovers an assortment of Old Town locals who all had reason to want a piece of Tate. Can she gather together the crumbs the killer left behind in time to prevent a second helping of murder? Includes delectable recipes and fabulous DIY decorating tips!"--
Author: O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972- author. Published: 2022 Call Number: LP F OFARRELL Format: Large print Summary: "A novel set in Renaissance Italy, and centering on the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici"-- Florence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is obscure in the palazzo's clandestine workings. Then her older sister dies on the eve of her wedding to the Alfonso, ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio. Now Lucrezia is to take her sister's place in a troubled court where her arrival is not universally welcomed. Sitting for her wedding portrait, one thing becomes clear to Lucrezia: her only duty is to provide an heir to shore up the future of the Ferrarese dynasty. -- adapted from back cover
Author: Kozinn, Allan, author. Sinclair, Adrian, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: B MCCARTNE Format: Books Summary: When Paul McCartney issued a press release in April 1970 announcing that the world's most beloved band, the Beatles, had broken up no one could have predicted that McCartney himself would go on to have one of the most successful solo careers in music history. Yet in the years after the Fab Four disbanded, Paul McCartney became a legend in his own right. Now journalist and world-renowned Beatles' historian Allan Kozinn and award-winning documentarian Adrian Sinclair chronicle in technicolor McCartney's pivotal years from 1969 to 1973, as he recreated himself in the immediate aftermath of the Beatles breakup - a period when, newly married and with a growing family, he conquered depression and self-doubt, formed a new band, Wings, and recorded five epochal albums culminating in the triumphant smash, Band on the Run.
Author: Chisholm, Edward, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: 306.0944 CHISHOLM Format: Books Summary: A waiter's job is to deceive you. They want you to believe in a luxurious calm because on the other side of that door...is hell. Edward Chisholm's spellbinding memoir of his time as a Parisian waiter takes you beneath the surface of one of the most iconic cities in the world--and right into its glorious underbelly.
Author: Mathews, Sarah Thankam, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: F MATHEWS Format: Books Summary: Graduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She's moved to Milwaukee for an entry-level corporate job that, gruelling as it may be, is the key that unlocks every door: she can pick up the tab at dinner with her new friend Tig, get her college buddy Thom hired alongside her, and send money to her parents back in India. She begins dating women--soon developing a burning crush on Marina, a beguiling and beautiful dancer who always seems just out of reach. But before long, trouble arrives. Painful secrets rear their heads; jobs go off the rails; evictions loom. Sneha struggles to be truly close and open with anybody, even as her friendships deepen, even as she throws herself headlong into a dizzying romance with Marina. It's then that Tig begins to draw up a radical solution to their problems, hoping to save them all. "From an exhilarating new voice comes a dazzling debut novel about an Indian-American immigrant building a life for herself in the Midwest--a brilliant and utterly absorbing story of love, friendship, and precarity in 21st century America. Graduating into the trough of yet another American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. However mind-numbing the work, her entry-level consulting job is the key that unlocks every door: she can pick up the check for her growing circle of friends in Milwaukee, send money home to her parents in India, and dare to envision a stable future for herself. She even begins dating who she has long wanted--women--and soon develops a crush on Marina, a beautiful dancer who always seems just out of reach. But then, as quickly as it came together, Sneha's life begins to fall apart. Her job and apartment are both suddenly and maddeningly in jeopardy, and closely-guarded secrets and buried traumas resurface, sending her spiraling into shame and isolation. When a chance encounter with Marina ignites an electric romance, it looks like salvation--if only they can overcome the lie that threatens to undo the trust they've built. A novel of working lives, friendships, and self-discovery in flux, All This Could Be Different is a wry, intimate, and redemptive exploration of the freedom and fragility of youth, and what it means to devote oneself to others in search of a better world"--
Author: Friedman, Tova, 1938- author. Brabant, Malcolm, author. Kingsley, Ben, 1943- author of foreword. Published: 2022 Call Number: B FRIEDMAN Format: Books Summary: "Tova Friedman was one of the youngest people to emerge from Auschwitz. After surviving the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Central Poland where she lived as a toddler, Tova was four when she and her parents were sent to a Nazi labor camp, and almost six when she and her mother were forced into a packed cattle truck and sent to Auschwitz II, also known as the Birkenau extermination camp, while her father was transported to Dachau. During six months of incarceration in Birkenau, Tova witnessed atrocities that she could never forget, and experienced numerous escapes from death. She is one of a handful of Jews to have entered a gas chamber and lived to tell the tale. As Nazi killing squads roamed Birkenau before abandoning the camp in January 1945, Tova and her mother hid among corpses. After being liberated by the Russians they made their way back to their hometown in Poland. Eventually Tova's father tracked them down and the family was reunited. In The Daughter of Auschwitz, Tova immortalizes what she saw, to keep the story of the Holocaust alive, at a time when it's in danger of fading from memory. She has used those memories that have shaped her life to honour the victims. Written with award-winning former war reporter Malcolm Brabant, this is an extremely important book. Brabant's meticulous research has helped Tova recall her experiences in searing detail. Together they have painstakingly recreated Tova's extraordinary story about the world's worst ever crime."
Author: Nadeau, Barbie Latza, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: 364.106 Format: Books Summary: "The untold stories of the women who have risen to prominence and notoriety in the male-led culture of the Italian Mafia. For as long as it has gripped our imaginations, the Mafia has been tied to an ingrained image of masculinity. We read about "made men," "wiseguys," and "goodfellas" leading criminal organizations whose culture prizes machismo, with women as ancillary and often-powerless characters: trivialized mistresses and long-suffering mob wives. The reality is far more complex. In The Godmother, investigative journalist Barbie Latza Nadeau tells the stories of the women who have risen to prominence, and fallen out of favor, in the Italian mob, beginning with the most infamous of these women: Pupetta Maresca. A Mafia woman born and raised, Pupetta avenged her husband's murder, firing 29 shots at the man who killed him. Woven throughout Pupetta's story is Nadeau's diligent research, and her personal interviews with the Mafia women themselves. Nadeau takes readers inside the Mafia families to paint a complete and complex portrait of the real culture that has shaped the Mafia, and the women who are part of it. Leaving behind the stereotypes we know from Mafia movies, The Godmothers shows the Mafia in an entirely new light: full-fledged, ruthless, twenty-first-century criminal enterprises led by whoever is strong enough and smart enough to take control"--
Author: Blair, Gabrielle Stanley, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: 363.96 Format: Books Summary: "Why abortion is a men's issue. By focusing on the role men play in unwanted pregnancy, Ejaculate Responsibly gets us out of the destructive loop centered on issues like when life begins and the injustice of legislating women's bodies and presents a powerfully fair and effective way out of the abortion impasse. Highly readable, funny, and unflinching, the book's 28 arguments walk readers through the basics of fertility (men are 50 times more fertile than women). The unfair burden placed on women when it comes to preventing pregnancy (90% of the birth control market is for women). The wrongheaded stigmas around birth control for men (condoms make sex less pleasurable, vasectomies are scary and emasculating). And the harsh reality that men, who are fertile 100% of the time, take so little responsibility for preventing pregnancy. In a post-Roe world, this kind of negligence--an irresponsible ejaculation--is tragically wrong"--
Author: Jackson, Regina, 1950- author. Rao, Saira, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: 305.8 Format: Books Summary: "It's no secret that white women are conditioned to be nice, but did you know that the desire to be perfect and to avoid conflict at all costs are characteristics of white supremacy culture? As the founders of Race2Dinner, an organization which facilitates conversations between white women about racism and white supremacy, Regina Jackson and Saira Rao have noticed white women's tendency to maintain a veneer of niceness, and strive for perfection, even at the expense of anti-racism work. In this book, Jackson and Rao pose these urgent questions: how has being nice helped Black women, Indigenous women and other women of color? How has being nice helped you in your quest to end sexism? Has being nice earned you economic parity with white men? Beginning with freeing white women from this oppressive need to be nice, they deconstruct and analyze nine aspects of traditional white woman behavior--from tone-policing to weaponizing tears--that uphold white supremacy society, and hurt all of us who are trying to live a freer, more equitable life. White Women is a call to action to those of you who are looking to take the next steps in dismantling white supremacy. Your white supremacy. If you are in fact doing real anti-racism work, you will find few reasons to be nice, as other white people want to limit your membership in the club. If you are not ticking white people off on a regular basis, you are not doing it right."--
Author: Lecky, Pam, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: F LECKY Format: Books Summary: "She's determined to get justice for her loved ones... whatever it takes. London, 1941. After losing her family to a Nazi bomb attack back home in Ireland, heartbroken but determined Sarah Gillespie joins the British Secret Services to bring justice for them, even though her mission is to capture a highly dangerous criminal... Sarah's estranged father. Partnered with an American undercover agent, Lieutenant Tony Anderson, Sarah embarks on a cutthroat chase that takes her from war-torn London into the black mountains of Wales, all to stop her father from carrying out his next deadly attack. But when one of her team is revealed to be a German mole, and enemies begin to close in on Sarah, just what price will she have to pay to save her country, and to save herself?"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Bovalino, Tori, editor, author. Waters, Erica, author. Gong, Chloe, author. Whitten, Hannah, author. Saft, Allison, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: Y GATHERIN Format: Books Summary: A cemetery full of the restless dead. A town so wicked it has already burned twice, with the breath of the third fire looming. A rural, isolated bridge with a terrifying monster waiting for the completion of its summoning ritual. A lake that allows the drowned to return, though they have been changed by the claws of death. These are the shadowed, liminal spaces where the curses and monsters lurk, refusing to be forgotten.
Author: Mometrix Exam Secrets Prep Team, author, editor. Published: 2021 Call Number: 383.4973 POSTAL Format: Books Summary: "Our comprehensive study guide for the Postal Exam 474, 475, 476, and 477 is written by our exam experts, who painstakingly researched the topics and the concepts that you need to know to do your best on the USPS VEA for Mail Carrier, Mail Handler, Mail Processing, and Customer Service Clerk. Our original research into the USPS Virtual Entry Assessment 474, 475, 476, and 477, offered by the United States Postal Service, reveals the specific content areas and the essential skills that are critical for you to know on the Postal Exam. We've taken the information and developed a study guide that is guaranteed to help you be successful on the Postal Exam. Regardless of whether you are taking the Postal Exam, you have come to the right place. Here you will find everything you need to know in order to be successful on your Postal Exam. The United States Postal Service has put a hurdle in your way. If you're looking for a way to begin acing practice tests and ultimately the actual Postal Exam, Postal Exam Secrets is the test aide that you've been looking for to help you get over that hurdle, ace the test, and become a US Postal worker."--Publisher.
Author: Lemire, Jeff, author, illustrator, colorist. Villarrubia, José, 1961- colorist. Kindt, Matt, illustrator. Brosseau, Pat, letterer. Mangual, Carlos M., letterer. Published: 2021 Call Number: GN LEMIRE Format: Books Summary: "For readers eager to dive right into Jeff LeMire's strange sci-fi story, Sweet Tooth the compendium is now available! An inexplicable plague has women giving birth to human-animal hybrid children all over the world. The deer-child Gus is left to fend for himself after his father dies, leaving him with more questions than answers. A cross between Bambi and Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Sweet Tooth follows the innocent journey of a young hybrid boy suddenly thrust out into a world no one can explain."--
Author: Lovelace, Amanda, author. Medeiros, Janaína, illustrator. Published: 2021 Call Number: 811.6 Format: Books Summary: "In her new standalone poetry collection, flower crowns & fearsome things, bestselling & award-winning poetess amanda lovelace explores the complexity of femininity through alternating wildflower & wildfire poems. within these pages, you will find that each of us has the ability to be both soft & fierce at the same time. there is no need to choose one or the other"--Publisher's website.
Author: Brewster, Bernice, author. Hickling, Steve, author. Holmes, Keith, author. Fletcher, Nick, author. Martin, Mick, author. Published: 2020 2015 Call Number: 639.3 Format: Books Summary: Keeping koi (often called "living jewels") in top-quality condition takes dedication and year-round care, but it is a challenge that thousands of koi enthusiasts are happy to accept in pursuit of perfection. They are a fiercely devoted group willing to spend hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars to nurture, show and build their collection.
Author: Nezhukumatathil, Aimee, author. Nakamura, Fumi Mini, illustrator. Published: 2020 Call Number: 590 NEZHUKUM Format: Books Summary: "Aimee Nezhukumatathil has called many places home: the grounds of a Kansas mental institution, where her Filipina mother was a doctor; the open skies and tall mountains of Arizona, where she hiked with her Indian father; and the chillier climate of Western New York, where she built a family of her own. But no matter where she was transplanted, no matter how awkward the fit or forbidding the landscape, she was able to turn to our world's fierce and funny creatures--the peacock and the axolotl, the narwhal and the red-spotted newt, the lovely and the unlovely alike--for guidance. In World of Wonders, Nezhukumatathil shares their lessons, in gorgeously illustrated essays full of sustenance and joy. For it is this way with wonder: it requires that we are curious enough to look past the distractions in order to fully appreciate the world's gifts"--Back cover.
