Author: Harris, Kai, author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: F HARRIS
Format: Books
Summary: "A coming-of-age novel told from the perspective of an eleven-year-old over the course of a single summer, as she tries to make sense of her new life with her estranged grandfather and sister after the death of her father and disappearance of her mother"-- "An ode to Black girlhood and adolescence as seen through KB's eyes, What the Fireflies Knew follows KB after her father dies of an overdose and the debts incurred from his addiction cause the loss of the family home in Detroit. Soon thereafter, KB and her teenage sister, Nia, are sent by their overwhelmed mother to live with their estranged grandfather in Lansing, Michigan. Over the course of a single sweltering summer, KB attempts to navigate a world that has turned upside down." --Front jacket flap
Author: Olivera, Lisa, 1987- author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: 158.1
Format: Books
Summary: This guide will help you identify, understand, and reframe your life story in order to live a more whole and meaningful life. "In Already Enough, Lisa gets honest about our stories and how they affect us--often more than we realize. She guides us through the brave work of reframing our stories so we can remember that we are already enough, just as we are." --Front jacket flap
Author: Bass, Elizabeth, 1965- author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: F BASS
Format: Books
Summary: Zenobia, New York. Nearly a century ago Gwen Engel's ancestor cast a spell with catastrophic side-effects, and the Grand Council of Witches forbade his descendants from practicing witchcraft. Yet magic is still alive in Zenobia. Gwen receives a letter from her adopted sister, Tannith, saying she has bewitched one of their partners and will run away with him at the end of the week. Cousin Trudy accidentally enchanted the cupcakes at her bakery, causing havoc. Can they get their magic-- and their love lives-- in order before it's too late? -- adapted from back cover
Author: Stridsberg, Sara, 1972- author. Bragan-Turner, Deborah, translator.
Published: 2022 2018
Call Number: F STRIDSBE
Format: Books
Summary: "Sara Stridsberg returns with a riveting story from a woman at the margins-her murder, her short but full life, and the world that moves on after she is gone"-- They say you die three times. The first time for me was when my heart stopped beating beneath his hands by the lake, and the second was when what was left of me was lowered into the ground in front of Ivan and Raksha at Bromma Church. The third time will be the last time my name is spoken on earth. She was a neglected child, an unreliable mother, a sex worker, a drug user--and then, like so many, a nameless victim of a violent crime. But first she was a human being, a full, complicated person, and she insists that we know her fully as she tells her story from beyond the grave. We witness her short life, the harrowing murder that ended it, and her grief over the loved ones she has left behind. We see her parents struggle with guilt and loss. We watch her children grow up in adopted families and patch together imperfect lives. We feel her dreams, fears, and passions. And still we will never know her name.
Author: Chen, Mike, author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: F CHEN
Format: Books
Summary: When their brother who has been missing for fifteen years suddenly returns, changed, Evie and Kass Shao must cast aside their differences to hide him from the FBI and an entire alien army who are in fast pursuit. "Evie Shao and her sister, Kass, aren't on speaking terms. Fifteen years ago on a family camping trip, their father and brother vanished. Their dad turned up days later, dehydrated and confused--and convinced he'd been abducted by aliens. Their brother, Jakob, remained missing." --Front jacket flap
Author: Boyne, John, 1971- author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F BOYNE
Format: Books
Summary: What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object. At once, a gateway to other worlds - and a treacherous weapon in the hands of the unwary, the unwitting, the inept. The Cleverley family live a gilded life, little realizing how precarious their privilege is, just one tweet away from disaster. George, the patriarch, is a stalwart of television interviewing, a 'national treasure' (his words), his wife Beverley, a celebrated novelist (although not as celebrated as she would like), and their children, Nelson, Elizabeth, Achilles, various degrees of catastrophe waiting to happen. Together they will go on a journey of discovery through the Hogarthian jungle of the modern living where past presumptions count for nothing and carefully curated reputations can be destroyed in an instant. Along the way they will learn how volatile, how outraged, how unforgiving the world can be when you step from the prescribed path.
Author: Halvorsen, Richard, author. Revision of: Halvorsen, Richard. Truth about vaccines.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 614.4
Format: Books
Summary: "Dr Richard Halvorsen brings together the latest medical knowledge on all modern child vaccines (age 0-15 yrs), as well as the diseases they aim to protect against, including the flu virus. The guide includes what is known about the link between vaccination, autism and other auto-immune diseases, and what parents can do. Dr Richard Halvorsen has added clinical information from his practice as a general practitioner for almost three decades where it is useful to parents, as well as a quick reference. Includes: autism, flu, smallpox, diphtheria, tuberculosis, polio, tetanus, mumps, measles, rubella, whooping cough, meningitis C, pneumococcus, hib, swine flu, the '6-in-1' vaccine, MMR, HPV, rotavirus, hepatitis B, meningitis B"--
Author: Edwards, Mark (Fiction writer), author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F EDWARDS
Format: Books
Summary: With his marriage over and his career in freefall, journalist Tom decides to reconnect with his fourteen-year-old daughter, Frankie. Desperate to spend precious time together now that they live an ocean apart, he brings her to Hollow Falls, a cabin resort deep in the woods of Maine. From the outset there's something a little eerie about the place-strange whispers in the trees, windchimes echoing through the forest,but when Tom meets true-crime podcasters David and Connie, he receives a chilling warning. Hollow Falls has a gruesome history: twenty years ago this week, a double slaying shut down the resort. The crime was never solved, and now the woods are overrun with murder-obsessed tourists looking to mark the grim anniversary. It's clear that there's something deeply disturbing going on at Hollow Falls. And as Tom's dream trip turns into a nightmare, he and Frankie are faced with a choice: uncover the truth, or get out while they still can.
Author: Engler, Elise, 1956- artist.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 709.2
Format: Books
Summary: An extraordinary illustrated chronicle of 2020 that captures this indelible year in America in all its tragic, surreal, epic, and (sometimes) comedic intensity. Artist Elise Engler set herself a task five years ago: to illustrate the first headline she heard on her bedside radio every morning. The idea was to create a pictorial record of one year of listening to the news. But when Donald Trump was elected, the headlines turned too wild for her to stop the experiment. Then 2020 happened. Was there ever such a year? Headlines about the death of Kobe Bryant and Donald Trump's impeachment began to give way to news of a mysterious virus in China, and Engler's pages were quickly filled with the march of COVID-19: schools closing their doors, hospitals overflowing, graveyards full to capacity. Day by day, Engler drew every shocking turn of the year: the police murder of George Floyd and protests around the globe; a war against science and those who preached it; fires consuming California; a vicious election, absurdly contested. Other stories appeared, too: "Harvey Weinstein Sentenced," "Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospitalized," "China Extends Control over Hong Kong," and--on repeat--"Stock Market Plunges." The result is a powerful visual record of an unprecedented time, collected in A Diary of the Plague Year, which follows the headlines from the first appearance of the coronavirus to the inauguration of President Joe Biden. Made in real time, Engler's vibrant, immediate images recapture what it was like to live through 2020, bringing texture, feeling, and even charm to what we might not remember and what we will never forget. --Amazon.
Author: Eames, Lesley, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F EAMES
Format: Books
Summary: "It's 1914 and the effects of war are reaching London. Sick and injured servicemen are returning home and Lizzie Kellaway and her godmother Margaret Penrose are determined to do their bit to help them. With Lizzie's beautiful singing voice and Margaret's talent for the piano, concerts in hospitals and convalescent homes offer the perfect opportunity to lift the spirits of men who have suffered so much. When Polly Meadows's fiancé rejects her and leaves for the war, she doesn't hesitate before traveling to London to be with her childhood friend, Lizzie. It isn't long before she's persuaded to join their efforts to entertain the troops. At least while performing Polly can forget her troubles and open her soul to the joy of singing. But the ongoing war brings even more heartache. With all three women facing struggles, one thing is certain: these wartime singers will need each other more than ever before..."--Publisher.
Author: Johns, Patricia (Romance writer), author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: LP F JOHNS
Format: Large print
Summary: "The last thing widower Paul Ebersole needs after discovering he has a teenage daughter and a granddaughter is for his kitten to cause havoc in Haddie Petersheim's Amish creamery. Yet working with Haddie to repair her store might be the answer to his prayers ... if he and the widowed mother join forces on their parenting problems. But what happens when their two little families start to feel like one?" -- Back cover.
Author: Woods, Stuart, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: LP F WOODS
Format: Large print
Summary: "Stone Barrington uncovers a complicated scheme when he learns that a new client is in danger and putting his business and the safety of New York in jeopardy in the latest novel of the series following Class Act"-- "After a dangerous adventure has him traveling up and down the coast, Stone Barrington is looking forward to some down time at his Manhattan abode. But when an acquaintance alerts him to a hinky plot being hatched across the city, he finds himself eager to pursue justice. After the mastermind behind it all proves more evasive than anyone was expecting, Stone sets out on an international chase to places he's never gone before. With the help of old friends-and alluring new ones-Stone is determined to see the pursuit through to the end, even if it means going up against a foe more unpredictable than he has ever faced.."--
Author: Brooks, Mel, 1926- author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: LP B BROOKS
Format: Large print
Summary: The legendary comedian, actor, and film producer and director traces his rise from a Depression-era kid in Brooklyn to his stellar film career, offering insight into the inspiration for his ideas and the many close friendships and collaborations behind his success. Brooks shares never-before-told, behind-the-scenes anecdotes and remembrances as he charts his rise from a Depression-era kid in Brooklyn to the recipient of the National Medal of Arts. From his career with Caesar's Your Show of Shows to his many films, and his Broadway musical adaption of The Producers, he offers insight into the inspiration behind the ideas for his boundary-breaking work, and shares details about many close friendships. -- adapted from back cover
Author: Lutz, Lisa, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F LUTZ
Format: Books
Summary: "Owen's wife was murdered. His best friend, Luna, found the body. Everything and everyone is thrown into question in this riveting suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Passenger. Owen is rich, charming, and chronically dissatisfied. His life is forever entangled with Luna Grey, his no-nonsense best friend who is struggling to hide her dark past. From the fateful day they meet in college, the two become inextricably linked. They can't be mentioned without the other: Owen and Luna, Luna and Owen. In addition to their own trove of personal secrets, there is the deadly one they share. It forges a bond that will last decades. Years later, Owen disappears on his wife, Irene, for hours, mostly to spend time drinking with Luna. Luna is now an assistant to the eccentric and reclusive artist Leo Whitman, who also happens to be Irene's stepfather. But when Irene is found dead, the victim of a brutal crime, it unleashes a torrent of secrets from the past as well as everything they would have preferred to have kept hidden in the present. Despite their innocence, the murder causes the walls to quickly close in around them. The Accomplice examines the intense relationship between two very different misanthropic best friends. What happens when one of them takes a sledgehammer to their bond and the other lights that wreckage on fire? If secrets are what kept Owen and Luna together, they just might tear them apart, too. If they let them"--
Author: Khan-Cullors, Patrisse, 1984- author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 364.6
Format: Books
Summary: "In An Abolitionist's Handbook, Patrisse Cullors charts a framework for how everyday activists can effectively fight for an abolitionist present and future. Filled with relatable pedagogy on the history of abolition, a reimagining of what reparations look like for Black lives and real-life anecdotes from Cullors, [this book] offers a bold, innovative, and humanistic approach to how to be a modern-day abolitionist. Cullors asks us to lead with love, fierce compassion, and precision."--Front jacket flap.
Author: Gray, Shelley Shepard, author. Good, Rachel J., author. Lough, Loree, author. Gray, Shelley Shepard. Christmas cake for Rebecca. Good, Rachel J. Best Christmas present ever.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F CHRISTMA
Format: Books
Summary: "A Christmas Cake for Rebecca [by] Shelley Shepard Gray: When carpenter Aden returns to Lancaster after twenty years away, bakeshop owner Rebecca is dismayed to find he's still as handsome and kind as ever. He broke her heart when he left the community back then. Will a holiday emergency provide a second chance at love, this time forever? Best Christmas Present Ever [by] Rachel J. Good: When a lonely widower with a sick daughter and a new cake decorator meet at the bakeshop, they discover they were once childhood playmates. But as each of them helps the other care for family, their neighborly kindness inspires a gift that only love could make possible . . . The Christmas Cupcake [by] Loree Lough: A builder who never learned to read believes he must hide his fond feelings for a kind schoolteacher. But after they run into each other at the bakeshop, she offers to teach him--and as Christmas approaches, each of them learns a lesson about the great gift of love . . ." --Back cover
Author: Shteyngart, Gary, 1972- author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: LP F SHTEYNGA
Format: Large print
Summary: "It's March 2020 and a calamity is unfolding. A group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next few months new bonds of friendship and love will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge among this unlikely cast of characters, each richly drawn and achingly human: a Russian-born novelist; his Russian-born psychiatrist wife; their precocious child obsessed with K-pop; a struggling Indian American writer; a wildly successful Korean American app developer; a global dandy with three passports; a young flame-thrower of an essayist, originally from the Carolinas; and a movie star, The Actor, whose arrival upsets the equilibrium of this chosen family"--
Author: Chappine, Patricia, author.
Published: 2015
Call Number: 940.53082
Format: Books
Summary: Real-life Rosie the Riveters worked the lines in New Jersey's factories, such as those of General Motors' eastern aircraft division, while women on the vulnerable coast enforced blackout orders. Others sold war bonds, planted victory gardens and conserved materials for the war effort. Thousands more served as nurses and in branches of the armed forces like the Women's Army Corps ans U.S. Navy's Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service. African American women fought a double war--one against the nation's enemies and another against discrimination.
Author: Porcelli, Richard V.
Published: 2012
Call Number: 358.417
Format: Books
Summary: Few would guess Atlantic City has a rich aviation history, being instrumental in many technical advances and playing a key role in the defense of the nation. The wartime role of Naval Air Station Atlantic City, commissioned in 1943, was training naval fighter pilots as well as developing technology and procedures for ground controlled interception of enemy aircraft. After the war, Atlantic City was the site of testing new Navy aircraft as well as the development of all-weather, night-fighting, and attack capabilities. After the Navy left in 1958, the airfield became home to the Federal Aviation Administration's premier research center, a New Jersey Air National Guard jet fighter base, a US Coast Guard air station, and Atlantic City International Airport.
Author: Maser, Jill.
Published: 2008
Call Number: 974.985
Format: Books
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