Author: Rishi, Farah Naz, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: Y RISHI
Format: Books
Summary: After Kiran Noorani's mom died, Kiran vowed to keep her family-- dad and sister Amira-- together. When Amira announces that she's dating someone-- and might move across the country with him-- Kiran's world is turned upside down. Deen Malik is thrilled that his brother, Faisal, has found a great girlfriend. Three years ago Kiran and Deen dated in secret... until Deen ghosted Kiran. Now they are face-to-face: Deem just wants his brother to be happy; Kiran wants answers to Faisal's shady past. And Deem will do anything to keep her from reaching the truth. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Schneider, Robyn, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: Y SCHNEIDE
Format: Books
Summary: "Emry, the daughter of the famed wizard Merlin, must disguise herself as her twin brother to learn magic in Prince Arthur's court, where she finds scandal, danger, and romance"-- Welcome to the great kingdom of Camelot! Prince Arthur's a depressed botanist who would rather marry a library than a princess; Lancelot's been demoted to castle guard after a terrible misunderstanding, and bisexual Emry Merlin travels to the royal court to impersonate her brother. Life in King Uther's court is full of scandals, lies, and backstabbing courtiers-- but this may be her only chance to become the greatest wizard Camelot has ever known.-- adapted from jacket
Author: Austin, Andy, author. Collins, Andrew, author. Gailus, Jeff, author. Jackson, Katie, author. Olsen, Debbie, 1965- author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 917.804
Format: Books
Summary: "Whether you want to explore what remains of the Old West, visit a national park, or find your bliss at a guest ranch or in a Jackson Hole ski resort, the local Fodor's travel experts in Montana and Wyoming are here to help! Fodor's Montana & Wyoming guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time"--
Author: Mallery, Susan, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: LP F MALLERY
Format: Large print
Summary: "The Somerville sisters believe in love, but they've lost faith it will happen for them. Reggie hasn't been home since the end of the world's shortest engagement. When her parents decide to renew their vows, she buffs up her twinkle to help with the wedding. Unexpectedly, Toby, her first love, is back too, and the spark between them shines as brightly as ever. Done waiting for the one, Dena is pregnant and on her own. Then a gorgeous songwriter checks in to a room at her inn. But Dena is afraid to believe that a rock star could fall for a girl like her. As the Christmas wedding draws closer, these two sisters just might unwrap the most treasured gift of all--love"-- Back cover.
Author: Wallace, Auralee, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: PB WALLACE
Format: Books
Summary: "When a guest dies in the B&B she helps her aunts run, a young witch must rely on some good old-fashioned investigating to clear her aunt's name in this magical and charming new cozy mystery."--Back cover.
Author: Kope, Spencer, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F KOPE
Format: Books
Summary: "A group of missing friends forces 'Steps' Craig to contend with the most twisted killer he's ever encountered in Spencer Kope's Echoes of the Dead. Magnus "Steps" Craig is the best 'tracker' in the world, renowned for his ability to follow a person's trail anywhere - no matter the terrain or how old the trail. Steps utilizes his unique talent as part of the elite three-man Special Tracking Unit of the FBI, which is called in on cases that require his unparalleled skills. But there's a secret to his success. Steps has a kind of synesthesia where he can see the 'essence' of a person--which appears to him as a unique color or pattern he calls 'shine'--on everything they've touched. It's a secret Steps has shared with a rare few people and could, if revealed, endanger not only himself but the unit that he serves. Steps and the Special Tracking Unit are called in on a new case where the local law enforcement is baffled. Four friends have vanished while on their annual fly-fishing trip--a congressman, a district attorney, a CEO of a major accounting firm, and a cofounder of a successful hedge fund. Now, Steps must search some of the most treacherous terrain, the Sierra Nevada range, as one by one time begins to run out for the missing men. Desperate to save whoever they can, Steps and his team discover that this is no simple missing persons case, but one with sinister motivations unlike any they've seen before"--
Author: Diachenko, Marina, author. Di?achenko, Serhi?, 1945- author. Hersey, Julia Meitov, translator.
Published: 2020
Call Number: F DIACHENK
Format: Books
Summary: "Late one night, fate brings together DJ Aspirin and ten-year-old Alyona. After he tries to save her from imminent danger, she ends up at his apartment. But in the morning sinister doubts set in. Who is Alyona? A young con artist? A plant for a nefarious blackmailer? Or perhaps a long-lost daughter Aspirin never knew existed? Whoever this mysterious girl is, she now refuses to leave."--
Author: Thompson, Clifford, author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: 814.6
Format: Books
Summary: "An African-American writer's concise, heartfelt take on the state of his nation, exploring the war between the values he has always held and the reality with which he is confronted in twenty-first-century America. In the tradition of James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time and Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me comes Clifford Thompson's What It Is. Thompson was raised to believe in treating every person of every color as an individual, and he decided as a young man that America, despite its history of racial oppression, was his home as much as anyone else's. As a middle-aged, happily married father of biracial children, Thompson finds himself questioning his most deeply held convictions when the race-baiting Donald Trump ascends to the presidency -- elected by whites, whom Thompson had refused to judge as a group, and who make up the majority in this country Thompson had called his own. In the grip of contradictory emotions, Thompson turns for guidance to the wisdom of writers he admires while knowing that the answers to his questions about America ultimately lie in America itself. Through interviews with a small but varied group of Americans he hears sharply divergent opinions about what is happening in the country while trying to find his own answers -- conclusions based not on conventional wisdom or on what he would like to believe, but on what he sees"--
Author: Kreglinger, Gisela H., 1967- author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: 261.56
Format: Books
Summary: "Wine is a wonderful, lavish, and mysterious gift from God. Gisela Kreglinger, the daughter of a vintner and trained as theologian, invites us to discover wine as part of a more full-bodied Christian spirituality. Along with bread, wine is the gift we receive at the table of communion. Through these gifts we experience God's glorious and loving presence among us, feeding and nurturing us in body, soul, and spirit"--
Author: Escobar, Mario, 1971- author. Abernathy, Gretchen, translator.
Published: 2019 2018
Call Number: LP F ESCOBAR
Format: Large print
Summary: "Based on the true story of a brave German nurse tasked with caring for Auschwitz's youngest prisoners, Auschwitz Lullaby brings to life the story of Helene Hannemann--a woman who sacrificed everything for family and fought furiously for the children she hoped to save"-- "One morning in 1943, Helene Hannemann is preparing her five children for an ordinary day when the German police arrive. Helene's worst fears come true when the police, under strict orders from the SS, demand that her children and husband, all of Romani heritage, be taken into custody. Though Helene is German and safe from the forces invading her home, she refuses to leave her family--sealing her fate in a way she never could have imagined." --Back cover
Author: Agar, Nicholas, author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: 302.23
Format: Books
Summary: An argument in favor of finding a place for humans (and humanness) in the future digital economy. In the digital economy, accountants, baristas, and cashiers can be automated out of employment; so can surgeons, airline pilots, and cab drivers. Machines will be able to do these jobs more efficiently, accurately, and inexpensively. But, Nicholas Agar warns in this provocative book, these developments could result in a radically disempowered humanity. The digital revolution has brought us new gadgets and new things to do with them. The digital revolution also brings the digital economy, with machines capable of doing humans' jobs. Agar explains that developments in artificial intelligence enable computers to take over not just routine tasks but also the kind of "mind work" that previously relied on human intellect, and that this threatens human agency. The solution, Agar argues, is a hybrid social-digital economy. The key value of the digital economy is efficiency. The key value of the social economy is humanness. A social economy would be centered on connections between human minds. We should reject some digital automation because machines will always be poor substitutes for humans in roles that involve direct contact with other humans. A machine can count out pills and pour out coffee, but we want our nurses and baristas to have minds like ours. In a hybrid social-digital economy, people do the jobs for which feelings matter and machines take on data-intensive work. But humans will have to insist on their relevance in a digital age.
Author: Bradford, Chris, author.
Published: 2017 2014
Call Number: Y BRADFORD
Format: Books
Summary: Teen bodyguard Connor's new assignment seems more like a vacation as he and Ling protect wealthy twins on a yacht, until Somali pirates attack.
Author: Johnson, Yvette, author.
Published: 2017
Call Number: 305.896
Format: Books
Summary: "In this memoir, Yvette Johnson travels to the Mississippi Delta to uncover the true story of her late grandfather, whose extraordinary act of courage changed both their lives. "Have to keep that smile," Booker Wright said in the 1966 NBC documentary Mississippi: A Self-Portrait. At the time, Wright spent his evenings waiting tables for whites at a local restaurant and his mornings running his own business. The ripple effect from his remarks would cement Booker as a civil rights icon because he did the unthinkable: before a national audience, Wright described what life truly was like for the black people of Greenwood, Mississippi"--Jacket.
Author: Collins, Olive, author.
Published: 2017
Call Number: F COLLINS
Format: Books
Summary: 1821: After the landlord of Lugdale Estate in Kerry is assassinated, young Art O'Neill's innocent father is hanged and Art is deported to the cane fields of Jamaica as an indentured servant. On Mangrove Plantation he gradually acclimatises to the exotic country and unfamiliar customs of the African slaves, and achieves a kind of contentment. Then the new plantation heirs arrive. His new owner is Colonel Stratford-Rice from Lugdale Estate, the man who hanged his father. Art must overcome his hatred to survive the harsh life of a slave and live to see the eventual emancipation which liberates his coloured children. Eventually he is promised seven gold coins when he finishes his service, but doubts his master will part with the coins.--adapted from back cover.
Author: Glasgow, Kathleen, 1969- author.
Published: 2016
Call Number: Y GLASGOW
Format: Books
Summary: Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she's already lost more than most people lose in a lifetime. But she's learned how to forget. The thick glass of a mason jar cuts deep, and the pain washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don't have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever. Or your mother, who has nothing left to give you. Every new scar hardens Charlie's heart just a little more, yet it still hurts so much. It hurts enough to not care anymore, which is sometimes what has to happen before you can find your way back from the edge.
Author: Elwes, Cary, 1962- author. Layden, Joe, author.
Published: 2014
Call Number: 791.4372
Format: Books
Summary: From actor Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes a first-person account and behind-the-scenes look at the making of the cult classic film filled with never-before-told stories, exclusive photographs, and interviews with costars Robin Wright, Wallace Shawn, Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, and Mandy Patinkin, as well as author and screenwriter William Goldman, producer Norman Lear, and director Rob Reiner.
Author: Bland, Eleanor Taylor.
Published: 2005
Call Number: SPC F BLAND
Format: Books
Suggested for ages 3-12. Registration required. Come to Gaskill Park and make some art! Create two types of simple bird feeders. Guardians must remain present. This is an outdoor event and is weather dependent. Sponsored by the Atlantic County Library Foundation.
Three new books — Daniel Sokatch’s “Can We Talk About Israel?,” Omri Boehm’s “Haifa Republic” and Ethan Michaeli’s “Twelve Tribes” — explore various dimensions of the Jewish state.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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