Author: Pool, Katy Rose, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: Y POOL
Format: Books
Summary: The ancient god has been resurrected and sealed inside Beru's body. Both of them are at the mercy of the Prophet Pallas, who wants to subjugate the Six Prophetic Cities; but the god is growing stronger. Far away, Anton is learning to harness his powers as a Prophet. He plans to lead Jude, Hassan, and Beru's sister Ephyra on a desperate quest to destroy the god, Pallas, and save the world from darkness-- even if it requires an unbearable sacrifice. -- adapted from front jacket flap
Author: Heck, Stephen M., author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F HECK
Format: Books
Summary: The Off Season is a combination murder mystery and supernatural saga involving Shadows that do whatever they want to accomplish their evil goals. The novel focuses on David Farmer, who authored a bestseller entitled Shadows: The Other Side. Farmer, now retired and living a quiet life in a luxury high-rise on the beach, literally bumps into a fan on the famous Wildwood, NJ boardwalk, and the sinister Shadows return. This occurs just as a serial killer is on the loose. It's the off season and the tourists have gone home and yes, this season is a bit off.
Author: Singley, William P., author. Singley, William P. Sometimes we couldn't even get ice.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F SINGLEY
Format: Books
Summary: "At first, I hesitated to put two stories in one book. Their only connection is combat. Camp Boardwalk in 1945. Ice in Vietnam 1967. Camp Boardwalk is about men recovering from their wounds and celebrating the end of WWII. With the breakout of peace, what will their futures bring? Ice is a small part of an exhausting war that ended April, 1976, during the infamous helicopter exits. All the main characters are military. There are exceptions for cops and crooks in one book. Women in both. The author?s intention is to provide the reader the opportunity to participate in the main events of 1945 and 1967. As often in his stories there are no heroes: just good guys and bad guys bumping against one another on jungle trails or city streets, discovering themselves, and facing life?s difficulties. How they survive is their story and now yours." --author's blurb.
Author: Alton, Elizabeth Barstow, author. Perez, Heather Halpin, 1978-, writer of foreword.
Published: 2021
Call Number: B ALTON
Format: Books
Summary: As a thirteen-year-old, Elizabeth B. Alton participated in the 1920 Atlantic City International Rolling Chair Parade, an event that gave rise to the Miss America Pageant. Walking the length of the Boardwalk surrounded by an enthusiastic crowd--she remembered the day for the rest of her life. Alton narrates the details of her innocent childhood, marriage to her high school sweetheart John, and varied business ventures. Her community service is extensive and praiseworthy, especially her participation in the New Jersey Federation of Women's Clubs and the establishment of Stockton University. The centerpiece of her memoir is Alton's longtime association with the Miss America Pageant, providing a behind-the-scenes view of the Pageant's earliest years through the mid-1990s. Throughout, she notes the difficulties of working in a man's world determined, to gain appropriate recognition for women. It is a story of a pioneer who lived her life advocating that beauty is never enough.
Author: Selengut, Becky, author.
Published: 2018
Call Number: 641.59 SELENGUT
Format: Books
Summary: This engaging and approachable (and humorous!) guide to taste and flavor will make you a more skilled and confident home cook.
Author: Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005, author.
Published: 2016 1947
Call Number: 812.54
Format: Books
Summary: "Joe Keller and Steve Deever, partners in a machine shop during the war, turned out defective airplane parts, causing the deaths of many men. Deever was sent to prison, while Keller escaped punishment and became a wealthy man. In this commanding work, a love affair between Keller's son Chris, and Ann Deever, Steve's daughter; the bitterness of Steve's son, George, who returns from the war to find his father in prison and his father's partner free; and the reaction of a son to his father's guilt escalate toward a climax of electrifying intensity."--Publisher's description.
Author: McCann, Colum, 1965- author.
Published: 2010 2009
Call Number: F MCCANN
Format: Books
Summary: A rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s. A radical young Irish monk struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gathers in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam, only to discover just how much divides them even in grief. A young artist finds herself at the scene of a hit-and-run that sends her own life careening sideways. A 38-year-old grandmother turns tricks alongside her teenage daughter, determined not only to take care of her family but to prove her own worth. Weaving together these and other seemingly disparate lives, McCann's allegory comes alive in the voices of the city's people, unexpectedly drawn together by hope, beauty, and the "artistic crime of the century"--a mysterious tightrope walker dancing between the Twin Towers.--From publisher's description.
Author: Pirro, Jeanine, author. Whitney, Catherine, author.
Published: 2004 2003
Call Number: 345
Format: Books
Summary: Deemed "the avenging angel of American justice" (Chris Matthews, Hardball), Jeanine Pirro, the famed Westchester County district attorney, presents hard truths about a justice system that she believes coddles criminals at the expense of innocent victims. Taking readers inside her daily battles on behalf of victims -- from the adolescent girl forced to assume wifely duties after her father murdered her stepmother to a hardworking man shot over a parking place -- District Attorney Pirro delivers a bold indictment of the criminal justice system and lays bare the ways in which parents, communities, and the system share complicity in fostering a dangerous environment for our citizens. With the blunt courage of a woman who has spent her entire career working in a male-dominated world, Pirro demonstrates determination and compassion that will inspire anyone who has ever been a victim -- or a victim's loved one.
Author: Herbert, Frank, author.
Published: 1999 1965
Call Number: F HERBERT
Format: Books
Summary: Originally published in 1965, this best-selling classic won the first Nebula Award and shaped modern science fiction; it will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Muad'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family--and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream. A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics.
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