Author: Harvey, Kristy Woodson, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: LP F HARVEY
Format: Large print
Summary: "Recently separated Amelia Saxton, a dedicated journalist, never expected that uncovering the biggest story of her career would become deeply personal. But when she discovers that a cluster of embryos belonging to her childhood friend Parker and his late wife Greer have been deemed "abandoned," she's put in the unenviable position of telling Parker--and dredging up old wounds in the process. Parker has been unable to move forward since the loss of his beloved wife three years ago. He has all but forgotten about the frozen embryos, but once Amelia reveals her discovery, he knows that if he ever wants to get a part of Greer back, he'll need to accept his fate as a single father and find a surrogate. Each dealing with their own private griefs, Parker and Amelia slowly begin to find solace in one another as they navigate an uncertain future against the backdrop of the pristine waters of their childhood home, Buxton Beach. The journey of self-discovery leads them to an unforgettable and life-changing lesson: Family--the one you're born into and the one you choose--is always closer than you think. From "the next major voice in Southern fiction" (Elin Hilderbrand, #1 New York Times bestselling author), Under the Southern Sky is a fresh and unforgettable exploration of love, friendship, and the unbreakable ties that bind"--
Author: Theoharis, Jeanne, author. Colbert, Brandy, author. Theoharis, Jeanne, 1969- Rebellious life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. Adaptation of (expression):
Published: 2021
Call Number: Y B PARKS
Format: Books
Summary: "This definitive biography of Rosa Parks accessibly examines her six decades of activism, challenging young readers perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement."--
Author: Lynn, Nicole (Sports agent), author. Union, Gabrielle, writer of foreword.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 158.1 LYNN
Format: Books
Summary: The author provides strategies for creating a plan and executing it, in order to achieve personal and professional goals. Lynn knows what it take to smash barriers and succeed: well-defined goals, a plan, and hard you. Here she provides inspiration and guidance to help you develop success strategies and preparing for big opportunities and potential setbacks. Learn to transform into the agent of change you needed all along! -- adapted from jacket
Author: Brallier, Steven W., author. Lohr, Joel N., author. Beck, Lynn G., author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: B KALINSKI
Format: Books
Summary: "The remarkable life story of Mitka Kalinski, who, while still a child, survived the Holocaust and seven years of enslavement to a Nazi officer, then began a new life in the United States and revealed his secret past decades later"-- Mitka Kalinski had never revealed his past to anyone. Not even to his wife or his four children. But in 1981, three decades after it had all ended, Mitka finally broke his silence about the horrors he had endured during the Holocaust and in the years immediately afterward: not only German concentration camps and sadistic medical experiments but also seven years of enslavement in the household of a Nazi officer, "Iron" Gustav Dorr. Having been orphaned before the war, Mitka did not know his origins or even his name. Torture, slavery, and a false name stripped him of his identity entirely. Thus, when he immigrated to the United States in 1951, Mitka seized the opportunity to bury his past and forge a new life. He lived the American life in all its fullness and moved to Nevada with his beloved wife, Adrienne, and their children. But the secret he carried became an increasingly heavy burden, preventing wholeness and healing. This is Mitka's attempt to face the past, confront his captors, connect with lost relatives, and find peace in the rediscovery of his origins. For Mitka, this also meant reclaiming his Jewish heritage--a journey that gave him a new sense of purpose and freedom from the lingering effects of trauma that had filled his life to that point. By the end, Mitka's Secret is less a story of survival and more one of redemption and transformation--from hidden suffering to abundant joy.
Author: Nolan, Savala, author. Container of (work) : Nolan, Savala. On dating white guys while me. Container of (work) : Nolan, Savala. Dear white sister. Container of (work) : Nolan, Savala. Bad education. Container of (work) : Nolan, Savala. To wit, and also.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 305.42 NOLAN
Format: Books
Summary: "An incisive and vulnerable yet powerful and provocative collection of essays, Savala offers poignant reflections on living between society's most charged, politicized, and intractably polar spaces: between black and white, between rich and poor, between thin and fat--as a woman. The daughter of an Afro-Latinx father and a white mother, Savala's light complexion has always contrast her kinky hair and broad nose to embody what old folks used to call "a whole lot of yellow wasted." With her mother's beckoning, she began her first diet at the age of three and has been nearly skeletal and truly fat, multiple times. She has lived in poverty and had an elite education, with regular access to wealth and privilege. She has been in the in-between. It is these liminal spaces--the living in the in-between of race, class and body type that gives the essays in Nearly, Not Quite their strikingly clear and refreshing point of view on the defining tension points in our culture. Each of the twelve essays, that comprise this collection are rife with unforgettable and insightful anecdotes, and are as humorous and as full of Savala's appetites as they are of anxieties. The result is a lyrical and magnetic read. In "On Dating White Guys While Me," Savala realizes her early romantic pursuits of rich, preppy white guys wasn't about preference, but about self-erasure. In "Don't Let it Get You Down" we traverse the beauty and pain of being Black in America as men of color face police brutality and "large Black females" are ignored in hospital waiting rooms. Savala offers an angle to inequities that is as deft as it is lyrical. In "Bad Education" we mine how women learn to internalize violence and rage in hopes of truly having power. And in "To Wit and Also" we meet Filliss, Peggy, and Grace the enslaved women owned by her ancestors, reckoning with how America's original sin lives intimately within our stories. Over and over again, Savala reminds readers that our true identities are often most authentically lived not in the black and white in the grey, in the in-between. Perfect for fans of Heavy by Kiese Laymon and Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay, this book delivers a fresh perspective on race, class, bodies, and gender, that is both an entertaining and engaging addition to the ongoing social and cultural conversation"--
Author: Bennett, Roger, 1970- author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: B BENNETT
Format: Books
Summary: One-half of the celebrated Men in Blazers duo, longtime culture and soccer commentator Roger Bennett traces the origins of his love affair with America, and how he went from a depraved, pimply-faced Jewish boy in 1980's Liverpool to become the quintessential Englishman in New York. Being a teenager isn't easy, no matter where in the world you live. As a private-schooled Jewish kid in working-class, heavily Catholic Liverpool, Bennett had one ideal that burned bright in his heart: America, with its sunny skies, beautiful women, and cool kids with flipped collars who ate at McDonald's. He embraced American popular culture, and made a real, in-the-flesh American friend who invited him over for the summer. His book captures the universality of growing pains, growing up, and growing out of where you come from. This is both a unique coming-of-age story and the love letter to America that the country needs right now. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Clifford, Denis author. Nolo.
Published: 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017
Call Number: 346.7305 CLIFF 7TH ED.
Format: Continuing Resources
Summary: "This book provides the forms and step-by-step instructions to create a simple, valid will that protects family and property after death. This book explains how to name beneficiaries to inherit assets, choose a guardian for young children, set up trusts for minors, name an executor (and a backup), choose appropriate witnesses, finalize the will, and revoke or change the will if necessary. This book also explains basic estate planning, including steps one can take to avoid probate court"--
Author: Cleeves, Ann, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F CLEEVES
Format: Books
Summary: "Ann Cleeves-New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows-returns with the extraordinary follow-up to The Long Call, in the Two Rivers series, soon to be a major TV series too. North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coastline. Detective Matthew Venn is called out to a rural crime scene at the home of a group of artists. What he finds is an elaborately staged murder--Dr Nigel Yeo has been fatally stabbed with a shard of one of his glassblower daughter's broken vases. Dr Yeo seems an unlikely murder victim. He's a good man, a public servant, beloved by his daughter. Matthew is unnerved, though, to find that she is a close friend of Jonathan, his husband. Then another body is found--killed in a similar way. Matthew soon finds himself treading carefully through the lies that fester at the heart of his community and a case that is dangerously close to home. DI Matthew Venn returns in The Heron's Cry, in Ann Cleeves powerful next novel, proving once again that she is a master of her craft"--
Author: Tóibín, Colm, 1955- author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F TOIBIN
Format: Books
Summary: "The Magician opens at the turn of the twentieth century in a provincial German city where the young boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative, conventional father and a Brazilian mother, exotic and unpredictable, who will never fit in. He hides both his artistic aspirations and his homosexual desires from this father, and his sexuality from everyone. He longs for the charismatic, beautiful, rich, cultured young Jewish man, but marries his twin sister. He longs for a boy he sees on a beach in Venice and writes a novel about him. He has six children. He is the most successful novelist of his time. He wins the Nobel Prize and is expected to lead the condemnation of Hitler. His oldest daughter and son share lovers. They are leaders of Bohemianism and of the anti-Nazi movement. This stunning combination of German propriety and Bohemian revolution goes hand in hand for decades. We see the rise of Hitler, the forced exile of a swath of German writers and artists, Mann's narrow escape to America, his sojourn at Princeton, along with fellow exile Einstein, and his final move to LA in the late 40s where he presided over an astonishing community of writers, artists and musicians, including Brecht and Shoenberg, even as his children court tragedy. To call this a portrait of an artist is both reductive and true-it is a novel about a character and a family, fiercely engaged by the world, profoundly flawed, and as flamboyant as it's possible to be"--
Author: Johansen, Iris, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F JOHANSEN
Format: Books
Summary: "Logan Tanner lives the exhilarating life of a professional gambler, taking risks with nerves of steel. From casinos in Macau to Monte Carlo to Milan, he's racked up a fortune and become a living legend. But all the glitz and glamor hide a dark and violent past as an extractor--a world that comes rushing back to him when the beautiful and innocent Lara Balkon enters his life"-- "Logan Tanner lives the exhilarating life of a professional gambler, taking risks with nerves of steel. From casinos in Macau to Monte Carlo to Milan, he's racked up a fortune and become a living legend. But all the glitz and glamour hide a dark and violent past as an extractor -- a world that comes rushing back to him when the beautiful and innocent Lara Balkon enters his life. Soon Logan is drawn into the conflict between two Russian mafia bosses over Lara, whose life now hangs in the balance. Logan has been offered something more valuable than money -- information he desperately needs -- in exchange for getting Lara out of Russia and to safety. Once together, Tanner discovers that Lara is a force to be reckoned with in her own right. Tanner's search for the truth leads them to the bright lights of Las Vegas, where the person who was hunting Lara now lies in wait for them. As the stakes climb with each deadly confrontation, Logan and Lara are catapulted into a game against pure evil. The odds are stacked against them, but it's a game they know they must play ... even if it may cost them their lives."-
Author: Morrow, Bethany C., author. Based on (work): Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888. Little women.
Published: 2021
Call Number: Y MORROW
Format: Books
Summary: At the Freedman's Colony of Roanoke Island, a haven for the recently emancipated, the four March sisters--Meg, Joanna, Bethlehem, and Amethyst--come into their own as independent young Black women together facing love, sickness, heartbreak, and new horizons. North Carolina, 1863. As the American Civil War rages on, the Freedpeople's Colony of Roanoke Island is blossoming, a haven for the recently emancipated. This is where the March family has finally been able to safely put down roots with four young daughters. Meg is a teacher who longs to find love and start a family of her own. Jo is a writer whose words are too powerful to be contained. Beth, a talented seamstress, is searching for a higher purpose. Amy, a dancer, is eager to explore life outside her family's home. As the March sisters come into their own as independent young women, they will face first love, health struggles, heartbreak, and new horizons-- and they will face it all together. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Kurian, Vera, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F KURIAN
Format: Books
Summary: It would be easy to underestimate Chloe Sevre ... She's a freshman honor student, a legging-wearing hot girl next door, who also happens to be a psychopath. She spends her time on yogalates, frat parties and plotting to kill Will Bachman, a childhood friend who grievously wronged her. Chloe is one of seven students at her DC-based college who are part of an unusual clinical study of psychopaths - students like herself who lack empathy and can't comprehend emotions like fear or guilt. The study, led by a renowned psychologist, requires them to wear smart watches that track their moods and movements. When one of the students in the study is found murdered in the psychology building, a dangerous game of cat and mouse begins, and Chloe goes from hunter to prey. As she races to identify the killer and put her own plan for revenge into action, she'll be forced to decide if she can trust any of her fellow psychopaths -- and everybody knows you should never trust a psychopath. "Never Saw Me Coming" is a compulsive, voice-driven thriller by an exciting new talent in fiction that will keep you pinned to the page and rooting for a would-be killer.
Author: Dugard, Martin, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 940.54
Format: Books
Summary: "From Martin Dugard, the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of the Killing series with Bill O'Reilly, comes the spellbinding story of the Allied liberation of Paris from the grip of the Nazis during World War II"-- "The players holding the fate of Paris in their hands are some of the biggest historical figures of the era: Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, General George S. Patton, and the exiled French general Charles de Gaulle, headquartered in London's Connaught Hotel. From the fall of Paris in 1940 to the race for Paris in 1944, this riveting, page-turning drama unfolds through their decisions--for better and worse. Taking Paris is history told at a breathtaking pace, a sprawling yet intimate saga of heroism, desire, and personal sacrifice for all that is right." --Front jacket flap
Author: Balson, Ronald H., author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F BALSON
Format: Books
Summary: "A story of bravery, betrayal, and redemption-from the winner of the National Jewish Book Award. Chicago, 2018: Ole Henryks, a popular restauranteur, is set to be honored by the Danish/American Association for his many civic and charitable contributions. Frequently appearing on local TV, he is well known for his actions in Nazi-occupied Denmark during World War II-most consider him a hero. Britta Stein, however, does not. The ninety-year-old Chicago woman levels public accusations against Henryks by spray-painting "Coward," "Traitor," "Collaborator," and "War Criminal" on the walls of his restaurant. Mrs. Stein is ultimately taken into custody and charged with criminal defacement of property. She also becomes the target of a bitter lawsuit filed by Henryks and his son, accusing her of defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Attorney Catherine Lockhart, though hesitant at first, agrees to take up Mrs. Stein's defense. With the help of her investigator husband, Liam Taggart, Lockhart must reach back into wartime Denmark and locate evidence that proves Mrs. Stein's innocence. Defending Britta Stein is critically-acclaimed author Ronald H. Balson's thrilling take on a modern day courtroom drama, and a masterful rendition of Denmark's wartime heroics"--
Author: Ragnar Jónasson, 1976- author. Warriner, David (Linguist), translator.
Published: 2020
Call Number: F RAGNARJO
Format: Books
Summary: Easter weekend is approaching, and snow is gently falling in Siglufjördur, the northernmost town in Iceland, as crowds of tourists arrive to visit the majestic ski slopes. Three days before Easter, a nineteen-year-old local girl falls to her death from the balcony of a house on the main street. A perplexing entry in her diary suggests that this may not be an accident, and when an old man in a local nursing home writes 'She was murdered' again and again on the wall of his room, there is every suggestion that something more sinister lies at the heart of her death... As a violent blizzard closes in, cutting the power and access to Siglufjördur, Police Inspector Ari Thór must piece together the puzzle to reveal a horrible truth... one that will leave no one unscathed.
Author: Portman, Janet author. Bray, Ilona M., 1962- author. Stewart, Marcia author. USA Today (Firm), sponsoring body.
Published: 2020 2014
Call Number: 333.338 3RD ED.
Format: Books
Summary: "This book is for first-time landlords of single-family homes and discusses such topics as: the legal obligations of landlords, estimating costs and profits, choosing good tenants and avoiding problem ones, making the most of tax deductions, handling repairs and property management tasks, and other topics"--
Author: Sanchez, Alex, writer. Maroh, Julie, 1985- artist. Bennett, Deron, letterer.
Published: 2020
Call Number: Y SANCHEZ
Format: Books
Summary: Jake Hyde yearns for the ocean and is determined to leave his hometown in New Mexico for a college on the coast, and while his family and friends encourage him to stay, he must deal with his secrets of being gay and some strange new blue markings on his skin giving him a glow when he touches water.
Author: Walters, Eric, 1957- author.
Published: 2020 2018
Call Number: Y WALTERS
Format: Books
Summary: "In a world with no power, chaos soon descends. A powerful look at the disintegration of society in the wake of a massive and mysterious outage that has knocked out all modern amenities."-- Fifteen-year-old Emma has moved house with her ex-Marine mother and younger brother. When they are preparing to leave for a camping trip, Emma's new condo building loses power. The car doesn't start, all cell phones appear dead--and all of the cars outside of their building appear to be stalled in traffic. During this massive power outage, Emma and her family canoe over to the islands, just offshore, to wait it out. As they wait on an isolated island, people are becoming increasingly desperate to find food and shelter. And as the days pass, and the power remains out, the threat of violence becomes all too real. --adapted from back cover
Author: Monroe, Mary, author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: LP F MONROE
Format: Large print
Summary: "With a successful career, money in the bank, and a solid future, Felicia has almost everything she ever wanted. But getting married is the one holiday wish she can't seem to get. And it's not helping that she's hopelessly in love with her coworker, widower Richard Grimes. Richard has his hands full juggling pre-Christmas work demands and raising two teenage daughters. But he's not too busy to wish his relationship with Felicia could become much more. It will take all their courage and compassion to risk opening their hearts to each other - hopefully for many more holiday happily-ever-afters"--
Author: Clipston, Amy, author. Wiseman, Beth, 1962- author. Fuller, Kathleen, author. Irvin, Kelly, author. Container of (work): Clipston, Amy. Cookies and cheer.
Published: 2019
Call Number: LP F AMISH
Format: Large print
Summary: "In Cookies and cheer, Alyssa Byler has more customers for her bakery than she can handle, thanks to handsome Kyle Smoker. In Loaves of love, Katie Swartzentruber has been left in charge of her family's bakery. Now she must find the courage to go after what's important. In Melting hearts, Mattie Shetler finds herself working with her sworn enemy. Can the Christmas season melt their hearts? In Cakes and kisses, can Martha Ropp find love with an old school friend when both are too timid to make the first move?" --Back cover
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