Author: Nielsen-Fernlund, Susin, 1964- author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: Y NIELSEN
Format: Books
Summary: Branded by a middle school humiliation, fourteen-year-old Wilbur needs help from friends Alex, Fabrizio, and elderly neighbor Sal to impress Charlie, a French girl whose school band is doing an exchange with his. At the start of ninth grade, Wilbur Nuñez-Knopf is hoping for a fresh start. But he just can't live down a deeply humiliating moment from two years ago that's followed him to high school. His good friend Alex has stuck by him, but Alex has started dating Fabrizio and he doesn't have much time to hang out. Luckily, Wil can still confide in his elderly neighbor, Sal. But he longs to have a special someone of his own. When the school band does an exchange with students from Paris, a girl named Charlie captures Wilbur's heart. But his feelings aren't reciprocated. So Alex, Fabrizio, and Sal join forces to build Wil's confidence in the hope that he can impress Charlie when they go to Paris. Maybe, just maybe, Wilbur will find a new defining moment in the City of Love.
Author: Mafi, Tahereh, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: Y MAFI
Format: Books
Summary: In the wake of 9/11, Shadi, a child of Muslim immigrants, tries to navigate her crumbling world of death, heartbreak, and bigotry in silence, until finally everything changes. 2003: the US has officially declared war on Iraq, and the American political world has evolved. Hate crimes are on the rise, FBI agents are infiltrating local mosques, and the Muslim community is harassed and targeted more than ever. Shadi, who wears hijab, keeps her head down. Her brother is dead, her father is dying, her mother is falling apart, and her best friend has dropped out of her life. And her heart is broken. Shadi devours her own pain, retreating farther inside herself until finally, one day, she explodes. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Gelman, Laurie, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F GELMAN
Format: Books
Summary: "The hilarious, irreverent Jen Dixon is class mom--again--for her son's fifth grade year, and a class bully, spin-teacher training, and her irresistible granddaughter keep her on her toes and perpetually in yoga pants"-- Jen Dixon of Overland Park, Kansas is a fearless mother of a fifth-grade boy and two thirty-something daughters. She's used to juggling a lot, from her mission to become a spin instructor, to stepping in as the most acerbic class mom ever, to taking care of her two-year-old granddaughter. When the PTA president throws her a mandate to raise $10,000 for the fifth-grade class, even unflappable Jen is going to need more than her regular spin class to get her through this final year at William Taft Elementary School. Jen hardly has the patience to listen to yet another half-baked idea from WeFUKCT (We Fundraise Until Kingdom Come Team), her fundraising committee. But if anyone can get elementary parents to pull off the impossible, it's Jen Dixon. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Maynard, Joyce, 1953- author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F MAYNARD
Format: Books
Summary: "In her most ambitious novel to date, New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard takes on the topography of the heart--a landscape of grief, reconciliation, forgiveness, and the way the mistakes of parents are passed down through generations, to fester, or to be healed"-- After falling in love in the last years of the 1970s, Eleanor and Cam are now raising three children on a New Hampshire farm: summer softball games, Labor Day cookouts, snow days and skating on the pond. When a tragic accident permanently injures the youngest child, Eleanor blames Cam. Her inability to forgive him leads to a devastating betrayal and the end of their marriage. Over the decades that follow, the members of this family and the many others who make up their world make surprising discoveries and decisions that occasionally bring them together, and often tear them apart. -- adapted from jacket
Author: McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948- author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F MCCALLSM
Format: Books
Summary: "Perplexing, unfathomable, and perhaps unimportant, the cases that Malmo's Department of Sensitive Crimes take on will test them to their limits. Life--and crime--is not always as it seems for Ulf Varg and the other fearless detectives in Malmo's Department of Sensitive Crimes. There are always surprising new cases to take on, and the latest batch is no exception. And that's not to mention Ulf's struggle to contain his feelings for his colleague Anna Bengsdotter. All in all, things are distinctly difficult in Malmo, and it seems up to Ulf and the Department to set them right"-- Detective Ulf Varg is a man of refined tastes and quite familiar with the art scene in Malmö. When art historian Anders Kindgren visits the Department of Sensitive Crimes to report a series of bizarre acts committed against him, the team swing into action. When a painting Kindgren appraised as genuine is declared to be a fake, it's clear someone is out to tarnish his reputation. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Paris, B. A., author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F PARIS
Format: Books
Summary: "The multimillion-copy New York Times bestselling author B.A. Paris returns to her heartland of gripping psychological suspense in The Therapist--a powerful tale of a house that holds a shocking secret. When Alice and Leo move into a newly renovated house in The Circle, a gated community of exclusive houses, it is everything they've dreamed of. But appearances can be deceptive ... As Alice is getting to know her neighbours, she discovers a devastating secret about her new home, and begins to feel a strong connection with Nina, the therapist who lived there before. Alice becomes obsessed with trying to piece together what happened two years before. But no one wants to talk about it. Her neighbors are keeping secrets and things are not as perfect as they seem ..."--
Author: Heylin, Clinton, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: B DYLAN
Format: Books
Summary: Draws on access to Dylan's personal archive to present a definitive chronicle of his early years, including his rise to fame in the folk music scene, his controversial switch to rock music in the mid-1960s, and his disappearance from public view after crashing his motorcycle in 1966. Using material from Dylan's personal archive, Heylin tells the story of the singer's meteoric rise to fame. Readers will follow Dylan's arrival in early 1961 in New York, where he is embraced by the folk scene; his elevation to spokesman of a generation whose protest songs provide the soundtrack for the burgeoning Civil Rights movement; his alleged betrayal when he 'goes electric' at Newport in 1965; and much more. At the peak of his fame in July 1966 Dylan reportedly crashes his motorbike in upstate New York, disappears from public view, and re-emerges: he looks different, his voice sounds different, his songs are different. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Roy, Lucinda, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F ROY
Format: Books
Summary: "The Freedom Race, Lucinda Roy's explosive first foray into speculative fiction, is a poignant blend of subjugation, resistance, and hope. In the aftermath of a cataclysmic civil war known as the Sequel, ideological divisions among the states have hardened. In the Homestead Territories, an alliance of plantation-inspired holdings, Black labor is imported from the Cradle, and Biracial "Muleseeds" are bred. Raised in captivity on Planting 437, kitchen-seed Jellybean "Ji-ji" Lottermule knows there is only one way to escape. She must enter the annual Freedom Race as a runner. Ji-ji and her friends must exhume a survival story rooted in the collective memory of a kidnapped people and conjure the voices of the dead to light their way home"--
Author: Bell, Matt, 1980- author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F BELL
Format: Books
Summary: "In the vein of Neal Stephenson and Jeff VanderMeer, an epic speculative novel from Young Lions Fiction Award-finalist Matt Bell, a breakout book that explores climate change, manifest destiny, humanity's unchecked exploitation of natural resources, and the small but powerful magic contained within every single apple"-- Eighteenth-century Ohio: two brothers travel into the wooded frontier, planting apple orchards from which they plan to profit in the years to come. As they plan for a future of settlement and civilization, the long-held bonds and secrets between the two will be tested, fractured and broken. In the second half of the twenty-first century: climate change has ravaged the Earth. Having invested early in genetic engineering and food science, one company now owns all the world's resources. In a pivotal moment for the future of humanity, one of the company's original founders returns to headquarters, intending to destroy what he helped build. A thousand years in the future: North America is covered by a massive sheet of ice. One lonely sentient being inhabits a tech station on top of the glacier, and sets out to follow a homing beacon across the continent in the hopes of discovering the last remnant of civilization. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Moyer, Melinda Wenner, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 649.1
Format: Books
Summary: "A clear, actionable, sometimes humorous (but always science-based) guide for parents on how to shape their kids into honest, kind, generous, confident, independent, and resilient people...who just might save the world one day"-- On social media, in the news, and from the highest levels of government, kids are increasingly getting the message that being selfish, obnoxious and cruel is okay. Hate crimes among children and teens are rising, while compassion among teens has been dropping. How do we raise children who are kind, considerate, and ethical inside and outside the home, who will grow into adults committed to making the world a better place? Moyer outlines the traits we want our children to possess-- honesty, generosity, and anti-racism-- and then provides scientifically-based strategies that will help parents instill those characteristics in their kids. -- adapted from jacket and Amazon info
Author: Wendig, Chuck, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F WENDIG
Format: Books
Summary: "A new masterpiece of literary horror by the New York Times bestselling author of Wanderers about a family returning to their hometown--and to the dark past that haunts them still. Long ago, Nathan Graves lived in a house in the country with his abusive father--and has never told his family what happened in that house. Long ago, Maddie Graves was a little girl making dolls in her bedroom when she saw something she shouldn't--and is trying to remember that lost trauma by making haunting sculptures. Long ago, something sinister, something hungry, walked in the tunnels and the mountains and the coal mines of their hometown in rural Pennsylvania. Now Nate and Maddie are married, and they have moved back to their hometown with their son, Oliver. And now what happened long ago is happening again . . . and it is happening to Oliver. He meets a strange boy who becomes his best friend, a boy with secrets of his own, and a taste for dark magic. This dark magic puts them at the heart of a battle of good versus evil and a fight for the soul of the family--and perhaps for all of the world. But the Graves family has a secret weapon in this fight: their love for each other"--
Author: Webb, Brandon, author. Mann, John David, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F WEBB
Format: Books
Summary: "Discovering that there is a serial killer onboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, disgraced Navy SEAL sniper Finn finds suspicion falling on him as a newcomer and must expose the real killer while searching for redemption"-- "A ninety-thousand-ton aircraft carrier. Six thousand men onboard. A killer in their midst. And the disgraced Navy SEAL who will track him down... The high-octane debut thriller from the New York Times bestselling writing team of former Navy SEAL Brandon Webb and John David Mann. When Navy SEAL sniper Finn steps on board the USS Abraham Lincoln, adrift in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, it's immediately clear something is wrong. It's been a long deployment for the crew. With poor leadership and a lengthy slog home ahead of them, morale is low. But then crew members start disappearing one by one, and what at first seems like a string of unfortunate coincidences reveals something much more sinister at play. There's a killer in their midst. Suspicion falls on Finn, the most recent addition to the ship. After all, he's being sent home in disgrace, recently recalled from the field under the dark cloud of a mission gone horribly wrong. He's also a lone wolf, haunted by gaps in his memory and the elusive feeling that something he missed contributed to civilian deaths on his last assignment. Finding the killer on board the Lincoln offers a chance at redemption -- as long as he can prove it isn't him."--
Author: El Akkad, Omar, 1982- author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F ELAKKAD
Format: Books
Summary: "More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another over-filled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives in their homelands. And only one has made the passage: nine-year-old Amir, a Syrian boy who has the good fortune to fall into the hands not of the officials but of Vänna: a teenage girl, native to the island, who lives inside her own sense of homelessness in a place and among people she has come to disdain. And though she and the boy are complete strangers, though they don't speak a common language, she determines to do whatever it takes to save him. In alternating chapters, we learn the story of the boy's life and of how he came to be on the boat; and we follow the girl and boy as they make their way toward a vision of safety. But as the novel unfurls we begin to understand that this is not merely the story of two children finding their way through a hostile world, it is the story of our collective moment in this time: of empathy and indifference, of hope and despair--and of the way each of those things can blind us to reality, or guide us to a better one"--
Author: McLaughlin, Elizabeth Cronise, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 331.481 MCLAUGHL
Format: Books
Summary: "What if women forgot everything they'd been taught and radically redefined modern leadership? For those who have spent years playing by the rules only to suffer the cost, and who are now ready to transform their world and work, a soulful guide to knowing their power and using it for change at the deepest levels. Catastrophic events give us an opportunity to question everything. With systems of inequity revealed as never before and the need for revolutionary change in the air, female leaders are stepping forward to reinvent the broken systems they once accepted. Becoming Heroines guides them to ditch the old rules and create new ones, starting with healing internalized trauma, understanding principles of equity and inclusion, and refusing to be silenced any longer. Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin runs wildly popular leadership and activist programs for women willing to undergo the deep inner transformation that leads to rebirth. Now she's leading brave readers on a journey to reclaim power, prompting them to: observe and unpack the structures of oppression with which women engage in their daily lives; confront and analyze their own internalized biases; listen, advocate and overthrow systems and institutions that work to keep women and all marginalized people out of power; engage the process of building a future world that creates freedom for all. This book is a must-read for any leader who's ready to live out her values more radically, rise from the ashes of trauma and defeat, and lead us all to a better world"--
Author: Posthuma, Lisabeth, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: Y POSTHUMA
Format: Books
Summary: Hoping for a fresh start when his therapist recommends a part-time job, seventeen-year-old Joel forges a deep bond with a smart-mouthed co-worker before circumstances force him to share the truth about his past. "Joel's new job at the video store is just what the therapist ordered. But what happens if the first true friend he's made in years finds out about What Was Wrong With Him? Seventeen-year-old Joel Teague has a new prescription from his therapist--a part-time job--the first step toward the elusive Normal life he's been so desperate to live ever since The Bad Thing happened. Lucky for Joel, ROYO Video is hiring. It's the perfect fresh start--Joel even gets a new name. Dubbed "Solo" after his favorite Star Wars character, Joel works his way up the not-so-corporate ladder without anyone suspecting What Was Wrong With Him. That is, until he befriends Nicole "Baby" Palmer, a smart-mouthed coworker with a chip on her shoulder about . . . well, everything, and the two quickly develop the kind of friendship movie montages are made of. However, when Joel's past inevitably catches up with him, he's forced to choose between preserving his new blank slate persona and coming clean--and either way, he risks losing the first real friend he's ever had. Set in a pop-culture-rich 1990s, this remarkable story tackles challenging and timely themes with huge doses of wit, power, and heart." --
Author: Kann, Claire, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: Y KANN
Format: Books
Summary: Chosen to compete in a mystery treasure hunt at the private estate of the creator of a massively popular video-sharing app, three girls soon realize that they are playing for more than just money--they are playing for their lives. Everyone thinks they know Jewel Van Hanen. Heiress turned actress turned social media darling who created the massively popular video-sharing app, Golden Rule. After mysteriously disappearing for a year, Jewel makes her dramatic return with an announcement: she has chosen a few lucky Golden Rule users to spend an unforgettable weekend at her private estate. But once they arrive, Jewel ingeniously flips the script: the guests are now players in an elaborate estate-wide game. And she's tailored every challenge and obstacle to test whether they have what it takes to win--at any cost. Told from the perspective of three dazzling players--Nicole: the new queen of Golden Rule; Luna: Jewel's biggest fan; and Stella: a brilliant outsider--this novel will charm its way into your heart and keep you guessing how it all ends because money isn't the only thing at stake. --adapted from front jacket flap
Author: Woon, Yvonne, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: Y WOON
Format: Books
Summary: Dealing with a vindictive nemesis at Foundry, an app incubator for tech prodigies in Silicon Valley, Xia gets some help from her idol while trying to decide between two very different boys. Xia Chan's only escapes from her boring life are Wiser, an artificial intelligence app she designed to answer questions like her future self, and a mysterious online crush she knows only as ObjectPermanence. When she enrolls at the Foundry, an app incubator for tech prodigies in Silicon Valley, she flirts with Mast, a classmate also working on AI. But speaking up generates a vindictive nemesis intent on publicly humiliating her. Then Xia learns that ObjectPermanence is also at the Foundry, too. Torn between the two, she knows the right choice could transform her into the future self of her dreams, but the wrong one could destroy her. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Lee, Emery, 1996- author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: Y LEE
Format: Books
Summary: "Noah Ramirez thinks he's an expert on romance. He has to be for his popular blog, the Meet Cute Diary, a collection of trans happily ever afters. There's just one problem: all the stories are fake ... When a troll exposes the blog as fiction, Noah's world unravels. The only way to save the Diary is to convince everyone that the stories are true, but he doesn't have any proof. Then Drew walks into Noah's life, and the pieces fall into place"--
Author: Anam, Tahmima, 1975- author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F ANAM
Format: Books
Summary: Brilliant coder and possessor of a Pi tattoo, Asha is poised to revolutionize artificial intelligence when she is reunited with her high school crush, Cyrus Jones. Brilliant coder Asha runs into her high school crush, Cyrus, at a chance meeting. With their friend Jules, they build a social media platform that could bring meaning and connection to millions of lives through personalized rituals. When their app becomes a sensation, Asha is suddenly invisible in the company's boardroom, where decisions are being made without her. Will her own technology mean the end of her relationship? -- adapted from jacket
Author: Singh, Nalini, 1977- author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F SINGH
Format: Books
Summary: "The psy-changelings' lives are at stake when a new darkness threatens to overpower and eliminate them. In a destabilized world with countless lives at stake, two people defined by their aloneness must stand together to stave off ultimate destruction"-- Payal Rao is the perfect Psy: cardinal telekinetic, CEO of a major conglomerate, beautiful--and emotionless. Canto Mercant is a cardinal telepath who has a spinal injury. Canto ruthlessly protects those he claims as his own. Head of intel for the influential Mercant family, he prefers to go unnoticed. But Canto is also an anchor, part of a secretive designation whose task is to stabilize the PsyNet. Now that critical psychic network is dying, threatening to collapse and kill the entire Psy race with it. --adapted from front jacket flap.
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