Author: Betz, Susan, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 635.965
Format: Books
Summary: Hey, houseplant lovers: Are you ready to up your growing game? Whether your green thumb is weathered and worn or shiny and new, get ready to branch out and step into the world of growing your own herbs - indoors! There's no better place to start this adventure than with Herbal Houseplants. Inside the beautifully illustrated pages, author and expert herbalist Susan Betz lets you in on a little secret: Herbs make great houseplants. And, you don't need fancy grow lights, expensive potting soil, or high-end equipment to grow them. All you need is a sunny windowsill and the right plant. Learn which herbs perform best as houseplants, how to care for them, and even how to harvest and use your homegrown herbs for culinary creations, household cleaning products, herbal teas, handmade crafts, and more. In Herbal Houseplants you'll learn: The basics of caring for herbs indoors; How to keep indoor herbs productive and pest free; Tips for choosing the best herbs for indoor growing; Essential advice for watering, fertilizing, and harvesting; Dozens of recipes and DIY projects for enjoying your herbal harvest; How to grow exotic herbs, like patchouli, tulsi, and Corsican mint. From parsley and thyme to sage and lemongrass - and many herbs in between - tending and enjoying herbal houseplants pays big rewards for little effort.
Author: Thomson Peterson's (Firm) Peterson's (Firm)
Published: 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017
Call Number: 628.925 18TH ED.
Format: Continuing Resources
Author: Velasquez, Mariana, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 641.598 VELASQUE
Format: Books
Summary: "A cookbook featuring 100 recipes that offer a contemporary take on traditional Colombian cooking"-- "In Colombiana, food stylist and tastemaker Mariana Velasquez draws on the rich culinary traditions of her native land and puts her own personal twist on dishes beloved by generations of Colombians. For Mariana, the best meals are never simply about the food on the table--they are the alchemy of atmosphere, tablescapes, and thoughtful hosting that complete any experience and make it memorable. Rich with culture and stories, as well as more than 100 delicious, one-of-a-kind recipes and stunning photography, Colombiana is a vibrant gastronomic excursion that melds the contemporary and the traditional, reminding us of the power of food to keep the ritual of the table alive." --Back cover.
Author: Vernon, P. J., author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F VERNON
Format: Books
Summary: "A young gay man in a perfect marriage strives to keep a dangerous indiscretion from his loving husband"-- Oliver Park, a young recovering addict from Indiana, finally has everything he ever wanted: sobriety and a loving, wealthy partner in Nathan, a prominent DC trauma surgeon. Despite their difference in age and disparate backgrounds, they've made a perfect life together. With everything to lose, Oliver shouldn't be visiting Haus, a gay bathhouse. Inside, he follows a man into a private room-- then everything goes wrong, terribly wrong, and Oliver barely escapes with his life. The truth will destroy Nathan and everything they have together, so Oliver does the thing he used to do so well: he lies. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Yashere, Gina, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: B YASHERE
Format: Books
Summary: The producer and writer of the CBS hit series "Bob Heart Abishola" tells the story of growing up as the child of Nigerian immigrants in London and her career as a stand-up comic and eventual Hollywood success. "According to family superstition, Gina Yashere was born to fulfill the dreams of her grandmother Patience--learn to speak perfect English, live unfettered by men or children, work a man's job, and travel the world with a free spirit... A collection of eccentric, addictive, and uproarious stories, Cack-Handed reveals how Gina's unconventional upbringing became the foundation of her successful career as an international comedian." --Front jacket flap
Author: Riley, Jason (Jason L.), author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: B SOWELL
Format: Books
Summary: "In Maverick, Jason Riley explores the life and ideas of Thomas Sowell, one of America's most influential and trenchant Black social critics and conservative intellectuals alive today. Riley offers an introduction to Sowell's ideas, from race and inequality to politics, economics, and education. Riley considers Sowell's own history alongside the moments and movements that shaped his thinking"--
Author: Didinger, Ray, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 796.092
Format: Books
Summary: "The memoirs of Philadelphia sportswriter Ray Didinger, including his time covering the Eagles, Flyers, 76ers, and Phillies"-- Ray Didinger opens his lively memoir Finished Business with the Philadelphia Eagles' upset win in Super Bowl LII. When the Eagles finally hoist the Lombardi Trophy, Didinger does his best to straddle the emotions of a working reporter and a long-suffering Philly fan. His ability to do that is why he has built up such a loyal following. Didinger began following the Eagles as a kid, hanging out in his grandfather's bar in Southwest Philadelphia. He spent his summers at the team's training camp in Hershey. It was there he met his idol, flanker Tommy McDonald. He would later write a play, Tommy and Me, about their friendship and his efforts to see McDonald enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Didinger has been covering the Eagles as a newspaper columnist or TV analyst since 1970. Over the years, he wrote sports for the Philadelphia Bulletin and the Philadelphia Daily News. He later produced Emmy Award-winning documentaries for NFL Films before transitioning to sports talk radio and TV analysis. His stories, told in his familiar, breezy style, capture his enthusiasm for sports and his affection for the fans who still mourn the pennant that eluded the Phillies in 1964. Didinger has become synonymous with Philadelphia sports, and his memoir is as passionate as an autumn Sunday at Lincoln Financial Field --
Author: Lippman, Laura, 1959- author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: LP F LIPPMAN
Format: Large print
Summary: Bedridden after a freak accident, a novelist begins to question his own sanity as he moves through dreamlike memories of his own fictional characters. Injured in a freak accident, novelist Gerry Andersen lies in a hospital bed in his glamorous but sterile apartment, isolated from the busy world he can see through his windows. He is utterly dependent on two women he barely knows: his young assistant and a night nurse whose competency he questions. As he moves in and out of dreamlike memories and seemingly random appearances of a persistent ex-girlfriend at his bedside, Gerry fears he may be losing his grip on reality, much like his mother who recently passed away from dementia. He believes he's being plagued by strange telephone calls, in which a woman claiming to be Audrey, the titular character of his hit novel Dream Girl swears she will be coming to see him soon. Is he the victim of a cruel prank, or is he actually losing his mind? -- adapted from back cover
Author: Casanova, Mary, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F CASANOVA
Format: Books
Summary: In her third Rainy Lake historical drama, Mary Casanova takes us back to pristine and rugged northern Minnesota. It's 1922, women have won the right to vote, and Trinity Baird is of age. But at 21, and after nearly two years at Oak Hills Asylum, she returns to her family's island summer home with her self-confidence in tatters and her mind seared by haunting memories. Her parents are oblivious to what they have put her through and instead watch their daughter for the least sign of defiance. Trinity struggles to be the "respectable" young woman her parents (especially her mother) demand, so that she can return to her independent life studying art and painting in Paris. She never wants to go back to Oak Hills, where they "treat" hysterical, i.e., unconventional, young women.
Author: Wilson, Susan, 1951- author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F WILSON
Format: Books
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Susan Wilson comes What a Dog Knows, another heartwarming novel about humans and the dogs that change our lives. Ruby Heartwood has always lived a life on the move. As a traveling psychic, she makes her living working at carnivals and festivals and circuses around New England. It's a life Ruby has made peace with--settling in one place has never been for her. She needs no one, and no one needs her. Until one night, when she is camped by the side of the road in her trusty Volkswagon "Westie" van, a fierce thunder and lightning storm erupts. In the middle of the downpour, she hears a distinct voice telling her to "let me in." In jumps a little black and white dog, and to Ruby's astonishment, she can hear the dog's thoughts. Has she been struck by lightning? Did the storm do this? Is she losing her mind? It turns out, Ruby can hear many dogs' thoughts. She decides to set up semi-permanent residency in the town of Harmony Farms, until she can sort out what is going on, and who the little dog, Hitch, belongs to. But some people in Harmony Farms don't want her there. And it seems that events keep preventing Ruby from leaving. What secrets is this town keeping? Why was she meant to find this dog? And what has Ruby really been running from, all these years?"--
Author: Norton, Graham, 1963- author.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: F NORTON
Format: Books
Summary: "It is 1987 and a small Irish community is preparing for a wedding. The day before the ceremony a group of young friends, including the bride and groom, drive out to the beach. There is an accident. Three survive, but three are killed. The lives of the families are shattered and the rifts between them are felt throughout the small town. Connor is one of the survivors. But staying among the angry and the mourning is almost as hard as living with the shame of having been the driver. He leaves the only place he knows for another life, taking his secrets with him. Travelling first to Liverpool, then London, he makes a home - of sorts - for himself in New York. The city provides shelter and possibility for the displaced, somewhere Connor can forget his past and forge a new life. But the secrets, the unspoken longings and regrets that have come to haunt those left behind will not be silenced. And before long, Connor will have to confront his past. Graham Norton's powerful and timely novel of emigration and return demonstrates his keen understanding of the power of stigma and secrecy--with devastating results"--
Author: Lindner, Eric, 1958- author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 363.12
Format: Books
Summary: "On a moonless September night in 1962, 900 miles from land, Flying Tiger flight 923 began to fall apart at 21,000 feet. A crash was inevitable. Survival was impossible. Tiger in the Sea is the story of that harrowing flight"--
Author: De Waal, Edmund, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: B DEWAAL
Format: Books
Summary: "Tragic family history told in a collection of imaginary letters to a famed collector, Moise de Camondo"-- The Camondos were a Jewish family from Constantinople who made their home in Paris in the 1870s and became philanthropists, art collectors, and fixtures of Belle Époque high society. They were also targets of antisemitism, much like de Waal's relations, the Ephrussi family, to whom they were connected. Eventually, the Camondos were murdered by the Nazis. After de Waal, a ceramic artist, was invited to make an exhibition in the Camondo house, he began to write letters to Moise de Camondo. These fifty letters are deeply personal reflections on assimilation, melancholy, family, art, the vicissitudes of history, and the value of memory. -- adapted from Amazon info
Author: Snelling, Lauraine, author. Giron, Kiersti, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: LP F SNELLING
Format: Large print
Summary: "Larkspur Nielsen is ready for change, frustrated by the small-mindedness of her Ohio hometown and its lack of opportunity for her or her younger sisters. But the push to leave comes faster than she ever expected when several of her bold actions for justice earn her vindictive enemies. Overnight, they must pack up and ready to make a new life out West, hoping to escape notice and any opportunities for revenge. Knowing that four women traveling together will draw unwanted attention, Larkspur dons a disguise, passing herself off as 'Clark' Nielsen accompanying his three sisters. But maintaining the ruse is more difficult than Larkspur imagined, as is protecting her headstrong, starry-eyed sisters from difficult circumstances and available young men. Will reaching a safe place to call home ever be possible?"--
Author: Oke, Janette, 1935- author. Logan, Laurel Oke, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: LP F OKE
Format: Large print
Summary: "With more children on their way from England who need caring homes, Lillian and Grace Walsh must use every ounce of gumption to keep their mission alive. But when startling information about the past surfaces and a new arrival comes via suspicious circumstances, they'll have to decide what is worth fighting for and what is better left in God's hands"--
Author: Burns, Ursula, 1958- author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: B BURNS
Format: Books
Summary: ""I am a black woman who doesn't play golf, doesn't belong to or go to any club, doesn't like NASCAR, doesn't like country music, and has a Science degree in engineering. I speak differently, very fast, with an accent and a set of vernacular that is New York City, definitely Black tilted. So when someone says I'm going to introduce you to the next CEO of Xerox, and the candidates are lined up against a wall, I would be the first one voted off the island." Where You Are is Not Who You Are is an engaging memoir by Ursula Burns, former Chief Executive Officer of the Xerox Corporation. Her appointment as the first African American woman to head a Fortune 500 company in 2010 drew headlines, which, Ms. Burns insists, missed the real story. "It should have been-How did this happen? How is it possible that the Xerox Corporation produced the first African American woman CEO? Not this spectacular, ridiculous one about, Oh, my god, a black woman making it." Burns writes about race. Her classmates, and later, her colleagues, almost all white males, "couldn't comprehend how a Black girl could be as smart, and in some cases, smarter than they were. So they made a special category for me. Unique. Amazing. Spectacular. That way they could accept me." Burns writes about gender in the corporate world. Always on the side of the laborer, she celebrates a time when CEOs lived in the communities alongside their workers, while showcasing the ways corporate culture is destroying the spirit of democracy. Burns' 35-year career at Xerox was all about fixing things, from cutting millions of dollars as head of manufacturing to save Xerox from bankruptcy to acquiring a $6 billion business services company to give Xerox a future. Candid and outspoken, this memoir takes the reader inside the c-suites of corporate America, and reveals it through the lens of a Black woman-someone who puts humanity over greed and justice over lining the pockets of the few"-- Appointed the chief executive officer of the Xerox Corporation in 2009, Burns was the first Black female to hold the position at a Fortune 500 company. Here she writes about her journey from tenement housing to the highest echelons of the corporate world, crediting her rise to her single mother. Burns writes about the limitations she faced, as well as the challenges and reality of the corporate world. The result is a remarkable look inside the C-suites through the eyes of someone who puts humanity over greed, and justice over power. No matter your circumstances, hard work and leadership can change your life-- and the world. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Sullivan, Matt (Sports editor), author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 796.3236
Format: Books
Summary: "An award-winning journalist's behind-the-scenes account from the epicenter of sports, social justice, and coronavirus, Can't Knock the Hustle is a lasting chronicle of the historic 2019-2020 NBA season, by way of the notorious Brooklyn Nets and basketball's renaissance as a cultural force beyond the game"-- "Hundreds of interviews--with Hall of Famers, All-Stars, executives, coaches and power brokers across the world--provide a backdrop of the NBA's impact on social media, race, politics, health, fashion, fame and fandom, for a portrait of a time when sports brought us back together again like never before." --Front jacket flap.
Author: Herrera, Hayden, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: B HERRERA
Format: Books
Summary: "A coming-of-age memoir by the daughter of privileged, artistic, hard-drinking, bohemian parents, set against a backdrop of 1950s New York, Cape Cod, and Mexico"--
Author: McQuiston, Casey, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F MCQUISTO
Format: Books
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes a new romantic comedy that will stop readers in their tracks... "Dreamy, other worldly, smart, swoony, thoughtful, hilarious - all in all, exactly what you'd expect from Casey McQuiston!" - Jasmine Guillory, New York Times bestselling author of The Proposal and Party for Two Cynical twenty-three-year old August doesn't believe in much. She doesn't believe in psychics, or easily forged friendships, or finding the kind of love they make movies about. And she certainly doesn't believe her ragtag band of new roommates, her night shifts at a 24-hour pancake diner, or her daily subway commute full of electrical outages are going to change that. But then, there's Jane. Beautiful, impossible Jane. All hard edges with a soft smile and swoopy hair and saving August's day when she needed it most. The person August looks forward to seeing on the train every day. The one who makes her forget about the cities she lived in that never seemed to fit, and her fear of what happens when she finally graduates, and even her cold-case obsessed mother who won't quite let her go. And when August realizes her subway crush is impossible in more ways than one-namely, displaced in time from the 1970s-she thinks maybe it's time to start believing. Casey McQuiston's One Last Stop is a sexy, big-hearted romance where the impossible becomes possible as August does everything in her power to save the girl lost in time"--
Author: Tompkins, Chris (LGBTQ advocate), author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 306.76
Format: Books
Summary: "Raising LGBTQ Allies is the first book to focus on the prevention of homophobia, transphobia, and bullying before they begin. It encourages families to have open and authentic conversations in a practical, timely, and inclusive way. It also creates a dialogue with parents around the possibility they may have an LGBTQ child"-- Tompkins focuses on the prevention of homophobia, transphobia, and bullying before they begin. Creating a dialogue with parents around the possibility they may have an LGBTQ child, he encourages families to have open and authentic conversations in a practical, timely, and inclusive way. Offering specific actions that can be taken to address heteronormativity and challenge societal beliefs, Tompkins shows that change begins with us and what we say, as much as what we choose not to say. -- adapted from jacket
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