Author: Barratt, Judy, editor. Hollywood, Paul, author. Leith, Prue, author.
Published: 2020
Call Number: 641.81
Format: Books
Summary: "Pop round to a friend's with tea and sympathy in the form of chai crackle cookies; have fun making Paul's rainbow-coloured bagels with your family; snuggle up and take comfort in sticky pear & cinnamon buns or a pandowdy swamp pie; or liven up a charity cake sale with mini lemon & pistachio battenbergs or Prue's ... raspberry & salted caramel eclairs. Impressive occasion cakes and ... bakes for gatherings are not forgotten--from a novelty frog birthday cake for a children's party, through a towering croquembouche to wow your guests at the end of dinner, to a ... wedding cake that's worthy of any once-in-a-lifetime celebration"--Publisher marketing. From individually wrapped treats to say thank you, to an ombre cake to round off a dinner party, this book is sure to appeal to novice and experienced bakers alike. The recipes will hone your skills, and the notes from the cooks will offer insight into the journeys that brought them to the Baking Show tent. -- adapted from back cover
Author: Paige, Danielle (Novelist), author.
Published: 2018 2016
Call Number: Y PAIGE
Format: Books
Summary: Seventeen year old Snow has spent her life locked in the Whittaker Psychiatric Institute, but deep down, she knows she doesn't belong there. When she meets a mysterious new orderly and dreams about a strange twisted tree, she realizes she must escape and figure out who she really is.
Author: Zappia, Francesca, author.
Published: 2017
Call Number: Y ZAPPIA
Format: Books
Summary: When the teen creator of "Monstrous Sea," a popular webcomic, is tempted by a school newcomer to pursue real-world relationships, everything she has worked so hard to build crumbles in the wake of their highly publicized romance. In the real world, Eliza Mirk is shy, weird, and friendless. Online, she's LadyConstellation, the anonymous creator of the wildly popular webcomic Monstrous Sea. Eliza can't imagine enjoying the real world as much as she loves the online one, and she has no desire to try. Then Wallace Warland, Monstrous Sea's biggest fanfiction writer, transfers to her school. Wallace thinks Eliza is just another fan, and as he draws her out of her shell, she begins to wonder if a life offline might be worthwhile. But when Eliza's secret is accidentally shared with the world, everything she's built, her story, her relationship with Wallace, and even her sanity begins to fall apart.
Author: Powers, Retha, editor. Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., writer of supplementary textual content.
Published: 2013
Call Number: 808.88
Format: Books
Summary: "5,000 years of literature, lyrics, poems, passages, phrases, and proverbs from voices around the world"--Jacket. From the time of ancient Egypt, through American slavery, the civil rights era and up to the present day, this book collects quotes and thoughts from through the African diaspora. It showcases the thoughts of not only writers and artists, but of politicians, athletes, and others whose words have been significant in their time or beyond, from voices around the world. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Kantrowitz, Stephen David, 1965- author.
Published: 2012
Call Number: 323.1196 KANTROWI
Format: Books
Summary: The story of the African American journey from slavery to freedom usually begins with heroic abolitionists, peaks with emancipation during the Civil War, and trails off amid Reconstruction's violence. Here, historian Stephen Kantrowitz redefines our understanding of this entire era by showing that the fight to abolish slavery was always part of a much broader campaign by African Americans to claim full citizenship and to remake the white republic into a place where they could belong. Kantrowitz chronicles this epic struggle through the lives of black and white activists in and around Boston, including both famous reformers and lesser-known but equally important figures. While these freedom fighters have traditionally been called abolitionists, their goals and achievements went far beyond emancipation. Calling themselves "colored citizens," they fought to establish themselves in American public life, both by building their own institutions and by fiercely challenging pro-slavery laws and practices of exclusion. They knew that equal citizenship meant something far beyond freedom: not only rights, but also acceptance, inclusion and respect. --From publisher description.
Author: Sitchin, Zecharia.
Published: 1991 1976
Call Number: F SITCHIN
Format: Books
Summary: The 12th Planet brings to life the Sumerian civilization, presenting millennia-old evidence of the existence of Nibiru, the home planet of the Anunnaki and of the landings of the Anunnaki on Earth every 3,600 years, and reveals a complete history of the solar system as told by these early visitors from another planet.
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