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‘The Smash-Up,’ by Ali Benjamin: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “The Smash-Up,” by Ali Benjamin
The Merit, Thrills, Boredom and Fear of Police Work
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The Life of a Soldier
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They Were Black. Their Parents Were White. Growing Up Was Complicated.
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A Drug-Fueled New York City Bacchanal and the Lives It Changed
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True Crime Gets Its Close-Up
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Growing Up With a Revolution, and a Mystic Grandmother
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New & Noteworthy, From Isabel Allende to Robert Walser
A selection of recent titles of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Two Memoirists Explore Abuse and Survival
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Chasing Down a Deadbeat Dad, With a Knife Strapped to Her Leg
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In 'Nubia: Real One,' Trying To Be A Hero When Society Thinks You're A Threat
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(Image credit: DC Comics)
Winter Not Cold Enough? Here Are 3 YA Thrillers To Chill You
Prickly, angry girls get to the bottom of mysterious disappearances — or cause them — in these three angsty YA novels, from a retelling of "The Cask of Amontillado" to a wild and frozen dystopia.
(Image credit: Walker Books)
Greenland [DVD}
Author: Waugh, Ric Roman, 1968- film director. Sparling, Chris, 1977- screenwriter. Iwanyk, Basil, film producer. Raybaud, Sebastien, film producer. Butler, Gerard, 1969- film producer, actor.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: GREENLAN
Format: Video disc
Summary: As cities around the world are being destroyed by a comet, a family races against time to reach a possible safe haven.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: GREENLAN
Format: Video disc
Summary: As cities around the world are being destroyed by a comet, a family races against time to reach a possible safe haven.
Crown Vic [DVD]
Author: Souza, Joel, 1973- film director, screenwriter. Baldwin, Alec, 1958- film producer. Jane, Thomas, actor. Krumholtz, David, 1978- actor. Moynahan, Bridget, 1972- actor.
Published: 2020
Call Number: CROWN
Format: Video disc
Summary: During one night's patrol, a veteran cop and his rookie partner chase down violent suspects while searching for a missing girl, all the while hunting two cop killers in Los Angeles.
Published: 2020
Call Number: CROWN
Format: Video disc
Summary: During one night's patrol, a veteran cop and his rookie partner chase down violent suspects while searching for a missing girl, all the while hunting two cop killers in Los Angeles.
Greenland [DVD}
Author: Waugh, Ric Roman, 1968- film director. Sparling, Chris, 1977- screenwriter. Iwanyk, Basil, film producer. Raybaud, Sebastien, film producer. Butler, Gerard, 1969- film producer, actor.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: GREENLAN
Format: Video disc
Summary: As cities around the world are being destroyed by a comet, a family races against time to reach a possible safe haven.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: GREENLAN
Format: Video disc
Summary: As cities around the world are being destroyed by a comet, a family races against time to reach a possible safe haven.
Crown Vic [DVD]
Author: Souza, Joel, 1973- film director, screenwriter. Baldwin, Alec, 1958- film producer. Jane, Thomas, actor. Krumholtz, David, 1978- actor. Moynahan, Bridget, 1972- actor.
Published: 2020
Call Number: CROWN
Format: Video disc
Summary: During one night's patrol, a veteran cop and his rookie partner chase down violent suspects while searching for a missing girl, all the while hunting two cop killers in Los Angeles.
Published: 2020
Call Number: CROWN
Format: Video disc
Summary: During one night's patrol, a veteran cop and his rookie partner chase down violent suspects while searching for a missing girl, all the while hunting two cop killers in Los Angeles.
A curious incident
Author: Delany, Vicki, 1951- author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F DELANY
Format: Books
Summary: After Gemma helps a little girl find her lost cat, the child returns seeking further assistance when her mother is accused of killing her garden club rival. Young Lauren Tierney comes to the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium to beg Gemma to find her missing cat, Snowball. Gemma's dog Violet follows her nose to a neighbor's garden shed, and Gemma basks in praise for a job well done. A few days later Lauren is back for a far bigger job: Her mother has been accused of murdering her garden club rival. Sheila Tierney's garden had been vandalized the night before the West London Garden Club's early summer tour. Sheila confronted Anna Wentworth in a towering rage, and after Anna won the trophy for best garden she was found murdered. Now Sheila Tierney is the prime suspect. -- adapted from jacket.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F DELANY
Format: Books
Summary: After Gemma helps a little girl find her lost cat, the child returns seeking further assistance when her mother is accused of killing her garden club rival. Young Lauren Tierney comes to the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium to beg Gemma to find her missing cat, Snowball. Gemma's dog Violet follows her nose to a neighbor's garden shed, and Gemma basks in praise for a job well done. A few days later Lauren is back for a far bigger job: Her mother has been accused of murdering her garden club rival. Sheila Tierney's garden had been vandalized the night before the West London Garden Club's early summer tour. Sheila confronted Anna Wentworth in a towering rage, and after Anna won the trophy for best garden she was found murdered. Now Sheila Tierney is the prime suspect. -- adapted from jacket.
The kindest lie : a novel
Author: Johnson, Nancy (Novelist), author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F JOHNSON
Format: Books
Summary: "It's 2008, and the rise of Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. In Chicago, Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man. He's eager to start a family, but Ruth is uncertain. She has never gotten over the baby she gave birth to, and abandoned, when she was a teenager. She had promised her family she'd never look back, but Ruth knows that to move forward, she must make peace with the past. Returning home, Ruth discovers the Indiana factory town of her youth is plagued by unemployment, racism, and despair. Determined, Ruth begins digging into the past. As she uncovers burning secrets her family desperately wants to hide, she unexpectedly befriends Midnight, a young white boy who is also adrift and looking for connection. When a traumatic incident strains the town's already searing racial tensions, Ruth and Midnight find themselves on a collision course that could upend both their lives."--Publisher.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F JOHNSON
Format: Books
Summary: "It's 2008, and the rise of Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. In Chicago, Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man. He's eager to start a family, but Ruth is uncertain. She has never gotten over the baby she gave birth to, and abandoned, when she was a teenager. She had promised her family she'd never look back, but Ruth knows that to move forward, she must make peace with the past. Returning home, Ruth discovers the Indiana factory town of her youth is plagued by unemployment, racism, and despair. Determined, Ruth begins digging into the past. As she uncovers burning secrets her family desperately wants to hide, she unexpectedly befriends Midnight, a young white boy who is also adrift and looking for connection. When a traumatic incident strains the town's already searing racial tensions, Ruth and Midnight find themselves on a collision course that could upend both their lives."--Publisher.
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