Author: Horowitz, Ben, 1966- author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: 658.1
Format: Books
Summary: "Keynote Straight talk and advice on building and running a startup from Ben Horowitz, one of Silicon Valley's most respected voices"-- To Horowitz, culture is how a company makes decisions. It is the set of assumptions employees use to resolve everyday problems. If culture is not purposeful, it will be an accident or a mistake. Here he explains how to make your culture purposeful by spotlighting four historic models of leadership and culture-building, and connecting their leadership examples to modern case-studies. The practical and often surprising advice that results will help executives build cultures that can weather both good and bad times. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Danielewski, Mark Z., author, artist. Gonzales, Regina M., illustrator.
Published: 2019
Call Number: F DANIELEW
Format: Books
Summary: A boy who loves flying kites begins to fear flying them after his favorite kite is lost and broken. Only time and courage can help him decide whether to fly again.
Author: Noble, Shelley, author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: F NOBLE
Format: Books
Summary: "Lady Dunbridge was not about to let a little thing like the death of her husband ruin her social life. She's come to New York City, ready to take the dazzling world of Gilded Age Manhattan by storm. The social events of the summer have been amusing but Lady Phil is searching for more excitement---and she finds it, when an early morning visitor arrives, begging for her help. After all, Lady Phil has been known to be useful in a crisis. Especially when the crisis involves the untimely death of a handsome young business tycoon. His death could send another financial panic through Wall Street and beyond.With the elegant Plaza Hotel, Metropolitan Museum of Art and the opulent mansions of Long Island's Gold Coast as the backdrop, romance, murder, and scandals abound. Someone simply must do something. And Lady Dunbridge is happy to oblige."--Provided by publisher.
Author: Keith, Phil, 1946- author. Clavin, Thomas author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: B BULLARD
Format: Books
Summary: The incredible life story of Eugene Bullard, the first African American military pilot in WWI, who went on to become a self-taught jazz musician, a Paris nightclub impresario, a spy in the French Resistance and an American civil rights pioneer. Eugene Bullard lived one of the most fascinating lives of the twentieth century. The son of a former slave and an indigenous Creek woman, Bullard fled home at the age of eleven to escape the racial hostility of his Georgia community. His five-year journey led him to a tramp steamer bound for Europe. There he discovered boxing, climbed the ranks and garnered worldwide fame as the "Black Sparrow." At eighteen he settled in Paris as a beloved celebrity and bon vivant. A year later World War I broke out. Bullard joined the French Foreign Legion, where he went on to become the first African American fighter pilot in history. After the war, Bullard returned to Paris a decorated war hero and leveraged his celebrity to become a fixture of Parisian nightclub society. Hemingway and Fitzgerald drank champagne at his club. A young Langston Hughes worked as a busboy. He counted Picasso, Josephine Baker and Man Ray as friends. He married a French countess and they had two daughters. At the dawn of World War II, with echoes of Casablanca, Bullard became a French spy, drawing Nazi soldiers to his club and conducting crucial surveillance for the Allies. After fleeing Paris he joined the Resistance before being safely smuggled onto a ship bound for America. He lived out the rest of his life in Harlem with his daughters, working as an assistant for Louis Armstrong. This is the dramatic untold story of an American hero, a thought-provoking survey of the twentieth century and a portrait of a man who came from nothing and by his own courage, determination, gumption, intelligence and luck forged a legendary life.
Author: Alderton, Molly, author. Fellman, Daniela, author. Hilton, Meghan, author, illustrator. LaBarr, Julie, author. Macklin, Alison, editor.
Published: 2019
Call Number: Y 306.7 ALDERTON
Format: Books
Summary: Provides non-judgmental answers to questions about sex, attraction, gender identity, sexually transmitted diseases, and relationships, including how toxic shock syndrome occurs, how twins develop, and what is the best type of birth control.
Author: Fowles, Stacey May, editor. Lee, Jen Sookfong, editor. Valenti, Jessica, writer of foreword.
Published: 2019
Call Number: 362.883 WHATEVER
Format: Books
Summary: "Through the voices of twelve diverse writers, Whatever Gets You Through offers a powerful look at the narrative of sexual assault not covered by the headlines--the weeks, months, and years of survival and adaptation that people live through in its aftermath. With a foreword by Jessica Valenti, an extensive introduction by editors Stacey May Fowles and Jen Sookfong Lee, and contributions from acclaimed literary voices such as Alicia Elliott, Elisabeth de Mariaffi, Heather O'Neill, and Juliane Okot Bitek, the collection explores some of the many different forms that survival can take."--
Author: Richter, Paul (Paul R.), author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: 327.73 RICHTER
Format: Books
Summary: "The State Department's heroes are the front-line diplomats who have been unheralded, but crucial in the line of national defense for two decades of wars in the Middle East. In The Ambassadors, Paul Richter shares the astonishing, true-life stories of four expeditionary diplomats who do the hardest things in the hardest places." --Provided by publisher.
Author: Thomas, Will, 1958- author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: F THOMAS
Format: Books
Summary: "London, 1892-Cyrus Barker is brought into a game of international espionage by the Prime Minister himself in the newest mystery in Will Thomas's beloved series. Private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn receive in the mail an unexplained key stamped with the letter Q. Barker, recognizing it for what it is, uses the key to unlock an anonymous door in the alleyway, which opens to an underground tunnel leading to Downing Street. The Prime Minister has a small task for Cyrus Barker. A Foreign Office agent stole a satchel in Eastern Europe, but was then himself murdered at Charing Cross. The satchel contains a document desperately wanted by the German government, but while the agent was killed, the satchel remains in English hands. With a cold war brewing between England and Germany, it's in England's interest to return the document contained in the satchel to its original owners and keep it out of German hands. The document is an unnamed first century gospel; the original owner is the Vatican. And the German government isn't the only group trying to get possession of it. With secret societies, government assassins, political groups, and shadowy figures of all sorts doing everything they can-attacks, murders, counter-attacks, and even massive street battles-to acquire the satchel and its contents, this small task might be beyond even the prodigious talents of Cyrus Barker"--
Author: Ricketts, Joe (John Joseph), 1941- author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: B RICKETTS
Format: Books
Summary: Ricketts, founder of TD Ameritrade, shares the epic inside story of how a working-class kid from the Nebraska prairie took on Wall Street's clubby brokerage business, busted it open, and walked away a billionaire.
Author: Mandanna, Sangu, editor. Container of (work) : Ahmed, Samira. Agony of a heart's wish. Container of (work) : Chapman, Elsie. Boy is. Container of (work) : Gibaldi, Lauren. What we love. Container of (work) : Kang, Lydia. Yuna and the wall.
Published: 2019
Call Number: Y COLOR
Format: Books
Summary: An anthology of short stories exploring interracial and other relationships, in which differences are front and center, but may or may not matter. An anthology of YA stories that explores the complexity and beauty of interracial and LGBTQ+ relationships. They're about how being different from the person you love can matter but how it can also not matter. They're about handling relationships where differences are front and center. And they're about Chinese pirate ghosts, black girl vigilantes, colonial India, a flower festival, a garden of poisons, and so, so much else. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Comensal, Jorge, 1987- author. Whittle, Charlotte, translator.
Published: 2019
Call Number: F COMENSAL
Format: Books
Summary: "A modern-day Flaubert takes us on a comic tour through a deeply neurotic Mexico City by way of the life of a successful lawyer struck with a rare cancer of the tongue" --
Author: Dovalpage, Teresa, 1966- author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: F DOVALPAG
Format: Books
Summary: "Padrino, a former detective on the Cuban police force, has retired and found a new, happy life as a Santería priest. But he is drawn back in for a murder investigation when his goddaughter, Rosita, who works at the local cemetery, recognizes one of the bodies that crosses her embalming table. Meanwhile, an old flame of Rosita's, Juan, has returned to Cuba after fleeing by raft twenty years ago. He is with his American wife, Sharon, and has come back to catch up with his old college circle--Victor, his estranged best friend, and unbeknownst to Sharon, his most serious ex-girlfriend, Elsa, with whom he never quite fell out of love. When murder occurs within this group, it will cost Padrino more than he expects to untangle everyone's lies and track down the killer"-- Juan, a Cuban construction worker who settled in Albuquerque, returns to Havana for the first time in twenty years. He is traveling with his American wife, Sharon, and has come back to catch up with his old college circle: Victor, his estranged best friend-- now Victoria, running a drag show at the Café Arabia; and his ex-girlfriend, Elsa, with whom he never quite fell out of love; and Rosita. Then one of the women turns up dead. Padrino, a former detective on the Cuban police force who has found a new, happy life as a Santería priest, is drawn back in for the murder investigation. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Davis, Ronni, author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: Y DAVIS
Format: Books
Summary: After Ashton broke Devon's heart, she focused on preparing for her future as an astrophysicist but Ashton's appearance on the first day of her senior year forces her to revisit their magical summer together.
Author: Botwin, Shari, author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: 616.85 BOTWIN
Format: Books
Summary: "Thriving After Trauma deals with overcoming trauma including physical and sexual abuse, war-related injury, loss due to tragedy or illness, and natural disasters. Real stories and practical tools shed light on how to let go of shame, guilt, anger, and despair after a traumatic experience. It is possible to grieve, move beyond, and fully live again"--
Author: Wilson, Susan, 1951- author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: F WILSON
Format: Books
Summary: After spending years in prison for a crime she didn't intend to commit, Rose Collins is suddenly free. Someone who knows about the good work she has done--training therapy dogs while serving time--has arranged for her early release. This mysterious benefactor has even set her up with a job in the coastal Massachusetts community of Gloucester, on the edge of Dogtown, a place of legend and, for the first time since Rosie's whole world came crashing down, hope. There she works to rebuild her life with the help of Shadow, a stray dog who appears one rainy night and refuses to leave Rose's side.
Author: Drake, Julia, author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: Y DRAKE
Format: Books
Summary: Inspired loosely by Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, teenaged Violet is shipped off to Maine after her brother's hospitalization, where she searches for the lost shipwreck that her great-great grandmother survived and for answers about her family's long struggle with mental illness, all while falling in love. The Larkin family isn't just lucky--they persevere. At least that's what Violet and her younger brother, Sam, were always told. When the Lyric sank off the coast of Maine, their great-great-great-grandmother didn't drown like the rest of the passengers. No, Fidelia swam to shore, fell in love, and founded Lyric, Maine, the town Violet and Sam returned to every summer. But wrecks seem to run in the family: Tall, funny, musical Violet can't stop partying with the wrong people. And, one beautiful summer day, brilliant, sensitive Sam attempts to take his own life. Shipped back to Lyric while Sam is in treatment, Violet is haunted by her family's missing piece--the lost shipwreck she and Sam dreamed of discovering when they were children. Desperate to make amends, Violet embarks on a wildly ambitious mission: locate the Lyric, lain hidden in a watery grave for over a century. She finds a fellow wreck hunter in Liv Stone, an amateur local historian whose sparkling intelligence and guarded gray eyes make Violet ache in an exhilarating new way. Whether or not they find the Lyric, the journey Violet takes--and the bridges she builds along the way--may be the start of something like survival. Epic, funny, and sweepingly romantic, The Last True Poets of the Sea is an astonishing debut about the strength it takes to swim up from a wreck. -- Provided by publisher.
Author: Block, Lawrence, editor, author. Paretsky, Sara, author. Burke, Jan, author. Moore, Warren, author. Abbott, Patricia, author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: F FROM
Format: Books
Summary: "Seventeen stories by seventeen brilliant writers, inspired by seventeen paintings. That was the formula for Lawrence Block's two ground-breaking anthologies, In Sunlight or in Shadow and Alive in Shape and Color, and it's on glorious display here once again in From Sea to Stormy Sea. This time the paintings are exclusively the work of American artists, and the roster includes Harvey Dunn, John Steuart Curry, Reginald Marsh, Thomas Hart Benton, Helen Frankenthaler, Winslow Homer, Rockwell Kent, Grant Wood, and Andy Warhol. ' ...[A] collection, with widely divergent stories united by theme and culture, and -- no surprise -- beautifully illustrated with full-color reproductions of the seventeen paintings. Including stories by: Sara Paretsky, Jan Burke, Warren Moore, Patricia Abbott, Christa Faust, Jerome Charyn, Barry Malzberg, Scott Frank, Brendan DuBois, Tom Franklin, Gary Phillips, Charles Ardai, Micah Nathan, Janice Eidus, John Sandford, Jane Hamilton, and Lawrence Block." --
Author: Woolf, John (Historian), author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: 616.043 WOOLF
Format: Books
Summary: A radical new history that rediscovers the remarkable freak performers whose talents and charisma helped define an era. On March 23, 1844, General Tom Thumb, just 25 inches tall, entered the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace and bowed low to Queen Victoria. On both sides of the Atlantic, this meeting marked a tipping point in the nineteenth century, and the age of the freak was born. Bewitching all levels of society, it was a world of curiosities and astonishing spectacle--of dwarfs, giants, bearded ladies, Siamese twins, and swaggering showmen. But the real stories--human dramas that so often eclipsed the fantasy presented on the stage--of the performing men, women and children, have been forgotten or marginalized in the histories of the very people who exploited them. In this richly evocative account, John Woolf uses a wealth of recently discovered material to bring to life the sometimes tragic, sometimes triumphant, always extraordinary stories of people who used their (dis)abilities and difference to become some of the first international celebrities. Through their lives we discover afresh some of the great transformations of the age: the birth of show business, of celebrity, of advertising, and of "alternative facts" while also exploring the tensions between the power of fame, the impact of exploitation, and our fascination with "otherness."
Author: McDiarmid, Jessica, author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: 362.88 MCDIARMI
Format: Books
Summary: In the vein of the astonishing and eye-opening bestsellers "I'll Be Gone in the Dark" and "The Line Becomes a River," this stunning work of investigative journalism follows a series of unsolved disappearances and murders of Indigenous women in rural British Columbia.
Author: Daniels, Anthony, author. Abrams, J. J. (Jeffrey Jacob), 1966- writer of foreword.
Published: 2019
Call Number: B DANIELS
Format: Regular print
Summary: For the very first time, Daniels will tell C-3PO's story in its entirety, from seeing the first concept images to the early stages of the final film in the Skywalker saga, Star Wars: Episode IX, and in the process, will also tell his own. C-3PO is one of Star Wars' most iconic characters, and Daniels is the man who knows him best. With his gleaming golden body and good-intentioned (yet worrisome) personality, the droid was there at the very beginning; he even spoke the first words uttered in any Star Wars movie. Daniels tells C-3PO's story in its entirety, from seeing the first concept images to the early stages of the final film. In the process, he tells his own story-- encounters with movie legends, the friendships he formed on-set, and the hardships, pain and in some cases real physical danger of being encased in a solid shell for countless hours. -- adapted from Amazon.com info
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