Author: Rose, Karen, 1964- author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F ROSE
Format: Books
Summary: "A shocking murder leaves an affluent retirement community reeling in this riveting high-stakes thriller. Death is not an unfamiliar visitor to Shady Oaks Retirement Village, which provides San Diego's premier elderly support from independent retiree housing to full-time hospice care. But when a resident's body is found brutally stabbed and his apartment ransacked, it's clear there's someone deadly in their community. Detective Katherine "Kit" McKittrick quickly discovers that Shady Oaks is full of skeleton-riddled closets, and most tenants prefer to keep their doors firmly closed to the SDPD. A longtime volunteer at the retirement facility, Dr. Sam Reeves honors his late grandfather's memory by playing the piano for the residents regularly. So it shouldn't be such a surprise when Kit crosses paths with him during her investigation, after she'd avoided the criminal psychologist--and the emotions he evokes--for the last six months..."--
Author: Patterson, James, 1947- author. Allen, Nancy (Lawyer), author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F PATTERSO
Format: Books
Summary: Stafford Lee Penney is a small-town lawyer with a big-time reputation for winning every case he tries. In his sharp suits and polished Oxford shoes, Penney is Biloxi, Mississippi’s #1 Lawyer and top local celebrity. Just as Penney notches his latest courtroom victory, his wife is scandalously killed. He spirals into a legal and personal losing streak, damaging his reputation and ruining his career. That’s when Penney makes a bold decision. He stops trading on his power-lawyer identity and creates a new one: lawyer lifeguard. Moonlighting at the beach, showing up to court in flip-flops, mentoring a law student, the new Penney is at first unrecognizable. It’s said that a lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client. But when Penney is accused of murder, the #1 Lawyer will find a way to triumph.
Author: Zakaria, Fareed, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: 303.64
Format: Books
Summary: The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions--past and present--that define the polarized and unstable age in which we live. "Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, war, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk?the early decades of the twenty-first century may be the most revolutionary period in modern history. But it is not the first. Humans have lived, and thrived, through more than one great realignment. What are these revolutions, and how can they help us to understand our fraught world?..." --Amazon.com
Author: Abdurraqib, Hanif, 1983- author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: 796.323
Format: Books
Summary: "While Hanif Abdurraqib is an acclaimed author, a gifted poet, and one of our culture's most insightful music critics, he is most of all, at heart, an Ohioan. Growing up in Columbus in the '90s, Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron were forged, and countless others weren't. His lifelong love of the game leads Abdurraqib into a lyrical, historical, and emotionally rich exploration of what it means to make it, who we think deserves success, the tensions between excellence and expectation, and the very notion of role-models, all of which he expertly weaves together with memoir: "Here is where I would like to tell you about the form on my father's jumpshot," Abdurraqib writes. "The truth, though, is that I saw my father shoot a basketball only one time.""--
Author: Bray, Ilona M., 1962- author.
Published: 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
Call Number: 342.7308 11TH ED.
Format: Continuing Resources
Summary: This complete guide to becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen helps applicants make sure they are eligible for citizenship, understand the risks of applying, how to interview successfully and how to study for the citizenship exam.
Author: Swanson, James L., 1959- author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: 974.4
Format: Books
Summary: "Once it was one of the most famous events in early American history. Today, it has been nearly forgotten. In an obscure, two-hundred-year-old museum in a little village in western Massachusetts, there lies what once was the most revered but now totally forgotten relic from the history of early New England--the massive, tomahawk-scarred door that came to symbolize the notorious Deerfield Massacre. This impregnable barricade--known to early Americans as "The Old Indian Door"--constructed from double-thick planks of Massachusetts oak and studded with hand-wrought iron nails to repel the flailing tomahawk blades of several attacking native tribes, is the sole surviving artifact from the most dramatic moment in colonial American history: Leap Year, February 29, 1704, a cold, snowy night when hundreds of native Americans and their French allies swept down upon an isolated frontier outpost and ruthlessly slaughtered its inhabitants. The sacking of Deerfield led to one of the greatest sagas of adventure, survival, sacrifice, family, honor, and faith ever told in North America..."--
Author: Jordan, Cora, 1941- author. Doskow, Emily author.
Published: 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
Call Number: 346.73043 11TH ED.
Format: Continuing Resources
Summary: An easy-to-read guide on laws concerning common neighbor disputes Is the noise from next door keeping you up at night? Is the view from your backyard being obstructed? Is a neighboring business driving you crazy? Your home is important to you and your neighbors aren't going anywhere -- Neighbor Law can help you deal with difficult situations and keep your home life peaceful. Learn your rights and responsibilities with this clear-cut, comprehensive guide to the laws concerning common neighbor disputes.
Author: Lepore, Gabriella, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: Y LEPORE
Format: Books
Summary: "While at a private beach lodge with her popular classmates when an anonymous letter leads to murder, Eva places her trust in Colton and together they uncover secrets that upend everything they thought they knew about their fellow spring breakers"--
Author: Ukazu, Ngozi, author. Rupert, Mad, artist. Czap, K, colorist. Stone, Tess, letterer.
Published: 2024
Call Number: Y GN UKAZU
Format: Books
Summary: "Molly Bauer's first year of college is not the picture-perfect piece of art she'd always envisioned. On day one at Peachtree Institute of Collegiate Arts, Molly discovers that--through some horrible twist of fate--her full-ride scholarship has vanished! But the ancient texts (PICA's dusty financial aid documents) reveal a loophole. If Molly and 9 other art students win a single game of softball, they'll receive massive athletic scholarships. Can Molly's crew of ragtag artists succeed in softball without dropping the ball?"--Back cover.
Author: Montgomery, Sy, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: 594.56
Format: Books
Summary: "This book reveals new science and remarkable discoveries about the octopus, one of nature's most elusive and intelligent animals"-- "This new book?written by the beloved author of the international bestseller The Soul of an Octopus and enhanced with vivid National Geographic photography?brings us closer than ever to these elusive creatures. The companion to the highly-anticipated National Geographic television special, this beautifully illustrated book explores the alluring underwater world of the octopus?a creature that resembles an alien lifeform, but whose behavior has earned it a reputation as one of the most intelligent animals on the planet. This magical journey into the world of the octopus will reveal how the large and capable brain of these creatures occupies their whole body?not just their heads?and they can actually adjust their genetic makeup to respond to the demands of the environment. It will allow readers to watch them change shape and color in order to camouflage themselves more effectively than any other species. And it will divulge how octopus mothers give their all in order to bring forth a new generation..." --Amazon.com
Author: Bohjalian, Chris, 1962- author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F BOHJALIA
Format: Books
Summary: "The book revolves around Crissy, the star of a beloved Princess Diana tribute show in Las Vegas, and her estranged sister Betsy, a therapist who works with children and adolescents in Vermont. Betsy's boyfriend Frankie works in a mysterious branch of cryptocurrency and, seemingly out of nowhere, proposes that they move to Las Vegas together. Betsy and Crissy must navigate how to go about their newfound physical proximity to one another and their respective relationships with Betsy's foster child Marisa, who moves with Betsy and Frankie to Vegas. When Crissy meets a handsome, secretive Russian man named Yevgeny, Crissy and Betsy soon find themselves in a dangerous web of greed, crypto-mafia schemes, and murder"--
Published: 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
Call Number: 917.4104 9TH ED.
Format: Continuing Resources
Published: 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
Call Number: 917 9TH ED.
Format: Continuing Resources
Author: Steves, Rick, 1955- author. Hewitt, Cameron, author.
Published: 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
Call Number: 914.11 3RD ED.
Format: Continuing Resources
Author: Boyer, Michael (Property manager), author. Nolo (Firm)
Published: 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
Call Number: 333.5068 4TH ED.
Format: Continuing Resources
Summary: The ultimate property management guide for the do-it-yourself landlord! Written for the millions of landlords who own a single-family home, condo, or small (fewer than four units) rental property, Every Landlord's Guide to Managing Property covers everyday skills a hands-on landlord needs, including how to: retain good, long-term tenants handle nitty-gritty maintenance such as snow removal, toilet clogs, and painting avoid conflicts over late rent, unauthorized roommates, and move-out procedures limit costly tenant turnover and vacancies manage condos and deal with association restrictions track income and expenses and prepare for tax time hire and work with repairpersons, lawyers, and other contractors, and balance landlording with a day job or other pursuits. The fourth edition is completely updated to cover the latest issues affecting small-scale landlords, including updates to tax laws, new tools (online and offline) for managing rentals, and advice on incorporating rental properties into a side hustle or FIRE strategy.?
Author: Schumacher, Ashley, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: Y SCHUMACH
Format: Books
Summary: When a school-wide personality test reunites Nova with Sam--and reveals they are each other's top matches--they begin to remember why they were such close friends all those years before and why a romantic relationship between them would never work out--or so they think.
Author: Sisson, Gretchen E., author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: 362.734
Format: Books
Summary: "A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mothers for whom the choice to parent was never real. Adoption has always been viewed as a beloved institution for building families, as well as a mutually agreeable common ground in the abortion debate, but little attention has been paid to the lives of mothers who relinquish infants for private adoption. Relinquished reveals adoption to be a path of constrained choice for those for whom abortion is inaccessible, or for whom parenthood is untenable. The stories of relinquishing mothers are stories about our country's refusal to care for families at the most basic level, and to instead embrace an individual, private solution to a large-scale, social problem. With the recent decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization revoking abortion protections and the upcoming decision in Brackeen v. Haaland likely to revoke the Indian Child Welfare Act, we are in a political moment in which adoption is, increasingly, being revealed as an institution devoted to separating families and policing parenthood under the guise of feel-good family-building. Rooted in a long-term study, Relinquished is an analysis of hundreds of in-depth interviews with American mothers who placed their children for domestic adoption. The voices of these women are powerful and heartrending; they deserve to be heard as a response to this moment"--
Author: Randall, Christen, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: Y RANDALL
Format: Books
Summary: When her boyfriend excludes her from participating in a roleplaying game, high school senior Hollie joins an all-girls group where an in-game romance has the potential to be more than just pretend.
Author: Cohen, Rhaina, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: 177.62
Format: Books
Summary: "Why do we assume romantic relationships are more important than friendships? What do we lose when we expect a spouse to meet all our needs? And what can we learn about commitment, love, and family from people who put deep friendship at the center of their lives? In The Other Significant Others, NPR's Rhaina Cohen invites us into the lives of people who have defied convention by choosing a friend as a life partner--these are friends who are home co-owners, co-parents or each other's caregivers. Their riveting stories unsettle widespread assumptions about relationships, including the idea that sex is a defining feature of partnership and that people who raise kids together should be in a romantic relationship. Platonic partners from different walks of life--spanning age and religion, gender and sexuality and more--reveal how freeing and challenging it can be to embrace a relationship model that society doesn't recognize..."--
Author: Young, Erin, 1975- author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F YOUNG
Format: Books
Summary: "A brilliant and addictive thriller for fans of Tana French and Liz Moore, FBI rookie Riley Fisher must navigate a brutal serial killer as well as a kidnapping plot against the governor. It's a brutal winter in Des Moines, Iowa, and the city is gripped by fear. A serial attacker known as the Sin Eater is stalking women and has just struck again. It's a tough time and a tough place for Riley Fisher, a former small-town sergeant, to be reporting for duty as an FBI agent on her first assignment. Teamed with a man she's not sure she can trust and struggling to prove herself--while fighting the pull of her old life and family dramas--Riley is tasked with investigating a vicious death threat against the newly elected female state governor. Gradually, she traces a disturbing connection between this case and the hunt for the Sin Eater. Through snow, ice, violence and lies, Riley Fisher is drawn towards a terrifying revelation. Erin Young follows up her acclaimed crime debut, The Fields, which has drawn comparisons with Mare of Easttown, Silence of the Lambs, and True Detective, with another stunning thriller full of dark menace, surprise and suspense"--
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