Author: Rogers, Katie (Journalist), author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: 973.9
Format: Books
Summary: "The first definitive exploration of the role of the twenty-first century First Lady, painting a comprehensive portrait of Jill Biden and the evolution of the First Lady's role from ceremonial figurehead to political operative--from a White House correspondent for The New York Times. Since the Clinton era, tectonic shifts in media, politics, and pop culture have all redefined expectations of First Ladies, even as the boundaries set upon them have at times remained frustratingly anachronistic. With sharp insights and dozens of firsthand interviews with major players in the Biden, Obama, Trump, Bush, and Clinton orbits, including Jill Biden and Hillary Clinton, New York Times White House correspondent Katie Rogers traces, from the dawn of the twenty-first century, the evolution of the role of First Lady into a modern power broker with the potential to deliver on behalf of the president, while also painting a full portrait of Jill Biden. Dr. Jill Biden began her journey toward public life in 1975 as a separated twenty-three-year-old who caught the eye of a widowed Senator Joe Biden. Recovering from her own heartbreak after a failed marriage, she found a man who was still grieving. He drew her into his close-knit family, and, in return, she knitted his life together after unspeakable tragedy, raised his children as her own, and stood by his side through three presidential campaigns. Along the way, they weathered shared tragedies of their own. Over the past four decades, Jill Biden has nurtured her husband's ambitions and emerged as a prime guardian of one of the most insular operations in modern politics. But she has also struggled with low approval ratings, critical headlines, and a changing Washington much different from the one that she and her husband first encountered together in the late 1970s. She is a disciplined First Lady by design, mirroring her family's guarded approach to the public and the media. She is also the only First Lady in history to work outside of the White House in a paid role as a teacher, a choice that was received with a mix of acclaim and misogyny. It was a decision that will inevitably clear a path for future first spouses to keep their chosen careers. Through deep reporting and new correspondence, American Woman is the first book to paint a comprehensive portrait of Jill Biden and grapple with the idea of what the role of a modern First Lady should be"--
Author: Unger, Lisa, 1970- author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F UNGER
Format: Books
Summary: A couple inherits an apartment with a spine-tingling past, in a thriller by the New York Times best-selling author of Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six. "Rosie and Chad Lowan are barely making ends meet in New York City when they receive life-changing news: Chad?s late uncle has left them his luxury apartment at the historic Windermere in glamorous Murray Hill. With its prewar elegance and impeccably uniformed doorman, the building is the epitome of old New York charm. One would almost never suspect the dark history lurking behind its perfectly maintained facade. At first, the building and its eclectic tenants couldn?t feel more welcoming. But as the Lowans settle into their new home, Rosie starts to suspect that there?s more to the Windermere than meets the eye. Why is the doorman ever-present? Why are there cameras everywhere? And why have so many gruesome crimes occurred there throughout the years? When one of the neighbors turns up dead, Rosie must get to the truth about the Windermere before she, too, falls under its dangerous spell." --Amazon.com
Author: Steel, Danielle, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F STEEL
Format: Books
Summary: Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently widowed, arrives in New York from San Francisco. Determined to make a fresh start, she has just completed the sale of her Pacific Heights home, not to mention her husband's venture capital firm, and in doing so, is also freed from her responsibility as a board member of the company. Bringing with her only a few personal treasures, she is excited to move into the blank slate of a beautiful midtown penthouse, in the city that she has always loved. It is also where her two adult daughters now live. As Kezia settles into her new apartment, she meets her movie-star next-door neighbor, Sam Stewart, whose terrace borders hers. Just a couple of weeks after she arrives, however, a devastating crisis strikes New York City. Kezia and Sam find themselves connecting over their strong impulse to help those in need. As they share a life-changing experience of volunteering, a bond is sparked and a friendship is formed. Kezia's daughters, Kate and Felicity, are taken aback by their mother's new friendship, both more focused on their own love lives than hers. But Kezia is learning that the changes she's making are just what she needs to open new horizons.
Author: St. James, Simone, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F STJAMES
Format: Books
Summary: "A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deserted road in this terrifying new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases. July 1995. April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn. They're looking for the small resort town where they plan to spend their honeymoon. When they spot what appears to be a lone hitchhiker along the deserted road, they stop to help. But not long after the hitchiker gets into their car, they see the blood seeping from her jacket and a truck barreling down Atticus Line after them. When the hitchhiker dies at the local hospital, April and Eddie find themselves in the crosshairs of the Coldlake Falls police. Unexplained murders have been happening along Atticus Line for years and the cops finally have two witnesses who easily become their only suspects. As April and Eddie start to dig into the history of the town and that horrible stretch of road to clear their names, they soon learn that there is something supernatural at work, something that could not only tear the town and its dark secrets apart, but take April and Eddie down with it all"--
Author: Swisher, Kara, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: B SWISHER
Format: Books
Summary: "Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech's most powerful players. This is the inside story we've all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world."--Amazon. "When tech titans crowed that they would ?move fast and break things,? Kara Swisher was moving faster and breaking news. While covering the explosion of the digital sector in the early 1990s, she developed a long track record of digging up and reporting the facts about this new world order. Her consistent scoops drove one CEO to accuse her of ?listening in the heating ducts? and prompted Facebook?s Sheryl Sandberg to once observe: ?It is a constant joke in the Valley when people write memos for them to say, ?I hope Kara never sees this...?? --Amazon.com
Author: Childs, Laura, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F CHILDS
Format: Books
Summary: "A movie director's death on set at a haunted manor launches Theodosia Browning into an electrifying investigation in this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series. Theodosia and Drayton were expecting a mellow break from the bustle at the Indigo Tea Shop while catering a film, until the director ropes Theodosia into a role as a fortune teller. At the haunted Brittleback Manor, Theodosia's character will read tea leaves and give a bitter prediction. But when it's time for her close-up, the lights flash and the movie director spasms on the floor until he is dead. Amid the conflicts on set and the spooky legend of Brittleback Manor, where the film is set, Theodosia must investigate all the suspects--living or dead--to find the culprit"--
Author: Chast, Roz, author, illustrator.
Published: 2023
Call Number: 154.6 CHAST
Format: Books
Summary: "Roz Chast illustrates her own dream world, a place that is sometimes creepy, but always hilarious, accompanied by an illustrated tour through Dream Theory Land guided by insights from poets, philosophers, and psychoanalysts alike."--Provided by publisher.
Author: Moser, Benjamin, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: 759.9492 MOSER
Format: Books
Summary: "Arriving as a young writer in an ancient Dutch town, Benjamin Moser found himself visiting ... the country's great museums. Inside these old buildings, he discovered the remains of the Dutch Golden Age, and began to unearth the strange, inspiring, and terrifying stories of the artists who gave shape to one of the most luminous moments in the history of human creativity. Beyond the sainted Rembrandt--who harbored a startling darkness--and the mysterious Vermeer--whose true subject, it turned out, was lurking in plain sight--Moser got to know a whole galaxy of geniuses ... Year after year, as he tried to make a life for himself in the Netherlands, Moser found friends among these centuries-dead artists. And he found that they, too, were struggling with the same questions that he was. Why do we make art? What even is art, anyway--and what is an artist? What does it mean to succeed as an artist, and what does it mean to fail? Is art a consolation--or a mortal danger? The Upside-Down World is an invitation to ask these questions, and to turn them on their heads: to look, and then to look again. This is Holland and its great artists as we've never seen them before"--Page 2 of cover.
Author: Hunt, Christine, author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: F HUNT
Format: Books
Summary: "Meet 22 year-old Abigail Gerre, fiercely outspoken, gritty and resourceful. As the narrative opens, Abigail must preside over the burial of her stepmother, Margaret, with whom she had a fractious relationship. It's January, 1867, and an outbreak of Scarlet Fever has caused Abigail to close the town's school. On the fringe of the circle of mourners is an unexpected, yet familiar figure from her past. Dr. David Caldwell, scion of a wealthy New England family, at one time her protector and friend. The reason for his sudden reappearance is unclear, but one thing is certain. His presence will change many lives, including her own. 'The healing year' is the story of two families, once close, who are now torn apart by a secret that should have gone to Margaret's grave. But, for David, treating those afflicted by the Scarlet Fever epidemic, will show him the life path he would choose, rather than that which his family would choose for him. For Abigail, the extended stay of the Yankee doctor will be a healing balm for her loved ones, her neighbors, and, ultimately, for herself"--Back cover.
Author: Moore, Alan, 1953- creator. Gibbons, Dave, 1949- creator. Winninger, Ray, writer of introduction. Companion to (work): Moore, Alan, 1953- Watchmen. Container of (work): Winninger, Ray. Watchmen : taking out the trash.
Published: 2019
Call Number: 741.5973
Format: Books
Summary: "During the creation of WATCHMEN, Ray Winninger and Daniel Greenberg worked under the guidance of Alan Moore to further expand the world and history of the Watchmen universe. This Moore-sanctioned prequel came to life in the form of two game modules, Watchmen: Watching the Watchmen and Watchmen: Taking out the Trash, along with the extensive Watchmen Sourcebook, which incorporated new mythology and adventures alongside new art from series artist Dave Gibbons. These rare, long-out-of-print books are now collected for the first time ever in one extensive, oversize hardcover collection. Featuring a brand-new introduction by Ray Winninger, writer of Watchmen: Taking out the Trash and the Watchmen Sourcebook, this one-of-a-kind collection also presents The Question #17 (guest-starring Rorschach) and never-before-collected material such as the first appearance of Watchmen from DC Spotlight #1, the Who's Who pages dedicated to the Watchmen characters, and a behind-the-scenes article and art from the making of the landmark series"--Back cover.
Author: Kingfisher, T. author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: F KINGFISH
Format: Books
Summary: "When Mouse's dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes. After all, how bad could it be? Answer: pretty bad. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is packed to the gills with useless garbage. That would be horros enough, but there's more. Mouse stumbles across her step-grandfather's journal, which at first seems to be the ravings of a broken mind. Until she encounters some of the terrifying things he described herself. Alone in the woods with her dog, Mouse has to confront a series of impossible terrors--because sometimes the things that go bump in the night are real, and they're looking for you. And if she doesn't face them head on, she might not survive to tell the tale" --
Author: Larson, Erik, 1954-
Published: 2004 2003
Call Number: 364.1523 LARSON
Format: Books
Summary: An account of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 relates the stories of two men who shaped the history of the event--architect Daniel H. Burnham, who coordinated its construction, and serial killer Herman Mudgett.
Author: Evanovich, Janet.
Published: 1998 1997
Call Number: PB EVANOVIC
Format: Books
Author: DaCosta, Nia, 1989- film director, screenwriter. McDonnell, Megan, screenwriter. Karasik, Elissa, screenwriter. Feige, Kevin, film producer. Larson, Brie, 1989- actor.
Published: 2024 2023
Call Number: MARVELS
Format: Video disc
Summary: Carol Danvers gets her powers entwined with those of Kamala Khan and Monica Rambeau, forcing them to work together to save the universe.
Author: Lawrence, Francis, film director, film producer. Lesslie, Michael, screenwriter. Arndt, Michael D., screenwriter. Jacobson, Nina, film producer. Simpson, Brad, 1973- film producer.
Published: 2024
Call Number: HUNGER
Format: Video disc
Summary: "In this prequel to The Hunger Games, a young Coriolanus is the last hope for the once-proud Snow family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. Snow reluctantly takes an assignment to mentor Lucy Gray Baird, a tribute from the impoverished District 12. But after Lucy Gray's charm captivates Panem's audience, Snow unites with Lucy Gray to turn the odds in their favor. Battling his instincts for both good and evil, Snow races against time to survive and reveals if he will ultimately become a songbird or a snake" --Container.
Author: New, Rachael, creator, television director, screenwriter. Rashed, Nimer, television director. Kodemo, Milos, television director. Edwards, Ben (Screenwriter), screenwriter. Hawkins, Sarah-Louise, screenwriter.
Published: 2024
Call Number: MISS SEASON 4
Format: Video disc
Summary: In Miss Scarlet and The Duke Season 4, Eliza has taken over the business of Nash & Sons (not that he has any sons) and things are not going entirely smoothly, although help comes from some familiar sources. Outside of work, her relationship with William 'The Duke' Wellington builds towards a looming decision that will shape both their lives.
Author: Lawrence, Francis, film director, film producer. Lesslie, Michael, screenwriter. Arndt, Michael D., screenwriter. Jacobson, Nina, film producer. Simpson, Brad, 1973- film producer.
Published: 2024
Call Number: BLU-RAY HUNGER
Format: Video disc
Summary: "In this prequel to The Hunger Games, a young Coriolanus is the last hope for the once-proud Snow family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. Snow reluctantly takes an assignment to mentor Lucy Gray Baird, a tribute from the impoverished District 12. But after Lucy Gray's charm captivates Panem's audience, Snow unites with Lucy Gray to turn the odds in their favor. Battling his instincts for both good and evil, Snow races against time to survive and reveals if he will ultimately become a songbird or a snake" --Container.
Author: Toro, Guillermo del, 1964- film director, film producer, screenwriter. Gustafson, Mark, film director. Henson, Lisa, 1960- film producer. Ungar, Gary, film producer. Bulkley, Alexander, film producer.
Published: 2023 2022
Call Number: GUILLERM
Format: Video disc
Summary: A classic tale is reborn through the inspired imagination of cinematic dream-weaver Guillermo del Toro, directing alongside Mark Gustafson. Realized through boundary-pushing, breathtakingly intricate stop-motion animation, this dark rendering of the fable of the puppet boy and his maker, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, daringly transfers the story to Fascist Italy, where the irrepressible Pinocchio gradually learns what it means to be human through his experiences of war, death, and sacrifice. This version of the story imbues the oft-told tale with a bold new resonance about living with courage and compassion.
Author: Marvin, Kyle, film director. Haskins, Sarah, 1979- screenwriter. Gigliotti, Donna, film producer. Weitz, Paul, 1966- film director, screenwriter, film producer. Brady, Tom, 1977- film producer, actor.
Published: 2023
Call Number: BINGEBOX ROUND
Format: Video disc
Summary: 80 for Brady: As the New England Patriots reach the Super Bowl in Houston, four female fans become determined to go to the game and meet quarterback Tom Brady, which proves a more memorable experience than they anticipated after the Patriots fall behind by four touchdowns. Moving on: Claire and Evelyn are estranged friends who reunite to get even with Howard, the petulant widower of their recently deceased best friend. Along the way, Claire reunites with Ralph, her great love from her younger years, as each woman must make peace with her past and learn to treasure the value of a good friend. Something's gotta give: A middle-aged womanizer falls in love with the mother of his latest youthful conquest, greatly complicating the lives of all involved. The First Wives Club: Three mid-life Manhattanites have more than a longtime friendship in common. After years of helping their hubbies climb the corporate ladder of success, each has been dumped for a newer, curvier model. The trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts--in the wallet! It's complicated: A hilarious look at marriage, divorce, and everything in between. With a thriving Santa Barbara bakery, a new romance heating up, and her divorce finally behind her, Jane Adler has her life all figured out, until she finds herself trapped between the perfect new beau and her philandering ex-husband who's determined to win her back. When opposites attract all over again, will love be sweeter the second time around? It's ... complicated!
Author: DaCosta, Nia, 1989- film director, screenwriter. McDonnell, Megan, screenwriter. Karasik, Elissa, screenwriter. Feige, Kevin, film producer. Larson, Brie, 1989- actor.
Published: 2024 2023
Call Number: MARVELS
Format: Video disc
Summary: Carol Danvers gets her powers entwined with those of Kamala Khan and Monica Rambeau, forcing them to work together to save the universe.
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