Author: Deace, Steve, author.
Published: 2017
Call Number: F DEACE
Format: Books
Summary: Who has co-opted the American Dream? It may not be who you think.... and he's been manipulating us for centuries. Lord Nefarious reveals his Master's plan to destroy America. He presents historical facts that prove the conspiracy has been in place for centuries... and is coming to completion....
Author: Pittman, Raynesha, author.
Published: 2016
Call Number: PB UF PITTMAN
Format: Books
Summary: Upon his release from prison, Demarcus gets caught up in selling heroin, and finds himself on the losing side of a Memphis drug war.
Author: Harrington, Joel F. (Joel Francis)
Published: 2014 2013
Call Number: 364.6609
Format: Books
Summary: "The extraordinary story of a Renaissance-era executioner and his world, based on a rare and overlooked journal In the late 1500s a Nuremberg man named Frantz Schmidt began to do something utterly remarkable for his era: he started keeping a journal. But what makes Schmidt even more compelling to us is his day job. For forty-five years, Schmidt was an efficient and prolific public executioner, employed by the state to extract confessions and put convicted criminals to death. In his years of service, he executed 361 people and tortured, flogged, or disfigured hundreds more. Is it possible that a man who practiced such cruelty could also be insightful, compassionate, humane--even progressive? In his groundbreaking book, the historian Joel F. Harrington looks for the answer in Schmidt's journal, whose immense significance has been ignored until now. Harrington uncovers details of Schmidt's medical practice, his marriage to a woman ten years older than him, his efforts at penal reform, his almost touching obsession with social status, and most of all his conflicted relationship with his own craft and the growing sense that it could not be squared with his faith. A biography of an ordinary man struggling for his soul, The Faithful Executioner is also an unparalleled portrait of Europe on the cusp of modernity, yet riven by conflict and encumbered by paranoia, superstition, and abuses of power. In his intimate portrait of a Nuremberg executioner, Harrington also sheds light on our own fraught historical moment"-- "A work of nonfiction that explores the thoughts and experiences of one early modern executioner, Nuremberg's Frantz Schmidt (1555-1634), through his own words - a rare personal journal, in which he recorded and described all the executions and corporal punishments he administered between 1573 and his retirement in 1617"--
Author: Tucker, Pat (Novelist), author.
Published: 2012
Call Number: PB TUCKER
Format: Books
Author: Palmer, Willard A., author. Manus, Morton, author.
Published: 2011 2008
Call Number: 786.2193 PALMER
Format: Books
Summary: Continuing the incredible popularity of Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course, this new book adapts the same friendly and informative style for adults who wish to teach themselves. With the study guide pages that have been added to introduce the music, it's almost like having a piano teacher beside you as you learn the skills needed to perform popular and familiar music. There are also five bonus pieces: At Last * Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas * Laura * Over the Rainbow * Singin' in the Rain. Online access included to accompanying media with unique code.
Author: Harris, E. Lynn author. Johnson, R. M. (Rodney Marcus)
Published: 2011
Call Number: SPC F HARRIS
Format: Books
Summary: Follows the experiences of a gay social climber and his career criminal brother, who reunite thirty years after being separated as children.
Author: Harris, E. Lynn, author.
Published: 2002
Call Number: SPC F HARRIS
Format: Books
Summary: Magazine editor Zola Denise Norwood thinks she has it all until she meets Raymond Taylor, Jr.
Author: Marías, Javier, author.
Published: 1999
Call Number: SPANISH F MARIAS
Format: Books
Summary: Juan's twice-widowed, secretive father, Ranz, is a mystery to his son. Before marrying Juan's mother, Ranz had wed her sister, who later killed herself. Juan is afraid to ask his father about his past, but the complicated truth slowly emerges.
Author: Ingram, Terry, film director. Cooper, Charles (Television producer), producer. Berg, Judith, screenwriter. Berg, Sandra, 1953- screenwriter. Krakow, Erin, actor.
Published: 2024 2023
Call Number: WEDDING
Format: Video disc
Summary: A wedding guide creator must convince an uninspired artist and owner of a special wedding cottage to renovate the run-down cottage to host a contest-winning couple for their dream wedding.
Author: Ingram, Terry, film director. Cooper, Charles (Television producer), producer. Berg, Judith, screenwriter. Berg, Sandra, 1953- screenwriter. Krakow, Erin, actor.
Published: 2024 2023
Call Number: WEDDING
Format: Video disc
Summary: A wedding guide creator must convince an uninspired artist and owner of a special wedding cottage to renovate the run-down cottage to host a contest-winning couple for their dream wedding.
Author: Choo, Yangsze, author.
Published: 2024 2022
Call Number: F CHOO
Format: Books
Summary: Manchuria, 1908. A young woman is found frozen in the snow. Her death is clouded by rumors of foxes involved, which are believed to lure people by transforming themselves into beautiful women and men. Bao, a detective with a reputation for sniffing out the truth, is hired to uncover the dead woman's identity. Since childhood, Bao has been intrigued by the fox gods, yet they've remained tantalizingly out of reach. Until, perhaps, now. Meanwhile, a family that owns a famous Chinese medicine shop can cure ailments, but not the curse that afflicts them, their eldest sons die before their twenty-fourth birthdays. Now the only grandson of the family is twenty-three. When a mysterious woman enters their household, their luck seems to change. Or does it? Is their new servant a simple young woman from the north or a fox spirit bent on her own revenge?
Author: Bailey, Tessa, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F BAILEY
Format: Books
Summary: "Wells Whitaker was once golf’s hottest rising star, but lately, all he has to show for his “promising” career is a killer hangover, a collection of broken clubs, and one remaining supporter. No matter how bad he plays, the beautiful, sunny redhead is always on the sidelines. He curses, she cheers. He scowls, she smiles. But when Wells quits in a blaze of glory and his fangirl finally goes home, he knows he made the greatest mistake of his life..." --Amazon.com
Author: Patterson, James, 1947- author. Born, James O., author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: LP F PATTERSO
Format: Large print
Summary: NYC detective Michael Bennett teams up with a former Army Ranger and sniper whose long, unexplained absences from duty causes suspicions during the investigation of a serial killer. "A killer uses fearsome precision to take out impossible targets.Detective Michael Bennett teams with a shooting expert—a former Army Ranger and sniper with NYPD’s Emergency Services Unit. But Officer Rob Trilling seems more comfortable with rifles than he is with people.When his new partner begins to log unexplained absences from duty, only Bennett can prove whether the decorated officer is a lonely hunter or a hardened assassin. " --Amazon.com
Author: Hurwitz, Gregg, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F HURWITZ
Format: Books
Summary: "Once a black book government assassin known as Orphan X, Evan Smoak left the program, went deep underground, and reinvented himself as someone who will go anywhere, and risk everything to help the truly desperate who have nowhere else to turn. Since then, Evan has fought international crime syndicates and drug cartels, faced down the most powerful people in the world and even brought down a President. Struggling with an unexpected personal crisis, Evan goes back to the very basics of his mission - and this time, the truly desperate is a little girl who wants him to find her missing dog. Not his usual mission, and not one Evan embraces with enthusiasm, but this unlikely, tiny job quickly explodes into his biggest mission yet. One that finds him battered between twisted AI technocrat billionaires, a mysterious female assassin who seems a mirror of himself, and personal stakes so gut-wrenching he can scarcely make sense of them. Evan's mission pushes him to his limit - he must find and take down the assassin known only as the Wolf, before she succeeds in completing her mission and killing the people who can identify her - a teenaged daughter of her last target, and Evan himself. Matched skill for skill, instinct for instinct, Evan must outwit an opponent who will literally stop at nothing if he is to survive"--
Author: McCauley, Stephen, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F MCCAULEY
Format: Books
Summary: "After a lifetime of taking care of his impossible but irresistible sister and his cherished niece, Tom is finally ready to put himself first. An architect specializing in tiny houses, he finally has an opportunity to build his masterpiece -- "his last shot at leaving a footprint on the dying planet." Assuming, that is, he can stick to his resolution to keep the demands of his needy family at bay. Naturally, that's when his phone rings. His niece, Cecily -- the real love of Tom's life, as his boyfriend reminded him when moving out -- is embroiled in a Title IX investigation at the college where she teaches that threatens her career and relationship. And after decades of lying, his sister wants him to help her tell Cecily the real identity of her father. Tom does what he's always done -- answers the call. Thus begins a journey that will change everyone's life and demonstrate the beauty or dysfunction, (or both?) of the ties that bind families together and sometimes strangle them"--
Author: Mróz, Remigiusz, 1987- author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F MROZ
Format: Books
Summary: A criminal defense lawyer and her firm's newest trainee untangle a maze of evidence when their client is charged with murder, having spent ten days in his apartment with two corpses and acting like nothing happened when the police arrive. "When whip-smart criminal defense lawyer Joanna Chylka is tasked with defending the son of her law firm's biggest client, she is stumped for the first time in her career. Her client, Piotr Langer Jr, is charged with murder, and he's guilty. Assisted by the firm's newest trainee, Kordian Orynski, Joanna finds a maze of tangled evidence. Piotr is alleged to have sat in his apartment for ten days with two corpses before calmly opening the door to the police as if nothing had happened. He has confessed to the murders, but the truth is far more complex and shocking than they could have imagined. Joanna and Kordian find themselves facing a treacherous situation. And with the spotlight on them, a killer may have them both on his hit list." --Amazon.com
Author: Austin, Emily R., author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F AUSTIN
Format: Books
Summary: "Meet Enid: a lesbian who's a serial dater and deaf in one ear. She works at The Space Agency as an information architect, and when she's not obsessing over true crime podcasts, she's managing her crippling phobia of bald people. While she tries not think about her teenage years, she can't seem to stop obsessively watching her childhood YouTube channel. But as Enid fumbles her way through her first serious relationship and navigates a new family life with her estranged half-sisters, she starts to worry that someone is following her. As her paranoia starts to take over her life, and the personal growth she's worked to achieve, she gradually discovers the one thing she can't outrun--herself. Brimming with Emily Austin's signature style, charming characters, and irresistible humor, Interesting Facts about Space will remind you to treasure the relationships you hold most dear, and will offer hope to those who seek to connect in ways they never thought to be possible"--
Author: Patterson, James, 1947- author. Born, James O., author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F PATTERSO
Format: Books
Summary: NYC detective Michael Bennett teams up with a former Army Ranger and sniper whose long, unexplained absences from duty causes suspicions during the investigation of a serial killer. "A killer uses fearsome precision to take out impossible targets. Detective Michael Bennett teams with a shooting expert—a former Army Ranger and sniper with NYPD’s Emergency Services Unit. But Officer Rob Trilling seems more comfortable with rifles than he is with people. When his new partner begins to log unexplained absences from duty, only Bennett can prove whether the decorated officer is a lonely hunter or a hardened assassin." --Amazon.com
Author: Burton, Tara Isabella, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F BURTON
Format: Books
Summary: "Rose investigates the disappearance of her irresponsible and impetuous sister who fell followed a cult-like cabaret troupe that only appears at night on a mysterious red boat that sails around New York and is blamed for several disappearances"--
Author: King, Laurie R., author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F KING
Format: Books
Summary: "Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, hoping for a respite in the French countryside, are instead caught up in a case that turns both bewildering and intensely personal. After their recent adventures in Transylvania, Russell and Holmes look forward to spending time with Holmes' son, the famous artist Damian Adler, and his family. But when they arrive at Damian's house, they discover that the Adlers have fled from a mysterious threat. Holmes rushes after Damian while Russell, slowed down by a recent injury, stays behind to search the empty house. In Damian's studio, she discovers four crates packed with memorabilia related to Holmes' grand-uncle, the artist Horace Vernet. It's an odd mix of treasures and clutter, including a tarnished silver lamp with a rotating shade: an antique yet sophisticated form of zoetrope, fitted with strips of paper whose images dance with the lantern's spin. In the same crate is an old journal written in a nearly impenetrable code. Intrigued, Russell sets about deciphering the intricate cryptograph, slowly realizing that each entry is built around an image--the first of which is a child, bundled into a carriage by an abductor, watching her mother recede from view. Russell is troubled, then entranced, but each entry she decodes brings more questions. Who is the young woman who created this elaborate puzzle? What does she have to do with Damian, or the Vernets--or the threat hovering over the house? The secrets of the past appear to be reaching into the present. And it seems increasingly urgent that Russell figure out how the journal and lantern are related to Damian--and possibly to Sherlock Holmes himself. Could there be things about his own history that even the master detective does not perceive?"--
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