Author: Coggins, Colin, author. Brown, Garrett (Professor of entrepreneurship), author.
Published: 2023 2022
Call Number: 658.85 COGGINS
Format: Books
Summary: "A how-to guide for salespeople to revitalize their sales strategy and become more effective in building relationships"-- Everyone sells: the most successful people are better than most at selling themselves, their ideas, or their products and services. Yet when people hear the world "sales" they think of an overly confident extrovert or a pushy, know-it-all huckster. Being a good person and a good salesperson aren't mutually exclusive. Coggins and Brown provide a how-to guide for salespeople to revitalize their sales strategy and become more effective in building relationships. -- adapted from jacket
Author: McIntyre, Gina, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: 791.4572
Format: Books
Summary: Based on visionary author George R. R. Martin's book Fire & Blood, House of the Dragon charts the earth-shattering events that led to the fall of Westeros's most powerful family, House Targaryen. Brought to the screen by showrunners Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik, the ambitious prequel series required a striking new vision that would transport viewers back in time, two centuries before the events of Game of Thrones. With unparalleled access to the show's cast and crew, including Condal, Sapochnik, and Martin, this book tells the incredible story of their creative journey, from the initial script-writing process to the epic international shoot. Illustrated with a remarkable wealth of concept art, on-set photography, and other key visuals, this is the ultimate companion to House of the Dragon.
Author: Runstedtler, Theresa, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: 796.323 RUNSTEDT
Format: Books
Summary: "Against the backdrop of ongoing massive resistance to racial desegregation and increasingly strident calls for Black Power, the NBA in the 1970s embodied the nation's imagined descent into disorder. The press and the public blamed young Black players for the chaos in the NBA, citing drugs, violence, greed, and criminality. The supposed decline of pro basketball became a metaphor for the first decades of integration in America: the rules of the game had changed, allowing more Black people onto a formerly white playing field, and now they were ruining everything. But Black Ball argues that this much-maligned period was pivotal to the rise of the NBA as the star-laden powerhouse we know today, thanks largely to the efforts of Black players in challenging the white basketball establishment of owners, coaches, and spectators. Spotlighting legendary players like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bernard King, and Connie Hawkins, scholar Theresa Runstedtler expertly rewrites basketball's "Dark Ages," weaving together her deep knowledge of the game's key icons and institutions with incisive social and political analysis of the era..."--
Author: McCollum, Heather (Heather D.), author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: PB MCCOLLUM
Format: Books
Summary: "Bàs Sinclair is the cold and brutal hand--and sword--of justice across the Highlands. He has one destiny: to bring fear into the hearts of guilty men. But when he is called to execute a midwife for her crimes, he cannot raise his weapon. For Bàs already knows this lovely, part-wild creature. After all, she gave him his first and only kiss... Shana Drummond will do anything to protect her beloved sister. Now her cruel, merciless brother-in-law has called upon Bàs to have Shana killed for crimes she didn't commit. She can't reconcile the cold, lethal warrior before her with the gentle one she met--nay, kissed--only days before. But mercy from Bàs can only lead to one thing: war among the clans. A war that will test allegiances, tear families apart, and challenge everything Bàs knows about himself and his heart. Because once this Highlander knows love, nothing will stop him from keeping Shana safe...even if it means destroying his own destiny." -- back of cover
Author: Gabrielle, Tina, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: PB GABRIELL
Format: Books
Summary: "Now Adeline and her faux beau must convince the ton and their families that they're an item. It doesn't matter if they can barely tolerate each other. It doesn't matter that scandal is only a touch away. Because if this charade doesn't work, Adeline will find herself in dangerous hands"--
Author: MacGregor, Janna, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: PB MACGREGO
Format: Books
Summary: Beth Howell needs to find her dowry, post haste. After her good-for-nothing first husband married her--and two other women, unbeknownst to them all--she's left financially ruined and relegated to living with her brother, who cares more for his horses than he does his blood relatives. If Beth fails to acquire her funds, her brother will force her to marry someone fifty years her senior and missing half his teeth. She'd prefer to avoid that dreadful fate. But her now-deceased husband, Meri, absconded with her money mere days after their illegitimate marriage. To find it, Beth will have to leave town and retrace Meri's steps if she's to take her future into her own hands..."--Amazon.
Author: Paul, Joanne, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: 942.05 PAUL
Format: Books
Summary: "The shocking and extraordinary story of the most conniving, manipulative Tudor family you've never heard of--the dashing and daring House of Dudley. Each Tudor monarch made their name with a Dudley by their side--or by crushing one beneath their feet. The Dudleys thrived at the court of Henry VII, but were sacrificed to the popularity of Henry VIII. Rising to prominence in the reign of Edward VI, the Dudleys lost it all by advancing Jane Grey to the throne over Mary I. That was until the reign of Elizabeth I, when the family was once again at the center of power, and would do anything to remain there. . . .With three generations of felled favorites, what was it that caused this family to keep rising so high and falling so low? Here, for the first time, is the story of England's Borgias, a noble house competing in a murderous game for the English throne. Witness cunning, adultery, and sheer audacity from history's most brilliant, bold, and deceitful family. Welcome to the House of Dudley."--Publisher.
Author: Kaimal, Maya, author. Kolenko, Eva, photographer.
Published: 2023
Call Number: 641.5954
Format: Books
Summary: "Introduce rich, complex Indian flavors to your everyday cooking with 80 easy recipes and ingenious guidance from Julia Child Best First Book Award winner Maya Kaimal. In Indian Flavor Every Day, Indian cooking authority Maya Kaimal proves it's possible to experience the joy of this cuisine with minimal time and a handful of special ingredients like ghee and dried chilis. She distills essential flavor-building methods, like blending spices and tempering them in oil to release their essence, and applies these techniques to accessible, flexible ingredients any home cook has on hand. With many vegetarian, gluten-free, and wholesome, hearty offerings, Indian Flavor Every Day includes both simplified classic dishes and new twists. Recipes like Masala Roasted Chickpeas, tangy Fried Tomatoes and Spicy Onions, cozy Split Pea Coconut Dal, and deeply flavorful Malabar Shrimp Curry are designed to build your confidence and spark inspiration, so incredible new flavors can become an everyday pleasure. Embrace the simple tips in this book, purchase a few ingredients for your pantry, and Maya promises you will soon have a comfort level with Indian food you didn't know was possible"--
Author: Olsen, Gregg, author.
Published: 2023 2019
Call Number: PB OLSEN
Format: Books
Summary: "No matter what you see, no matter what you've heard, assume nothing. Adam and Sophie Warner and their three-year-old daughter are vacationing in Washington State's Hood Canal for Memorial Day weekend. It's the perfect getaway to relax--and to calm an uneasy marriage. But on Adam's first day out on the water, he sees Sophie abducted by a stranger. A hundred yards from shore, Adam can't save her. And Sophie disappears. In a nearby cabin is another couple, Kristen and Connor Moss. Unfortunately, beyond what they've heard in the news, they're in the dark when it comes to Sophie's disappearance. For Adam, at least there's comfort in knowing that Mason County detective Lee Husemann is an old friend of his. She'll do everything she can to help. She must..."--Back cover.
Author: Flendt, Jemima, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: 746.434
Format: Books
Summary: Author Jemima Flendt is a quilter, pattern designer, fabric designer, and owner of Tied with a Ribbon where she specializes in modern and fun sewing patterns. She is also an Aurifil Thread Designer, author of Weekend Quilting Book and Quilt Big, a quilt magazine contributor, and a quilting and sewing instructor. The perfect crossover guide for beginners to create projects via either quilting or crocheting, this book features colorful designs with visual instructions for completing each project with both crafts! Opening with complete overviews on the basics of both craft styles, including crochet stitches and techniques, color changes, quilt binding, and more, each chapter that follows showcases different traditional quilt blocks, from log cabin blocks to half square triangles. Use the familiar skills and patterns you know best to learn fun new techniques in your sister craft. Six pairs of colorful projects provide step-by-step instructions for quilting and crocheting each design, so you can make blankets, quilts, pillows, potholders, and granny squares. Plus, a final bonus project shows you how to combine your skills. Hone both crafts and enter a whole new world of creative possibilities with this inspiring and skill-building project guidebook. Expand your crafting skills to include both crocheting and quilting, with Quilt It, Crochet It!
Author: O'Connor, Mary I. (Mary Irene), author. Haq, Kanwal L., author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: 613.04
Format: Books
Summary: "A practical and extensive resource guide by Mayo Clinic Press for women who want to understand and take charge of their own health, presented in short, easy-to-digest chapters." -- Amazon.com. Women do not always receive the same healthcare as men. In fact, for too long medicine has not recognized that numerous health conditions--like heart disease, stroke, stress, mental health and more--impact women differently than men. Orthopedic surgeon Mary I. O'Connor and medical anthropologist Kanwal L. Haq want to change that by empowering women with knowledge about the current landscape of women's health, and showing them how to actively engage with their healthcare team. In a groundbreaking publication, Taking Care of You: The Empowered Woman's Guide to Better Health, O'Connor and Haq have enlisted 111 leading women physicians and health experts from all across the country to create a practical resource guide for women to improve their health and obtain better healthcare. Taking Care of You is refreshingly supportive and jargon-free, with colorful illustrations to help the reader better understand what can often be dense medical information. Its unique approach includes three main sections: 1) WOMEN AND THE CURRENT HEALTH LANDSCAPE includes topics like what exactly is "women's health," how to find the right healthcare team, how to use the internet for medical information, when to go to urgent care versus the emergency department, and much more. 2) COMMON CLINICAL CONDITIONS IMPACTING WOMEN focuses on 55 non-reproductive clinical conditions that impact women more than men, or differently than men. Each chapter is divided into subsections that explain: What is the condition? Can it be prevented? How is it treated? Why does it matter to women? (Including differences related to sex, race and ethnicity). Questions to ask your clinician and healthcare team Pearls of wisdom from clinical experts. 3) TAKING CARE OF YOU focuses on activities women can do everyday--like eating well, sleeping and exercising--and how to effectively engage in these pillars of health to take better care of themselves.
Author: Waheed, Mirza, author.
Published: 2022 2018
Call Number: F WAHEED
Format: Books
Summary: A retired surgeon living in London, Dr. K, prepares for a visit from his estranged daughter to whom he wants to make a confession and reflects on his past and the high price he paid to walk the perilous path of lifelong ambition. A doctor working in a prosperous Middle Eastern city finds himself placed in an unconscionable situation... As he prepares for a visit from his long-estranged daughter, Dr K., a retired surgeon enjoying the comforts of retirement in London, rehearses the conversation he will finally have with her. It's been years since he has seen her, and he has spent much of that time polishing the confession he wants to make to her. But as her visit draws closer, he finds his memories to be freshly torturous. He recalls leaving his childhood home in India to accept a dream job, working for a state hospital in a prosperous oil monarchy. Suddenly, he'd had access to a lifestyle that he would never have had back home. Money and success came quickly...as long as he performed certain tasks for the state. The price for that proved steep and often unbearable, especially to a wife and daughter who watch him walk the perilous path of lifelong ambition. Tell Her Everything is a tense, visceral, and moving novel about a father's love for his daughter, and about a medical professional grappling with remorse, shame and despair. Recalling the work of Ishiguro, Coetzee and Kafka, it asks: Where does one draw the line between empathy and sacrifice? Between integrity and survival? Between prosperity and love?
Author: Roubini, Nouriel, author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: 338.542
Format: Books
Summary: "Renowned economist Nouriel Roubini was nicknamed "Dr. Doom," until his prediction of the 2008 housing crisis and Great Recession came true--when it was too late. Now he is back with a much scarier prediction, one that we ignore at our peril. There are no fewer than ten overlapping, interconnected threats that are so serious, he calls them Megathreats. From the worst debt crisis the world has ever seen, to governments pumping out too much money, to borders that are blocked to workers and to many shipments of goods, to the rise of a new superpower competition between China and the U.S., to climate change that strikes directly at our most populated cities, we are facing not one, not two, but ten causes of disaster. There is a slight chance we can avoid them, if we come to our senses--but we must act now." --
Author: Khentrul Lodrö Thayé Rinpoche, author. Lopez Landry, Paloma, editor. Caputo, Ibby, editor. Gustafson, Paul (scholar on Buddhism), editor.
Published: 2022
Call Number: 294.3
Format: Books
Summary: "We've all heard platitudes cultivating love and compassion but how can we really cultivate these qualities in ourselves and-crucially - share them in our world? Mind Frees Mind provides a proven method for doing so. 1,000 years ago the Indian saint Atisha endured great hardship through long land and sea journeys to bring these teachings, implicit in the very first teachings of the Buddha, to Tibet where they flourished and became a set of coherent practices. Khentrul Rinpoche introduces readers to one of essential texts from this genre, the Seven Key Points of Mind Training. This short, pithy work is taught widely by revered teachers like the Dalai Lama, Chogyam Trungpa, Pema Chodron and more. Like them, Khentrul Rinpoche comes from the direct teaching tradition of these practices and learned them from his teachers who endured innumerable hardships during the Chinese cultural revolution. Rinpoche was moved by the ability of these teachers who, like alchemists, were able to take their pain and suffering endured in Chinese prisons and turn it into something good, using the very techniques he shares in this book. This wisdom is accessible to anyone seeking inner transformation-whether Buddhist or not. As Khentrul Rinpoche states, "Peace and happiness can be attained, but not by searching for something in the outside world. They start within us then extend out to the entire globe.""--
Author: Mateer, Trista, author, illustrator.
Published: 2022
Call Number: 811.6
Format: Books
Summary: "Bestselling and award-winning author Trista Mateer returns with another magical approach to self-care in her newest goddess-themed poetry. Using the framework of tarot and conversation, Mateer approaches myth through a witchcraft-inspired lens and uses it to explore timeless issues like burnout, survival, trauma, and the restorative power in taking control of your own lore. Artemis speaks to what is wild and untamed in all of us, and in this new collection, she asks for a moment of calm"--From publisher website.
Author: Holland, Tanya, author. Deetz, Kelley Fanto, author. Hunt, Maria C., author. Walker, Alice, writer of foreword. Pick, Aubrie, photographer.
Published: 2022
Call Number: 641.59
Format: Books
Summary: "80+ comfort-filled recipes that trace the roots of modern California soul food to the Great Migration that brought African American culture to the West Coast-from the acclaimed chef and author of Brown Sugar Kitchen"-- Holland's cuisine is rooted in a Black Southern cultural repertoire--with a twenty-first century sensibility using local, sustainable, chef-driven, season ingredients. Here she traces the roots of modern California soul food to the Great Migration that brought African American culture to the West Coast. Beyond the recipes she spotlights ten contemporary Black Californian foodmakers whose work defines California soul food. --adapted from inside back cover
Author: Hunt, Stephanie, author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: 747.0973
Format: Books
Summary: "Step inside the South's finest homes, created by a diverse group of innovative architects who share on important credo--an abiding love of beauty"-- A luxurious collection of 27 contemporary Southern homes that explores the range of style of the region--from classic and genteel to contemporary and edgy. On this exclusive Veranda house tour, you're invited to step inside spectacular Southern homes created by a diverse group of innovative designers and architects that share one important credo: an abiding love of beauty. The region holds its own as a design mecca, with swoon-worthy style along every coast and in every geographic nook and cranny. You'll tour a wooded cabin in Tennessee, an old farmhouse in Georgia, a serene Low Country island retreat, and exquisite historic homes in Palm Beach and Charleston, and more. From the dreamy Blue Ridge Mountains to the rural Arkansas Delta, from Atlanta to Dallas to Birmingham and beyond, you'll learn the secrets of southern style from designers and architects and how landscape and personality are always essential elements of successful design. Most important, you'll discover how Southern style is wildy inclusive--an amalgamation of many different aesthetic sensibilities. It's a style that resists easy categorizing and also defies cliche. You'll experience how the warmth of being "at home" is achieved through imaginative and evocative design by visionary designers including Keith Robinson, Mark D. Sikes, Bobby McAlpine, Bunny Williams, Darryl Carter, Phoebe Howards and others.
Author: Cain, Susan, author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: 155.2
Format: Books
Summary: "With her mega-bestseller Quiet, Susan Cain urged our society to cultivate space for the undervalued, indispensable introverts among us, thereby revealing an untapped power hidden in plain sight. Now, she employs the same mix of research, storytelling, and memoir to explore why we experience sorrow and longing, and the surprising lessons these states of mind teach us about creativity, compassion, leadership, spirituality, mortality and love. Bittersweetness is a tendency to states of longing, poignancy, and sorrow; an acute awareness of passing time; and a curiously piercing joy when beholding beauty. It recognizes that light and dark, birth and death--bitter and sweet--are forever paired. A song in a minor key, an elegiac poem, or even a touching television commercial all can bring us to this sublime, even holy, state of mind--and, ultimately, to greater kinship with our fellow humans. But bittersweetness is not, as we tend to think, just a momentary feeling or event. It's also a way of being, a storied heritage. Our artistic and spiritual traditions--amplified by recent scientific and management research-- teach us its power. Cain shows how a bittersweet state of mind is the quiet force that helps us transcend our personal and collective pain. If we don't acknowledge our own sorrows and longings, she says, we can end up inflicting them on others via abuse, domination, or neglect. But if we realize that all humans know-- or will know--loss and suffering, we can turn toward each other. And we can learn to transform our own pain into creativity, transcendence, and connection. At a time of profound discord and personal anxiety, Bittersweet brings us together in deep and unexpected ways"--
Author: Nimr, Sonia, author. Qualey, Marcia Lynx, translator.
Published: 2021
Call Number: Y NIMR
Format: Books
Summary: "In a tent at the foot of a mountain in Palestine, many years ago, our storyteller and her twin sister are born. Her parents name her Qamar, or Moon and her sister Shams, or Sun. Their tiny caravan is journeying from the mother's city back to the father's remote ancestral village atop the mountain. This village suffers from isolation, and from a mysterious curse-- females are no longer born there. When her parents try to break the spell, their lives are cut short, and Qamar and her sister are left to fend on their own. And so, Qamar decides to pursue her mother and father's dream of discovering the world--its people and places. With the treasured book in hand that brought her parents together, she sets out on a daring journey, on caravans and ships, across empires. From her village to Jerusalem, to Gaza, and then over continents, deserts, and seas, telling tales to survive, Qamar searches irrepressibly for life in endless stories within stories. Sonia Nimr's richly imagined historical fable recalls the famous travel narratives of the fourteenth-century Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta. But the captivating adventures of this heroine are the wondrous journeys we take when we discover we can do more than we ever dreamed possible, even in strange lands that decree we cannot"--Back cover.
Author: Golding, Melanie, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F GOLDING
Format: Books
Summary: While investigating the brutal attack on Gregor, a seemingly single man, DS Joanna Harper discovers that her estranged daughter Ruby is somehow involved in this case that is steeped in Celtic mythology. In a small seaside town a little girl is found alone; a woman arrives for her, and authorities release the pair, believing it to be an innocent case of a toddler running off. A man is found bludgeoned and left for dead in his apartment; the discovery of children's toys raises more questions than answers. Gazing into Gregor's apartment, Ruby discovers his secret family: his unusually silent daughter and his mentally unstable wife, Constance, who insists that she is descended from the mythological Selkies. She begs Ruby to aid in finding the sealskin that Gregor has hidden from her, making it impossible to return to her people. When DS Joanna Harper's investigation into Gregor's assault leads her to CCTV footage of the mother-daughter pair from town, she realizes she knows the woman almost as well as she knows herself: it's her estranged daughter, Ruby. No matter the depth of Ruby's involvement, Harper knows she will choose her daughter over her career. -- adapted from jacket
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