Author: Cohen, Jonathan D., 1990- editor. Sawyers, June Skinner, 1957- editor.
Published: 2019
Call Number: 782.42
Format: Books
Summary: "Bruce Springsteen might be the quintessential American rock musician but his songs have resonated with fans from all walks of life and from all over the world. This unique collection features reflections from a diverse array of writers who explain what Springsteen means to them and describe how they have been moved, shaped, and challenged by his music. Contributors to Long Walk Home include novelists like Richard Russo, rock critics like Greil Marcus and Gillian Gaar, and other noted Springsteen scholars and fans such as A. O. Scott, Peter Ames Carlin, and Paul Muldoon. They reveal how Springsteen's albums served as the soundtrack to their lives while also exploring the meaning of his music and the lessons it offers its listeners. The stories in this collection range from the tale of how "Growin' Up" helped a lonely Indian girl adjust to life in the American South to the saga of a group of young Australians who turned to Born to Run to cope with their country's 1975 constitutional crisis. These essays examine the big questions at the heart of Springsteen's music, demonstrating the ways his songs have resonated for millions of listeners for nearly five decades. Commemorating the Boss's seventieth birthday, Long Walk Home explores Springsteen's legacy and provides a stirring set of testimonials that illustrate why his music matters."--Publisher's website.
Author: Zaloom, Shafia, author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: 176.0835
Format: Books
Summary: "In the age of #MeToo and #TimesUp, issues of consent and sexual harassment are being talked about more than ever before. Sex, Teens, and Everything in Between gives parents, educators, and healthcare professionals the tools they need to raise these important conversations with teens. Covering topics such as consent, legal responsibility, bystander intervention, and support and prevention, this book is an essential resource for adults who want to have open, nonjudgmental conversations about these issues with teenagers to help keep them safe and satisfied in their sexual exploration"--
Author: Warshaw, Robin, author. Steinem, Gloria, writer of preface. Tillet, Salamishah, writer of foreword. Koss, Mary P., writer of afterword.
Published: 2019
Call Number: 362.883
Format: Books
Summary: As relevant today as when it was first published, this new edition features Warshaw's original report and her 1994 Introduction, as well as an original Preface from Gloria Steinem, a new Introduction by Salamishah Tillet on how the cultural landscape has evolved since the 1980s, an updated Afterword by Mary P. Koss, PH. D., examining the ways she would approach the research she did for Ms. differently today, as well as an updated resources section.
Author: McIntosh, Diane, author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: 616.8527
Format: Books
Summary: Depression sucks. It's a debilitating illness that affects the mind and the body--and chances are that you or someone you love will battle depression at some point in your lifetime. This Is Depression is your guide through the darkness. A widely respected authority on the diagnosis and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders, psychiatrist Dr. Diane McIntosh provides all the information you need to understand and combat this serious and isolating disorder. Written in an accessible format with compassion and humor, Dr. McIntosh takes an evidence-based approach as she outlines the causes, impact, and treatment of depression and along the way provides encouragement that it can be overcome. This Is Depression reveals: how life experience, genetics, and hormones factor into depression, and explores the common overlap between depression and other mental and physical illnesses ; how all areas of life can be impacted by depression--home, school, work, and relationships ; how to communicate about mental illness, whether with your doctor or your boss, a rude friend or nosy co-worker, or loved ones ; critical information about every available depression treatment--and those that are on the horizon--describing how antidepressants work, which treatments are worth taking, and which are useless... or even dangerous ; when to consider psychotherapy, brain-stimulation treatments, mindfulness meditation, and exercise and what to expect from a therapeutic relationship ; essential tools to support you in your recovery or your loved one on their journey. Depression can be a lonely, debilitating illness, but sufferers are not alone, and there is always a path forward. This book is the first step on that path.
Author: Kaur, Jasmin, author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: Y KAUR
Format: Books
Summary: "The six sections of the book explore what it means to be a young woman living in a world that doesn't always hear her and tell the story of Kiran as she flees a history of trauma and raises her daughter, Sahaara, while living undocumented in North America. Delving into current cultural conversations including sexual assault, mental health, feminism, and immigration, this narrative of resilience, healing, empowerment, and love will galvanize readers to fight for what is right in their world"--
Author: Wheeler, Sara, author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: 891.709
Format: Books
Author: Hillstrom, Laurie Collier, 1965- author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: 362.88 HILLSTRO
Format: Books
Summary: This volume provides a concise but authoritative overview of the #MeToo Movement and its enormous impact on American society, from the studios of Hollywood to factories, campuses, and offices across the country. -- From product description.
Author: Nelson, Anne, 1954- author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: 320.5209 NELSON
Format: Books
Summary: In 1981, emboldened by Ronald Reagan's election, a group of some fifty Republican operatives, evangelicals, oil barons, and gun lobbyists met in a Washington suburb to coordinate their attack on civil liberties and the social safety net. These men and women called their coalition the Council for National Policy. Over four decades, this elite club has become a strategic nerve center for channeling money and mobilizing votes behind the scenes. Its secretive membership rolls represent a high-powered roster of fundamentalists, oligarchs, and their allies, from Oliver North, Ed Meese, and Tim LaHaye in the Council's early days to Mike Pence, Tony Perkins, and the DeVos family today. In Shadow Network, award-winning author and media analyst Anne Nelson chronicles this astonishing history and illuminates the coalition's key figures and their tactics. She traces how the collapse of American local journalism laid the foundation for the Council for National Policy's information war and listens in on the hardline broadcasting its members control. And she reveals how the group has collaborated with the Koch brothers to outfit Radical Right organizations with state-of-the-art apps and a shared pool of captured voter data -- outmaneuvering the Democratic Party in a digital arms race whose result has yet to be decided.
Author: Goldsmith, Jack L., author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: 331.8811
Format: Books
Summary: "The story of Chuckie O'Brien, Jimmy Hoffa's right-hand man"--
Author: Michaels, Fern. Starry night. Sheets, Tara, 1973- Mistletoe and mimosas. Clayborn, Kate. Missing Christmas.
Published: 2019
Call Number: LP F SNOWY
Format: Large print
Summary: Starry night: As the host of a radio program for the lovelorn, Jessie Richmond is surprisingly lonely, especially with the holidays approaching. So she decides to make the trek to her uncle's bookstore in rural New York state and hold a speed dating event--only to find herself snowed in--with one very special single ... Mistletoe and mimosas: After years of hard work, real estate agent Layla Gentry has her dream home on Pine Cove Island. She's perfectly content to be on her own. Until her childhood nemesis, Sebastian, comes to town. When a snowstorm and a stranded kitten bring them together on Christmas Eve, Layla discovers he's all grown up--and she may have one more dream left ... Missing Christmas: It's all work and no play for two longtime friends-turned-business-partners Kristen and Jasper--until an unexpected kiss turns things personal. Will it mean the end of something, or the beginning? With a major contract in the balance, Christmas around the corner, and a lot of unspoken feelings, it may take an unpredictable blizzard in New England to seal the deal ...
Author: McDowell, Marta, author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: 811.4
Format: Books
Summary: Emily Dickinson was a keen observer of the natural world, but less well known is the fact that she was also an avid gardener--sending fresh bouquets to friends, including pressed flowers in her letters, and studying botany at Amherst Academy and Mount Holyoke. At her family home, she tended both a small glass conservatory and a flower garden. In Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life, award-winning author Marta McDowell explores Dickinson's deep passion for plants and how it inspired and informed her writing. Tracing a year in the garden, the book reveals details few know about Dickinson and adds to our collective understanding of who she was as a person. By weaving together Dickinson's poems, excerpts from letters, contemporary and historical photography, and botanical art, McDowell offers an enchanting new perspective on one of America's most celebrated but enigmatic literary figures.
Author: Hayes-McCoy, Felicity, author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: LP F HAYESMCC
Format: Large print
Summary: Preparations are underway for Winter Fest on the Finfarran peninsula, and as Christmas approaches, it's outsider Cassie Fitzgerald who helps to remind Lissberg locals that love, family, and friendship are the true spirit of the season. But will Cassie's own fractured family be able to rediscover the joys of coming home?
Author: Novak, Brenda, author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: LP F NOVAK
Format: Large print
Summary: When Harper Devlin's rock star husband leaves her, she takes her two daughters to Silver Springs hoping that her family can heal their broken heart. She finds unexpected comfort after meeting ex-con Tobias Richardson and learning about his own tragic past.
Author: Scott, Regina, 1959- author.
Published: 2019 2017
Call Number: LP F SCOTT
Format: Large print
Summary: "After taking guardianship of his late friend's siblings and baby daughter, minister Levi Wallin hopes to atone for his troubled past on the gold fields. But it won't be easy to convince the children's wary elder sister to trust him. The more he learns about her, though, the more he believes Callie Murphy's prickly manner masks a vulnerable heart...one he's starting to wish he was worthy of. Every man in Callie's life chose chasing gold over responsibilities. Levi--and the large, loving Wallin family--might just be different. But she can tell he's hiding something from her, and she refuses to risk her heart with secrets between them. Even as they grow closer, will their pasts keep them from claiming this unexpected new beginning?"--
Author: Maeda, John, author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: 005.1 MAEDA
Format: Books
Summary: "John Maeda is one of the world's preeminent interdisciplinary thinkers on technology and design. In How to Speak Machine, he offers a set of simple laws that govern not only the computers of today, but the unimaginable machines of the future. Technology is already more powerful than we can comprehend, and getting more powerful at an exponential pace. Once set in motion, algorithms never tire. And when a program's size, speed, and tirelessness combine with its ability to learn and transform itself, the outcome can be unpredictable and dangerous. Take the seemingly instant transformation of Microsoft's chatbot Tay into a hate-spewing racist, or how crime-predicting algorithms reinforce racial bias. How to Speak Machine provides a coherent framework for today's product designers, business leaders, and policymakers to grasp this brave new world. Drawing on his wide-ranging experience from engineering to computer science to design, Maeda shows how businesses and individuals can identify opportunities afforded by technology to make world-changing and inclusive products--while avoiding the pitfalls inherent to the medium"--
Author: Zelikow, Philip, 1954- author. Rice, Condoleezza, 1954- author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: 909.82 ZELIKOW
Format: Books
Summary: "Two of America's leading scholar-diplomats, Philip Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice, have combed sources in several languages, interviewed leading figures, and drawn on their own firsthand experience to bring to life the choices that molded the contemporary world. Zeroing in on the key moments of decision, the might-have-beens, and the human beings working through them, they explore both what happened and what could have happened, to show how one world ended and another took form. Beginning in the late 1970s and carrying into the present, they focus on the momentous period between 1988 and 1992, when an entire world system changed, states broke apart, and societies were transformed. Such periods have always been accompanied by terrible wars-but not this time. This is also a story of individuals coping with uncertainty. They voice their hopes and fears. They try out desperate improvisations and careful designs. These were leaders who grew up in a "postwar" world, who tried to fashion something better, more peaceful, more prosperous, than the damaged, divided world in which they had come of age. New problems are putting their choices, and the world they made, back on the operating table. It is time to recall not only why they made their choices, but also just how great nations can step up to great challenges. Timed for the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, TO BUILD A BETTER WORLD is an authoritative depiction of contemporary statecraft. It lets readers in on the strategies and negotiations, nerve-racking risks, last-minute decisions, and deep deliberations behind the dramas that changed the face of Europe -- and the world -- forever"--Publisher's description.
Author: Black, Holly, author. Jennings, Kathleen, illustrator.
Published: 2019
Call Number: Y BLACK
Format: Books
Summary: "As the exiled Queen of Faerie, Jude must travel back to Elfhame to help her twin sister, Taryn, and uncover how to break a dark curse threatening the whole Faerie world"-- Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold onto. Jude learned this lesson when she released her control over the wicked king, Cardan, in exchange for immeasurable power. Now as the exiled mortal Queen of Faerie, Jude is powerless and left reeling from Cardan's betrayal. Opportunity to reclaim everything he took from her arrives in the form of her deceptive twin sister, Taryn, whose mortal life is in peril. But war is brewing in Elfhame. And, when a dormant yet powerful curse is unleashed, Jude must choose between her ambition and her humanity. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Adams, Lyssa Kay, author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: F ADAMS
Format: Books
Summary: "Nashville Legends second baseman Gavin Scott's marriage is in major league trouble. He's recently discovered a humiliating secret: his wife Thea has always faked the Big O. When he loses his cool at the revelation, it's the final straw on their already strained relationship. Thea asks for a divorce, and Gavin realizes he's let his pride and fear get the better of him. Distraught and desperate, Gavin finds help from an unlikely source: a secret romance book club made up of Nashville's top alpha men. With the help of their current read, a steamy Regency titled Courting the Countess, the guys coach Gavin on saving his marriage. But it'll take a lot more than flowery words and grand gestures for this hapless Romeo to find his inner hero and win back the trust of his wife."--Provided by publisher.
Author: Isserman, Maurice, author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: 940.54
Format: Books
Summary: "The epic story of the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division, whose elite soldiers broke the last line of German defenses in Italy's mountains in 1945, spearheading the Allied advance to the Alps and final victory."--Provided by publisher.
Author: Allan, Nina, author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: F ALLAN
Format: Books
Summary: "Stitch by perfect stitch, Andrew Garvie makes exquisite dolls in the finest antique style. Like him, they are diminutive, but graceful, unique and with surprising depths. Perhaps that's why he answers the enigmatic personal ad in his collector's magazine. Letter by letter, Bramber Winters reveals more of her strange, sheltered life in an institution on Bodmin Moor, and the terrible events that put her there as a child. Andrew knows what it is to be trapped; and as they knit closer together, he weaves a curious plan to rescue her. On his journey through the old towns of England he reads the fairytales of Ewa Chaplin--potent, eldritch stories which, like her lifelike dolls, pluck at the edges of reality and thread their way into his mind. When Andrew and Bramber meet at last, they will have a choice--to remain alone with their painful pasts or break free and, unlike their dolls, come to life"--
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