Author: Hoyt, Elizabeth, 1970- author. Burrowes, Grace. Patience for Christmas.
Published: 2018
Call Number: PB HOYT
Format: Books
Summary: Freya de Moray is many things: a member of the secret order of Wise Women, the daughter of disgraced nobility, and a chaperone living under an assumed name. What she is not is forgiving. So when the Duke of Harlowe, the man who destroyed her brother and led to the downfall of her family, appears at the country house party she's attending, she does what any Wise Woman would do: she starts planning her revenge. Christopher Renshaw, the Duke of Harlowe, is being blackmailed. Intent on keeping his secrets safe, he agrees to attend a house party where he will put an end to this coercion once and for all. Until he recognizes Freya, masquerading among the party revelers, and realizes his troubles have just begun. Freya knows all about his sins--sins he'd much rather forget. But she's also fiery, bold, and sensuous--a temptation he can't resist. When it becomes clear Freya is in grave danger, he'll risk everything to keep her safe. But first, he will have to earn Freya's trust ... by whatever means necessary.--
Author: Carlson, Dolley, author.
Published: 2018
Call Number: F CARLSON
Format: Books
Summary: Irish domestic worker Norah King's decision to ask her wealthy employer, Caroline Parker, for an elegant red coat the Beacon Hill matriarch has marked for donation ignites a series of events that neither woman could have fathomed. The unlikely exchange will impact their respective daughters and families for generations to come, from the coat's original owner, marriage-minded collegian Cordelia Parker, to the determined and spirited King sisters of South Boston, Rosemary, Kay, and Rita.
Author: Sartore, Joel, author, photographer. National Geographic Society (U.S.)
Published: 2017
Call Number: 779.32 SARTORE
Format: Books
Summary: This book of photography represents National Geographic's Photo Ark, a major cross-platform initiative and lifelong project by photographer Joel Sartore to make portraits of the world's animals -- especially those that are endangered. His message: to know these animals is to save them. Sartore intends to photograph every animal in captivity in the world. He is circling the globe, visiting zoos and wildlife rescue centers to create studio portraits of 12,000 species, with an emphasis on those facing extinction. He has photographed more than 6,000 already and now, thanks to a multi-year partnership with National Geographic, he may reach his goal. This book showcases his animal portraits: from tiny to mammoth, from the Florida grasshopper sparrow to the greater one-horned rhinoceros. Paired with the prose of veteran wildlife writer Douglas Chadwick, this book presents an argument for saving all the species of our planet.
Author: Kasasian, M. R. C. (Martin R. C.) author.
Published: 2017
Call Number: F KASASIAN
Format: Books
Summary: London, 1884. 125 Gower Street, the residence of Sidney Grice, London's foremost personal detective, and his ward March Middleton, is at peace. Midnight discussions between the great man and his charge have led to a harmony unseen in these hallowed halls since the great frog disaster of 1878. But harmony cannot last for long. A knock on the door brings mystery and murder once more to their home. A mystery that involves a Prussian Count, two damsels in distress, a Chinaman from Wales, a gangster looking for love, and the shadowy ruin of a once-loved family home, Steep House . . .
Author: Matar, Hisham, 1970- author.
Published: 2016
Call Number: B MATAR
Format: Books
Summary: "In 2012, after the overthrow of Qaddafi, the acclaimed novelist Hisham Matar journeys to his native Libya after an absence of thirty years. When he was twelve, Matar and his family went into political exile. Eight years later Matar's father, a former diplomat and military man turned brave political dissident, was kidnapped from the streets of Cairo by the Libyan government and is believed to have been held in the regime's most notorious prison. Now, the prisons are empty and little hope remains that Jaballah Matar will be found alive. Yet, as the author writes, hope is "persistent and cunning." This book is a profoundly moving family memoir, a brilliant and affecting portrait of a country and a people on the cusp of immense change, and a disturbing and timeless depiction of the monstrous nature of absolute power"--
Author: Browning, Beverly A., 1948- author.
Published: 2016
Call Number: 658.15
Format: Books
Summary: Browning gives you everything you need to get started with your grant application. She helps you move through the grant-writing process and apply for some of the billions of dollars available from public and private sector sources. From creating a strategic plan to using online databased and applying for e-grants, you'll learn new ways to get the funding you need.
Author: Dutwin, Phyllis, author. Ku, Richard T. (Richard Tse-Min), author. Altreuter, Carol, author. Peno, Kathy author.
Published: 2016
Call Number: 371.26
Format: Books
Summary: "Whether you hope to enter college, take a job with the government, or work for a private company, a high score on the TABE will help you reach your goal. Written by leaders in adult education, this book is deigned to help you sharpen the skills you need to succeed on all sections of the TABE. You'll discover strategies to make learning and test-taking easier for you. And you'll learn essential skills by using familiar, everyday items, including work documents, job postings, and voicemail messages."--Page 4 of cover.
Author: Kasasian, M. R. C. (Martin R. C.) author.
Published: 2016 2015
Call Number: F KASASIAN
Format: Books
Summary: "Gower Street, London: 1883. March Middleton is the niece of London's greatest (and most curmudgeonly) private detective, Sidney Grice. March has just discovered a wealthy long-lost relative she never knew she had. When this newest family member meets with a horrible death, March is in the frame for murder--and only Sidney Grice can prove her innocence"--Dust jacket flap.
Author: Kurniawan, Eka, 1975- author. Tucker, Annie, translator. Translation of: Kurniawan, Eka, 1975- Cantik itu luka.
Published: 2015
Call Number: F KURNIAWA
Format: Books
Summary: "The English-language debut of Indonesia's greatest young novelist, Eka Kurniawan: "without a doubt the most original, imaginatively profound, and elegant writer of fiction in Indonesia today: its brightest and most unexpected meteorite" (Benedict Anderson). One afternoon on a weekend in May, Dewi Ayu rose from her grave after being dead for twenty-one years. So begins Beauty Is a Wound, an epic, sweeping, compulsively readable novel, combining history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humor, and romance in a sweeping polyphony. It is also a highly political book. Revolving around the beautiful Indo prostitute Dewi Ayu and her four daughters, various plotlines incorporate incest, murder, bestiality rape, insanity, monstrosity, and the often vengeful undead. Kurniawan's gleefully grotesque hyperbole functions as a scathing critique of his young nation's troubled past. The rapacious offhand greed of colonialism; the chaotic struggle for independence; the 1965 mass murders of perhaps a million "Communists," and the three decades of Suharto's despotic rule that followed. The bravura resilience on display here makes Beauty Is a Wound a luscious yet astringent product of the art blossoming since the fall of Suharto. Kurniawan's distinctive West Javanese voice will be entirely new to American readers, and its local sources (the all night shadow puppet plays, with their bawdy wit and epic scope; the famous local folk tales) will astonish, but Kurniawan draws as well on his favorite world writers, Melville, Gogol, Hamsun, and Marquez"--
Author: Kasasian, M. R. C. (Martin R. C.) author.
Published: 2015
Call Number: F KASASIAN
Format: Books
Author: Balogh, Mary, author. Balogh, Mary. Notorious rake.
Published: 2013 1992
Call Number: PB BALOGH
Format: Books
Summary: Counterfeit proposal: A noblewoman entices an aristocratic rogue into a fake betrothal in hopes that her estranged parents will reconcile. Notorious rake: A frightened young widow reacts passionately during a thunderstorm and becomes the object of pursuit.
Author: Kleinman, Paul, author.
Published: 2013
Call Number: 100 KLEINMAN
Format: Books
Summary: Presents an introduction to philosophy, covering the origins of the discipline, some of the major figures of the past, and philosophical issues which still continue to be debated in the present day.
Author: Phelps, Carissa, author. Warren, Larkin, author.
Published: 2013
Call Number: B PHELPS
Format: Books
Summary: Phelps recounts how, with a few helping hands, she accomplished the unimaginable, earning both a law degree and an MBA from UCLA after leave the streets behind. Today she is an advocate for runaway and homeless youth. Carissa Phelps was a runner. By the time she was twelve, she had run away from home, dropped out of school, and fled blindly into the arms of a brutal pimp. Even when she escaped him, she could not outrun the crushing inner pain of abuse, neglect, and abandonment. With little to hope for, she expected to end up in prison, or worse. But then her life was transformed through the unexpected kindness of a teacher and a counselor. Through small miracles, Carissa accomplished the unimaginable, graduating from UCLA with both a law degree and an MBA. She left the streets behind, yet found herself back, this time working to help homeless and at-risk youth discover their own paths to a better life. Like the multimillion-copy bestseller The Glass Castle, this memoir moves us through the power of its unflinching candor and generosity.
Author: Beam, Cris.
Published: 2013
Call Number: 362.73 BEAM
Format: Books
Summary: An intimate, authoritative look at the foster care system that examines why it is failing the kids it is supposed to protect and what can be done to change it.
Author: Meyer, Marissa, author.
Published: 2012
Call Number: Y SERIES MEYER / LUNAR V.1
Format: Books
Summary: As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.
Author: Griffiths, Elly, author.
Published: 2010 2009
Call Number: PB GRIFFITH
Format: Books
Summary: When a child's bones are found near an ancient henge in the wild saltmarshes of Norfolk's north coast, Ruth Galloway, a university lecturer in forensic archaeology, is asked to date them by DCI Harry Nelson who thinks they may be the bones of a child called Lucy who has been missing for ten years.
Author: Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976.
Published: 2006 1936
Call Number: F CHRISTIE
Format: Books
Summary: A is for Ascher, cudgeled in Andover. B is for Barnard, strangled in Bexhill. C is for Clarke, struck down in Churston. Beside each body is an A.B.C. Railway guide; before each murder Hercule Poirot is notified. In one of Christie's most twisted tales, the meticulous Belgian sleuth must navigate the eerie maze of a serial killer's mind. D is for Doncaster, where the next victim dies ... E is for evidence, ingeniously analyzed.
Author: Gilbreth, Frank B. (Frank Bunker), 1911-2001. Carey, Ernestine Gilbreth.
Published: 2002 1949
Call Number: F GILBRETH
Format: Books
Author: Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills), author.
Published: 1997
Call Number: Y DRAPER
Format: Books
Summary: Teenage Gerald, who has spent years protecting his fragile half-sister from their abusive father, faces the prospect of one final confrontation before the problem can be solved. When Gerald was a child he was fascinated by fire. But fire is dangerous and powerful, and tragedy strikes. His substance-addicted mother is taken from him. Then he loses the loving generosity of a favorite aunt. A brutal stepfather with a flaming temper and an evil secret makes his life miserable. The one bright light in Gerald's life is his little half sister, Angel, whom he struggles to protect from her father, Jordan Sparks, who abuses her, and from their mother, whose irresponsible behavior forces Gerald to work hard to keep the family together. As a teenager, Gerald finds success as a member of the Hazelwood Tigers basketball team, while Angel develops her talents as a dancer. Trouble still haunts them, however, and Gerald learns, painfully, that young friends can die and old enemies must be faced. In the end he must stand up to his stepfather alone in a blazing confrontation.
Author: Zimmermann, Elizabeth, 1910-1999, author.
Published: 1995 1971
Call Number: 746.43
Format: Books
Summary: The author guides the novice and the experienced knitters in short-cuts and construction tricks and offers twenty original designs.
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