Author: Jena, Anupam B., author. Worsham, Christopher, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: 616.0072
Format: Books
Summary: "Why do kids born in the summer get diagnosed more often with A.D.H.D.? How are marathons harmful for your health, even when you're not running? What do surgeons and salesmen have in common? Which annual event made people 30 percent more likely to contract COVID-19? As a University of Chicago-trained economist and Harvard medical school professor and doctor, Anupam Jena is uniquely equipped to answer these questions. And as a critical care doctor at Massachusetts General who researches health care policy, Christopher Worsham confronts its impact on the hospital's sickest patients. In this singular work of science and medicine, Jena and Worsham work together to reveal the hidden side of medicine, and its effect on everyone that touches the health care system. Relying on ingeniously devised natural experiments--random events that unknowingly turn us into experimental subjects--Jena and Worsham do more than offer readers colorful stories. They help us see the way our health is shaped by forces invisible to the untrained eye..."--
Author: Macomber, Debbie, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: F MACOMBER
Format: Books
Summary: "Joan Sample is not living the life she expected. Now a widow and an empty-nester, she has become by her own admission something of a recluse. But after another birthday spent alone, she is finally inclined to listen to her sister, who has been begging Joan to reengage with the world. With her support, Joan gathers the courage to take some long-awaited steps: hiring someone to tame her overgrown garden, joining a grief support group, and even renting out a room to a local college student. Before long Joan is starting to feel a little like herself again..."--
Author: Brodeur, Adrienne, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: F BRODEUR
Format: Books
Summary: "From the author of the bestselling memoir Wild Game comes a riveting novel about Cape Cod, complicated families, and long-buried secrets--for fans of the New York Times bestsellers The Paper Palace and Ask Again, Yes. Ken and Abby Gardner lost their mother when they were small and they have been haunted by her absence ever since. Their father, Adam, a brilliant oceanographer, raised them mostly on his own in his remote home on Cape Cod, where the attachment between Ken and Abby deepened into something complicated--and as adults their relationship is strained. Now, years later, the siblings' lives are still deeply entwined. Ken is a successful businessman with political ambitions and a picture-perfect family and Abby is a talented visual artist who depends on her brother's goodwill, in part because he owns the studio where she lives and works. As the novel opens, Adam is approaching his seventieth birthday, staring down his mortality and fading relevance. He has always managed his bipolar disorder with medication, but he's determined to make one last scientific breakthrough and so he has secretly stopped taking his pills, which he knows will infuriate his children. Meanwhile, Abby and Ken are both harboring secrets of their own, and there is a new person on the periphery of the family--Steph, who doesn't make her connection known..."--
Author: Pool, Katy Rose, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: Y POOL
Format: Books
Summary: Seventeen-year-old cursebreaker Marlow Briggs reluctantly pretends to be in love with a powerful noble to gain entry into an illustrious--and deadly--society that holds clues to her mother's disappearance. Since fleeing the gilded halls of Evergarden for the muck-filled canals of the Marshes, Marlow Briggs has made a name for herself as the best godsdamn cursebreaker in Caraza City. But no matter how many cases she solves, she is still haunted by the mystery of her mother's disappearance. When Adrius Falcrest, Marlow's old friend and scion of one of Caraza's most affluent spell-making families, asks her to help break a life-threatening curse, Marlow wants nothing to do with the boy who spurned her a year ago. But a new lead in her mother's case makes Marlow realize that the only way to get the answers she desperately seeks is to help Adrius and return to Evergarden society--even if it means suffering through a fake love affair with him to avoid drawing suspicion from the conniving Five Families.
Author: Wood, Alikay, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: Y WOOD
Format: Books
Summary: Facing imminent death from a parasitic infection, three teenagers elect to spend their final days on a madcap adventure, and discover a lot about themselves along the way. "Hattie Larken doesn't know if she's ever really been real in her life. A compulsive liar with a quick-witted response to everything, she's willing to do whatever it takes to just skate through the rest of high school until she can graduate and escape it all: the mind-numbing monotony of this town, the guilt of everything that happened with her dad, and the debt that her mom's dealing with that she feels responsible for. But then Hattie finds out she's dying. Not like in that overdramatic way that people sometimes say they're dying. She's literally dying. Apparently, she was exposed to a parasite because of a mistake her mom's company made. (And no, the irony of that all is not lost on Hattie...) And she's not the only one." --Amazon.com
Author: Keng, Natalie, author. Llewellyn, Deborah Whitlaw, photographer.
Published: 2023
Call Number: 641.5975
Format: Books
Summary: "Southern foodways intersect with various Asian-American tastes in this fusion cookbook of 100 recipes celebrating inclusivity and diversity at the dinner table with the best from various cultures, cooking styles, and comforting foods"--
Author: Adler, Sarah, 1991- author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: F ADLER
Format: Books
Summary: "Millicent Watts-Cohen is on a mission. When she promised her elderly best friend that she'd reunite her with the woman she fell in love with nearly eighty years ago, she didn't expect that would mean traveling to Key West with three tablespoons of Mrs. Nash's remains in her backpack. But Millie's determined to give her friend a symbolic happily ever after, before it's (really) too late-and hopefully reassure herself of love's lasting power in the process. She just didn't expect to have a (living) travel companion. After a computer glitch grounds flights, Millie is forced to catch a ride with Hollis Hollenbeck, an also-stranded acquaintance from her ex's MFA program. Hollis certainly does not believe in happily-ever-afters, symbolic or otherwise, and makes it quite clear that he can't fathom how Millie's plan could possibly end well for anyone. But as they contend with odd bed-and-breakfasts, peculiar small-town festivals, and suicidal deer, Millie begins to suspect that her reluctant travel partner might enjoy her company more than he lets on. Because for someone who supposedly doesn't share her views on romance, Hollis sure is becoming invested in the success of their journey. And the closer they get to their destination, the more Millie has to admit that maybe this trip isn't just about Mrs. Nash's love story after all-maybe it's also about her own"--
Author: Graham, Heather, Author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: F GRAHAM
Format: Books
Summary: "Four bodies have been discovered along Europe's riverbanks, placed with care--and completely drained of blood. Pinpricks on their throats indicate a slender murder weapon, but DNA found in the wounds suggests something far more sinister. Tasked with investigating, the FBI recruits Agents Della Hamilton and Mason Carter to Blackbird, an international offshoot of the Krewe of Hunters. If you want to catch a vampire killer, you need agents who can speak with the dead..." --Amazon.com
Author: Berry, Steve, 1955- author. Blackwood, Grant, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: F BERRY
Format: Books
Summary: "Luke Daniels is in London, between assignments with the Magellan Billet, when he receives a frantic call from an old friend. Jillian Stein is in trouble. She made a mistake and now her life may be in danger. She needs Luke's help. Immediately. Racing to Belgium, Luke quickly finds that she was right. A shadow team of highly trained operatives is there on the hunt. Intervening, he finds himself embroiled in a war between two determined sides--one seeking the truth, the other trying to escape the past--a war that has already claimed one life and is about to claim more. Thomas Rowland is a Washington insider, a kingmaker, problem solver, but also a man with a past. For him everything turns with what happened on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. What history has recorded is wrong. There is more to the story, much more, and Thomas Rowland is at the center of that terrible reality..."--
Author: Chaffetz, Jason, 1967- author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: 320.5109
Format: Books
Summary: "Chaffetz explains how nonprofit leaders, union bosses, global CEOs, and many unelected leaders have worked in parallel with the aims of "permanent Washington.""--
Author: White, Ralph, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: B WHITE
Format: Books
Summary: The true story of how one Chase Manhattan banker fought to the save the staff of its Saigon branch before the city fell to the North Vietnamese army in the waning days of the Vietnam War. April 1975. White was asked to transfer from the Bangkok branch of the Chase Manhattan Bank to the Saigon Branch. He was tasked with closing the branch if and when it appeared that Saigon would fall to the North Vietnamese army, and ensure the safety of the senior Vietnamese employees. The senior staff members there urged him to evacuate the entire staff of the branch and their families, which was far more than he was authorized to do. He realized that no one would be safe when the city fell, and it was no longer a question of whether to evacuate but how. This is the story of a city on the eve of destruction-- and the colorful characters who respond differently to impending doom. White's desire to save innocent lives was not because it was ordered, but because it was the right thing to do. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Kloots, Anna, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: B KLOOTS
Format: Books
Summary: "Despite what appeared to be a glamorous existence full of globetrotting adventures, behind the scenes, Anna Kloots felt invisible in her own life. Consumed by a marriage that left no space for her own desires, she chose to reframe the failure of her marriage as an opportunity to begin again. Now, for every woman searching for her voice, Anna shares her story of starting over by trusting the magic that was always within"--Amazon.
Author: Lipman, Joanne, author. HarperCollins (Firm), publisher.
Published: 2023
Call Number: 650.14
Format: Books
Summary: "The profound disruptions of recent years have sparked a collective reckoning. We reprioritized our lives, and reordered how we envisioned the future. Businesses were forced to pivot, while leaders scrambled to rethink their roles. There has been an unprecedented global reset. But in truth, almost everyone goes through this kind of reappraisal at least once in their life--and probably more often than that. Whatever the catalyst, it prompts in us the urgent need to pivot, to ask the question: What's next--and how do I get there? In Next!, bestselling author and journalist Joanne Lipman distills hundreds of personal interviews along with the latest scientific research to answer just this question. At its heart, Next! offers a thrilling argument: by harnessing the science and understanding the process, we can better understand how to reinvent that new career, change the direction of our lives, or inspire innovation in our organizations. This book provides a toolkit that shows how to make meaningful transitions--large or small--and to figure out for ourselves what's Next!"--
Author: Aruko, artist. Hinekure, Wataru, author. Cash, Jan Mitsuko, adapter, translator. Trant, Inori Fukuda, letterer. VIZ Media, publisher.
Published: 2023 2022 2021
Call Number: Y PB ARUKO V.1
Format: Books
Summary: "Aoki has a crush on Hashimoto, the girl in the seat next to him in class. But he despairs when he borrows her eraser and sees she's written the name of another boy--Ida--on it. To make matters more confusing, Ida sees Aoki holding that very eraser and thinks Aoki has a crush on him!" --cover.
Author: Doiron, Paul, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: F DOIRON
Format: Books
Summary: "On the evening of their engagement party, Maine Game Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch and Stacey Stevens witness what seems to be a hit-and-run speedboat crash on a darkened lake. When they arrive at the scene, their spotlight reveals a gruesome sight: a severed arm floating just beneath the surface. As day breaks, the warden dive team recovers not one but two naked corpses: a dismembered man and the married woman with whom he was having an affair. Mike begins to suspect the swimmers' deaths were not a senseless accident but a coldly calculated murder. Meanwhile, the hunt is on for the mysterious boater. Suspects abound on the lake, nicknamed "Golden Pond," including the violent biker husband of the murdered woman who may have taken vengeance on his wife and her paramour; a strange woman who claims to have witnessed the crash, but then changes her story; a very aggressive realtor and his wife who were determined to catch trespassers; and the lake's earnest young constable whose eagerness to help may hide darker motives. Alone among his fellow officers, Mike starts to sense the involvement of a trained marksman, smarter and more dangerous than any enemy he has ever faced before. As Mike and Stacey get closer to identifying the killer, their own lives are suddenly on the line as they confront a lethal killer who plans to silence them forever."--
Author: Kaplan Publishing. Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions.
Published: 2023
Call Number: 340.076
Format: Books
Author: Kaplan Publishing.
Published: 2023 2022 2021
Call Number: 340.076 2022
Format: Continuing Resources
Author: Seales, Julia, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: F SEALES
Format: Books
Summary: "From The Lady's Guide to Swampshire, Volume 1. Acceptable topics of conversation: the weather, hats. Unacceptable topics of conversation: gossip, France, missing person cases. Feisty, passionate Beatrice Steele has never fit the definition of a true lady, according to the strict code of conduct that reigns in Swampshire, her small English township--she is terrible at needlework, has no musical ability, and her artwork is so bad it frightens people. Nevertheless, she lives a perfectly agreeable life with her marriage-scheming mother, prankster father, and two younger sisters--beautiful Louisa and forgettable Mary. But she harbors a dark secret: she is obsessed with the true crime cases she reads about in the newspaper, even going so far as to try to solve them herself. If anyone in her etiquette-obsessed community found out, she'd be deemed a morbid creep and banished from respectable society forever..."--
Author: Delany, Vicki, 1951- author.
Published: 2023 2021
Call Number: LP F DELANY
Format: Large print
Summary: "Lily has her work cut out for her when a visit from her grandmother Rose's dear friend, Sandra McHenry turns into an unexpected-- and unpleasant-- McHenry family reunion. Somehow, Lily and her tearoom survive the storm, but later that evening a member of their party-- harmless Ed French-- dies from an apparent poisoning. Mercifully none of the other guests fall ill. They all ate the same food, but Ed insisted on bringing his own special blend of herbal teas. So it seems someone fatally spiked Ed's bespoke brew, but who? It's up to Lily, Rose, and their friends to bag the culprit behind the kettle murder pot"--
Author: Patterson, James, 1947- Sitts, Brian, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: LP F PATTERSO
Format: Large print
Summary: In the year 2088, the doomsday clock inches towards midnight. The Command, synonymously the World Destroyer, is on the loose. Not even Lamont Cranston, the Shadow's alter ego, knows who he is, but the clock is ticking as people around the world drop dead by the day, with the attack at the World's Fair the most sinister yet. It's up The Shadow and his band of allies to stop the end of the world.
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