Author: Baldacci, David, author. Diago, Mercè, translator. Debritto, Abel, translator. Published: 2017 Call Number: SPANISH F BALDUCCI Format: Books Summary: Skilled assassin Will Robie is asked by the U.S. government to track down fellow assassin Jessica Reel, who has gone rogue, but during his pursuit of Reel, Robie realizes that her betrayal may be concealing a larger threat that could impact the whole world. "Will Robie es un asesino altamente cualificado, el hombre al que el gobierno de EEUU recurre para eliminar a los peores enemigos del Estado, verdaderos monstruos que podrian llevarse por delante las vidas de miles de inocentes. Nadie puede igualarlo, salvo quiza Jessica Reel, otra asesina profesional igualmente peligrosa que ahora se ha pasado al lado oscuro y tiene en la mira a otros miembros de la Agencia. Para detener a uno de los suyos, el gobierno recurre a Robie: debe traer a Jessica viva o muerta. Solo un asesino profesional puede capturar a otro asesino profesional, dicen. Pero a medida que persigue a Jessica, se va dando cuenta de que no todo esta tan claro. Los ataques de Jessica a la Agencia estan relacionados con una amenaza mucho mayor, que puede enviar ondas de choque no solo a EEUU sino al resto del mundo."--Amazon.com.
Author: Grisham, John, author. Homedes, Jofre, translator. Published: 2014 Call Number: SPANISH F GRISHAM Format: Books Summary: In this novel the author takes you back to where it all began in A Time to Kill. Now we return to that famous courthouse in Clanton as Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial; a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history. Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new, handwritten, will. It is an act that drags his adult children, his black maid, and Jake into a conflict as riveting and dramatic as the murder trial that made Brigance one of Ford County's most notorious citizens, just three years earlier. The second will raises far more questions than it answers. Why would Hubbard leave nearly all of his fortune to his maid? Had chemotherapy and painkillers affected his ability to think clearly? And what does it all have to do with a piece of land once known as Sycamore Row? -- From book jacket. "Seth Hubbard está muriéndose de cáncer y ha decidido acabar con su vida. Es un hombre rico que no se fía de nadie, ni siquiera de su propia familia. Antes de ahorcarse en un árbol, escribe a mano un nuevo testamento, aunque sabe muy bien que esté escrito provocará una lucha encarnizada entre sus hijos y su sirvienta negra, la heredera principal. Jake Brigance es el abogado que recibirá este testamento por correo y que tendrá que defender la última voluntad de Hubbard. ¿Por qué decidió Seth dejar su gran fortuna a su sirvienta? ¿Estaba en su sano juicio después de los largos tratamientos de quimioterapia y de la ingestión continua de fuertes analgésicos? En La herencia, John Grisham nos transporta otra vez al mundo de Clanton, aquel pueblo sureño de su primera novela, Tiempo de matar. Han pasado tres años desde que Jake Brigance, el joven abogado blanco, se encargó de la defensa del padre de una niña negra violada que se había tomado la justicia por su mano. De nuevo, los ricos y los pobres, los blancos y los negros, toman partido y dividen el pueblo."--Page 4 of cover.
Author: Cozzolino, Robert, 1970- author. Felleman, Susan, author. Gunning, Tom, 1949- Rockwell, Alethea. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Published: 2014 Call Number: 740.92 Format: Books Summary: "David Lynch is internationally renowned as a filmmaker, but it is less known that he began his creative life as a visual artist and has maintained a devoted studio practice, developing an extensive body of painting, prints, photography, and drawing. Featuring work from all periods of Lynch's career, this book documents Lynch's first major museum exhibition in the United States, bringing together works held in American and European collections and from the artist's studio"--
Author: Smith, Jeff, 1960 February 27- author, artist. Hamaker, Steve, artist. Smith, Jeff, 1960 February 27- Out from Boneville. Smith, Jeff, 1960 February 27- Great cow race. Smith, Jeff, 1960 February 27- Eyes of the storm. Published: 2011 Call Number: Y SMITH Format: Books Summary: After being run out of Boneville, the three Bone cousins, Fone Bone, Phoney Bone and Smiley Bone are separated and lost in a vast uncharted desert. One by one they find their way into a deep forested valley filled with wonderful and terrifying creatures. It will be the longest -- but funniest -- year of their lives.
Author: Murkoff, Heidi Eisenberg, author. Mazel, Sharon. Lockwood, Charles J. Published: 2010 Call Number: SPANISH 618.24 Format: Books Summary: Cuts through the confusion surrounding pregnancy and birth by debunking dozens of myths that mislead parents, offering explanations of medical terms, and covering a variety of issues including prenatal care, birth defects, and amniocentesis.
Author: Beah, Ishmael, 1980- author. Published: 2007 Call Number: B BEAH Format: Books Summary: This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived. Ishmael Beah, now 25 years old, tells how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts.--From publisher description.
Author: Levin, Ira, 1929-2007, author. Published: 2002 1972 Call Number: F LEVIN Format: Books Summary: "For Joanne, her husband Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town's idyllic facade lies a terrible secret a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be the same."--Back cover.
Author: Baldacci, David. Published: 2002 Call Number: BAL Format: Books Summary: "Tom Langdon, a weary and cash-strapped journalist, is banned from flying when a particularly thorough airport security search causes him to lose his cool. Now, he must take the train if he has any chance of arriving in Los Angeles in time for Christmas with his girlfriend. To finance the trip, he sells a story about a train ride taken during the Christmas season."
Author: Gola, Mark. author Monteleone, John J. Published: 2001 Call Number: 796.357 Format: Books Summary: This step-by-step approach starts from the ground up, including: problems in the stance, pre-swing movements, hip rotation, the swing, and more.
Author: Engberg, Katrine, 1975- author. Chace, Tara, translator. Published: 2020 2016 Call Number: F ENGBERG Format: Books Summary: "When a young woman is discovered brutally murdered in her own apartment, with an intricate pattern of lines carved into her face, Copenhagen police detectives Jeppe Korner and Anette Werner are assigned to the case. In short order, they establish a link between the victim, Julie Stender, and her landlady, Esther de Laurenti, who's a bit too fond of drink and the host of raucous dinner parties with her artist friends. Esther also turns out to be a budding novelist-and when Julie turns up as a murder victim in the still-unfinished mystery she's writing, the link between fiction and real life grows both more urgent and more dangerous. But Esther's role in this twisted scenario is not quite as clear as it first seems. Is she the culprit-or just another victim, trapped in a twisted game of vengeance? Anette and Jeppe must dig more deeply into the two women's pasts to discover the identity of the brutal puppet-master pulling the strings in this electrifying literary thriller. Hailed as "inconceivably thrilling" (Fyens Stiftstidende, Denmark), The Tenant is a work of stunning originality that will keep readers on the edge of their seats"--
Author: Palahniuk, Chuck, author. Published: 2020 Call Number: B PALAHNIU Format: Books Summary: "In this spellbinding blend of memoir and insight, bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk shares stories and generous advice on what makes writing powerful and what makes for powerful writing. With advice grounded in years of careful study and a keenly observed life, Palahniuk combines practical advice and concrete examples from beloved classics, his own books, and a "kitchen-table MFA" culled from an evolving circle of beloved authors and artists, with anecdotes, postcards from the road, and much more. Clear-eyed, sensitive, illuminating, and knowledgeable, Consider This is Palahniuk's love letter to stories and storytellers, booksellers and books themselves"--
Author: Somers, Suzanne, 1946- author. Published: 2020 Call Number: 305.26 Format: Books Summary: "Life just gets better and better for health guru and American sweetheart Suzanne Somers as the years pass--and so do her books! At 72, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Knockout and Ageless is back with revolutionary insights and advice from the best and brightest minds in the field of anti-aging. Learn how to keep your hairy shiny, your heart strong, your hormones renewed, and your mind as sharp as ever"-- Most of us are far too comfortable with the present paradigm of aging, which normalizes pills, nursing homes, and "the big three": heart disease, cancer, and Alzheimer's disease. But you don't have to accept this fate. Now there's a new way to grow older--with vibrancy, freedom, confidence, and a rockin' libido. This health bible from Suzanne Somers will explain how to stop aging like your parents and embrace cutting-edge techniques such as: balancing nutritional and mineral deficiencies; detoxifying your gut for weight loss; pain management with non-THC cannabis instead of harmful opioids; and much more. Aging well is mainly about the choices you make on a daily basis. It can be a fantastic process if you approach it wisely. After a lifetime of research, Suzanne came to a simple conclusion: what you lose in the aging process must be replaced with natural alternatives. In order to thrive you have to rid your body of chemicals and toxins. Start aging the new way today by joining Suzanne and her trailblazing doctors as they all but unearth the fountain of youth.
