Author: Berry, Lucinda, author. Published: 2019 Call Number: F BERRY Format: Books Summary: "Kate Bennett vanished from a parking lot eleven years ago, leaving behind her husband and young daughter. When she shows up at a Montana gas station, clutching an infant and screaming for help, investigators believe she may have been abducted by a cult. Kate's return flips her family's world upside down--her husband is remarried, and her daughter barely remembers her. Kate herself doesn't look or act like she did before. While the family tries to help Kate reintegrate into society, they discover truths they've been hiding from each other about their own relationships. But they aren't the only ones with secrets..."--Provided by publisher.
Author: Toews, Miriam, 1964- author. Published: 2019 2018 Call Number: LP F TOEWS Format: Large print Summary: Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote religious Mennonite colony, over a hundred girls and women were knocked unconscious and raped, often repeatedly, by what many thought were ghosts or demons, as a punishment for their sins. As the women tentatively began to share the details of the attacks -- waking up sore and bleeding and not understanding why -- their stories were chalked up to 'wild female imagination.' Women Talking is an imagined response to these real events. Eight women, all illiterate, without any knowledge of the world outside their colony and unable even to speak the language of the country they live in, meet secretly in a hayloft with the intention of making a decision about how to protect themselves and their daughters from future harm. They have two days to make a plan, while the men of the colony are away in the city attempting to raise enough money to bail out the rapists (not ghosts as it turns out but local men) and bring them home. How should we live? How should we love? How should we treat one another? How should we organize our societies? These are questions the women in Women Talking ask one another.
Author: Good Housekeeping Institute (New York, N.Y.), contributor. Published: 2018 Call Number: 641.77 Format: Books Summary: Enjoy healthier, delicious versions of all your favorite foods with this introductory air fryer cookbook from Good Housekeeping. Harnessing the power of circulating hot air, air frying allows you to roast, bake, and enjoy the taste and crunch of fried foods--but without as much oil or grease. Who better than Good Housekeeping to explain all the basics of using this trendy miracle machine? Home cooks will find more than 60 family-pleasing healthy recipes for favorite comfort food dishes, including Chicken Caprese, Rye-Crusted Pork Chops with Apple Slaw, Finger Lickin' Fish Tacos, Jalapeño Poppers, and even French fries. Every recipe is triple tested in the Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen for guaranteed success every time.
Author: Sloan, Annie, 1949- author. Published: 2016 Call Number: 698.14 Format: Books Summary: Interior design, decor & style guides. In this, her most personal book yet, Annie Sloan opens up a world of possibilities when it comes to decorating your home. As well as ways to transform walls and furniture, you'll also learn wonderful techniques for painting floors, fabrics, lighting and more. Discover three chapters, all packed full of inspiration and advice: Furniture and Lighting, Fabric and Other Surfaces, and Walls and Floors. Forty step-by-step projects will guide you through the methods for using paint in ways you never thought possible, with clear instructions accompanying each picture, and helpful tips along the way. Learn about printing, stenciling, gilding, transferring images and dyeing fabric, as well as all the secrets of making the most of Annie's own Chalk Paint(R) range. Find out, too, how to combine colors for different styles, and how to tap into your creativity by painting patterns freehand.
Author: McCaughrean, Geraldine, author, writer of introduction. Ambrus, Victor G., illustrator. Adaptation of (work). Homer. Odyssey. Published: 2015 1993 Call Number: Y MCCAUGHR Format: Books Summary: Recounts Odysseus' long journey home from the Trojan War, and the unusual encounters he has with the Sirens, the cyclops Polyphemus, and Circe the enchantress.
Author: Zaidenberg, Arthur, 1908-1990. Published: 2009 1950 Call Number: 741.2 Format: Books Summary: Written by an expert art teacher, this visual drawing dictionary offers thousands of instructive illustrations in alphabetical order--from abdomen to zodiac. Simplified for beginners and intermediate students, it presents a tremendous wealth of images: animals, people performing a variety of activities, and common and uncommon objects, including fruits and flowers, clothing, furniture, and much more.
The two-fold purpose of this manual is to demonstrate how to construct figures and objects using the "scaffold" forms depicted here, and to serve as a source of information and research. Many of the sketches show basic structures in their simplest elements. In other cases, a relatively complete drawing serves as a base for the display of a costume or demonstration of an activity. A guide to simplification and an essential reference, this book represents a vital resource for artists of all levels, amateur and professional.
Author: Strunk, William, 1869-1946, author. White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985, author. Kalman, Maira, illustrator. Published: 2007 2005 Call Number: 808.042 Format: Books Summary: An enhanced edition of the classic writing manual features humorous art by a popular children's book illustrator and New Yorker cover artist, in a volume that provides visual and whimsical embellishments to the original instructive text--Publisher.
Author: Thorogood, Zoe, author, artist. Thorogood, Zoe, artist. Published: 2023 Call Number: B GN THOROGOO Format: Books Summary: Cartoonist Zoe Thorogood records 6 months of her own life as it falls apart in a desperate attempt to put it back together again in the only way she knows how. It's lonely at the centre of the Earth is an intimate and metanarrative look into the life of a selfish artist who must create for her own survival.
Author: Kracht, Matt, author. Published: 2023 Call Number: 599.799 Format: Books Summary: "Are you ready for the ultimate bee book? With lighthearted watercolor and ink drawings, humorous quips, lists, and musings, OMFG, BEES! will show you just how important these esteemed bee-list celebrities really are. (Hint: We can't live without them.)"-- Delving into various bee topics, from distinguishing between bees and not bees (very crucial), to exploring the absolute wonder that is bee behavior (they do a coded dance directing their bee friends to food, for crying out loud!), to divulging the mind-blowing bee-magic behind honey making (within some extremely intricate and precisely constructed hexagonal honeycomb, no big deal), and more, Kracht's ode to bees paints a charming and enthusiastic picture of our favorite pollinators. Bee-autiful full-color illustrations fill these pages that playfully and earnestly examine different kinds of bees, from the honeybee to the teddy bear bee, providing unbelievably cool facts about bees and reasons why they deserve a lot more credit as well as our appreciation and advocacy. Because omfg, BEES!!
Author: Lopez, Kristen, author. Patra, Jyotirmayee illustrator. Turner Classic Movies (Firm) Published: 2023 Call Number: 791.436 Format: Books Summary: "For film buffs and literature lovers alike, this is an essential guide to 52 great reads, and the cinema classics they inspired"-- You loved the movie-- but have you read the book? Lopez looks at beloved screen adaptations, and the great reads that inspired them. Some diverge wildly from the original source materials, while others shift the point of view to create an entirely different experience within the same story. In exploring what makes these works classics of both the page and screen, Lopez shows why each made for an exceptional adaptation. --adapted from back cover.
Author: Avachat, Aashna, editor. author. Arlow, Jake Maia, author. Carmen, Boon, author. Devarajan, Ananya, author. Garrett, Camryn, author. Published: 2023 Call Number: F STUDY Format: Books Summary: "This collection of interconnected contemporary YA short stories, written by Gen Z authors, explores different parts of "the college experience," from questioning your major to questioning your identity"-- "College . . . The best time, the worst time, and something in between... Told over the course of one academic year, these contemporary short stories set on the same fictional campus features first years to fourth years across different cultures, genders, and interests learning more about who they are and who they want to be. From new careers to communities to (almost) missed connections--and more--these interconnected tales explore the ways university life can be stressful and confusing and exciting and fulfilling!" --Front jacket flap
Author: Charry, Brinda, author. Published: 2023 Call Number: F CHARRY Format: Books Summary: "Meet Tony: insatiably curious, deeply compassionate, with a unique perspective on every scene he encounters. Kidnapped and transported to the New World after traveling from the British East India Company's outpost on the Coromandel Coast to the teeming streets of London, young Tony finds himself in Jamestown, Virginia, where he and his fellow indentured servants--boys like himself, men from Africa, a mad woman from London--must work the tobacco plantations. Orphaned and afraid, Tony initially longs for home. But as he adjusts to his new environment, finding companionship and even love, he can envision a life for himself after servitude. Set during the early days of English colonization in Jamestown, before servitude calcified into racialized slavery, The East Indian gives authentic voice to an otherwise unknown historic figure and brings the world he would have encountered to vivid life"--
Author: Mandelo, Lee, author. Published: 2023 Call Number: F MANDELO Format: Books Summary: "Lee Mandelo dives into the minds of wolves in Feed Them Silence, a novella of the near future. What does it mean to "be-in-kind" with a nonhuman animal? Or in Dr. Sean Kell-Luddon's case, to be in-kind with one of the last remaining wild wolves? Using a neurological interface to translate her animal subject's perception through her own mind, Sean intends to chase both her scientific curiosity and her secret, lifelong desire to experience the intimacy and freedom of wolfishness. To see the world through animal eyes; smell the forest, thick with olfactory messages; even taste the blood and viscera of a fresh kill. And, above all, to feel the belonging of the pack. Sean's tireless research gives her a chance to fulfill that dream, but pursuing it has a terrible cost. Her obsession with work endangers her fraying relationship with her wife. Her research methods threaten her mind and body. And the attention of her VC funders could destroy her subject, the beautiful wild wolf whose mental world she's invading"--
Author: Mahoney, Ellen Voelckers, author. Published: 2023 Call Number: 641.3 Format: Books Summary: "[Profiles] fifteen ... women have made great strides in the field of food, whether it's coming up with meals for astronauts to eat in space, operating a 20-acre farm, hosting a food podcast, or fighting for food rights" --Provided by publisher. "Not only do humans need food to survive, it also gives structure to our days, offers dining and recreational opportunities, provides employment, and speaks to important societal issues such as food security, hunger, and nutrition. Women and food make a dynamic duo. These 15 hardworking, innovative, and accomplished women have made great strides in the field of food, whether it's coming up with meals for astronauts to eat in space, operating a 20-acre farm, hosting a food podcast, or fighting for food rights. Women have always been instrumental in providing nourishment for their families and communities, and they are often at the forefront of this ever-changing global industry"--
Author: Royster, Francesca T., author. Published: 2023 Call Number: B ROYSTER Format: Books Summary: A professor of English literature presents a memoir of family, identity, and acceptance that examines the messiness and complexity of adoption and parenthood from a black, queer, and feminist perspective. A brilliant literary memoir of chosen family and chosen heritage, told against the backdrop of Chicago's North and South Sides. --Amazon. As a multiracial household in Chicago's North Side community of Rogers Park, race is at the core of Francesca T. Royster and her family's world, influencing everyday acts of parenting and the conception of what family truly means. Like Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts, this lyrical and affecting memoir focuses on a unit of three: the author; her wife Annie, who's white; and Cecilia, the Black daughter they adopt as a couple in their forties and fifties. Choosing Family chronicles this journey to motherhood while examining the messiness and complexity of adoption and parenthood from a Black, queer, and feminist perspective. Royster also explores her memories of the matriarchs of her childhood and the homes these women created in Chicago's South Side--itself a dynamic character in the memoir--where "family" was fluid, inclusive, and not necessarily defined by marriage or other socially recognized contracts. Calling upon the work of some of her favorite queer thinkers, including Jose Esteban Munoz and Audre Lorde, Royster interweaves her experiences and memories with queer and gender theory to argue that many Black families, certainly her own, have historically had a "queer" attitude toward family: configurations that sit outside the white normative experience and are the richer for their flexibility and generosity of spirit. A powerful, genre-bending memoir of family, identity, and acceptance, Choosing Family, ultimately, is about joy--about claiming the joy that society did not intend to assign to you, or to those like you.
Author: Zunker, Chad, author. Published: 2023 Call Number: F ZUNKER Format: Books Summary: "After Jake Slater's wife dies in a tragic hit-and-run, all he has left is his daughter, Piper--nearly lost, too, in a brutal custody battle with his wealthy in-laws. A year later, Jake reluctantly agrees to a reunion with the estranged family for Piper's thirteenth birthday. Then a single gunshot rings out, and a new nightmare begins. Piper is kidnapped, and her cousin Caitlin is murdered. Caitlin's cryptic dying words: Piper knows the truth. Jake is the only witness to the murder--and the only suspect. For an innocent man trapped in a world conspiring to crush him, the only way to clear his name and find Piper is to do it on the run. Crucified by the media, pursued by the FBI, and hunted by an assassin, Jake can feel his desperation escalating with every tick of the clock. The closer he gets to the truth, the more he risks uncovering family betrayals so sinister they're worth killing for." --Back cover.
Author: Holland, Sam (Novelist), author. Published: 2023 Call Number: F HOLLAND Format: Books Summary: "When DCI Adam Bishop arrives at the crime scene in the dead of night, the sight of the body is bad enough--but what Adam notices next chills him to his core. More bodies surface. And the spray-painted numbers daubed above the corpses reveal the horrific truth: the killer is counting down. But to what end? Adam has no idea--until Dr. Romilly Cole knocks on his door with damning evidence pointing to a series of murders twenty five years earlier--a case she knows intimately from her past. Now, it's personal--and the next knock on his door could be fatal" --
Author: Steavenson, Wendell, 1970- author. Published: 2023 Call Number: F STEAVENS Format: Books Summary: "A moving portrait of a young woman's struggle to break free from her upper-class upbringing amid the whirlwind years of the sexual revolution"-- It's the mid-1950s and Margot Thornsen is growing up between a Park Avenue apartment in New York and her family's sumptuous Oyster Bay estate as the presumed heir to her late grandfather's steel fortune. Her domineering mother has charted a course for her--to forego education and marry well--but Margot is more interested in microscopes and beetles and books. When a devastating fire brings the family legacy crashing down and the sexual revolution dawns, a new path opens up--the expansive world of late-1960s Radcliffe College and the intellectual, cultural, and sexual freedom Margot has been reaching for.
Author: Collins, Manda, author. Published: 2023 Call Number: F COLLINS Format: Books Summary: "Miss Poppy Delamare has been living a lie. To escape an odious betrothal, she hid as the quiet and unassuming Flora Deaver, secretary to London's most infamous female crime reporter. When her beloved younger sister is accused of murder, however, Poppy returns home to keep her sibling from the hangman's noose. But a collision with the most unexpected--and unwelcome--of travel companions interrupts her journey. To her surprise, the arrogant, albeit handsome, Duke of Langham offers to help clear her sister's name... in exchange for a favor of his own. Despite his rakish reputation, Joshua Fielding, the Duke of Langham, has no intention of abandoning a lady--or ladies--in need. A fake betrothal will benefit both him and Poppy. Langham will have protection from the society misses flocking to his grandmother's birthday celebration, and Poppy will have the power of the dukedom when proving her sister's innocence. Only the longer the ruse goes on, the less pretend the engagement feels, until neither are acting at all. But before Langham can propose in truth, their search reveals a tangled web of lies and betrayals leading back to his own family. With time running out to save Poppy's sister, can Poppy and Langham find the true murderer before the curtains fall?"--
