Author: Willis, Gerri author. Published: 2025 Call Number: B VANLEW Format: Books Summary: "A historical account of wealthy Southern belle Elizabeth Van Lew, whose espionage for Abraham Lincoln and the Union helped win the Civil War"-- Provided by publisher. "Wealthy Southern belle Elizabeth Van Lew had it all. Money, charm, wit--the most elegant mansion in Richmond. So why risk everything to become a Union spy? The answer was simple: freedom. Right in the heart of the Confederate capital, Elizabeth played the society lady while building a secret espionage network of slaves, Unionists, and prisoners of war. It would cost her almost everything. Flouting society's expectations for women, Elizabeth infiltrated prisons and defied public opinion... From grave robbery to a bold voyage across enemy lines, Elizabeth's escapades only grew more daring. But it paid off. By the war's end, she had agents in both the Confederate War Department and the Richmond White House, and her couriers provided General Ulysses S. Grant with crucial, daily intelligence for his final assault." --Amazon.com
Author: Itami, Emily, author. Published: 2025 Call Number: F ITAMI Format: Books Summary: When music idol Ai is embroiled in scandal, her sisters, ambitious Rei and single mother Kiki, pause their lives and spend the summer with Ai in their childhood home on the Japanese coast so they can rescue their baby sister. "Rei, Kiki, and Ai are three sisters divided by distance and circumstance. Ambitious Rei works in finance in London; Kiki is the single mother of a young son, working in a retirement home in Tokyo; and Ai, the youngest, is a peripatetic Japanese music idol. Having lost both parents, one way or another, the sister rely on each other as family, far-flung as they are. When Ai is embroilled in a scandal, Rei and Kiki pause their own lives to rescue thier baby sister. Over the course of a summer spent in their childhood home on the Japanese coast, the sisters will reunite with their sharp-edged grandmother, care for Kiki's irrepressible son, and silently worry about Ai. . . "--
Author: Arabi, Shahida author. Published: 2025 Call Number: 155.232 ARABI Format: Books Summary: "Break free from manipulation and gaslighting--once and for all. Are you thriving in your relationship, or merely surviving? Are you the victim of constant manipulation, gaslighting, and deception at the hands of your partner? Do you find yourself constantly making excuses for your partner's abusive behavior? If you feel trapped in a relationship with someone who displays narcissistic or psychopathic behavior, you may be experiencing a trauma bond--a powerful connection you've developed with your abuser as a result of the danger, betrayal, or a power imbalance inherent in your relationship. It's important to remember that you're not alone and it's not your fault. Written by an expert in narcissism and toxic relationships, this powerful guide is packed with the tools you need to finally break free from the destructive grip of narcissistic or psychopathic abuse. You'll learn how to spot manipulation tactics used by abusers to create and maintain unhealthy bonds, so you can better recognize, understand, and draw boundaries with your partner. You'll also discover insightful tips and practical strategies to help you end your relationship safely and build healthy relationships in the future. Trauma bonding can have devastating effects. It can cause you to not only tolerate mistreatment, but even protect and defend your abuser simply out of a need to survive. This book clears a path to connect with and validate your authentic outrage at how you've been treated, so you can finally process your pain and move forward on your path to freedom. Go ahead, take the first step today."--Amazon.com.
Author: Krefft, Vanda, author. Published: 2025 Call Number: 651.3741 KREFFT Format: Books Summary: "A social history of the famed Katharine Gibbs School, which from the 1910s to the 1960s trained women for executive secretary positions but surreptitiously was instilling the self-confidence and strategic know-how necessary for them to claim equality, power, and authority in the wider world"-- "It's a safe bet that most of the secretaries on the TV series Mad Men would have attended the Katharine Gibbs School in New York City. The iconic institution was in its heyday in the 1950 and '60s synonymous with supplying secretaries--always properly attired in heels, ladylike hats, and white gloves--to male executives. In Expect Great Things! Vanda Krefft turns the notion of a 'Gibbs girl' on its head, showing us that while the school was getting women who could type 90 words per minute into the C-suite, its more subversive mission was to get them out of the secretarial pool to assume positions of power on the other side of the desk. And Gibbs graduates did just that, tackling the sexism of the era and paving the way for 21st-century women to succeed in any profession." --Amazon.com
Author: Swanson, Peter, 1968- author. Published: 2025 Call Number: F SWANSON Format: Books Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of The Kind Worth Killing and Eight Perfect Murders comes an inventive, utterly propulsive murder-mystery in reverse, tracing a marriage back in time to uncover the dark secret at its heart"-- Thom and Wendy Graves appear to have an ideal life after 25 years of marriage, but Wendy is secretly plotting to kill Thom. Told in reverse chronology, the story unveils key moments in their relationship; parenthood, career turns, and a mysterious death; leading back to a dark secret they share from their early twenties. This secret has bound them together for decades, but as its hold weakens, each begins to consider whether the only way to truly break free is to ensure the other doesn't survive to tell it.
Author: Kraynak, Cecie, author. Published: 2025 Call Number: 468.2421 Format: Books Summary: "Spanish For Dummies gets you started with the Spanish language, even if you've never learned a language before. The trusted Dummies language learning method is quick and practical, so you'll know what to say and do when traveling to a Spanish-speaking country or interacting with Spanish speakers in your community. You'll learn the basics of Spanish grammar and pronunciation, and then you'll explore common phrases you'll need in everyday situations. Get ready to study, work, or travel abroad--or integrate Spanish into your everyday life. This essential resource helps you make small talk, understand common expressions, navigate business settings, ask for directions, go to the doctor, and beyond"--
Author: Black & Decker Corporation (Towson, Md.) Cool Springs Press. Published: 2025 Call Number: 643.7 BOOK Format: Books Summary: The most complete book on the market for homeowners, BLACK+DECKER The Book of Home How-To is written and compiled by the knowledgeable editors at Cool Springs Press -- recognized experts in DIY home improvement and maintenance with more than thirty years of experience in home improvement and hundreds of best-selling books under the BLACK+DECKER brand -- this is DIY instruction you can trust. This updated 3rd edition, the ultimate reference for maintaining any type of home, from a small apartment to a mega mansion, is now completely up to code -- featuring code updates and current best practices for all electrical, plumbing, and deck-related concerns. This A-to-Z encyclopedia offers precise how-to instructions and clear photos on every page. With an expanded index that is incredibly intuitive and a simple, alphabetical strategy for organizing the information, you won't spend precious time wading through stuff you don't need to know.
Author: Kelly, Sofie, 1958- author. Published: 2025 2024 Call Number: LP F KELLY Format: Large print Summary: "Kathleen Paulson is busy running the library when she suddenly stumbles across a body. She is surprised to learn that the deceased was in the middle of an unlikely heist--it seems like he was trying to steal one of the paintings that had been in a box in the library's workroom. An art history expert called in by the police identifies the almost-purloined painting as a piece that might have been part of a previous high profile art theft. Events soon make Kathleen realize that whoever killed the wannabe art thief has more than murder on their mind. Kathleen will have to work fast to prevent anyone else from getting hurt"--
Author: Kimball, Christopher, author. Hirsch, J. M., author. Christopher Kimball's Milk Street (Firm) Published: 2025 Call Number: 641.5945 Format: Books Summary: "Forget everything you thought you knew about Italian food. In Italy, cooks throw away their garlic, they don't stir their polenta, and they never labour over pans of risotto. But they do make enormous meatballs that are tender and light, and they occasionally break all the rules when making pasta. The editors at Milk Street have spent years scouring small eateries, local markets, farms and home kitchens from Lombardy to Calabria and from Sardinia to Sicily in search of fresh takes on classic recipes as well as little-known regional favorites that never crossed the Atlantic. On our travels we found new ways with pasta, from foolproof cacio e pepe in Rome to Puglia's olive oil-crisped fettuccine with chickpeas and a lemony pesto from Amalfi, where the pasta itself is enriched with citrus."--
Author: Macedo, Stephen, 1957- author. Lee, Frances E., author. Published: 2025 Call Number: 362.1962 Format: Books Summary: "What our failures during the pandemic cost us, and why we must do better. The Covid pandemic quickly led to the greatest mobilization of emergency powers in human history. By early April 2020, half the world's population-3.9 billion people-were living under quarantine. People were told not to leave their homes; businesses were shuttered, employees laid off, and schools closed for months or even years. The most devastating pandemic in a century and the policies adopted in response to it upended life as we knew it. In this eye-opening book, Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee examine our pandemic response and pose some provocative questions: Why did we ignore pre-Covid plans for managing a pandemic? Were the voices of reasonable dissent treated fairly? Did we adequately consider the costs and benefits of different policy options? And, aside from vaccines, did the policies adopted work as intended? With In Covid's Wake, Macedo and Lee offer the first comprehensive-and candid-political assessment of how our institutions fared during the pandemic. They describe how, influenced by Wuhan's lockdown, governments departed from their existing pandemic plans. Hard choices were obscured by slogans like "follow the science." The policies adopted largely benefited the laptop class and left so-called essential workers unprotected; the benefits and harms were distributed unfairly. Extended school closures hit the least-privileged families the hardest. Science became politicized and dissent was driven to the margins. In the next crisis, Macedo and Lee warn, we must not forget the deepest values of liberal democracy: tolerance and open-mindedness, respect for evidence and its limits, a willingness to entertain uncertainty, and a commitment to telling the whole truth"--
Author: Nadel, Dan, author. Published: 2025 Call Number: B CRUMB Format: Books Summary: "The first biography of Robert Crumb--one of the most profound and influential artists of the 20th century--whose iconic, radically frank and meticulously rendered cartoons and comics inspired generations of readers and cartoonists, from Art Spiegelman to Alison Bechdel"-- "Crumb" by Dan Nadel explores the life of Robert Crumb, a pioneering artist who transformed the comics medium into a space for adult expression and helped shape 20th-century American culture. Known for creating the underground comic book industry and iconic works like Fritz the Cat and Zap Comix, Crumb's life story is marked by childhood abuse, early fame, and his unique role in both underground and mainstream cultures. The book delves into Crumb's complex family life, the rise of underground comics in the 1960s, the counterculture, and the challenges of the hippie dream. With forty-five black-and-white images and a sixteen-page color insert, the biography traces seven decades of Crumb's work, revealing the essence of his extraordinary artistic journey.
Author: Baldwin, Hilaria, author. Published: 2025 Call Number: B BALDWIN Format: Books Summary: "There's no set of instructions when it comes to navigating the challenges life throws at us. However, by sharing our narratives and finding our commonality, we can better deal with what comes our way. In Manual Not Included, Hilaria writes about the relatable, hard-earned insights she's gained from her experiences as an individual, a partner, and a parent--from feeling empowered, to having a fulfilling relationship, to being as good a mother as possible, all while still being a work in progress. Within chapters about love, motherhood, and friendship, Hilaria offers up her candid stories around common themes facing women--from feeling like you're too much and also not enough, to grappling with the expectation to be a "good girl," and to striving for unattainable perfection. While there is no one right way to live, by sharing what we've learned along the way, with compassion and without judgment, we can each create our own perfectly imperfect manual."--
Author: Amerie, author. Published: 2025 Call Number: F AMERIE Format: Books Summary: "John's House provides all he needs. Surrounded by a vast, beautiful ocean under a void of sky, the House is John's haven. He is alone, but never lonely; he is here now, but neither remembers nor longs for a before. In his House, John is safe and untroubled. But then a terrible shadow creature breaks in--and it wants him out. Pushed from the House, John falls into the light... And finds himself in modern-day Los Angeles, the first person to ever come back from the other side. Though he has no memory of his past life, or even how he died, everyone wants to know more about the Black man who has returned from the dead--is he the second coming? A hoax? Or something beyond explanation? Soon he has brand deals, TV interviews, and politicians aiming to use him for their agendas, yet all John wants is to go home. But going home will require, most unfortunately, help. In search of a way back, John grudgingly joins forces with a mystic holding dubious qualifications, a hard-edged publicist bent on making him famous, and an aspiring actress who is unsettlingly familiar. With this ragtag band of allies, John begins a journey to find his House on the ocean--but getting there will prove more complicated than he imagined, for it will require not only trusting in someone other than himself, but will mean uncovering painful truths about who John was in life and, perhaps most difficult, who he must become." --
Author: Novak, Brenda, author. Published: 2025 Call Number: F NOVAK Format: Books Summary: "It's been fifteen years since Lucy Sinclair saw her father. Fifteen long years since she sat in a courtroom and watched him sentenced to life in prison. He murdered three victims--all people she knew--which ruined her life at just seventeen. But now she's back in Virginia to talk to him, wondering if there's more to the story of what happened that fateful night. An old flame, Ford Wagner, makes his own return to North Hampton Beach, fleeing a marriage that seems destined for divorce. He's wary of Lucy and her digging into the past, but the more time they spend together, the closer they get and the more he finds himself reconsidering the truth behind the death of their mutual friend that summer. Problem is, there are plenty of those in this small coastal town who would prefer things stay quiet . . ."--
Author: Osnos, Evan, 1976- author. Published: 2025 Call Number: 305.5234 Format: Books Summary: "A collection of essays explores American oligarchy and the culture of excess, providing a wry, unfiltered look at how the ultrarich shape--and sometimes warp--our social and political landscape"-- The ultrarich hold more of America's wealth than they did in the heyday of the Carnegies and Rockefellers. Here, Evan Osnos's incisive reportage yields an unforgettable portrait of the tactics and obsessions driving this new Gilded Age, in which superyachts, luxury bunkers, elite tax dodges, and a torrent of political donations bespeak staggering disparities of wealth and power. With deft storytelling and meticulous reporting, this is a book about the indulgences, incentives, and psychological distortions that define our economic age. In each essay, Osnos delves into a world that is rarely visible, from the outrageous to the fabulous to the ridiculous: a private wealth manager who broke with members of an American dynasty and spilled their secrets; the pop stars who perform at lavish parties for thirteen-year-olds; the status anxieties that spill out of marinas in Monaco and Palm Beach like real-world episodes of Succession and The White Lotus; the ethos behind the largest Ponzi scheme in Hollywood history; the confessions of disgraced titans in a "white-collar support group." A celebrated political reporter, Osnos delves into the unprecedented Washington influence of Silicon Valley and Wall Street, drawing on in-depth interviews with Mark Zuckerberg and other billionaires, about their power and the explosive backlash it stirs. Originally published in The New Yorker, these essays have been revised and expanded to deliver an unflinching portrait of raw ambition, unimaginable fortune, and the rise of America's modern oligarchy. Osnos's essays are a wake-up call--a case against complacency in the face of unchecked excess, as the choices of the ultrarich ripple through our lives. Entertaining, unsettling, and eye-opening, The Haves and the Have-Yachts couldn't be more relevant to today's world.
Author: Randall, Willard Sterne author. Published: 2025 Call Number: B HANCOCK Format: Books Summary: "A compelling, intimate portrait of John Hancock, going beyond the flamboyant signature to provide insight into the pivotal role that he had in the American Revolution"-- Provided by publisher.
Author: Reardon, Sara, author. Published: 2025 Call Number: 616.62 Format: Books Summary: Floored by Dr. Sara Reardon, a board-certified pelvic floor physical therapist, is a comprehensive guide to understanding and managing pelvic floor health. Covering topics such as menstruation, pregnancy, postpartum recovery, menopause, incontinence, and sexual health, the book offers clear explanations, self-assessment tools, and practical exercises. With an emphasis on education and empowerment, Floored provides strategies to help individuals maintain pelvic floor function and address common symptoms throughout different life stages. "Too many women put up with pelvic floor discomfort, thinking their symptoms are "just part of motherhood and aging." And for far too long, the American health care system has normalized pelvic problems, leaving women feeling hopeless, ashamed and suffering in silence. Board-certified pelvic floor physical therapist Dr. Sara Reardon helps women prevent and overcome common pelvic floor issues so they can trust and enjoy their bodies again. Floored is a rallying cry for women's health and the authoritative guide for the pelvic floor, a critical group of muscles involved in day-to-day functions from peeing and pooping and sex and childbirth to menstruation and menopause. Whether you're navigating postpartum recovery, seeking relief from urinary incontinence or aiming to enhance sexual pleasure, this comprehensive resource provides the insights and strategies every woman needs. Inside the pages of this book, you will find: Education on pelvic floor anatomy and its critical role in your overall health. Practical advice for pelvic floor self-assessment and signs of potential issues. Exercises to strengthen, rehabilitate and maintain pelvic floor health across different life stages. Tips for treating common pelvic floor symptoms, such as involuntary urine leakage and painful sex. With clear and engaging guidance, Dr. Reardon demystifies the complexities of pelvic floor care and provides everything you need to ensure your pelvic well-being. The time to take control of your pelvic health is now. Learn about a variety of topics related to pelvic floor health, including: Menopause, Menstruation, Pregnancy and childbirth, Postpartum care, Painful sex, Incontinence and prolapse, Vaginal hygiene"--
Author: Bennett, Connie (Health coach), author. Bannerman, Isabella, illustrations. Published: 2025 Call Number: 613.25 Format: Books Summary: "Why do millions in the Unites States and worldwide eat so badly? What specific events, conditions, or emotions trigger mindless bingeing? How can you easilt shed unhealthy excess weight while you heal your heart, claim calm, and shed your shame? . . .This groundbreaking book will help you shift your mindset from powerless to powerful and kickstart smart habits while you create the healthy body you desire and the fulfilling life you deserve."-- Front jacket flap.
Author: Demick, Barbara, author. Published: 2025 Call Number: 362.734 Format: Books Summary: "On a warm day in September 2000, a twenty-eight-year-old woman named Zanhua gave birth to twin girls in a small hut nestled in bamboo behind her brother's rural home in China's Hunan province. The twins, Fangfang and Shuangjie, were welcome additions to her young family but also not her first children. Hidden in the hut, they were born under the shadow of China's notorious one-child policy. Fearing the ire of family planning officials, Zanhua and her husband decided to leave one twin in the care of relatives, hoping each toddler on their own might stay under the radar. But, in late 2002, Fangfang was violently snatched away from her aunt's care. The family worried they would never see her again, but they didn't imagine she could be sent to the United States. She might as well have been sent to another world. Following her stories written as the Beijing bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, Barbara Demick, author of National Book Award finalist Nothing to Envy, embarks on a journey that encompasses the origins, shocking cruelty, and long term impact of China's one-child rule; the rise of international adoption and the religious currents that buoyed it; and the exceedingly rare phenomenon of twin separation. Today, Esther--formerly Fangfang--is a photographer in Texas, and Demick brings to vivid life the Christian family that felt called to adopt her, having no idea that she was kidnapped. Through Demick's indefatigable reporting and the activist work to find these lost children, will these two long-lost sisters finally find each other, and if they do, will they feel whole again? A remarkable window into the volatile, constantly changing China of the last half century and the long-reaching legacy of the country's most infamous law, Daughters of the Bamboo Grove is also the moving story of two sisters torn apart by the forces of history and brought together again by their families' determination and one reporter's dogged work"--
Author: Sargeant, Juliet, author. Thomas, Matthew J., photographer. Published: 2025 Call Number: 631.4 Format: Books Summary: "Transform your garden from the ground up with this practical guide to soil." -- Provided by publisher. "Any thriving garden starts with good soil: whether you're growing vibrant herbaceous borders or bountiful vegetable beds. And while gardeners all appreciate the soil beneath their feet, many are still perplexed by how it works. In Start with Soil, award-winning garden designer Juliet Sargeant challenges you to take your soil seriously, reveals its hidden wonders and gives you the tools to improve your soil health and harness its power..." --Amazon.com
