Author: Kenneally, Christine, author. Published: 2023 Call Number: 362.732 Format: Books Summary: "A shocking expose of the dark, secret history of Catholic orphanages--the violence, abuse, and even murder that took place within their walls-- and a call to hold the powerful to account. More than 5 million Americans passed through orphanages in the 20th century alone. At its peak in the 1930s, the American orphanage system included more than 1,600 institutions, partly supported with public funding but usually run by religious orders, including the Catholic Church. Ghosts of the Orphanage is the result of seven years of investigation, and what Christine Keneally found was shocking, yet hiding in plain sight. Terrible things, abuse, both physical and psychological, and even deaths have happened in orphanages for many years. The survivors have been telling their stories for a long time, but no one has been listening. People are too often unwilling to accept their stories. And their options for recourse have been limited by the years it has taken many survivors to process their trauma, tell their stories, and pursue legal action. Centering her story on St. Joseph's, a Catholic orphanage in Vermont, Keneally investigates and shares the stories of survivors..."--
Author: Wells, Tina, 1980- author. Smith, Stephanie, 1978- author. Published: 2023 Call Number: 650.1 Format: Books Summary: "Make room for your dreams and revolutionize how you manage your time and energy using this innovative framework for finding work-life harmony from an accomplished entrepreneur and business strategist. Throughout her multifaceted career, Tina Wells has always found a way to transform her dreams into reality. She turned a business that she launched at sixteen into an award-winning marketing agency, led boardroom meetings as the youngest (and sometimes only) Black woman in the room, and pursued her childhood dream of traveling around the world. But all that success came with burnout, and Tina had to rethink how she thought about work and life. The result of her deep thinking and some trial and error, The Elevation Approach presents Tina's four-phase plan, a flexible and foolproof technique that helps you meet your goals without sacrificing joy for productivity and progress..."--
Author: Berg, Elizabeth, author. Published: 2023 Call Number: F BERG Format: Books Summary: "This beautiful novel tells the love story of young Arthur Moses and Nola, and how a young man grew up to become the wise old man known as Arthur Trulove. Set in the 1950s in the warm community of Mason, Missouri, Arthur is a shy, unathletic teenage boy, in love with the most beautiful girl in his class. He is thrilled when they become friends, but he wants more than friendship. Alas, he learns that Nola has a crush on the wrong Moses--Arthur's older brother, Frank. Meanwhile, Frank is busy pursuing his own passion, and avoiding their father, a war veteran with a drinking problem and a penchant for starting fights. When a sudden tragedy rocks Arthur's world, Arthur is force to grow up, and to learn how to create a life that involves the kinds of relationships that are the most important to him"--
Author: Kompf, Justin, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: 616.462 Format: Books Summary: A patient's guide to identifying and executing easy strategies and positive behaviors to help better manage their Type 2 diabetes. Health Habits for Diabetes highlights how to take the motivation to change from their diagnosis, use willpower, examine their sources of influence, form habits, and form a new integrated identity around healthy behaviors. Health Habits for Diabetes provides a what, why, and how for each stage of health behavior change including medication compliance, physical activity, mindset and nutrition. Most of the things that make us sick are preventable. They are preventable because they are the result of our behaviors. Using examples from research and practice, Health Habits for Diabetes uses this behavioral focus to help patients manage their Type 2 diabetes. --Publisher.
Author: Bushman, Emily J., author. Published: 2022 Call Number: 641.86 Format: Books Summary: "Join an otaku on her journey through anime sweets and learn to make them yourself"--Back cover.
Author: Cobb, Sunshine, author. Putnam-Phillips, Jessica, 1973- writer of foreword. Published: 2022 Call Number: 738.12 Format: Books Summary: "The Beginner's Guide to Hand Building is a friendly, contemporary take on the classic hand-building book--perfect for new and returning ceramic artists"-- "Whether you have access to a communal studio or not, hand building projects can travel just about anywhere. Take your clay outside or work at the kitchen table, with instruction from best-selling ceramics author Sunshine Cobb. In this book, you'll find all the necessary fundamentals, including a thorough discussion of clay as well as helpful tips for keeping your body and mind in top shape. Then pick the path that's right for you in the chapters that follow"--
Author: Riddle, A. G., author. Published: 2022 Call Number: F RIDDLE Format: Books Summary: "Adeline is an orphan. Her mother died three years ago when she was sixteen, and her father is lost 202 million years ago, in the late Triassic. Adeline knows he sacrificed his life to save hers, but her determination to find the truth reveals more questions. What has unnerved her father's ex-colleagues? What are they secretly digging for in the desert? Adeline will do whatever it takes to get to the truth, because somewhere, 202 million years in the past, her father is still alive." --Front jacket flap
Author: Coia, Laura Ann, 1959- author. Published: 2022 Call Number: 646 Format: Books Summary: "YouTube sew-lebrity Laura Coia returns with 23 projects, now available as printed, step-by-step instructions for the first time. Stitch up beautiful bags, accessories, and home decor with no pattern pieces"-- Provided by publisher.
Author: Jiwa, Bernadette, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: F JIWA Format: Books Summary: "'People were forever telling her how lucky she was. But what did people know?' Dublin 1965. When Joan Quinn, a factory girl from the Cranmore Estate, marries Martin Egan, it looks like her dreams have come true. But all is not as it seems. Joan lives in the shadow of a secret--the couple's decision to give up their first daughter for adoption only months before. For the next three decades, Joan's marriage and her relationship with her second child Carmel suffer as a consequence. Then one day in 1996, a letter arrives from their adopted daughter. Emma needs her birth parents' help; it's a matter of life and death. And the fragile facade of Joan's life finally begins to crack."--Provided by publisher.
Author: Andreen, Tracy, 1967- author. Published: 2022 Call Number: Y ANDREEN Format: Books Summary: Trying to figure out their relationship status when they return to boarding school after one magical Christmas Eve kiss, Finley and Arthur are faced with old enemies who add to the confusion, putting what could be love in jeopardy. "Finley is excited to return to boarding school at Barrington and reunite with Arthur, with whom she shared an idyllic Christmas romance. But to her surprise and dismay, Arthur is curiously distant and seems unwilling to resume their relationship. Could conniving Bronwyn be the cause? Or did something happen on his trip home to England to visit his wealthy, snobbish family?" --Front jacket flap
Author: Brady, Amy, Ph.D., editor. Isen, Tajja, editor. Published: 2022 Call Number: 577.27 Format: Books Summary: "In this riveting anthology, leading literary writers reflect on how climate change has altered their lives, revealing the personal and haunting consequences of this global threat. In the opening essay, National Book Award finalist Lydia Millet mourns the end of the Saguaro cacti in her Arizona backyard due to drought. Later, Omar El Akkad contemplates how the rise of temperatures in the Middle East is destroying his home and the wellspring of his art. Gabrielle Bellot reflects on how a bizarre lionfish invasion devastated the coral reef near her home in the Caribbean--a precursor to even stranger events to come. Traveling through Nebraska, Terese Svoboda witnesses cougars running across highways and showing up in kindergartens. As the stories unfold--from Antarctica to Australia, New Hampshire to New York--an intimate portrait of a climate-changed world emerges, captured by writers whose lives jostle against incongruous memories of familiar places that have been transformed in startling ways."--Provided by publisher.
Author: Not for Tourists, Inc., designer. Published: 2022 Call Number: 917.471 Format: Books Summary: "The Not For Tourists Guide to New York City is a map-based, neighborhood-by-neighborhood guide designed to lighten the load of already street-savvy New Yorkers, commuters, business travelers, and, yes, tourists too. Each map is marked with user-friendly icons identifying NFT's favorite picks around town, from essentials to entertainment, and includes invaluable neighborhood descriptions written by locals, highlighting the most important features of each area"--Amazon.com
Author: Dembicki, Matt, editor. Bruchac, Joseph, 1942- writer of introduction. Published: 2021 Call Number: Y GN TRICKSTE Format: Books Summary: "All cultures have tales of the trickster, a crafty creature or being who uses cunning to get food, steal precious possessions, or simply cause mischief. He disrupts the order of things, often humiliating others and sometimes himself. In Native American traditions, the trickster takes many forms, from coyote or rabbit to raccoon or raven. In the original graphic anthology of Native American trickster tales, Trickster brings together Native American folklore and the world of comics. This inspired collaboration pairs twenty-four native storytellers with twenty-four accomplished artists, telling cultural tales from across North America. This tenth anniversary edition also includes a new trickster tale and an introduction by best-selling author Joseph Bruchac. Ranging from serious and dramatic to funny and sometimes downright fiendish, these tales bring tricksters back into popular culture"--Back cover.
Author: Steiger, A. J., author. Published: 2021 Call Number: J STEIGER Format: Books Summary: Fourteen-year-old Simon, with mediocre magical powers, and Alice, a young girl transformed into a monster, work together to discover a cure to her enchantment and uncover secrets of their pasts.
Author: Carver, Meghan, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F CARVER Format: Books Summary: Welcome to Grace Pointe where most of the people are friendly, the church is to die for, and the sleuthing is as strong as the coffee.
Author: Kor, Eva Mozes, author. Rojany-Buccieri, Lisa, author. Tierney, Peggy, writer of afterword. Published: 2020 Call Number: Y B KOR Format: Books Summary: "Eva Mozes Kor was 10 years old when she arrived in Auschwitz. While her parents and two older sisters were taken to the gas chambers, she and her twin, Miriam, were herded into the care of the man known as the Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele. Mengele's twins were granted the 'privileges' of keeping their own clothes and hair, but they were also subjected to sadistic medical experiments and forced to fight daily for their own survival, as most of the twins died as a result of the experiments or from the disease and hunger pervasive in the camp. In a narrative told with emotion and restraint, readers will learn of a child's endurance and survival in the face of truly extraordinary evil. The new edition provides interesting details and important context to the events related in the original story. A new Afterword by publisher Peggy Porter Tierney offers a richer portrayal of Eva as a person, the truth behind the controversies, and the eventful last ten years of her life"--Publisher's website.
Author: Carver, Meghan, author. Published: 2019 Call Number: F CARVER Format: Books Summary: Welcome to Grace Pointe where most of the people are friendly, the church is to die for, and the sleuthing is as strong as the coffee.
Author: Preston, Natasha, author. Published: 2016 Call Number: Y PRESTON Format: Books Summary: Mackenzie and six of her friends head out to a secluded cabin for fun, but two of them are murdered and since they are all suspects, Mackenzie launches her own investigation, revealing secrets and sins among the original seven friends.
Author: Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942. Doody, Margaret Anne. Doody Jones, Mary E. Barry, Wendy E. Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942. Anne of Green Gables. Published: 1997 1908 Call Number: Y MONTGOME Format: Books Summary: This edition of the classic novel about the Prince Edward Island orphan contains critical material on the work itself and its author, as well as essays, poems, and songs.
Author: Miller, Donald, 1971- author. Published: 2023 Call Number: 658.022 Format: Books Summary: The author of the bestselling Building a StoryBrand discusses the ways that small business owners can identify and reach key customers, find and hire the best job candidates, and expand their business. Running a small business is no easy feat. As a small business owner, it's easy to get overwhelmed by the number of hats you have to wear to be successful. You started the business so you could share the product you love with the world, but logistics are getting in the way. Donald Miller knows this frustration all too well. He faced the same challenge when starting his company. While he knew his time was best spent creating content for small-business owners, he was constantly being torn away to focus on things he didn't understand. After several years of figuring it out, Donald has decided it's time to share what he learned. -- adapted from front jacket flap
