Author: Harkins, Eric, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: 658.4 Format: Books Summary: Your only job as a leader is to make sure Monday morning doesn't suck. At least that's what Eric Harkins thinks. In his first book, Eric talks about his twenty-five-year journey working in corporate America and the many lessons he learned about leadership. He was lucky enough to work for a company that made sure Monday morning didn't suck, but even luckier to work for several that didn't. Great Leaders Make Sure Monday Morning Doesn't Suck is a fun, engaging, and light-hearted collection of stories told by Eric. He's worked for some good leaders. He's worked for some bad leaders. And he learned a lot about what it takes to create a culture high performers want to be a part of.
Author: Extence, Gavin, 1982- author. Published: 2020 2019 Call Number: F EXTENCE Format: Books Summary: Beneath the stars, on a stony beach, stand two teenage brothers. They are wearing life-jackets that are too big for them and their most precious belongings are sealed in waterproof bags tucked inside the rucksacks on their backs. Turkey is behind them and Europe lies ahead, a dark, desperate swim away. They don't know what will come next, but they're about to meet a man who does. He calls himself Jesus, the Messiah. He is barefoot, disheveled and smells strongly of alcohol. And he doesn't believe in chance meetings. He believes he has information about the future--information that will change three lives forever...
Author: Ivester, Jo, author. Published: 2020 Call Number: B IVESTER Format: Books Summary: Once a Girl, Always a Boy is Jeremy's journey from childhood through coming out as transgender and eventually emerging as an advocate for the transgender community. This is not only Jeremy's story but also that of his family, told from multiple perspectives -- those of the siblings who struggled to understand the brother they once saw as a sister, and of the parents who ultimately joined him in the battle against discrimination.
Author: Keller, Timothy, 1950- author. Published: 2020 Call Number: 236.1 Format: Books Summary: "From author and pastor Timothy Keller, a book about facing the death of loved ones, as well as our own inevitable death. Significant events such as birth, marriage, and death are milestones in our lives in which we experience our greatest happiness and our deepest grief. And so it is profoundly important to understand how to approach and experience these occasions with grace, endurance, and joy. In a culture that does its best to deny death, Timothy Keller-theologian and bestselling author-teaches us about facing death with the resources of faith from the Bible. With wisdom and compassion, Keller finds in the Bible an alternative to both despair or denial. A short, powerful book, On Death gives us the tools to understand the meaning of death within God's vision of life."--
Author: Jensen, Kelly, editor. Published: 2018 Call Number: 616.89 Format: Books Summary: What does it mean to be crazy? Is using the word crazy offensive? What happens when such a label gets attached to your everyday experiences? In order to understand mental health, we need to talk openly about it. Because there's no single definition of crazy, there's no single experience that embodies it, and the word itself means different things -- wild? extreme? disturbed? passionate? -- to different people. (Don't) Call Me Crazy is a conversation starter and guide to better understanding how our mental health affects us every day. Thirty-three writers, athletes, and artists offer essays, lists, comics, and illustrations that explore their personal experiences with mental illness, how we do and do not talk about mental health, help for better understanding how every person's brain is wired differently, and what, exactly, might make someone crazy. If you've ever struggled with your mental health, or know someone who has, come on in, turn the pages, and let's get talking.
Author: Yates, Jane, author. Published: 2018 Call Number: 743.8 Format: Books Summary: "Not all mermaids look like the ones seen in movies. This stimulating book will show readers how to draw different styles of mermaids, including cartoon and manga, and teach them about the roles mermaids play in mythology"--Publisher's website.
Author: Theroux, Paul, author. McCurry, Steve, photographer. Published: 2016 2015 Call Number: 975 Format: Books Summary: "One of the most acclaimed travel writers of our time turns his unflinching eye on an American South too often overlooked. Paul Theroux has spent fifty years crossing the globe, adventuring in the exotic, seeking the rich history and folklore of the far away. Now, for the first time, in his tenth travel book, Theroux explores a piece of America--the Deep South. He finds there a paradoxical place, full of incomparable music, unparalleled cuisine, and yet also some of the nation's worst schools, housing, and unemployment rates. It's these parts of the South, so often ignored, that have caught Theroux's keen traveler's eye. On road trips spanning four seasons, wending along rural highways, Theroux visits gun shows and small-town churches, laborers in Arkansas, and parts of Mississippi where they still call the farm up the road 'the plantation.' He talks to mayors and social workers, writers and reverends, the working poor and farming families--the unsung heroes of the south, the people who, despite it all, never left, and also those who returned home to rebuild a place they could never live without. From the writer whose 'great mission has always been to transport us beyond that reading chair, to challenge himself--and thus, to challenge us' (Boston Globe), Deep South is an ode to a region, vivid and haunting, full of life and loss alike"--
Author: Hilderbrand, Elin, author. Published: 2011 Call Number: F HILDERBR Format: Books Summary: Facing homelessness and a loss of social standing after her husband cheats rich investors out of billions of dollars, Meredith and her best friend, Connie, who has troubles of her own, escape to Nantucket to heal. Meredith Martin Delinn just lost everything: her friends, her homes, her social standing -- because her husband Freddy cheated rich investors out of billions of dollars. Desperate and facing homelessness, Meredith receives a call from her old best friend, Constance Flute. Connie's had recent worries of her own, and the two depart for a summer on Nantucket in an attempt to heal. But the island can't offer complete escape, and they're plagued by new and old troubles alike. When Connie's brother Toby -- Meredith's high school boyfriend -- arrives, Meredith must reconcile the differences between the life she is leading and the life she could have had.
Author: Corry, Neil. Published: 2010 Call Number: 791.4572 Format: Books Summary: Presents an introduction to the popular science fiction television program, discussing its characters, plot lines, villains, gadgets, monsters, aliens, weaponry, and spaceships.
Author: Zehr, Howard, author, photographer. Published: 2010 1996 Call Number: 365.6 Format: Books Summary: "What does it mean to face a life prison sentence? What have "lifers" learned about life -- from having taken a life? Photographer Howard Zehr has interviewed and made portraits of men and women in Pennsylvania prisons who are serving life sentences without possibility of parole. Readers see the prisoners as people, de-mystified. Brief text accompanies each portrait, the voice of each prisoner speaking openly about the crime each has committed, the utter violation of another person each has caused. They speak of loneliness, missing their children growing up, dealing with the vacuum, caught between death and life. A timely book"--Publisher's website.
Author: Rushdie, Salman, author. Published: 2008 1988 Call Number: F RUSHDIE Format: Books Summary: A hijacked jumbo jet bound for London blows apart high above the English Channel. Two figures, Indian actors of opposing sensibilities, Gibreel and Saladin, fall to Earth, and are washed up on an English beach. Soon curious changes occur--Gibreel seems to have acquired a halo, while Saladin grows hooves and bumps at his temples. They are transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil. This is the initial act in an odyssey that merges the actual with the imagined.
Author: Flynn, Vince, 1966-2013. Published: 2007 Call Number: F FLYNN Format: Books Summary: In the aftermath of an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, CIA director Irene Kennedy and operative Mitch Kelly are dispatched to the Middle East to diffuse Iran's sworn retaliation against the United States.
Author: García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014 author. Rabassa, Gregory translator. Published: 2006 1970 Call Number: F GARCIAMA Format: Books Summary: Tells the story of the Buendia family, set against the background of the evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town.
Published: 2003 2001 Call Number: 641.5686 Format: Books Summary: Christmas is magic--a time to catch up with family and friends and share fine foods. For the person who has to feed everyone, the days leading to Christmas can be hectic. The essential Christmas cookbook tells you everything about planning and entertaining with minimum stress. Impress your guests with culinary brilliance, then relax and enjoy the goodwill of Christmas.
Author: Cretzmeyer, Stacy. Hartz, Ruth Kapp. Published: 1999 1994 Call Number: B HARTZ Format: Books Summary: Tells the story of Ruth Kapp, a young Jewish girl in Nazi-occupied France in 1941, who, after being separated from her family, lived out the war hidden in a Catholic convent until being reunited with her parents in the final months of the conflict.
Author: Lim, Elizabeth, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: Y LIM Format: Books Summary: "Princess Shiori made a deathbed promise to return the dragon's pearl to its rightful owner, but keeping that promise is more dangerous than she ever imagined. She must journey to the kingdom of dragons, navigate political intrigue among humans and dragons alike, fend off thieves who covet the pearl for themselves and will go to any lengths to get it, all while cultivating the appearance of a perfect princess to dissuade those who would see her burned at the stake for the magic that runs in her blood"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Zamora, Javier, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: B ZAMORA Format: Books Summary: Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago--'one day, you'll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure.' Javier's adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone except for a group of strangers and a "coyote" hired to lead them to safety, Javier's trip is supposed to last two short weeks. At nine years old, all Javier can imagine is rushing into his parents' arms, snuggling in bed between them, and living under the same roof again. He cannot foresee the perilous boat trips, relentless desert treks, pointed guns, arrests and deceptions that await him; nor can he know that those two weeks will expand into two life-altering months alongside a group of strangers who will come to encircle him like an unexpected family. A memoir as gripping as it is moving, Solito not only provides an immediate and intimate account of a treacherous and near-impossible journey, but also the miraculous kindness and love delivered at the most unexpected moments. Solito is Javier's story, but it's also the story of millions of others who had no choice but to leave home. --adapted from book jacket.
Author: Lewis, Beverly, 1949- author. Published: 2022 Call Number: LP F LEWIS Format: Books Summary: "For generations, Ellie Hostetler's family has tended their orchard, a tradition her twin brother, Evan, will someday continue. But when Evan is drafted for the Vietnam War, the family is shocked to learn he has not sought conscientious objector status. Can Ellie, with the support of a new beau, find the courage to face a future unlike the one she imagined?"--
Author: Monson, Marianne, 1975- author. Published: 2022 Call Number: F MONSON Format: Books Summary: "Based on the true story of Ida and Louise Cook, British sisters who smuggled valuables out of 1930s Nazi Germany to finance a daring, secret operation to help Jews find hope for a new life in England. British sisters Ida and Louise Cook enjoy their quiet, unassuming lives in south London. Ida writes romance novels, and Louise works as a secretary. In the evenings, the sisters indulge in their shared love for opera, saving their money to buy records and attend performances throughout England and Europe, becoming well-known by both performers and fellow opera lovers. But when Hitler seizes power in 1933, he begins targeting and persecuting German Jews, passing laws that restrict their rights and their lives. The sisters continue their trips to the German opera houses, but soon, Jewish members of the opera community covertly approach the sisters, worried that they will be stripped of their wealth and forced to leave their homes and the country. Danger looms on the horizon, threatening to spill across all of Europe's borders. Ida and Louise vow to help, but how can two ordinary working-class women with limited means make a difference? Together with their beloved opera community, the sisters devise a plan to personally escort Jewish refugees from Germany to England. The success of the plan hinges on Ida and Louise's ability to smuggle contraband jewelry and furs beneath the watchful eyes of the SS soldiers guarding various checkpoints. But how many trips can they make before someone blows a whistle? Or before the final curtain falls on Germany's borders? The Opera Sisters is a riveting and inspiring novel of two unlikely heroines whose courage and compassion gave hope to many Jews desperate to escape Nazi persecution." --jacket flap.
Author: Hartman, Virginia, 1959- author. Published: 2022 Call Number: F HARTMAN Format: Books Summary: "Loni Mae Murrow's life in Washington, DC is tidy, if a trifle constrained. Single and in her mid-thirties, she's a bird artist at the Smithsonian who spends her days at a desk, making elaborate drawings of belted kingfishers and scrub-jays and purple gallinules. Then she's abruptly summoned back home to the wetlands of northern Florida, where she grew up. Her mother, critical and difficult, has grown frail and been resentfully consigned to assisted living, and her younger brother, Phil, juggling a job and a wife and two young children, needs her help. Loni may not be her mother's only child, but there are some things only a daughter can do. Although Florida, with its suffocating heat and difficult memories, is a place she thought she'd managed to get away from, Loni soon discovers that home is not so easily forgotten. Going through her mother's things, she finds a cryptic note from a woman whose name she doesn't recognize: "There are some things I have to tell you about Boyd's death," it reads. Boyd is her father, a man who drowned in a boating accident out on the marsh when Loni was twelve and Phil just a baby. The circumstances of his death, long presumed a suicide, turn out to be murkier than anyone thought. Against her better judgment, Loni finds herself drawn into a quest to discover the truth about how he died..."--
