Author: Lindner, Eric, 1958- author. Published: 2021 Call Number: 363.12 Format: Books Summary: "On a moonless September night in 1962, 900 miles from land, Flying Tiger flight 923 began to fall apart at 21,000 feet. A crash was inevitable. Survival was impossible. Tiger in the Sea is the story of that harrowing flight"--
Author: De Waal, Edmund, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: B DEWAAL Format: Books Summary: "Tragic family history told in a collection of imaginary letters to a famed collector, Moise de Camondo"-- The Camondos were a Jewish family from Constantinople who made their home in Paris in the 1870s and became philanthropists, art collectors, and fixtures of Belle Époque high society. They were also targets of antisemitism, much like de Waal's relations, the Ephrussi family, to whom they were connected. Eventually, the Camondos were murdered by the Nazis. After de Waal, a ceramic artist, was invited to make an exhibition in the Camondo house, he began to write letters to Moise de Camondo. These fifty letters are deeply personal reflections on assimilation, melancholy, family, art, the vicissitudes of history, and the value of memory. -- adapted from Amazon info
Author: Snelling, Lauraine, author. Giron, Kiersti, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: LP F SNELLING Format: Large print Summary: "Larkspur Nielsen is ready for change, frustrated by the small-mindedness of her Ohio hometown and its lack of opportunity for her or her younger sisters. But the push to leave comes faster than she ever expected when several of her bold actions for justice earn her vindictive enemies. Overnight, they must pack up and ready to make a new life out West, hoping to escape notice and any opportunities for revenge. Knowing that four women traveling together will draw unwanted attention, Larkspur dons a disguise, passing herself off as 'Clark' Nielsen accompanying his three sisters. But maintaining the ruse is more difficult than Larkspur imagined, as is protecting her headstrong, starry-eyed sisters from difficult circumstances and available young men. Will reaching a safe place to call home ever be possible?"--
Author: Oke, Janette, 1935- author. Logan, Laurel Oke, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: LP F OKE Format: Large print Summary: "With more children on their way from England who need caring homes, Lillian and Grace Walsh must use every ounce of gumption to keep their mission alive. But when startling information about the past surfaces and a new arrival comes via suspicious circumstances, they'll have to decide what is worth fighting for and what is better left in God's hands"--
Author: Burns, Ursula, 1958- author. Published: 2021 Call Number: B BURNS Format: Books Summary: ""I am a black woman who doesn't play golf, doesn't belong to or go to any club, doesn't like NASCAR, doesn't like country music, and has a Science degree in engineering. I speak differently, very fast, with an accent and a set of vernacular that is New York City, definitely Black tilted. So when someone says I'm going to introduce you to the next CEO of Xerox, and the candidates are lined up against a wall, I would be the first one voted off the island." Where You Are is Not Who You Are is an engaging memoir by Ursula Burns, former Chief Executive Officer of the Xerox Corporation. Her appointment as the first African American woman to head a Fortune 500 company in 2010 drew headlines, which, Ms. Burns insists, missed the real story. "It should have been-How did this happen? How is it possible that the Xerox Corporation produced the first African American woman CEO? Not this spectacular, ridiculous one about, Oh, my god, a black woman making it." Burns writes about race. Her classmates, and later, her colleagues, almost all white males, "couldn't comprehend how a Black girl could be as smart, and in some cases, smarter than they were. So they made a special category for me. Unique. Amazing. Spectacular. That way they could accept me." Burns writes about gender in the corporate world. Always on the side of the laborer, she celebrates a time when CEOs lived in the communities alongside their workers, while showcasing the ways corporate culture is destroying the spirit of democracy. Burns' 35-year career at Xerox was all about fixing things, from cutting millions of dollars as head of manufacturing to save Xerox from bankruptcy to acquiring a $6 billion business services company to give Xerox a future. Candid and outspoken, this memoir takes the reader inside the c-suites of corporate America, and reveals it through the lens of a Black woman-someone who puts humanity over greed and justice over lining the pockets of the few"-- Appointed the chief executive officer of the Xerox Corporation in 2009, Burns was the first Black female to hold the position at a Fortune 500 company. Here she writes about her journey from tenement housing to the highest echelons of the corporate world, crediting her rise to her single mother. Burns writes about the limitations she faced, as well as the challenges and reality of the corporate world. The result is a remarkable look inside the C-suites through the eyes of someone who puts humanity over greed, and justice over power. No matter your circumstances, hard work and leadership can change your life-- and the world. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Sullivan, Matt (Sports editor), author. Published: 2021 Call Number: 796.3236 Format: Books Summary: "An award-winning journalist's behind-the-scenes account from the epicenter of sports, social justice, and coronavirus, Can't Knock the Hustle is a lasting chronicle of the historic 2019-2020 NBA season, by way of the notorious Brooklyn Nets and basketball's renaissance as a cultural force beyond the game"-- "Hundreds of interviews--with Hall of Famers, All-Stars, executives, coaches and power brokers across the world--provide a backdrop of the NBA's impact on social media, race, politics, health, fashion, fame and fandom, for a portrait of a time when sports brought us back together again like never before." --Front jacket flap.
Author: Herrera, Hayden, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: B HERRERA Format: Books Summary: "A coming-of-age memoir by the daughter of privileged, artistic, hard-drinking, bohemian parents, set against a backdrop of 1950s New York, Cape Cod, and Mexico"--
Author: McQuiston, Casey, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F MCQUISTO Format: Books Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes a new romantic comedy that will stop readers in their tracks... "Dreamy, other worldly, smart, swoony, thoughtful, hilarious - all in all, exactly what you'd expect from Casey McQuiston!" - Jasmine Guillory, New York Times bestselling author of The Proposal and Party for Two Cynical twenty-three-year old August doesn't believe in much. She doesn't believe in psychics, or easily forged friendships, or finding the kind of love they make movies about. And she certainly doesn't believe her ragtag band of new roommates, her night shifts at a 24-hour pancake diner, or her daily subway commute full of electrical outages are going to change that. But then, there's Jane. Beautiful, impossible Jane. All hard edges with a soft smile and swoopy hair and saving August's day when she needed it most. The person August looks forward to seeing on the train every day. The one who makes her forget about the cities she lived in that never seemed to fit, and her fear of what happens when she finally graduates, and even her cold-case obsessed mother who won't quite let her go. And when August realizes her subway crush is impossible in more ways than one-namely, displaced in time from the 1970s-she thinks maybe it's time to start believing. Casey McQuiston's One Last Stop is a sexy, big-hearted romance where the impossible becomes possible as August does everything in her power to save the girl lost in time"--
Author: Tompkins, Chris (LGBTQ advocate), author. Published: 2021 Call Number: 306.76 Format: Books Summary: "Raising LGBTQ Allies is the first book to focus on the prevention of homophobia, transphobia, and bullying before they begin. It encourages families to have open and authentic conversations in a practical, timely, and inclusive way. It also creates a dialogue with parents around the possibility they may have an LGBTQ child"-- Tompkins focuses on the prevention of homophobia, transphobia, and bullying before they begin. Creating a dialogue with parents around the possibility they may have an LGBTQ child, he encourages families to have open and authentic conversations in a practical, timely, and inclusive way. Offering specific actions that can be taken to address heteronormativity and challenge societal beliefs, Tompkins shows that change begins with us and what we say, as much as what we choose not to say. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Aaker, Jennifer Lynn, author. Bagdonas, Naomi, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: 152.43 Format: Books Summary: "Anyone-even you!-can learn how to harness the power of humor in business (and life), based on the popular class at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. Many people understand humor's power intuitively. But when it comes to using it with intention, far fewer know how. As a result, humor is vastly underleveraged in most workplaces today, impacting our performance, relationships, and health, and contributing to a permanent and unsightly frown known as "resting boss face." In fact, research shows that humor is one of the most powerful tools we have for accomplishing serious things. Top executives know this, which is why 98 percent prefer employees with a sense of humor, and 84 percent believe these employees do better work. Studies show that humor makes us appear more competent and confident, strengthens relationships, unlocks creativity, and boosts our resilience during difficult times. That's why Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas teach the popular course Humor: Serious Business at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where they help some of the world's most hard-driving, blazer-wearing business minds build levity into their organizations and lives. In Humor, Seriously, they draw on findings by behavioral scientists, advice from world-class comedians, and stories from real-life business leaders to reveal how humor works and-more important-how you can make greater and better use of it. Aaker and Bagdonas unpack the theory and application of humor: what makes something funny, how to mine your life for material, and how to craft a joke. They show how to use humor to make a strong first impression, deliver difficult feedback, and foster cultures where levity and creativity can thrive. And they explore the gray areas of humor: how to keep it appropriate-and recover if you cross a line. President Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, "A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done." If Eisenhower-the second least naturally funny president ever (after Franklin Pierce)-thought humor was necessary to win wars and build highways, then you might consider learning it too. Seriously"--
Author: Lea, Caroline, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: LP F LEA Format: Large print Summary: In the wake of the Allies' victory in North Africa, 1,000 Italian soldiers have been sent to a remote island off the Scottish coast to wait out the war. Their arrival has divided the island's community. Nerves frayed from three years of war and the constant threat of invasion, many locals fear the enemy prisoners and do not want them there. Where their neighbors see bloodthirsty enemies, however, orphaned sisters Dorothy and Constance see sick and wounded men unused to the freezing cold of an Orkney winter, and volunteer to nurse them. While doing so Dorothy finds herself immediately drawn to Cesare, a young man broken by the horrors of battle. But as the war drags on, tensions between the islanders and the outsiders deepen, and Dorothy's connection to Cesare threatens the bond she shares with Constance. Since the loss of their parents, the sisters have relied on each other. Now, their loyalty will be tested, each forced to weigh duty against desire...until, one fateful evening, a choice must be made, one that will have devastating consequences.
Author: Aubray, Camille, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: LP F AUBRAY Format: Large print Summary: Godmothers to one another's children, four women who married into a prosperous Italian family must come together, despite secrets and betrayals, when their husbands are forced to leave them during World War II, pitting them against notorious gangsters who run the streets of New York City.
Author: Lippman, Laura, 1959- author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F LIPPMAN Format: Books Summary: Bedridden after a freak accident, a novelist begins to question his own sanity as he moves through dreamlike memories of his own fictional characters. Injured in a freak accident, novelist Gerry Andersen lies in a hospital bed in his glamorous but sterile apartment, isolated from the busy world he can see through his windows. He is utterly dependent on two women he barely knows: his young assistant and a night nurse whose competency he questions. As he moves in and out of dreamlike memories and seemingly random appearances of a persistent ex-girlfriend at his bedside, Gerry fears he may be losing his grip on reality, much like his mother who recently passed away from dementia. He believes he's being plagued by strange telephone calls, in which a woman claiming to be Aubrey, the titular character of his hit novel Dream Girl, swears she will be coming to see him soon. Is he the victim of a cruel prank, or is he actually losing his mind? -- adapted from jacket
Author: Künsken, Derek, author. Published: 2021 2020 Call Number: F KUNSKEN Format: Books Summary: "Life can exist anywhere. And anywhere there is life, there is home. In the swirling clouds of Venus, the families of La Colonie live on floating plant-like trawlers, salvaging what they can in the fierce acid rain and crackling storms. Outside is dangerous, but humankind's hold on the planet is fragile and they spend most of their days simply surviving. But Venus carries its own secrets, too. In the depths, there is a wind that shouldn't exist. And the House of Styx wants to harness it."--
Author: Colgan, Jenny, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F COLGAN Format: Books Summary: Moving to a Cornish seaside village, hoping for peace and solitude, lonely registrar Marisa Rosso, feeling like life is passing her by, unexpectedly finds her joy again with the help of her noisy neighbor, the community spirit and a campaign to save the local bakery. Moving to the tidal island of Mount Polbearne, a Cornish seaside village, hoping for peace and solitude, Marisa Rosso, feeling like life is passing her by. She is struggling to get over the death of her beloved grandfather, back home in Italy. Her job as a registrar keeps her dealing with births, weddings, and deaths, but the solitude she craves proves elusive. Dealing with the community spirit of a tiny village struggling back to life after the quarantine, and the pressing need to help save the local bakery, can Marisa find her joy again at the end of the world? -- adapted from jacket
Author: Hughley, D. L. (Darryl L.), 1963- author. Moe, Doug (Comedian), author. Published: 2021 Call Number: 305.8 Format: Books Summary: As COVID-19 gripped America, we learned that African American communities were being disproportionately infected and killed by the pandemic. Minority communities lag behind in access to medical care, healthy food, clean air and water, mental health care, education, and more. D.L. Hughley does a deep dive into the white lies surrounding Black public health, resulting in a lively work of social commentary that's essential for understanding race relations in America today. D. L. Hughley offers a fearless satire that exposes racism's unjust tole on our bodies and minds. --
Author: Johnson, Diane, 1934- author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F JOHNSON Format: Books Summary: "A comedic novel about an American woman leaving her 20-year marriage to her French husband, returning to her native San Francisco to pick up the life she left behind, and the entwining lives of her children and grandchildren"-- In Lorna Mott Comes Home, Diane Johnson brings us into the dreamy, anxiety-filled American world of Lorna Mott Dumas, where much has changed and where she struggles to create a new life to support herself. Into the mix--her ex-husband, and the father of her three grown children (all supportive), and grandchildren with their own troubles (money, divorce, real estate, living on the fringe; a thriving software enterprise; a missing child in the far east; grandchildren--new hostages to fortune; and, one, 15 years old, a golden girl yet always different, diagnosed at a young age with diabetes, and now pregnant and determined to have the child). In the midst of a large cast, the precarious balance of comedy and tragedy, happiness and anxiety, contentment and striving, generosity and greed, love and sex, Diane Johnson, our Edith Wharton of expat life, comes home to America to deftly, irresistibly portray, with the lightest of touch, the way we live now.
Author: Feehan, Christine, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F FEEHAN Format: Books Summary: "#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan reaches new heights of passion and suspense in this thrilling novel that takes readers deep into the California backcountry, where a woman is tormented by visions of a killer. It starts in her dreams. Hideous flashes from a nightmare only she can stop. Images of a murderer stalking the ones she cares about most. . . . Stella Harrison thought she had gotten away from the traumas of her past. Running the Sunrise Lake Resort high in the Sierra Nevada mountains has brought her peace, even though she doesn't truly share her quiet life with anyone. Not even Sam, the hired handyman who notices everything and always seems to know exactly what she needs. Stella doesn't know anything about Sam's past, but somehow over the last two years his slow, steady presence has slipped past her defenses. Still, she knows she can't tell him about her recent premonitions. So far there's been no murder. No body. No way to prove what is about to happen without destroying the life she has built for herself. But a killer is out there. And Stella knows that this time she'll do whatever it takes to stop him"--
Author: Vo, Nghi, author. Adaptation of: Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940. Great Gatsby. Published: 2021 Call Number: F VO Format: Books Summary: "Immigrant. Socialite. Magician. Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society--she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age. She's also queer and Asian, a Vietnamese adoptee treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, while the most important doors remain closed to her. But the world is full of wonders: infernal pacts and dazzling illusions, lost ghosts and elemental mysteries. In all paper is fire, and Jordan can burn the cut paper heart out of a man. She just has to learn how. Nghi Vo's debut novel The Chosen and the Beautiful reinvents this classic of the American canon as a coming-of-age story full of magic, mystery, and glittering excess, and introduces a major new literary voice"--
Author: Mott, Jason, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F MOTT Format: Books Summary: "From a New York Times bestselling author, an astounding work of fiction, both incredibly funny and heartfelt, asking readers to embrace the fantastical in order to get to the heart of racism, police violence, and the hidden costs exacted upon not only Black Americans, but America as a whole"-- Soot, a young Black boy, lives in a rural town in the recent past. The Kid, a possibly imaginary child appears to a Black author on a cross-country publicity tour. to promote his bestselling novel. As their stories build and converge, they astonish. As the nation reckons with a tragic police shooting playing over and over again on the news, what it can mean to be Black in America? Who has been killed? Who is The Kid? Will the author finish his book tour, and what kind of world will he leave behind? --adapted from jacket In Jason Mott's Hell of a Book, a Black author sets out on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives Hell of a Book and is the scaffolding of something much larger and urgent: since Mott's novel also tells the story of Soot, a young Black boy living in a rural town in the recent past, and The Kid, a possibly imaginary child who appears to the author on his tour. As these characters' stories build and build and converge, they astonish. For while this heartbreaking and magical book entertains and is at once about family, love of parents and children, art and money, it's also about the nation's reckoning with a tragic police shooting playing over and over again on the news. And with what it can mean to be Black in America. Who has been killed? Who is The Kid? Will the author finish his book tour, and what kind of world will he leave behind? Unforgettably told, with characters who burn into your mind and an electrifying plot ideal for book club discussion, Hell of a Book is the novel Mott has been writing in his head for the last ten years. And in its final twists, it truly becomes its title.
