Author: Tran, Michael, 1982- author. Published: 2020 Call Number: 635.9772 Format: Books Summary: Forty tree profiles provide growing information, with both day-to-day and seasonal care advice, along with ideas for how to shape and display and such specialty techniques as repotting, wire training branches, defoliating, and root and branch pruning. Anyone can become a bonsai artist. This book will show you how, through care profiles for 40 top trees and illustrated demonstrations of more than 20 bonsai techniques and styles. Select the right tree, learn how to keep it thriving, and shape your bonsai into a beautiful living sculpture. Do you know what a "nebari" is? Can you tell a raft display from a forest group? When is the right time to prune? How do you create a windswept look? Happy Bonsai has all the answers. Each tree profile provides easy-to-follow growing information, with day-to-day and seasonal care advice, along with ideas and tips for how to shape. Specialist techniques - such as repotting, wire training, defoliating, and root and branch pruning - are explained with illustrations. Techniques are then put into practice with demonstrations of how to achieve the main bonsai styles, from an informal upright tree to a forest group or root-over-rock. Making bonsai accessible to everyone, Happy Bonsai will help you fall in love with this meditative garden craft.
Author: Temba, Abisai, author. Published: 2020 Call Number: 301 Format: Books Summary: This book is a result of long time research work about the origin of the Wa-Shaka people of Kilimanjaro Mountain area. The Wa-Shaka are known to have until now lived in Kilimanjaro for many hundreds of years. Until as late as now there is nobody who knows exactly who those people are, how they got to the Kilimanjaro Mountain area, from where they came from, or the factors that pushed from their places of origin to this Mountain area. A lot of attempts have been made to get answers to the questions, but results were not encouraging. However, findings from this research work has shown that most past efforts have started from wrong premises, hence the failure before getting to any meaningful stage. However, as we read this book we will discover why past efforts have failed; we will be able to see a step by step approach taken towards getting to the core problem identification, we will see the data collection process, the origin and destination process and ultimately the achievements realized. Walking the path has been quite a tough an achievement which has been realized only through this investigative work--hence, "The Un-walked Mile"
Author: Pépin, Jacques, author. Hopkins, Tom, 1956- photographer. Published: 2020 Call Number: 641.512 Format: Books Summary: "250 of master chef Jacques Pépin's classic and timeless recipes for unexpectedly polished and satisfying meals with minimal prep and cleanup"-- "You don't need a kitchen brigade, decades-honed skills, or expensive ingredients to cook and eat like master chef Jacques Pépin. Just like the rest of us, he doesn't always have as much time or energy as he'd like to put together a satisfying meal. With this collection of 250 recipes for surprisingly achievable, impressive fare, he shares the foundation of good, efficient home cooking. Covering homemade staples and every course, plus what every good kitchen should be equipped and stocked with, this foundational, classic recipe book is an essential for every busy home cook who refuses to eat poorly." -- Back cover.
Author: Patterson, James, 1947- author. Ellis, David, 1967- author. Published: 2018 2017 Call Number: PB PATTERSO Format: Books Summary: "Meet Billy Harney. The son of Chicago's chief of detectives, he was born to be a cop. There's nothing he wouldn't sacrifice for his job. Enter Amy Lentini, an assistant state's attorney hell-bent on making a name for herself--by proving Billy isn't the cop he claims to be. A horrifying murder leads investigators to a brothel that caters to Chicago's most powerful citizens. There's plenty of evidence on the scene, but what matters most is what's missing: the madam's black book"--Back cover.
Author: Dyson, Michael Eric author. Published: 2016 Call Number: 305.8 DYSON Format: Books Summary: Michael Eric Dyson delivers a provocative exploration of the politics of race and the Obama presidency. Barack Obama's presidency unfolded against the national traumas of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, and Walter Scott. The nation's first African American president was careful to give few major race speeches, yet he faced criticism from all sides, including from African Americans. How has Obama's race affected his presidency and the nation's identity? Dyson explores whether Obama's use of his own biracialism as a symbol has been driven by the president's desire to avoid a painful moral reckoning on race. And he sheds light on identity issues within the black power structure, telling how Obama has spurned traditional black power brokers, significantly reducing their leverage. Perhaps most movingly, Dyson illuminates the transformative moments, especially in his second term, when Obama has publicly embraced his blackness and used it as a powerful lens onto America, black and white. President Obama's own voice--from an Oval Office interview granted to Dyson for the book--along with that of Eric Holder, Al Sharpton, and Andrew Young, among others, adds depth to this tour of the nation's first black presidency.--Adapted from book jacket.
Author: Kiernan, Denise. Published: 2013 Call Number: 976.8 KIERNAN Format: Books Summary: "At the height of World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents, consuming more electricity than New York City. But to most of the world, the town did not exist. Thousands of civilians--many of them young women from small towns across America--were recruited to this secret city, enticed by solid wages and the promise of war-ending work. Kept very much in the dark, few would ever guess the true nature of the tasks they performed each day in the hulking factories in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains. That is, until the end of the war--when Oak Ridge's secret was revealed. Drawing on the voices of the women who lived it--women who are now in their eighties and nineties--The Girls of Atomic City rescues a remarkable, forgotten chapter of American history from obscurity. Denise Kiernan captures the spirit of the times through these women: their pluck, their desire to contribute, and their enduring courage. Combining the grand-scale human drama of The Worst Hard Time with the intimate biography and often troubling science of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The Girls of Atomic City is a lasting and important addition to our country's history"--Back cover.
Author: Macomber, Debbie, author. Container of (work): Macomber, Debbie. Nell's cowboy. Container of (work): Macomber, Debbie. Lone star baby. Published: 2013 Call Number: PB MACOMBER Format: Books Summary: "NELL'S COWBOY. Nell Bishop, widowed mother of two children, is turning her property into a dude ranch. And one of her first guests is Travis Grant, an Easterner known for his books about the West. Her kids adore him--and she has to admit she's drawn to him, too. But Nell isn't ready to fall in love again. Or is she? LONE STAR BABY. Wade McMillen might be a minister, but he's also a man. An unmarried and very attractive one. So is it as a man that he responds to Amy Thornton when she shows up in Promise, pregnant and alone? Or as a man of God? Maybe it's both ..."--Back cover.
Author: Giffin, Emily. Published: 2011 2004 Call Number: PB GIFFIN Format: Books Summary: After a night of indiscriminate partying, Rachel sleeps with a close friend's fiancé and is consumed with guilt, until the intensity of her feelings forces her to make a difficult choice.
Author: Frank, Dorothea Benton, author. Published: 2010 2009 Call Number: PB FRANK Format: Books Summary: "Newly graduated from college, Beth Hayes has worlds to conquer. But her grand ambitions are put on hold when she's elected by the family elders to house-sit the Island Gamble--ghosts and all. But there is much about life and her family's past that Beth doesn't understand. And her plans to rest and rejuvenate--to bask in memory and the magic of white clapboards and shimmering blue waters--begin dangerously unraveling when she falls in love. Still, everything here happens for a reason--and disappointment, betrayal, even tragedy are more easily handled when surrounded by beloved family and loyal friends"--Back cover.
Author: Kinsella, Sophie, author. Published: 2009 2000 Call Number: PB KINSELLA Format: Books Summary: "Becky Bloomwood has what most young women only dream of: a flat in London's trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet brimming with the season's must-haves. The only trouble is that she can't actually afford it - not any of it. Her job writing at Successful Saving magazine not only bores her to tears, it doesn't pay much at all. Still, how can she resist that perfect pair of shoes? Or the divine silk blouse in the window of the ultra-trendy boutique? But lately Becky's been chased by dismal letters from Visa and the Endwich Bank--letters with large red sums she can't bear to read--and they're getting ever harder to ignore. She tries cutting back; she even tries making more money. But none of her efforts succeeds. Her only consolation is to buy herself something...just a little something...Finally, a story arises that Becky actually cares about, and her front-page catalyzes a chain of events that will transform her life--and the lives of those around her--forever"--Back cover.
Author: Picoult, Jodi, 1966- author. Published: 2006 1998 Call Number: PB PICOULT Format: Books Summary: "Until the phone calls came at three o'clock on a November morning, the Golds and their neighbors, the Hartes, had been inseparable. It was no surprise to anyone when their teenage children, Chris and Emily, began showing signs that their relationship was moving beyond that of lifelong friends. But now seventeen-year-old Emily is dead--shot with a gun her beloved and devoted Chris pilfered from his father's cabinet as part of an apparent suicide pact--leaving two devastated families stranded in the dark and dense predawn, desperate for answers about an unthinkable act and the children they never really knew"--Back cover.
Author: Stover, Matthew Woodring, author. Published: 2005 Call Number: PB STOVER Format: Books Summary: "As combat escalates across the galaxy, the stage is set for an explosive endgame: Obi-Wan undertakes a perilous mission to destroy the dreaded separatist military leader, General Grievous. Supreme Chancellor Palpatine continues to strip away constitutional liberties in the name of security while influencing public opinion to turn against the Jedi. And a conflicted Anakin fear that his secret love, Senator Padmé Amidala, will die. Tormented by unspeakable visions, Anakin edges closer to the brink of a galaxy-shaping decision. It remains only for Darth Sidious to strike the final staggering blow against the Republic--and to ordain a fearsome new Sith Lord: Darth Vader"--Back cover.
Author: Denning, Troy, author. Published: 2004 2003 Call Number: PB DENNING Format: Books Summary: "The deaths of Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine by no means spelled the end of the Empire. In the aftermath, the New Republic has faced a constant struggle to survive. Now a new threat looms: a masterpiece of Alderaanian art--lost after the planet's destruction--has resurfaced on the black market. It conceals a vital secret--the code used to communicate with New Republic agents undercover within the Empire. Discovery by Imperial forces would mean disaster. The only option is recovery--and Han, Leia, Chewbacca, and C-3PO have been dispatched to Tatooine to infiltrate the auction. When a dispute at the auction erupts into violence, the painting vanishes in the chaos. Han and Leia are thrust into a desperate race to reclaim it. As they battle against marauding TIE fighters, encroaching stormtroopers, and Tatooine's savage Tusken Raiders, Leia's emotional struggle over the specter of her famous father culminates in the discovery of an extraordinary link to the past. As long-buried secrets at last emerge, she faces a moment of reckoning that will forever alter her destiny...and that of the New Republic"--Back cover.
Author: Gibson, Rachel, author. Published: 2003 Call Number: PB GIBSON Format: Books Summary: "This is Jane. A little subdued. A little stubborn. A little tired of going out on blind dates with men who drive van with sofas in the back, Jane Alcott is living the Single Girl existence in the big city. She is also leading a double life. By day, she's a reporter covering the raucous Seattle Chinooks hockey team--especially their notorious goalie Luc Martineau. By night, she's a writer, secretly creating the scandalous adventures of 'Honey Pie'...the magazine series that has all the men talking. Luc has made his feelings about parasite reporters--and Jane--perfectly clear. But if he thinks he's going to make her life miserable, he'd better think again. For as long as he can remember, Luc has been single-minded about his career. The last thing he needs is a smart-mouthed, pain-in-the-backside reporter digging into his past and getting in his way. But once the little reporter sheds her black and gray clothes in favor of a sexy red dress, Luc sees that there is more to Jane than originally meets the eye"--Back cover.
Author: Chamberlain, Lauryn, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F CHAMBERL Format: Books Summary: "A timeless story about female friendship with an incredibly timely hook that makes it perfect for the millennial reader"-- Jules O'Brien and Michelle Davis has been best friends since third grade. Now in their midtwenties, the friends live miles and worlds apart. When Jules agrees to be a maid of honor in Michelle's wedding, she realizes how different the two have become.
Author: Morgyn, Ava, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: Y MORGYN Format: Books Summary: Upon her grandmother's death, seventeen-year-old Cat must move to New Orleans with her bipolar mother, where she is haunted by strangely familiar visitors who know more about her than they should. Ten years ago, Cat's mother, Mary, left her at her grandmother's house with nothing but a deck of tarot cards. Cat is determined to make her life as different from Mary's as possible, but after her grandmother dies Cat is forced to move to New Orleans with her mother. There, she discovers a picture of Mary holding a baby that's not her, leading her to unravel a dark family history and challenge her belief that Mary's mental health issues are the root of all their problems. As Cat explores the reasons for her mother's breakdown, she fears she is experiencing her own. -- adapted from jacket
