Author: Lauder, Leonard A., author. Published: 2020 Call Number: B LAUDER Format: Books Summary: "Former CEO of Estée Lauder, Leonard Lauder, shares the business and life lessons he learned while turning the company his mother founded into a multi-billion dollar enterprise"-- In his much-anticipated memoir, The Company I Keep: My Life in Beauty, Chairman Emeritus and former CEO of The Estée Lauder Companies Leonard A. Lauder shares the business and life lessons he learned as well as the adventures he had while helping transform the mom-and-pop business his mother founded in 1946 in the family kitchen into the beloved brand and ultimately into the iconic global prestige beauty company it is today. In its infancy in the 1940s and 50s, the company comprised a handful of products, sold under a single brand in just a few prestigious department stores across the United States. Today, The Estée Lauder Companies constitutes one of the world's leading manufacturers and marketers of prestige skin care, makeup, fragrance and hair care products. It comprises more than 25 brands, whose products are sold in over 150 countries and territories. This growth and success was led by Leonard A. Lauder, Estée Lauder's oldest son, who envisioned and effected this expansion during a remarkable 60-year tenure, including leading the company as CEO and Chairman.
Author: Waite, Elizabeth (Mathematics teacher), author. Leff, Lawrence S., author. Published: 2019 Call Number: 516.22 Format: Books Summary: "This new edition in Barron's Easy Way Series contains everything students need to prepare for a geometry class. Geometry: The Easy Way provides key content review and practice exercises to help students learn geometry the easy way. Topics covered in this detailed review of algebra include the "how" and "why" of geometry, with examples, exercises, and solutions throughout, plus hundreds of drawings, graphs, and tables. Practice questions in each chapter help students develop their skills and gauge their progress. Visual references including charts, graphs, diagrams, instructive illustrations, and icons help engage students and reinforce important concepts." --
Author: Prindle, Anthony, author. Prindle, Katie, author. Published: 2019 Call Number: 510 Format: Books Summary: "This new edition in Barron's Easy Way Series contains everything students need to prepare for a math class. Math: The Easy Way provides key content review and practice exercises to help students learn math the easy way. Topics covered in this detailed review of algebra include whole numbers, fractions, percentages, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, word problems, probability, and statistics. Math: The Easy Way includes a diagnostic test to identify strengths and weaknesses so students can pinpoint their trouble spots, plus a practice with answers so students can test their knowledge. Visual references including charts, graphs, diagrams, instructive illustrations, and icons help engage students and reinforce important concepts." --
Author: Simons, Paullina, 1963- author. Published: 2019 Call Number: F SIMONS Format: Books Summary: "Young and handsome, Julian lives a charmed life in Los Angeles. His world is turned upside down by a love affair with Josephine, a mysterious young woman who takes him by storm. But she is not what she seems, carrying secrets that tear them apart--perhaps forever. So begins Julian and Josephine's extraordinary adventure of love, loss, and the mystical forces that bind people together across time and space. It is a journey that propels Julian toward either love fulfilled...or oblivion."--Amazon.com.
Author: World Book, Inc., issuing body. Published: 2017 Call Number: 031 (2017) Format: Books Summary: "A 22-volume, highly illustrated, A-Z general encyclopedia for all ages, featuring sections on how to use World Book, other research aids, pronunciation key, a student guide to better writing, speaking, and research skills, and comprehensive index"--
Author: Grossman, Gary H., author. Published: 2004 Call Number: F GROSSMAN Format: Books Summary: Scott Roarke, first in Army Special Operations and now as a secret service agent, thought he had seen everything and done everything. Then, during the presidential elections year he gets an assignment that turns his world upside down. What his investigation uncovers is a plot so monstrous it could change the course of America's future.
Author: Delany, Vicki, 1951- author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F DELANY Format: Books Summary: After Gemma helps a little girl find her lost cat, the child returns seeking further assistance when her mother is accused of killing her garden club rival. Young Lauren Tierney comes to the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium to beg Gemma to find her missing cat, Snowball. Gemma's dog Violet follows her nose to a neighbor's garden shed, and Gemma basks in praise for a job well done. A few days later Lauren is back for a far bigger job: Her mother has been accused of murdering her garden club rival. Sheila Tierney's garden had been vandalized the night before the West London Garden Club's early summer tour. Sheila confronted Anna Wentworth in a towering rage, and after Anna won the trophy for best garden she was found murdered. Now Sheila Tierney is the prime suspect. -- adapted from jacket.
Author: Johnson, Nancy (Novelist), author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F JOHNSON Format: Books Summary: "It's 2008, and the rise of Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. In Chicago, Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man. He's eager to start a family, but Ruth is uncertain. She has never gotten over the baby she gave birth to, and abandoned, when she was a teenager. She had promised her family she'd never look back, but Ruth knows that to move forward, she must make peace with the past. Returning home, Ruth discovers the Indiana factory town of her youth is plagued by unemployment, racism, and despair. Determined, Ruth begins digging into the past. As she uncovers burning secrets her family desperately wants to hide, she unexpectedly befriends Midnight, a young white boy who is also adrift and looking for connection. When a traumatic incident strains the town's already searing racial tensions, Ruth and Midnight find themselves on a collision course that could upend both their lives."--Publisher.
Author: Robb, J. D., 1950- author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F ROBB Format: Books Summary: "In the new Eve Dallas police thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author J.D. Robb, what looks like a lover's quarrel turned fatal has larger-and more terrifying-motives behind it"-- "The scene in the West Village studio appears to be classic crime-of-passion: two wineglasses by the bed, music playing, and a young sculptor named Ariel Byrd with the back of her head bashed in. But when Dallas tracks down the wealthy Upper East Side woman who called 911, the details don't add up. Gwen Huffman is wealthy, elegant, comforted by her handsome fiancé as she sheds tears over the trauma of finding the body - but why did it take an hour to report it? And why is she lying about little things? As Eve and her team look into Gwen, her past, and the people around her, they find that the lies are about more than murder. As with sculpture, they need to chip away at the layers of deception to find the shape within - and soon they're getting the FBI involved in a case that involves a sinister, fanatical group and a stunning criminal conspiracy."--Publisher.
Author: Mallery, Susan, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F MALLERY Format: Regular print Summary: "Mackenzie Dienes has a beautiful home, close friends and a successful career as an elite winemaker with her in-laws' winery. Everything in her life is tied to her husband: his mother is the closest thing to a mom that she's ever had, their home is on the family compound, his sister is her best friend. So when she and her husband admit their marriage is over, her pain goes beyond heartbreak. She's on the brink of losing her job, her home, her friends and, worst of all, her family. She can continue to work at the winery, be friends with her mother-in-law, hug her nieces and nephews--but as an employee, nothing more--or she can surrender every piece of her heart in order to build a legacy of her own. If she can dare to let go of the life she thought she wanted, she might discover something even more beautiful waiting for her beneath a painted moon."--Publisher.
Author: Harper, Jane (Jane Elizabeth), author. Published: 2021 2020 Call Number: F HARPER Format: Books Summary: "Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on the day a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences. The guilt that still haunts him resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal community he once called home. Kieran's parents are struggling in a town where fortunes are forged by the sea. Between them all is his absent brother, Finn. When a body is discovered on the beach, long-held secrets threaten to emerge. A sunken wreck, a missing girl, and questions that have never washed away..."--
Author: Cosimano, Elle, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F COSIMANO Format: Books Summary: "Edgar-Award nominee Elle Cosimano's adult debut Finlay Donovan Is Killing It is the first in a witty, fast-paced mystery series, following struggling suspense novelist and single mom Finlay Donovan, whose fiction treads dangerously close to the truth as she becomes tangled in real-life murder investigations. Finlay Donovan is killing it... except, she's really not. She's a stressed-out single-mom of two and struggling novelist, Finlay's life is in chaos: the new book she promised her literary agent isn't written, her ex-husband fired the nanny without telling her, and this morning she had to send her four-year-old to school with hair duct-taped to her head after an incident with scissors. When Finlay is overheard discussing the plot of her new suspense novel with her agent over lunch, she's mistaken for a contract killer, and inadvertently accepts an offer to dispose of a problem husband in order to make ends meet... Soon, Finlay discovers that crime in real life is a lot more difficult than its fictional counterpart, as she becomes tangled in a real-life murder investigation. Fast-paced, deliciously witty, and wholeheartedly authentic in depicting the frustrations and triumphs of motherhood in all its messiness, hilarity, and heartfelt moments, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It is the first in a brilliant new series from award-winning author Elle Cosimano."--
Author: Ashton, Jennifer, 1969- author. Toland, Sarah, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: 616.24 Format: Books Summary: The Chief Medical Correspondent at ABC News presents a guide to resilience in the era of COVID, sharing insights into how to understand evolving medical updates, adapt to evolving norms, and make responsible choices throughout the pandemic. Now in The New Normal, Dr. Ashton offers the essential toolkit for life in this unfamiliar reality. Rooted in her reporting on COVID-19 and the understanding that the virus isn't going anywhere overnight, The New Normal is built on a simple foundation: thriving in this evolving world demands accepting the new normal for what it is, not what we want it to be. No longer is wellness a buzzword, but an imperative for surviving this unprecedented time. Using her trademark practical, easy-to-follow advice, Dr. Ashton gives you all the necessary information to reclaim control of your life and live safely--from exercise, to diet, to general health--showing how to prepare your body and mind for challenges such as: taking proper medical precautions to protect yourself and your loved ones, exercising during the pandemic, even if you no longer feel safe at the gym, finding emotional balance through these uncertain times, and deciphering complicated medical news to learn what to trust and what to ignore. With these straightforward and accessible strategies and many more, Dr. Ashton helps empower you to make the unexpectedly hard decisions about socializing, food-shopping, seeing doctors, and most of all, finding normalcy. At once reassuring and urgent, The New Normal is a holistic roadmap through the ongoing struggles of the pandemic, providing the guidance you need to navigate this unsettling time and take charge of your future wellbeing.
Author: Mosley, Walter, author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F MOSLEY Format: Books Summary: "After being approached by a shell-shocked Vietnam War veteran who claims to have gotten into a fight protecting a white woman from a black man, Easy embarks on an investigation that takes him from mountaintops to the desert, through South Central and into sex clubs and the homes of the fabulously wealthy, facing hippies, the mob, and old friends perhaps more dangerous than anyone else."--Publisher description. 1969. Easy Rawlins, the Black private detective whose small agency finally has its own office, gets a visit from a white Vietnam veteran. The young man claims he and his lover were attacked in a citrus grove at the city's outskirts. He may have killed a man, and the woman and his dog are now missing. Inclined to turn down what sounds like nothing but trouble, Easy takes the case when he realizes how damaged the young vet is from his war experiences. Easy will need the help of his friends to make sense of a case that reveals the darkest impulses humans harbor. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Johansen, Iris, author. Johansen, Roy, author. Sequel to : Johansen, Iris. Hindsight. Published: 2021 Call Number: F JOHANSEN Format: Books Summary: "Kendra Michaels was blind for the first twenty years of her life. Then she gained her sight through a revolutionary surgical procedure. Her former disability has left her incredibly observant and insightful -- able to detect what other investigators may not. So when a world-famous pop star is kidnapped mid-show, investigator Kendra leads a pulse-pounding race to rescue the young woman from a deadly foe. This time Kendra gets assistance from recurring character Jessie Mercado, a private investigator and army veteran who was the singer's former bodyguard. But as the abductor's true purpose becomes clear, Kendra and Jessie uncover a plot more terrifying than anyone could have imagined. They must beat the odds stacked against them before lives are lost and the predator's grand scheme is executed"--
Author: Didion, Joan, author. Als, Hilton, writer of foreword. Published: 2021 Call Number: 814.54 Format: Books Summary: "From the universally acclaimed, best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: ten pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Here are six pieces written in 1968 from the "Points West" Saturday Evening Post column Joan Didion shared from 1964 to 1969 with her husband, John Gregory Dunne about: American newspapers; a session with Gamblers Anonymous; a visit to San Simeon; being rejected by Stanford; dropping in on Nancy Reagan, wife of the then-governor of California, while a TV crew filmed her at home; and an evening at the annual reunion of WWII veterans from the 101st Airborne Association at the Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas. Here too is a 1976 piece from the New York Times magazine on "Why I Write"; a piece about short stories from New West in 1978; and from The New Yorker, a piece on Hemingway from 1998, and on Martha Stewart from 2000. Each one is classic Didion: incisive, bemused, and stunningly prescient"--
Author: Meissner, Susan, 1961- author. Published: 2021 Call Number: F MEISSNER Format: Books Summary: "April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed. Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as he is mesmerizingly beautiful. While Sophie quickly develops deep affection for Kat, Martin's silent five-year-old daughter, his odd behavior leaves her with the uneasy feeling that something about her newfound situation isn't right. Then one early-spring evening, a stranger at the door sets in motion a transforming chain of events. Sophie discovers hidden ties to two other women. The first, pretty and pregnant, is standing on her doorstep. The second is hundreds of miles away in the American Southwest, grieving the loss of everything she once loved. The fates of these three women intertwine on the eve of the devastating earthquake, thrusting them onto a perilous journey that will test their resiliency and resolve and, ultimately, their belief that love can overcome fear. From the acclaimed author of The Last Year of the War and As Bright as Heaven comes a gripping novel about the bonds of friendship and mother love, and the power of female solidarity"--Provided by publisher.