Author: Dunn, Pintip, author. Published: 2020 Call Number: Y DUNN Format: Books Summary: The Tech sisters don't date in high school-- because they're not allowed. Until now. Six months after the older Tech twins got to college, their parents asked, 'Why aren't you engaged yet?' Her traditional Thai parents now insist that their youngest daughter, Orrawin (aka 'Winnie'), must practice fake dating in high school. Under their watchful eyes, of course-- and organized based on their favorite rom-coms. The first candidate? The son of their longtime friends. Mat Songsomboon. Who is arrogant, infuriating, and way too good-looking. Her parents love him. If only he weren't her sworn enemy.... -- adapted from back cover
Author: Feehan, Christine, author. Published: 2020 Call Number: FEE Format: Books Summary: "Torpedo Ink is Aleksei 'Absinthe' Solokov's whole life. They're his brothers, his family - his everything. But that doesn't stop him from wanting something that only belongs to him. That's why the tough biker has spent the last six weeks at the library, reading every book he can get his hands on and watching the prim and proper librarian who makes his blood rush. For the past six weeks, Scarlet Foley has been fantasizing about the handsome, tattooed man whose eyes follow her every move. She senses he's dangerous. She wants him to get close enough to touch. She wishes she could let him know the real woman, not the one she pretends to be. But Scarlet has a plan to carry out, and she can't afford any distractions. Absinthe is well aware that Scarlet is hiding something. She's a puzzle he intends to solve, piece by intoxicating piece...."--Publisher.
Author: Flynn, Laurie Elizabeth, author. Published: 2020 Call Number: Y FLYNN Format: Books Summary: Perfect for fans of One of Us is Lying and We Were Liars, All Eyes on Her by L.E. Flynn is a gripping young adult thriller told from the perspective of everyone except the alleged killer-- a seventeen-year-old girl. You heard the story on the news. A girl and a boy went into the woods. The girl carried a picnic basket. The boy wore bright yellow running shoes. The girl found her way out, but the boy never did.... Everyone thinks they know what happened. Some say Tabby pushed him off that cliff-- she didn't even like hiking. She was jealous. She had more than her share of demons. Others think he fell accidentally--she loved Mark. She would never hurt him...even if he hurt her. But what's the real story? All Eyes On Her is told from everyone but Tabby herself as the people in her life string together the events that led Tabby to that cliff. Her best friend. Her sister. Her enemy. Her ex-boyfriend. Because everybody thinks they know a girl better than she knows herself. What do you think is the truth? An Imprint Book Praise for Last Girl Lied To I can't lie: Last Girl Lied To is my favorite thriller of 2019. Twisted and delicious. -- Kim Savage, author of In Her Skin A twisty, piercing thriller with an end you won't see coming. --Mindy McGinnis, author of Female of the Species Fans of E. Lockhart,
Author: Stanley, Amy, 1978- author. Published: 2020 Call Number: 952.025 Format: Books Summary: "A vivid, deeply researched work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo-the city that would become Tokyo-and a portrait of a great city on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West." The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in a rural Japanese village and was expected to live a traditional life much like her mother's. But after three divorces--and a temperament much too strong-willed for her family's approval--she ran away to make a life for herself in one of the largest cities in the world: Edo, a bustling metropolis at its peak. With Tsuneno as our guide, we experience the drama and excitement of Edo just prior to the arrival of American Commodore Perry's fleet, which transformed Japan. During this pivotal moment in Japanese history, Tsuneno bounces from tenement to tenement, marries a masterless samurai, and eventually enters the service of a famous city magistrate. Tsuneno's life provides a window into 19th-century Japanese culture--and a rare view of an extraordinary woman who sacrificed her family and her reputation to make a new life for herself, in defiance of social conventions. Immersive and fascinating, Stranger in the Shogun's City is a revelatory work of history, layered with rich detail and delivered with beautiful prose, about the life of a woman, a city, and a culture.
Author: Giggs, Rebecca, author. Published: 2020 Call Number: 599.5 Format: Books Summary: When writer Rebecca Giggs encountered a humpback whale stranded on her local beachfront in Australia, she began to wonder how the lives of whales reflect the condition of our oceans. A gorgeous meditation on the awe-inspiring lives of whales, revealing what they can teach us about ourselves, our planet, and our relationship to other species. Giggs outlines the challenges we face as we attempt to understand the perspectives of other living beings, and our own place on an evolving planet. Evocative and inspiring, Fathoms marks the arrival of an essential new voice.
Author: London, Julia, author. Published: 2020 Call Number: F LONDON Format: Books Summary: "An accidental dog swap unleashes an unexpected love match . . . . Carly Kennedy is drowning in work, her divorced parents are going through their midlife crises, and somehow Carly's sister convinces her to foster Baxter-a basset hound rescue with a bad case of the blues. When Carly comes home from work to discover that the dog walker has accidentally switched out Baxter for another basset hound, she reaches the end of her leash. When Max Sheffington finds a depressed male dog in place of his cheerful Hazel, he is bewildered. But when cute, fiery Carly arrives on his doorstep, he is intrigued. Carly was not expecting a handsome, bespectacled man to be feeding her dog mac and cheese. However, Baxter is besotted with Hazel, and Carly realizes she may have found the key to her pup's happiness. For his sake, she starts to spend more time with Hazel and Max, until she begins to understand the appeal of falling for your polar opposite"--
Author: Tallis, Nicola, author. Published: 2020 Call Number: B BEAUFORT Format: Books Summary: "In 1485, Henry Tudor triumphed over staggering odds to become the first Tudor King of England. His victory owed much to his mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort. Born a Lancaster during the War of the Roses, which saw her house fighting with the Yorks for supremacy, Margaret was caught up in male relatives' plans for the fate of England. She was married to Edmund Tudor, half-brother to the Lancaster King Henry VI. At thirteen, with her husband dead from plague, she gave birth to her only child: a son she named Henry. Over decades and across countries, Margaret schemed to install her son on the throne and, once he was in place, she orchestrated the union that would at last put an end to over thirty years of war, Henry's marriage to Elizabeth of York. Once Henry was crowned, Margaret's extraordinarily close relationship with her son, coupled with her active role in political and ceremonial affairs, ensured that she was treated-and behaved-as a queen in all but name. She is remembered as a severe and shrewd woman-even murderous, for her rumored role in the disappearance of the princes in the Tower of London. But against a lavish backdrop of pageantry and passion, court intrigue and war, Tallis dispels these myths, revealing a woman far more complicated and contradictory than our popular conception. Frequently stereotyped as overly pious and dour, Uncrowned Queen introduces us to a woman who can also be wildly extravagant and materialistic, one funny and indefatigable. She was iron-willed, but it was her charm that ultimately was her greatest weapon-essential in ingratiating herself to Richard III at court even as she was planning to overthrow him by installing her son, and in courting the Yorks to offer their child as her daughter-in-law. Drawing on fresh readings of primary sources, Tallis rehabilitates Margaret as a dynamic political operator and devoted mother, asking what it means for women to hold power and how they wield it"--
Author: Stuart-Smith, Sue, author. Published: 2020 Call Number: 615.8 Format: Books Summary: "The garden has always been a place of peace and perseverance, of nurture and reward. Using contemporary neuroscience, psychoanalysis, and compelling real-life stories, The Well-Gardened Mind investigates the remarkable effects of nature on our health and well-being." A distinguished psychiatrist and avid gardener offers an inspiring and consoling work about the healing effects of gardening and its ability to decrease stress and foster mental well-being in our everyday lives.--Dust jacket.
Author: Rubini, Julie, author. Casteel, Tom, illustrator. Published: 2020 Call Number: Y 150 Format: Books Summary: Introduces various concepts in psychology. Rubini introduces students to the science behind behavior. Our social-emotional development is one factor in how we respond to certain stimuli. By understanding the brain, genetics, psychology, and social environments readers will gain a greater understanding of the complexities behind human behavior. -- adapted from back cover
Author: Mrazek, Robert J., author. Published: 2020 Call Number: B FINCH Format: Books Summary: "When Florence Finch died at the age of 101, few of her Ithaca, NY neighbors knew that this unassuming Filipina native was a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, whose courage and sacrifice were unsurpassed in the Pacific War against Japan. Long accustomed to keeping her secrets close in service of the Allies, she waited fifty years to reveal the story of those dramatic and harrowing days to her own children. Florence was an unlikely warrior. She relied on her own intelligence and fortitude to survive on her own from the age of seven, facing bigotry as a mixed-race mestiza with the dual heritage of her American serviceman father and Filipina mother. As the war drew ever closer to the Philippines, Florence fell in love with a dashing American naval intelligence agent, Charles "Bing" Smith. In the wake of Bing's sudden death in battle, Florence transformed from a mild-mannered young wife into a fervent resistance fighter. She conceived a bold plan to divert tons of precious fuel from the Japanese army, which was then sold on the black market to provide desperately needed medicine and food for hundreds of American POWs. In constant peril of arrest and execution, Florence fought to save others, even as the Japanese police closed in. With a wealth of original sources including taped interviews, personal journals, and unpublished memoirs, The Indomitable Florence Finch unfolds against the Bataan Death March, the fall of Corregidor, and the daily struggle to survive a brutal occupying force. Award-winning military historian and former Congressman Robert J. Mrazek brings to light this long-hidden American patriot. The Indomitable Florence Finch is the story of the transcendent bravery of a woman who belongs in America's pantheon of war heroes."--
Author: Tanabe, Gen S. Tanabe, Kelly Y. Published: 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 Call Number: 378.34 2021 Format: Regular print Summary: Information on thousands of scholarships, grants, and prizes is easily accessible in this revised directory and features awards indexed by career goal, major, academics, public service, talent, athletics, religion, ethnicity, and more.
Author: Berenson, Laurien, author. Published: 2020 Call Number: F BERENSON Format: Books Summary: When a tenured colleague is accused of poisoning her famous marshmallow puffs to murder an elderly neighbor, Melanie Travis finds her investigation challenged by the boisterous Halloween festivities at Howard Academy. Greenwich, Connecticut. Just a few days left before Halloween, everyone at Howard Academy is anticipating gorging on Harriet Bloom's famous marshmallow puffs. The private school's annual costume party revolves around the headmaster's assistant and her seemingly supernatural batches of gooey goodies. When Harriet's elderly neighbor is found dead with the beloved dessert in his hand, police question whether Harriet modified her top-secret recipe to include a hefty dose of poison. Melanie Travis knows that, on an evening ruled by masked revelers, bizarre getups, and hidden identities, Halloween might just be the perfect opportunity for a cold-hearted killer to get away with murder once again. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Hiaasen, Carl, author. Published: 2020 Call Number: F HIAASEN Format: Books Summary: "Palm Beach. A prominent high-society matron - who happens to be a fierce supporter of the President and founding member of the POTUSSIES - has gone missing at a swank gala. When the wealthy dowager Kiki Pew Fitzsimmons is later found dead in a concrete grave, panic and chaos erupt. The President immediately declares that Kiki Pew was the victim of rampaging immigrant hordes. This, as it turns out, is far from the truth. Meanwhile, a bizarre discovery in the middle of the road brings the First Lady's motorcade to a grinding halt (followed by some grinding between the First Lady and a lovestruck Secret Service agent). Enter Angie Armstrong, wildlife wrangler extraordinaire, who arrives at her own conclusions after she is summoned to the posh island to deal with a mysterious and impolite influx of huge, hungry pythons ... "--Provided by publisher.
Author: McCullough, Michael E., author. Published: 2020 Call Number: 177.7 Format: Books Summary: "This book is about one of the great zoological wonders of the world. No, it's not about the tears of the elephant, the smile of the dolphin, or the politics of the chimpanzee. It is about a scrawny, brainy ape with the habit of helping strangers, at times even risking life and limb to do so. It's about you and me, and how we treat everybody else. In short, it answers one of the biggest questions science has ever faced: Why do we give a damn about the welfare of strangers? Ever since Darwin, a legion of social scientists, biologists, and other scholars have attempted to explain human morality in terms of evolutionary biology-in on our modern parlance, they have looked for altruism in our genes. And yet, whether they subscribe to kin selection or group selection or something in between, they have failed to explain where morality comes from or how it works. In The Kindness of Strangers, psychologist Michael McCullough offers a new answer: Looking for morality in our biology is a mistake, and morality, like any new technology, had to be discovered, refined, and adopted. Moving through a broad swath of both human history as well as evolutionary and psychology science, McCullough shows how from the days of hunter-gatherers to the first farming villages to today's "golden age of compassion," major milestones, including the Golden Rule, naturalistic explanations for disaster, or the impulse to charitable giving, are neither integral to our species nor inevitable outcomes of human development. Like all great human achievements-whether science, art, engineering, or literature-they were discoveries. Yes, they emerge from our psychological endowments and history, of course, but they required investigation, insight, and experimentation to be brought to fruition. A major new work from one of the leading lights of social psychology, The Kindness of Strangers upsets decades of fruitless consensus in the social sciences. Going far beyond Karen Armstrong's The Great Transformation or Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Kindness of Strangers shows not just what happened in the history of human moral development, but the collision of evolutionary, psychological, and historical factors that drove it. And unlike Robert Wright's The Moral Animals, this book doesn't claim that we are good or inevitably getting better-and indeed, to the contrary, shows not just where our moral sense comes from, but how easy it would be to lose it. But like all of those, this book will prove a work to be read, debated, and read again, for years to come"--
Author: Michaels, Fern, author. Published: 2020 Call Number: F MICHAELS Format: Books Summary: "For the Sisterhood, there's a special satisfaction that comes with helping a friend in need, especially when it's someone as dear as Charlotte Hansen. Myra Rutledge's childhood friend has spent tens of thousands of dollars on remedies to boost longevity. But far from improving her health, the medications seem to be destroying it. Myra becomes suspicious of the trio of doctors in charge of the program, especially once the Sisterhood's investigations reveal that one patient has died, and another lapsed into a coma. While those in their care suffer, the three doctors - located in London, Aspen, and New York - all enjoy indulgent lifestyles and extravagant toys. But justice is always the best medicine - and no one dispenses it better than the Sisterhood."--Publisher.
Author: Burke, James Lee, 1936- author. Published: 2020 Call Number: LP F BURKE Format: Large print Summary: "The Shondell and Balangie families are enemies in New Iberia's criminal underworld, but teen musicians Johnny Shondell and Isolde Balangie have fallen in love and run away. As Dave Robicheaux investigates the couple's whereabouts, he runs afoul of Isolde's mafioso father, who puts a hit on Robicheaux and his partner, Clete Purcel. The assassin is unlike any they have ever faced: he can induce hallucinations and travels on a ghost ship that materializes without warning. In order to defeat him and rescue Johnny and Isolde, Robicheaux will have to overcome the demons that have tormented him throughout his adult life"--Page 4 of cover.
Author: Watson, S. J. (Steven J.), author. Published: 2020 Call Number: LP F WATSON Format: Large print Summary: When two girls disappear from the town of Blackwood Bay, Alex intends to have the residents record their own stories. But she finds a village haunted by a tragedy that overshadows every corner.
