Author: McIntosh, Diane, author. Published: 2019 Call Number: 616.8527 Format: Books Summary: Depression sucks. It's a debilitating illness that affects the mind and the body--and chances are that you or someone you love will battle depression at some point in your lifetime. This Is Depression is your guide through the darkness. A widely respected authority on the diagnosis and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders, psychiatrist Dr. Diane McIntosh provides all the information you need to understand and combat this serious and isolating disorder. Written in an accessible format with compassion and humor, Dr. McIntosh takes an evidence-based approach as she outlines the causes, impact, and treatment of depression and along the way provides encouragement that it can be overcome. This Is Depression reveals: how life experience, genetics, and hormones factor into depression, and explores the common overlap between depression and other mental and physical illnesses ; how all areas of life can be impacted by depression--home, school, work, and relationships ; how to communicate about mental illness, whether with your doctor or your boss, a rude friend or nosy co-worker, or loved ones ; critical information about every available depression treatment--and those that are on the horizon--describing how antidepressants work, which treatments are worth taking, and which are useless... or even dangerous ; when to consider psychotherapy, brain-stimulation treatments, mindfulness meditation, and exercise and what to expect from a therapeutic relationship ; essential tools to support you in your recovery or your loved one on their journey. Depression can be a lonely, debilitating illness, but sufferers are not alone, and there is always a path forward. This book is the first step on that path.
Author: Hilderbrand, Elin, author. Published: 2018 Call Number: PB HILDERBRAND Format: Books Summary: It's Nantucket wedding season, also known as summer-the sight of a bride racing down Main Street is as common as the sun setting at Madaket Beach. The Otis-Winbury wedding promises to be an event to remember: the groom's wealthy parents have spared no expense to host a lavish ceremony at their oceanfront estate. But it's going to be memorable for all the wrong reasons after tragedy strikes: a body is discovered in Nantucket Harbor just hours before the ceremony-and everyone in the wedding party is suddenly a suspect. As Chief of Police Ed Kapenash interviews the bride, the groom, the groom's famous mystery-novelist mother, and even a member of his own family, he discovers that every wedding is a minefield-and no couple is perfect.
Author: Blume, Judy, author. Published: 2014 Call Number: Y PB BLUME Format: Books Summary: There is a lot going on in his life that thirteen-year-old Tony Miglione does not really understand--like why his parents suddenly have money enough to buy a house on Long Island, why his mother has changed, why his rich friend Joel shoplifts, why he is obsessed with Joel's sixteen-year-old sister, and why he is having terrible stomach pains.
Author: Silman, Jeremy, author. Published: 2007 Call Number: 794.124 Format: Books Summary: A chess writer, speaker, player, and International Master has created this thorough guide to chess endgames. Players of all levels can use this guide to move up the ladder from beginner to tournament player - even to possession of the coveted Master title. Every level of chess student will feel as if they are being given personal instruction with humor, study plans, and to-the-point examples designed to take them to new heights of chess understanding. Going beyond the moves that constitute the endgame, the author gives readers an understanding of how the endgame unfolds - and how every player can adapt the endgame to their own playing style. For players who have always found the endgame to be a mystery and have searched for a book that will turn a weak link - the endgame - into a personal field of power, this book offers the answers.
Author: Roseberry, Dinah, author. Hull, Laurie, author. Published: 2007 Call Number: NJC 133.1097 ROSEBERR Format: Books Summary: "Nestled at the southern tip of New Jersey, beautiful Cape May is the perfect historical backdrop for some very ghostly haunts! Psychic Laurie Hull and ghost researcher D.P. Roseberry give their impressions of Cape May's top beach sits and interact with its ghostly past"--Back cover.
Author: Evanovich, Janet, author. Published: 2005 1989 Call Number: PB EVANOVIC Format: Books Summary: Determined to find herself a husband, a young woman trades in her glamorous career and upscale Princeton condo for a rustic log cabin and a ramshackle hardware store in Alaska.
Author: DuPrau, Jeanne, author. Published: 2003 Call Number: Y DUPRAU Format: Books Summary: In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.
Author: Marwood, Alex, author. Published: 2023 Call Number: F MARWOOD Format: Books Summary: Desperately searching for her seventeen-year-old daughter Gemma, Robin is led to La Kastellana, a place of sun-drenched glamor and obscene wealth, where someone is waiting for the right moment to expose the dark truth of what really happens on the island of lost girls.
Author: Erebia, Federico, author. Kwon, Julie, illustrator. Published: 2023 Call Number: Y EREBIA Format: Books Summary: Growing up in 1970s Ohio, Mexican American brothers Pedro and Daniel, who are not like other boys, manage an abusive home life, school, coming out, first loves, first jobs, and the AIDS epidemic, leaning on each other always and forever. "Pedro and Daniel are Mexican American brothers growing up in 1970s Ohio. Their mother resents that Pedro is a spitting image of their darker-skinned father, that Daniel likes dolls, that neither boy plays sports. Life at home is rough, but the boys have an unbreakable bond that will last their entire lives." --Amazon.com
Author: Patterson, Richard North, author. Published: 2023 Call Number: F PATTERSO Format: Books Summary: "In a propulsive narrative that culminates in a nationally televised murder case, Trial explores America's most incendiary flashpoints of race. A Black eighteen-year-old voting rights worker, Malcolm Hill, is stopped by a white sheriff's deputy on a dark country road in rural Georgia. His single mother, Allie, America's leading voting rights advocate, restlessly awaits his return before police inform her that Malcolm has been arrested for murder. In Washington D.C., the rising, young, white congressman Chase Brevard of Massachusetts is watching the morning news with his girlfriend, only to find his life transformed in a single moment by the appearance of Malcolm's photograph. Suddenly all three are enveloped in a media firestorm that threatens their lives--especially Malcolm's." --Amazon.com
Author: Patterson, Scott, 1969- author. Published: 2023 Call Number: 338.542 Format: Books Summary: "There's no doubt that our world has gotten more extreme. Pandemics, climate change, superpower rivalries, cyberattacks, political radicalization--virtually, everywhere we look there is mayhem bearing down on us, putting trillions of assets at risk. And at least two factions have formed around how to respond. In Chaos Kings, Scott Patterson depicts how one faction, led by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, bestselling author of The Black Swan, believes humans can never see the big disaster coming. In their view, extreme events--so-called Black Swans--while inevitable, will always catch us by surprise..."--Amazon.
Author: Bailey, Tessa, author. Published: 2023 Call Number: F BAILEY Format: Books Summary: To access her trust fund, Natalie Vos must get married, and with no prospects, proposes to a man she wants to kill and kiss in equal measure, failing vineyard owner August Cates, but their sham wedding turns into something more due to their unfortunate, unbearable, undeniable attraction. "After losing her job and her fiancé in one fell swoop, Natalie Vos returned home to lick her wounds. A few months later, she's sufficiently drowned her sorrows in cabernet and she's ready to get back on her feet. She just needs her trust fund to finance her new business venture. Unfortunately, the terms require she marry before she can have the money. And well, dumped, remember? But Natalie is desperate enough to propose to a man who makes her want to kill him--and kiss him, in equal measure." --Amazon.com
Author: Mahfouz, Sola, 1996- author. Kapoor, Malaina, author. Published: 2023 Call Number: B MAHFOUZ Format: Books Summary: "A searing, deeply personal memoir of a tenacious Afghan girl who educated herself behind closed doors and fought her way to a new life. Sola Mahfouz was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 1996. That same year, the Taliban took over her country for the first time. They banned television and photographs, presided over brutal public executions, and turned the clock backwards on women's rights, practically imprisoning women within their own homes and forcing them to wear cruel, tent-like burqas. At age eleven, Sola was forced to stop attending school after a group of men threatened to throw acid in her face if she continued. After that she was confined to her home, required to cook and clean and prepare for an arranged marriage. She saw the outside world only a handful of times each year. As time passed, Sola began to understand that she was condemned to the same existence as millions of women in Afghanistan. Her future was empty. The rest of her life would be controlled entirely by men, fathers and husbands and sons who would never allow her to study, to earn money, or even to dream. Driven by this devastating realization, Sola began a years-long fight to change the trajectory of her life. She decided that education would be her way out. At age sixteen, without even a basic ability to add or subtract, she began secretly to teach herself math and English. She progressed rapidly, and within just two years she was already studying topics such as philosophy and physics. Faced with obstacles at every turn, Sola still managed to sneak into Pakistan to take the SAT. In 2016, she escaped to the United States, where she is now a quantum computing researcher at Tufts University. An engrossing, dramatic memoir, co-written with young Indian American human rights activist Malaina Kapoor, Defiant Dreams is the story of one girl, but it's also the untold story of a generation of women brimming with potential and longing for freedom"--
Author: Rubio, Marco, 1971- author. Published: 2023 Call Number: 330.973 Format: Books Summary: "A book by Marco Rubio about what America needs to change in order to have a prosperous future"-- Thirty years of telling Americans they don't need families, communities, or a shared history is destroying what made our country the envy of the world. While many Americans have worried about China, open borders, opioids, failing communities, and families in crisis, our elites have told us that's all fine because it's not only inevitable; it's for the best. Every part of our nation is now in decline, and it's all connected. In Decades of Decadence, Marco Rubio exposes the elites' attacks on the four key elements of American strength: good local jobs, stable families, geographical communities, and a sovereign nation that serves as a beacon of freedom and prosperity. These have been eroded not only by globalization, but by the lies we tell ourselves, including, "Anyone who loves each other is a family," "Real community can be found on the internet," and "We're all citizens of the world." It's not too late to reject these errors. America remains a powerful and wealthy nation, built on timeless truths ingrained in the very creation of mankind. But we cannot afford another misguided and decadent decade. In this book, Rubio shows how we can avoid another dark age and restore America's place as the global ideal of harmony, opportunity, and democracy.
Author: Shalvis, Jill, author. Published: 2023 Call Number: F SHALVIS Format: Books Summary: "When Harper Shaw's life falls apart, she knows it's time for a change. She removes everything that doesn't spark joy--from her soul-sucking job to eating kale to making lists--and sets off for the last place she was happy, Lake Tahoe (who wouldn't feel good there, right?) to fulfill her dream of opening her own bakery. With her Sugar Pine Bakery in between a tavern, owned by sexy, grumpy Bodie Campbell, and a bookstore, run by her new BFF, she feels a peace she's never experienced since...well, forever.. Then she meets Ivy, a teenage runaway, who barrels into her heart. She sees a lot of herself in Ivy and takes her under her wing, but the teenager has secrets..." --Amazon.com
Author: Heard, Wendy, author. Published: 2023 Call Number: Y HEARD Format: Books Summary: While investigating an infamous Hollywood murder mystery for their final YouTube episode, four teenagers visit the scene of the crime, but one does not come out alive, leaving the others to solve crimes old and new--or die trying. No one at Hollywood High knows who's behind We'll Never Tell--a viral YouTube channel where the anonymous creators trespass behind the scenes of LA's most intriguing locales. The team includes Casey, quiet researcher and trivia champ; Jacob, voice narrator and video editor, who is secretly dating Eddie, aspiring filmmaker; and Zoe, coder and breaking-and-entering extraordinaire. Now senior year is winding down, and with their lives heading in different directions, the YouTubers vow to go out with a bang. Their last episode will be filmed at the infamous Valentini "murder house," which has been left abandoned, bloodstained, and untouched since a shocking murder/suicide in 1972. When the teens break in, they capture epic footage. But someone trips an alarm, and it's a mad dash to get out before the police arrive--at which point they realize only three of them escaped instead of four. Jacob is still inside, slain and bleeding out. Is his attack connected to the historic murder, or is one of their crew responsible? A week of suspicions and cover-ups unfolds as Casey and her remaining friends try to stay alive long enough to solve murder mysteries past and present. If they do, their friendship may not survive. If they don't, the house will claim more victims.
