Author: Blake, Audrey, active 2020, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: F BLAKE Format: Books Summary: "In the 19th century, women rarely study medicine. This means that Nora Beady, the only woman in her medical school, constantly feels like an outsider. And when she is chosen to work with the only female professor to develop the caesarian section, Nora draws the wrath of her male peers and professors. It's a dangerous-and divisive-procedure that could save countless lives and revolutionize women's health. But most doctors think it's too risky, many don't trust the findings of women, and husbands won't let their wives undergo the procedure. Nora knows her work is too important to give up. But when she meets a patient who will die without intervention, everything changes. Failure means proving the male medical establishment right and breaking her oath to do no harm. Everything is at stake: precious lives, Nora's career, and the role women will be allowed to play in medicine"--
Author: Blake, Audrey, active 2020, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: F BLAKE Format: Books Summary: "In the 19th century, women rarely study medicine. This means that Nora Beady, the only woman in her medical school, constantly feels like an outsider. And when she is chosen to work with the only female professor to develop the caesarian section, Nora draws the wrath of her male peers and professors. It's a dangerous-and divisive-procedure that could save countless lives and revolutionize women's health. But most doctors think it's too risky, many don't trust the findings of women, and husbands won't let their wives undergo the procedure. Nora knows her work is too important to give up. But when she meets a patient who will die without intervention, everything changes. Failure means proving the male medical establishment right and breaking her oath to do no harm. Everything is at stake: precious lives, Nora's career, and the role women will be allowed to play in medicine"--
Author: Labuskes, Brianna, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: F LABUSKES Format: Books Summary: A brilliant psychologist faces the secrets and lies of her own dark past in a shocking novel of suspense by the Washington Post best selling author of A Familiar Sight. Psychologist and criminologist Dr. Gretchen White, top consultant for the Boston PD, has lived her life thinking she killed her aunt. At the age of eight she was found standing over the body, clutching a bloody knife. Most people, including Detective Patrick Shaughnessy, believe the little sociopath got away with murder. Thirty years later, Detective Lauren Marconi wants to prove them wrong. As old secrets come to light and Gretchen's lifelong grip on her darkest impulses threatens to erode, Shaughnessy is there watching, waiting for her to lose control one more time. -- adapted from back cover
Author: Capin, Hannah, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: Y CAPIN Format: Books Summary: A year ago at the elite Marshall Summer Naval School, Margaret Moore presumably drowned herself from heartbreak, but this summer, the remaining girls from Deck Five will ensure Margaret's story is heard. Each summer the girls of Deck Five come back to Marshall Naval School. They sail on jewel-blue waters; they march on green drill-fields; they earn sunburns and honors. They push until they break apart and heal again, stronger. Each summer Margaret and Rose and Flor and Nisreen come back to the place where they are girls, safe away from the world: sisters bound by something more than blood. But this summer everything has changed. Girls are missing and a boy is dead. It's because of Margaret Moore, the boys say. It's because of what happened that night in the storm. Margaret's friends vanish one by one, swallowed up into the lies she has told about what happened between her and a boy with the world at his feet. Can she unravel the secrets of this summer and last, or will she be pulled under by the place she once called home?
Author: Capin, Hannah, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: Y CAPIN Format: Books Summary: A year ago at the elite Marshall Summer Naval School, Margaret Moore presumably drowned herself from heartbreak, but this summer, the remaining girls from Deck Five will ensure Margaret's story is heard. Each summer the girls of Deck Five come back to Marshall Naval School. They sail on jewel-blue waters; they march on green drill-fields; they earn sunburns and honors. They push until they break apart and heal again, stronger. Each summer Margaret and Rose and Flor and Nisreen come back to the place where they are girls, safe away from the world: sisters bound by something more than blood. But this summer everything has changed. Girls are missing and a boy is dead. It's because of Margaret Moore, the boys say. It's because of what happened that night in the storm. Margaret's friends vanish one by one, swallowed up into the lies she has told about what happened between her and a boy with the world at his feet. Can she unravel the secrets of this summer and last, or will she be pulled under by the place she once called home?
Author: Lord, Emma, author. Published: 2022 2021 Call Number: Y LORD Format: Books Summary: Millie Price deals with her lovable but introverted dad, her drama club rival, Oliver, and her "Millie Moods," the feelings of intense emotion that threaten to overwhelm, but when an accidentally left-open browser brings Millie to her dad's embarrassingly moody LiveJournal, Millie knows she must find her mom. Millie Price won't let anything get in the way of her dream to become a Broadway star. Not her super-introverted dad; not her pesky and ongoing drama club rival, Oliver; not even the feelings of intense emotion that threaten to overwhelm, always at maddeningly inconvenient times. When a left-open browser brings Millie to her dad's LiveJournal from 2003, she decides she's going to find her mom. But how can you find a new part of your life and expect it to fit into your old one, without leaving any marks? -- adapted from jacket
Author: Lord, Emma, author. Published: 2022 2021 Call Number: Y LORD Format: Books Summary: Millie Price deals with her lovable but introverted dad, her drama club rival, Oliver, and her "Millie Moods," the feelings of intense emotion that threaten to overwhelm, but when an accidentally left-open browser brings Millie to her dad's embarrassingly moody LiveJournal, Millie knows she must find her mom. Millie Price won't let anything get in the way of her dream to become a Broadway star. Not her super-introverted dad; not her pesky and ongoing drama club rival, Oliver; not even the feelings of intense emotion that threaten to overwhelm, always at maddeningly inconvenient times. When a left-open browser brings Millie to her dad's LiveJournal from 2003, she decides she's going to find her mom. But how can you find a new part of your life and expect it to fit into your old one, without leaving any marks? -- adapted from jacket
Author: Addison, Corban, 1979- author. Grisham, John, writer of foreword. Published: 2022 Call Number: 346.7303 Format: Books Summary: "A once idyllic American landscape is home to a closely knit, rural community that, for more than a generation, has battled the polluting practices of large-scale farming that had been making them sick and damaging their homes. After years of frustration and futile attempts to bring about change, an impassioned cadre of local residents, led by a team of intrepid and dedicated lawyers, brought suit against one of the world's most powerful corporations--and, miraculously, they won. As vivid and fast-paced as a novel, Wastelands takes us into the heart of a legal battle over the future of America's farmland, and into the lives of the people who found the courage to fight. With unparalleled entrée in the courtroom, Corban Addison captures the stirring and unforgettable struggle to bring a modern-day monopoly to its knees, to force a once invincible power to change, to vindicate the rights of a long-suffering community, and finally to restore their heritage"--
Author: McKibben, Bill, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: 201.72 Format: Books Summary: Bill McKibben--award-winning author, activist, educator--is fiercely curious. "I'm curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity." Like so many of us, McKibben grew up believing--knowing--that the United States was the greatest country on earth. As a teenager, he cheerfully led American Revolution tours in Lexington, Massachusetts. He sang "Kumbaya" at church. And with the remarkable rise of suburbia, he assumed that all Americans would share in the wealth. But fifty years later, he finds himself in an increasingly doubtful nation strained by bleak racial and economic inequality, on a planet whose future is in peril. And he is curious: What the hell happened? In this revelatory cri de coeur, McKibben digs deep into our history (and his own well-meaning but not all-seeing past) and into the latest scholarship on race and inequality in America, on the rise of the religious right, and on our environmental crisis to explain how we got to this point. He finds that he is not without hope. And he wonders if any of that trinity of his youth--the flag, the cross, and the station wagon--could, or should, be reclaimed in the fight for a fairer future.
Author: McKibben, Bill, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: 201.72 Format: Books Summary: Bill McKibben--award-winning author, activist, educator--is fiercely curious. "I'm curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity." Like so many of us, McKibben grew up believing--knowing--that the United States was the greatest country on earth. As a teenager, he cheerfully led American Revolution tours in Lexington, Massachusetts. He sang "Kumbaya" at church. And with the remarkable rise of suburbia, he assumed that all Americans would share in the wealth. But fifty years later, he finds himself in an increasingly doubtful nation strained by bleak racial and economic inequality, on a planet whose future is in peril. And he is curious: What the hell happened? In this revelatory cri de coeur, McKibben digs deep into our history (and his own well-meaning but not all-seeing past) and into the latest scholarship on race and inequality in America, on the rise of the religious right, and on our environmental crisis to explain how we got to this point. He finds that he is not without hope. And he wonders if any of that trinity of his youth--the flag, the cross, and the station wagon--could, or should, be reclaimed in the fight for a fairer future.
Author: Donnelly, Kathleen (Writer of fiction), author. Published: 2022 Call Number: PB DONNELLY Format: Books Summary: "After losing her military K-9, former marine Maya Thompson swears she'll never work with dogs again. But when she returns home to Colorado and accepts a job with US Forest Service law enforcement, fate brings K-9 Juniper into her life just as another tragedy unfolds. Juniper, a beautiful two-year-old Malinois, isn't the only new addition to Maya's life. Josh Colten, the local deputy sheriff, insists on helping with her new case. Handsome and mysterious, he's all anyone in town can talk about, but Maya can't let herself like him, let alone trust him. When Maya's grandfather goes missing amid a growing drug war, Maya must put her faith in Josh, and her own battered instincts, to find him. But there's a web of secrets tying her grandfather to the tragedy that brought Juniper into her life--secrets someone would kill to keep hidden" --Back cover.
Author: Donnelly, Kathleen (Writer of fiction), author. Published: 2022 Call Number: PB DONNELLY Format: Books Summary: "After losing her military K-9, former marine Maya Thompson swears she'll never work with dogs again. But when she returns home to Colorado and accepts a job with US Forest Service law enforcement, fate brings K-9 Juniper into her life just as another tragedy unfolds. Juniper, a beautiful two-year-old Malinois, isn't the only new addition to Maya's life. Josh Colten, the local deputy sheriff, insists on helping with her new case. Handsome and mysterious, he's all anyone in town can talk about, but Maya can't let herself like him, let alone trust him. When Maya's grandfather goes missing amid a growing drug war, Maya must put her faith in Josh, and her own battered instincts, to find him. But there's a web of secrets tying her grandfather to the tragedy that brought Juniper into her life--secrets someone would kill to keep hidden" --Back cover.
Author: Carson, Ben, author. Carson, Candy, author. King, Alveda C. (Alveda Celeste), writer of foreword. Published: 2022 Call Number: 305.8009 Format: Books Summary: "External physical characteristics that are genetically encoded are things over which no individual has control. But rather than appreciating the gift of diversity, some have chosen to use it to drive wedges between groups of people. Some of these external characteristics are associated with the past moral failing of slavery. Though slavery in America formally ended in the 1860s, the vestiges of that evil institution are still with us today, and those vestiges often inflict guilt on some and facilitate feelings of victimhood in others. In Created Equal, Dr. Carson uses his own personal experiences as a member of a racial minority, along with the writings and experiences of others from multiple backgrounds and demographics, to analyze the current state of race relations in America. Instead of using race as an excuse to remake America into something completely antithetical to the Constitution, Dr. Carson suggests ways to enhance and bring great success to our nation and all multiethnic societies by magnifying America's incredible strengths instead of her historical weaknesses"--
Author: McKinlay, Jenn, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: LP F MCKINLAY Format: Large print Summary: "Spring is livening up Briar Creek after a long, cold winter, and newlyweds Lindsey and Sully could not be happier. Even though the upcoming mayoral election is getting heated, everything else in town is coming up daffodils . . . until a body is found. Ms.Cole, a librarian and current candidate for town mayor, is shocked when she opens her trunk to discover a murder victim who just so happens to be a guy she dated forty years ago and the founder of the baking empire Nana's Cookies. As the town gossip mill turns, a batch of rumors begins to circulate about Ms. Cole's rebellious youth, which--along with being a murder suspect--threatens to ruin her life and her budding political career. But Ms. Cole is one tough cookie who will not go down without a fight. Has the campaign for mayor turned deadly? It is up to Lindsey, Sully, and the rest of the crafternoon pals to see how the cookie crumbles and figure out who is trying to frame Ms. Cole for murder and why."--
Author: McKinlay, Jenn, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: LP F MCKINLAY Format: Large print Summary: "Spring is livening up Briar Creek after a long, cold winter, and newlyweds Lindsey and Sully could not be happier. Even though the upcoming mayoral election is getting heated, everything else in town is coming up daffodils . . . until a body is found. Ms.Cole, a librarian and current candidate for town mayor, is shocked when she opens her trunk to discover a murder victim who just so happens to be a guy she dated forty years ago and the founder of the baking empire Nana's Cookies. As the town gossip mill turns, a batch of rumors begins to circulate about Ms. Cole's rebellious youth, which--along with being a murder suspect--threatens to ruin her life and her budding political career. But Ms. Cole is one tough cookie who will not go down without a fight. Has the campaign for mayor turned deadly? It is up to Lindsey, Sully, and the rest of the crafternoon pals to see how the cookie crumbles and figure out who is trying to frame Ms. Cole for murder and why."--
Author: Hlad, Alan, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: LP F HLAD Format: Large print Summary: "By April 1916, the fervor that accompanied war's outbreak has faded. In its place is a grim reality. Throughout Germany, essentials are rationed. Hope, too, is in short supply. Anna Zeller, whose fiancé, Bruno, is fighting on the western front, works as a nurse at an overcrowded hospital in Oldenburg, trying to comfort men broken in body and spirit. But during a visit from Dr. Stalling, the director of the Red Cross Ambulance Dogs Association, she witnesses a rare spark of optimism: as a German shepherd guides a battle-blinded soldier over a garden path, Dr. Stalling is inspired with an idea to train dogs as companions for sightless veterans. Anna convinces Dr. Stalling to let her work at his new guide dog training school. Some of the dogs that arrive are themselves veterans of war, including Nia, a German shepherd with trench-damaged paws. Anna brings the ailing Nia home and secretly tends and trains her, convinced she may yet be the perfect guide for the right soldier. In Max Benesch, a Jewish soldier blinded by chlorine gas at the front, Nia finds her person. War has taken Max's sight, his fiancée, and his hopes of being a composer. Still, through Anna's prompting, he rediscovers his passion for music. But as Anna discovers more about the conflict's escalating brutality and Bruno's role in it, she realizes how impossible it will be for any of them to escape the war unscathed..."--
Author: MacGregor, Maya, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: Y MACGREGO Format: Books Summary: Autistic nonbinary eighteen-year-old Sam moves to a new town and school with the support of their loving father and finds friends in an LGBTQ-plus club, but they all must come together to solve the decades-old murder of a teenage boy and confront the demons lurking in Sam's past. "Sam Sylvester has long collected stories of half-lived lives--of kids who died before they turned nineteen. Sam was almost one of those kids. Now, as Sam's own nineteenth birthday approaches, their recent near-death experience haunts them. They're certain they don't have much time left. . . ." --Front jacket flap
Author: MacGregor, Maya, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: Y MACGREGO Format: Books Summary: Autistic nonbinary eighteen-year-old Sam moves to a new town and school with the support of their loving father and finds friends in an LGBTQ-plus club, but they all must come together to solve the decades-old murder of a teenage boy and confront the demons lurking in Sam's past. "Sam Sylvester has long collected stories of half-lived lives--of kids who died before they turned nineteen. Sam was almost one of those kids. Now, as Sam's own nineteenth birthday approaches, their recent near-death experience haunts them. They're certain they don't have much time left. . . ." --Front jacket flap
Author: Atta, Dean, author. Published: 2022 Call Number: Y ATTA Format: Books Summary: The son of a film director, Mack grows up on set and into a hopeless romantic -- one who falls hard for the handsome and popular Karim, who eventually notices him back, right before Mack has to relocate to Scotland. Not wanting to lose his first love, Mack asks Karim to be long-distance, but while they're trying, fearless and confident Finlay shows up on set, and Mack's world turns upside down yet again.
Author: McCrina, Amanda, 1990- author. Published: 2022 Call Number: Y MCCRINA Format: Books Summary: In July 1944, as the Red Army drives the Nazis out of Poland, sixteen-year-old Maria Kami?ska must work with a captured Ukrainian nationalist to find her brother, who is a special operations agent and leader of a Polish Resistance squad, when he disappears while on a mission. Poland, July 1944. Maria is making her way home after years of forced labor in Nazi Germany, only to find her village destroyed and her parents killed in a war between the Polish Resistance and Ukrainian nationalists. The local Resistance unit is commanded by her older brother, Tomek--who she thought was dead. He is now a "Silent Unseen," a special-operations agent with an audacious plan to resist a new and even more dangerous enemy sweeping in from the East. When Tomek disappears, Maria is determined to find him. But the only person who might be able to help is a young Ukrainian prisoner. He is the last person Maria trusts--even as she feels a growing connection to him that she can't resist. --Adapted from jacket.