Author: Robles, Luis (Chef), author. Ceceña-Robles, Vanessa author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: 641.49
Format: Books
Summary: The more hands-on you are in the kitchen, the better the results and the greater the satisfaction. Butchery puts you directly in touch with the fundamentals of this ancient tradition, allowing you to take complete control of the meat you consume. Whether you want to break primals down into steaks, humanely process your own livestock, or sharpen your knife skills, every page of Butchery is a master class in this class in this timeless craft. Inside you'll find : step-by-step guides to butchering beef, pork, poultry and seafood at home ; helpful photos that instruct and inspire ; over 150 recipes that make the most of your handiwork ; sides stocks, and sauces to amplify flavor, round out your table, and cut down on waste. -- Back cover.
Author: Allen, Jeff, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: F ALLEN
Format: Books
Summary: "Will Josh embrace the passion of the woman he adored and lost? The images in the attic of his memory dissolve any doubt. Much like the elderly dogs they had rescued over the years, it's now his turn for a miraculous transformation. Set amidst an extraordinary dog sanctuary, he now sees their mission slipping away, much like Maddie, his loving wife. Graced with tender memories, he keeps her spirit alive and their love unending. Josh not only gave her his heart, but continues caring for dogs through Maddie's inspiration." --Amazon.com
Author: Snowe, Jaqueline, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: F SNOWE
Format: Books
Summary: "Sorority mom Becca Fairfield is used to guys not taking her seriously. She's too blond, too quirky, or Just. Too. Much. So she's ditched dating to focus on her job and a house filled with drama and plenty of tea. Now with the holidays and a major blizzard on her doorstep, Becca has everything she needs to survive the next two weeks on her own. Hot cocoa, plenty of books...and the memory of a steamy kiss with a certain hot, grump-o-saurus next-door neighbor to keep her warm. Only Becca's seriously underestimated this Snowpocalypse. So when the power goes out and Harrison Cooper-football coach, master crank, and the guy who acted mega-awkward after said steamy kiss-offers her shelter, it only makes sense to accept. They'll just be Blizzard Buddies. Hang out, stay safe, and maybe indulge in a little R-rated cuddling. Becca knows that Harrison isn't the dating kind, and what happens during the storm lasts only as long as the storm. But are they keeping warm...or playing with fire?"--
Author: Uoyama, author, artist. Skipper, Nova, translator. Aiko, Kyla, touch-up artist, letterer.
Published: 2023
Call Number: Y PB UOYAMA V.1
Format: Books
Summary: "Love blooms between a tough delinquent boy and a spunky girl with a vision impairment! Morio Kurokawa is the toughest-looking tough guy around. Yukiko Akaza is a self-possessed girl with a vision impairment attending a school for the blind. The whole city fears Morio, but Yukiko sees the real him?he?s a soft sweetheart who?s just searching for his place in the world! Mori the Black Panther has won over a hundred fights. He?s beloved by his goons and feared by the public. But now, he faces his biggest challenge yet when he meets Yukiko?and falls in love at first sight! Can Morio outgrow his delinquent roots and turn over a new leaf for his unexpected love?"--
Author: Berry, Lucinda, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: F BERRY
Format: Books
Summary: "When Kiersten McCann, president of the West Hollywood Moms' Club, turns up dead in her own pool, it quickly becomes clear this wasn't an accident. And the party guests-all members of the exclusive club-are now key suspects in her murder. Accusations fly, and three mothers find themselves at the center of the investigation. Whitney, Brooke, and Jade all have heavy secrets to bear...and possible motives for their friend's murder. But as the police look closer, more secrets, betrayals, and sinister plots are revealed than the women could ever imagine. With everything at stake, deceit threatens to shatter their illusions of the perfect life. West Hollywood will never be the same" --
Author: De Castrique, Mark, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: F DECASTRI
Format: Books
Summary: "This urgent, cleverly plotted high stakes thriller is set in motion by a botched attack on two law clerks, leaving one dead and the other in a coma. The ensuing cover up leaves a string of bodies and too many players at cross-purposes. It also leaves Chief Justice Clarissa Baxter with a target on her back. They'll need an off the grid hero with friends in high places: enter retired FBI agent-turned-boardinghouse landlady, Ethel Fiona Crestwater (legend) and her double-first-cousin-twice-removed Jesse Cooper (sidekick). Although in her mid-seventies, Ethel is no bumbling amateur sleuth; she's a seasoned pro with razor-sharp instincts and Bond-worthy skills. College-aged Jesse brings tech savvy and boundless enthusiasm, along with an innate talent for intrigue. Together, the unlikely duo will face malicious back-stabbing political sycophants, conniving lobbyists, and a motivated assassin bent on removing the Chief Justice from the equation--along with Ethel, who stands defiantly between the hit-man and his payday" --
Author: Parton, Dolly, author. George-Warren, Holly, author. Seaver, Rebecca, curator.
Published: 2023
Call Number: B PARTON
Format: Books
Summary: Showcasing the music legend's most unforgettable looks from the 1960s until now, this stunningly photographed book displays Dolly Parton's iconic sense of style along with entertaining personal anecdotes that, for the first time, reveal the full story behind her lifelong passion for fashion.
Author: Heasley, Leigh, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: F HEASLEY
Format: Books
Summary: In a world where matchmaking agency Kairos lets clients travel through time in search of love, Ada Blum must jump back and forth from the present to the past when she is torn between two men-small-time hood Henry Levison and State Senator Samson St. Laurent, who once ruined her life. "Time travel is now legal, and matchmaking agency Kairos lets clients travel through time in search of love. Ada Blum has always been "an old soul." She's convinced that she was born at the wrong time, and after a series of break-ins at her apartment and threatening messages, she's determined to figure out where she really belongs. She thinks she wants to go to Regency England, meet her Mr. Darcy, and settle down. However, a disastrous date ends with Ada covered in rancid chicken stock and rethinking her plans. She returns to The Kairos Agency and agrees to try an entirely different era. She travels to 1920s New York where she meets Henry Levison, a small-time hood. After yet another horrible experience, she's about to give up on the whole matchmaking, time traveling adventure when she bumps into her first love, Samson St. Laurent, a State Senator with whom she had an affair that resulted in a major PR scandal for him and ruined Ada's life. Sam is on the run through time, trying to use his knowledge of the future to make a fortune. He says he wants to win Ada back, but she's not sure that he's entirely trustworthy. In some ways, she's drawn to Henry, and when she discovers that he is going to be murdered, she decides to go back and save his life by bringing him to the present day--even if it violates every single Kairos rule. As Ada jumps back and forth from the present to the past, she'll have to decide where her heart truly lies and which man she wants in her future" --
Author: Heath, Virginia, 1968- author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: F HEATH
Format: Books
Summary: "Miss Venus Merriwell has been waiting for her prince to come since the tender age of fourteen. She wants a man who is a selfless academic like her, and free from all the wretched vices her gambler father enjoyed far too much before he left the Merriwell sisters practically destitute. Unfortunately, after a slew of romantic disappointments, there is still no sign of that prince at twenty-three and the only one true love of her life is the bursting-at-the-seams orphanage in Covent Garden that she works tirelessly for. An orphanage that desperately needs to expand into the empty building next door. For Galahad Sinclair, gambling isn't just his life, it's in his blood. He grew up and learned the trade at his grandfather's knee in a tavern on the far away banks of the Hudson in New York. But when fate took all that away and dragged him across the sea to London, it made sense to set up shop here. He's spent five years making a success out of his gaming hell in the sleazy docks of the East End. Enough that he can finally afford to buy the pleasure palace of his dreams--and where better than in the capital's sinful heart, Covent Garden? The only fly in his ointment is the perfect building he's just bought to put it in also happens to be right next door to the orphanage run by his cousin's wife's youngest sister. A pious, disapproving and unsettling siren he has avoided like the plague since she flattened him five years ago... While Venus and Galahad lock horns over practically everything, and while her malevolent orphans do their darndest to sabotage his lifelong dream, can either of them take the ultimate gamble--and learn to love thy neighbor?" --
Author: Watson, Jo (Romance fiction writer), author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: F WATSON
Format: Books
Summary: "After a difficult couple of years, journalist Margaret needs a vacation, and so does her recently widowed mother. Luckily, the office Quiz Night is coming up and the prize is an all-expenses-paid trip to Zanzibar. Margaret has never met a quiz question she can't answer. But Margaret has also never played against Jagger Villain. For the last six months, they've shared a desk and not a day has gone by when he hasn't driven her to distraction. The idea of sharing anything else with him is unthinkable. But when the competition ends in a tie, she'll have to ignore her doubts or miss out on the vacation of a lifetime. Away from the office and in a tropical paradise, Margaret begins to wonder if her archnemesis might just have some good qualities. After all, he did bring his father as his plus one on the vacation. But just as Margaret begins to wonder if she and Jagger could possibly mean something to each other, Jagger's father and her mother fall in love, and her world is upended once again. Suddenly the trip of her dreams feels like the holiday from hell, but maybe Margaret can turn it around after all, if only she can make up her mind to let him in" --back cover.
Author: Brown, Chelsey (Interior decorator), author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: 747.1
Format: Books
Summary: "Nowadays, highly curated social media feeds can leave you feeling like you'll need to give up your life savings or knock down walls to have a home you love. But Chelsey Brown, owner of City Chic Decor, is here to show that with some creativity you can completely redesign any room in your house without declaring bankruptcy and have fun while doing it. Unlike most home design books, Shut the Front Door is organized by objective, rather than by room. Are you looking to redesign because your space is outdated? Small or gloomy? Just doesn't feel like home? With easy-to-follow guidelines you'll learn how to solve these frustrating design problems and more to take your space from bleak to chic, from oh no to omg, or from cramped to cozy."--Amazon.com.
Author: Schade, Victoria, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: LP F SCHADE
Format: Large print
Summary: "When an old rival reappears right before the holidays, a professional dog trainer must decide if the melting frost between them can make up for their ruff past. Chelsea Higgins is doing just fine. She's heading into the holidays at the helm of a thriving dog training business, and she's got a mellow senior dog at home to keep her warm at the end of the day. What more could she need? Enter certified gym bro Andrew Gibson: Chelsea's former nemesis, and now the newest neighbor in her business complex, who also wants to expand into the vacant space Chelsea's been eyeing for months. Who cares if it's the season of joy? Let the turf war begin. When an unfortunate (and literal) run-in with Andrew's lawless dog leaves Chelsea with a bum wrist, the two strike a deal: Andrew will help Chelsea rehab the injury if she'll work with him to train his adorably uncivilized boxer. Their typical bickering soon turns to bantering, and Chelsea finds herself inexplicably drawn to the man she thought she had nothing in common with. As she gets to know Andrew and his parents, she realizes she needs to refocus on her own family, especially with a milestone Christmas speeding toward them. But Chelsea can't help wondering if she and Andrew are training for keeps, or if this unexpected Christmas gift is just too good to be true."--
Published: 2023
Call Number: 914.04 EUROPE 2024 1ST. ED
Format: Continuing Resources
Author: Elliott, Lauren, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: F ELLIOTT
Format: Books
Summary: When her first group reading ends in murder, self-taught "seer" Shay, the descendant of an Irish witch and owner of a New Age tea shop, with her assistant suspected of committing cold-blooded murder, finds her business in hot water as she works to exonerate her employee by following the signs to a manipulative murderer. "Self-taught "seer" Shay has much to learn as autumn hits the quaint coastal town of Bray Harbor. Since attempting the art of blending herbs at her popular shop, Crystals & CuriosiTeas, she's set on growing ingredients in the mysterious greenhouse on the second floor--if only she can separate the medicinal plants from the deadly ones. Her new skills are put to the test when she meets pub owner and ex-detective Liam Madigan's Gran. A psychic from Ireland known for interpreting tea leaves and people, Gran encourages Shay to build upon her natural talents and hold her own group reading . . ." --Amazon.com
Author: De Bres, Helena, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: 155.444
Format: Books
Summary: A professor of philosophy discusses the unique place of twins in the world, including their representations in art, myth and popular culture, with illustrations by her identical twin sister. "Wait, are you you or the other one? Which is the evil twin? Have you ever switched partners? Can you read each other's mind? Twins get asked the weirdest questions by strangers, loved ones, even themselves. For Helena de Bres, a twin and philosophy professor, these questions are closely tied to some of philosophy's most unnerving unknowns. What makes someone themself rather than someone else? Can one person be housed in two bodies? What does perfect love look like? Can we really act freely? At what point does wonder morph into objectification? Accompanied by her twin Julia's drawings, Helena uses twinhood to rethink the limits of personhood, consciousness, love, freedom, and justice..." --Amazon.com
Author: McMahon, Darrin M., author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: 305.5
Format: Books
Summary: "We live at a time of soaring global inequalities and a concerted challenge to the very notion that human beings can live as equals. Equality, in short, is in crisis. Yet surprisingly little work has been done to understand this complex ideal. Far from being a modern aspiration, as is commonly thought, equality has a long history stretching back to the ancient world. Across the ages, we have also been profoundly ambivalent toward-and even skeptical of-equality: we have both desired equality and questioned how much of it exactly we want and for whom. Today's anxiety about equality is the historic norm. In Equality, historian Darrin M. McMahon offers the definitive intellectual history of equality. McMahon traces equality's global origins in early human societies before he turns to its ideological development from antiquity, through the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment, into the modern period. Taking a close look at how equality has been imagined over time-as justice in ancient Greece, for instance, or fraternity in the age of the Enlightenment-McMahon finds that across the ages our ambivalence about what equality means and who deserves to be equals has led to dramatic transformations in the very concept. While equality is today associated with the political left's fight for social justice, the concept has been reimagined by every generation, and put to many different uses over time by actors from across the political spectrum. The ideal has in fact served just as often to consolidate the position of elites in fraternity as to contest their power. Ancient Athenians and Haitian revolutionaries built a more levelled political system through appeals to equality; 19th-century Marxists used the idea to wage class warfare; fascists and Nazis divided the world into equals and unequals, with horrific results; and postwar civil rights reformers, feminists, and gay activists built a more just society by advocating equality for all. Today, socioeconomic inequality is spiraling globally, and the dream of an equal world seems threatened. Only by studying equality's deep history, McMahon concludes, might we make it anew for our own age. Spanning centuries of history, this is a magisterial history of equality, revealing how we came to value the ideal and why we continue to reimagine what it means"--
Author: Ryckman, Pamela, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: B PERT
Format: Books
Summary: "Candace Pert stood at the dawn of three revolutions: the women's movement, integrative health, and psychopharmacology. A scientific prodigy, she was 30 years ahead of her time, preaching a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to healthcare and medicine long before yoga hit the mainstream and "wellness" took root in our vernacular. Her bestselling book Molecules of Emotion made her the mother of the Mind/Body Revolution, launching a paradigm shift in medicine. Deepak Chopra credits her with creating his career, and he said as much in his eulogy at her funeral. Candace began her career as an unbridled maverick. In 1972, as a 26-year-old graduate student at Johns Hopkins, she discovered the opiate receptor, revolutionizing her field and enabling pharmacologists to design new classifications of drugs from Prozac to Viagra to Percocet and OxyContin. The tragic irony of her breakthrough, touted as the first step to end heroin addiction, is that it helped spawn a virulent epidemic of drug dependence. Facing the largest public health crisis of the 21st century, Candace was incensed that the Hippocratic oath-"first, do no harm"--would succumb to greed, and as witness to this abuse of power, she was one of few scientists courageous enough to protest. Later, as Chief of Brain Biochemistry at the National Institutes of Health, Candace created Peptide T, the non-toxic treatment for HIV featured in Dallas Buyers Club. As the AIDS pandemic raged, triggering panic across Reagan-era America, the U.S. government poured massive amounts of money into finding a cure, sparking a battle among scientists for funding and power. Bested by rivals with competing drugs yet desperate to help, Candace went rogue, becoming a lynchpin in the black market for Peptide T. After a scandalous departure from her tenured position at the NIH, Candace launched a series of private companies with Michael Ruff, her second husband and collaborator. Naïve to the world of business, she was manipulated by investors keen to wrest control of her discoveries. But Candace too became tainted, believing that her noble ends would justify devious means. Like a mythic hero, she succumbed to a fatal flaw, and her greatest strengths--singularity of purpose and blind faith in her own virtuosity--would prove to be her undoing"--
Author: Pacat, C. S., author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: Y PACAT
Format: Books
Summary: In this riveting sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel Dark Rise, Will and his allies have survived the Dark's first assault, but at a terrible cost. A new threat from the past is rising, and only a handful of heroes remain to fight. Pursued by dark forces, Will and his allies must leave the safety of the Hall and travel to the heart of the ancient world, making new and dangerous alliances, and revealing the shocking secrets of the past. But Will is carrying a dark secret of his own--his true identity. Drawn to the beautiful and deadly James St. Clair, Will is pulled ever deeper into the web of the past, and finds himself tempted by the darkness within. As the ancient world threatens to return, can Will and his friends fight their fate? Or will the truths they learn tear their world apart?
Author: Sutanto, Jesse Q., author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: Y SUTANTO
Format: Books
Summary: "A rom com about a gamer girl with a secret identity and the online bestie she's never met IRL--until she unwittingly transfers to his school"--
Author: Chum, Vichet, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: Y CHUM
Format: Books
Summary: "With her first video posted to social media, Soma Kear has become a viral MC. Trouble is, she didn't exactly think the whole thing through. All Soma knew was that her rhymes were urgent. They were on fire. They were an expression of where she was, and that place...was a hot mess. Soma's ba was deported back to Cambodia six months ago, and it's changed everything. Her ma's been away, trying to help her father acclimate to his new life, and against Soma's wishes her older sister, Dahvy, has moved back in with a brand-new authoritarian tone. Meanwhile, Soma's video has moved from small-town hype to actually trending, pushing the budding MC to ask herself if it's time to level up. With her school's spoken word contest looming, Soma must decide: Is she brave enough to put herself out there? To publicly reveal her fears of Ba not returning? To admit to herself that things may never be the same? With every line she spits, Soma is searching for a way to make sense of the world around her. The answers are at the mic." --
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