| Everyone is watching [sound recording (CD)] / Heather Gudenkauf. |
 Five contestants have been chosen to compete for ten million dollars on the game show One Lucky Winner. But the contestants soon realize this is no longer just a reality show, someone is out for blood. |
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| The Morningside [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Téa Obreht. |
 After being expelled from their ancestral home, Silvia and her mother finally settle at the Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower in Island City where Silvia's aunt Ena serves as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her new life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about their family's past. Silvia knows almost nothing about the place where she was born and spent her early years, nor does she know why she and her mother had to leave. But in Ena there is an opening: a person willing to give the young girl glimpses into the folktales of her demolished homeland, a place of natural beauty and communal spirit that is lacking in Silvia's lonely and impoverished reality. Enchanted by Ena's stories, Silvia begins seeing the world with magical possibilities and becomes obsessed with the mysterious older woman who lives in the penthouse of the Morningside. Bezi Duras is an enigma to everyone in the building: She has her own elevator entrance and leaves only to go out at night and walk her three massive hounds, often not returning until the early morning. Silvia's mission to unravel the truth about this woman's life, and her own haunted past, may end up costing her everything. |
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| The princess of Las Vegas [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Chris Bohjalian. |
 Crissy Dowling has created a world that suits her perfectly. She passes her days by the pool in a private cabana, she splurges on ice cream but never gains an ounce, and each evening she transforms into a Princess, performing her musical cabaret inspired by the life of the late Diana Spencer. Some might find her strange or even delusional, an American speaking with a British accent, hair feathered into a style thirty years old, living and working in a casino that has become a dated trash heap. On top of that, Crissy's daily diet of Adderall and Valium leaves her more than a little tipsy, her Senator boyfriend has gone back to his wife, and her entire career rests on resembling a dead woman. And yet, fans see her for the gifted chameleon she is, showering her with gifts, letters, and standing ovations night after night. But when Crissy's sister, Betsy, arrives in town with a new boyfriend and a teenage daughter, and when Richie Morley, the owner of the Buckingham Palace Casino, is savagely murdered, Crissy's carefully constructed kingdom comes crashing down all around her. |
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| New from here [sound recording (CD)] / Kelly Yang. |
 When the coronavirus hits Hong Kong, ten-year-old Knox Wei-Evans's mom makes the last-minute decision to move him and his siblings back to California, where they think they will be safe. Suddenly, Knox has two days to prepare for an international move, and for leaving his dad, who has to stay for work. At his new school in California, Knox struggles with being the new kid. His classmates think that because he's from Asia, he must have brought over the virus. At home, Mom just got fired and is panicking over the loss of health insurance, and Dad doesn't even know when he'll see them again, since the flights have been cancelled. And everyone struggles with Knox's blurting-things-out problem. As racism skyrockets during COVID-19, Knox tries to stand up to hate, while finding his place in his new country. Can you belong if you're feared; can you protect if you're new? And how do you keep a family together when you're oceans apart? Sometimes when the world is spinning out of control, the best way to get through it is to embrace our own lovable uniqueness. |
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| Chicano Frankenstein [sound recording (CD)] / Daniel A. Olivas. |
 An unnamed paralegal, brought back to life through a controversial process, maneuvers through a world that both needs and resents him in this modern retelling of the Mary Shelley classic. |
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| The familiar [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Leigh Bardugo. |
 In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position. What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when Luzia garners the notice of Antonio Pérez, the disgraced secretary to Spain's king. Still reeling from the defeat of his armada, the king is desperate for any advantage in the war against England's heretic queen, and Pérez will stop at nothing to regain the king's favor. Determined to seize this one chance to better her fortunes, Luzia plunges into a world of seers and alchemists, holy men and hucksters, where the lines between magic, science, and fraud are never certain. But as her notoriety grows, so does the danger that her Jewish blood will doom her to the Inquisition's wrath. She will have to use every bit of her wit and will to survive, even if that means enlisting the help of Guillén Santángel, an embittered immortal familiar whose own secrets could prove deadly for them both. |
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| Supercommunicators [sound recording (CD)] : how to unlock the secret language of connection / Charles Duhigg. |
 Supercommunicators know the importance of recognizing, and then matching, each kind of conversation, and how to hear the complex emotions, subtle negotiations, and deeply held beliefs that color so much of what we say and how we listen. In this book, you will learn why some people are able to make themselves heard, and to hear others, so clearly. Charles Duhigg teaches the tips and skills we need to navigate conversations more successfully. |
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| Christmas in Plains [sound recording (CD)] / Jimmy Carter. |
 The President warmly remembers Christmas in Plains, with its spiritual inspiration, respite, family ties, friendship, vacation fun, and the simplicity of community. |
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| The unbeatable Lily Hong [sound recording (CD)] / Diana Ma. |
 If there's one thing Lily Hong can't stand, it's being second best. That's why she and Max Zhang have been bitter rivals ever since he swooped into town as the new kid with the cool clothes and his fancy downtown Chinese school and showed her up in the fifth-grade reading challenge. She had wanted to be the one to win the pizza party for their class. Okay, so that was two years ago, her best friends Kelli and Lauren didn't totally get it, but they were on her side. And that's why they agreed to help Lily with her submission for the Clarktown's Got Talent video competition. Filmmaking is Lily's passion, which means winning is more important to her than ever. Unfortunately, finding time to work on her video submission is proving harder than ever. In addition to doing regular homework and attending the Chinese school her parents own and run out of the Clarktown Community Center, Lily's been getting weird vibes from her parents lately and she can tell something is up. Then her mom announces that the Clarktown Community Center is having its first showcase, and the students of Hong Chinese Academy will be performing as a group, traditional Chinese dance! Lily is more confused than anything else. The community center is practically falling apart and they think this is a good time to put on a show? Could it be that the community center is in trouble and the only way to save it is to make the showcase a huge success? Lily has no choice. She'll have to juggle the video competition and the art of Chinese dance simultaneously. But when Max Zhang unexpectedly shows up in her class at Chinese school with his perfect Mandarin and his surprisingly good dance skills, Lily might just have to embrace her longtime rival as a key part of her plan to save the community center. |
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| The treacherous tower [sound recording (CD)] / StacyPlays. |
 Stacy and her intelligent wolves live together in a forest cave where they get news that a lost baby ocelot is trapped in a dangerous tower. Can Stacy and her wolf, Basil, rescue the ocelot in time? |
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| Graysen Foxx and the curse of the Illuminerdy [sound recording (CD)] / J. Scott Savage. |
 Graysen Foxx must use his extraordinary detective skills to solve the strange, mind-bending clues of the Illuminerdy, a secret society of school nerds who guard a powerful treasure. |
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| Slugfest [sound recording (CD)] / Gordon Korman. |
 A group of underdogs come together when they attend summer school for failing PE. Teaming up with the most hapless crew in school can really surprise a person. And their teacher might be hiding the biggest surprise yet. |
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| The lost tomb [sound recording (CD)] : and other real-life stories of bones, burials, and murder / Douglas Preston ; foreword by David Grann. |
 Douglas Preston brings together a collection of true stories about buried treasure, enigmatic murders, lost tombs, bizarre crimes, and other fascinating tales of the past and present. |
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| The hunter [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Tana French. |
 It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less: he's built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he's gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places. But then Trey's long-absent father reappears, bringing along an English millionaire and a scheme to find gold in the townland, and suddenly everything the three of them have been building is under threat. Cal and Lena are both ready to do whatever it takes to protect Trey, but Trey doesn't want protecting. What she wants is revenge. |
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| Being peace [sound recording (CD)] : classic dharma talks / by Thich Nhat Hanh. |
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| Why we read [sound recording (CD)] : on bookworms, libraries, and just one more page before lights out / Shannon Reed. |
 "We read to escape, to learn, to find love, to feel seen. We read to encounter new worlds, to discover new recipes, to find connection across difference, or simply to pass a rainy afternoon. No matter the reason, books have the power to keep us safe, to challenge us, and perhaps most importantly, to make us more fully human. Shannon Reed, a longtime teacher, lifelong reader, and New Yorker contributor, gets it. With one simple goal in mind, she makes the case that we should read for pleasure above all else. In this whip-smart, laugh-out-loud-funny collection, Reed shares surprising stories from her life as a reader and the poignant ways in which books have impacted her students. From the varied novels she cherishes (Gone Girl, Their Eyes Were Watching God) to the ones she didn’t (Tess of the d’Urbervilles), Reed takes us on a rollicking tour through the comforting world of literature, celebrating the books we love, the readers who love them, and the ways in which literature can transform us for the better." -- Amazon.com |
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| The bad weather friend [sound recording (CD)] / Dean Koontz. |
 Benny Catspaw's perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fianče, and his favorite chair. He's not paranoid. Someone is out to get him. He just doesn't know who or why. Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he's never heard of: a giant crate and a video message. All will be well in time. How strange, though it's a blessing, his uncle promises. Stranger yet is what's inside the crate. He's a seven-foot-tall self-described "bad weather friend" named Spike whose mission is to help people who are just too good for this world. Spike will take care of it. He'll find Benny's enemies. He'll deal with them. This might be satisfying if Spike wasn't such a menacing presence with terrifying techniques of intimidation. In the company of Spike and a fascinated young waitress-cum-PI-in-training named Harper, Benny plunges into a perilous high-speed adventure, the likes of which never would have crossed the mind of a decent guy like him. |
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| Till human voices wake us [sound recording (CD)] / Rebecca Roque. |
 "Black Mirror meets A Good Girl‘s Guide to Murder when a teenage girl's relentless investigation into her best friend's death plunges her deep into a dangerous underground society where every secret has a price. Seventeen-year-old Cia lived in a house of secrets until she was five, when her father literally burned it all down. The price of his clandestine operation? Cia's entire family, and her leg. So, when her best friend Alice says she has a secret too, Cia wants nothing to do with it--even if it could shed light on her family's dark past. But Alice doesn't let go so easily, especially when her search for answers might help find Noah, the boy who broke her heart before going missing two months ago. But then the police find Alice's body floating in the quarry. Now Cia would give anything to know Alice's secrets. Because Alice would never have jumped, no matter what the cops think. Desperate to figure out what happened to her friend, Cia picks up the threads of Alice's investigation, plunging deep into a shadow world of augmented reality. As she untangles one web of lies after another, Cia finds herself pursued by an enemy that will pay any price to keep their secrets buried. But the girl who already lost everything isn't about to back down now. Her only chance to avenge Alice lies in exposing an underground society preying on those they think no one will miss--but danger lies closer to home than she imagined." -- Goodreads.com |
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| Normal women [sound recording (CD)] : nine hundred years of making history / Philippa Gregory. |
 Most histories have been written by men, about men, relegating women - with the exception of a few queens - to the shadows of time. Now, the author reveals the importance of ordinary women, providing a balanced chronicle that expands and adds rich detail to the story of Great Britain. Gregory draws on an archive of primary and secondary sources to rewrite British history, focusing on the agency, persistence, and effectiveness of everyday women throughout periods of social and cultural transition. She sweeps from the making of the Bayeux tapestry in the eleventh century to the Black Death in 1348 - after which women were briefly paid the same wages as men, the last time for seven centuries - to the 1992 ordination of women by the Church of England, when the church accepted that a woman could perform the miracle of the mass. Through the stories of the female soldiers of the civil war, the guild widows who founded the prosperity of the City of London, highwaywomen and pirates, miners, ship owners, international traders, the women who ran London theaters and commissioned plays from Shakespeare, and the "female husband" who married each other legally in church and lived as husband and wife, Gregory redefines "normal" female behavior to include heroism, rebellion, crime, treason, money-making, and sainthood. As she makes clear, normal women make history. |
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| A smoking bun [sound recording (CD)] / Ellie Alexander. |
 The mountains are calling in Ashland, Oregon, where pastry chef turned amateur sleuth, Jules Capshaw, is baking up a bevy of spiced curry buns and chai cookies for a moonlit snowshoe tour. The annual Downhill Dummy competition is a fun and festive atmosphere until one of the dummies takes a deadly detour and lands atop Fitz Baskin. Can Jules catch the killer before they strike again, or will the truth be buried under fluffy layers of fresh snow? |
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| Table for two [sound recording (CD)] : fictions / Amor Towles. |
 The millions of listeners of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of comprise which operate at the heart of modern marriages. In Towles's novel, Rules of Civility, the indomitable Evelyn Ross leaves New York City in September, 1938, with the intention of returning home to Indiana. But as her train pulls into Chicago, where her parents are waiting, she instead extends her ticket to Los Angeles. Told from seven points of view, "Eve in Hollywood" describes how Eve crafts a new future for herself, and others, in the midst of Hollywood's golden age. Throughout the stories, two characters often find themselves sitting across a table for two where the direction of their futures may hinge upon what they say to each other next. |
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| Mania [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Lionel Shriver. |
 In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence. Because everyone is equally smart, discrimination against purportedly dumb people is "the last great civil rights fight." College English instructor Pearson Converse is against this movement. Fortunately, she enjoys the confidence of a best friend with whom she can speak frankly. Or at least she thinks she can, until one day the political chasm between the two women becomes uncrossable, and a lifelong relationship implodes. |
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| Sex with a brain injury [sound recording (CD)] : on concussion and recovery / Annie Liontas. |
 Annie Liontas suffered multiple concussions in her thirties. She writes about what it means to be one of the "walking wounded," facing her fear, her rage, and the effects of head trauma on her relationships. |
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| Expiration dates [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / by Rebecca Serle. |
 Daphne Bell believes the universe has a plan for her. Every time she meets a new man, she receives a slip of paper with his name and a number on it, the exact amount of time they will be together. The papers told her she'd spend three days with Martin in Paris; five weeks with Noah in San Francisco; and three months with Hugo, her ex-boyfriend turned best friend. Daphne has been receiving the numbered papers for over twenty years, always wondering when there might be one without an expiration. Finally, the night of a blind date at her favorite Los Angeles restaurant, there's only a name: Jake. But as Jake and Daphne's story unfolds, Daphne finds herself doubting the paper's prediction, and wrestling with what it means to be both committed and truthful. Because Daphne knows things Jake doesn't, information that, if he found out, would break his heart. |
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| Last acts [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Alexander Sammartino. |
 Even though his firearms store is failing, things are looking up for David Rizzo. His son, Nick, has just recovered after a near-fatal overdose, which means one thing: Rizzo can use Nick's resurrection to create the most compelling television commercial for a gun emporium that the world has ever seen. But the relationship between father and son is fragile, mired in mutual disappointment. And when the pair embarks on their scheme to avoid bankruptcy, a high stakes crash of hijinks, hope, and disaster ensues. |
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| It had to be you [sound recording (CD)] / Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke. |
 The two identical brothers seemed perfect in every way, handsome, intelligent, popular, until a shocking summer night when one brother killed his parents in cold blood while the other brother had an iron-clad alibi. But which twin was where during the murders? And is it possible the two of them planned the perfect crime together? Years later, the twins are long estranged, each of them claiming to be convinced that the other is responsible for the death of their parents. Married now with children of their own, they may finally be ready to clear one name at the expense of the other and turn to Laurie Moran and her team to reinvestigate their parents' murder. But as the Under Suspicion crew gets closer to the truth, the danger that was assumed to be left in the past finds its way into the present. |
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| The truth about the Devlins [sound recording (CD)] / Lisa Scottoline. |
 TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their eponymous law firm, except him. He works at the firm as its investigator, after rehab for alcoholism and a stint in prison. One night, TJ's older brother John tells him that he killed his client, an accountant, in self-defense, during a fight that ensued after John had confronted the accountant with evidence of embezzlement. TJ and John hurry to the scene, but they find that the accountant has vanished and so has his car. TJ starts investigating, but the next night, police find the accountant dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, in a different car and at a different location. Soon a mysterious sedan starts following TJ and John, and the Devlins realize they are in the crosshairs of a conspiracy. TJ will fight to save his family, but what he learns might break them first. |
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| Fangirl down [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Tessa Bailey. |
 Josephine Doyle believed in gorgeous, grumpy golfer Wells Whitaker even when he didn't believe in himself. Yet after he throws in the towel, she wonders if her faith was misplaced. Then a determined Wells shows up at her door with a wild proposal: be his new caddy, help him turn his game around, and split the prize money. As they travel together, sparks fly. |
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| What happened to Nina? [sound recording (CD)] : a thriller / Dervla McTiernan. |
 Nina and Simon leave for a weekend getaway, but only Simon comes home. When Simon's explanation doesn't add up, Nina's parents go to the police, while Simon's family and the media get involved. |
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| Close to death [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Anthony Horowitz. |
 Quiet, wooded, and exclusive, Riverside Close is perfect, until the noisy Kentworthy family arrives. When Charles Kentworthy is found dead with a crossbow bolt in his chest, only Detective Hawthorne can solve the case. |
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| Sleeping giants [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Rene Denfeld. |
 Adopted as a baby, Amanda Dufresne hopes that by getting to know her birth family, she'll understand more about herself. But with the help of a retired police officer, their search leads to shocking discoveries. |
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| At first spite [sound recording (CD)] / Olivia Dade. |
 When Athena Greydon's fiancé ends their engagement, she has to move into the spite house she bought him as a wedding gift. But it has its own problems: it is only ten feet wide, her ex's home is literally attached to hers, and the uptight jerk who convinced his younger brother to leave her is living on her other side, only a four-foot alley away, just close enough for revenge. |
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| A great country [sound recording (CD)] / Shilpi Somaya Gowda. |
 Pacific Hills, California: Gated communities, ocean views, well-tended lawns, serene pools, and now the new home of the Shah family. For the Shah parents, who came to America twenty years earlier with little more than an education and their new marriage, this move represents the culmination of years of hard work and dreaming. For their children, born and raised in America, success is not so simple. For the most part, these differences among the five members of the Shah family are minor irritants, arguments between parents and children, older and younger siblings. But one Saturday night, the twelve-year-old son is arrested. The fallout from that event will shake each family member's perception of themselves as individuals, as community members, as Americans, and will lead each to consider: how do we define success? At what cost comes ambition? And what is our role and responsibility in the cultural mosaic of modern America? |
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| Safe [sound recording (CD)] : a memoir of fatherhood, foster care, and the risks we take for family / Mark Daley. |
 This memoir highlights the impossible choices all parents, in the foster system and beyond, face in raising children today. Mark Daley shines a much-needed spotlight on how this country treats the most vulnerable among us, sounding a vital call to overhaul a thoroughly broken system. |
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| Worthy [sound recording (CD)] / Jada Pinkett Smith. |
 From an unconventional upbringing in Baltimore, to an unconventional marriage to one of the most famous men in the world, adhering to the status quo has never been a familiar road for Jada Pinkett Smith. She strips herself of all the labels and stories crafted by others, and reclaims her narrative with radical self-love. Smith teaches us who Jada is, and how to embrace our most authentic lovable souls. |
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| When I was your age [sound recording (CD)] : life lessons, funny stories & questionable parenting advice from a professional clown / Kenan Thompson. |
 Saturday Night Live's longest-ever-serving cast member shares humorous essays that offer valuable advice on parenting, focusing on positivity, and having fun in life. |
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| Second chances in New Port Stephen [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / TJ Alexander. |
 Eli Ward hasn't been back to his suffocating hometown of New Port Stephen, Florida, in ages. Post-transition and sober, he's a completely different person from the one who left years ago. But when a scandal threatens his career as a TV writer and comedian, he has no choice but to return home for the holidays. He can only hope he'll survive his boisterous, loving, but often misguided family and hide the fact that his dream of comedy success has become a nightmare. Just when he thinks this trip couldn't get any worse, Eli bumps into his high school ex, Nick Wu, who's somehow hotter than ever. Divorced and in his forties, Nick's world revolves around his father, his daughter, and his job. But even a busy life can't keep him from being intrigued by the reappearance of Eli. |
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| After world [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Debbie Urbanski. |
 Sen Anon is assigned to be a witness for the Department of Transition, recording the changes in the environment as the world begins to rewild. Abandoned by her mother in a cabin somewhere in Upstate New York, Sen will observe the monumental ecological shift known as the Great Transition, the final step in Project Afterworld. Around her drones buzz, cameras watch, microphones listen, digitizing her every move. Privately she keeps a journal of her observations, which are then uploaded and saved, joining the rest of humanity on Maia, a new virtual home. Sen was seventeen years old when the Digital Human Archive Project (DHAP) was initiated. 12,000,203,891 humans have been archived so far. Only Sen remains. As Sen struggles to persist in the face of impending death, {storyworker} ad39-393a-7fbc works to unfurl the tale of Sen's whole life, offering up an increasingly intimate narrative, until they are confronted with a very human problem of their own. |
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| The weekend retreat [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Tara Laskowski. |
 Every year, the illustrious Van Ness siblings, heirs to a copper fortune, gather at their luxury winery estate for a joint birthday celebration. It's a tradition they've followed nearly all their lives, and now they are back with their significant others for a much-needed weekend of rest and relaxation, away from the public spotlight. With lavish comforts, gorgeous scenery, and indulgent drinking, the trip should be the perfect escape. But it soon becomes clear that even a remote idyllic getaway can't keep out the problems simmering in each of their lives. |
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| Saevus Corax gets away with murder [sound recording (CD)] / K. J. Parker. |
 In the battlefield salvage business, when the blood flows, so does the cash. But Saevus Corax has had enough and wants to retire. First he must get away with one last score. What could go wrong? |
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| Flores and Miss Paula [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Melissa Rivero. |
 Thirtysomething Flores and her mother, Paula, still live in the same Brooklyn apartment. When they learn they will be forced to move, they must finally confront their complicated past. |
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| The engagement party [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Darby Kane. |
 Twelve years after college, former classmates gather to celebrate an engagement. But tension is ignited when they find a dead body with a note: "time to tell the truth." And things only get worse. |
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| A river of golden bones [sound recording (CD)] / by A.K. Mulford ; read by Vico Ortiz. |
 Twins Calla and Briar have spent their entire lives hiding from the powerful sorceress who destroyed their kingdom, and from the humans who don't know they are Wolves. No one knows who Calla truly is except for her childhood friend, and sister's betrothed, the distractingly handsome Prince Grae. But when Calla and Briar journey out of hiding for Briar's wedding, all of their well-made plans go awry. The evil sorceress is back with another sleeping curse for the last heir to the Golden Court. Calla must step out of the shadows to save their sister, their kingdom, and their own legacy. |
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| The mystery guest [sound recording (CD)] / Nita Prose. |
 "Molly Gray is not like anyone else. With her flair for cleaning and proper etiquette, she has risen through the ranks of the glorious five-star Regency Grand Hotel to become the esteemed Head Maid. But just as her life reaches a pinnacle state of perfection, her world is turned upside down when J.D. Grimthorpe, the world-renowned mystery author, drops dead, very dead, on the hotel's tea room floor. When Detective Stark, Molly's old foe, investigates the author's unexpected demise, it becomes clear that this death was murder most foul. Suspects abound, and everyone wants to know: Who killed J.D. Grimthorpe? Was it Lily, the new Maid-in-Training? Or was it Serena, the author's secretary? Could Mr. Preston, the hotel's beloved doorman, be hiding something? And is Molly really as innocent as she seems? As the case threatens the hotel's pristine reputation, Molly knows that she alone holds the key to unlocking the killer's identity. But that key is buried deep in her past, because long ago, she knew J.D. Grimthorpe. Molly must comb her memory for clues, and revisit her childhood and the mysterious Grimthorpe mansion where her dearly departed Gran once worked. With Molly and her colleagues under investigation, she knows she must solve the mystery post-haste. And if there's one thing she knows for sure, it's that dirty secrets don't stay buried forever."--Container. |
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| Build the life you want [sound recording (CD)] : the art and science of getting happier / Arthur C. Brooks, Oprah Winfrey. |
 Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey invite you to begin a journey toward greater happiness no matter how challenging your circumstances. Drawing on cutting-edge science and their years of helping people translate ideas into action, they show you how to improve your life right now instead of waiting for the outside world to change. With insight, compassion, and hope, Brooks and Winfrey reveal how the tools of emotional self-management can change your life, immediately. They recommend practical, research-based practices to build the four pillars of happiness: family, friendship, work, and faith. And along the way, they share hard-earned wisdom from their own lives and careers as well as the witness of regular people whose lives are joyful despite setbacks and hardship. Equipped with the tools of emotional self-management and ready to build your four pillars, you can take control of your present and future rather than hoping and waiting for your circumstances to improve. |
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| The modern witchcraft spell book [sound recording (CD)] : your complete guide to crafting & casting spells / Skye Alexander. |
 This book teaches you how to harness your inner magic through incantations, potions, and charms. Whether you're looking to get the job of your dreams, rejuvenate your body, or bring good fortune to family and friends, each page provides you with a spell that can be re-created or personalized for your specific situation. |
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| The modern witchcraft guide to magickal herbs [sound recording (CD)] : your complete guide to the hidden powers of herbs / Judy Ann Nock. |
 From creating potions to using dried herbs in rituals, herbal magic is a natural way to practice witchcraft. Herbs can be used in many different ways to help set the intention through every part of a witch's process. Learn everything you need to use the most powerful herbs and use them as an essential part of your practice. Including information on which herbs are best for what kinds of spells, how to use herbs in divination and rituals, and step-by-step guides to making herbal bundles, potions, and sprays, this guidebook has all the important facts to make your herbal witchcraft a success. Jam-packed with herbal ideas, this guide is perfect for both beginners and experienced witches looking to incorporate more herbs into their practice. Beautiful and functional, it is easy to navigate and offers a detailed guide to herbal magic! |
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| This is how you lose the time war [sound recording (CD)] / Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone. |
 "Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There's still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war. That's how war works. Right? Cowritten by two beloved and award-winning sci-fi writers, This Is How You Lose the Time War is an epic love story spanning time and space."--Amazon. |
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| The antique hunter's guide to murder [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / C. L. Miller. |
 Freya Lockwood is shocked when she learns that Arthur Crockleford, antiques dealer and her estranged mentor, has died under mysterious circumstances. She has spent the last twenty years avoiding her quaint English hometown, but when she receives a letter from Arthur asking her to investigate, sent just days before his death, Freya has no choice but to return to a life she had sworn to leave behind. Joining forces with her eccentric Aunt Carole, Freya follows clues and her instincts to an old manor house for an advertised antiques enthusiast's weekend. But not all is as it seems. It's clear to Freya that the antiques are all just poor reproductions and her fellow guests are secretive and menacing. What is going on at this estate and how was Arthur involved? More importantly, can Freya and Carole discover the truth before the killer strikes again? |
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| After Annie [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Anna Quindlen. |
 When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are left to struggle without the woman who centered their lives. Bill Brown finds himself overwhelmed, and Annie's best friend Annemarie is lost to old bad habits without Annie's support. It is Annie's daughter, Ali, forced to try to care for her younger brothers and even her father, who manages to maintain some semblance of their former lives for them all, and who confronts the complicated truths of adulthood. Yet over the course of the next year, while Annie looms large in their memories, all three are able to grow, to change, even to become stronger and more sure of themselves. The enduring power Annie gave to those who loved her is the power to love, and to go on without her. |
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| Maktub [sound recording (CD)] : an inspirational companion to The alchemist / Paulo Coelho ; [translated from the Portugese by Margaret Jull Costa]. |
 An essential companion to the inspirational classic The Alchemist, filled with timeless stories of reflection and rediscovery. |
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| The Turtle House [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Amanda Churchill. |
 Lia Cope had not felt close to her grandmother, Mineko, until the two began sharing a bedroom and late-night talks. When Mineko's adult children decide, against her wishes, to move her into an assisted living community, she and Lia devise a plan to bring a beloved lost place to life, one that they hope will offer the safety and sense of belonging they both need, no matter the cost. |
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| Cahokia jazz [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Francis Spufford. |
 In an alternate 1920s America, the ancient indigenous city of Cahokia is now a teeming metropolis where diverse people live in peace, until Joe Barrow finds a corpse, and is plunged into a jazz-age mystery like no other. |
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| The summer book club [sound recording (CD)] / Susan Mallery. |
 Besties Laurel and Paris are excited to welcome Cassie to their summer book club. Inspired by the heroines who risk everything for fulfillment, Laurel, Paris, and Cassie begin to take chances. |
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| The other valley [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Scott Alexander Howard. |
 Sixteen-year-old Odile is an awkward, quiet girl vying for a coveted seat on the Conseil. If she earns the position, she'll decide who may cross her town's heavily guarded borders. On the other side, it's the same valley, the same town. Except to the east, the town is twenty years ahead in time. To the west, it's twenty years behind. The towns repeat in an endless sequence across the wilderness. When Odile recognizes two visitors she wasn't supposed to see, she realizes that the parents of her friend Edme have been escorted across the border from the future, on a mourning tour, to view their son while he's still alive in Odile's present. Edme, who is brilliant, funny, and the only person to truly see Odile, is about to die. Sworn to secrecy in order to preserve the timeline, Odile now becomes the Conseil's top candidate. Yet she finds herself drawing closer to the doomed boy, imperiling her entire future. |
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| Fourteen days [sound recording (CD)] : a collaborative novel / edited by Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston. |
 Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice--from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan have begun to gather on the rooftop and tell stories. With each passing night, more and more neighbors gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned pails. Gradually the tenants--some of whom have barely spoken to each other--become real neighbors. In this Decameron-like serial novel, general editors Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston and a star-studded list of contributors create a beautiful ode to the people who couldn't escape when the pandemic hit. A dazzling, heartwarming, and ultimately surprising narrative, Fourteen Days reveals how beneath the horrible loss and suffering, some communities managed to become stronger. Includes writing from: Charlie Jane Anders, Margaret Atwood, Jennine Capó Crucet, Joseph Cassara, Angie Cruz, Pat Cummings, Sylvia Day, Emma Donoghue, Dave Eggers, Diana Gabaldon, Tess Gerritsen, John Grisham, Maria Hinojosa, Mira Jacob, Erica Jong, CJ Lyons, Celeste Ng, Tommy Orange, Mary Pope Osborne, Douglas Preston, Alice Randall, Ishmael Reed, Roxana Robinson, Nelly Rosario, James Shapiro, Hampton Sides, R.L. Stine, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Monique Truong, Scott Turow, Luis Alberto Urrea, Rachel Vail, Weike Wang, Caroline Randall Williams, De'Shawn Charles Winslow, and Meg Wolitzer! |
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| Wandering stars [sound recording (CD)] / Tommy Orange. |
 Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity. Oakland, 2018. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield is barely holding her family together after the shooting that nearly took the life of her nephew Orvil. Now adrift, Opal searches for a way to heal her wounded family. |
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| End of story [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / A.J. Finn. |
 Sebastian Trapp, a reclusive mystery novelist, only has months to live. Twenty years earlier, Sebastian's first wife and teenaged son vanished, never to be seen again. Trapp invites Nicky Hunter to his spectacular San Francisco mansion to help draft his life story. Nicky becomes obsessed with finding the truth. Did the perfect crime writer commit the perfect crime? |
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| Never too late [sound recording (CD)] / Danielle Steel. |
 Recent widow Kezia Cooper Hobson moves to New York City for a fresh start closer to her adult daughters. When a crisis strikes the city, Kezia bonds with the man who lives next door. But her daughters disapprove. |
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| How to know a person [sound recording (CD)] : the art of seeing others deeply and being deeply seen / David Brooks. |
 Driven by his trademark sense of curiosity, Brooks draws from the fields of psychology and neuroscience, and from the worlds of theatre, history, and education, to present a welcoming, hopeful, integrated approach to human connection. He helps listeners become more understanding and considerate towards others, and find the joy that comes from being seen. Along the way he offers a possible remedy for a society that is riven by fragmentation, hostility, and misperception. The act of seeing another person, Brooks argues, is a profoundly creative act: How can we look somebody in the eye and see something large in them, and in turn, see something larger in ourselves? |
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| Simply the best [sound recording (CD)] / Susan Elizabeth Phillips. |
 Brett Rivers is the hottest sports agent in the business. Rory Garrett is a disaster. Brett and Rory should never have met, and they absolutely, positively should never have had to deal with the consequences of one stupid, drunken night, and a dead body. A woman who has succeeded at nothing and a man who's succeeded at everything confront the challenge of their lives. |
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| The heiress [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Rachel Hawkins. |
 When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she's not only North Carolina's richest woman, she's also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family's estate high in the Blue Ridge mountains. In the aftermath of her death, that estate, along with a nine-figure fortune and the complicated legacy of being a McTavish, pass to her adopted son, Camden. But to everyone's surprise, Cam wants little to do with the house or the money, and even less to do with the surviving McTavishes. Instead, he rejects his inheritance, settling into a normal life as an English teacher in Colorado and marrying Jules, a woman just as eager to escape her own messy past. Ten years later, Camden is a McTavish in name only, but a summons in the wake of his uncle's death brings him and Jules back into the family fold at Ashby House. Its views are just as stunning as ever, its rooms just as elegant, but coming home reminds Cam why he was so quick to leave in the first place. Jules, however, has other ideas, and the more she learns about Cam's estranged family, and the twisted secrets they keep, the more determined she is for her husband to claim everything Ruby once intended for him to have. But Ruby's plans were always more complicated than they appeared. As Ashby House tightens its grip on Jules and Camden, questions about the infamous heiress come to light. Was there any truth to the persistent rumors following her disappearance as a girl? What really happened to those four husbands, who all died under mysterious circumstances? And why did she adopt Cam in the first place? |
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| American girls [sound recording (CD)] : one woman's journey into the Islamic state and her sister's fight to bring her home / Jessica Roy. |
 Raised in a restrictive Jehovah's Witness community in Arkansas, sisters Lori and Sam Sally spent their teens and twenties moving around the South and Midwest, working low-wage jobs and falling in and out of relationships. Caught in an eternal sibling rivalry, where younger, quieter Lori protected outgoing, reckless Sam, the two women eventually married a pair of brothers and settled down in Elkhart, Indiana, just around the corner from each other. And it was there that their lives totally diverged. While Lori was ultimately able to leave her violent marriage, Sam was drawn deeper into hers, and deeper into the control of a husband who slowly radicalized, via the internet, into a jihadist. With their daughter and Sam's child from a previous relationship, the couple moved to Raqqa, Syria, where Moussa fought for ISIS and Sam, who never even converted to Islam, attempted to survive and protect her children from airstrikes, extremist indoctrination, and the brutality of the ISIS system. In Raqqa, Sam's oldest son appeared in several Islamic State propaganda videos, and she participated in ISIS's practice of enslaving Yezidi women and children. Sam says her husband coerced her to move, but Lori, who quit her job and worked tirelessly to try get Sam out of Syria, isn't so sure. The book explores how the subjugation and abuse experienced by women in the United States, women like Sam and Lori, are the same themes that enable the rise of patriarchal, extremist ideologies like the one espoused by ISIS. |
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| Welcome home, stranger [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Kate Christensen. |
 An environmental journalist in Washington, DC, Rachel has shunned her New England working-class family for years, until she's summoned home to deal with the aftermath of her mother's death. |
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| Fall [sound recording (CD)] / Tracy Clark. |
 When two city aldermen are found dead, both with thirty dimes left on their bodies, Detective Harriet Foster jumps on the case before the killer can leave their mysterious calling card again. |
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| Cold victory [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Karl Marlantes. |
 Helsinki, 1947. Natalya Bobrova, from Russia, and Louise Koski, from the US, meet at an embassy party. Their husbands, both world-class skiers, drunkenly challenge each other to a secret cross-country race. |
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| My name was Eden [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Eleanor Barker-White. |
 When Lucy's daughter Eden returns from the hospital, she begins to refer to herself as Eli, the name Lucy reserved for Eden's unborn twin. Despite doctors reassurance, Lucy knows something is wrong. |
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| The ghost orchid [sound recording (CD)] / Jonathan Kellerman. |
 LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis sees it all the time: Reinvention's a way of life in a city fueled by fantasy. But try as you might to erase the person you once were, there are those who will never forget the past, and who can still find you. A pool boy enters a secluded Bel Air property and discovers two bodies floating in the bright blue water: Gio Aggiunta, the playboy heir to an Italian shoe empire, and a gorgeous, even wealthier neighbor named Meagin March. A married neighbor. An illicit affair stoking rage is a perfect motive. But a "double" in this neighborhood of gated estates isn't something you see every day. The house is untouched. No forced entry, no forensic evidence. The case has "that feeling," and when that happens, Milo turns to his friend, the brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware. As Milo and Alex investigate both victims, they discover two troubled pasts. And as they dig deeper, Meagin March's very identity begins to blur. Who was this glamorous but conflicted woman? Did her past catch up to her? Or did Gio's family connections create a threat spanning two continents? Chasing down the answers leads Alex and Milo on an exploration of L.A.'s darkest side as they contend with one of the most shocking cases of their careers and learn that that some secrets are best left buried in the past. |
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| Last night [sound recording (CD)] / Luanne Rice. |
 A fierce blizzard is burying the eastern seaboard, but on the icy Rhode Island shore renowned artist Maddie Morrison finds warm sanctuary from a contentious divorce at the legendary Ocean House. Hours later, her body is found buried under a blanket of snow and her little daughter, CeCe, has disappeared without a trace. For Detective Conor Reid; his brother, Tom, a coast guard commander; and Maddie's grieving sister, Hadley, the posh hotel becomes ground zero for an investigation. Trapped by the blizzard, they must hunker down and determine who in the young mother's life could have possibly wanted her dead. There are stories of a twisted romantic past. Of old jealousies and resentments that still cut to the bone. And a history of greed, rage, and revenge that created the perfect storm for murder. A storm has just begun. |
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| The fury [sound recording (CD)] / Alex Michaelides. |
 "This is a tale of murder. Or maybe that’s not quite true. At its heart, it’s a love story, isn’t it? Lana Farrar is a reclusive ex-movie star and one of the most famous women in the world. Every year, she invites her closest friends to escape the English weather and spend Easter on her idyllic private Greek island. I tell you this because you may think you know this story. You probably read about it at the time―it caused a real stir in the tabloids, if you remember. It had all the necessary ingredients for a press sensation: a celebrity; a private island cut off by the wind…and a murder. We found ourselves trapped there overnight. Our old friendships concealed hatred and a desire for revenge. What followed was a game of cat and mouse―a battle of wits, full of twists and turns, building to an unforgettable climax. The night ended in violence and death, as one of us was found murdered. But who am I? My name is Elliot Chase, and I’m going to tell you a story unlike any you’ve ever heard." -- Amazon.com |
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| Three-inch teeth [sound recording (CD)] / C. J. Box. |
 "Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett faces two different kinds of raging beasts—one animal, one human—in this riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestseller C. J. Box. A rogue grizzly bear has gone on a rampage—killing, among others, the potential fiancé of Joe’s daughter. At the same time, Dallas Cates, whom Joe helped lock up years ago, is released from prison with a special list tattooed on his skin. He wants revenge on the people who sent him away: the six people he blames for the deaths of his entire family and the loss of his reputation and property. Using the grizzly attacks as cover, Cates sets out to methodically check off his list. The problem is, both Nate Romanowski and Joe Pickett are on it." -- Amazon.com |
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| The women [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Kristin Hannah. |
 When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path. As green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is overwhelmed by the chaos and destruction of war, as well as the unexpected trauma of coming home to a changed and politically divided America. |
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| The prince & the coyote [sound recording (CD)] / David Bowles. |
 "Mexico, 1418. Meet Prince Acolmiztli. Puma of the Acolhua People. Heir to his father's throne. Half Acolhuan, half Mexica. Singer. Warrior. Poet. Sixteen years old. And now, betrayed. A palace plot, placed by the deadly Tepaneca Empire, kills his mother and siblings, puts his father's army into retreat, and sends Prince Acolmiztli into a treacherous exile. Battling hunger, snow-swept mountains, and the machinations of the city-states all around him, Prince Acolmiztli vows revenge. It will take years, but he will return to seek justice. And he'll do it with a new name: Nezahualcoyotl. Fasting Coyote. One of the most legendary figures in history. From the award-winning team of David Bowles and Amanda Mijangos comes a heart-pounding historical epic that is 'Gladiator' meets the 'Song of Achilles' - 'The Count of Monte Cristo' set in pre-Columbian Mexico. 'The Prince & The Coyote' brings to life one of Mexico's most treasured heroes - Nezahualcoyotl - in a story that will thrill readers far and wide." - From back of insert |
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| Twenty thousand leagues under the sea [sound recording (CD)] / Jules Verne. |
 "'The year 1866 was signalized by a remarkable incident... Vessels had been met by 'an enormous thing,' a long object, spindle-shaped, occasionally phosphorescent, and infinitely larger and more rapid in its movements than a whale." - When French scientist Professor Aronnax agrees to investigate a series of attacks by a mysterious sea monster, he begins an incredible underwater journey, taking along his loyal assistant Conseil and master harpooner Ned. They eventually join Captain Nemo and traverse a distance of thousands of leagues throughout many seas, finding exotic settings, surprise encounters, and unforeseen dangers in their epic adventure." - From back of insert |
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| The pomegranate gate [sound recording (CD)] / Ariel Kaplan. |
 "Toba Peres can speak, but not shout; she can walk, but not run. She can write with both hands, in different languages, but has not had a formal education. The only treasure Toba has dared to keep is a precious star sapphire, set in a necklace she must never take off. Naftaly Cresques sees things that aren’t real, and dreams things that are. He is a well-trained tailor, but a middling one, and he is risking his life to smuggle a strange family heirloom: a centuries-old book he must never read, and must never lose. The Queen of the Sefarad has ordered all Jews to convert, or be exiled with nothing. Toba, Naftaly, and thousands of others are forced to flee their homes. Toba, accidentally separated from their caravan of refugees, stumbles through a strange pomegranate grove into the magical realm of the Maziks: mythical, terrible beings with immense power. There, she discovers latent abilities that put her in the crosshairs of bloodthirsty immortals, but may be key to her survival. On the other side of the gate, Naftaly, intent on rescuing Toba, finds his new companions harbor dangerous secrets of their own. Now, hunted by an Inquisition in both worlds, Toba and Naftaly must unravel ancient histories and ancient magics in order to understand the link between the two realms. More than their own lives might be at stake. Brimming with folkloric wonder, The Pomegranate Gate weaves history, myth, and magic into an exquisite tale of fate, legacy, and friendship that will leave readers spellbound." - Goodreads.com |
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