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No ordinary assignment : a memoir

Author(s):

Jane Ferguson

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After growing up in Northern Ireland during The Troubles, Jane Ferguson dedicated her career to giving voice to civilian experiences of war. This memoir chronicles her journey from inquisitive child to war correspondent.

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070.4333 Fer

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Of time and turtles : mending the world, shell by shattered shell

Author(s):

Sy Montgomery
Matt Patterson

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When naturalist Sy Montgomery and wildlife artist Matt Patterson arrive at Turtle Rescue League, they are greeted by hundreds of turtles recovering from injury and illness. Blending science, memoir, philosophy, and drawing on cultures from across the globe, this compassionate portrait of injured turtles and their determined rescuers invites us all to slow down and slip into turtle time.

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Call Number:

597.92 Mon

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The beet queen : a novel

Author(s):

Louise Erdrich
Pallas Erdrich, narrator

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On a spring morning in 1932, young Karl and Mary Adare arrive by boxcar in Argus, North Dakota. After being orphaned in a most peculiar way, they seek refuge in the butcher shop of their aunt and her husband. So begins an exhilarating forty-year saga brimming with colorful, unforgettable characters.

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FIC Erd

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Icebreaker : a novel

Author(s):

Hannah Grace
Tim Paige, narrator

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Anastasia Allen has worked her entire life for a shot at Team USA. It looks like everything is going according to plan when she gets a full scholarship to the University of California, Maple Hills and lands a place on their competitive figure skating team. But when Anastasia's skating partner faces an uncertain future, she may have to look to hockey player Nate Hawkins to take her shot. Sparks fly, but Anastasia isn't worried, because she could never like a hockey player, right?

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FIC Gra

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The leftover woman : a novel

Author(s):

Jean Kwok
Sura Siu, narrator
Caroline Hewitt, narrator

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Jasmine Yang arrives in New York City from her rural Chinese village without money or family support, fleeing a controlling husband, on a desperate search for the daughter who was taken from her at birth, another female casualty of China's controversial One Child Policy. But with her husband on her trail, the clock is ticking, and she's forced to make increasingly desperate decisions if she ever hopes to be reunited with her daughter. Meanwhile, publishing executive Rebecca Whitney seems to have it all: a prestigious family name and the wealth that comes with it, a high-powered career, a beautiful home, a handsome husband, and an adopted Chinese daughter she adores. She's even hired a Chinese nanny to help her balance the demands of being a working wife and mother. But when an industry scandal threatens to jeopardize not only Rebecca's job but her marriage, this perfect world begins to crumble and her role in her own family is called into question.

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FIC Kwo

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Reality+ : virtual worlds and the problems of philosophy

Author(s):

David John Chalmers
Grant Cartwright, narrator

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A leading philosopher takes a mind-bending journey through virtual worlds, illuminating the nature of reality and human's place within it.

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Call Number:

111 Cha

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Making it so : a memoir

Author(s):

Patrick Stewart

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From his acclaimed stage triumphs to his legendary onscreen work in the Star Trek and X-Men franchises, Sir Patrick Stewart has captivated audiences around the world and across multiple generations with his indelible command of stage and screen. Now, he presents his long-awaited memoir, Making It So, a revealing portrait of an artist whose astonishing life, from his humble beginnings in Yorkshire, England, to the heights of Hollywood and worldwide acclaim, proves a story as exuberant, definitive, and enduring as the author himself.

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B Ste

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How to say Babylon : a memoir

Author(s):

Safiya Sinclair

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Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair's father, a volatile reggae musician and militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, became obsessed with her purity, in particular, with the threat of what Rastas call Babylon, the immoral and corrupting influences of the Western world outside their home. He worried that womanhood would make Safiya and her sisters morally weak and impure, and believed a woman's highest virtue was her obedience. In an effort to keep Babylon outside the gate, he forbade almost everything. In place of pants, the women in her family were made to wear long skirts and dresses to cover their arms and legs, head wraps to cover their hair, no make-up, no jewelry, no opinions, no friends. Safiya's mother, while loyal to her father, nonetheless gave Safiya and her siblings the gift of books, including poetry, to which Safiya latched on for dear life. And as Safiya watched her mother struggle voicelessly for years under housework and the rigidity of her father's beliefs, she increasingly used her education as a sharp tool with which to find her voice and break free. Inevitably, with her rebellion comes clashes with her father, whose rage and paranoia explodes in increasing violence. As Safiya's voice grows, lyrically and poetically, a collision course is set between them.

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B Sin

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Balancing act

Author(s):

Emily March
Leanne Woodward, narrator

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Genevieve Prentice is learning to let go. She's even opening up her heart to a handsome widower. But when her estranged eldest daughter moves to Lake in the Clouds, Genevieve's life is upended once again.

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FIC Mar

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Keep your friends close

Author(s):

Lucinda Berry
Stephanie Nemeth-Parker, narrator

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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.

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FIC Ber

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The witching tide

Author(s):

Margaret Meyer
Miranda Raison, narrator

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East Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer, and servant, has lived peacefully for more than four decades in her beloved coastal village of Cleftwater. Rendered voiceless as a child, Martha has not spoken a word in years. The witchfinder, Silas Makepeace, has been blazing a trail of destruction along the coast, and now has Cleftwater in his sights. His arrival strikes fear into the heart of the community. Within a day, local women are being captured and detained, and Martha finds herself a silent witness to the hunt. Powerless to protest, Martha is enlisted to search the accused women for "devil's marks." Now she is caught between suspicion and betrayal, having to choose between protecting herself or condemning the women of the village.

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FIC Mey

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After world : a novel

Author(s):

Debbie Urbanski
Sura Siu, narrator
Emily Tremaine, narrator
Cindy Kay, narrator
Kevin R. Free, narrator

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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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FIC Urb

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Starling house

Author(s):

Alix E. Harrow
Natalie Naudus, narrator

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Eden, Kentucky, is just another dying, bad-luck town, known only for the legend of E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth-century author and illustrator who wrote The Underland -- and disappeared. Before she vanished, Starling House appeared. But everyone agrees that it's best to let the uncanny house -- and its last lonely heir, Arthur Starling -- go to rot. Opal knows better than to mess with haunted houses or brooding men, but an unexpected job offer might be a chance to get her brother out of Eden. Too quickly, though, Starling House starts to feel dangerously like something she's never had: a home. As sinister forces converge on Starling House, Opal and Arthur are going to have to make a dire choice: to dig up the buried secrets of the past and confront their own fears, or let Eden be taken over by literal nightmares. If Opal wants a home, she'll have to fight for it.

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FIC Har

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Calico

Author(s):

Lee Goldberg
Eric Conger, narrator

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There's a saying in Barstow, California, a decaying city in the scorching Mojave desert . . .The Interstate here only goes in one direction: Away. But it's the only place where ex-LAPD detective Beth McDade, after a staggering fall from grace, could get another badge . . . and a shot at redemption. Over a century ago, and just a few miles further into the bleak landscape, a desperate stranger ended up in Calico, a struggling mining town, also hoping for a second chance. His fate, all those years ago, and hers today are linked when Beth investigates an old skeleton dug up in a shallow, sandy grave . . . and also tries to identity a vagrant run-over by a distracted motorhome driver during a lightning storm. Every disturbing clue she finds, every shocking discovery she makes, force Beth to confront her own troubled past . . . and a past that's not her own . . . until it all smashes together in a revelation that could change the world.

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FIC Gol

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Invention and innovation : a brief history of hype and failure

Author(s):

Vaclav Smil
Tim Fannon, narrator

Description:

Vaclav Smil explains the difference between invention and innovation, and looks not only at inventions that failed to dominate as promised (such as the airship, nuclear fission, and supersonic flight) but also at those that turned disastrous (leaded gasoline, DDT, and chlorofluorocarbons). And finally, he offers a "wish list" of inventions that we most urgently need to confront the staggering challenges of the twenty-first century.

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Call Number:

600 Smi

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Only if you're lucky

Author(s):

Stacy Willingham
Karissa Vacker, narrator

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Lucy Sharpe is larger than life. Especially for Margot, who meets Lucy at the end of their freshman year. Margot is the shy one, the careful one, always the sidekick and never the center of attention. But when Lucy singles her out at the end of the year, and asks her to room together, something in Margot can't say no; something daring, or starving, or maybe even envious. And so, Margot finds herself living in an off-campus house with three other girls, Lucy, the ringleader; Sloane, the sarcastic one; and Nicole, the nice one, the three of them opposites but also deeply intertwined. It's a year that finds Margot finally coming out of the shell she's been in since the end of high school, when her best friend Eliza died three weeks after graduation. Margot and Lucy have become the closest of friends, but by the middle of their sophomore year, one of the fraternity boys from the house next door has been brutally murdered, and Lucy Sharpe is missing without a trace.

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FIC Wil

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A quantum love story

Author(s):

Mike Chen
Patti Murin, narrator

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Grieving her best friend's recent death, neuroscientist Mariana Pineda's ready to give up everything to start anew. Even her career, after one last week consulting at a top secret particle accelerator. Except the strangest thing happens: a man stops her, and claims they've met before. Carter Cho knows who she is, why she's mourning, why she's there. And he needs Mariana to remember everything he's saying. Because time is about to loop. In a flash of energy, it's Monday morning. Again. Together, Mariana and Carter enter an inevitable life, four days at a time, over and over, without permanence except for what they share. But just as they figure out this new life, everything changes. Because Carter's memories of the time loop are slowly disappearing. And their only chance at happiness is breaking out of the loop, forever.

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FIC Che

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The 5 resets : rewire your brain and body for less stress and more resilience

Author(s):

Aditi Nerurkar

Description:

To bring stress back to healthy levels, Dr. Nerurkar offers her five science-backed mindset shifts, rooted in more than two decades of clinical experience, for when life gets hard.

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Call Number:

155.9042 Ner

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Fourteen days : a collaborative novel

Author(s):

Margaret Atwood
Douglas Preston
John Grisham
Dave Eggers
Tess Gerritsen

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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 Cap?o 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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FIC Fou

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End of story : a novel

Author(s):

A. J. Finn
Helen Laser, narrator

Description:

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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FIC Fin

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Last night

Author(s):

Luanne Rice
James Frangione, narrator
Nicol Zanzarella, narrator

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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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FIC Ric

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Beverly Hills spy : the double-agent war hero who helped Japan attack Pearl Harbor

Author(s):

Ronald Drabkin
Sam Dewhurst-Phillips, narrator

Description:

Ronald Drabkin tells the story of Frederick Rutland--a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and friend of Golden Age Hollywood stars--who flipped to become a spy for Japan in the lead-up to the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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Call Number:

940.54852 Dra

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Of greed and glory : in pursuit of freedom for all

Author(s):

Deborah G. Plant
Desmond Manny, narrator
Emana Rachelle, narrator

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Deborah G. Plant reveals the many ways in which slavery continues in America today and charts our collective course toward personal sovereignty for all.

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326.0973 Pla

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Normal women : nine hundred years of making history

Author(s):

Philippa Gregory
Joe Jameson, narrator

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Did you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry? That the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 was started and propelled by women who were protesting a tax on women? Or that celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin believed not just that women were naturally inferior to men, but that they'd evolve to become ever more inferior? These are just a few of the startling findings you will learn from reading Philippa Gregory's Normal Women. In this ambitious and groundbreaking book, she tells the story of England over 900 years, for the very first time placing women--some fifty per cent of the population--center stage. Using research skills honed in her work as one of our foremost historical novelists, Gregory trawled through court records, newspapers, and journals to find highwaywomen and beggars, murderers and brides, housewives and pirates, female husbands and hermits. The "normal women" you will meet in these pages went to war, ploughed the fields, campaigned, wrote, and loved. They rode in jousts, flew Spitfires, issued their own currency, and built ships, corn mills and houses. They committed crimes or treason, worshipped many gods, cooked and nursed, invented things, and rioted. A lot. A landmark work of scholarship and storytelling, Normal Women chronicles centuries of social and cultural change--from 1066 to modern times--powered by the determination, persistence, and effectiveness of women.

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Call Number:

942.0099 Gre