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A High Wind In Jamaica
Author(s):
Richard Hughes
Michael Maloney
Description:
Following a hurricane on the island of Jamaica, the Bas-Thornton children are sent back home to England by their parents. The idea is to keep the children safe, but the calm voyage quickly turns dangerous when the ship is taken over by pirates.
Format:
Audiobook
Call Number:
FIC Hug
A Wild Sheep Chase
Author(s):
Description:
A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and casually appropriates the image for an insurance company's advertisement. What he doesn't realize is that included in the pastoral scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the attention of a man in black who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences. Thus begins a surreal and elaborate quest that takes our hero from the urban haunts of Tokyo to the remote and snowy mountains of northern Japan, where he confronts not only the mythological sheep, but the confines of tradition and the demons deep within himself.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
FIC Mur
All The Birds In The Sky
Author(s):
Description:
"When Patricia Delfine was six years old, a wounded bird led her deep into the forest to the Parliament of Birds, where she met the Great Tree and was asked a question that would determine the course of her life. When Laurence Armstead was in grade school, he cobbled together a wristwatch-sized device that could send its wearer two seconds into the future. When Patricia and Laurence first met in high school, they didn't understand one another at all. But as time went on, they kept bumping into one another's lives. Now they're both grown up, and the planet is falling apart around them. Laurence is an engineering genius who's working with a group that aims to avert catastrophic breakdown through technological intervention into the changing global climate. Patricia is a graduate of Eltisley Maze, the hidden academy for the world's magically gifted, and works with a small band of other magicians to secretly repair the world's ever-growing ailments. Neither Laurence nor Patricia can keep pace with the speed at which things fall apart. But something bigger than either of them, something begun deep in their childhoods, is determined to bring them together. And will"-- Provided by publisher.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
FIC And
Born To Run
Author(s):
Description:
Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to these pages the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs. He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid the poetry, danger, and darkness that fueled his imagination, leading up to the moment he refers to as "The Big Bang": seeing Elvis Presley's debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. He recounts his relentless drive to become a musician, his early days as a bar band king in Asbury Park, and the rise of the E Street Band. With candor, he also tells the story of the personal struggles that inspired his best work, and shows us why the song "Born to Run" reveals more than we previously realized.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
B Spr
Darkroom
Author(s):
Description:
A suspense novel about a man's dark past, his daughter's mysterious visions, and a psychopath who wants to kill them both that reaches into domestic terrorism and the presidency.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
FIC Gra
Eugene Onegin : A Novel In Verse
Author(s):
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
James E. Falen
Description:
"Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in imperial Russia during the 1820s, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the emotions and destiny of three men - Onegin the bored fop, Lensky the minor elegiast, and a stylized Pushkin himself - and the fates and affections of three women - Tatyana the provincial beauty, her sister Olga, and Pushkin's mercurial Muse."--Summary from book.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
FIC Pus
Field Notes On Love
Author(s):
Description:
Two teens, Hugo and Mae, are strangers until they share a cross-country train trip that teaches them about love, each other, and the futures they can build for themselves.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
YA FIC Smi
Fool Me Once
Author(s):
Description:
Former special ops pilot Maya, home from the war, sees an unthinkable image captured by her nanny cam while she is at work: her two-year-old daughter playing with Maya's husband, Joe--who had been brutally murdered two weeks earlier. The provocative question at the heart of the mystery: Can you believe everything you see with your own eyes, even when you desperately want to? To find the answer, Maya must finally come to terms with deep secrets and deceit in her own past before she can face the unbelievable truth about her husband--and herself.
Format:
Large Print
Call Number:
LP FIC Cob
Go Set A Watchman
Author(s):
Description:
Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch -- "Scout" -- returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close knit family, the town, and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
FIC Lee
Icons Of England
Author(s):
Description:
This celebration of the English countryside focuses on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world, as well as an eclectic variety of personal icons, from pub signs to seaside piers, from cattle grids to canal boats, and from village cricket to nimbies. This expanded paperback edition includes contributions from many celebrities including Bill Bryson, Michael Palin, Eric Clapton, Bryan Ferry, Sebastian Faulks, Kate Adie, Kevin Spacey, Gavin Pretor-Pinney, Richard Mabey, Simon Jenkins, John Sergeant, Benjamin Zephaniah, Joan Bakewell, Antony Beevor, Libby Purves, Jonathan Dimbleby, and many more: and a new preface by HRH Prince Charles.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
942 Ico 2016
Jane Eyre
Author(s):
Charlotte Brontë
SunNeko Lee
Crystal S. Chan
Charlotte Brontë
Description:
In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall, a country estate owned by the mysteriously remote Mr. Rochester.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
YA FIC Bro
Journey To The End Of The Night
Author(s):
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Ralph Manheim
Description:
"The story of the improbable yet convincingly described travels of the petit-bourgeois (and largely autobiographical) antihero, Bardamu, from the trenches of World War I, to the African jungle, to New York and Detroit, and finally to life as a failed doctor in Paris, takes the readers by the scruff and hurtles them toward the novel's inevitable, sad conclusion."--Publisher's description.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
FIC Cél
Lumberjanes: Unicorn Power!
Author(s):
Mariko Tamaki
Brooklyn Allen
Description:
"Welcome to Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet's Camp for Hardcore Lady Types. The five scouts of Roanoke cabin--Jo, April, Molly, Mal, and Ripley--love their summers at camp. They get to hang out with their best friends, earn Lumberjane scout badges, annoy their no-nonsense counselor Jen. and go on supernatural adventures. That last one? A pretty normal occurrence at Miss Qiunzella's, where the woods contain endless mysteries. Today is no exception. When challenge-loving April leads the girls on a hike up the tallest mountain they've ever seen, things don't go quite as planned. For one, they didn't expect to trespass into the lands of the ancient Cloud People, and did anyone happen to read those ominous signs some unknown person posted at the bottom of the mountain? Also, they meet unicorns."-- Provided by publisher.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
J FIC Lum
Norse Mythology
Author(s):
Description:
Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction. Now he presents his fashioning of the primeval Norse myths into a novelistic arc, which begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds, delves into the exploits of the deities, dwarves, and giants, and culminates in Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods and the rebirth of a new time and people. Gaiman stays true to the myths while vividly recreating the characters--the gods with their fiercely competitive natures, their susceptibility to being duped and to dupe others, and their tendency to let passion ignite their actions--and making these long-ago myths breathe life again.--Adapted from book jacket.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
293.13 Gai
Scythe
Author(s):
Neal Shusterman
Greg Tremblay
Description:
A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: Humanity has conquered all those things and has even conquered death. Now Scythes are the only ones who can end life, and they are commanded to do so in order to keep the size of the population under control. Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe, a role that neither wants. These teens must master the "art" of taking life, knowing that the consequence of failure could mean losing their own.
Format:
Audiobook
Call Number:
YA FIC Shu
Silent Child
Author(s):
Description:
Ten years after losing her son, Aiden, during a flood, Emma feels she is ready to move on. She's married and pregnant and starting a new family life. Then Aiden, now a teenager, returns, silent and broken, and Emma is torn between exacting furious vengeance upon whoever wrecked her family's life and protecting her new family's future.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
FIC Den
Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda
Author(s):
Becky Albertalli
Michael (Michael Lockwood) Crouch
Harper Audio (Firm)
Inc Blackstone Audio
Description:
Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now change-averse Simon has to find a way to step out of his comfort zone before he's pushed out--without alienating his friends, compromising himself, or fumbling a shot at happiness with the most confusing, adorable guy he's never met.
Format:
Audiobook
Call Number:
YA FIC Alb
Still Me
Author(s):
Description:
Louisa Clark arrives in New York ready to start a new life, confident that she can embrace this new adventure and keep her relationship with Ambulance Sam alive across several thousand miles. She is thrown into the world of the super rich Gopniks: Leonard and his much younger second wife, Agnes, and a never-ending array of household staff and hangers-on. Lou is determined to get the most out of the experience and throws herself into her job and New York life within this privileged world. Before she knows what's happening, Lou is mixing in New York high society, where she meets Joshua Ryan, a man who brings with him a whisper of her past. In Still Me, as Lou tries to keep the two sides of her world together, she finds herself carrying secrets--not all her own--that cause a catastrophic change in her circumstances. And when matters come to a head, she has to ask herself Who is Louisa Clark? And how do you reconcile a heart that lives in two places?
Format:
Book
Call Number:
FIC Moy
The 7 1/2 Deaths Of Evelyn Hardcastle
Author(s):
Stuart Turton
J. C. (James Cameron) Stewart
Description:
Evelyn Hardcastle will die. Every day until Aiden Bishop can identify her killer and break the cycle. But every time the day begins again, Aiden wakes up in the body of a different guest. And some of his hosts are more helpful than others.
Format:
Audiobook
Call Number:
FIC Tur
The Dinner List
Author(s):
Description:
"When Sabrina arrives at her thirtieth birthday dinner she finds at the table not just her best friend, but also three significant people from her past, and well, Audrey Hepburn. As the appetizers are served, wine poured, and dinner table conversation begins, it becomes clear that there's a reason these six people have been gathered together.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
FIC Ser
The Road To Character
Author(s):
Description:
Author David Brooks presents a controversial and eye-opening look at how our culture has lost sight of the value of humility--defined as the opposite of self-preoccupation--and why only an engaged inner life can yield true meaning and fulfillment--From statement provided by publisher.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
170.44 Bro
The Story Of Tracy Beaker
Author(s):
Jacqueline Wilson
Nick Sharratt
Description:
Ten-year-old Tracy, who lives in a children's home because her mother was forced to give her up, dreams of getting a good foster family where she can be happy until her mother comes back for her.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
J FIC Wil
Vengeful
Author(s):
Victoria author Schwab
Jeremy Arthur
Description:
Victor himself is under the radar these days, being buried and re-animated can strike concern even if one has superhuman powers. But despite his own worries, his anger remains. And Eli Ever still has yet to pay for the evil he has done.
Format:
Audiobook
Call Number:
FIC Sch
Washington Black
Author(s):
Description:
Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born. When his master's eccentric brother chooses him to be his manservant, Wash is terrified of the cruelties he is certain await him. But Christopher Wilde, or "Titch," is a naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor, and abolitionist. He initiates Wash into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky; where two people, separated by an impossible divide, might begin to see each other as human; and where a boy born in chains can embrace a life of dignity and meaning. But when a man is killed and a bounty is placed on Wash's head, Titch abandons everything to save him. What follows is their flight along the eastern coast of America, and, finally, to a remote outpost in the Arctic, where Wash, left on his own, must invent another new life.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
FIC Edu
What Happened
Author(s):
Description:
"For the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and feeling during one of the most controversial and unpredictable presidential elections in history. Now free from the constraints of running, Hillary takes you inside the intense personal experience of becoming the first woman nominated for president by a major party in an election marked by rage, sexism, exhilarating highs and infuriating lows, stranger-than-fiction twists, Russian interference, and an opponent who broke all the rules."--Book jacket.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
324.973 Cli
You're Never Weird On The Internet (Almost) : A Memoir
Author(s):
Description:
"From the online entertainment pioneer, actress, and "queen of the geeks" Felicia Day, comes a funny, quirky, and inspiring memoir about her unusual upbringing, her rise to internet stardom, and embracing her weirdness to find her place in the world."
Format:
Book
Call Number:
B Day
