| Old school [sound recording (CD)] / Gordon Korman. |
 Dexter Foreman is twelve going on eighty. He has lived at The Pines retirement village with his grandmother since he was six years old, and as a result he gets along better with senior citizens than kids his own age. Forced to go to a "real" school for the first time, he sticks out like a sore thumb. Dexter would do anything to return to his old life. |
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| A wolf called Wander [sound recording (CD)] / by Rosanne Parry. |
 Swift, a young wolf cub, lives with his pack in the mountains. Then a rival pack attacks, and Swift and his family scatter. Alone and scared, Swift must flee and find a new home. Inspired by the extraordinary true story of a wolf named OR-7 (or Journey), this irresistible tale of survival invites listeners to experience and imagine what it would be like to be one of the most misunderstood animals on earth. |
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| Fire and ice [sound recording (CD)] / Erin Hunter. |
 Fireheart is now a ThunderClan warrior, but danger still lurks in the forest. The cats of RiverClan are growing restless, while WindClan is weak and facing threats from all sides. As tensions build to an explosive climax, Fireheart faces not only imminent battle, but betrayal from within his own Clan. |
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| Forest of secrets [sound recording (CD)] / Erin Hunter. |
 Tensions are still high among the warrior clans, and Fireheart is determined to find out the truth about the mysterious death of the former ThunderClan deputy Redtail. But as he searches for answers, he uncovers secrets that some believe would be better left hidden. |
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| City spies [sound recording (CD)] / by James Ponti. |
 Sara Martinez is a hacker. She recently broke into the New York City foster care system to expose her foster parents as cheats and lawbreakers. However, instead of being hailed as a hero, Sara finds herself facing years in a juvenile detention facility and banned from using computers for the same stretch of time. Enter Mother, a British spy who not only gets Sara released from jail but also offers her a chance to make a home for herself within a secret MI6 agency. Operating out of a base in Scotland, the City Spies are five kids from various parts of the world. When they're not attending the local boarding school, they're honing their unique skills, such as sleight of hand, breaking and entering, observation, and explosives. All of these allow them to go places in the world of espionage where adults can't. Before she knows what she's doing, Sarah is heading to Paris for an international youth summit, hacking into a rival school's computer to prevent them from winning a million euros, dangling thirty feet off the side of a building, and trying to stop a villain ... all while navigating the complex dynamics of her new team. No one said saving the world was easy ... |
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| City of the dead [sound recording (CD)] / James Ponti. |
 When hackers target locations all over London, Kat leads the City Spies in testing security for the British Museum where a secret message leads them to Egypt and the ancient City of the Dead. |
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| Mission Manhattan [sound recording (CD)] / James Ponti. |
 The City Spies head to the Big Apple when a credible threat is made to a young climate activist who is scheduled to speak in front of the upcoming United Nations General Assembly. With Rio acting as alpha and a new member in their ranks, the team's mission to protect a fellow teen takes them on an exciting adventure in, around, and even under the greatest city in the world as they follow leads to the outer boroughs, the UN Headquarters, and even the usually off-limits stacks that extend deep under the main branch of the New York Public Library. |
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| The war of the worlds [sound reocrding (CD)] / H.G. Wells. |
 The year is 1898. Man's fascination with scientific discovery has taken a most unexpected turn, as a cylinder originating from Mars has crashed into Earth in the English countryside. |
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| El princípe y el coyote [sound recording (CD)] / David Bowles. |
 México. 1418. Les presentamos al príncipe Acolmiztli. Puma de la gente Acolhua. Dieciséis ąos de edad. Y ahora, traicionado. Una conspiración en el palacio, planeada por el letal imperio Tepaneca, mata a su madre y hermanos, pone al ejército de su padre en retirada, y manda al príncipe Acolmiztli a un exilio pernicioso. Enfrentándose al hambre, las montąas nevadas, y las maquinaciones de los reinos a su alrededor, el príncipe Acolmiztli jura venganza. Le tomará ąos, pero regresará buscando justicia. Y lo hará con un nuevo nombre: Nezahualcóyotl, el coyote en ayuno, una de las figuras más ilustres en la historia. |
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| The secrets of flowers [sound recording (CD)] / Sally Page. |
 One year after her husband's death, Emma has become a wallflower, hiding among the brighter blooms in the florist where she works. But when a colleague invites her to a talk about the Titanic, she begins a quest to uncover who arranged the flowers on board. As Emma discovers the lost story of the girl and the great ship, she realizes that flowers may unlock secrets in her own life. |
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| Love RX [sound recording (CD)] / Devon Atwood. |
 Dr. Lachlan Cade can tell Laurel Brook needs help, and even if it means bending the rules, he's going to give it. Laurel is just as determined never to rely on a man again, but she's finding that a hard vow to keep. Laurel finds herself in a predicament with only two choices: go with Dr. Cade to his house for treatment, or rack up a medical bill in the hospital she can't afford. As Laurel reluctantly learns to accept help and heal, a mysterious threat ends up in Lachlan's inbox, and he has a sinking feeling it has something to do with the reason Laurel refuses to trust in the first place. |
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| Food for thought : essays & ruminations [sound recording (CD)] / Alton Brown. |
 He went from cameraman to chef, musician, and food scientist. Chef and TV personality Alton Brown shares exactly what's on his mind, mixing compelling anecdotes from his remarkable and diverse professional and personal life with in-depth observations on the culinary world, film, personal style, defining meals of his lifetime, and more. |
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| Nexus [sound recording (CD)] : a brief history of information networks from the Stone Age to AI / Yuval Noah Harari. |
 For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI, a new information network that threatens to annihilate us. For all that we have accomplished, why are we so self-destructive? Nexus looks through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world. Taking us from the Stone Age, through the canonization of the Bible, early modern witch-hunts, Stalinism, Nazism, and the resurgence of populism today, Yuval Noah Harari asks us to consider the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power. He explores how different societies and political systems throughout history have wielded information to achieve their goals, for good and ill. And he addresses the urgent choices we face as non-human intelligence threatens our very existence. |
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| The crazies [sound recording (CD)] : the cattleman, the wind prospector, and a war out west / Amy Gamerman. |
 Montana is one of the windiest states in America, which is why Rick Jarrett wanted to build turbines. However, his billionaire neighbors moved here for mountain views, not turbines, sparking a feud. |
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| Battle Mountain [sound recording (CD)] / C. J. Box. |
 The campaign of destruction that Axel Soledad and Dallas Cates wreaked on Nate Romanowski and Joe Pickett left both men in tatters. When Joe gets a call from the governor asking for help finding his son-in-law, who has gone missing in the Sierra Madre mountain range, he enlists the help of a local, a rookie game warden named Susan Kany. As Nate and fellow falconer Geronimo Jones circle closer to their prey, Joe and Susan follow the nearly cold trail to Warm Springs. Little do Nate and Joe know that their separate journeys are about to converge at Battle Mountain. |
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| Nemesis [sound recording (CD)] / Gregg Hurwitz. |
 At one time, Evan Smoak was a highly successful black ops assassin known as Orphan X, dedicated to a rigid set of operational rules. Now, even after breaking with the government program, going deep underground, and remaking his life, Smoak is dedicated to his assassin's Ten Commandments. But for the first time, those principles have put him on a collision course with the man who might be his best friend in the world, Tommy Stojack. Stojack, a gifted gunsmith who has created much of Evan's own weapons and combat gear, has apparently crossed one of Evan's sharply delineated lines. When Evan decides to go to his workshop and have it out with Tommy, Evan finds himself under attack by a group attempting to ambush and kill him. But, with all his training and skills, Evan is extremely hard to kill-and the dispute explodes into open warfare between him and Tommy. Now Evan has no choice, in his mind, than to track down and face down his only friend. In the meantime, Tommy is honoring an old promise to an Army friend and goes to help his dead friend's son. In a depressed rural area, with conflicts flaring up, that son is partially responsible for the death of an innocent. And while Tommy is trying to keep him, and his friends, alive, Evan arrives, with vengeance in mind. The scary thing? Evan isn't even the most dangerous threat to arrive on the scene. |
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| Brooke Shields is not allowed to get old [sound recording (CD)] : thoughts on aging as a woman / Brooke Shields with Rachel Bertsche. |
 Brooke Shields has spent a lifetime in the public eye. Growing up as a child actor and model, her every feature was scrutinized, her every decision judged. Today Brooke faces a different kind of scrutiny: that of being a "woman of a certain age." And yet, for Brooke, the passage of time has brought freedom. At fifty-nine, she feels more comfortable in her skin, more empowered and confident than she did decades ago in those famous Calvin Kleins. Now, in Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old, she's changing the narrative about women and aging. This is an era, insists Brooke, when women are reclaiming agency and power, not receding into the shadows. These are the years when we get to decide how we want to live-when we get to write our own stories. With remarkable candor, Brooke bares all, painting a vibrant and optimistic picture of being a woman in the prime of her life, while dismantling the myths that have, for too long, dimmed that perception. Sharing her own life experiences with humor and humility, and weaving together research and reporting, Brooke takes aim at the systemic factors that contribute to age-related bias. By turns inspiring, moving, and galvanizing, Brooke's honesty and vulnerability will resonate with women everywhere, and spark a new conversation about the power and promise of midlife. |
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| Beautiful ugly [sound recording (CD)] / Alice Feeney. |
 Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life. Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by the cliff edge the headlights are on, the driver door is open, her phone is still there. . . but his wife has disappeared. A year later, Grady is still overcome with grief and desperate to know what happened to Abby. He can't sleep, and he can't write, so he travels to a tiny Scottish island to try to get his life back on track. Then he sees the impossible - a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife. |
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| The JFK conspiracy [sound recording (CD)] : the secret plot to kill Kennedy--and why it failed / Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch. |
 Kennedy, the thirty-fifth president of the United States, is often ranked among Americans' most well-liked presidents. Yet what most Americans don't know is that JFK's historic presidency almost ended before it began-at the hands of a disgruntled sociopathic loner armed with dynamite. On December 11, 1960, shortly after Kennedy's election and before his inauguration, a retired postal worker named Richard Pavlick waited in his car, a parked Buick, on a quiet street in Palm Beach, Florida. Pavlick knew the president-elect's schedule. He knew when Kennedy would leave his house. He knew where Kennedy was going. From there, Pavlick had a simple plan, one that could've changed the course of history. |
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| Onyx storm [sound recording (CD)] / Rebecca Yarros. |
 After months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail knows there is no more time for lessons because the battle has truly begun. With enemies coming from outside and within their ranks, she must go on a journey to seek allies from unfamiliar lands. The trip will be grueling, but she will do anything to save her dragons, her family, her home, and him. |
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| The republic of salt [sound recording (CD)] / Ariel Kaplan. |
 After a near-disastrous confrontation with La Cȧeria, Toba and Asmel are trapped on the human side of the gate, pursued by the Courser and a possessed Inquisitor. In the Mazik world, Naftaly's visions seethe with calamitous images of Zayit, the prosperous gate city notorious for its trade in salt, consumed by flames and overrun by La Cȧeria. If the Cȧador can control the salt, he will be nearly unstoppable. But the stolen killstone, the key to the Cȧador's destruction, could eliminate the threat, if only Barsilay's allies could find and use it. |
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| Cher, the memoir. Part one [sound recording (CD)] / Cher. |
 The extraordinary life of Cher as told by Cher herself. |
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| Jesus and the Gospels [sound recording (CD)] / Luke Timothy Johnson. |
 Looks at Jesus through the many portraits the Gospels provide. The course examines not only the familiar canonical Gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John from the New Testament, but also many other apocryphal narratives and literary works that have also contributed to our perceptions of Jesus, Mary, and Christianity. All of these works are encompassed by the word "Gospel." |
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| The queens of crime [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Marie Benedict. |
 London, 1930. The five greatest women crime writers have banded together to form a secret society with a single goal: to show they are no longer willing to be treated as second class citizens by their male counterparts in the legendary Detection Club. Led by the formidable Dorothy L. Sayers, the group includes Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham and Baroness Emma Orczy. They call themselves the Queens of Crime. Their plan? Solve an actual murder, that of a young woman found strangled in a park in France who may have connections leading to the highest levels of the British establishment. May Daniels, a young English nurse on an excursion to France with her friend, seemed to vanish into thin air as they prepared to board a ferry home. Months later, her body is found in the nearby woods. The murder has all the hallmarks of a locked room mystery for which these authors are famous: how did her killer manage to sneak her body out of a crowded train station without anyone noticing? If, as the police believe, the cause of death is manual strangulation, why is there is an extraordinary amount of blood at the crime scene? What is the meaning of a heartbreaking secret letter seeming to implicate an unnamed paramour? Determined to solve the highly publicized murder, the Queens of Crime embark on their own investigation, discovering they're stronger together. But soon the killer targets Dorothy Sayers herself, threatening to expose a dark secret in her past that she would do anything to keep hidden. |
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| We would never [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Tova Mirvis. |
 No one appears more surprised than Hailey Gelman when she comes under suspicion for the murder of her soon-to-be ex-husband Jonah. Hailey, nicknamed Sunshine by her mother for her bright outlook and ever-present smile, has always tried to do what is expected of her and is regarded as the family peacemaker. But is anyone, including Hailey, who she has always seemed to be? The months leading up to Jonah's death have been fraught, including a bitter separation and a messy custody battle over their young daughter, Maya. When Hailey files a motion to relocate to Florida so she can be near her family, Jonah retaliates and the divorce begins to spiral dangerously out of control. Sherry, Hailey's mother, will stop at almost nothing to keep Jonah from getting what he wants. Nate, Hailey's impetuous and protective older brother, has tried to keep his distance, but he can't stand to see his little sister suffer. And then there's Solomon, the patriarch, who is keeping a secret that threatens the stability and security Sherry has worked so hard to maintain. Soon, they are forced to reckon with who they are as individuals and as a family, and just how far they will go for each other. |
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| Never say never [sound recording (CD)] / Danielle Steel. |
 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel's novel about a woman whose life is turned upside down in the French countryside. Oona Kelly Webster, devastated by her husband's affair, travels to France alone. There, she finds healing in a charming village, a rescued dog, and a friendly neighbor. 'Never Say Never' is an inspiring story of second chances and the bravery to stay open to change. |
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| Blob [sound recording (CD)] : a love story / Maggie Su. |
 The daughter of a Taiwanese father and white mother, Vi Liu has never quite fit into her Midwestern college town. One night in an alley outside a bar, Vi discovers a small living creature with beady black eyes. In a moment of concern and drunken desperation, she takes it home. But the blob is no ordinary pet. Becoming increasingly sentient, it begins to grow, shift shape, and obey Vi's commands. As the entity continues to change, Vi is struck with a daring idea: she'll mold the creature into her ideal partner. The creature grows into a movie-star handsome white man. But when Vi's desire to be loved unconditionally threatens to spiral out of control, she is forced to confront her lonely childhood, her aloof ex-boyfriend, and the racial marginalization that has defined her relationships, a journey of self-discovery that teaches her it's impossible to control those you love. |
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| The couple at the lake house [sound recording (CD)] : a thriller / James Caine. |
 When Sidney and her fiancé run into her old flame, Cole, and his girlfriend, they initially hit it off. But spending a weekend at Cole's lake house becomes tense. And leaving is not an option. |
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| A farewell to arms [sound recording (CD)] / Ernest Hemingway. |
 Long considered one of the best American novels of our time, this novel tells the tale of an American ambulance driver and his passionate affair with a beautiful English nurse. Set against the backdrop of World War I, this semi-autobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war. |
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| Grave danger [sound recording (CD)] / James Grippando. |
 Jack Swyteck's new client fled Iran with her daughter, and is accused of kidnapping by her husband. Jack must build a case that returning to Tehran would put the child at risk. But he soon learns the truth is messier. His client is really the child's aunt, the mother was killed by Iran's morality police, and the FBI is pushing Jack to drop the case. |
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| Bonded in death [sound recording (CD)] / J. D. Robb. |
 His passport read Giovanni Rossi. But decades ago, during the Urban Wars, he was part of a small, secret organization called The Twelve. Responding to an urgent summons from an old compatriot, he landed in New York and eased into the waiting car. And died within minutes. Lieutenant Eve Dallas finds the Rossi case frustrating. She's got an elderly victim who'd just arrived from Rome; a widow who knows nothing about why he'd left; an as-yet unidentifiable weapon; and zero results on facial recognition. But when she finds a connection to the Urban Wars of the 2020s, she thinks Summerset-fiercely loyal, if somewhat grouchy, major-domo and the man who'd rescued her husband from the Dublin streets, may know something from his stint as a medic in Europe back then. When Summerset learns of the crime, his shock and grief are clear, because, as he eventually reveals, he himself was one of The Twelve. It's not a part of his past he likes to revisit. But now he must, not only to assist Eve's investigation, but because a cryptic message from the killer has boasted that others of The Twelve have also died. Summerset is one of those who remain, and the murderous mission is yet to be fully accomplished? |
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| Within the circle [sound recording (CD)] / Arne Dahl. |
 Criminal inspector Eva Nyman tracks a string of bombings in Sweden that are seemingly connected to the climate debate, a secret organization, and evidence that points toward her disgraced former boss. |
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| Death of the author [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Nnedi Okorafor. |
 Disabled, disinclined to marry, and interested in writing, Zelu has always felt like the outcast of her large Nigerian family. Then her life is upended when she's fired from her job and another publisher rejects her novel. Fed up, she decides to write something for herself. When Zelu shares her new novel, she does not realize she is about to embark on a life-altering journey. |
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| The lamb [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Lucy Rose. |
 A mother and daughter live in the forest. When Margot is not at school, she and Mama spend days together in their cottage, waiting for strangers to arrive. Mama loves the people who have strayed too far from the road. She feeds them, keeps them warm, and then she picks apart their bodies. Now Margot must untangle her own desires and make her own bid for freedom. |
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| Heretic : Jesus Christ and the other sons of God [sound recording (CD)] / Catherine Nixey. |
 Contrary to the teachings of the church today, in the first several centuries of Christianity's existence, there was no consensus as to who Jesus was or why he had mattered. Instead, there were many different Christs. Catherine Nixey unearths the different versions of Christ who existed in the minds of early Christians, and the process of evolution, and elimination, by which Jesus became the singular figure we know today. |
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| Aim to misbehave [sound recording (CD)] / an original novel by Rosiee Thor ; consulting editor, Joss Whedon. |
 The foreman of a fuel refinery hires the crew of Serenity to get his kidnapped workers back. While they're trying to make sense of it all, the workers' children plan to steal Serenity and launch their own rescue mission. |
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| The shadowed land : a novel [sound recording (CD)] / Signe Pike. |
 Kingdom of Gododdin, AD 580: After defeating the Angles at the Battle of the Caledonian Wood, Languoreth, her daughter Angharad, brother Lailoken, and the warrior Artúr mac Aedan are reunited. Artúr receives a mysterious summons from his father in Dalriada, Languoreth and Lailoken return to Strathclyde to maintain the fragile peace between the Christians and the people of the Old Way, and Angharad hopes to become the initiate of the Celtic druid Briochan. |
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| A sky of emerald stars : a novel [sound recording (CD)] / A. K. Mulford. |
 After the long reign under the evil sorceress, life in the Golden Court is finally rebuilding. But when a rival Wolf king kidnaps the Queen's friend and mentor Ora, any hopes for peace are lost. Tensions rise as royal guard Sadie and Queen Calla struggle to gain support for the brewing war and realize that the world of Aotreas is more than it seems. |
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| Taylor Swift by the book : the literature behind the lyrics, from fairy tales to tortured poets [sound recording (CD)] / Rachel Feder and Tiffany Tatreau. |
 Taylor Swift's lyrics are packed with literary connections. Make sure you're catching them all with this expert guide to the novels, poems, and plays that influenced her songwriting. |
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| You never know : a memoir [sound recording (CD)] / Tom Selleck with Ellis Henican. |
 Actor Tom Selleck chronicles his life both in show business and away from it in this long-awaited memoir. Selleck is best known as the star of Magnum, P.I., one of the most popular and enduring television shows of the eighties, and of Blue Bloods, where he plays New York City Police Commissioner Frank Reagan, but his career is longer, and richer, than those two hits suggest. |
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| James Earl Jones reads the Bible : King James version of the New Testament [sound recording (CD)] / Topics Media Group. |
 Whether you want to study the Bible or if the goal of reading the Bible is on your radar this year, James Earl Jones Reads the Bible is the most enjoyable way to accomplish your goal! Relax to more than nineteen soothing hours of inspirational listening with crystal-clear audio of the New Testament read by one of the world's most gifted actors of all time, James Earl Jones. Clearly marked CDs for easy tracking -- word-for-word readings by James Earl Jones -- listen anywhere, anytime! This skilled and resonating interpretation by Mr. Jones has been hailed as one of the greatest spoken-word New Testament recordings of all time. With more than a half a million copies sold to date, this audio masterwork is certain to soothe, satisfy, and inspire. |
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| Ghost soldier [sound recording (CD)] / by Mike Maden. |
 When African jihadis attack a Nigerian regiment using American weapons, Cabrillo and the Oregon crew are on the case, investigating from Afghanistan to Kuala Lumpur to track a mysterious arms dealer-a genius, or perhaps a devil, known only as the Vendor. Cabrillo goes undercover to find the Vendor's base, but his adversary isn't just an arms smuggler. He's an arms maker, and Cabrillo just walked into a lethal military game alongside the most dangerous mercenaries in the world, designed to test the Vendor's cutting-edge AI arsenal. And yet, surviving an arena full of flame-throwing robots isn't even his biggest problem. The Vendor has an army of high-speed drones headed for a pivotal military site, and if the Oregon crew can't stop them from releasing a deadly neurotoxin, the entire globe will erupt in conflict. |
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| Lies he told me [sound recording (CD)] / James Patterson and David Ellis. |
 An attorney and mother of two discovers her husband's secret life, and it might cost them all their lives. |
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| Trial by fire : a novel [sound recording (CD)] / Danielle Steel. |
 The life of Parisian businesswoman Dahlia de Beaumont changes in a heartbeat when she travels to California during wildfire season. Her desire to help leads to unforeseen consequences for her life and her entire future. |
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| The serviceberry [sound recording (CD)] : abundance and reciprocity in the natural world / Robin Wall Kimmerer. |
 Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we value most? Our economy is rooted in scarcity, competition, and the hoarding of resources, and we have surrendered our values to a system that actively harms what we love. Meanwhile, the serviceberry's relationship with the natural world is an embodiment of reciprocity, interconnectedness, and gratitude. The tree distributes its wealth, its abundance of sweet, juicy berries, to meet the needs of its natural community. And this distribution insures its own survival. |
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| Ocean [sound recording (CD)] : a history of the Atlantic before Columbus / John Haywood. |
 John Haywood argues that the perception of Atlantic history beginning with the first voyage of the celebrated navigator Christopher Columbus is a mistaken one, and that the seafaring and shipbuilding skills that enabled European global exploration and expansion did not arrive fully formed in the fifteenth century, but instead were learned over centuries and millennia in the Atlantic and its peripheral seas. The pre-Columbian history of the Atlantic is the story of how Europeans learned to master the oceans. |
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| The oligarch's daughter [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Joseph Finder. |
 Paul Brightman is a man on the run, living under an assumed name in a small New England town with a million-dollar bounty on his head. When his security is breached, Paul is forced to flee into the New Hampshire wilderness to evade Russian operatives who can seemingly predict his every move. Six years ago, he was a rising star on Wall Street who fell in love with a beautiful photographer named Tatyana, unaware that her father was a Russian oligarch and the object of considerable interest from several US intelligence agencies. Now, Paul must unravel a decades-old conspiracy that extends to the highest reaches of the government. |
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| The life of Herod the Great [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Zora Neale Hurston ; [edited and with commentary by Deborah G. Plant]. |
 In this novel, Zora Neale Hurston reconsiders the life of one of the most-well known Biblical figures, Herod the Great, reimagining him in a different light than his villainous portrayal in the New Testament. |
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| The dog who followed the moon [sound recording (CD)] / James Norbury. |
 An adult fable of a lost young puppy, the old wolf who rescues her, and their journey to follow the moon--with meditations on friendship, connection, and sacrifice. |
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| We who wrestle with God [sound recording (CD)] : perceptions of the divine / Jordan B. Peterson. |
 Jordan B. Peterson guides us through the ancient, foundational stories of the Western world. In riveting detail, he analyzes the Biblical accounts of rebellion, sacrifice, suffering, and triumph that stabilize, inspire, and unite us culturally and psychologically. Adam and Eve and the eternal fall of mankind; the resentful and ultimately murderous war of Cain and Abel; the cataclysmic flood of Noah; the spectacular collapse of the Tower of Babel; Abraham's terrible adventure; and the epic of Moses and the Israelites. What could such stories possibly mean? What force wrote and assembled them over the long centuries? How did they bring our spirits and the world together, and point us in the same direction? It is time for us to understand such things, scientifically and spiritually; to become conscious of the structure of our souls and our societies; and to see ourselves and others as if for the first time. Join Elijah as he discovers the Voice of God in the dictates of his own conscience and Jonah confronting hell itself in the belly of the whale because he failed to listen and act. Set yourself straight in intent, aim, and purpose as you begin to more deeply understand the structure of your society and your soul. |
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| Tooth and claw [sound recording (CD)] / Craig Johnson. |
 Tooth and Claw follows Walt and Henry up to Alaska as they look for work after they both returned from serving in Vietnam. While working for an oil company in the bitter cold of winter, they soon encounter a ferocious polar bear who seems hell-bent on their destruction. But it's not too long until they realize the danger does not lurk outside in the frozen Alaskan tundra, but with their co-workers who are after priceless treasure and will stop at nothing to get it. |
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| Absolution [sound recording (CD)] / Jeff VanderMeer. |
 This surprise fourth volume in the Southern Reach Trilogy is structured in three parts, each recounting a new expedition into Area X offering long-awaited answers, more questions, and profound new surprises. |
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| The house of Cross [sound recording (CD)] / James Patterson. |
 Supreme Court candidates are being murdered, and Alex Cross and John Sampson take on the case. In this, his toughest investigation, Alex Cross must put himself inside the mind of a diabolical killer. |
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| Defense protocol [sound recording (CD)] / [Brian] Andrews & [Jeffrey] Wilson. |
 Every word a president utters is weighed and examined, but none more so than when he is talking about Taiwan. That's why it's shocking that President Jack Ryan seems to imply that the US has no appetite for a war to protect Taiwan from the communist Chinese on the mainland. President Ryan is determined to protect the independence of the island nation, but he is determined that one slip of the tongue should not cost thousands of young soldiers, sailors and Marines their lives. |
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| Citizen : my life after the White House [sound recording (CD)] / Bill Clinton. |
 On January 20th, 2001, after nearly thirty years in politics, eight of them as President of the United States, Bill Clinton was suddenly a private citizen. Only fifty-four years old, full of energy and ideas, he wanted to make meaningful use of his skills, his relationships with world leaders, and all he'd learned in a lifetime of politics, but how? Just days after leaving the White House, the call came to aid victims of a devastating earthquake in India, and Clinton hit the ground running. Over the next two decades, he would create an enduring legacy of public service and advocacy work, from Indonesia to Louisiana, Northern Ireland to South Africa, and in the process reimagine philanthropy and redefine the impact a former president could have on the world. Citizen is Clinton's front-row, first-person chronicle of his post-presidential years and the most significant events of the twenty-first century, including 9/11 and the runup to the Iraq War, the Haiti earthquake, the Great Recession, COVID-19, the January 6th insurrection, and the enduring culture wars of our times. Yet Citizen is more than a presidential memoir. These pages capture Clinton in a rare and unforgettable light: not only as celebrated former president and foundation leader, but also as a father, grandfather, and husband. He shares his support for Hillary Clinton during her tenure as senator, secretary of state, and presidential candidate, and openly details the frustration and pain of the 2016 election. With clarity and compassion, President Clinton also weighs in on the unprecedented challenges brought on by a global pandemic, ongoing inequality, a steadily warming planet, and authoritarian forces dedicated to weakening democracy. In this landmark publication, the highly anticipated follow-up to the best-selling My Life, Clinton pens a clear-sighted account of American democracy on a global stage, offering a frank reflection on the past and, with it, a fearless embrace of our future. Citizen is a testament to one man's unwavering commitment to family and nation, a self-portrait of equal parts eloquence, insight, and candor. |
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| Immortal [sound recording (CD)] / Sue Lynn Tan. |
 When Liyen, heir to Tianxia, is poisoned, her grandfather steals an enchanted lotus from the immortals to save her life. Enraged at his betrayal, the immortal queen commands the powerful God of War to attack Tianxia. To save her people, Liyen forms a treacherous alliance with him, one followed by an even more treacherous attraction she must resist. |
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| Robert B. Parker's Hot property [sound recording (CD)] : a Spenser novel / by Mike Lupica. |
 Spenser is waiting out the latest Boston snowstorm when he gets word that Rita Fiore has been shot. Rita's always been a tricky one: flirting with Spenser for years, she's an ever-present figure that transcends friendship in Spenser's circle. But at the end of the day, Rita is family. And family will always be protected. Both a pit bull in the courtroom and provocateur outside it, Rita is no stranger to controversy. But as one of the city's toughest lawyers, Spenser knows that there's no short list of suspects who might want to enact revenge. With Rita's life hanging in the balance, it's up to him to get to the bottom of things, even if it means unearthing some unsavory secrets that might just lead him into an age-old game of lies and deceit. |
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| Desolation code [sound recording (CD)] / Graham Brown. |
 When Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala investigate a mass stranding of aquatic life in the Indian Ocean, they accidentally uncover a much deeper mystery. A strange figure soon steals NUMA's findings, forcing a high-speed chase, someone really didn't want them examining those dead whales. But who, and why? A cryptic text through the NUMA satellite network makes things still stranger: these odd phrases and numbers look like NUMA codes. But who could be tantalizing the crew with such specific knowledge of their tech? Are they being helped by an old friend, or lured into a trap by a traitor who knows a little too much about NUMA's inner workings? Kurt, Joe, and even Max, the agency's supercomputer, will have to investigate like never before as they decrypt data, infiltrate a cult of cloned men, and prepare for a battle on two very different planes: one physical; one digital. The aquatic stranding was just the beginning of a sinister plan concocted by a mind more brilliant than any they've ever faced, the mind of a machine. A new, terrifying world order is being plotted. First marine ecosystems will be devastated, then the entire globe's. Unless the NUMA crew can stop this code of desolation. |
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| Men have called her crazy : a memoir [sound recording (CD)]/ Anna Marie Tendler. |
 When artist Anna Marie Tendler checked herself into a psychiatric hospital, she underwent myriad tests and therapies. Here, she recounts her experience and examines the expectations and pressures modern women face. |
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| Plays well with others : a novel [sound recording (CD)]/ Sophie Brickman. |
 Annie Lewin is a mother whose workaholic husband is never around. She is at her wit's end trying to secure the best spot for her son in New York City's kindergartens and faces vicious competition. When she commits a ghastly social faux pas that goes viral, she's forced to wonder if she is really any better than the cutthroat preschool parents she'd always judged. |
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| Blackheart Man : a novel [sound recording (DVD)]/ Nalo Hopkinson. |
 Veycosi, a scholar of folklore, hopes to sail off to examine the rare Alamat Book of Light. However, fifteeen Ymisen galleons arrive in the harbor to force a trade agreement. Veycosi is put in charge of negotiations, but quickly gets in over his head. If that's not enough, an ancient army magically turned to tar begins returning to life, led by the fearsome demon known as the Blackheart Man. |
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| A complicated passion : the life and work of Agnès Varda [sound recording (DVD)]/ Carrie Rickey |
 Carrie Rickey explores the "complicated passions" that informed filmmaker Agnès Varda's charmed life and indelible work. Rickey traces Varda's three remarkable careers as still photographer, as filmmaker, and as installation artist. She explains how Varda was a pioneer in blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, using the latest digital technology and carving a path for women in the movie industry. |
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| By the fire we carry : the generations-long fight for justice on native land [sound recording (CD)]/ Rebecca Nagle. |
 Rebecca Nagle braids the story of the forced removal of Native Americans onto treaty lands in the nation's earliest days and a small-town murder in the 1990s that led to a Supreme Court ruling reaffirming Native rights to that land more than a century later. |
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| Five-star stranger : a novel [sound recording (CD)]/ Kat Tang. |
 In an age where online ratings are all-powerful, Five-Star Stranger follows the adventures of a top-rated man on the Rental Stranger app, a place where users can hire a pretend fiance, a wingman, or an extra mourner for a funeral. Referred to only as Stranger, the narrator navigates New York City under the guise of characters he plays, always maintaining a professional distance from his clients. But, when a nosy patron threatens to upend his long-term role as father to a young girl, Stranger begins to reckon with his attachment to his pretend daughter, her mother, and his own fraught past. Now, he must confront the boundaries he has drawn and explore the legacy of abandonment that shaped his life. |
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| Silas Marner [sound recording (CD)] : the weaver of Raveloe / [by George Eliot]. |
 An audio drama of the George Eliot classic about an embittered man who has lost all that he valued, when a child enters his life. |
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| Learning to speak Alzheimer's : a groundbreaking approach for everyone dealing with the disease / Joanne Koenig Coste ; foreword by Robert N. Butler, M.D. |
 Revolutionizing the way we perceive and live with Alzheimer's, Joanne Koenig Coste offers a practical approach to the emotional well-being of both patients and caregivers that emphasizes relating to patients in their own reality. Her accessible and comprehensive method, which she calls habilitation, works to enhance communication between carepartners and patients, and has proven successful with thousands of people living with dementia. |
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| Only here, only now [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Tom Newlands. |
 In the blazing hot summer of 1994, teenager Cora Mowat is stuck in her Mom's small house and tired of her own restless mind. After her mother invites a new man to live with them, tensions quickly rise in the cramped house. But when tragedy strikes, Cora rebels against her small-town existence in search of love, acceptance, and a path to something good. |
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| No place to bury the dead [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Karina Sainz Borgo ; translated by Elizabeth Bryer. |
 In Latin America, as disease spreads among the people, Angustias Romero flees with her family, but tragically, her children die along the way. Grief-stricken, she finds her way to a border town corrupted by greed but where she is able to lay her children to rest in a cemetery. But the cemetery is the focal point of a land dispute, and Angustias is caught up in a power struggle. |
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| The mirror [soundrecording (CD)] / Nora Roberts. |
 When Sonya MacTavish inherits the huge Victorian mansion on the coast of Maine, she has no idea that the house is haunted. The footsteps she hears at night, the doors slamming, the music playing, are not figments of her imagination. In her dreams she sees glimpses of the past. In the present she finds portraits of brides. And when she has visions of an antique mirror, she is drawn to it, sensing it holds dark family secrets. Then one night the mirror appears and Sonya glides through this looking glass, into the past, and sees a bride murdered on her wedding day, the circle of gold torn from her finger. It is a scene that will play out again and again, a centuries-old curse that must be broken, and a puzzle she must solve if there is any hope of breaking the curse. |
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| Snow drowned [sound recording (CD)] / Jennifer D. Lyle. |
 There's a saying on Fall Island: the snow will get you. Gracie Hutchinson has lived here her whole life and knows there's some truth to those words. Now, a hundred-year storm is approaching, and while most of the locals have taken the ferry to the mainland, Gracie must stay behind. Joseph Wescott, whose mysterious family lives in Wescott Manor, descendants of the legendary first settlers of Fall Island, has also stayed behind. Together, they stumble across something even more unnerving than the coming storm: the body of a stranger, murdered in a grim ritual. |
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| Raised by wolves [sound recording (CD)] / James Patterson and Emily Raymond. |
 The police are called to stop two teens ransacking a small-town grocery store. They have no identification. And they won't speak a word. And the small town of Kokanee Creek is suddenly plunged into a sinister mystery. |
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| Christmas in Bethel [sound recording (CD)] / Richard Paul Evans. |
 Leigh Beth Stilton has never liked the holidays. After growing up in an unstable home, escaping an abusive marriage, and witnessing daily tragedies as an EMT, Leigh just can't bring herself to care about Christmas cheer. In fact, she's so convinced she's not worth loving that one winter's eve, she decides she can't go on, until she comes across a book called Bethel and starts to read. Leigh is unfamiliar with the author, J.D. Harper, but his words speak directly to her. She's never felt so seen and understood, and this connection gives her the strength to carry on. She avidly reads every novel Harper has written, and when he comes to town for a book signing, she jumps at the opportunity to meet the writer who means so much to her. In a twist of fate, Leigh runs into J.D. in a coffee shop, and the two immediately click. Before she knows it, she's swept up in a whirlwind of fancy dinners, exciting travel, and the attention of the man whose work has been so meaningful to her. But she's leery after a lifetime of pain and when she discovers that J.D. hasn't been completely honest, her hopes are dashed. Can they find their way back to each other and can Leigh learn to trust her heart? |
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| Deadbeat [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Adam Hamdy. |
 Peyton Collard was a good man once, but his life changed after a horrific car accident. Divorced, drunk, and severely damaged, Peyton is offered a life-changing sum of money to kill an evil man. But as he goes on a vigilante journey that leaves a trail of bodies across California, Peyton wonders about the identity of his anonymous patron. Soon, his questions become an obsession, and he embarks on a tense and potentially deadly investigation to discover the truth about the murders he's committed. |
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| Stuart Woods' golden hour [sound recording (CD)] / Brett Battles. |
 Teddy Fay is ready to embark on the European press tour of Peter Barrington's latest film Storm's Eye, when he receives an unexpected visit from Lance Cabot, director of the CIA. Several CIA agents have been turning up dead. The commonality? They were all part of a mission Teddy was involved in: Golden Hour. Lance wants Teddy to use his trip as a cover to investigate who is behind these killings. From Venice and Budapest to their last stop at a film festival in Berlin, Teddy must dodge excited fans, enamored women, and a few too many assassins who seem dead set on tracking down Golden Hour agents. And if Teddy doesn't work fast enough, his identity, and life, might just be the next target in the killer's ruthless plot for revenge. |
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| The message [sound recording (CD)] / Ta-Nehisi Coates. |
 Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set out to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell's classic "Politics and the English Language," but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how our stories, our reporting and imaginative narratives and mythmaking, expose and distort our realities. In the first of the book's three intertwining essays, Coates, on his first trip to Africa, finds himself in two places at once: in Dakar, a modern city in Senegal, and in a mythic kingdom in his mind. Then he takes readers along with him to Columbia, South Carolina, where he reports on his own book's banning, but also explores the larger backlash to the nation's recent reckoning with history and the deeply rooted American mythology so visible in that city, a capital of the Confederacy with statues of segregationists looming over its public squares. Finally, in the book's longest section, Coates travels to Palestine, where he sees with devastating clarity how easily we are misled by nationalist narratives, and the tragedy that lies in the clash between the stories we tell and the reality of life on the ground. |
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