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BROWNELL LIBRARY NEW TITLES, APRIL 2018

FICTION

F ALBERT Albert, Susan Wittig. Queen Anne's lace / Berkley Prime Crime, 2018 While helping Ruby Wilcox clean up the loft above their shops, China comes upon a box of antique handcrafted lace and old photographs. Following the discovery, she hears a woman humming an old Scottish ballad and smells the delicate scent of lavender. Soon strange things start occurring. Could the building be haunted?

F ARDEN Arden, Katherine. The bear and the nightingale: a novel / Del Rey, 2017 A novel inspired by Russian fairy tales follows the experiences of a wild young girl who taps the mysterious powers of a precious necklace given to her father years earlier to save her village from dark and dangerous forces.

F BALDACCI Baldacci, David. The fallen / , 2018 Amos Decker and his journalist friend Alex Jamison are visiting the home of Alex's sister in Barronville, a small town in western Pennsylvania that has been hit hard economically. When Decker is out on the rear deck of the house talking with Alex's niece, a precocious eight-year- old, he notices flickering lights and then a spark of flame in the window of the house across the way. When he goes to investigate he finds two dead bodies inside and it's not clear how either man died. But this is only the tip of the iceberg. There's something going on in Barronville that might be the canary in the coal mine for the rest of the country. Faced with a stonewalling local police force, and roadblocks put up by unseen forces, Decker and Jamison must pull out all the stops to solve the case. And even Decker's infallible memory may not be enough to save them.

F BOX Box, C. J. The disappeared / G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin LLC, 2018 "Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett has two lethal cases to contend with in the electrifying new novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author C. J. Box. Wyoming's new governor isn't sure what to make of Joe Pickett, but he has a job for him that is extremely delicate. A prominent female British executive never came home from the high-end guest ranch she was visiting, and the British Embassy is pressing hard. Pickett knows that happens sometimes-- these ranches are stocked with handsome young cowboys, and "ranch romances" aren't uncommon. But no sign of her months after she vanished? That suggests something else. At the same time, his friend Nate Romanowski has asked Joe to intervene with the feds on behalf of falconers who can no longer hunt with eagles even though their permits are in order. Who is blocking the falconers and why? The more he investigates both cases, the more someone wants him to go away. Is it because of the missing woman or because he's become Nate's advocate? Or are they somehow connected? The answers, when they come, will be even worse than he'd imagined"--

F BRADLEY Bradley, C. Alan. The grave's a fine and private place; a Flavia de Luce novel / Delacorte Press, 2018 "Flavia de Luce returns in a twisty new mystery novel from award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley. In the wake of an unthinkable family tragedy, twelve- year-old Flavia de Luce is struggling to fill her empty days. For a needed escape, Dogger, the loyal family servant, suggests a boating trip for Flavia and her two older sisters. As their punt drifts past the church where a notorious vicar had recently dispatched three of his female parishioners by spiking their communion wine with cyanide, Flavia, an expert chemist with a passion for poisons, is ecstatic. Suddenly something grazes against her fingers as she dangles them in the water. She clamps down on the object, imagining herself as Ernest Hemingway battling a marlin, and pulls up what she expects will be a giant fish. But in Flavia's grip is something far better: a human head, attached to a human body. If anything could take Flavia's mind off sorrow, it is solving a murder--although one that may lead the young sleuth to an early grave"--

F BROWN Brown, Pierce. Iron gold / Del Rey, 2018 "Ten years after the events of Morning Star, Darrow and the Rising are battling the remaining Gold loyalist forces and are closer than ever to abolishing the color-coded caste system of Society for good. But new foes will emerge from the shadows to threaten the imperfect victory Darrow and his friends have earned"--

F CHILDS Childs, Laura. Plum tea crazy / Berkley Prime Crime, 2018 "Theodosia Browning investigates a Charleston steeped in tradition and treachery in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs. While viewing the harbor's Gaslights and Galleons Parade from the widow's walk of Timothy Neville's Charleston mansion, local banker Carson Lanier seemingly tumbles over a narrow railing, then plunges three stories to his death. But a tragic accident becomes something much more sinister when it's discovered that the victim was first shot with a bolt from a crossbow. At the request of the mansion owner, Theodosia investigates the tragedy and is soon neck deep in suspects. An almost ex-wife, a coworker, a real estate partner--all had motives for killing the luckless banker, but one resorted to murder to settle accounts"--

F CLEVELAND Cleveland, Karen. Need to know: a novel / , 2018 "Vivian Miller is a dedicated CIA counterintelligence analyst assigned to uncover the leaders of Russian sleeper cells in the . On track for a much-needed promotion, she's developed a system for identifying Russian agents, seemingly normal people living in plain sight. After accessing the computer of a potential Russian operative, Vivian stumbles on a secret dossier of deep-cover agents within 's borders. A few clicks later, everything that matters to her - her job, her husband, even her four children - is threatened. Vivian has vowed to defend her country against all enemies, foreign and domestic. But now she's facing impossible choices. Torn between loyalty and betrayal, allegiance and treason, love and suspicion, who can she trust?"

F COBLE Coble, Kaela. Friends and other liars: a novel / Sourcebooks Landmark, 2018 “To all my old friends: So here you all are. Nice to see you can show up for a person once he's dead. When Ruby St. James returns to her hometown, it is to the grave of her old friend Danny, a member of a group that was, ten years ago, Ruby's whole world. The crew made a pact back then: stay together, stay loyal, and stay honest. But that was before all of the lies. Because even friends keep secrets. They just don't stay secret for long. Now Danny has left behind a letter for each of them, issuing one final ultimatum: share your darkest betrayal to the group, or risk it coming out in a trap he has created. When past mistakes resurface, the lines of friendship blur, and four old friends are left trying to understand what it means to lie to the ones you love best.""

F COLE Cole, Alyssa. A princess in theory: Reluctant royals / Avon Books, 2018 Prince Thabiso is the sole heir to the throne of Thesolo, shouldering the hopes of his parents and his people. At the top of their list? His marriage. Ever dutiful, he tracks down his missing betrothed. When Naledi mistakes the prince for a pauper, Thabiso can't resist the chance to experience life--and love--without the burden of his crown.

F COULTER Coulter, Catherine. The sixth day / Gallery Books, 2018 "Special agents Nicholas Drummond and Michaela Caine take on a ruthless mastermind in the fifth highly anticipated thriller in bestselling A Brit in the FBI series. When several major political figures die mysteriously, officials declare the deaths are from natural causes. Then the German Vice-Chancellor dies on the steps of 10 Downing Street, and a drone is spotted hovering over the scene. The truth becomes clear--these high-profile deaths are well-constructed assassinations, and the Covert Eyes team is tasked to investigate. With the help of Dr. Isabella Marin, a young expert in the enigmatic Voynich Manuscript and cryptophasia (twin language), Nicholas and Michaela home in on Roman Ardelean, a wealthy cybersecurity genius and a descendant of fifteenth century Romanian Vlad the Impaler--often romanticized as Dracula."--

F DAVIS Davis, Lindsey. Two for the lions / Mysterious Press, 1999 The murder of a star gladiator finds Roman detective Marcus Didius Falco in Tripoli searching for clues, where he uncovers evidence and danger aplenty.

F DAY Day, Elizabeth. The party / Little, Brown and Company, 2017 A taut psychological tale of obsession and betrayal set over the course of a dinner party, THE PARTY tells the story of two married couples who, in a single evening, will come to question everything they thought they knew about each other, as the long-buried secret at the heart of their friendship comes to the surface, culminating in an explosive act of violence. -- amazon.com

F DEAVER Deaver, Jeffery. The cutting edge / Grand Central Publishing, 2018 Returning to after their Italian honeymoon, Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs investigate a new killer who targets newly engaged couples, terrorizing the city.

F DOYLE Doyle, Arthur Conan. Sherlock Holmes: the complete novels and stories / Bantam Classics, 2003 "Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic hero--a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes’s adventures in crime!”

F DUNANT Dunant, Sarah. In the name of the family: a novel / Random House, 2017 Renowned for her bright and disciplined way with Renaissance Italy, New York Times best- selling novelist Dunant again visits the Borgias, to whom she recently paid court in Blood and Beauty. As Cesare ruthlessly seeks to unite all of Italy's city-states under Borgia control, Florence counters by sending one Niccolo Machiavelli to Rome as envoy and Lucrezia learns the family business of big-stakes political maneuvering.

F FILLMORE Fillmore, Mary Dingee. An address in Amsterdam / She Writes Press, 2016 "Rachel Klein hopes she can ignore the Nazis when they roll into Amsterdam in May 1940. She’s falling in love, and her city has been the safest place in the world for Jewish people since the Spanish Inquisition. But when Rachel’s Gentile boyfriend is forced to disappear rather than face arrest, she realizes that everything is changing, and so must she, so, although she is often tired and scared, she delivers papers for the underground under the Nazis’ noses. But after eighteen months of ever increasing danger, she pushes her parents to go into hiding with her. The dank basement where they take refuge seems like the last place where Rachel would meet a new man, but she does. An Address in Amsterdam shows that, even in the most hopeless situation, an ordinary young woman can make the choice to act with courage, and even love."

F FINCH Finch, Charles. A death in the small hours / Minotaur Books, 2012 Visiting his uncle's estate in Somerset for what he hopes will be a quiet working vacation, politician and new father Charles Lenox investigates a series of seemingly small acts of vandalism only to uncover a sinister plot by an adversary who may be targeting someone Lenox loves.

F FINCH Finch, Charles. The woman in the water / Minotaur Books, 2018 , 1850: A young Charles Lenox struggles to make a name for himself as a detective-- without a single case. Scotland Yard refuses to take him seriously and his friends deride him for attempting a profession at all. But when an anonymous writer sends a letter to the paper claiming to have committed the perfect crime--and promising to kill again--Lenox is convinced that this is his chance to prove himself. The writer's first victim is a young woman whose body is found in a naval trunk, caught up in the rushes of a small islet in the middle of the Thames. With few clues to go on, Lenox endeavors to solve the crime before another innocent life is lost. When the killer's sights are turned toward those whom Lenox holds most dear, the stakes are raised and Lenox is trapped in a desperate game of cat and mouse.

F GARDNER Gardner, Lisa. Look for me: Dutton, an imprint of LLC, 2018 The home of a family of five is now a crime scene: four of them savagely murdered, one--a sixteen-year-old girl--missing. Was she lucky to have escaped the carnage? Or does her absence speak of something more sinister? Sergeant Detective D. D. Warren is on the case-- but so is survivor-turned-avenger Flora Dane. Seeking different types of justice, they must make sense of the clues left behind by a young woman who, whether as victim or suspect, is silently pleading: Look for me--

F GESSEN Gessen, Keith. All the sad young literary men / Viking, 2008 Struggling to focus on his graduate work while overcoming a broken heart, Mark repeatedly takes advantage of the library computer's access to free porn, while Sam endeavors to pen a Zionist epic in spite of his limited understanding of Judaism, and Seth pursues a relationship with a selfless woman who reminds him of his painful past.

F GREANEY Greaney, Mark. Agent in place / Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2018 "Court Gentry is back in action. This time he's working on behalf of a well-connected group of Syrian expats to secure the Syrian president's mistress so they can use her to bring down the president's regime. But the expats' plan goes awry when it's discovered the mistress has a baby--the Syrian president's only male heir--hidden away in a Damascus safe house. Court goes after the baby, a decision that comes at the price of the mistress's life. The expat organization deems the boy now useless to their cause and refuses to protect him against the Syrian first lady and the notorious Swiss assassin in her employ. With no support on the way, Court realizes he'll have to take down the Syrian president himself if he and the boy are going to make it out alive."--

F GRESH Gresh, Lois H. Sherlock Holmes vs. Cthulhu: the adventure of the deadly dimensions / Titan Books, 2017 "A series of grisly murders rocks London. At each location, only a jumble of bones remains of the deceased, along with a bizarre sphere covered in strange symbols. The son of the latest victim seeks the help of Sherlock Holmes and his former partner, Dr. John Watson. They discover the common thread tying together the murders. Bizarre geometries, based on ancient schematics, enable otherworldly creatures to enter our dimension, seeking to wreak havoc and destruction. The persons responsible are gaining so much power that even Holmes' greatest enemy fears them - to the point that he seeks an unholy alliance."--Back cover.

F GUILLORY Guillory, Jasmine. The wedding date / Berkley, 2018 "A groomsman and his last-minute guest are about to discover if a fake date can go the distance in a fun and flirty debut novel. Agreeing to go to a wedding with a guy she gets stuck with in an elevator is something Alexa Monroe wouldn't normally do. But there's something about Drew Nichols that's too hard to resist. On the eve of his ex's wedding festivities, Drew is minus a plus one. Until a power outage strands him with the perfect candidate for a fake girlfriend. From the best man's toast to the bouquet toss, Alexa and Drew have more fun than they ever thought possible. But before they know it, Drew has to fly back to and his job as a pediatric surgeon, and Alexa heads home to Berkeley, where she's the mayor's chief of staff. Too bad they can't stop thinking about the other. They're just two high-powered professionals on a collision course toward the long distance dating disaster of the century--or closing the gap between what they think they need and what they truly want.."--

F HALPERN Halpern, Sue. Summer hours at the robbers library / Harper Perennial, 2018 "A debut novel about the unlikely friendship between a middle-aged woman trying to start over and an intelligent, unusual teenage girl that blossoms when she's assigned community service in her local library"--

F HARPER Harper, Jane. The dry / Flatiron Books, 2018 "After getting a note demanding his presence, Federal Agent Aaron Falk arrives in his hometown for the first time in decades to attend the funeral of his best friend, Luke. Twenty years ago when Falk was accused of murder, Luke was his alibi. Falk and his father fled under a cloud of suspicion, saved from prosecution only because of Luke’s steadfast claim that the boys had been together at the time of the crime. But now more than one person knows they didn’t tell the truth back then, and Luke is dead. Amid the worst drought in a century, Falk and the local detective question what really happened to Luke. As Falk reluctantly investigates to see if there’s more to Luke’ death than there seems to be, long-buried mysteries resurface, as do the lies that have haunted them. And Falk will find that small towns have always hidden big secrets."

F HAYES-MCCOY Hayes-McCoy, Felicity. The library at the edge of the world / Harper Perennial, 2017 As she drives her mobile library van between villages of Ireland's West Coast, Hanna Casey tries not to think about a lot of things. Like the sophisticated lifestyle she abandoned after finding her English barrister husband in bed with another woman. Or that she's back in Lissbeg, the rural Irish town she walked away from in her teens, living in the back bedroom of her overbearing mother's retirement bungalow. Or, worse yet, her nagging fear that, as the local librarian and a prominent figure in the community, her failed marriage and ignominious return have made her a focus of gossip. With her teenage daughter, Jazz, off traveling the world and her relationship with her own mother growing increasingly tense, Hanna is determined to reclaim her independence by restoring a derelict cottage left to her by her great-aunt. But when the threatened closure of the Lissbeg Library puts her personal plans in jeopardy, Hanna finds herself leading a battle to restore the heart and soul of the Finfarran Peninsula's fragmented community. And she's about to discover that the neighbors she'd always kept at a distance have come to mean more to her than she ever could have imagined.

F IDE Ide, Joe. Righteous: an IQ novel / Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2017 "Isaiah Quintabe has, against many odds, built a proper life for himself: a respected detective in his hometown of East Long Beach, a well-kept home, a growing library, and even a rehabilitated horse-sized pit bull (courtesy of his previous client). But something is wrong: the death of his older brother nearly a decade ago has sent him down a dark path, one that he's never truly been able to escape. This is the story of Isaiah's investigation of his brother's death, a quest that will lead him to his greatest adversary, a man who may be IQ's own Moriarty. It is also the story of Sarita, Isaiah's older brother's girlfriend, for whom Isaiah feels a lasting, troubling love. Sarita's younger sister, an erratic DJ and gambling addict, has gone missing in Las Vegas, with a frightening bookie, Chinese Triad gangsters, and her own deadbeat boyfriend hot on her tail. On the case once more with Dodson, Isaiah's fast-talking, don't-call-me-a-sidekick partner, mayhem is sure to ensue."--

F JOHANSEN Johansen, Iris. Shattered mirror / St. Martin's Press, 2018 Eve Duncan receives a package containing a skull--and instructions for Eve to do her work reconstructing it. When she does, a beautiful woman's face emerges. But when Eve is introduced to the dead woman's mirror image, a game is on where her twin's life hangs in the balance.

F JONES Jones, Tayari. An American marriage / Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2018 "Newlyweds Celestial and Roy, the living embodiment of the New South, are settling into the routine of their life together when Roy is sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. An insightful look into the lives of people who are bound and separated by forces beyond their control"--

F JOYCE Joyce, Rachel. The music shop: a novel / Random House, 2018 "It's 1988. The CD has arrived. Sales of the shiny new disks are soaring on high streets in cities across the country. Meanwhile, down a dead-end street, Frank's music shop stands small and brightly lit, jam-packed with records of every kind. It attracts the lonely, the sleepless, the adrift. There is room for everyone. Frank has a gift for finding his customers the music they need. Into this shop arrives Ilse Brauchmann - practical, brave, well-heeled. Frank falls for this curious woman who always dresses in green. But Ilse's reasons for visiting the shop are not what they seem. Frank's passion for Ilse seems as misguided as his determination to save vinyl. How can a man so in tune with other people's needs be so incapable of helping himself? And what will it take to show he loves her?"--

F KELLER Keller, Julia. A killing in the hills / Minotaur Books, 2013 Prosecuting attorney Bell Elkins and her estranged teenage daughter, Carla, try to protect their town and each other in the aftermath of a shocking triple murder committed by an unknown shooter whose identity is gradually realized by Carla

F LE GUIN Le Guin, Ursula K. Tales from Earthsea & the other wind / SFBC Fantasy, 2001 Tales from Earthsea explores further the magical world of Earthsea through five tales of events which occur before or after the time of the original novels, as well as an essay on the people, languages, history and magic of the place. In The other wind the mage Alder is haunted by vivid dreams of his deceased wife who is lost in the land of the dead.

F LLOSA Vargas Llosa, Mario. The war of the end of the world / Picador, 2008 "Deep within the remote backlands of nineteenth-century Brazil lies Canudos, home to all the of the earth: prostitutes, bandits, beggars, and every kind of outcast. It is a place where history and civilization have been wiped away. There is no money, no taxation, no marriage, no census. Canudos is a cauldron for the revolutionary spirit in its purest form, a state with all the potential for a true, libertarian paradise--and one the Brazilian government is determined to crush at any cost. In perhaps his most ambitious and tragic novel, Mario Vargas Llosa tells his own version of the real story of Canudos, inhabiting characters on both sides of the massive, cataclysmic battle between the society and government troops. The resulting novel is a fable of Latin American revolutionary history, an unforgettable story of passion, violence, and the devastation that follows from fanaticism. "

F MALMQUIST Malmquist, Tom. In every moment we are still alive / Melville House, 2018 "In Every Moment We Are Still Alive tells the story of a man whose world has come crashing down overnight: His long-time partner has developed a fatal illness, just as she is about to give birth to their first child ... even as his father is diagnosed with cancer. Reeling in grief, Tom finds himself wrestling with endless paperwork and indecipherable diagnoses, familial misunderstandings and utter exhaustion while trying simply to comfort his loved ones as they begin to recede from him. But slowly, amidst the pain and fury, arises a story of resilience and hope, particularly when Tom finds himself having to take responsibility for the greatest gift of them all, his newborn daughter. Written in an unforgettable style that dives deep into the chaos of grief and pain, yet also achieves a poetry that is inspiring, In Every Moment We Are Still Alive is slated to become one of the most stirring novels of the year."

F MATTHEWS Matthews, Jason. The Kremlin's candidate: a novel / Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2018 Russian counterintelligence chief Colonel Dominika Egorova has been a recruited asset of the CIA, stealing Kremlin secrets for her CIA handler Nate Nash for over seven years. Their forbidden and tumultuous love affair continues, mortally dangerous for them both, but irresistible. In Washington, a newly-installed US administration is selecting its Cabinet members. Dominika hears a whisper of a closely-held Kremlin operation to place a mole inside a high intelligence position. But it's worse than that: One of the three candidates under consideration has been a paid Russian spy for a decade, selling precious US secrets. If the Kremlin's candidate for the position is confirmed, the Russians will have access to all the names of assets spying for CIA in Moscow, including Dominika's. But which of the three individuals is the mole? Dominika's report triggers a desperate mole hunt before she's exposed and arrested. Resisting all suggestions to defect and save herself, Dominika recklessly immerses herself in the palace intrigues of the Kremlin, searching for the mole's name, and stealing as many of President Putin's secrets for her CIA handlers before her time runs out-- even as Putin's dangerous interest in her grows. The treasure trove of her intelligence reporting sends Nate Nash and colleagues on desperate missions to Sevastopol, Istanbul, Khartoum, and Hong Kong.

F MAYOR Mayor, . The ragman's memory / AM Press, 1996 A series of mysterious deaths leads a police lieutenant into a maze of mysteries, murders, and corruption only to discover that the killer's identity is known only by a shell-shocked World War II veteran.

F MCCALL SMITH McCall Smith, Alexander. The good pilot Peter Woodhouse / , 2018 "Val Eliot, a land girl working on an English farm during the war, finds herself in charge of protecting a rescued border collie named Peter Woodhouse from the owner who mistreated him. When Val meets Mike, an American Air Force pilot stationed nearby, she realizes that the safest place for the little dog is alongside Mike at the base. With the love and attention of the pilots, Peter Woodhouse becomes Dog First Class, the mascot of the U.S. Air Force, boldly accompanying the officers on their missions--until a disaster jeopardizes the future of them all. It is then that Peter Woodhouse brings Ubi, a German corporal, into their orbit, sparking a friendship that comes at great risk, but carries the richest of rewards"--

F MCCLOSKEY McCloskey, Molly. Straying / Scribner, 2018 "Alice, a young American, arrives in the west of Ireland with no plans and no strong attachments - except to her beloved mother, who raised her on her own. Before long, Alice falls in love with an Irishman, marries him, and settles down in a place whose customs she struggles to understand. Then, in the course of a single hot summer, she embarks on an affair that breaks her marriage and sets her life in a new direction. Years later, after working in war zones around the world, and in the immediate aftermath of her mother's death, Alice finds herself back in Ireland and contemplating the forces that led her to put down roots and then tear them up again. What drew her to her husband, and what pulled her away? Was she always under surveillance by friends and neighbors who knew more than they let on? Was her husband strangely complicit in the affair. "

F MCLAUGHLIN McLaughlin, Heidi. Forever my girl / Heidi McLaughlin, 2017 "I was never supposed to be a rock star. I had all my life planned out for me. Play football in college. Go to the NFL. Marry my high school sweetheart and live happily ever after. I broke both our hearts that day I told her I was leaving. I was young. I made the right decision for me, but the wrong decision for us. I've poured my soul into music, but I've never forgotten her. Her smell, her smile. and now I'm going back. After ten years. I hope I can explain that after all this time. I still want her to be my forever girl"--Page 4 of cover.

F MICHAELS Michaels, Fern. Truth or dare / Kensington Publishing Corp., 2018 When the call comes, the Men of the Sisterhood drop everything to help their friends. This time it's Cyrus, their four-legged hound dog and unofficial mascot. While member Joe Espinosa is driving along an isolated country road with Cyrus in tow, he catches a glimpse of movement in the woods bordering the road and notes Cyrus pawing desperately at the car window. As soon as he pulls over to investigate, Cyrus bolts out the door and leads Joe to three children clustered together - bedraggled, silent, and scared out of their wits. As soon as he has brought the children to safety, Espinosa arranges an urgent meeting. Charles, Abner, Jack, Dennis, Harry and the rest of the crew gather at BOLO headquarters to hear a shocking story that confirms their worst suspicions. Many more children are still in danger. But in order to protect and avenge the victims, the team must use more cunning than ever before. With so many vulnerable young lives at stake, one mistake would be too many.--from dust jacket.

F MOYES Moyes, Jojo. Still me / Pamela Dorman Books/ Viking, 2018 Louisa Clark arrives in New York to start a new life and a long-distance relationship with Ambulance Sam while working for the super-wealthy Gopniks, a job that introduces her to New York high society and a secretive man who reminds her of her own past.

F NESBO Nesbo, Jo. Macbeth / Hogarth, an imprint of the , a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2018 Set in the 1970s in a run-down, industrial town, a police force struggles to shed an incessant drug problem. Duncan, the chief of police, is idealistic and visionary, a dream to the townspeople, but a nightmare for criminals. The drug trade is ruled by two drug lords, one of whom, a master of manipulation named Hecate, has connections with the highest in power, and plans to use them to get his way.

F NOBLIN Noblin, Annie England. Pupcakes: a Christmas novel / William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2017 "There he stood in the doorway: overweight, depressed and nearly homeless, a pug named Teddy Roosevelt. Teddy was Brydie Benson’s latest problem, arriving on top of her messy divorce and sudden move. Brydie needed a place to start over, so this rent-free home seemed a great idea. She just never counted on Teddy, or his owner, the Germantown Retirement Village’s toughest customer, Pauline Neumann. And because rent-free doesn’t mean bills- free, Brydie gets a night-shift job at a big-box grocery. Whoever guessed there were so many people who wanted baked goods after midnight? Then, she gets an idea, why not combine her baking skills with her new-found dog knowledge? And so her store Pupcakes is born. Along with a new start comes a possible new love, in the form of Nathan Reid, a local doctor with a sassy Irish Wolfhound named Sasha. And as fall turns to winter, and then to Christmas, Brydie begins to realize that life is a little bit like learning a new recipe for puff pastry, it takes a few tries to get it just right!"

F PALAHNIUK Palahniuk, Chuck. Adjustment day / W.W. Norton & Company, 2018 As the politicians bring the nation to the brink of war, a mysterious book appears offering directives and carrying wisdom to prepare people for Adjustment Day.

F PATTERSON WOM 17 Patterson, James. The 17th suspect / Little, Brown and Company, 2018 A series of shootings exposes to a methodical yet unpredictable killer, and a reluctant woman decides to put her trust in Sergeant Lindsay Boxer. The confidential informant's tip leads Lindsay to disturbing conclusions, including that something has gone horribly wrong inside the police department itself. The hunt for the killer lures Lindsay out of her jurisdiction, and gets inside Lindsay in dangerous ways. She suffers unsettling medical symptoms, and her friends and confidantes in the Women's Murder Club warn Lindsay against taking the crimes too much to heart. With lives at stake, the detective can't help but follow the case into ever more terrifying terrain. A decorated officer, loving wife, devoted mother, and loyal friend, Lindsay's unwavering integrity has never failed her. But now she is confronting a killer who is determined to undermine it all.

F PERRY Perry, Anne. Twenty-one days: a Daniel Pitt novel / Ballantine Books, 2018 A "young lawyer races to save his client from execution, putting him at odds with his own father: Thomas Pitt, head of London's Special Police Branch"-- | "1910: Twenty-five-year-old Daniel Pitt is a junior barrister in London and eager to prove himself, independent of his renowned detective father's influence. And the new case before him will be the test. When his client, arrogant biographer Russell Graves, is found guilty of murdering his wife, Daniel is dispatched by his superior to find the real killer before Graves faces the hangman's noose--in only twenty-one days. Could the violent death have anything to do with Graves's profession? Someone in power may be framing the biographer to keep damaging secrets from coming to light. It is a theory that leads Daniel's investigation unexpectedly to London's Special Branch-- and disturbingly, to one of his father's closest colleagues. Caught between duty to the law and a fierce desire to protect his family, Daniel must call on his keen intellect--and trust his detective's instincts--to find the truth in a tangle of dark deception. Lest an innocent man swing for another's heinous crime."--

F PERRY Perry, Thomas. The bomb maker / The Mysterious Press, 2018 "A bomb is more than a weapon. A bomb is an expression of the bomber's thoughts about you, his predictions of your behavior--a performance designed to fool you into making one fatally wrong move. In The Bomb Maker, Edgar Award-winning author Thomas Perry introduces us to the dark corners of a mind intent on transforming a simple machine into an act of murder-- and to those committed to preventing that outcome at any cost. A threat is called into the LAPD Bomb Squad, a team dispatched to a house whose owner is away, and a bomb disguised inside photography equipment exploded in the kitchen. But it is a second bomb hidden in the basement that has devastating consequences--half of the entire Bomb Squad is obliterated within seconds. The fragmented unit turns to Dick Stahl, a former Bomb Squad commander who now operates his own private security company. Having just returned from a grueling job in Mexico, Stahl is reluctant to accept the offer, but senior technicians he had trained were among those killed. On his first day back at the head of the squad, Stahl's team is dispatched to a suspected car bomb outside a gas station. It quickly becomes clear to him that they are dealing with the same mastermind behind the weapon that killed fourteen highly trained men and women barely twenty-four hours before--and that the intended target may be the Bomb Squad itself.”

F QUATRO Quatro, Jamie. Fire sermon / Grove Press, 2018 "The highly-anticipated, provocative debut novel from the "fearless" (New Yorker) and "distinctive" (San Francisco Chronicle) Jamie Quatro, Fire Sermon charts with bold intimacy and immersive sensuality the life of a married woman in the grip of a magnetic affair"--

F SANDFORD PREY 28 Sandford, John. Twisted prey / G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2018 "Lucas Davenport had crossed paths with her before. A rich psychopath, Taryn Grant had run successfully for the U.S. Senate, where Lucas had predicted she'd fit right in. He was also convinced that she'd been responsible for three murders, though he'd never been able to prove it. Once a psychopath had gotten that kind of rush, though, he or she often needed another fix, so he figured he might be seeing her again. He was right. A federal marshal now, with a very wide scope of investigation, he's heard rumors that Grant has found her seat on the Senate intelligence committee, and the contacts she's made from it, to be very useful. Pinning those rumors down was likely to be just as difficult as before, and considerably more dangerous. But they had unfinished business, he and Grant. One way or the other, he was going to see it through to the end"--

F SCOTTOLINE Scottoline, Lisa. After Anna / St. Martin's Press, 2018 "Noah Alderman, a doctor and a widower, has remarried a wonderful woman, Maggie, and for the first time in a long time he and his son are happy. But their lives are turned upside down when Maggie's daughter Anna moves in with them. Anna is a gorgeous seventeen-year-old who balks at living under their rules though Maggie, ecstatic to have her daughter back, ignores the red flags that hint at the trouble that is brewing. Events take a deadly turn when Anna is murdered and Noah is accused of the crime. Maggie must face not only the devastation of losing her only daughter, but the realization that her daughter's murder was at the hands of a husband she loves. New information sends Maggie searching for the truth, leading her to discover something darker than she could have ever imagined" --

F SMITH Smith, Ali. Winter / Pantheon Books, 2018 Winter. Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. And now Art's mother is seeing things. Come to think of it, Art's seeing things himself. When four people, strangers and family, converge on a fifteen-bedroom house in Cornwall for Christmas, will there be enough room for everyone?

F TALLIS Tallis, F. R. Mephisto waltz: a Max Liebermann mystery / Pegasus Crime, 2018 When the body of a badly mutilated victim is discovered in an abandoned piano factory in 1904 Vienna, psychiatrist Max Lieberman assists Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt in an investigation that draws them into the shadowy and sexually unconventional world of fringe political activism.

F TAYLOR Taylor, Brad. Operator down / Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2018 "It was to be a simple mission. Nothing more than assessing whether a merchant in the fabled Israeli Diamond Exchange was involved in a scheme that could potentially embarrass the state of Israel. But nothing is ever simple in the world of intelligence, as Aaron Bergman--a former leader of an elite direct action team under the Mossad--should have known. Executing the operation as a contractor, a cutout that gave the State of Israel plausible deniability, he disappears without a trace. Pike Logan and his team know none of this, but he's tracking an American arms dealer in Tel Aviv who may--or may not--be attempting to sell sensitive nuclear weapons components to the highest bidder. When Pike's team breaks up an attempt at killing Shoshana, Aaron's partner, they stumble upon much more than they expected--a concerted conspiracy to topple a democratic African country. Beginning to untangle a web that extends through both the American and Israeli intelligence community, Pike is forced to choose between his Israeli friends and his Taskforce mission, even as the execution of the coup begins to form. At the heart of it is Aaron, and his disappearance is the one mistake the plotters made. Because Shoshana is the greatest killing machine the Mossad has ever produced, and she will stop at nothing to help Aaron, even if it means killing Pike Logan"--

F TODD Todd, Charles. The gate keeper: an Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery / William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018 "On a deserted road, late at night, Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge encounters a frightened woman standing over a body, launching an inquiry that leads him into the lair of a stealthy killer and the dangerous recesses of his own memories in this twentieth installment of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling series. Hours after his sister's wedding, a restless Ian Rutledge drives aimlessly, haunted by the past, and narrowly misses a motorcar stopped in the middle of a desolate road. Standing beside the vehicle is a woman with blood on her hands and a dead man at her feet. She swears she didn't kill Stephen Wentworth. A stranger stepped out in front of their motorcar, and without warning, fired a single shot before vanishing into the night. But there is no trace of him. And the shaken woman insists it all happened so quickly, she never saw the man's face. Although he is a witness after the fact, Rutledge persuades the Yard to give him the inquiry, since he's on the scene. But is he seeking justice--or fleeing painful memories in London? Wentworth was well-liked, yet his bitter family paint a malevolent portrait, calling him a murderer. But who did Wentworth kill? Is his death retribution? Or has his companion lied? Wolf Pit, his village, has a notorious history: in medieval times, the last wolf in England was killed there. When a second suspicious death occurs, the evidence suggests that a dangerous predator is on the loose, and that death is closer than Rutledge knows"--

F TOWLES Towles, Amor. A gentleman in Moscow / Viking, 2016 "The story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him a doorway into a much larger world of emotional discovery" --

F WARD Ward, J. R.. Blood fury: Black Dagger / Ballantine Books, 2018 "Brothers at the Black Dagger Brotherhood training center push recruits to the limit to become faster and stronger than ever before as they continue preparing for the fight against the lessening society. Novo, a resilient survivor and a bit rough around the edges, has overcome a great deal, including her intense attraction to suave, aristocratic Peyton. The two fighters shared a passionate physical connection. But when Peyton finally comes to terms with and admits his true feelings for Novo she rejects him for a more stable male. Now they must train in close quarters and eventually confront the feelings they still undoubtedly harbor for one another"--

F WELLS Wells, Rebecca. Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood / HarperCollinsPublishers, 1996 Written by the award-winning author of Little Altars Everywhere, this is a funny tour de force of women's, and especially mother-daughter, relationships. SiddaLee Walker prides herself on having escaped her Louisiana hometown and her mother, Vivi Abbot Walker, a local beauty and town character. In her brilliant balance of intergenerational transformation, Wells has created a breathtaking tale of separation and reunion.

F WINSPEAR Winspear, Jacqueline. To die but once / Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018 "During the months following Britain’s declaration of war on , Maisie Dobbs investigates the disappearance of a young apprentice working on a hush-hush government contract. As of the plight of thousands of soldiers stranded on the beaches of France is gradually revealed to the general public, and the threat of invasion rises, another young man beloved by Maisie makes a terrible decision that will change his life forever. Maisie’s investigation leads her from the countryside of rural Hampshire to the web of wartime opportunism exploited by one of the London underworld’s most powerful men, in a case that serves as a reminder of the inextricable link between money and war. Yet when a final confrontation approaches, she must acknowledge the potential cost to her future, and the risk of destroying a dream she wants very much to become reality."

F WOLITZER Wolitzer, Meg. The female persuasion / , 2018 Greer Kadetsky is a shy college freshman when she meets the woman she hopes will change her life. Faith Frank, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant at sixty-three, has been a central pillar of the women's movement for decades, a figure who inspires others to influence the world. Upon hearing Faith speak for the first time, Greer- madly in love with her boyfriend, Cory, but still full of longing for an ambition that she can't quite place- feels her inner world light up. And then, astonishingly, Faith invites Greer to make something out of that sense of purpose, leading Greer down the most exciting path of her life as it winds toward and away from her meant-to-be love story with Cory and the future she'd always imagined.

F WOODS Woods, Stuart. Shoot first: (think later): a Stone Barrington novel / G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2018 "The irresistible Stone Barrington returns for another racy adventure from #1 New York Times- bestselling author Stuart Woods. Stone Barrington has faced intrigue before and come out clean on the other side, but this latest turn of events might be too scandalous even for him"--

F ZUMAS Zumas, Leni. Red clocks / Little, Brown and Company, 2018 Abortion is illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing town, Ro, a single high-school teacher, is trying to have a baby on her own. Susan is a frustrated mother of two, trapped in a crumbling marriage. Mattie is the adopted daughter of doting parents and one of Ro's best students, who finds herself pregnant with nowhere to turn. And Gin is the gifted, forest-dwelling herbalist, or "mender," who brings all their fates together when she's arrested and put on trial in a frenzied modern-day witch hunt.

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004.67 KAM Kamenetz, Anya. The art of screen time: how your family can balance digital media and real life / PublicAffairs, 2018 "Today's babies often make their debut on social media with the very first sonogram. They begin interacting with screens at around four months old. But is this good news or bad news? A wonderful opportunity to connect around the world? Or the first step in creating a generation of addled screen zombies? Many have been quick to declare this the dawn of a neurological and emotional crisis, but solid science on the subject is surprisingly hard to come by. In The Art of Screen Time, Anya Kamenetz--an expert on education and technology, as well as a mother of two young children--takes a refreshingly practical look at the subject. Surveying hundreds of fellow parents on their practices and ideas, and cutting through a thicket of inconclusive studies and overblown claims, she hones a simple message, a riff on 's well-known "food rules": Enjoy Screens. Not too much. Mostly with others. This brief but powerful dictum forms the backbone of a philosophy that will help parents moderate technology in their children's lives, curb their own anxiety, and create room for a happy, healthy family life with and without screens." -- Amazon.com.

153.753 PIN Pink, Daniel H. When: the scientific secrets of perfect timing / Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2018 Our lives are a never-ending stream of decisions: when to start a business, schedule a class, get serious about a person. Yet we make those decisions based on intuition and guesswork. Pink reveals how to use the hidden patterns of the day to build the ideal schedule, and the ideal time to quit a job, switch careers, or get married. He distills cutting-edge research and data on timing into a fascinating, readable narrative that gives readers compelling insights into how we can live richer, more engaged lives.

154.63 JOH Johnson, Clare R. Mindful dreaming: harness the power of lucid dreaming for happiness, health, and positive change / Conari Press, 2018 "There are many books on dreams, dream interpretation, and lucid dreaming. What makes this one different is that Clare R. Johnson, PhD, combines the principles of mindfulness with a fresh approach to lucid dreaming. The end result is a step-by-step guide for understanding dream language, waking up in our dreams, and transforming them to improve our waking lives. In this book, she explains: What dreams are and why they are so important How to improve sleep quality and wake up refreshed How to have lucid dreams How to transform nightmares and heal from the past This is a helpful and practical book that belongs on every nightstand. It is a book for all who want to unleash the power of their dreams and change their lives."

280.409 RYR Ryrie, Alec. Protestants: the faith that made the modern world / Viking, 2017 Five hundred years ago, an obscure monk challenged the authority of the pope with a radical new vision of what Christianity could be. The revolution he unwittingly set in motion has toppled governments, upended social norms, and transformed millions of people's understanding of their relationship with God. In this dazzling global history charting five centuries of innovation and change, Alec Ryrie makes the case that the world we live in was indelibly shaped by Protestants. Protestants introduces us to the men and women who defined this quarrelsome faith. Some turned to their newly accessible Bibles to justify bold acts of political opposition, others to support a new understanding of how they should live. Protestants are conditioned to fight for their beliefs, and if you look at any of the great confrontations of the last five centuries, you will find them defining the debate on both sides: for and against monarchy, colonialism, slavery, fascism, communism, temperance, and war. Protestants are people who love God and take on the world. They have set out for all four corners of the globe, embarking on courageous journeys into the unknown to establish new communities and experiment with radical new systems of government, like the Puritans, Quakers, and Methodists who made their way to our shores. Protestants created America and defined its special brand of entrepreneurial diligence. And today they are making new converts in China, Korea, Africa, and Latin America. This magisterial book by a brilliant scholar of the Reformation makes the case that whether or not you are yourself a Protestant, you live in a world and are guided by principles and ideas shaped by Protestants.

294.544 MOO Mooji. White fire: spiritual insights and teachings of Advaita Zen master Mooji / Non-Duality Press, 2017 "Most of us are eventually compelled to search for meaning and fulfillment amidst the increasing busyness, isolation, and uncertainty of daily life. When our outer pursuits have failed to bring lasting contentment, it is our great fortune that we are inspired to turn inward. If you have found yourself on the quest for true Self-discovery and realization, the wisdom and power of White Fire will illumine your way and help you see clearly, thereby ending suffering and unveiling the happiness and everlasting peace that is our natural and effortless state. White Fire is 800 gleaming sparks of wisdom from world-renowned Advaita Zen master Mooji’s essential spiritual teachings. Mooji’s approach is direct and immediate, combining deep spiritual wisdom with revealing self-inquiry. Each one of the quotes and sayings in this brilliant collection has the power to ignite a burning flame within your heart, clear away confusion and doubt, and reveal your true nature as perfect and timeless Being. Divided into five sections, and replete with color photos and Mooji’s mystical ink drawings, White Fire is an unsparing light for complete Self-realization. In Mooji’s own words, “Only when the ego is slain by the white fire of pure seeing will the light be set free, the light that illumines the whole world.”

302.12 TAL Taleb, Nassim Nicholas. Skin in the game: hidden asymmetries in daily life / Random House, 2018 The phrase "skin in the game" is one we have often heard but have rarely stopped to truly dissect. It is the backbone of risk management, but it's also an astonishingly complex worldview that applies to all aspects of our lives. Nassim Nicholas Taleb pulls on everything from Antaeus the Giant to Hammurabi to to Seneca to the ethics of disagreement to create a tapestry for understanding our world in a brand new way. Among his insights: For social justice, focus on symmetry and risk sharing -- Ethical rules aren't universal -- Minorities, not majorities, run the world -- You can be an intellectual yet still be an idiot -- Beware of complicated solutions (that someone was paid to find) -- True religion is commitment, not just faith.

302.309 FER Ferguson, Niall. The square and the tower: networks and power, from the Freemasons to Facebook / Penguin Press, 2018 A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a struggle between old power hierarchies and new social networks.

303.44 PIN Pinker, Steven. Enlightenment now: the case for reason, science, humanism, and progress / Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2018 The follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. Far from being a naïve hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. The Enlightenment project swims against currents of human nature--tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, magical thinking--which demagogues are all too willing to exploit. Many commentators, committed to political, religious, or romantic ideologies, fight a rearguard action against it. The result is a corrosive fatalism and a willingness to wreck the precious institutions of liberal democracy and global cooperation.

305.231 Bronson, Po. Nurtureshock: new thinking about children / Twelve, 2009 Contains ten essays that challenge conventional wisdom about raising children, contending that good intentions in child rearing practices are actually backfiring and discussing topics such as praise, emotional well-being, race, lying, and teen rebellion.

305.2442 COR Corrigan, Kelly. Tell me more: stories about the 12 hardest things I'm learning to say / Random House, 2018 A funny, wise and insightful exploration of seven sentences adult life requires. Each chapter is animated by poignant, hilarious anecdotes from Corrigan's own life, focusing on one of those scenarios.

305.42 WOM Together we rise: behind the scenes at the protest heard round the world / Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow, 2018 A celebration of the one-year anniversary of the Women's March presents exclusive interviews with Women's March organizers, never-before-seen photographs, and essays by feminist activists.

306.874 HUR Hurley, Katie. No more mean girls: the secret to raising strong, confident, and compassionate girls / TarcherPerigee, 2018 Once upon a time, mean girls primarily existed in high school, while elementary school-aged girls spent hours at play and enjoyed friendships without much drama. But in this fast-paced world in which young girls are exposed to negative behaviors on TV and social media from the moment they enter school, they are also becoming caught up in social hierarchies much earlier. No More Mean Girls is a guide for parents to help their young daughters navigate tricky territories such as friendship building, creating an authentic self, standing up for themselves and others, and expressing themselves in a healthy way.

306.8743 O'C O'Connell, Meaghan. And now we have everything: on motherhood before I was ready / Little Brown and Company, 2018 O'Connell is a smart twentysomething who treats her pregnancy like a new project, researching and planning. She envisions a natural birth and a year of wholesome breast feeding. But things do not go as she expects. Life throws curveballs, and after 40 hours of contractions, she opts for a C-section. She manages to nurse for a year but resents her baby's control over her body. This is not a book about the wonders of motherhood but about the tension between culturally inherited ideals and the realities of lived, bodily experience.

320.9569 BER Bergman, Ronen. Rise and kill first: the secret history of Israel's targeted assassinations / Random House, 2018 Presents an assessment of Israel's state-sponsored assassination programs that evaluates the protective beliefs that are instituted into every Israeli citizen, the role of assassination in the state's history, and the ethical challenges of Israel's policies on targeted killings. | "The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF's targeted killing programs, from the man hailed by David Remnick as "arguably Israel's best investigative reporter." The Talmud says: "If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first." This instinct to take every measure, even the most aggressive, to defend the Jewish people is hardwired into Israel's DNA. From the very beginning of its statehood in 1948, protecting the nation from harm has been the responsibility of its intelligence community and armed services, and there is one weapon in their vast arsenal that they have relied upon to thwart the most serious threats: Targeted assassinations have been used countless times, on enemies large and small, sometimes in response to attacks against the Israeli people and sometimes preemptively. In this page-turning, eye-opening book, journalist and military analyst Ronen Bergman offers a riveting inside account of the targeted killing programs--their successes, their failures, and the moral and political price exacted on the men and women who approved and carried out the missions. Bergman has gained the exceedingly rare cooperation of many current and former members of the Israeli government, including Prime Ministers Shimon Peres, Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon, and Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as high-level figures in the country's military and intelligence services: the IDF (Israel Defense Forces), the Mossad (the world's most feared intelligence agency), Caesarea (a "Mossad within the Mossad" that carries out attacks on the highest-value targets), and the Shin Bet (an internal security service that implemented the largest targeted assassination campaign ever, in order to stop what had once appeared to be unstoppable: suicide terrorism). Including never-before-reported, behind-the-curtain accounts of key operations, and based on hundreds of on-the-record interviews and thousands of files to which Bergman has gotten exclusive access over his decades of reporting, Rise and Kill First brings us deep into the heart of Israel's most secret activities. Bergman traces, from statehood to the present, the gripping events and thorny ethical questions underlying Israel's targeted killing campaign, which has shaped the Israeli nation, the Middle East, and the entire world."--Dust jacket.

320.973 COM Comey, James B. A higher loyalty: truth, lies, and leadership / Flatiron Books, 2018 Former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like, and how it drives sound decisions. His journey provides an unprecedented entry into the corridors of power, and a remarkable lesson in what makes an effective leader. Mr. Comey served as director of the FBI from 2013 to 2017, appointed to the post by President Barack Obama. He previously served as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, and the U.S. deputy attorney general in the administration of President George W. Bush. From prosecuting the Mafia and Martha Stewart to helping change the Bush administration's policies on torture and electronic surveillance, overseeing the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation as well as ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, Comey has been involved in some of the most consequential cases and policies of recent history.

320.973 JOH Johnston, David Cay. It's even worse than you think: what the Trump administration is doing to America / Simon & Schuster, 2018 "Bestselling author and longtime Trump observer David Cay Johnston shines a light on the political termites who have infested our government under the Trump Administration, destroying it from within and compromising our jobs, safety, finances, and more. No journalist knows Donald Trump better than David Cay Johnston, who has been following him since 1988. It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America goes inside the administration to show how the federal agencies that touch the lives of all Americans are being undermined. Here is just some of what you will learn: The Wall. Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto told President Trump that Mexico will never pay for the border wall. So, Trump is proposing putting a tariff on Mexican imports. But a tariff will simply raise the price of Mexican goods in the US, meaning American consumers will end up paying for the wall--if it ever gets built. Climate Change. Welcome to the new EPA, run by Scott Pruitt, a lawyer who has spent much of his career trying to destroy the agency he now heads. Secrecy reigns at the new EPA because Pruitt meets with industry executives to find out which clean air and clean water provisions they most want to roll back, and keeps staffers in the dark to make sure these pro-pollution plans don't leak prematurely. Stocking the Swamp. Contrary to his promise to 'drain the swamp' in Washington, DC, Trump has filled his cabinet with millionaires and billionaires, from Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, a Goldman Sachs and hedge fund veteran who made much of his fortune foreclosing on homeowners, to billionaire heiress Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who has already put the interests of bankers ahead of debt-burdened students and their families. The Kleptocracy. Under Donald Trump conflict of interest is pass. When Trump isn't in Washington, he stays at one of his properties, where the taxpayers pick up the tab for staffers, Secret Service, and so on, all at full price. And back in Washington, everyone now knows that the Trump International Hotel is the only place to stay if you want to do business with the administration. Meanwhile sons Donald Jr. and Eric run an eyes-wide-open blind trust of Trump holdings to avoid the appearance of conflict of interest--but not the reality."--Dust jacket.

321.8 LEV Levitsky, Steven. How democracies die / Crown Publishing, 2018 "Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of democracies in Europe and Latin America, and they believe the answer is yes. Democracy no longer ends with a bang: in a revolution or military coup, but with a whimper: the slow, steady weakening of critical institutions, such as the judiciary and the press, and the gradual erosion of long-standing political norms. The good news is that there are several exit ramps on the road to authoritarianism. The bad news is that, by electing Trump, we have already passed the first one. Drawing on decades of research and a wide range of historical and global examples, from 1930s Europe to contemporary Hungary, Turkey, and Venezuela, to the American South during Jim Crow, Levitsky and Ziblatt show how democracies die--and how ours can be saved."-- Amazon.com.

323.6509 REI Reich, Robert B. The common good / Alfred A. Knopf, 2018 "With the warmth and lucidity that have made him one of our most important public voices, Robert B. Reich makes the case for a generous, inclusive understanding of the American project, centering on the moral obligations of citizenship. Rooting his argument in everyday reality and common sense, Reich demonstrates the existence of a common good, and argues that it is this that defines a society or a nation. Societies and nations undergo virtuous cycles that reinforce and build the common good, as well as vicious cycles that undermine it. Over the course of the past five decades, Reich contends, America has been in a slowly accelerating vicious cycle--one that can and must be reversed. But first we need to weigh what really matters, and how we as a country should relate to honor, shame, patriotism, truth, and the meaning of leadership"--

335.4 MAR Marx, Karl. Manifesto of the Communist party / International Publishers, 1948 THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO (originally Manifesto of the Communist Party) is an 1848 political pamphlet by German philosophers and Friedrich Engels. Commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London (in the German language as Manifest der kommunistischen Partei) just as the revolutions of 1848 began to erupt, the Manifesto was later recognised as one of the world's most influential political manuscripts. It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle (historical and then-present) and the problems of capitalism and the capitalist mode of production, rather than a prediction of communism's potential future forms.

338.7 LEV Levy, Steven. In the plex: how Google thinks, works, and shapes our lives / Simon & Schuster, 2011 Written with full cooperation from top management at Google, this is the story behind the most successful and admired technology company of our time.

362.1969 BOW Bowler, Kate. Everything happens for a reason: and other lies I've loved / Random House, 2018 "A divinity professor and young mother with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis explores the pain and joy of living without certainty. Thirty-five-year-old Kate Bowler was a professor at the school of divinity at Duke, and had finally had a baby with her childhood sweetheart after years of trying, when she began to feel jabbing pains in her stomach. She lost thirty pounds, chugged antacid, and visited doctors for three months before she was finally diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer. As she navigates the aftermath of her diagnosis, Kate pulls the reader deeply into her life, which is populated with a colorful, often hilarious collection of friends, pastors, parents, and doctors, and shares her laser-sharp reflections on faith, friendship, love, and death. She wonders why suffering makes her feel like a loser and explores the burden of positivity. Trying to relish the time she still has with her son and husband, she realizes she must change her habit of skipping to the end and planning the next move. A historian of the "American prosperity gospel"--The creed of the mega-churches that promises believers a cure for tragedy, if they just want it badly enough--Bowler finds that, in the wake of her diagnosis, she craves these same "outrageous certainties." She wants to know why it's so hard to surrender control over that which you have no control. She contends with the terrifying fact that, even for her husband and child, she is not the lynchpin of existence, and that even without her, life will go on. On the page, Kate Bowler is warm, witty, and ruthless, and, like Paul Kalanithi, one of the talented, courageous few who can articulate the grief she feels as she contemplates her own mortality"--

362.883 PRO Prout, Chessy. I have the right to: a high school survivor's story of sexual assault, justice, and hope / Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2018 The numbers are staggering: nearly one in five girls ages fourteen to seventeen have been the victim of a sexual assault or attempted sexual assault. This is the true story of one of those girls.

363.1799 MOO Moore, Kate. The radium girls: the dark story of America's shining women / Sourcebooks, Inc., 2017 As World War I raged across the globe, hundreds of young women toiled away at the radium- dial factories, where they painted clock faces with a mysterious new substance called radium. Assured by their bosses that the luminous material was safe, the women themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered from head to toe with the glowing dust. With such a coveted job, these "shining girls" were considered the luckiest alive--until they began to fall mysteriously ill. As the fatal poison of the radium took hold, they found themselves embroiled in one of America's biggest scandals and a groundbreaking battle for workers' rights. The Radium Girls explores the strength of extraordinary women in the face of almost impossible circumstances and the astonishing legacy they left behind.

363.23 HAY Hayes, Christopher. A colony in a nation / W.W. Norton & Company, 2017 "America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical measure--wealth, unemployment, incarceration, school segregation--reveals that racial inequality has barely improved since 1968, when Richard Nixon became our first "law and order" president. With the clarity and originality that distinguished his prescient bestseller, Twilight of the Elites, Chris Hayes upends our national conversation on policing and democracy in a book of wide-ranging historical, social, and political analysis. Hayes contends our country has fractured in two: the Colony and the Nation. In the Nation, we venerate the law. In the Colony, we obsess over order, fear trumps civil rights, and aggressive policing resembles occupation. A Colony in a Nation explains how a country founded on justice now looks like something uncomfortably close to a police state. How and why did Americans build a system where conditions in Ferguson and West mirror those that sparked the American Revolution? A Colony in a Nation examines the surge in crime that began in the 1960s and peaked in the 1990s, and the unprecedented decline that followed. Drawing on close-hand reporting at flashpoints of racial conflict, as well as deeply personal experiences with policing, Hayes explores cultural touchstones, from the influential "broken windows" theory to the "squeegee men" of late-1980s Manhattan, to show how fear causes us to make dangerous and unfortunate choices, both in our society and at the personal level. With great empathy, he seeks to understand the challenges of policing communities haunted by the omnipresent threat of guns. Most important, he shows that a more democratic and sympathetic justice system already exists--in a place we least suspect. A Colony in a Nation is an essential book--searing and insightful--that will reframe our thinking about law and order in the years to come."--Jacket.

363.285 CAN Cantú, Francisco. The line becomes a river: dispatches from the border / Riverhead Books, 2018 For Francisco Cantú the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Haunted by the landscape of his youth, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. He and his partners are posted to remote regions crisscrossed by drug routes and smuggling corridors, where they learn to track other humans under blistering sun and through frigid nights. They haul in the dead and deliver to detention those they find alive. Cantú tries not to think where the stories go from there. Plagued by nightmares, he abandons the Patrol for civilian life. But when an immigrant friend travels to Mexico to visit his dying mother and does not return, Cantú discovers that the border has migrated with him, and now he must know the whole story. Searing and unforgettable, The Line Becomes a River makes urgent and personal the violence our border wreaks on both sides of the line"--

364.1523 MCN McNamara, Michelle. I'll be gone in the dark: one woman's obsessive search for the Golden State Killer / Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018 "A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer-- the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized for over a decade-- from Michelle McNamara, the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case. For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area. Three decades later, Michelle McNamara, a true crime journalist who created the popular website TrueCrimeDiary.com, was determined to find the violent psychopath she called "the Golden State Killer." Michelle pored over police reports, interviewed victims, and embedded herself in the online communities that were as obsessed with the case as she was. At the time of the crimes, the Golden State Killer was between the ages of eighteen and thirty, Caucasian, and athletic-- capable of vaulting tall fences. He always wore a mask. After choosing a victim-- he favored suburban couples-- he often entered their home when no one was there, studying family pictures, mastering the layout. He attacked while they slept, using a flashlight to awaken and blind them. Though they could not recognize him, his victims recalled his voice: a guttural whisper through clenched teeth, abrupt and threatening."--Amazon.com.

500 MUN Munroe, Randall. What if?: serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014 Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations, and consults with nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by signature xkcd . They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion. The book features new and never-before-answered questions, along with updated and expanded versions of the most popular answers from the xkcd website.

613.7 BEL Bell, Baxter. Yoga for healthy aging: a guide to lifelong well-being / Shambhala, 2017 "Everyone would like to age as healthfully as possible and now numerous studies confirm what many yoga practitioners have known for a long time: yoga practice has a remarkable impact on physical and mental health--and spiritual well-being--as you grow older. Yoga for Healthy Aging is the most accessible and usable guide available on how yoga can address concerns related to strength, flexibility, balance, agility, cardiovascular health, brain health, and stress management, among other issues. The authors--both popular and respected yoga teachers (one of whom is a family physician) provide readers with a yoga toolbox for healthy aging that includes poses, breathing practices, meditation, and yoga philosophy. They then offer you a safe, real-world yoga program to suit your particular needs. These short yoga practices were developed in consultation with scientific and medical experts on aging, and allow you to focus on maintaining overall physical health and/or addressing target problem areas, such as digestion, cardiovascular health, or anxiety. The authors conclude with instructions for practicing several different forms of conscious relaxation and meditation, all of which will set you up for a lifetime of emotional and spiritual well-being. This book includes over 200 instructional photos"--

616.8527 HAR Hari, Johann. Lost connections: uncovering the real causes of depression- - and the unexpected solutions / Bloomsbury, 2018 "Across the world, Hari found social scientists who were uncovering evidence that depression and anxiety are not caused by a chemical imbalance in our brains. In fact, they believe they are largely caused by key problems with the way we live today. Hari's journey took him from a series of experiments in Baltimore, to an Amish community in Indiana, to an uprising in Berlin. Once he had uncovered what he argues are nine real causes of depression and anxiety, they led him to scientists who are discovering seven very different solutions"--Amazon.com.

616.99 MAR Martin, Antoinette Truglio. Hug everyone you know: a year of community, courage, and cancer / She Writes Press, 2017 "Antoinette Martin believed herself to be a healthy and sturdy woman: that is, until she received a Stage 1 breast cancer diagnosis. Cancer is scary enough for the brave, but for a wimp like Martin, it was downright terrifying. Martin had to swallow waves of nausea at the thought of her body being poisoned, and frequently fainted during blood draws and infusions. To add to her terror, cancer suddenly seemed to be all around her. In the months following her diagnosis, a colleague succumbed to cancer, and five of her friends were also diagnosed. Though tempted, Martin knew she could not hide in bed for ten months. She had a devoted husband, daughters, and a tribe of friends and relations. Along with work responsibilities, there were graduations, anniversaries, and roller derby bouts to attend, not to mention a house to sell and a summer of beach bumming to enjoy. In order to harness support without scaring herself or anyone else, she journaled her experiences and began to e-mail the people who loved her, the people she called My Everyone. She kept them informed and reminded all to 'hug everyone you know' at every opportunity. Reading the responses became her calming strategy. Ultimately, with the help of her community, Martin found the courage within herself to face cancer with perseverance and humor"--Amazon.com.

629.455 KAK Kaku, Michio. The future of humanity: terraforming Mars, interstellar travel, immortality, and our destiny beyond Earth / , 2018 "Formerly the domain of fiction, moving human civilization to the stars is increasingly becoming a scientific possibility--and a necessity. Whether in the near future due to climate change and the depletion of finite resources, or in the distant future due to catastrophic cosmological events, we must face the reality that humans will one day need to leave planet Earth to survive as a species. World-renowned physicist and futurist Michio Kaku explores in rich, intimate detail the process by which humanity may gradually move away from the planet and develop a sustainable civilization in outer space. He reveals how cutting-edge developments in robotics, nanotechnology, and biotechnology may allow us to terraform and build habitable cities on Mars. He then takes us beyond the solar system to nearby stars, which may soon be reached by nanoships traveling on laser beams at near the speed of light. Finally, he brings us beyond our galaxy, and even beyond our universe, to the possibility of immortality, showing us how humans may someday be able to leave our bodies entirely and laser port to new havens in space. With irrepressible enthusiasm and wonder, Dr. Kaku takes readers on a fascinating journey to a future in which humanity may finally fulfill its long- awaited destiny among the stars"--

641 MAD The backyard homestead / Storey Pub., 2009 Presents a guide to growing fruits and vegetables, and raising chickens and other animals in one's backyard, with tips for pickling, curing, brewing, cooking, and preserving the yield of one's farm.

641.5 PAL Paltrow, Gwyneth. It's all easy: delicious weekday recipes for the super-busy home cook / Grand Central Life & Style, 2016 "Gwyneth Paltrow is back to share more than 125 of her favorite recipes that can be made in the time it would take to order takeout (which often contains high quantities of fat, sugar, and processed ingredients). All the dishes are surprisingly tasty, with little or no sugar, fat, or gluten. From easy breakfasts to lazy suppers, this book has something for everybody. Yummy recipes include Chocolate Cinnamon Overnight Oats, Soft Polenta with Cherry Tomatoes, Chicken Enchiladas, Pita Bread Pizzas, Quick Sesame Noodles, and more! Plus, an innovative chapter for "on-the-go" meals (Moroccan Chicken Salad Wrap, Chopped Salad with Grilled Shrimp, and others) that you can take for lunch to work or school, to a picnic, or to eat while watching soccer practice!,"--Amazon.com.

641.5952 MAC MacDuckston, Brian. Ramen at home: the easy Japanese cookbook for classic ramen and bold new flavors / Rockridge Press, 2017 "No one can deny the gratifying taste of creamy broth, hearty noodles, salt, soy sauce, and miso, but making ramen from scratch is no small feat. Ramen connoisseur Brian MacDuckston has spent years traveling through Japan tasting bowl after bowl of ramen and studies at the Osaka Ramen School. In these pages, he removes all the hurdles--including time, complicated recipes, and hard-to-find ingredients--to bring this Japanese favorite to your home. Adapting classic Japanese bowls for the American table, Ramen at Home gives ramen lovers their fix with simple, step-by-step recipes for authentic and creative dishes. Providing shortcuts and tips to get the real ramen taste without all of the effort, this book allows home chefs of any level to enjoy the crave-worthy comforts of ramen." --

646.78 KIR Kirshenbaum, Mira. Too good to leave, too bad to stay: a step-by-step guide to help you decide whether to stay in or get out of your relationship / , 1996 How bad does a relationship have to be before getting out is the only answer? In this book, psychotherapist Mira Kirshenbaum draws on years of experience as a counselor--and includes actual case studies--to lead readers from a state of painful ambivalence to a clear sense of knowing what to do.

648.5 MAG Magnusson, Margareta. The gentle art of Swedish death cleaning: how to free yourself and your family from a lifetime of clutter / Scribner, 2018 In Sweden there is a kind of decluttering called döstädning, dö meaning "death" and städning meaning "cleaning." Margareta instructs readers to embrace minimalism, and suggests which possessions you can easily get rid of (unworn clothes, unwanted presents, more plates than you'd ever use) and which you might want to keep (photographs, love letters, a few of your children's art projects). Digging into her late husband's tool shed, and her own secret drawer of vices, Margareta introduces an element of fun to a potentially daunting task. Along the way readers get a glimpse into her life in Sweden, and also become more comfortable with the idea of letting go.

650.14 BLA Blake, Jenny. Pivot: the only move that matters is your next one / Portfolio / Penguin, 2017 "Jenny Blake, bestselling author of Life After College and former career development program manager at Google, shows how to move into your next career phase by leveraging what you already do well"--

658.4092 WIS Wiseman, Liz. Multipliers: how the best leaders make everyone smarter / HarperBusiness, 2010 "A thought-provoking, accessible, and essential exploration of why some leaders (called "Diminishers") drain capability and intelligence from their teams while others (called "Multipliers") amplify it to produce better results"--Provided by publisher.

737.4 YEO A guide book of United States coins / Whitman Pub. Co., 1947 The Red Book covers the history and values of colonial and early American coins, half cents through silver dollars and gold, commemoratives, Proof and Mint sets, errors, Civil War tokens, territorial gold, state quarters, Presidential dollars, and other U.S. coins, with practical essays on grading, investing, auctions, and more. Pricing for more than 6,000 individual coins More than 700 full color photographs. Updated values, mintages, and auction records. Expanded coverage of commemoratives, sets, and other coins. New state quarters and Presidential dollars. (description from 2009 edition)

741.5 PRI Prince, Liz. Be your own backing band / Silver Sprocket, 2017 "From Liz Prince, creator of Alone Forever, Tomboy, and Will You Still Love Me If I Wet The Bed?, comes a collection of comics about life through a punk-rock lens. Often humorous, sometimes poignant, and almost always embarrassing, these autobiographical stories are an essential addition to your LIZ-brary. Enjoy!"

741.5971 DEL Delisle, Guy. Pyongyang: a journey in North Korea / Drawn & Quarterly; Distributed in the USA by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005 Famously referred to as one of the "Axis of Evil" countries, North Korea remains one of the most secretive and mysterious nations in the world today. In early 2001 cartoonist Guy Delisle became one of the few Westerners to be allowed access to the fortresslike country. While living in the nation's capital for two months on a work visa for a French film animation company, Delisle observed what he was allowed to see of the culture and lives of the few North Koreans he encountered; his findings form the basis of this remarkable . Pyongyang is an informative, personal, and accessible look at a dangerous and enigmatic country.

741.5973 HAR Hart, Tom. Tom Hart's Banks Eubanks: new hat stories / Top Shelf Productions, 1999 Set in summertime Boston and central Florida during a tropical storm, BANKS/EUBANKS follows the routines and daydreams of lazy Barney Banks, the adventures of which he imagines himself worthy....

741.5973 KNI Knisley, Lucy. Relish: my life in the kitchen / First Second, 2013 "Lucy Knisley loves food. The daughter of a chef and a gourmet, this talented young cartoonist comes by her obsession honestly. In her forthright, thoughtful, and funny memoir, Lucy traces key episodes in her life thus far, framed by what she was eating at the time and lessons learned about food, cooking, and life. Each chapter is bookended with an illustrated recipe-- many of them treasured family dishes, and a few of them Lucy's original inventions" -- from publisher's web site.

741.5973 WOO Wood, Brian. Supermarket / IDW, 2009 In the future world of Supermarket, it's the literal truth. Legitimate and black-market economies rule the City, overseen by the vying factions of the Yakuza and Porno Swede crime families. Convenience store clerkette and 16-year old suburban wise-ass Pella Suzuki suddenly finds herself in the middle of it all, heir to an empire she couldn't possibly inherit, but hitmen on both sides aren't taking any chances!

791.4572 ABR Abrams, Jonathan P. D. All the pieces matter: the inside story of The wire / Crown Archetype, 2018 "The definitive oral history of the iconic and beloved TV show The Wire, as told by the actors, writers, directors, and others involved in its creation. Since its final episode aired in 2008, HBO's acclaimed crime drama The Wire has only become more popular and influential. The issues it tackled, from the failures of the drug war and criminal justice system to systemic bias in law enforcement and other social institutions, have become more urgent and central to the national conversation. The show's actors, such as Idris Elba, Dominic West, and Michael B. Jordan, have gone on to become major stars. Its creators and writers, including David Simon and Richard Price, have developed dedicated cult followings of their own. Universities use the show to teach everything from film theory to criminal justice to sociology. Politicians and activists reference it when discussing policy. When critics compile lists of the Greatest TV Shows of All Time, The Wire routinely takes the top spot. It is arguably one of the great works of art America has produced in the 20th century. But while there has been a great deal of critical analysis of the show and its themes, until now there has never been a definitive, behind-the-scenes take on how it came to be made. With unparalleled access to all the key actors and writers involved in its creation, Jonathan Abrams tells the astonishing, compelling, and complete account of The Wire, from its inception and creation through its end and powerful legacy."

809 ABO The story about the story: great writers explore great literature / Tin House Books; Distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West, 2009 "With essays that are poignant, smart, suggestive, intellectual, funny, sassy, scathing, laudatory, wistful, and hopeful, THE STORY ABOUT THE STORY offers lessons from a remarkable range of celebrated authors that amount to an invaluable course on both how to write and read well. Editor J. C. Hallman has pored through countless collected essays of notable authors, searching for pieces in which the author approaches literature from a personal angle. The results are a fantastic, provocative, intelligent, and, at times, hilarious discussion of literature and life. Never before collected in a single volume, the essays in The Story About the Story feature lively discussions of great literature by some of the most prominent authors of all time. With over thirty essays written by authors as diverse as Oscar Wilde and to Cynthia Ozick and Salman Rushdie, this collection offers an invaluable course on literature as well as a look into “Creative Criticism,” a form of critical essay that involves a personal perspective. Writers such as William Gass, Wallace Stegner, Albert Camus, Milan Kundera, Susan Sontag, James Wood, E. B. White, Herman Hesse, Cynthia Ozick, Walter Kirn, and Michael Chabon discuss the work of such luminaries as Marcel Proust, J. D. Salinger, Franz Kafka, John Keats, Malcolm Lowry, T. S. Eliot, Anton Chekhov, Robert Lowell, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Henry David Thoreau, Cormac McCarthy, Truman Capote, and John Steinbeck."

809.9112 SMI Smith, Steven B. Modernity and its discontents: making and unmaking the bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow / Yale University Press, 2016 Steven B. Smith examines the concept of modernity, not as the end product of historical developments but as a state of mind. He explores modernism as a source of both pride and anxiety, suggesting that its most distinctive characteristics are the self-criticisms and doubts that accompany social and political progress. Providing profiles of the modern project’s most powerful defenders and critics, from Machiavelli and Spinoza to Saul Bellow and Isaiah Berlin, this provocative work of philosophy and political science offers a novel perspective on what it means to be modern and why discontent and sometimes radical rejection are its inevitable by-products.

813.01 SAN It occurs to me that I am America: new stories and art / Touchstone, 2018 "In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump Inauguration and the Women's March, this provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors--including Alice Walker, Richard Russo, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Cunningham, Mary Higgins Clark, and Lee Child-- with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen"--

818.603 DAV Davies, Dawn. Mothers of Sparta : a memoir in pieces / Flatiron Books, 2018 "In Mothers of Sparta, Dawn Davies writes like an avenging angel. Her stories are poetic, moving, provocative, and bracingly honest as she trains her lucid gaze on some of life's deepest complexities: In the face of terror, betrayal, and impending loss, how do we love? And what does that love cost us? I've never read a book quite like this one, shot through with the light of an extraordinary talent and spirit." -- Dani Shapiro, author of Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage --

910.4 BER Bergreen, Laurence. Marco Polo: from Venice to Xanadu / Knopf, 2007 The author draws upon original sources to explore the travels and adventures of Marco Polo, and examines the controversies that surround his legendary journeys to the Far East.

920 KER Kerrison, Catherine. Jefferson's daughters: three sisters, white and black, in a young America / Ballantine Books, 2018 "Thomas Jefferson had three daughters: Martha and Maria by his wife, Martha Wayles Jefferson, and Harriet by his slave Sally Hemings. In Jefferson's Daughters, Catherine Kerrison, a scholar of early American and women's history, recounts the remarkable journey of these three women--and how their struggle to define themselves reflects both the possibilities and the limitations that resulted from the American Revolution. - Publisher's description

920 TAR Taraborrelli, J. Randy. Jackie, Janet & Lee: the secret lives of Janet Auchincloss and her daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill / St. Martin's Press, 2018 “Do you know what the secret to happily-ever-after is?” Janet Bouvier Auchincloss would ask her daughters Jackie and Lee during their tea time. “Money and Power,” she would say. It was a lesson neither would ever forget. They followed in their mother’s footsteps after her marriages to the philandering socialite “Black Jack” Bouvier and the fabulously rich Standard Oil heir Hugh D. Auchincloss. Jacqueline Bouvier would marry John F. Kennedy and the story of their marriage is legendary, as is the story of her second marriage to Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. Less well known is the story of her love affair with a world- renowned architect and a British peer. Her sister, Lee, had liaisons with one and possibly both of Jackie's husbands, in addition to her own three marriages, to an illegitimate royal, a Polish prince and a Hollywood director. If the Bouvier women personified beauty, style and fashion, it was their lust for money and status that drove them to seek out powerful men, no matter what the cost to themselves or to those they stepped on in their ruthless climb to the top. Based on hundreds of new interviews with friends and family of the Bouviers, among them their own half-brother, as well as letters and journals, J. Randy Taraborrelli paints an extraordinary psychological portrait of two famous sisters and their ferociously ambitious mother."

921 ALKHANSHALI Eggers, Dave, The monk of Mokha / Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. "The Monk of Mokha is the true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war. Mokhtar Alkhanshali is twenty-four and working as a doorman when he becomes fascinated with the rich history of coffee and Yemen's central place in it. He leaves San Francisco and travels deep into his ancestral home to tour terraced farms high in the country's rugged mountains. When war engulfs the country and Saudi bombs rain down, Mokhtar has to find a way out of Yemen with only his hopes on his back."

921 ARTHUR Greenberger, Scott S., The unexpected president : the life and times of Chester A. Arthur / Da Capo Press, Book Group, 2017. "When President James Garfield was shot, no one in the United States was more dismayed than his Vice President, Chester Arthur. For years Arthur had been perceived as unfit to govern, not only by critics and his fellow citizens but by his own conscience. From his promising start, Arthur had become a political hack, a shill for Roscoe Conkling, and Arthur knew better even than his detractors that he failed to meet the high standard a president must uphold. And yet, from the moment President Arthur took office, he proved to be not just honest but courageous, going up against the very forces that had controlled him for decades. Arthur surprised everyone--and gained many enemies--when he swept house and courageously took on corruption, civil rights for blacks, and issues of land for Native Americans. His short presidency proved to be a turning point of American history, in many ways a preview of our own times, and is a sterling example of how someone can 'rise to the occasion.' This beautifully written biography tells the dramatic, untold story of a virtually forgotten American president, a machine politician and man-about-town in Gilded Age New York who stumbled into the highest office in the land only to rediscover his better self, right when his nation needed him"--Provided by publisher.

921 BETTENCOURT Sancton, Thomas The Bettencourt affair : the world's richest woman and the scandal that rocked Paris / Dutton, 2017 "Was the world's wealthiest woman--Liliane Bettencourt--heir to an estimated thirty-six- billion-dollar L'Oreal fortune, the victim of a con man? Or were her own family the real villains? This riveting narrative tells the real-life, shocking story behind the cause celebre that has captivated both France and the world. Liliane Bettencourt is the world's richest woman and the eleventh wealthiest person on the planet, as of 2016. But at ninety-four, she's embroiled in an incredible controversy that has dominated the headlines and ensnared a former president of France in the controversy. Why? It is thanks to an artist and photographer named Francois-Marie Banier, who was given hundreds of millions of dollars by Liliane. Liliane's daughter, Francoise, considers Banier a con man and filed a lawsuit against him, but Banier has a far different story to tell. It's all become Europe's biggest scandal in years, uncovering a shadowy corporate history, buried World War II secrets, illicit political payoffs, and much more. Written by Tom Sancton, a Vanity Fair contributor and former Time correspondent currently living in France, The Bettencourt Affair is part courtroom drama; part upstairs-downstairs tale; part business narrative of a glamorous global company with past Nazi connections; and part character-driven story of a complex, fascinating family and the intruder who nearly tore it apart"--Provided by publisher.

921 KHAN-CULLORS Khan-Cullors, Patrisse, When they call you a terrorist : a Black Lives Matter memoir / St. Martin's Press, 2018 A memoir by the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement explains the movement's position on love, humanity, and justice, challenging perspectives that have negatively labeled the movement's activists while calling for essential political changes. In 2013, when Trayvon Martin's killer went free, Patrisse's outrage led her to co-found Black Lives Matter with Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi. Condemned as terrorists and as a threat to America, these loving women founded a hashtag that birthed the movement to demand accountability from the authorities who continually turn a blind eye to the injustices inflicted upon people of Black and Brown skin. Championing human rights in the face of violent racism, Patrisse is a survivor. She transformed her personal pain into political power, giving voice to a people suffering inequality and a movement fueled by her strength and love, to tell the country--and the world--that Black Lives Matter. This book is Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele's reflection on humanity. It is an empowering account of survival, strength and resilience and a call to action to change the culture that declares innocent Black life expendable."--Dust jacket.

921 MARSHALL Paul, Joel R., Without precedent : John Marshall and his times / Riverhead Books, 2018 "The remarkable story of John Marshall who, as chief justice, statesman, and diplomat, played a pivotal role in the founding of the United States. No member of America's Founding Generation had a greater impact on the Constitution and the Supreme Court than John Marshall, and no one did more to preserve the delicate unity of the fledgling United States. From the nation's founding in 1776 and for the next forty years, Marshall was at the center of every political battle. As Chief Justice of the United States--the longest-serving in history--he established the independence of the judiciary and the supremacy of the federal Constitution and courts. As the leading Federalist in Virginia, he rivaled his cousin Thomas Jefferson in influence. As a diplomat and secretary of state, he defended American sovereignty against France and Britain, counseled President John Adams, and supervised the construction of the city of Washington. D.C. This is the astonishing true story of how a rough-cut frontiersman-- born in Virginia in 1755 and with little formal education--invented himself as one of the nation's preeminent lawyers and politicians who then reinvented the Constitution to forge a stronger nation. Without Precedent is the engrossing account of the life and times of this exceptional man, who with cunning, imagination, and grace shaped America's future as he held together the Supreme Court, the Constitution, and the country itself."--Dust jacket

921 MCGOWAN McGowan, Rose, Brave : cult member, runaway, captive, starlet, victim, sex symbol, justice seeker / HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2018 "The surprising and captivating memoir and radical manifesto of one of the most controversial women in Hollywood--actress, activist, musician, director, and all-around feminist badass Rose McGowan"--

921 MONNEY Mooney, Paul, Black is the new white : a memoir / Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2009 Recounts the author's experiences with and describes his life as a TV writer, in a memoir that combines personal narrative with sharp, witty social insights.

921 SHEARS Shears, Jake, Boys keep swinging : a memoir / Atria Books, 2018 The lead singer of the glam rock band Scissor Sisters examines his life and career.

921 WESTOVER Westover, Tara Educated : a memoir / Random House, 2018 "Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara's older brothers became violent. As a way out, Tara began to educate herself, learning enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University. Her quest for knowledge would transform her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Tara Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes, and the will to change it."--Provided by publisher.

929.1072 GRI Griffeth, Bill The stranger in my genes : a memoir / New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2016. "Bill Griffeth, longtime genealogy buff, takes a DNA test that has an unexpected outcome: 'If the results were correct, it meant that the family I had spent years documenting was not my own.' Bill undertakes a quest to solve the mystery of his origins, a quest which will shake his sense of identity. As he takes us on his journey, we learn about choices made by his ancestors, parents, and others--and we see Bill measure and weigh his own difficult choices as he confronts the past" -- Publisher's description.

940.2 EVA Evans, Richard J., The pursuit of power : Europe 1815-1914 / Viking, 2016 "In the nineteenth century, Europe experienced unprecedented economic and technological growth, social change, and cultural transformation. It was the dawn of the railway, the telegraph, the steamship, the phonograph, the cinema, and the motor car. Covering every part of the continent from Iceland to Sicily, Ireland to Russia, Richard J. Evans delivers a masterly survey that pays due attention to the wars, revolutions, and political upheavals of the age, and sets the politics of power in a broad context of social, economic, and cultural change. This was the age of industrialization, when huge cities sprang up virtually overnight and confronted society with manifold new problems--from crime and deviance to environmental degradation and pollution--that are still with us today. Major figures from Bismarck to Beethoven, Monet to Marx, bestrode the continent, leaving an indelible impression for the future. In the period bound by the Battle of Waterloo and the outbreak of World War I, Europe dominated the rest of the world as never before or since. This book breaks new ground by showing how the continent shaped, and was shaped by, interactions with other parts of the globe. Drawing on a lifetime of thinking about nineteenth-century Europe, Evans has created an extraordinarily rich, surprising, and entertaining panorama of a continent undergoing drastic transformation"--Dust jacket.

940.53 OLS Olson, Lynne, Last Hope Island : Britain, occupied Europe, and the brotherhood that helped turn the tide of war / Random House, 2018. When the Nazi Blitzkrieg subjugated Europe in World War II, London became the safe haven for the leaders of seven occupied countries -- France, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Norway, Czechoslovakia and Poland -- who fled there to avoid imprisonment and set up governments in exile to commandeer their resistance efforts. The lone hold-out against Hitler's offensive, Britain became a beacon of hope to the rest of Europe, as prominent European leaders like French general Charles De Gaulle, Queen Wilhelmina of Holland, and King Haakon of Norway competed for Winston Churchill's attention while trying to rule their embattled countries from the precarious safety of Last Hope Island.

940.5309 KIX Kix, Paul, The saboteur : the aristocrat who became France's most daring anti-Nazi commando / Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2017 "A scion of one of the most storied families in France, Robert de La Rochefoucald was raised in magnificent chateaux and educated in Europe's finest schools. When the Nazis invaded and imprisoned his father, La Rochefoucald escaped to England and learned the dark arts of anarchy and combat--cracking safes and planting bombs and killing with his bare hands--from the officers of Special Operations Executive, the collection of British spies, beloved by Winston Churchill, who altered the war in Europe with tactics that earned it notoriety as the "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare." With his newfound skills, La Rochefoucauld returned to France and organized Resistance cells, blew up fortified compounds and munitions factories, interfered with Germans' war-time missions, and executed Nazi officers. Caught by the Germans, La Rochefoucald withstood months of torture without cracking, and escaped his own death, not once but twice."--

945.091 MOO Moorehead, Caroline, A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism / Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2017 Mussolini was not only ruthless- he was subtle and manipulative. Black-shirted thugs did his dirty work for him- arson, murder, destruction of homes and offices, bribes, intimidation and the forcible administration of castor oil. His opponents - including editors, publishers, union representatives, lawyers and judges - were beaten into submission. But the tide turned in 1924 when his assassins went too far, horror spread across Italy and twenty years of struggle began. Antifascist resistance was born and it would end only with Mussolini's death in 1945. Among those whose disgust hardened into bold and uncompromising resistance was a family from Florence- Amelia, Carlo and Nello Rosselli. Caroline Moorehead's research into the Rossellis struck gold. She has drawn on letters and diaries never previously translated into English to reveal - in all its intimacy - a family driven by loyalty, duty and courage, yet susceptible to all the self-doubt and fear that humans are prey to. Readers are drawn into the lives of this remarkable family - and their loves, their loyalties, their laughter and their ultimate sacrifice.

948 FER Ferguson, Robert, Scandinavians : in search of the soul of the north / Overlook Press, 2017. A journey of discovery though two millennia of Scandinavia's history, culture and society, "told with deep knowledge and an intoxicating passion" (BBC). -- Scandinavians is also a personal investigation, with award-winning author Robert Ferguson as the ideal companion as he explores wide-ranging topics such as the power and mystique of Scandinavian women, from the Valkyries to the Vikings; from Nora and Hedda to Garbo and Bergman. This digressive technique is familiar from the writings of W.G. Sebald, and in Ferguson's hands it is deployed with particular felicity, accessibility, and deftness, richly illuminating our understanding of modern Scandinavia, its society, politics, culture, and temperament.

958.1046 COL Coll, Steve, Directorate S : the C.I.A. and America's secret wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan / Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2018. "Prior to 9/11, the United States had been carrying out small-scale covert operations in Afghanistan, ostensibly in cooperation with, although often in direct opposition to, I.S.I., the Pakistani intelligence agency. While the United States was trying to quell extremists, a highly secretive and compartmentalized wing of I.S.I., known as "Directorate S," was covertly training, arming, and seeking to legitimize the Taliban in order to enlarge Pakistan's sphere of influence. After 9/11, when fifty-nine countries, led by the United States, deployed troops or provided aid to Afghanistan in an effort to flush out the Taliban and Al Qaeda, the United States was set on an invisible slow-motion collision course with Pakistan. Today we know that the war in Afghanistan would falter badly because of military hubris at the highest levels of the Pentagon, the drain on resources and provocation in the Muslim world caused by the U.S.- led invasion of Iraq, and corruption. But more than anything, as Coll makes painfully clear, the war in Afghanistan was because of the failure of the United States to apprehend the motivations and intentions of I.S.I.'s Directorate S. This was a swirling and shadowy struggle of historic proportions, which endured over a decade and across both the Bush and Obama administrations, involving multiple secret intelligence agencies, a litany of incongruous strategies and tactics, and dozens of players, including some of the most prominent military and political figures.” --Dust jacket.

973.933 FRU Frum, David, Trumpocracy : the corruption of the American republic / Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018 "Bestselling author, former White House speechwriter, and Atlantic columnist and media commentator David Frum explains why President Trump has undermined our most important institutions in ways even the most critical media has missed, in this thoughtful and hard- hitting book that is a warning for democracy and America’s future. From Russia to South Africa, from Turkey to the Philippines, from Venezuela to Hungary, authoritarian leaders have smashed restraints on their power. Media freedom and judicial independence have eroded. The right to vote remains, but the right to have one’s vote counted fairly may not. Until the US presidential election of 2016, the global decline of democracy seemed a concern for other peoples in other lands. . . . That complacent optimism has been upended by the political rise of Donald Trump. The crisis is upon Americans, here and now. Quietly, steadily, Trump and his administration are damaging the tenets and accepted practices of American democracy, perhaps irrevocably. As he and his family enrich themselves, the presidency itself falls into the hands of the generals and financiers who surround him. While much of the country has been focused on Russia, David Frum has been collecting the lies, obfuscations, and flagrant disregard for the traditional limits placed on the office of the presidency. In Trumpocracy, he documents how Trump and his administration are steadily damaging the tenets and accepted practices of American democracy. During his own White House tenure as George W. Bush’s speechwriter, Frum witnessed the ways the presidency is limited not by law but by tradition, propriety, and public outcry, all now weakened. Whether the Trump presidency lasts two, four, or eight more years, he has changed the nature of the office for the worse, and likely for decades. In this powerful and eye-opening book, Frum makes clear that the hard work of recovery starts at home. Trumpocracy outlines how Trump could push America toward illiberalism, what the consequences could be for our nation and our everyday lives, and what we can do to prevent it."

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LP 363.1799 MOO Moore, Kate The radium girls : the dark story of America's shining women / Thorndike Press, 2017 "The incredible true story of the women who fought America’s Undark danger. The Curies’ newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty, and wonder drug of the medical community. From body lotion to tonic water, the popular new element shines bright in the otherwise dark years of the First World War. Meanwhile, hundreds of girls toil amidst the glowing dust of the radium-dial factories. The glittering chemical covers their bodies from head to toe; they light up the night like industrious fireflies. With such a coveted job, these “shining girls” are the luckiest alive, until they begin to fall mysteriously ill. But the factories that once offered golden opportunities are now ignoring all claims of the gruesome side effects, and the women’s cries of corruption. And as the fatal poison of the radium takes hold, the brave shining girls find themselves embroiled in one of the biggest scandals of America’s early 20th century, and in a groundbreaking battle for workers’ rights that will echo for centuries to come. Written with a sparkling voice and breakneck pace, The Radium Girls fully illuminates the inspiring young women exposed to the “wonder” substance of radium, and their awe-inspiring strength in the face of almost impossible circumstances. Their courage and tenacity led to life-changing regulations, research into nuclear bombing, and ultimately saved hundreds of thousands of lives... "

LP ANDREWS Andrews, V. C. House of secrets / Center Point Large Print, 2018. "Ever since Fern could remember, she and her mother have lived as servants in Wyndemere House, the old gothic mansion of the Davenport family. She may have been a servant, but Fern developed a sweet friendship with Dr. Davenport's son, Ryder, and she was even allowed free range of the estate. But Dr. Davenport has remarried and his new wife has very different ideas about a servant's place. Now Fern and her mother are subject to cruel punishments, harsh conditions, and aren't even allowed to use the front door. Yet, for all her wrath, the cruel woman cannot break the mysterious bond between Ryder and Fern. And when Ryder invites Fern to join his friends at prom, there's nothing Mrs. Davenport can do to stop them nor can she continue to guard the secret that haunts the women of Wyndemere - but there's nothing she won't try. After all, reputation is everything. "

LP BENJAMIN Benjamin, Melanie, The girls in the picture / Center Point Large Print, 2018 "A novel of the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood's earliest female legends--screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford"--

LP BLACK Black, Lisa, Perish / Center Point Large Print, 2018. “The scene of the crime is lavish but gruesome. In a luxurious mansion on the outskirts of Cleveland, a woman’s body lies gutted in a pool of blood on the marble floor. The victim is Joanna Moorehouse, founder of Sterling Financial. The killer could be any one of her associates. Maggie knows that to crack the case, she and Jack will have to infiltrate the cutthroat world of high-stakes finance. But the offices of Sterling Financial seethe with potential suspects, every employee hellbent on making a killing. When another officer uncovers disturbing evidence in a series of unrelated murders, the investigation takes a surprising detour. Only Maggie recognizes the blood-soaked handiwork of a killer who has committed the most heinous of crimes, and will continue killing until he is stopped. Burdened with unbearable secrets, Maggie must make an agonizing choice, while her conscience keeps telling her: she’s next."

LP BUNN Bunn, T. Davis, Firefly Cove / Center Point Large Print, 2018 "Set in the small California coastal town of Miramar Bay, a dying young man, Lucas Quarterfield, must say goodbye to the woman he loves. Almost fifty years later through unusual circumstances he receives a second chance to be near the only woman he ever wanted"--

LP FELLOWES Fellowes, Jessica The Mitford murders : a mystery / Center Point Large Print, 2018. It's 1919, and Louisa Cannon dreams of escaping her life of poverty in London, and most of all her oppressive and dangerous uncle. Louisa's salvation is a position within the Mitford household at Asthall Manor, in the Oxfordshire countryside. There she will become nursery maid, chaperone and confidante to the Mitford sisters, especially sixteen-year-old Nancy - an acerbic, bright young woman in love with stories. But then a nurse - Florence Nightingale Shore, goddaughter of her famous namesake - is killed on a train in broad daylight, and Louisa and Nancy find themselves entangled in the crimes of a murderer who will do anything to hide their secret.

LP HANNAH Hannah, Kristin The great alone / Center Point Large Print, 2018 "In 1974, a former Vietnam POW, suffering from flashbacks and nightmares, moves his family to Alaska to live off the grid in an attempt to find peace, restoration, and freedom. They will also face dangers, both internally and externally, as they face the ultimate test of the human spirit"--

LP MCDERMID McDermid, Val Insidious intent / Center Point Large Print, 2018 "Psychologist Tony Hill and former police detective Carol Jordan confront their most haunting moral dilemma so far. In the north of England, single women are beginning to disappear from weddings. A pattern soon becomes clear: Someone is crashing the festivities and luring the women away - only to leave the victims' bodies in their own burned-out cars in remote locations. Tony and Carol are called upon to investigate - but this may be the toughest case they've ever had to face. Meanwhile, Detective Sergeant Paula McIntyre and her partner Elinor must deal with a cruel cyber-blackmailer targeting their teenage ward, Torin."

LP SULLIVAN Sullivan, Mark T. Beneath a scarlet sky / Center Point Large Print, 2018 "Based on a true story, Pino Lella is forced to enlist as a German soldier and recruited to become the personal driver for Hitler's left hand in Italy. With the opportunity to spy for the Allies inside the German High Command, Pino endures the horrors of the war and the Nazi occupation by fighting in secret"--

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DVD 345.747 ABA Abacus small enough to jail / PBS Distribution, 2017 Acclaimed director Steve James tells the saga of the Chinese immigrant Sung family, owners of Abacus Federal Savings of Chinatown, New York. Accused of mortgage fraud by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., Abacus becomes the only bank prosecuted after the 2008 financial crisis. The indictment and subsequent trial forces the Sung family to defend themselves, and their bank's legacy in the Chinatown community, over the course of a five- year legal battle.

DVD 508.092 RAC Rachel Carson PBS Distribution, 2017 Often called the mother of the modern environmental movement, Rachel Carson rocked the world in 1962 with her book Silent Spring, which warned the American public of the impact of pesticides on the environment and unleashed an extraordinary national debate about science and safety. At the center of that firestorm stood Ms. Carson, a strong, intensely private woman who balanced her love of the natural world and passion for writing with personal strife.

DVD 779 FAC Faces places / Distributed by Entertainment One Film, 2018 Filmmaker Agnes Varda and photographer JR set out on a trip through France to meet locals and produce epic sized murals and form an unlikely friendship along the way.

DVD AVI The aviator Warner Bros. Entertainment : | Distributed by Warner Home Video, 2004 Depicts the life of Howard Hughes - billionaire, industrialist, movie producer, inventor, aviator - and the love affairs, Hollywood stardom, corporate battles and brilliant aeronautical invention that defined him from the mid-1920s through the 1940s.

DVD BON 4 Thunderball Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios : | Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2012 The thrills never let up as James Bond dives into this riveting adventure filled with explosive confrontations and amazing underwater action. Sean Connery brings his characteristic style and magnetism to Agent 007 as he travels to Nassau to track down a villainous criminal who is threatening to plunge the world into a nuclear holocaust.

DVD COL Columbo. Universal Studios Home Entertainment, 2012 "Peter Falk is back in all his rumpled, trench coat-wearing glory as Police Lieutenant Columbo in 13 captivating TV movies that aired between 1991-2003, including Falk's last appearance as TV's greatest sleuth!" --From container.

DVD COL Columbo. Universal Studios Home Entertainment, 2012. Columbo goes to the guillotine: "There's much more than meets the eye when Columbo investigates the death of a magician who supposedly was killed by one of his own clever magic tricks"--Container. | Murder, smoke and shadows: "Columbo searches for clues on the cutting- room floor when he suspects a high-powered film director of hiding evidence of murder"-- Container. | Sex and the married detective: "Does the heart rule the head, or vice versa? Columbo ponders the answer to this timeless question and others when he must outwit a sex therapist involved in a crime of passion"--Container. | Grand deceptions: "Rank and reputation prove to be particularly difficult obstacles when Columbo looks into the murder of a respected military general by one of his overly ambitious colonels"--Container. | Murder, a self portrait: "It's no murder-by-numbers when Columbo investigates the deadly relationship between a savvy artist, his troubled ex-wife, his attention-starved current wife, and his live- in model"--Container. | Columbo cries wolf: "When a woman with the controlling interest in a magazine disappears before a meeting to discuss selling her majority share, Columbo is ready to throw the book at her partner"--Container. | Agenda for murder: "It's not an open-and-shut case when a man with strong political connections--and a strong motive for murder--was the last person to see a supposed suicide victim alive"--Container. | Rest in peace, Mrs. Columbo: "Columbo's case is personal and deadly serious when the wife of a man he helped put in prison is on a quest for revenge"--Container. | Uneasy lies the crown: "It's time to get to the root of the problem when Columbo investigates a jealous dentist, his wealthy wife, and her movie- star lover"--Container. | Murder in Malibu: "Columbo must read between the lines when he looks into the killing of a wealthy romance novelist who was found dead in an unusual state of distress"--Container. | Columbo goes to college: "Columbo enters the hallowed halls of higher education after the murder of a professor and discovers that some seemingly helpful students aren't making the grade"--Container.

DVD CUT The cutting edge / MGM Home Entertainment, 2001 Romantic comedy about a handsome, self-centered ex-ice hockey player and a figure skater with a prima donna attitude who dislike each other intensely, but they team up because to each other they represent a last resort for their prospective careers in the rink.

DVD DAR Darkest hour / Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, 2018 During the early days of World War II, the fate of Western Europe hangs on the newly appointed British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Hitler, or fight on against incredible odds.

DVD GOO Goodbye Christopher Robin / Fox Home Entertainment: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2018 First published in 1926, Winnie-the-Pooh brought hope and comfort to England after the First World War and became one of the best-loved children's books of all time. But how did it affect the real Christopher Robin, whose toys inspired the magical world created by his father? Domhnall Gleeson is A.A. Milne, Will Tilston the young Christopher Robin in a film that gives a rare glimpse into the relationship between father and son, and the consequences of instant celebrity.

DVD GRE The greatest showman Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2018 An original musical screenplay brings to life the story of P.T. Barnum and his creation of "the greatest show on Earth". Rising from nothing, P.T. sets out to make a better life for his family. His creativity and drive take him on a fantastic journey beyond what he or anyone else could have imagined. In the end he creates a magical experience that will be enjoyed and celebrated by generations to come.

DVD HUN Krauss, Alison, A hundred miles or more : Live from The Tracking Room/ Rounder, 2008 Bluegrass singer Alison Krauss performs live in the studio with her band Union Station and special guest musicians including Brad Paisley, James Taylor, John Waite and Tony Rice.

DVD I TO I, Tonya / Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, 2018 Based on the unbelievable but true events, I, Tonya is a dark comedic tale of American figure skater, Tonya Harding, and one of the most sensational scandals in sports history. Though Harding was the first American woman to complete a triple axel in competition, her legacy was forever defined by her association with an infamous and poorly executed attack on fellow Olympic competitor Nancy Kerrigan. I, Tonya is an absurd, irreverent, and piercing portrayal of Harding's life and career in all of its unchecked--and checkered--glory.

DVD JUS Justice League Warner Bros. Entertainment, 2018 Inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne joins forces with his new ally, Diana Prince, and goes to battle with a greater enemy.

DVD LEG The legend of drunken master Zui quan II / Dimension Home Video : | Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2001 When the British government is discovered smuggling precious Chinese artifacts out of the country, folklore hero Wong Fei Hong uses his uniquely outlandish style of martial arts ... Drunken Boxing ... to fight the conspirators and salvage the valuables before it's too late! And the more Hong drinks, the more agile he becomes -- able to fend off numerous attacks with unbelievable moves! With Chinese treasures and family pride on the line, Hong steps up to every challenge.

DVD MIS V1 Agatha Christie's Miss Marple. Publisher not identified, BBC. 2014 Completely restored and remastered in stunning high definition, see Agatha Christie's Miss Marple as never before! Joan Hickson, the actress Agatha Christie herself wanted for the role, stars as the shrewd sleuth in four thrilling whodunits: The Murder at the Vicarage, The Moving Finger, The Body in the Library, and A Murder is Announced. Watch as Miss Marple puts her perceptive powers to good use and gets to the bottom of even the most complex crimes in this beloved series.

DVD NOW Now you see me / Summit Entertainment, 2013 An elite FBI squad in a game of cat and mouse against The Four Horsemen, a super-team of the world's greatest illusionists. The Four Horsemen pull off a series of daring heists against corrupt business leaders during their performances, showering the stolen profits on their audiences while staying one step ahead of the law.

DVD PER S.3 V.1 Perry Mason. Paramount Home Entertainment : | CBS DVD, 2008 Defense attorney Perry Mason induces climactic witness-stand confessions that always clear his clients, usually with the help of confidential secretary Della Street and sidekick Paul Drake. As they work against DA Hamilton Burger and Lt. Arthur Tragg to clear a client, is it any surprise they succeed every time?

DVD PER S.4 V.1 Perry Mason. CBS Paramount Network Television, 2009 Attorney Perry Mason, along with the help of his secretary Della Street and investigator Paul Drake, takes on seemingly indefensible cases. With outstanding courtroom skills, Mason will often use tricks or traps to unwittingly get people to admit their guilt.

DVD PER S.7 V.1 Perry Mason. Paramount Home Entertainment, 2012 "Raymond Burr returns as the brilliant defense lawyer, capable of filleting alleged eyewitnesses to murder with surgical precision through relentless and clever questioning. Aided by loyal detective Paul Drake and devoted secretary Della Street, Mason takes on festive felons, decadent deans and badgered brothers, eliciting riveting confessions"-- Container.

DVD PER S.7 V.2 Perry Mason. Paramount Home Entertainment, 2012 "The legendary defense attorney returns to represent the accused, sort through the facts, extract confessions and unravel the truth. With Private Detective Paul Drake and trusty secretary Della Street by his side, Perry tackles the baffling cases of careless kidnappers, bountiful beauties, arrogant arsonists and more"--Container.

DVD PER S.8 V.1 Perry Mason. Paramount Home Entertainment, 2012 "From betrayed brides to bullied bowlers, scandalous sculptors to sleepy slayers, Mason and his team of crack private detective Paul Drake, trusted secretary Della Street, and police Lt. Andy Anderson feverishly work to clear their wrongfully accused clients, ferret out the truly guilty, and then bring the full weight of the law down upon them"--Container.

DVD PER S.8 V.2 Perry Mason. Paramount Home Entertainment, 2013 "Raymond Burr brings his signature brand of clever questioning and deductive reasoning to cap off a killer season, which includes mischievous dolls, deadly debts and murderous mermaids. Always by his side are detective Paul Drake, loyal secretary Della Street, and homicide officer Andy Anderson"--Container.

DVD PER S.9 V.1 Perry Mason. Paramount Home Entertainment, 2013 "Raymond Burr stars as the determined defense attorney who takes on seemingly hopeless cases to ensure that justice prevails. In his efforts to protect his innocent clients, Mason locks horns with his cunning nemesis D.A. Hamilton Burger and tireless detective Lt. Steve Drumm. Time and again, Mason beats the odds with the help of loyal secretary Della Street and dependable P.I. Paul Drake"--Container.

DVD PHA Phantom thread Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, 2018 Set in the glamour of the 1950's post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock and his sister Cyril are at the center of the British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutantes and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock. Women come and go through Woodcock's life until he comes across a young, strong-willed woman, Alma, who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover. Once controlled and planned, he finds his carefully tailored life disrupted by the scariest curse of all ... love.

DVD POS The Post Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2018 This historical drama is based on the events surrounding the release of the Pentagon Papers, documents which detailed the history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam. The story centers on Kay Graham, the first female newspaper publisher in the country (specifically of ), as well as her tough editor, Ben Bradlee. The two become involved in an unprecedented power struggle between journalists and the government, exposing a cover-up that has spanned four different American presidencies.

DVD SEN Sense and sensibility Columbia TriStar Home Video, 1995 Tells of the Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune.

DVD STA 8 Star Wars. Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2018 The Skywalker saga continues as the heroes of The Force Awakens join the galactic legends in an epic adventure. Having taken her first steps into the Jedi world, Rey joins Luke Skywalker on an adventure with Leia, Finn and Poe that unlocks mysteries of the Force and secrets of the past.

DVD THO 3 Thor. Marvel Studios, 2018 Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok, the destruction of his homeworld and the end of Asgardian civilization, at the hands of an all-powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela.

DVD UND Underworld live everything, everything / JBO, 2000 Short of standing in front of the stage and stuck in between the speakers, this is the definitive Underworld live experience. It starts with a machine-like murmur and ends with 40,000 people dancing in a field. Pounding out anthems and improvised jams, it spans one studio , two childbirths, and four continents, fusing the loud and fast, expansive and explosive, with the quiet and contemplative. From Glastonbury to Fuji Rick, Brussels to Chicago, EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING captures the musical and visual energy of Underworld's 1998/1999 world tour.

DVD WOM The women of Brewster Place / Hearst Entertainment Inc. ; | Distributed by Xenon Pictures, 2011 Mattie Michael, whose life has been plagued by misfortunes, is alone in a ghetto tenement on Brewster Place. She gradually unites the other tenement women to help them struggle for a new life.

LAU AME American classics : 4 complete graphic novels. Findaway World, LLC, 2017 "Created by Albert Kanter, Classics Illustrated (originally known as Classics Comics) introduces adults and children to "The World's Greatest Stories by the World's Greatest Authors." These graphic adaptations of timeless tales provide a rich early literacy and English Language Learning experience for readers of all ages."—

LAU LEA Learn entrepreneurship and management. Findaway World, LLC, 2016 "Learn the basics of starting and managing a successful business. Build knowledge and master new skills anytime, anywhere with these interactive tools. This pack includes tutorials, flash cards and quizzes."—

LAU LEA Learn business tools and technology. Findaway World, LLC, 2016 "Learn the concepts needed to start a business. Build the knowledge and master new skills anytime, anywhere with these interactive learning tools."—

LAU MIN Mind games. Findaway World, LLC, 2016 "Can you figure out how to fit all of the numbers into each grid? Brain Games help train your mind by challenging memory, reaction time, problem-solving and observation skills, attention span and more."—

LAU ON On the map. Findaway World, LLC, 2016 "How strong is your knowledge of art, history, geography language and more? Brain Games help train your mind by challenging memory, reaction time, problem-solving and observation skills, attention span and more."—

MUSIC CLASSICAL WINSTON, GEORGE Winston, George. Winter into spring Windham Hill ; | Distributed by A&M, 1982

MUSIC COUNTRY LITTLE BIG TOWN The breaker Capitol Records Nashville, 2017 Grammy Award winners Little Big Town have announced the release of their seventh studio album. The first single, Better Man, was written by Taylor Swift.

MUSIC COUNTRY STAPLETON, CHRIS Stapleton, Chris From a room. Mercury Nashville, 2017

MUSIC FOLK INFAMOUS STRANGERS Laws of gravity / Compass Records, 2017

MUSIC HIP-HOP JAY Z Jay-Z, 4:44 Roc Nation, 2017

MUSIC HIP-HOP LAMAR, KENDRICK Lamar, Kendrick, Damn Aftermath Records, 2017

MUSIC HOLIDAY COMO, PERRY Como, Perry, Greatest Christmas songs RCA, 1999

MUSIC INTERNATIONAL KAMAKAWIWO'OLE,ISRAEL Kamakawiwo’ole, Israel. Facing future Bigboy Record Company : | exclusively distributed by the Mountain Apple Company, 1993

MUSIC INTERNATIONAL MARLEY, DAMIAN Marley, Damian Stony Hill / Republic Records, 2017

MUSIC JAZZ BENNETT, TONY Bennett, Tony, Tony Bennett celebrates 90 / Columbia, 2016

MUSIC JAZZ CHILDS, BILLY Childs, Billy Rebirth / Mack Avenue, 2017

MUSIC JAZZ CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE BIG BAND McBride, Christian, Bringin' it Mack Avenue, 2017. The highly anticipated follow-up to Christian McBride Big Band's 2011 Grammy Award winning debut, The Good Feeling, puts his status and skills as an all-around entertainer on full display.

MUSIC JAZZ JEFF LORBER FUSION Lorber, Jeff, Prototype Shanachie, 2017

MUSIC JAZZ KRALL, DIANA Krall, Diana. When I look in your eyes Verve, 1999

MUSIC JAZZ MCLAUGHLIN, JOHN McLaughlin, John, Live @ Ronnie Scott's Abstract Logix ; Mediastarz, 2017 Abstract Logix issues this album, a souvenir of a sold out, two night stand at the beloved venue by John McLaughlin and the 4th Dimension, recorded in March of 2017.

MUSIC JAZZ PABLO ZIEGLER TRIO Jazz tango / ZOHO Music, 2017

MUSIC JAZZ SALVANT, CECILE MCLORIN Salvant, Cecile McLorin, Dreams and daggers Mack Avenue, 2017

MUSIC LATIN SHAKIRA Shakira El dorado / Sony Music Latin, 2017

MUSIC NEW AGE KATER, PETER Kater, Peter, Dancing on water solo piano improvisations in A432 / Point of Light Records : Kater Music/ BMI, 2017 The 12-time Grammy Award nominated pianist takes us on an intimate journey of connection, vulnerability and transformation. This musical pilgrimage is a discovery and expression of the unique radiant beauty and creative lightness of being that exists within each of us.

MUSIC POP/ROCK AEROSMITH Pump Geffen, 1989

MUSIC POP/ROCK AMERICAN EPIC American epic the sessions. Lo-Max/Columbia, 2017

MUSIC POP/ROCK ANNIVERSARY ALBUM The anniversary album the 50's BMG/Collectables Records, 1997

MUSIC POP/ROCK BEATLES Past masters, volume one Parlophone : | manufactured by Capitol Records, 1988

MUSIC POP/ROCK BEATLES The Beatles Capitol, 1968

MUSIC POP/ROCK BEATLES Love EMI Records, 2006

MUSIC POP/ROCK BENNETT, TONY & LADY GAGA Bennett, Tony, Cheek to cheek Streamline : Columbia : Interscope, 2014

MUSIC POP/ROCK BLUNT,JAMES Blunt, James, All the lost souls Atlantic, 2007

MUSIC POP/ROCK COHEN, LEONARD Cohen, Leonard, You want it darker / Columbia, 2016

MUSIC POP/ROCK COUNTING CROWS Films about ghosts the best of-- / Geffen, 2004

MUSIC POP/ROCK DAVE MATTHEWS BAND Remember two things Bama Rags Records, 1993

MUSIC POP/ROCK DUFF, HILARY Duff, Hilary, Dignity Hollywood Records, 2007

MUSIC POP/ROCK ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA ELO's greatest hits Jet Records, 1979

MUSIC POP/ROCK FOGERTY, JOHN Fogerty, John, Premonition Geffen, 2004

MUSIC POP/ROCK FOO FIGHTERS Concrete and gold RCA Records, 2017

MUSIC POP/ROCK FOREIGNER Foreigner Complete greatest hits Atlantic/Rhino, 2002 A compilation of greatest hits by rock band Foreigner, featuring thirty songs, including "Feels Like the First Time," "Head Games," and "I Want to Know What Love Is."

MUSIC POP/ROCK GRACE POTTER AND THE NOCTURNALS Potter, Grace. This is somewhere Hollywood Records, 2007

MUSIC POP/ROCK GRATEFUL DEAD Skeletons from the closet Warner Bros. Records, 1988

MUSIC POP/ROCK GRATEFUL DEAD In the dark Arista, 1987

MUSIC POP/ROCK Reprise Records, 1994

MUSIC POP/ROCK IMAGINE DRAGONS Evolve / KIDinaKORNER/Interscope, 2017

MUSIC POP/ROCK JACKSON, JOE Jackson, Joe, Look sharp! A & M Records, 1979

MUSIC POP/ROCK JOEL, BILLY Joel, Billy Turnstiles / Columbia, 1998 â„—1976

MUSIC POP/ROCK JOURNEY Revelation Nomota 2008

MUSIC POP/ROCK KNOPFLER, MARK Knopfler, Mark. The ragpicker's dream Warner Bros. Records ; | Mercury Records Ltd., 2002

MUSIC POP/ROCK LCD SOUNDSYSTEM American dream DFA Records/Columbia, 2017

MUSIC POP/ROCK LED ZEPPELIN Led Zeppelin III Atlantic, 1970

MUSIC POP/ROCK LED ZEPPELIN Led Zeppelin. Atlantic, 1971

MUSIC POP/ROCK LENNON, JOHN Lennon, John, Lennon legend Parlophone ; | EMI, 1997

MUSIC POP/ROCK LENNON, JOHN Lennon, John, The John Lennon collection Capitol Records, 1989

MUSIC POP/ROCK LLOYD, CHER Lloyd, Cher, Sticks & stones Epic/Syco Music, 2012

MUSIC POP/ROCK NATIONAL Sleep well beast / 4AD, 2017

MUSIC POP/ROCK PORTUGAL THE MAN Woodstock Atlantic, 2017

MUSIC POP/ROCK QUEEN Classic Queen Hollywood Records : | distributed by Elektra, 1992

MUSIC POP/ROCK QUEEN Greatest hits / Hollywood Records, 1992

MUSIC POP/ROCK ROLLING STONES Blue & lonesome Interscope, 2016 Recorded in just three days in London, England, the album takes the band back to their roots and the passion for blues music which has always been the heart and soul of The Rolling Stones.

MUSIC POP/ROCK STEPPENWOLF 16 greatest hits MCA records, 1985

MUSIC POP/ROCK STING Sting Brand new day A&M, 1999

MUSIC POP/ROCK SYSTEM OF A DOWN System of a Down American, 1998

MUSIC POP/ROCK WAR ON DRUGS A deeper understanding Atlantic, 2017 The fourth full-length album from the War on Drugs serves as the follow-up to the acclaimed 2014 release Lost in the Dream. The first single, Thinking of a Place, was originally released as an exclusive for Record Store Day.

MUSIC POP/ROCK YANKOVIC, "WEIRD AL" Yankovic, Al, Off the deep end Rock 'n' Roll Records/Scotti Bros. Records : | Distributed in the United States by BMG Music, 1992

MUSIC POP/ROCK YES Classic Yes Atlantic, 1981

MUSIC R&B BRIDGES, LEON Bridges, Leon, Coming home / Columbia, 2015

MUSIC R&B CAMPBELL, ERICA Help / E One : My Block, Distributed by Entertainment One US. 2014

MUSIC R&B CARA, ALESSIA Cara, Alessia, Know it all Def Jam Recordings, 2015 Following the success of her Four Pink Walls EP, Alessia Cara releases her highly anticipated debut album. It follows her journey from a girl writing songs in her room to her emergence as a blossoming star.

MUSIC R&B CHILDISH GAMBINO Childish Gambino, Awaken, my love! Glassnote, Glassnote, 2016 Childish Gambino, aka the multitalented Donald Glover, releases his third album. It includes the tracks Have Some Love; Me and Your Mama; and Stand Tall.

MUSIC R&B D'ARBY,TERENCE TRENT D'Arby, Terence Trent, Introducing the hardline according to Terence Trent D'Arby Columbia, 1987

MUSIC R&B FRANKLIN, ARETHA Franklin, Aretha. Gospel greats Atlantic Recording Corp. : Flashback Records, 1999 1972

MUSIC R&B GUY,BUDDY Guy, Buddy. Damn right, I've got the blues Silvertone Records, 1991

MUSIC R&B HUDSON, JENNIFER Hudson, Jennifer, Jennifer Hudson Arista Records, 2008

MUSIC R&B RESIDENTE Residente Residente Sony Music Latin,264: Sony Music Latin, 2017

MUSIC STAGE & SCREEN CATS : ACT 1 Lloyd Webber, Andrew, Cats complete original Broadway cast recording / Geffen Records, 1986

MUSIC STAGE & SCREEN CATS : ACT 2 Lloyd Webber, Andrew, Cats complete original Broadway cast recording / Geffen Records, 1986

MUSIC STAGE & SCREEN LA VIE EN ROSE La vie en rose : "La mome." EMI Classics, 2007 The soundtrack to "La Vie En Rose," a biography of French singer Edith Piaf, containing eleven songs performed by Piaf herself and sixteen other tracks.

MUSIC STAGE & SCREEN ROMEO & JULIET 's Romeo & Juliet music from the motion picture. Capitol, 1996

MUSIC STAGE & SCREEN TOP GUN Top gun Paramount, 1986 At the elite Navy Fighter Weapons School, cocky, young pilots compete against one another in the air as well as on the ground.

MUSIC VOCAL CHURCH, CHARLOTTE Church, Charlotte, Voice of an angel Sony Classical, 1998

MUSIC VOCAL GROBAN, JOSH Groban, Josh. Josh Groban 143 Records : | Manufactured and distributed by Warner Bros. Records, 2001

MUSIC VOCAL SINATRA, FRANK Sinatra, Frank, Sinatra at the Sands In concert Reprise, 1966

MUSIC VOCAL WILLIAMS, ZACH Williams, Zach, Chain breaker Essential Records, 2017

MUSIC VOCAL WINANS, CECE Let them fall in love Pure Springs Gospel, 2017