Main Collection (Bestsellers)

BF 482 .M35 2021M Effortless : make it easier to do what matters most / Greg McKeown Do you ever feel like: You're teetering right on the edge of burnout? You want to make a higher contribution, but lack the energy? You're running faster but not moving closer to your goals? Everything is so much harder than it used to be? As high achievers, we've been conditioned to believe that the path to success is paved with relentless work. That if we want to overachieve, we have to overexert, overthink, and overdo. That if we aren't perpetually exhausted, we're not doing enough. But lately, working hard is more exhausting than ever. And the more depleted we get, the more effort it takes to make progress. Stuck in an endless loop of "Zoom, eat, sleep, repeat," we're often working twice as hard to achieve half as much. Getting ahead doesn't have to be as hard as we make it. No matter what challenges or obstacles we face, there is a better way: instead of pushing ourselves harder, we can find an easier path. Effortless offers actionable advice for making the most essential activities the easiest ones, so you can achieve the results you want, without burning out. Effortless teaches you how to: Turn tedious tasks into enjoyable rituals; Prevent frustration by solving problems before they arise; Set a sustainable pace instead of powering through; Make one‐time choices that eliminate many future decisions; Simplify your processes by removing unnecessary steps; Make relationships easier to maintain and manage; And much more. The effortless way isn't the lazy way. It's the smart way. It may even be the only way. Not every hard thing in life can be made easy. But we can make it easier to do more of what matters most.

BF 575 .S39 B43 2021M The way of integrity : finding the path to your true self / Martha Beck As Martha Beck says in her book, "Integrity is the cure for psychological suffering. Period." In The Way of Integrity, Beck presents a four‐stage process that anyone can use to find integrity, and with it, a sense of purpose, emotional healing, and a life free of mental suffering. Much of what plagues us‐‐people pleasing, staying in stale relationships, negative habits‐‐all point to what happens when we are out of touch with what truly makes us feel whole. Inspired by The Divine Comedy, Beck uses Dante's classic hero's journey as a framework to break down the process of attaining personal integrity into small, manageable steps. She shows how to read our internal signals that lead us towards our true path, and to recognize what we actually yearn for versus what our culture sells us. With techniques tested on hundreds of her clients, Beck brings her expertise as a social scientist, life coach and human being to help readers to uncover what integrity looks like in their own lives. She takes us on a spiritual adventure that not only will change the direction of our lives, but bring us to a place of genuine happiness.

BF 575 .S45 Y68 2021M You are your best thing : vulnerability, shame resilience, and the Black experience ‐‐ an anthology / edited by Tarana Burke and Brené Brown It started as a text between two friends. Tarana Burke, founder of the 'me too' movement, texted researcher and writer, Brené Brown, to see if she was free to jump on a call. Brené assumed that Tarana wanted to talk about wallpaper. They had been trading home decorating inspiration boards in their last text conversation so Brené started scrolling to find her latest Pinterest pictures when the phone rang. But it was immediately clear to Brené that the conversation wasn't going to be about wallpaper. Tarana's hello was serious and she hesitated for a bit before saying, "Brené, you know your work affected me so deeply. It's been a huge gift in my life. But as a Black woman, I've sometimes had to feel like I have to contort myself to fit into some of your words. The core of it rings so true for me, but the application has been harder." Brené replied, "I'm so glad we're talking about this. It makes sense to me. Especially in terms of vulnerability. How do you take the armor off in a country where you're not physically or emotionally safe?" Long pause. "That's why I'm calling," said Tarana. "What do you think about a working together on a book about the Black experience with vulnerability and shame resilience?" There was no hesitation. Burke and Brown are the perfect pair to usher in this stark, potent collection of essays on Black shame and healing (and contribute their own introductions to the work). Along with the anthology contributors, they create a space to recognize and process the trauma of white supremacy, a space to be vulnerable and affirm the fullness of Black love and Black life.

BJ 1533 .H47 M37 2021M The hero code : lessons learned from lives well lived / Admiral William H. McRaven In his 37 years in the military, McRaven saw both the best and worst of humanity and shares stories of the real, everyday heroes who have inspired him.

BL 2015 .K3 V37 2021M Karma : a yogi's guide to crafting your destiny / Sadhguru A new perspective on the overused and misunderstood concept of "karma" that offers the key to happiness and enlightenment, from the New York Times bestselling author and world‐renowned spiritual master Sadhguru.

BS 580 .E85 R63 2021M Woman evolve / Sarah Jakes Roberts Reimagining the story of Eve, Sarah Jakes Roberts draws lessons from Scripture and from her own life that show women how to use the mistakes of their past to overcome the challenges of today. Woman Evolve teaches women that they can use failures and mistakes to break through to their future. Like Eve, they do not need to live defined by the past. Pastor Sarah says, "Bruised heels can still crush serpents' heads."

BV 4597.53 .C64 J35 2021M Don't drop the mic : the power of your words can change the world / T.D. Jakes with Dr. Frank Thomas In Don't Drop the Mic, Bishop Jakes speaks to readers about communication and how the ways we speak and interact with others can be part of our everyday ministries. He helps readers understand: Why the way we speak and the words we use matter How speaking well, no matter your topic or audience, improves your chances of getting the result you want How to craft your message, whether it's a simple email or a speech under the spotlights, to connect with listeners Why good communication is important for building connection and community How sharing God's Word produces abundant fruit Drawing lessons from Scripture and his own life, Jakes gives career advice for those who have or want to grow into a speaking career, but he also provides clear direction and insight for everyone who gives presentations, writes emails, or talks to other people in their job or home life. There will be practical advice about how to craft insightful and meaningful communications, but the heart of this book is really about how we can communicate more clearly to build community and share the hope of Christ in our everyday lives. The more adept we become at using all available resources to convey our message, the greater our impact. From lovers to litigators, entrepreneurs to entertainers, and bloggers to board members, we all want to communicate more effectively, intimately, and efficiently. Whether you're interviewing for a new position, proposing a new business plan, auditioning for a performance, delivering a report for your committee, teaching Sunday school, or sharing your heart with a loved one, this book will help.

CT 274 .S175 K44 2021M Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty / Patrick Radden Keefe Presents a portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, who built their fortune on the sale of Valium and later sponsored the creation and marketing of one of the most commonly prescribed and addictive painkillers of the opioid crisis.

D 790 .G534 2021M The Bomber Mafia : a dream, a temptation, and the longest night of the second World War / Malcolm Gladwell Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. This 'Bomber Mafia' asked: What if precision bombing could, just by taking out critical choke points ‐‐ industrial or transportation hubs ‐‐ cripple the enemy and make war far less lethal? In his podcast, Revisionist History, Gladwell re‐examines moments from the past and asks whether we got it right the first time. In The Bomber Mafia, he steps back from the bombing of Tokyo, the deadliest night of the war, and asks, "Was it worth it?" The attack was the brainchild of General Curtis LeMay, whose brutal pragmatism and scorched‐earth tactics in Japan cost thousands of civilian lives, but may have spared more by averting a planned US invasion. Things might have gone differently had LeMay's predecessor, General Haywood Hansell, remained in charge. As a key member of the Bomber Mafia, Haywood's theories of precision bombing had been foiled by bad weather, enemy jet fighters, and human error. When he and Curtis LeMay squared off for a leadership handover in the jungles of Guam, LeMay emerged victorious, leading to the darkest night of World War II.

E 840.8 .B595 A3 2021M On the house : a Washington memoir / John Boehner When Boehner announced his resignation, President Obama called to tell the outgoing Speaker that he'd miss him. "Mr. President," Boehner replied, "yes you will." Here Boehner offers his impressions of leaders he's met and what made them successes or failures, from Ford and Reagan to Obama, Trump, and Biden. He shares his views on how the Republican Party has become unrecognizable today; the advice he dished out to members of his own party, the opposition, the media, and others; and his often acid‐tongued comments about his former colleagues. And of course he talks about golfing with five presidents.

E 918 .B53 A3 2021 Beautiful things : a memoir / Hunter Biden When he was two years old, Hunter Biden was badly injured in a car accident that killed his mother and baby sister. In 2015, he suffered the devastating loss of his beloved big brother, Beau, who died of brain cancer at the age of forty‐six. These hardships were compounded by the collapse of his marriage and a years‐long battle with drug and alcohol addiction. In Beautiful Things, Hunter recounts his descent into substance abuse and his tortuous path to sobriety. The story ends with where Hunter is today‐‐a sober married man with a new baby, finally able to appreciate the beautiful things in life.

F 454 .B66 D78 2021M Blood and treasure : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier / Bob Drury and Tom Clavin The explosive true saga of the legendary figure, Daniel Boone, and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the height of their writing power‐‐Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. America's first and arguably greatest pathfinder Daniel Boone‐not the coonskin cap‐wearing caricature of popular culture but the flesh‐and‐blood frontiersman and Revolutionary War hero whose explorations into the forested frontier beyond the great mountains would become the stuff of legend. Now, thanks to painstaking research by two award‐winning authors, the story of the brutal birth of the United States is told through the eyes of both the ordinary and larger‐than‐life men and women, white and Native American, who witnessed it.

HV 6446 .O727 2021M Killing the mob : the fight against organized crime in America / Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard Covering the period from the 1930s to the 1980s, O'Reilly and Dugard start by tracing the prohibition‐ busting bank robbers of the Depression Era. Following the rise of organized crime, they highlight the creation of the Mafia Commission, the power struggles within the "Five Families," and the growth of the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover. In addition to the mob battles to control Cuba, Las Vegas and Hollywood, O'Reilly and Dugard follow the personal war between the U.S. Attorney General Bobby Kennedy and legendary Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa. Their book shows just how deeply the Mob has influenced every aspect of American life.

ML 420 .Z3913 A3 2021M Crying in H Mart : a memoir / Michelle Zauner From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean‐American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up the only Asian‐American kid at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother's particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother's tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food. As she grew up, moving to the east coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, performing gigs with her fledgling band‐‐and meeting the man who would become her husband‐‐her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live. It was her mother's diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer, when Michelle was twenty‐five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her.

PR 9619.4 .H48 G66 2021M The good sister / Sally Hepworth Sally Hepworth, the author of The Mother‐In‐Law, delivers a knock‐out of a novel about the lies that bind two sisters. From the outside, everyone might think Fern and Rose are as close as twin sisters can be: Rose is the responsible one, with a home and a husband and a fierce desire to become a mother. Fern is the quirky one, the free spirit, the librarian who avoids social interaction and whom the world might just describe as truly odd. But the sisters are devoted to one another and Rose has always been Fern's protector from the time they were small. Fern needed protecting because their mother was a true sociopath who hid her true nature from the world, and only Rose could see it. Fern always saw the good in everyone. Years ago, Fern did something very, very bad. And Rose has never told a soul. When Fern decides to help her sister achieve her heart's desire of having a baby, Rose realizes with growing horror that Fern might make choices that can only have a terrible outcome. What Rose doesn't realize is that Fern is growing more and more aware of the secrets Rose, herself, is keeping. And that their mother might have the last word after all. Spine tingling, creepy, utterly compelling and unpredictable,

PS 3552 .A446 G36 2021M A gambling man / David Baldacci The 1950s are on the horizon, and Archer is in dire need of a fresh start after a nearly fatal detour in Poca City. So Archer hops on a bus and begins the long journey out west to California, where rumor has it there is money to be made for someone who's hard‐working, lucky, a criminal, or all three. Along the way, Archer stops in Reno, where a stroke of fortune delivers him a wad of cash and an eye‐popping blood‐red 1939 Delahaye convertible, plus a companion for the final leg of the journey, an aspiring actress named Liberty Callahan who is planning to try her luck in Hollywood. But when the two arrive in Bay Town, California, Archer quickly discovers that the hordes of people who flocked there seeking fame and fortune landed in a false paradise that instead caters to their worst addictions and fears. Archer's first stop is a P.I. office where he is hoping to apprentice with a legendary private eye and former FBI agent named Willie Dash. He lands the job, and immediately finds himself in the thick of a potential scandal: a blackmail case involving a wealthy well‐connected politician running for mayor that soon spins into something even more sinister. As bodies begin falling, Archer and Dash must infiltrate the world of brothels, gambling dens, drug operations, and long‐hidden secrets, descending into the rotten bones of a corrupt town that is selling itself as the promised land‐but might actually be the road to perdition, and Archer's final resting place.

PS 3557 .R5355 S66 2021M Sooley / John Grisham After seventeen‐year‐old Samuel "Sooley" Sooleymon receives a college scholarship to play basketball for North Carolina Central, he moves to Durham from his native, war‐torn South Sudan, enrolls in classes, joins the team, and prepares to sit out his freshman season, but Sooley has a fierce determination to succeed so he can bring his family to America, working tirelessly on his game until he dominates everyone in practice, and when Sooley is called off the bench, the legend begins.

PS 3566 .A822 T84 2021M 21st birthday / James Patterson and Maxine Paetro SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer has sworn to defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic. As Lindsay prepares to celebrate her own daughter's birthday, she clashes with rising Chief Charlie Clapper over a family case. When a distraught mother pleads with Chronicle reporter Cindy Thomas to investigate the disappearance of her daughter, Tara, and baby granddaughter, Lorrie, Cindy immediately loops in SFPD. But Tara's schoolteacher husband, Lucas Burke, tells a conflicting story that paints Tara as a wayward wife, not a missing person. And there's reason to believe he may be telling the truth. While M.E. Claire Washburn harbors theories that run counter to the police investigation of the Burke case, ADA Yuki Castellano sizes Lucas up as a textbook domestic offender ‐‐ until he puts forward a theory of his own that unexpectedly connects the dots on a constellation of copycat killings. If what Lucas tells law enforcement has even a grain of truth, there isn't a woman in the state of California who's safe from the reach of such an unspeakable threat.

PS 3569 .A516 O24 2021M Ocean prey / John Sandford An off‐duty Coast Guardsman is fishing with his family when he calls in some suspicious behavior from a nearby boat. It's a snazzy craft, slick and outfitted with extra horsepower, and is zipping along until it slows to pick up a surfaced diver . . . a diver who was apparently alone, without his own boat, in the middle of the ocean. None of it makes sense unless there's something hinky going on, and his hunch is proved right when all three Guardsmen who come out to investigate are shot and killed. They're federal officers killed on the job, which means the case is the FBI's turf. When the FBI's investigation stalls out, they call in Lucas Davenport. And when his case turns lethal, Davenport will need to bring in every asset he can claim, including a detective with a fundamentally criminal mind: Virgil Flowers.

PS 3569 .T33828 F49 2021M Finding Ashley : a novel / Danielle Steel The sun beamed down on Melissa Henderson's shining dark hair, pinned up on her head in a loose knot, as sweat ran down her face, and the muscles in her long, lithe arms were taut with effort as she worked. She was lost in concentration, sanding a door of the house in the Berkshire Mountains in Massachusetts that had been her salvation. She had bought it four years before. It had been weather‐beaten, shabby and in serious need of repair when she found it. No one had lived there for over forty years, and the house creaked so badly when she walked through it, she thought the floorboards might give way. She'd only been in the house for twenty minutes when she turned to the realtor and the rep from the bank who were showing it to her, and said in a low, sure voice, "I'll take it." She knew she was home the minute she walked into the once beautiful, hundred‐year‐old Victorian home. It had ten acres around it, with orchards, enormous old trees, and a stream running through the property in the foothills of the Berkshire Mountains. The deal closed in sixty days, and she'd been hard at work ever since. It had almost become an obsession as she brought the house back to life, and came alive herself. It was her great love and the focus of every day.

PS 3570 .R587 N49 2021M The newcomer / Mary Kay Andrews After she discovers her sister Tanya dead on the floor of her fashionable New York City townhouse, Letty Carnahan is certain she knows who did it: Tanya's ex; sleazy real estate entrepreneur Evan Wingfield. Even in the grip of grief and panic Letty heeds her late sister's warnings: "If anything bad happens to me ‐ it's Evan. Promise me you'll take Maya and run. Promise me." So Letty grabs her sister's Mercedes and hits the road with her wailing four‐year‐old niece Maya. Letty is determined to out‐run Evan and the law, but run to where?

PS 3576 .A33 G73 2021M Greater good / Timothy Zahn When a mysterious enemy strikes at the very foundation of the Ascendancy by widening the rifts between the Nine Ruling Families and Forty Great Houses, Thrawn and his allies must decide what matters most‐‐the security of their family or the survival of the Ascendancy itself.

PS 3602 .E76367 N67 2021M Northern spy / Flynn Berry A producer at the Belfast bureau of the BBC, Tessa is at work one day when the news of another raid comes on the air. The IRA may have gone underground after the Good Friday agreement, but they never really went away, and lately, bomb threats, arms drops, and helicopters floating ominously over the city have become features of everyday life. As the anchor requests the public's help in locating those responsible for this latest raid ‐ a robbery at a gas station ‐ Tessa's sister appears on the screen. Tessa watches in shock as Marian pulls a black mask over her face. The police believe Marian has joined the IRA, but Tessa knows this is impossible. They were raised to oppose Republicanism, and the violence enacted in its name. They've attended peace vigils together. And besides, Marian is vacationing by the sea. Tessa just spoke to her yesterday. When the truth of what has happened to Marian reveals itself, Tessa will be forced to choose: between her ideals and her family, between bystanderism and action. Walking an increasingly perilous road, she fears nothing more than endangering the one person she loves more fiercely than her sister: her infant son. PS 3603 .A774235 D48 2021M Devil's hand : a thriller / Jack Carr It's been twenty years since 9/11. Two decades since the United States was attacked on home soil and embarked on twenty years of war. The enemy has been patient, learning, and adapting. And the enemy is ready to strike again. A new president offers hope to a country weary of conflict. He's a young, popular, self‐made visionary...but he's also a man with a secret. Halfway across the globe a regional superpower struggles with sanctions imposed by the Great Satan and her European allies, a country whose ancient religion spawned a group of ruthless assassins. Faced with internal dissent and extrajudicial targeted killings by the United States and Israel, the Supreme Leader puts a plan in motion to defeat the most powerful nation on earth.

PS 3604 .A938 L37 2021M The last thing he told me : a novel / Laura Dave When her husband of a year disappears, Hannah quickly learns he is not who he said he was and is left to sort out the truth with just one ally‐ her husband's teenage daughter, who hates her.

PS 3608 .I4384 S73 2021M Stargazer : a Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito novel / Anne Hillerman What begins as a typical day for Officer Bernadette Manuelito ‐‐ serving a bench warrant, dealing with a herd of cattle obstructing traffic, and stumbling across a crime scene ‐‐ takes an unexpected twist when she's called to help find an old friend. Years ago, Bernie and Maya were roommates, but time and Maya's struggles with addiction drove them apart. Now Maya's brother asks Bernie to find out what happened to his sister. Tracing Maya's whereabouts, Bernie learns that her old friend had confessed to the murder of her estranged husband, a prominent astronomer. But the details don't align. Suspicious, Bernie takes a closer look at the case only to find that nothing is as it seems. Uncovering new information about the astronomer's work leads Bernie to a remote spot on the Navajo Nation ‐‐ and a calculating killer. The investigation causes an unexpected rift with her husband and new acting boss, Jim Chee, who's sure Bernie's headed for trouble. While she's caught between present and past, Chee is at a crossroads of his own. Burdened with new responsibilities he didn't ask for and doesn't want, he must decide what the future holds for him and act accordingly. Can their mentor Joe Leaphorn, a man also looking at the past for answers to the future, provide the guidance both Bernie and Chee need? And will the Navajo heroes that stud the starry sky help them find justice and the truth they seek?

PS 3623 .A73227 L697 2021M Lover unveiled / J.R. Ward Sahvage has been living under the radar for centuries ‐ and he has every intention of staying "dead and buried." But when a civilian female sucks him into her dangerous battle with an evil as ancient as time, his protective side overrides his common sense. Mae has lost everything, and desperation sets her on a collision course with fate. Determined to reverse a tragedy, she goes where mortals should fear to tread‐and comes face‐to‐face with the Brotherhood's new enemy. She also discovers a love she never expected to find with Sahvage, but there can be no future for them. Knowing they will part, the two band together to fight against what Mae unknowingly unleashed‐as the Brotherhood closes in to reclaim one of their damned, and the evil vows to destroy them all.

PS 3623 .E4324494 P76 2021M Project Hail Mary : a novel / Andy Weir The sole survivor on a desperate, last‐chance mission to save both humanity and the earth, Ryland Grace is hurtled into the depths of space when he must conquer an extinction‐level threat to our species.

RA 644 .C67 L49 2021M The premonition : a pandemic story / Michael Lewis For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about. Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worst‐case scenarios. Michael Lewis's taut and brilliant nonfiction thriller pits a band of medical visionaries against the wall of ignorance that was the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of COVID‐19. The characters you will meet in these pages are as fascinating as they are unexpected. A thirteen‐year‐old girl's science project on transmission of an airborne pathogen develops into a very grown‐up model of disease control. A local public‐health officer uses her worm's‐eye view to see what the CDC misses, and reveals great truths about American society. A secret team of dissenting doctors, nicknamed the Wolverines, has everything necessary to fight the pandemic: brilliant backgrounds, world‐class labs, prior experience with the pandemic scares of bird flu and swine flu...everything, that is, except official permission to implement their work. Michael Lewis is not shy about calling these people heroes for their refusal to follow directives that they know to be based on misinformation and bad science. Even the internet, as crucial as it is to their exchange of ideas, poses a risk to them. They never know for sure who else might be listening in.

RC 552 .T7 P47 2021M What happened to you? : conversations on trauma, resilience, and healing / Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph. D., Oprah Winfrey Oprah Winfrey, sharing stories from her own past, and a renowned brain development and trauma expert discuss the impact of trauma and adversity and how healing must begin with a shift to asking, "What happened to you?" rather than "What's wrong with you?" Many of us experience adversity that has a lasting impact on our physical and emotional health. Through deeply personal conversations, Perry and Winfrey explore how what happens to us in early childhood influences the people we become. By understanding our past, we can open the door to resilience and healing in a proven powerful way.

RM 222.2 .S62217 2021M Fast burn! : the power of negative energy balance / Ian K. Smith, M.D. New York Times bestselling author‐and new anchor host of the syndicated television show The Doctors‐ Ian K. Smith, M.D.'s unique new plan takes intermittent fasting to the next level, combining the power of time‐restricted eating with a detailed program that flips the body into a negative energy state, scorching fat on the way to weight loss and physical transformation. Many IF books leave readers to figure out what and how much they should eat during their feeding window, and even how long to fast each day. Smith knows that even readers highly motivated to change their weight and their health need marching orders, and they're all here in Fast Burn!'s nine‐week program. Dr. Ian believes in cleaner eating‐forget perfect‐and the two positively disruptive Jigsaw Weeks he works into his Fast Burn! program not only mix things up so Fast Burners stay on track, but introduce refreshing and less structured plant‐based weeks to the program. Fast Burn! goes beyond the daily meal plan, but also includes simple and achievable exercises‐with both gym and out‐of‐gym options‐for every week as well as thirty‐three recipes focusing on improved calorie quality, including the plan's signature Burner Smoothie, to use throughout the three stages of the program.

SD 411.52 .S56 A3 2021M Finding the mother tree : discovering the wisdom of the forest / Suzanne Simard Simard illuminates the fascinating and vital truths: that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp, but are a complicated, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities with communal lives not that different from our own. At the center of it all, the Mother Trees: the mysterious, powerful forces that connect and sustain the others that surround them. Born and raised into a logging world in the rainforests of British Columbia, Simard writes of her own journey of understanding who we are and our place in the world, and how the Mother Tree nurtures the forest in the profound ways that families and human societies do.

SF 433 .H86 2021M How Stella learned to talk : the groundbreaking story of the world's first talking dog / Christina Hunger When speech‐language pathologist Christina Hunger first came home with her puppy, Stella, it didn't take long for her to start drawing connections between her job and her new pet. During the day, she worked with toddlers with significant delays in language development and used Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices to help them communicate. At night, she wondered: If dogs can understand words we say to them, shouldn't they be able to say words to us? Can dogs use AAC to communicate with humans? Christina decided to put her theory to the test with Stella and started using a paw‐sized button programmed with her voice to say the word "outside" when clicked, whenever she took Stella out of the house. A few years later, Stella now has a bank of more than thirty word buttons, and uses them daily either individually or together to create near‐complete sentences. How Stella Learned to Talk is part memoir and part how‐to guide. It chronicles the journey Christina and Stella have taken together, from the day they met, to the day Stella "spoke" her first word, and the other breakthroughs they've had since. It also reveals the techniques Christina used to teach Stella, broken down into simple stages and actionable steps any dog owner can use to start communicating with their pets. Filled with conversations that Stella and Christina have had, as well as the attention to developmental detail that only a speech‐language pathologist could know, How Stella Learned to Talk will be the indispensable dog book for the new decade.

TX 649 .B58 A3 2021M World travel : an irreverent guide / Anthony Bourdain and Laurie Woolever ; illustrations by Wesley Allsbrook A guide to some of the world's most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony Bourdain.

TX 714 .B38455 2021M Cook this book : techniques that teach & recipes to repeat / Molly Baz A new kind of foundational cookbook, this thoroughly modern guide to becoming a smarter, faster, more creative cook serves up clear and uncomplicated recipes that make cooking fun and will inspire a new generation to find joy in the kitchen.

TX 714 .L3927 2021M Cook, eat, repeat : ingredients, recipes and stories / Nigella Lawson A combination of recipes intertwined with narrative essays about food and the rhythms and rituals of Lawson's kitchen.

TX 801 .R587 2020M Vegetable simple / Eric Ripert ; photographs by Nigel Parry Eric Ripert is the co‐owner of the acclaimed restaurant Le Bernadin, and the winner of countless Michelin stars. He is well known for his exquisite, clean, seafood‐centered cuisine, but now, in Vegetable Simple, he turns his singular culinary imagination to vegetables. Lately, Ripert has found himself reaching for vegetables as his main food source ‐ and doing so, as is his habit, with great intent and care. In the 110 recipes in this book, Ripert brings out their beauty; their earthiness, their nourishing qualities, and the many ways they can be prepared. From his sweet pea soup to his watermelon pizza, from his fava bean and mint salad to his mushroom Bolognese and his roasted carrots with harissa, Eric Ripert articulates a vision for vegetables that are prepared simply, without complex steps or ingredients, allowing their essential qualities to shine and their color and flavor to remain uncompromised. A gorgeous guide to the way we eat today.

Main Collection

BX 4705 .G62 .M16 1935 (North Dakota book) The frozen priest of Pembina / by Margaret Arnett MacLeod This is the story of Father Joseph Goiffon's journey and misfortune in November 1860. Father Goiffon was a priest in Pembina, North Dakota.

CS 71 .C34 1952 (North Dakota book) The Christina story / Cora May Bryant Cora May Bryant writes about the life story of her father, Jacob J. Christina, who lived in Mandan, North Dakota.

D 922 .M36 1953 (North Dakota book) Four‐soming abroad / Mrs. George D. Mann and Mrs. A.G. Sorlie "Four‐soming Abroad" are reprints from the Bismarck Tribune of articles sent to the Tribune by the authors during their tour of Europe.

F 897 .C7 C65 1926 (North Dakota book) The Columbia River historical expedition, 1926 This book mentions other historical pilgrimages such as the Upper Missouri Historical Expedition that took place partially in North Dakota. The 1926 expedition continued southwest along the Missouri River from where that expedition left off and also included other points of interest in North Dakota.

HD 1485 .F34 E39 1941 (North Dakota book) The liveoak tree / by Gladys Talbott Edwards This book is written for the Junior Reserves of the Farmers Union and explains how the Farmers Unions work and gives a history of the Union.

HD 57.7 .R86 2013 Becoming a conflict competent leader : how you and your organization can manage conflict effectively / Craig Runde, Tim Flanagan Combines research, conceptual models, practitioner experience and stories that highlight core conflict competencies.

HQ 76.4 .T66 2021 Raising LGBTQ allies : a parent's guide to changing the messages from the playground / Chris Tompkins Tompkins focuses on the prevention of homophobia, transphobia, and bullying before they begin. Creating a dialogue with parents around the possibility they may have an LGBTQ child, he encourages families to have open and authentic conversations in a practical, timely, and inclusive way. Offering specific actions that can be taken to address heteronormativity and challenge societal beliefs, Tompkins shows that change begins with us and what we say, as much as what we choose not to say.

HV 1669 .S34 1998 Braille for the sighted / designed and illustrated by Jane Schneider and Kathy Kifer Learn how to read braille with the help of this book.

LB 1025.3 .F57 2021 Leading the rebound : 20+ must‐dos to restart teaching and learning / Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Dominique Smith, John Hattie If there ever was a time for our heroic school leadership to persevere, it's now. Because now, well over one year since the pandemic stretched the resilience and reserves of our school systems, it's time to "rebound." It's time to leverage this once‐in‐a‐lifetime opportunity to reboot teaching and learning as we know it so that we magnify the effective practices from the past while leveraging the so many recent lessons learned.

LB 1025.3 .F575 2021 Rebound : a playbook for rebuilding agency, accelerating learning recovery and rethinking schools : grades K‐12 / Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Dominique Smith, John Hattie It's time to rebound after the pandemic forced changes in teaching and learning. It's time to bounce back, become better and reignite engagement, accelerate learning and move forward with fresh optimism and better systems for schooling.

LB 1139.23 .W58 2018 From biting to hugging : understanding social development in infants and toddlers / Donna S. Wittmer, PhD, and Deanna W. Clauson With the increase in both parents working outside the home during the last two decades, infants and toddlers are spending more time together in infant/toddler programs and family child‐care homes. From Biting to Hugging will give you effective strategies to help you take advantage of this peer time.

LB 1775.2 .L46 2005 Teach with your strengths : how great teachers inspire their students / by Rosanne Liesveld and Jo Ann Miller with Jennifer Robison Teachers and administrators in many schools across the country have been buying "Now Discover Your Strengths" ‐‐‐ which is directed mostly to business managers ‐‐‐ for professional development. Now, they will be able to buy a version of this national bestseller written specifically for teachers. What do great teachers do differently? What separates the top teachers from all the rest? As educators ‐‐ and American society in general ‐ continue to struggle with how to improve schools in the U.S., these questions become more pressing than ever before. At the heart of any education system ‐‐‐ beyond principals, administrators, and school boards ‐‐‐ is the teacher. His or her role is so essential that The Gallup Organization has, for decades, directed some of the leading thinkers in education and psychology to uncover what makes a teacher great. Written by two educators with a combined 70 years of experience in both classroom teaching and consulting with leaders of America's schools, Teach With Your Strengths reveals the essential truths Gallup's research has uncovered. But it zeros on these monumental findings: While their styles and approaches may differ, all great teachers make the most of their natural talents. And, great teachers don't strive to be well‐rounded. They know that "fixing their weaknesses" doesn't work ‐‐ it only produces mediocrity. Worse, it squanders time and attention from what they naturally do well. In Teach With Your Strengths, readers will hear from great teachers: What they do differently; how they handle problem students; how they battle intractable school bureaucracies; how they break through and inspire even the most troubled young people. The book also shows that the best teachers take very unorthodox approaches to education that are sure to stir controversy and attention in the reading public ‐‐‐ especially among other educators! What's more, readers of Teach With Your Strengths will be able to take an online assessment that reveals their Top 5 strengths, and the book explains how they can put those strengths to work in the classroom. As America's educators read this groundbreaking book, they'll discover their own innate talents as a teacher. And you'll learn how to liberate those talents to inspire the next generation of students.

LC 4713.4 .S44 2011 Nowhere to hide : why kids with ADHD and LD hate school and what we can do about it / Jerome J. Schultz A new approach to help kids with ADHD and LD succeed in and outside the classroom. This groundbreaking book addresses the consequences of the unabated stress associated with Learning disabilities and ADHD and the toxic, deleterious impact of this stress on kids' academic learning, social skills, behavior, and efficient brain functioning. Schultz draws upon three decades of work as a neuropsychologist, teacher educator, and school consultant to address this gap. This book can help change the way parents and teachers think about why kids with LD and ADHD find school and homework so toxic. It will also offer an abundant supply of practical, understandable strategies that have been shown to reduce stress at school and at home. Offers a new way to look at why kids with ADHD/LD struggle at school Provides effective strategies to reduce stress in kids with ADHD and LD Includes helpful rating scales, checklists, and printable charts to use at school and home This important resource is written a faculty member of Harvard Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry and former classroom teacher.

NK 818 .S83 1981 (North Dakota book) The State of the arts in the Dakotas : a humanities conference, November 21, 1980 / edited by Don Boyd

PS 3613 .A7778 L66 2016 Long way gone / Charles Martin No matter where you go, no matter whether you succeed or fail, stand or fall, no gone is too far gone. You can always come home."At the age of eighteen, musician and songwriter Cooper O'Connor took everything his father held dear and drove 1,200 miles from home to Nashville, his life riding on a six‐ string guitar and the bold wager that he had talent. But his wager soon proved foolish. Five years after losing everything, he falls in love with Daley Cross, an angelic voice in need of a song. But just as he realizes his love for Daley, Cooper faces a tragedy that threatens his life as well as his career. With nowhere else to go, he returns to his remote home in the Colorado Mountains, searching for answers about his father and his faith. When Daley shows up on his street corner twenty years later, he wonders if it's too late to tell her the truth about his past and if he is ready to face it. A radical retelling of the story of the prodigal son, Long Way Gone takes us from tent revivals to the Ryman Auditorium to the tender relationship between a broken man and the father who never stopped calling him home.

PS 3613 .A8484 R43 2013 Red sparrow : a novel / Jason Matthews Drafted against her will to serve the regime of Vladimir Putin as an intelligence seductress, Dominika Egorova engages in a charged effort of deception and tradecraft with first‐tour CIA officer Nathaniel Nash before a forbidden attraction threatens their careers.

RC 927.3 .L57 2016 The fibromanual : a complete fibromyalgia treatment guide for you and your doctor / Ginevra Liptan The most up‐to‐date, comprehensive treatment guide to fibromyalgia, by a renowned physician who herself has the condition If you suffer from fibromyalgia and are struggling to get help from your doctor, you're far from alone. Ten million Americans experience the widespread muscle pain, profound fatigue, and fuzzy brain ("fibrofog") that have long frustrated both patients and doctors. In this unique resource, Ginevra Liptan, M.D., shares a cutting‐edge new approach that goes far beyond mainstream medical knowledge to produce dramatic symptom improvement. Dr. Liptan's program incorporates clinically proven therapies from both alternative and conventional medicine, along with the latest research on experimental options like medical marijuana. Since many health care providers have limited fibromyalgia expertise, The FibroManual includes a thoroughly sourced "health care provider guide" that enables readers to help their doctors help them. Alleviate fibromyalgia symptoms in four simple steps (Rest, Repair, Rebalance, and Reduce) and you will restore deep, restful sleep achieve long‐lasting pain relief optimize hormone and energy balance reduce fatigue.

RZ 440 .D39 2017 Undoctored : why health care has failed you and how you can become smarter than your doctor / William Davis In his Wheat Belly, Dr. William Davis changed the lives of millions of people by teaching them to remove grains from their diets to reverse years of chronic health damage. Now, he goes beyond cutting grains to help you take charge of your own health in Undoctored. This groundbreaking exposé reveals how millions of people are given dietary recommendations crafted by big business, are prescribed unnecessary medications, and undergo unwarranted procedures to feed revenue‐hungry healthcare systems. With Undoctored, the code to health care has been cracked‐‐Dr. Davis will help you create a comprehensive program to reduce, reverse, and cure hundreds of common health conditions and break your dependence on prescription drugs. By applying simple strategies while harnessing the collective wisdom of new online technologies, you can break free of a healthcare industry that puts profits over health. Undoctored is the spark of a new movement in health that places the individual, not the doctor, at the center. His plan contains features like: a step‐by‐step guide to eliminating prescription medications; tips on how to distinguish good medical advice from bad; 42 recipes to guide you through the revolutionary 6‐week program. Undoctored gives you all the tools you need to manage your own health and sidestep the misguided motives of a profit‐driven medical system.

SB 195 .S43 1917 (North Dakota book) Silos & silage in Northern Pacific Railway territory / by Professor Thomas Shaw Includes info about various silage crops, where to locate a silo, the different types of silos, and how animals are fed from the silo.

TX 724.5 .T5 T43 2021 The pepper Thai cookbook : family recipes from everyone's favorite Thai mom / Pepper Teigen ; with Garrett Snyder In her debut cookbook, the author shares more that 80 fun and flavorful recipes, along with stories about her early days in the U.S., learning how to cook Thai dishes with American ingredients and substitutes and what it's like to raise and live with a famous daughter. Z 675 .S3 M214 2021 Learning centers for school libraries / Maura Madigan Learning Centers for School Libraries contains detailed, step‐by‐step instructions and reproducible templates for over 20 learning centers.

Z 678.4 .M4 L53 2020 Library space : a planning resource for librarians / Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and Sasaki This guide was developed to empower librarians, administrators, space planners, and architects with a collection of best practices for the planning and design of public library buildings. ... it was undertaken with the belief that this information will help to facilitate improved library spaces and services across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Z 682.4 .M56 K58 2021 Knowledge justice : disrupting library and information studies through critical race theory / edited by Sofia Y. Leung and Jorge R. López‐McKnight Contributors analyze and re‐envision the field and profession of library and information science from the perspective of critical race theory.

Z 711.92 .D48 A53 2021 Library programming for autistic children and teens / Amelia Anderson ; foreword by Barbara Klipper This edition reflects the new knowledge that has been learned about autism since the publication of the first edition, amplifies the voices of autistic self‐advocates, and provides new, easy‐to‐replicate programming ideas for successfully serving autistic children and teens.

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* E 901.1 .H37 M67 2021b Kamala's way : an American life / Dan Morain There's very little that's conventional about Kamala Harris, and yet her personal story also represents the best of America. She grew up the eldest daughter of single mother, a cancer researcher who emigrated from India at the age of nineteen in search of a better education. She and her husband, an accomplished economist from Jamaica, split up when Kamala was only five. The Kamala Harris the public knows is tough, smart, and demanding, and longtime Los Angeles Times reporter Dan Morain has been there from the start. Kamala's Way is essential reading for everyone curious about the first woman elected to the office of Vice President of the United States in American history.

* F 209.6 .B733 2021b Where I come from : stories from the deep South / Rick Bragg A collection of wide‐ranging and endearingly personal columns by the celebrated author, newspaper columnist, and Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Bragg, culled from his best‐loved pieces in Southern Living and Garden & Gun. From his love of Tupperware ("My Affair with Tupperware") to the decline of country music, from the legacy of Harper Lee to the metamorphosis of the pickup truck, the best way to kill fire ants, the unbridled excess of Fat Tuesday, and why any self‐respecting southern man worth his salt should carry a good knife, Where I Come From is an ode to the stories and the history of the Deep South, written with tenderness, wit, and deep affection‐‐a book that will be treasured by fans old and new.

* F 454 .B66 D78 2021b Blood and treasure : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier / Bob Drury and Tom Clavin It is the mid‐eighteenth century, and in the 13 colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America's "First Frontier" beyond the Appalachian Mountains engage in a never‐ending series of bloody battles. These violent conflicts are waged against the Native American tribes whose lands they covet, the French, and finally against the mother country itself in an American Revolution destined to reverberate around the world. This is the setting for this epic narrative of none other than America's first and arguably greatest pathfinder, Daniel Boone. This fast‐paced and fiery narrative, fueled by contemporary diaries and journals, newspaper reports, and eyewitness accounts, is a stirring chronicle of the conflict over America's "First Frontier".

* PN 2277 .N5 R547 2021b Singular sensation : the triumph of Broadway / Michael Riedel The 1990s was a decade of profound change on Broadway. At the dawn of the nineties, the British invasion of Broadway was in full swing, as musical spectacles like Les Miserables, Cats, and The Phantom of the Opera dominated the box office. But Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard soon spelled the end of this era and ushered in a new wave of American musicals, beginning with the ascendance of an unlikely show by a struggling writer who reimagined Puccini's opera La Bohème as the smash Broadway show Rent. American musical comedy made its grand return, culminating in The Producers, while plays, always an endangered species on Broadway, staged a powerful comeback with Tony Kushner's Angels in America. A different breed of producers rose up to challenge the grip theater owners had long held on Broadway, and corporations began to see how much money could be made from live theater. And just as Broadway had clawed its way back into the mainstream of American popular culture, the September 11 attacks struck fear into the heart of Americans who thought Times Square might be the next target. But Broadway was back in business just two days later, buoyed by talented theater people intent on bringing New Yorkers together and supporting the economics of an injured city. Michael Riedel presents the drama behind every mega‐hit or shocking flop, bringing readers into high‐stakes premieres, fraught rehearsals, tough contract negotiations, intense Tony Award battles, and more. From the bitter feuds to the surprising collaborations, all the intrigue of a revolutionary era in the Theater District is packed into Singular Sensation. Broadway has triumphs and disasters, but the show always goes on.

* PR 6066 .E693 D447 2021b Death with a double edge / Anne Perry When junior lawyer Daniel Pitt is summoned to the scene of a murder in the London district known as Mile End, he only knows that the victim is a senior lawyer from the same firm. What was this respected colleague doing in such a rough part of the city? The firm's head, Marcus fford Croft, may know more than he admits, but fford Crofts's memory is not what it used to be. Daniel finds his path blocked by officials at every turn, his investigation so unwelcome that even Daniel's father, head of Special Branch, Sir Thomas Pitt, receives a chilling warning from a powerful source. Suddenly, not just Daniel but his whole family is in danger.

* PS 3560 .O415 B877 2021b Bury the hatchet / William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone There are two things a man can never escape‐ his past and his destiny. For Buck Trammel, that past includes a fatal mistake that ended his career as a Pinkerton‐and a deadly shootout with the Bower gang in a Witchita saloon. Call it luck or call it fate, but the famous Deputy Wyatt Earp was there to give Buck some advice‐ Run for your life. Maybe it was Earp's warning that saved him from the gang's wrath. Maybe it was destiny that brought him to the town of Blackstone, Wyoming, where his biggest problem is a father‐son brewing war. But Trammel's luck is about to run dry. . . The gang's ruthless boss, Old Man Bower, knows where Trammel lives. He's assembled a small army of gunslingers. He's hired a Pinkerton with a grudge against Trammel. And he's coming to town to bury the hatchet.

* PS 3562 .A4645 Z46 2021b Dusk, night, dawn : on revival and courage / Anne Lamott In Anne Lamott's new book, she confronts the harsh truth that many of us grapple with every day: How can we recapture the confidence we once had in the world and in the future as we stumble through the dark times that seem increasingly bleak? As bad news piles up every day ‐‐ from climate crises to threats to democracy to daily assaults on civility ‐‐ how can we mere mortals cope?

* PS 3563 .U839 P76 2020b The promised land / Elizabeth Musser With her oldest son taking a gap year in Europe, her aging father losing his sight and his memory, and her husband of twenty years announcing that he's leaving her, Abbie Jowett is surrounded by overwhelming loss. Desperate to mend her marriage and herself, she follows her son, Bobby, to walk the famed Camino pilgrimage. During their journey they encounter Rasa, an Iranian woman working in secret helping other refugees, and Caroline, a journalist who is studying pilgrims on the Camino while searching for answers from her broken past. Each individual has their own reasons for the pilgrimage, but together they learn that the Camino strips you bare and calls you into deep soul‐searching that can threaten all your best laid plans.

* PS 3566 .A822 A6 2021b The Palm Beach murders : thrillers / James Patterson with James O. Born, Tim Arnold, and Duane Swierczynski The Palm Beach murders: Both survivors of the divorce wars, Christy and Martin don't believe in love at first sight and certainly not on a first date. But from the instant they lock eyes, life becomes a sexy, romantic dream come true. That is, until they start playing a strangely intense game of make‐believe, a game that's about to go too far.

* PS 3566 .A822 R45 2021b The red book / James Patterson and David Ellis To Detective Billy Harney, the newest member of Chicago PD's elite strike force‐‐Special Operations Section‐‐ getting shot in the head, stalked by a state's attorney, and accused of murder by his fellow cops is all part of breaking a case. So when a drive‐by shooting on the Chicago's west side turns political, he leads the way to a quick solve. But Harney's instincts‐‐his father was once chief of detectives and his twin sister, Patti, is also on the force‐‐run deep. As a population hungry for justice threatens to riot, he realizes that the three known victims are hardly the only ones. When Harney starts asking questions about who's to blame, the easy answers prove to be the wrong ones. On the flip side, the less he seems to know, the longer he can keep his clandestine investigation going . . . until Harney's quest to expose the evil that's rotting the city from the inside out takes him to the one place he vowed never to return: his own troubled past.

* PS 3566 .E7717 D47 2021b Destined for you / Tracie Peterson In 1869, Gloriana Womack's family is much smaller since scarlet fever killed her mother and two of her siblings. She lives in a modest cottage in Duluth, Minnesota, with her father and young brother, and she has dedicated her life to holding her tiny, fractured family together‐‐especially as her father is frequently gone on long fishing trips. Their livelihood may come from the waters of Lake Superior, but storms on the lake can be dangerous, even to those who know it well. Luke Carson has come to Duluth to help shepherd the arrival of the railroad to the city's port, and he's eager to be reunited with his brother, Scott, who recently moved there with his pregnant wife. Competition for the railroad is fierce, with the neighboring city of Superior, Wisconsin, fighting for the tracks to come through their town instead. But the real danger lies in a resident of Duluth who is determined to have his revenge upon Luke. When tragedy brings Gloriana and Luke together, they help each other through their grief and soon find their lives inextricably linked. If they survive the trials ahead, could it be possible they've been destined for each other all along?

* PS 3566 .E7717 E49 2021b Endless mercy / Tracie Peterson and Kimberley Woodhouse Madysen Powell has always been a forgiving person, but when her supposedly dead father shows up in Nome, Alaska, her gift for forgiveness is tested. With the recent loss of her mother, she searches for answers, leaning on Granny Beaufort, a neighbor in town, who listens with a kind heart. Still, Madysen is restless and dreams of performing her music around the world. The arrival of a traveling show could prove just the chance she needs, and the manager promises more than she ever dreamed.Daniel Beaufort arrives in Nome, searching for his own answers after the gold rush leaves him with only empty pockets. Still angry about the death of his loved ones, he longs to start fresh but doesn't have high hopes until he ends up helping at the Powell dairy making cheese. Drawn to the beautiful redhead with big dreams, will deceptions from the past tear apart any hope for the future?

* PS 3569 .A516 O24 2021b Ocean prey / John Sandford. Large Print edition An off‐duty Coast Guardsman calls in some suspicious behavior from a nearby boat. It's a snazzy craft that slows to pick up a surfaced diver‐‐a diver who was apparently alone, without his own boat, in the middle of the ocean. None of it makes sense, and his hunch is proved right when all three Guardsmen who come out to investigate are shot and killed. They're federal officers killed on the job, which means the case is the FBI's turf. When the FBI investigation stalls out, they call in Lucas Davenport. And Davenport will need to bring in every asset, including a detective with a fundamentally criminal mind: Virgil Flowers.

* PS 3569 .C51527 P38 2020b Pathfinder / Anna Schmidt Captain Max Winslow was once a pathfinder for the Army, blazing trails and keeping his brothers‐in‐ arms safe. Now he's the star of a Wild West show, reminding curious audiences of days long gone. The world around him may be changing, but that doesn't mean he has to accept it‐not when there are frontiers yet to be explored. When Max first sets eyes on no‐nonsense Harvey Girl Emma Elliot, he knows that anything between them would be impossible. She's a realist embracing what the future holds, while he's a dreamer, determined to preserve the West he once knew. And yet something about Emma's strength of will calls to him. It isn't long before Max must decide: is there room in his dream for love, or will his resolve to hang on to the past jeopardize their future?

* PS 3569 .C725 E79 2021b Eternal / Lisa Scottoline Elisabetta, Marco, and Sandro grow up as best friends, despite their differences. Elisabetta is a feisty beauty who dreams of becoing a novelist, Marco a handsome cyclist with a secret, and Sandro a Jewish mathematics prodigy. Soon their friendship ripens to romance, and Marco and Sandro vie to win Elisabetta. Meanwhile war threatens the world, and Mussolini leads Italy down a dark path. Harsh restrictions against Italian Jews take legal root, blocking Sandro from finishing his studies. Marco, who works at the local Fascist office, fears that his party is destroying his best friend, but his loyalty is torn. Caught in the middle, Elisabetta struggles to survive as her life crumbles around her. Then the Nazis invade Rome, and a shocking historical event decides the fate of the threesome, once and for all.

* PS 3569 .H558 R44 2021b Red Trail / John Shirley An outbreak of hostilities with Comanches has disrupted the usual trail routes. But Mase Durst must get his cows from his Texas ranch to the railway up in Wichita, Kansas, or face losing his land, which the bank is fixing to foreclose on. He's forced to take his herd on a little‐used route called the Red Trail‐‐little used for good reasons. It's a tough trek: dangerous, narrow, and fraught with banditry. Along the way, Durst and his men face numerous obstacles thrown up by Mother Nature, cattle rustlers and crooked lawmen. But even their safe arrival in Wichita will offer no relief if he can't make it home in time to save his ranch from the bank‐‐and his wife from the predations of their rapacious neighbor.

* PS 3569 .M39 P37 2021b Perestroika in Paris / Jane Smiley Paras, short for "Perestroika," is a spirited racehorse at a racetrack west of Paris. One afternoon at dusk, she finds the door of her stall open and‐‐she's a curious filly‐‐wanders all the way to the City of Light. She's dazzled and often mystified by the sights, sounds, and smells around her, but she isn't afraid. Soon she meets an elegant dog, a German shorthaired pointer named Frida, who knows how to get by without attracting the attention of suspicious Parisians. Paras and Frida coexist for a time in the city's lush green spaces, nourished by Frida's strategic trips to the vegetable market. They keep company with two irrepressible ducks and an opinionated raven. But then Paras meets a human boy, Etienne, and discovers a new, otherworldly part of Paris: the ivy‐walled house where the boy and his nearly‐one‐ hundred‐year‐old great‐grandmother live in seclusion. As the cold weather and Christmas near, the unlikeliest of friendships bloom. But how long can a runaway horse stay undiscovered in Paris? How long can a boy keep her hidden and all to himself?

* PS 3573 .H49837 T76 2021b Trial and error / Robert Whitlow A small‐town lawyer has been searching for his daughter for eighteen years. Now another young woman is missing, and he's determined to find them both‐‐no matter the cost. Buddy Smith built his law practice around tracking down missing children. After all, he knows the agony of being separated from a child. Not long after his daughter's birth, her mother ran away and Buddy never saw either one again. Gracie Blaylock has known Buddy her entire life, and now that she is clerk of court for the county, their paths cross frequently. When Gracie hears that a teenager in town, Reagan, has gone missing, she knows Buddy is the one for the case. Reagan's parents are desperate for answers. Together with Gracie and Mayleah‐‐the new detective in town‐‐Buddy chases all leads, hoping to reach Reagan before it's too late. And as he pursues one teen girl, he uncovers clues that could bring him closer to the girl he thought he lost forever: his own daughter. Master legal writer Robert Whitlow will keep you guessing in this gripping legal drama while reminding you of the power of God's restoration.

* PS 3601 .D353 R66 2021b RomeAntically challenged / Marina Adair When every man Annie's dated finds "his person" right after breaking up with her, she has a new plan‐‐a fresh, man‐free start. Too bad she finds herself sharing a cabin in remote Rome, Rhode Island, with a hot male roommate. Emmitt is trying to cement his place in his daughter Paisley's life. With a stepdad and an uncle competing for Paisley's attention, Emmitt has lost his place at the family table. Then there's the adorably sexy squatter in his cabin, but she has sworn off men. When Emmitt's estranged father reappears with a secret that changes everything, Annie and Emmitt discover that sometimes the best families are the ones we make.

* PS 3603 .L58 A65 2021b An Amish singing : four stories / by Amy Clipston Hymn of Praise: Sharon Lambert and Jay Smoker have been friends for a long time, but lately Jay has seen Sharon in a new light. They begin spending time together, and Sharon invites Jay to her family's home to serve dinner and sing traditional hymns for their English guests. When Jay decides that this tramples upon his doctrinal beliefs, can these two dear friends compromise and find love? Or will Jay's strict views keep them apart?

* PS 3603 .O544 B73 2021b Braced for love / Mary Connealy Left with little back in Kansas, Kevin Hunt takes his younger siblings on a journey to Wyoming when he receives news that he's inheriting part of a ranch. The catch is that the ranch is also being given to a half‐ brother he never knew existed. But danger seems to track Kevin along the way, and he wonders if his half‐brother, Wyatt, is behind the attacks. Finally arriving at the ranch, everyone is at each other's throats and the only one willing to stand in between is Winona Hawkins, a nearby schoolmarm. Winona can't help but be drawn to the earnest, kind Kevin ‐ and that puts her in the cross hairs of somebody's dangerous plot.

* PS 3603 .O88948 E34 2021b The edge of belonging / Amanda Cox When Ivy Rose returns to her hometown to oversee an estate sale, she discovers that her grandmother left behind more than trinkets and photo frames ‐ she provided a path to the truth behind Ivy's adoption. Shocked, Ivy seeks clues to her past, but a key piece to the mystery is missing. Twenty‐four years earlier, Harvey James finds an abandoned newborn who gives him a sense of human connection for the first time in his life. His desire to care for the baby runs up against the stark fact that he is homeless. When he becomes entwined with two people seeking to help him find his way, Harvey knows he must keep the baby a secret or risk losing the only person he's ever loved.

* PS 3604 .A9755 C48 2021b Cheyenne gun / Rusty Davis From the Little Bighorn to Boston, Fox Running learned the hard way the world was his enemy. As a boy, he lost his Northern Cheyenne home to a blood feud. The army scattered his people, who rejected him when he tried to return. On the wild frontier, he lost his way and found it on a day of tragedy. Sent to an Indian school in the East, he refused to renounce who and what he was. After a daring escape to the Plains, those who hate him learn how fast he is with his guns. Stalked by newspaper men who dubbed him The Cheyenne Kid, he finds acceptance with the Lakota until hatred for an Indian who will not bow leads to a showdown.

* PS 3604 .R496 S67 2021b Softly blows the bugle / by Jan Drexler When Elizabeth Kaufman received the news of her husband's death at the Battle of Vicksburg in 1863, she felt only relief. She determined that she would never be at the mercy of any man again, even if it meant she would never have a family of her own. Then Aaron Zook comes home with her brother when the war ends two years later.Despite the severity of his injuries, Aaron resolves to move West and leave the pain of the past behind him. He never imagined that the Amish way of life his grandfather had rejected long ago would be so enticing. That, and a certain widow he can't get out of his mind.Yet, even in a simple community, life has a way of getting complicated. Aaron soon finds that while he may have left the battlefield behind, there is another fight he must win‐‐the one for the heart of the woman he loves.Welcome back to the Amish community at Weaver's Creek, where the bonds of family and faith bind up the brokenhearted.

* PS 3605 .A79 A66 2021b Active defense / Lynette Eason As a former field surgeon in Afghanistan, Heather Fontaine is used to life‐or‐death situations. When she returns from a party to find that someone has broken into her house, she assumes it is the stalker who has been following her. She hopes to find safety and peace of mind by leaving the city and hiding out in a small town. But trouble has followed her there. Luckily, a stalker isn't the only one watching Heather. Travis Walker has been secretly keeping an eye on her for weeks. As owner of his own security agency, it's what he does. Together, Travis and Heather must figure out who wants her dead‐‐and why‐‐before it's too late.

* PS 3607 .O324 D66 2021b Don't keep silent / Elizabeth Goddard Investigative reporter Reagan Burke will go anywhere and do anything to find her missing sister‐in‐law, even if it means facing Liam McKade, a man who almost lost his life saving hers. Their search grows darker and more treacherous, bringing them full circle when the past danger they both tried to flee catches up to them.

* PS 3607 .R3966 S28 2021b Save the last dance / Shelley Shepard Gray Kimber Klein has left the modeling world behind. She's sick of the constant pressure to be perfect and ready to live her life without watching every little thing she eats. She's also really happy to finally spend some time getting to know herself and the two sisters she never met until recently. Life is good ... mostly. Kimber can't stop worrying about a stalker she's hoping she left behind in New York City. She doesn't think he's found her in Bridgeport, until one day she leaves her volunteer job at the elementary school library to find two of her tires slashed. Has her old life come back to haunt her in Ohio? Gunnar Law is satisfied with his life as a single dad. He's still getting to know his son, Jeremy, since he's only been fostering the teen for a short while. While parenting someone you only just met can be a little awkward, Gunnar loves Jeremy and plans to adopt him as soon as they can get the paperwork through. Life is pretty simple, and he likes it that way. Then one afternoon, he and Jeremy stop to help a distraught‐‐and extremely beautiful‐‐woman who had her tires slashed in the school parking lot. And suddenly life doesn't seem quite so simple anymore. In this final chapter of the Dance with Me series, Shelley Shepard Gray leads us back to Bridgeport, Ohio, where family comes in all shapes and sizes, everyone deserves a second chance, and falling in love happens when you least expect it.

* PS 3608 .E333 B75 2021b A bride of convenience / Jody Hedlund In 1863, upon discovering an abandoned baby, Pastor Abe Merivale cares for the infant along with Zoe Hart, one of the newly arrived bride‐ship women. With mounting pressure to find the baby a home, they hastily marry‐but soon realize their marriage of convenience is not so convenient after all.

* PS 3608 .I4384 S83 2021b Stargazer : a Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito novel / Anne Hillerman What begins as a typical day for Officer Bernadette Manuelito—serving a bench warrant, dealing with a herd of cattle obstructing traffic, and stumbling across a crime scene—takes an unexpected twist when she’s called to help find an old friend. Years ago, Bernie and Maya were roommates, but time and Maya’s struggles with addiction drove them apart. Now Maya’s brother asks Bernie to find out what happened to his sister. Tracing Maya’s whereabouts, Bernie learns that her old friend had confessed to the murder of her estranged husband, a prominent astronomer. But the details don’t align. Suspicious, Bernie takes a closer look at the case only to find that nothing is as it seems. Uncovering new information about the astronomer’s work leads Bernie to a remote spot on the Navajo Nation and a calculating killer. The investigation causes an unexpected rift with her husband and new acting boss, Jim Chee, who’s sure Bernie’s headed for trouble. While she’s caught between present and past, Chee is at a crossroads of his own. Burdened with new responsibilities he didn’t ask for and doesn’t want, he must decide what the future holds for him and act accordingly. Can their mentor Joe Leaphorn—a man also looking at the past for answers to the future—provide the guidance both Bernie and Chee need? And will the Navajo heroes that stud the starry sky help them find justice—and the truth they seek?

* PS 3608 .O485468 S26 2021b The sand castle / K. S. Hollenbeck Despite her fame, entertainer Flossie "the Flame" Abbot suffers alongside the rest of the convicts at Gila Territorial Prison. Gila's newest guard, Breen Dwyer, aims to set her free and has his own reasons for doing so. To escape and exonerate Flossie, the pair must first fight off the depraved criminal Abe Kane. The Sand Castle, fast‐paced frontier fiction, reels with adventure, romance, and suspense. Its earnest characters range from an optimistic prostitute addicted to opium to a mysterious benefactor seeking redemption. Some wreak social injustice. Others survive it. Some deserve to rot in their cells forever. Others deserve worse. Set in 1886 in the Arizona Territory, the reader will surely experience Flossie's thirst for freedom and ultimately revenge.

* PS 3608 .O9577 W48 2021b When a rogue meets his match : a Greycourt novel / Elizabeth Hoyt Ambitious, sly, and lethally intelligent, Gideon Hawthorne has spent his life clawing his way up from the gutter. For the last ten years, he's acted as the Duke of Windemere's fixer, performing the duke's dirty work without question. Now Gideon's ready to quit the duke's service and work solely for himself. But Windermere tempts Gideon with an irresistible offer: one last task for Messalina Greycourt's hand in marriage. Witty, vivacious Messalina Greycourt has her pick of suitors, so when her uncle demands Messalina marry Mr. Hawthorne, she is appalled. But Gideon offers her a devil's bargain of his own: protection and freedom in exchange for a true marriage. Messalina feigns agreement and plots to escape their deal. Only the more time she spends with Gideon, the more her fierce, loyal husband arouses her affections. But will Gideon's final deed for Windemere destroy the love growing between them?

* PS 3611 .A656 R47 2021b Rhapsody / Mitchell James Kaplan One evening in 1924, Katharine "Kay" Swift ‐‐ a serious pianist who longs for recognition, and who is also the restless but loyal wife of wealthy banker James Warburg ‐‐ attends a concert. The piece: "Rhapsody in Blue." The composer: a brilliant young musical genius named George Gershwin. Kay is transfixed, helpless to resist the magnetic pull of George's talent, charm, and swagger. Their ten‐year love affair, complicated by her conflicted loyalty to her husband and the twists and turns of her own musical career, ends only with George's death at the age of thirty‐eight.

* PS 3611 .E452 S86 2021b Sunflower sisters : a novel / Martha Hall Kelly Lilac Girls introduced readers to Caroline Ferriday, an American philanthropist who helped young girls released from Ravensbruck concentration camp. Now, in Sunflower Sisters, Kelly tells the story of her ancestor Georgeanna Woolsey, a Union nurse who joins the war effort during the Civil War, and how her calling leads her to cross paths with Jemma, a young enslaved girl who is sold off and conscripted into the army, and Ann‐May Wilson, a southern plantation mistress whose husband enlists. Georgeanne "Georgey" Woolsey isn't meant for the world of lavish parties and demure attitudes of women of her stature. So when the war ignites the nation, Georgey follows her passion for nursing during a time when doctors considered women a bother on the battlefront. In proving them wrong, she and her sister Eliza venture from New York to Washington, D.C., to Gettysburg and witness the unparalleled horrors of slavery as they become involved in the war effort. In the South, Jemma is enslaved on the Peeler Plantation in Maryland, where she lives with her mother and father. Her sister, Patience, is enslaved on the plantation next door and both live in fear of LeBaron, an abusive overseer who tracks their every move. When Jemma is sold by the cruel plantation mistress Anne‐May at the same time the Union army comes through, she sees a chance to finally escape‐‐but only by abandoning the family she loves. Anne‐ May is left behind to run Peeler Planation when her husband joins the Union Army and her cherished brother enlists with the Confederates. In charge of the household, she uses the opportunity to follow her own ambitions and is drawn into a secret Southern network of spies, finally exposing herself to the fate she deserves.

* PS 3613 .I866 E94 2021b Everywhere to hide / Siri Mitchell Law school graduate Whitney Garrison is a survivor. She admirably deals with her mother's death, mounting student debt, dwindling job opportunities, an abusive boyfriend, and a rare neurological condition that prevents her from recognizing human faces. But witnessing a murder might be the crisis she can't overcome. The killer has every advantage. Though Whitney saw him, she has no idea what he looks like. He anticipates her every move. Worst of all, he's hiding in plain sight and believes she has information he needs. Information worth killing for. Again. Stripped of all semblance of safety, Whitney must suspect everyone and trust no one‐‐and fight to come out alive.

* PS 3616 .O56753 L68 2021b The love note / by Joanna Davidson Politano Focused on a career in medicine and not on romance, Willa Duvall is thrown slightly off course during the summer of 1865 when she discovers a never‐opened love letter in a crack of her old writing desk. Compelled to find the passionate soul who penned it and the person who never received it, she takes a job as a nurse at the seaside estate of Crestwicke Manor.Everyone at Crestwicke has feelings‐‐mostly negative ones‐‐about the man who wrote the letter, but he seems to have disappeared. With plenty of enticing clues but few answers, Willa's search becomes even more complicated when she misplaces the letter and it passes from person to person in the house, each finding a thrilling or disheartening message in its words. Laced with mysteries large and small, this romantic Victorian‐era tale of love lost, love deferred, and love found is sure to delight.

* PS 3618 .A983 U54 2021b An unexpected peril / Deanna Raybourn London, 1889. As Veronica Speedwell assembles a memorial exhibition for a pioneering mountain climber, she discovers that the recent death was really murder. Veronica and her beau, Revelstoke Templeton‐Vane, tell the patron of the exhibit, Princess Gisela of the Alpenwald, of their findings. But Gisela's chancellor does not want to make waves ‐‐ and then, the princess disappears. Having noted Veronica's resemblance to the princess, the chancellor begs her to pose as Gisela for the sake of the peace treaty that brouthg the princess to England. Veronica and Stoker must try to keep the treaty intact while navigating unwelcome advances and assassination attempts.

* PS 3619 .T6995 R355 2020b Ralph Compton : Return to Gila Bend : a Ralph Compton western / by Carlton Stowers When twenty‐five‐year‐old Lewis Taylor is released from the Texas State Prison, he receives little attention as he walks into the midday sunlight, free after serving five years for a crime he didn't commit. His only interest is in getting back to his hometown of Gila Bend, Texas, a quiet farming community about which he has only warm, idyllic memories. During his long years in prison, he survived by thinking fondly of the home he'd known since boyhood‐‐and of one special girl, Darla Winslow. What he finds instead is a town dramatically changed. Once a happy and carefree place to live, it is now populated by people who are angry and afraid. One man, Captain Archer Ringewald, has taken control of the town, and now he's turning the townspeople, even Darla, against Taylor. Can one ex‐con single‐handedly save an entire town?

* PS 3619 .T828 S58 2021b Shuggie Bain / Douglas Stuart Young Hugh " Shuggie" Bain is a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run‐down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Shuggie's mother Agnes is Shuggie's guiding light but a burden for him and his siblings. Agnes finds increasing solace in drink, and she drains away the lion's share of each week's benefits on cans of extra‐strong lager. Agnes's older children find their own ways to get a safe distance from their mother, abandoning Shuggie to care for her. Shuggie is meanwhile struggling to somehow become the normal boy he desperately longs to be, but everyone has realized that he is "no right," a boy with a secret that all but him can see.

* PS 3623 .A98 A63 2020b Apartment / Teddy Wayne In 1996, the unnamed narrator of Teddy Wayne's "Apartment" is attending the MFA writing program at Columbia on his father's dime and living in an illegal sublet of a rent‐stabilized apartment. Feeling guilty about his good fortune, he offers his spare bedroom to Billy, a talented, charismatic classmate from the Midwest eking out a hand‐to‐mouth existence in Manhattan. The narrator's rapport with Billy develops into the friendship he's never had due to a lifetime of holding people at arm's length, hovering at the periphery, feeling "fundamentally defective." But their living arrangement, not to mention their radically different upbringings, breeds tensions neither man could predict.

* PS 3623 .H5723 R44 2021b A reckless love / Beth White In the fine tradition established by her Southern grandmama, Aurora Daughtry has recently orchestrated the marriage of her eldest sister and facilitated her middle sister's engagement. She also rejoices in her part in transforming the family's dilapidated plantation manor into a luxurious and lucrative resort hotel. Just when it seems there is nothing left to absorb her considerable talent for managing people, in walks federal deputy marshal Zane Sager. But Zane is not at Daughtry House for a vacation. He's tracking a killer and collecting two key witnesses to a federal judge's murder. Aurora takes it upon herself to disabuse the cynical lawman of his conviction that the world‐‐and God in particular‐‐is out to get him. But just as she's on the verge of cracking Zane's defenses, the man he is after reminds him that no one he loves is safe. Ever.

* PS 3623 .U785 N68 2020b The not so quiet life of Calamity Jane / By K. Lyn Wurth Martha Jane Cannary ran through names like whiskey, but one moniker stuck‐Calamity Jane. Stranded in a Virginia City mining camp, this orphan blasted through the 1860s West, determined to be noticed and tell her own story. The Not So Quiet Life of Calamity Jane shatters the veneer of legends to reveal her tenacious heart. Rowdy and seemingly hell‐bent on her own destruction, this devoted friend, jilted lover, sometime wife, and heartbroken mother wandered the West she loved. She shot up saloons, performed in bordellos and Wild West shows, worked when she had to, cared for the sick, and lied about what she couldn't change.

Juvenile Fiction

PZ 7 .D3444 Ro 2021 Rocking field day / by Kimberly & James Dean Anticipating an extra‐groovy field day, Pete the cat and his friends Callie, Grumpy Toad, and Gus compete for medals in activities ranging from a water‐balloon toss to a three‐legged race.

PZ 7 .D79 Spm 2021 Splat the Cat and the obstacle course / based on the bestselling books by Rob Scotton ; cover art by Rick Farley ; text by Laura Driscoll ; interior illustrations by Robert Eberz Reluctantly allowing his little sister, a ballet dancer, to join him while trying out a friend's obstacle course, Splat the Cat revises his opinions and considers ballet himself when his sister dominates the course with her strength, speed, and balance.

PZ 7 .H1472 Ho 2021 Hall, Michael, 1954‐ author, illustrator. House mouse / Michael Hall A clever and resourceful mouse, looking for a safe place to settle down, builds different shelters and learns that home is wherever you make it.

PZ 7 .K12774 Prb 2021 Pinkalicious and the robo‐pup / by Victoria Kann Pinkalicious can't wait to show off her robo‐pup to her friends! But when she brings robo‐pup to the pet contest, her friends only want to look at Alison's adorable new puppy instead. When Alison's puppy gets lost during the Pinkville Pet Contest, can Pinkalicious and robo‐pup help?

PZ 7 .L51248 Li 2021 Like a dandelion / Huy Voun Lee Like feathery seeds, a young girl and her mother take flight, putting down roots in an adopted country. Soon they blossom in their new home, strong and beautiful among hundreds of others just like them. . . A poetic tribute to the bravery of immigrants and refugees, inspired by the author's childhood experience of moving to the United States from Cambodia.

PZ 7 .L995545 Tys 2021 Ty's travels : beach day! / by Kelly Starling Lyons ; pictures by Nina Mata Ty turns an ordinary day in the sandbox into a fun beach day. He wiggles his toes in the sand, finds seashells, builds a castle, and splashes in the ocean. When his neighbor's beach ball flies into his backyard, Ty learns that a beach day is even better with a friend.

PZ 7 .P4313 Mus 2021 The Museum of Everything / Lynne Rae Perkins When a young girl feels that the world is too big and loud and busy and distracting, she pretends that she’s in a museum. It’s quiet there, and she can wonder about everything: Is a rock in a puddle an island? Is a dry spot on the ground on a rainy day the shadow of a car that’s just driven off? There’s a museum for everything—for islands and shadows and clouds and trees, and so much more.

PZ 7.1 .D289 Ru 2021 Ruby's reunion day dinner / written by Angela Dalton ; illustrated by Jestenia Southerland Inspired by the rich tradition of African American reunions, a multigenerational story follows the experiences of young Ruby, who helps loved ones prepare the foods they are bringing while trying to think of a signature dish of her own.

PZ 7.1 .M4713 Wha 2021 What will you be? / by Yamile Saied Méndez ; illustrated by Kate Alizadeh “What will‐ you be when you grow up?" A young girl dreams about all the endless possibilities, sparking a sense of wonder, curiosity, and growth. With her abuela’s loving guidance, she goes on a path of self‐ discovery and learns her potential is limitless.

PZ 7.1 .P75 Pi 2021 Pinkfong Baby Shark. Time for school! Based on the global phenomenon, this official Pinkfong Baby Shark book is perfect for sharing with the Baby Shark fan in your life! BEEP! BEEP! The school bus is here, it's time for school, Baby Shark! Baby Shark and his friends hop on the underwater school bus to go on a school time adventure. But they will need to get to school before the bell rings!

PZ 8.3 .D27 Bu 2021 Bubbles...up! / by Jacqueline Davies ; illustrated by Sonia Sánchez A day at the community pool is full of unwater magic‐‐dunking and diving with friends; somersaulting, walking on your hands, and bursting up through the surface like a tortoise. But when a thunderstorm comes and a little brother ventures too close to the pool's edge, will our main character be quick enough and brave enough to save the day?

PZ 8.3 .S8399 Pe 2021 Peace train / written by Cat Stevens ; illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds Readers are invited to hop on the PEACE TRAIN and join its growing group of passengers who are all ready to unite the world in peace and harmony.

PZ 8.3 .U568 Sh 2021 Shady Baby / written by Gabrielle Union‐Wade and Dwayne Wade Jr. ; inspired by Kaavia James Union‐ Wade ; illustrated by Tara Nicole Whitaker After a long morning of being fabulous, Shady Baby heads to the park for a relaxing play session. But what does she find?! Some not‐so‐nice kids picking on others. Shady flashes them a look‐‐her famous side eye‐‐and teaches them that it's better to play nice. But when her feelings are hurt, will anyone stand (or crawl) by her side?

Chapter Books

CH PZ 7 .E7388 Li 2021 Lily's promise / Kathryn Erskine Lily made her dad an important promise before he passed away; that she would...speak her mind at least five times. But speaking up one time, let alone five, is easier said than done. It'll be even harder now that Lily must attend public school for the first time. Fortunately, she meets curling‐obsessed Hobart and quiet Dunya at the beginning of sixth grade...But when Lily and her friends are bullied by Ryan and his mean clique, she quickly discovers the true meaning of friendship and speaking out.

CH PZ 7 .H916625 Sf 2021 Shadows on the mountain / Erin Hunter For generations, the Silverback troop has lived in peaceful seclusion high above the plains, but when a new evil descends on their home, one young gorilla must venture into the unknown to prevent darkness from taking hold of all they hold dear.

CH PZ 7 .I6274 Op 2021 Ophie's ghosts / Justina Ireland Discovering her ability to see ghosts when a cruel act ends her father's life and forces her to move in with relatives in 1920s Pittsburgh, young Ophelia forges a helpful bond with a spirit whose own life ended suddenly and unjustly.

CH PZ 7 .M9416 Dad 2021 Da Vinci's cat : a novel / Catherine Gilbert Murdock ; decorations by Paul O. Zelinsky Using a mysterious wardrobe that allows them to travel through time, two eleven‐year‐olds, Federico a boy from the Italian Renaissance and Bee a girl from present‐day New Jersey, work together to prevent the bickering between two great artists from changing the future.

CH PZ 7 .O364 Fin 2021 Finding Junie Kim / Ellen Oh Junie Kim just wants to fit in. So she keeps her head down and tries not to draw attention to herself. But when racist graffiti appears at her middle school, Junie must decide between staying silent or speaking out. Then Junie’s history teacher assigns a project and Junie decides to interview her grandparents, learning about their unbelievable experiences as kids during the Korean War. Junie comes to admire her grandma’s fierce determination to overcome impossible odds, and her grandpa’s unwavering compassion during wartime. And as racism becomes more pervasive at school, Junie taps into the strength of her ancestors and finds the courage to do what is right.

CH PZ 7 .T161613 Yor 2021 Yorick and Bones. Friends by any other name / Jeremy Tankard and Hermione Tankard Yorick and his trusty canine companion Bones hath returned, and they are cordially invited to a costume party! But when Yorick arrives and meets a new friend, he isn't sure whether she likes the real him or just who he is in disguise. Do clothes really make the skeleton? Can Yorick ever be the same fun‐loving jester he once was, if it means pretending to be something he's not?

CH PZ 7 .W51776 Lo 2021 Long lost / Jacqueline West Feeling lonely and out of place after her family moves to a new town, eleven‐year‐old Fiona Crane ventures to the local library, where she finds a gripping mystery novel about a small town, family secrets, and a tragic disappearance.

CH PZ 7.1 .C583 Gl 2021 Glitter gets everywhere / Yvette Clark After Kitty's mother dies on an inappropriately sunny Tuesday, all Kitty wants is for her life to go back to "normal"‐‐whatever that will mean without her mum. Instead, her dad announces that he, Kitty, and her sister are moving from their home in London to New York City, and Kitty will need to say goodbye to the places and people that help keep her mother's memory alive. New York is every bit as big and bustling as Kitty's heard, and as she adjusts to life there and befriends a blue‐haired boy, she starts to wonder if her memories of her mum don't need to stay in one place‐‐if there's a way for them to be with Kitty every day, everywhere.

CH PZ 7.1 .K45 May 2021 Maybe maybe Marisol Rainey / Erin Entrada Kelly Marisol Rainey’s mother was born in the Philippines. Marisol’s father works and lives part‐time on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. And Marisol, who has a big imagination and likes to name inanimate objects, has a tree in her backyard she calls Peppina... but she’s way too scared to climb it. This all makes Marisol the only girl in her small Louisiana town with a mother who was born elsewhere and a father who lives elsewhere (most of the time) ‐‐ the only girl who’s fearful of adventure and fun. Will Marisol be able to salvage her summer and have fun with Jada, her best friend? Maybe. Will Marisol figure out how to get annoying Evie Smythe to leave her alone? Maybe. Will Marisol ever get to spend enough real time with her father? Maybe. Will Marisol find the courage to climb Peppina? Maybe.

CH PZ 7.1 .Q45 Us 2021 The used‐to‐be best friend / Dawn Quigley ; illustrated by Tara Audibert Jo Jo Makoons Azure is a spirited seven‐year‐old who moves through the world a little differently than anyone else on her Ojibwe reservation. It always seems like her mom, her kokum (grandma), and her teacher have a lot to learn‐‐about how good Jo Jo is at cleaning up, what makes a good rhyme, and what it means to be friendly. Even though Jo Jo loves her #1 best friend Mimi (who is a cat), she's worried that she needs to figure out how to make more friends. Because Fern, her best friend at school, may not want to be friends anymore.

CH PZ 7.1 .S7344 Men 2021 The mending summer / Ali Standish For Georgia, this summer is shaping up to be a big disappointment. Mama is busy studying for her biology degree. Daddy is working nights, and often the man who comes home isn't Daddy. He's a man who looks like Daddy, but walks a little wobbly. Who sounds like Daddy, but sings a little too loud. Georgia calls him the Shadow Man. So now, instead of riding horses with her friends at camp, Georgia is sent off to the country to stay with her mysterious great‐aunt for the summer to avoid her parents' fighting. There, a lonely Georgia meets a mysterious friend named Angela and together, they discover a magical lake‐‐one that can make wishes come true. At first, the lake offers Georgia a thrilling escape from her worries and hope that she can use its magic to heal her family. But as things grow worse at home, a troubled boy appears at the lake and the wishes threaten to spiral out of control.

CH PZ 7.1 .S7525 Be 2021 Bea is for blended / Lindsey Stoddard Bea and her mom have always been a two‐person team. But now her mom is marrying Wendell, and their team is growing by three boys, two dogs, and a cat. Finding her place in her new blended family may be tough, but when Bea finds out her school might not get the all‐girls soccer team they’d been promised, she learns that the bigger the team, the stronger the fight—and that for the girls to get what they deserve, they’re going to need a squad behind them.

CH PZ 7.1 .W37 Sh 2021 The shape of thunder / Jasmine Warga Cora hasn’t spoken to her best friend, Quinn, in a year. Despite living next door to each other, they exist in separate worlds of grief. Cora is still grappling with the death of her beloved sister in a school shooting, and Quinn is carrying the guilt of what her brother did. On the day of Cora’s twelfth birthday, Quinn leaves a box on her doorstep with a note. She has decided that the only way to fix things is to go back in time to the moment before her brother changed all their lives forever—and stop him. In spite of herself, Cora wants to believe. And so the two former friends begin working together to open a wormhole in the fabric of the universe. But as they attempt to unravel the mysteries of time travel to save their siblings, they learn that the magic of their friendship may actually be the key to saving themselves.

CH PZ 7.1 .Y6795 He 2021 Healer of the water monster / Brian Young When Nathan goes to visit his grandma, Nali, at her mobile summer home on the Navajo reservation, he knows he's in for a pretty uneventful summer, with no electricity or cell service. Still, he loves spending time with Nali and with his uncle Jet, though it's clear when Jet arrives that he brings his problems with him. One night, while lost in the nearby desert, Nathan finds someone extraordinary: a Holy Being from the Navajo Creation Story‐‐a Water Monster‐‐in need of help. Now Nathan must summon all his courage to save his new friend. With the help of other Navajo Holy Beings, Nathan is determined to save the Water Monster, and to support Uncle Jet in healing from his own pain.

CH PZ 7.5 .F37 Uns 2021 Unsettled / Reem Faruqi When Nurah’s family moves from Karachi, Pakistan, to Peachtree City, Georgia, all she really wants is to blend in, but she stands out for all the wrong reasons. Nurah’s accent, floral‐print kurtas, and tea‐ colored skin make her feel excluded, and she’s left to eat lunch alone under the stairwell, until she meets Stahr at swimming tryouts. Stahr covers her body when in the water, just like Nurah, but for very different reasons. But in the water Nurah doesn’t want to blend in: She wants to stand out. She wants to win medals like her star athlete brother, Owais—who is going through struggles of his own in America— yet when sibling rivalry gets in the way, she makes a split‐second decision of betrayal that changes their fates. As Nurah slowly begins to sprout wings in the form of strong swimming arms, she gradually gains the courage to stand up to bullies, fight for what she believes in, and find her place.

CH PZ 7.7 .L52 Tru 2021 Truly Tyler / Terri Libenson Cliques. Crushes. Comics. Middle school. Ever since Tyler started getting into art and hanging out with Emmie, his friends and teammates have been giving him a hard time. He wonders why can't he nerd out on drawing and play ball? Emmie is psyched that she gets to work on a comics project with her crush, Tyler. But she gets the feeling that his friends don't think she's cool enough. Maybe it's time for a total reinvention.

Young Adult

YA PZ 7 .A9529 Rd 2021 Realm breaker / Victoria Aveyard A strange darkness grows in Allward. Even Corayne an‐Amarat can feel it, tucked away in her small town at the edge of the sea. She soon discovers the truth. She is the last of an ancient lineage‐‐and the last hope to save the world from destruction. But she won't be alone. Even as darkness falls, she is joined by a band of unlikely companions: a squire, forced to choose between home and honor, an immortal, avenging a broken promise, an assassin, exiled and bloodthirsty, an ancient sorceress, whose riddles hide an eerie foresight, a forger with a secret past, a bounty hunter with a score to settle. Together they stand against a vicious opponent, invincible and determined to burn all kingdoms to ash, and an army unlike anything the realm has ever witnessed.

YA PZ 7 .K1385 Mar 2021 The marvelous Mirza Girls / Sheba Karim To cure her post‐senior year slump, made worse by the loss of her aunt Sonia, Noreen decides to follow her mom on a gap year trip to New Delhi, hoping India can lessen her grief and bring her voice back. In the world's most polluted city, Noreen soon meets kind, handsome Kabir, who introduces her to the wonders of this magical, complicated place. With the help of Kabir‐‐plus Bollywood celebrities, fourteenth‐century ruins, karaoke parties, and Sufi saints‐‐Noreen discovers new meanings for home. But when a family scandal erupts, Noreen and Kabir must face complex questions in their own relationship: What does it mean to truly stand by someone‐‐and what are the boundaries of love?

YA PZ 7 .M95352 Pum 2021 Pumpkin / Julie Murphy Creating a drag‐show audition tape that culminates in an unkind nomination for prom queen, an overweight and openly gay teen partners with a girl who has been nominated for prom king to embrace their true selves.

YA PZ 7 .R1032 Luc 2021 Lucy Clark will not apologize / Margo Rabb Lucy Clark has had it. After being bullied one too many times, Lucy retaliates. But when the fallout is far worse than she meant it to be, she gets sent to Manhattan to serve as a full‐time companion to the eccentric Edith Fox. Edith is glamorous and mysterious‐‐nothing like Lucy expected. Though Edith's world of hidden gardens and afternoon teas is beguiling, there's one other thing about her that makes her unlike anyone Lucy has ever met...she thinks someone is trying to kill her. And it's up to Lucy to find out who it is.

YA PZ 7 .W6713 Sit 2021 A sitting in St. James / Rita Williams‐Garcia In 1860 Louisiana, eighty‐year‐old Madame Sylvie decides to sit for a portrait, as horrific stories that span generations from the big house and the fields are revealed.

YA PZ 7.1 .A1 B48 2020 (North Dakota book) The best teen writing of North Dakota, 2020 / edited by Dr. Kelvin Monroe This is an anthology of award‐winning writing by North Dakota students in grades 7‐12 in 2020. Work was submitted for consideration in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, which is managed by the Red River Valley Writing Project and Plains Art Museum.

YA PZ 7.1 .B64476 Ind 2021 Incredible doom. Vol 1 / written and illustrated by Matthew Bogart ; story by Matthew Bogart & Jesse Holden Allison is drowning under the weight of her manipulative stage magician father. When he brings home the family's first computer, she escapes into a thrilling new world where she meetings Samir, a like‐ minded new online friend who has just agreed to run away from home with her. After moving to a new town and leaving all of his friends behind, Richard receives a mysterious note in his locker with instructions on how to connect to 'Evol BBS,' a dial‐in bulletin board system, and meets a fierce punk named Tina who comes into his life and shakes his entire worldview loose.

YA PZ 7.1 .D33552 Wh 2021 Where the rhythm takes you / Sarah Dass Seventeen‐year‐old Reyna has spent most of her life at her family’s gorgeous seaside resort in Tobago, the Plumeria. But what once seemed like paradise is starting to feel more like purgatory. It’s been two years since Reyna’s mother passed away, two years since Aiden – her childhood best friend, first kiss, first love, first everything – left the island to pursue his music dreams. Reyna’s friends are all planning their futures and heading abroad. Even Daddy seems to want to move on, leaving her to try to keep the Plumeria running. And that's when Aiden comes roaring back into her life – as a VIP guest at the resort. Aiden is now one‐third of DJ Bacchanal – the latest, hottest music group on the scene. While Reyna has stayed exactly where he left her, Aiden has returned to Tobago with his Grammy‐nominated band and two gorgeous LA socialites. And he may (or may not be) dating one of them.

YA PZ 7.1 .G6235 Exc 2021 Excuse me while I ugly cry / Joya Goffney Quinn's journal is where she writes down everything ‐‐ in list format ‐‐ that she doesn't want to admit out loud, or even face; once they're written, she can release them and feel a little bit more at peace. When the journal goes missing and her list of biggest fears is posted online with a challenge to face each of them or else have the entire journal go public, it's time for Quinn to move out of the realm of her mind and into real life. She's not going quietly, however, and finds herself working to track down the blackmailer before time runs out.

YA PZ 7.1 .L394887 Me 2021 Meet cute diary / Emery Lee Noah Ramirez thinks he's an expert on romance. He has to be for his popular blog, the Meet Cute Diary, a collection of trans happily ever afters. There's just one problem; all the stories are fake. When a troll exposes the blog as fiction, Noah's world unravels. The only way to save the Diary is to convince everyone that the stories are true, but he doesn't have any proof. Then Drew walks into Noah's life, and the pieces fall into place.

YA PZ 7.1 .R63954 Las 2021 Last chance books / Kelsey Rodkey Working at her family's independent bookstore during the summer before she leaves for college, Madeline Moore is determined to make the store succeed when she discovers that her crush, Jasper, works at the competing chain bookstore across the street.

YA PZ 7.1 .S5325 Al 2021 All kinds of other / James Sie Two boys are starting over at a new high school. Jules is still figuring out what it means to be gay and just how out he wants to be. Jack is reeling from a fall‐out with his best friend and isn't ready to let anyone else in just yet. When Jules and Jack meet, the sparks are undeniable. But when a video linking Jack to a pair of popular trans vloggers is leaked to the school, the revelations thrust both boys into the spotlight they'd tried to avoid.

YA PZ 7.1 .S65719 No 2021 Not my problem / Ciara Smyth. First edition A teen girl, Aideen, makes a journey from self‐protectively tough to ready and willing to face her main problem: her single mother's alcoholism.

YA PZ 7.1 .T3915 Do 2021 Don't breathe a word / Jordyn Taylor Eva has never felt like she belonged ... not in her own family or with her friends in New York City, and certainly not at a fancy boarding school like Hardwick Preparatory Academy. So, when she is invited to join the Fives, an elite secret society, she jumps at the opportunity to finally be a part of something. But what if the Fives are about more than just having the best parties and receiving special privileges from the school? What if they are also responsible for keeping some of Hardwick's biggest secrets buried? 1962: There is only one reason why Connie would volunteer to be one of the six students to participate in testing Hardwick's nuclear fallout shelter: Craig Allenby. While the thought of nuclear war sends her into a panic, she can't pass up the opportunity to spend four days locked in with the school's golden boy. However, Connie and the other students quickly discover that there is more to this 'test' than they previously thought. As they are forced to follow an escalating series of commands, Connie realizes that one wrong move could have dangerous consequences. Separated by sixty years, Eva and Connie's stories become inextricably intertwined as Eva unravels the mystery of how six students went into the fallout shelter all those years ago ... but only five came out.

Juvenile Nonfiction

# E 184 .M5 B76 2021 Small room, big dreams : the journey of Julián and Joaquin Castro / written by Monica Brown ; illustrated by Mirelle Ortega The story of political powerhouse twins Julián and Joaquin Castro began in the small room that they shared with their grandmother Victoriana in San Antonio, Texas. Victoriana crossed the border from Mexico into Texas as a six‐year‐old orphan, marking the start of the family's American journey. Her daughter Rosie, Julián and Joaquin's mom, was an activist who helped the barrio through local government. The strong women in their family inspired the twins to get involved in politics. Julián and Joaquin have been working at the local, state, and national level‐‐as a former presidential candidate, mayor and member of President Obama's Cabinet, and a U.S. Congressman, respectively‐‐to make the country a better place for everyone.

# HM 831 .L38 2021 We move the world / by Kari Lavelle ; pictures by Nabi H. Ali Meet some of the world’s most beloved movers, shakers, scientists, activists, dreamers and doers—in this inspirational book by debut author Kari Lavelle, who gently reminds us that before folks like Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Neil Armstrong, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Sylvia Earle were activists and trailblazers, they spoke their first words, took their first steps, and dreamed about the future. We Move the World introduces these folks and more from the past and present as models for what every childhood first can lead to. From first steps to solving puzzles and learning the alphabet, all the small things are only the beginning. They can lead to future activism and innovation that just might change the world!

# ML 3930 .J2 P38 2021 Mahalia Jackson : freedom's voice / Denis Lewis Patrick ; illustrations by Jen Bricking Mahalia Jackson was known as the queen of gospel music. A close friend of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s, she was also a civil rights activist who sang at the March on Washington. And she traveled the world, too! Experience all the inspiring moments in Mahalia's big life in this thrilling biography, packed with two‐color illustrations and fun facts, like who invented rock and roll!

# SB 363 .R38 2021 The gravity tree : the true story of a tree that inspired the world / by Anna Crowley Redding ; illustrated by Yasmin Imamura Part scientific explanation, part biography, this nonfiction picture book explores the life of the fabled apple tree that inspired Newton's theory of Gravity‐from a minor seed to a monumental icon that has inspired the world's greatest minds for over three and a half centuries.