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The girl in the eagle's talons / by Smirnoff, Karin,1964-author.; Death, Sarah,translator.; container of (work):Larsson, Stieg,1954-2004.Millennium trilogy.; translation of:Smirnoff, Karin,1964-Havsörnens skrik.English.;
"Lisbeth Salander returns, in a trailblazing new installment to the best-selling Millennium series. Change is coming to Sweden's far north: its untapped natural resources are sparking a gold rush with the criminal underworld leading the charge. But it's not the prospect of riches that brings Lisbeth Salander to the small town of Gasskas. She has been named guardian to her niece Svala, whose mother has disappeared. Two things soon become clear: Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager-and she's being watched. Mikael Blomkvist is also heading north. He has seen better days. Millennium magazine is in its final print issue, and relations with his daughter are strained. Worse still, there are troubling rumors surrounding the man she's about to marry. When the truth behind the whispers explodes into violence, Salander emerges as Blomkvist's last hope. A pulse-pounding thriller, The Girl in the Eagle's Talons sees Salander and Blomkvist navigating a world of conspiracy and betrayal, old enemies and new friends, ice-bound wilderness and the global corporations that threaten to tear it apart"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Blomkvist, Mikael (Fictitious character); Salander, Lisbeth (Fictitious character); Betrayal; Conspiracies; Hackers; Journalists; Nieces; Reporters and reporting;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The forgotten girls : a memoir of friendship and lost promise in rural America / by Potts, Monica,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Growing up gifted and poor in small-town Arkansas, Monica and Darci became fast friends. The girls bonded over a shared love of reading and learning, even as they navigated the challenges of their declining town and tumultuous family lives--broken marriages, alcohol abuse, and shuttered stores and factories. They pored over the giant map in their middle school classroom, tracing their fingers over the world that awaited them, vowing to escape. In the end, Monica got out, but Darci, along with the rest of their circle of friends, did not. Years later, working as a journalist covering poverty, Monica discovered what she already intuitively knew about the women in Arkansas: Their life expectancy had steeply declined--the sharpest such fall in a century. Most painfully, her once talented and ambitious best friend was now a single mother of two, addicted to meth and prescription drugs, jobless and nearly homeless. What had happened in the years since Monica had left? Why had she escaped while Darci hurtled toward what Monica fears will be a tragic end? What was killing poor white women--and would Darci survive her own life?"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Potts, Monica; Potts, Monica.; Female friendship; Poor women; Rural poor; Women drug addicts; Women journalists;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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When the snow falls / by Michaels, Fern.; Bush, Nancy,1953-; Stepp, Lin.; Chiofalo, Rosanna.;
In "Candy Canes and Cupid" by #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels, all private investigator Hannah Ray wants for Christmas is a quiet day at her Florida beachfront condo. When her biggest client insists she join him on a Colorado ski trip, she has little choice - but what she finds on her arrival could melt the coldest heart.In "White Hot Christmas" by Nancy Bush, aspiring PI Jane Kelly likes to pretend she's a bah-humbug kind of girl, but she's had mistletoe on the brain ever since she shared a kiss with her boss, Dwayne. Before she can hope for a repeat performance, Jane must solve a kidnapping that's as twisted as a candy cane - and not nearly as sweet.Rosanna Chiofalo's "Seven Days of Christmas" introduces Bianca Simone, who received a wonderful early Christmas gift from her boyfriend, Mark, five years ago - a week amid the stunning Alpine scenery of Innsbruck, Austria. Now she's back under very different circumstances, but Mark has one more special gift in mind.In "A Smoky Mountain Christmas" by Lin Stepp, Veda Trent is back in Townsend to fill in as temporary manager of the Crafts Co-op, but she's not planning to stay. Though the mountain town is small, it holds lots of unsettling memories. Yet the wind can change, bringing with it new opportunities - and the chance to create the kind of Christmas for which Veda always has longed.
Subjects: Christmas romance.; Romance fiction.; Love stories.;
© c2014., Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp.,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Lucky Fred. [videorecording] / by Ballesteros, Myriam,television director.; Degas, Rupert,voice actor.; Kaye, Paul,voice actor.; Sankey, Elizabeth,voice actor.; Dreamscape Media,publisher.;
Rupert Degas, Paul Kaye, Elizabeth Sankey.Fred is so lucky. He has his own personal robot named Friday who will transform on command into anything he can think of: boxing gloves when the school bully picks a fight, a jet pack, even a translator for girl talk. Whatever Fred needs, Friday can turn himself into. But Friday was not supposed to be a gift from the sky, he was supposed to belong to Fred's neighbor, secret Agent Brains, who works for the intergalactic safety organization called The Protectors. Brains disguises herself as a regular awkward girl named Braianna while saving the world from alien invasions, escaped bug populations, Sewer Bears, and other mysteries. It sure would be easier if she had her robot, but now he only answers Fred's voice commands. Together, Brains, Fred and Friday work as a team taking on the challenges of alien invaders, and worse, junior high! Volume one contains episodes one through five of season one of this series.G.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.DVD ; wide screen presentation.
Subjects: Children's television programs.; Action and adventure television programs.; Animated television programs.; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Friendship; Robots; Teenage boys;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The book of thorns / by Fox, Hester,author.;
"Penniless and stranded in France after a bid to escape her cruel uncle goes awry, Cornelia Shaw is far from the Parisian life of leisure she imagined. Desperate and lacking options, she allows herself to be recruited to Napoleon's Grande Armée. As a naturalist, her near-magical ability to heal any wound with herbal mixtures invites awe amongst the soldiers ... and suspicion. For behind Cornelia's vast knowledge of the natural world is a secret she keeps hidden-the flowers speak to her through a mysterious connection she has felt since childhood. One that her mother taught her to heed, before she disappeared. Then, as Napoleon's army descends on Waterloo, the flowers sing to her of a startling revelation: a girl who bears a striking resemblance to Cornelia. A girl she almost remembers-her sister, lost long ago, who seems to share the same gifts. Determined to reunite with Lijsbeth despite being on opposite sides of the war, Cornelia is drawn into a whirlwind of betrayal, secrets, and lies. Brought together by fate and magic at the peak of the war, the sisters try to uncover the key to the source of the power that connects them as accusations of witchcraft swirl and threaten to destroy the very lives they've fought for."--Dust jacket flap.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Magic realist fiction.; Novels.; Plants; Secrecy; Sisters; Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815; Women healers; Women naturalists;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Paper Girl A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America [electronic resource] : by Macy, Beth.aut; CloudLibrary;
An Instant National Bestseller! "There couldn’t be a timelier book . . . searingly poignant, essential . . . Macy follows closely in the footsteps of . . . Barbara Ehrenreich and Tracy Kidder, combining memoir with reportage, a raft of sobering statistics and, most uniquely in our era, a willingness to engage in uncomfortable conversations." —The Washington Post From one of our most acclaimed chroniclers of the forces eroding America’s social fabric, her most personal and powerful work: a reckoning with the changes that have rocked her own beloved small Ohio hometown Urbana, Ohio, was not a utopia when Beth Macy grew up there in the ’70s and ’80s—certainly not for her family. Her dad was known as the town drunk, which hurt, as did their poverty. But Urbana had a healthy economy and thriving schools, and Macy had middle-class schoolmates whose families became her role models. Though she left for college on a Pell Grant and then a faraway career in journalism, she still clung gratefully to the place that had helped raise her. But as Macy’s mother’s health declined in 2020, she couldn’t shake the feeling that her town had dramatically hardened. Macy had grown up as the paper girl, delivering the local newspaper, which was the community’s civic glue. Now she found scant local news and precious little civic glue. Yes, much of the work that once supported the middle class had gone away, but that didn’t begin to cover the forces turning Urbana into a poorer and angrier place. Absenteeism soared in the schools and in the workplace as a mental health crisis gripped the small city. Some of her old friends now embraced conspiracies. In nearby Springfield, Macy watched as her ex-boyfriend—once the most liberal person she knew—became a lead voice of opposition against the Haitian immigrants, parroting false talking points throughout the 2024 presidential campaign. This was not an assignment Beth Macy had ever imagined taking on, but after her mother’s death, she decided to figure out what happened to Urbana in the forty years since she’d left. The result is an astonishing book that, by taking us into the heart of one place, brings into focus our most urgent set of national issues. Paper Girl is a gift of courage, empathy, and insight. Beth Macy has turned to face the darkness in her family and community, people she loves wholeheartedly, even the ones she sometimes struggles to like. And in facing the truth—in person, with respect—she has found sparks of human dignity that she has used to light a signal fire of warning but also of hope.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Dysfunctional Families; Civics & Citizenship; Personal Memoirs;
© 2025., Penguin Publishing Group,
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Antarctica 'A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.' THE TIMES [electronic resource] : by Keegan, Claire.aut; cloudLibrary;
The stunning debut story collection from the author of Foster and the Booker Prize shortlisted Small Things Like These 'A beautiful, tender work of great clarity.' Sebastian Barry 'Simply put, Claire Keegan is one of the greatest fiction writers in the world.' George Saunders 'Among the finest contemporary stories written recently in English.' Observer A secret one-night tryst in the city. A sister's revenge. A love-struck doctor. A missing girl. In Antarctica, an astonishing sequence of stories, one of our most gifted writers illuminates human longing and fallibility in all its variety. ------- Readers love Antarctica: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'This is the best short story collection I have ever read. Trust me she is a real find!' '⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A skilled writer who immerses us seamlessly in the lives of her characters.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I have now read every word Claire Keegan has written. That's how much I love her writing.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'With her keen eye and lucid prose, Keegan beguiles, jolts and haunts us beyond the pages.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'The writing is both tender, poetic and authentic ... the stories stay with you long after you have finished reading.'
Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary;
© 2013., Faber & Faber,
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In the quick : a novel / by Day, Kate Hope,author.;
"In the Quick is the story of June, a brilliant but difficult girl, unloved by her adoptive family, with a gift for mechanical invention, who leaves home to begin a grueling astronaut training program. Six years later, she has gained a coveted post as an engineer on a space station, but is haunted by the mystery of Inquiry, a revolutionary spacecraft powered by her beloved late uncle's fuel cells. The spacecraft went missing when June was twelve years old, and while the rest of the world has forgotten them, June alone has evidence that makes her believe the crew is still alive. She seeks out James, her uncle's former protégé, also brilliant, also difficult, who has been trying to discover why Inquiry's fuel cells failed. James and June forge an intense intellectual bond that becomes an electric attraction. But the love that develops between them as they work to solve the fuel cell's fatal flaw threatens to destroy everything they've worked so hard to create--and any chance of bringing the Inquiry crew home alive. Equal parts gripping narrative of scientific discovery and charged love story, In the Quick is an exploration of the strength--and limits--of human ability in the face of hardship, and the costs of human ingenuity. Its beating heart is its two central characters, June and James, whose love for each other is eclipsed only by their drive to conquer the challenges of space travel"--
Subjects: Science fiction.; Astronauts; Engineers; Man-woman relationships; Space flight; Space stations; Space vehicles;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Spectacular Things: Reese's Book Club A Novel [electronic resource] : by Dorey-Stein, Beck.aut; CloudLibrary;
REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • Two sisters examine what they owe each other and what they are willing to sacrifice to make their dreams come true in this “epic story” (Reese Witherspoon) from New York Times bestselling author Beck Dorey-Stein. What would you give up for the person you love most? What would you expect in return? Mia and Cricket have always been close. The gifted daughters of a young single mother, the “Lowe girls” are well-known in the small Maine town they call home. Each sister has a role to fill: The responsible and academically minded Mia assumes the position of caregiver far too young, while Cricket, a bouncing ball of energy and talent, seems born for soccer stardom. But the cost of achieving athletic greatness comes at a steep price. As Mia and Cricket grow up, they must grapple with the legacy of their mother’s secret past while navigating their own precarious future. Can Mia allow herself to fall in love at the risk of repeating a terrible history? Will Cricket’s relentless chase of a lifelong goal drive her sister away? When does loyalty become self-sabotage? A sharply observed and tender portrait of sisters, love, and ambition, Spectacular Things is a sweeping story about the impossible choices we’re forced to make in pursuit of our dreams.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary; Coming of Age;
© 2025., Random House Publishing Group,
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Drumline [videorecording (DVD)] by Stone, Charles,1966-; Cannon, Nick,1980-.; Saldana, Zoë.; Jones, Orlando; Jadakiss.; Chasez, J. C.(Joshua Chasez),1976-;
Full length director's commentary -- 10 deleted scenes with commentary -- 30-minute "Making of Special" -- 2 music videos (I want a girl like you / Joe Feat Jadakiss -- Blowin' me up (With her love) / JC Chasez).Nick Cannon, Zoë Saldana, Orlando Jones.A gifted street drummer who snares top spot in a Southern university marching band learns it takes more than talent to make it.PG.DVD.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired; Feature films; Marching bands; College students; Love;
© p2003., 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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