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Valentine : a novel / by Wetmore, Elizabeth,author.;
"It's February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the town's men embrace the coming prosperity, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow. In the early hours of the morning after Valentine's Day, fourteen-year-old Gloria Ramírez appears on the front porch of Mary Rose Whitehead's ranch house, broken and barely alive, after a vicious attack in a nearby oil field. This act of brutality is tried in the churches and barrooms of Odessa before it can reach a court of law. When justice is evasive, the stage is set for a showdown with potentially devastating consequences. Valentine is a haunting exploration of the intersections of violence and race, class and region in a story that plumbs the depths of darkness and fear, yet offers a window into beauty and hope. Told through the alternating points of view of indelible characters who burrow deep in the reader's heart, this fierce, unflinching, and surprisingly tender novel illuminates women's strength and vulnerability, and reminds us that it is the stories we tell ourselves that keep us alive."--Jacket flap.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Oil industry workers; Oil fields; Women; Racism; Social classes; Small cities; Nineteen seventies;
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A rough way to go / by Garonzik, Sam,author.;
"Peter Greene spends his days taking care of his toddler, Luke; staying on the right side of The Moms in his local beach town; and hanging out with his surf buddy, Frank. Isolated from his former life in finance, and frustrated by his current "out of work" existence, he worries that if he sits around the house for much longer, his workaholic wife might start to lose patience with him. He has few escapes aside from surfing and the love he has for his son. But when the body of wealthy Wall Street investor Robert Townsend washes up on shore one morning, nothing about the incident makes sense to Pete, and he's completely bewildered when the death is ruled an accidental drowning. But when he takes his concerns to the police, they ignore him-so he decides to investigate on his own. Sustained only by the unquestioning devotion of his three-year-old sidekick, Pete starts looking into Townsend's eccentric relatives and employer, the ruthless and secretive private equity firm GDR. But has Pete deluded himself with this misguided quest for redemption? Or has he uncovered something sinister enough to risk his life, and even his family? A Rough Way to Go is a raw, irreverent story that plumbs the depths of masculinity, unemployment, fatherhood, marriage, and modern capitalism-and the struggle to live a purpose driven life"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Married people; Murder; Secrecy; Stay-at-home fathers; Unemployed;
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Unto us a son is given / by Leon, Donna,author.;
"Your situation is always ambiguous, isn't it, Guido?", his father-in-law, Count Orazio Falier, observes of Donna Leon's soulful detective, Guido Brunetti, at the beginning of her superb 28th Brunetti novel, Unto Us A Son Is Given . "The world we live in makes that necessary," Brunetti presciently replies. Count Falier was urging his Venetian son-in-law to investigate, and preferably intervene in, the seemingly innocent plan of the Count's best friend, the elderly Gonzalo Rodríguez de Tejada, to adopt a much younger man as his son. Under Italian inheritance laws this man would then be heir to Gonzalo's entire fortune, a prospect Gonzalo's friends find appalling. For his part, Brunetti wonders why the old man, a close family friend, can't be allowed his pleasure in peace. And yet, what seems innocent on the Venetian surface can cause tsunamis beneath. Gonzalo unexpectedly, and literally, drops dead on the street, and one of his friends just arrived in Venice for the memorial service, is strangled in her hotel room--having earlier sent Gonzalo an email saying "We are the only ones who know you cannot do this," referring to the adoption. Now with an urgent case to solve, Brunetti reluctantly untangles the long-hidden mystery in Gonzalo's life that ultimately led to murder--a resolution that brings him way more pain than satisfaction. Once again, Donna Leon brilliantly plumbs the twists and turns of the human condition, reuniting us with some of crime fiction's most memorable and enduring characters.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Brunetti, Guido (Fictitious character); Murder;
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The truth machine : the blockchain and the future of everything / by Casey, Michael,1967-author.; Vigna, Paul,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey demystify the Internet's next big thing - the Blockchain - and explain why it can restore personal control over our data, assets, and identities and shift the balance of power to revive society's faith in itself. They reveal the disruption it promises for industries including finance, tech, legal, and shipping. This book reveals the empowerment possible when self-interested middlemen give way to the transparency of the blockchain, while highlighting the job losses, assertion of special interests, and threat to social cohesion that will accompany this shift.
Subjects: Blockchains (Databases); Bitcoin.; Database security.; Banks and banking.; Electronic commerce.; Electronic funds transfers.; Currency question.;
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Determined : a science of life without free will / by Sapolsky, Robert M.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the science and philosophy of decision-making to mount a devastating case against free will, an argument with profound consequences. Robert Sapolsky's Behave, his now classic account of why humans do good and why they do bad, pointed toward an unsettling conclusion: We may not grasp the precise marriage of nature and nurture that creates the physics and chemistry at the base of human behavior, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Now, in Determined, Sapolsky takes his argument all the way, mounting a brilliant (and in his inimitable way, delightful) full-frontal assault on the pleasant fantasy that there is some separate self telling our biology what to do. Determined offers a marvelous synthesis of what we know about how consciousness works-the tight weave between reason and emotion and between stimulus and response in the moment and over a life. One by one, Sapolsky tackles all the major arguments for free will and takes them out, cutting a path through the thickets of chaos and complexity science and quantum physics, as well as touching ground on some of the wilder shores of philosophy. He shows us that the history of medicine is in no small part the history of learning that fewer and fewer things are somebody's "fault"; for example, for centuries we thought seizures were a sign of demonic possession. Yet, as he acknowledges, it's very hard, and at times impossible, to uncouple from our zeal to judge others and to judge ourselves. Sapolsky applies the new understanding of life beyond free will to some of our most essential questions around punishment, morality, and living well together. By the end, Sapolsky argues that while living our daily lives recognizing that we have no free will is going to be monumentally difficult, doing so is not going to result in anarchy, pointlessness, and existential malaise. Instead, it will make for a much more humane world"--
Subjects: Free will and determinism.;
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The Sounds [videorecording] / by Lefevre, Rachelle,actor.; Nable, Matt,actor.; Stebbings, Peter,television director.; Whelan, Matt,actor.; Acorn Media (Firm),production company.; RLJ Entertainment,distributor.;
Rachelle Lefevre, Matt Whelan, Matt Nable.Set against the stunning Marlborough Sounds in New Zealand, this twisty thriller follows a married couple looking to start a new life. But when Maggie joins her husband, Tom, in an idyllic small town halfway around the world, their reunion proves short-lived. As Maggie discovers Tom's secrets, she begins to plumb the dark depths of paradise.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Thrillers (Television programs); Television programs.; Television mini-series.; Married people; Man-woman relationships; Marital conflict; Secrecy;
For private home use only.
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The visual handbook of building and remodeling : a comprehensive guide to choosing the right materials and systems for every part of your home / by Wing, Charles,1939-author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 664-669) and index."A complete and detailed guide for both home-building and renovation projects. Sections include, but are not limited to: Design, Site and Climate, Masonry, Foundations, Wood Framing, Sheathing, Siding, Roofing, Windows and Doors, Plumbing, Wiring, Insulation and R-Value, Best Practice Insulating, Air-Sealing Existing Buildings, Floors, Walls, and Ceilings, Storage, Heating, Cooling, Passive Solar, Lighting, Sound, Fasteners, Decks, Measuring and Finance"--
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Building materials.; Building materials; Dwellings; Dwellings; House construction.; House construction;
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The toilet vortex / by Pilger, Seamus.; Gilpin, Stephen.;
Something is rotten in the plumbing of Harry Buttz Elementary School, and it's kidnapped Janitor Stan! It's up to the Fart Squad to dive into the toilet vortex to save their scent-sei from the World of the Royal Flush. Grab a match, because this stink just got real. Only the Fart Squad has the guts, the gall, and the gas to flush this round brown mound before he overflows his toilet kingdom on the world.Ages 6-10.LSC
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Flatulence; Toilets; Schools; Janitors;
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The Temporary Roomie : A Novel. by Adams, Sarah.;
In this expanded edition of 'The Temporary Roomie', Jessie Barnes is in her third trimester of an unexpected pregnancy and is feeling desperate after faulty plumbing floods her apartment. Unfortunately, her knight in shining armor is Dr. Drew Marshall, her best friends brother who she thinks is a chauvinistic dirtbag. Drew agrees to let her stay with him during renovations if she pretends to be his girlfriend for upcoming work festivities. But when their rivalry sparks a deeper connection, Jessies future becomes even more unclear. Please note: Libraries should check holdings for the self-published edition (ISBN 9798712363735).Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Romance fiction.; FICTION / Romance / Contemporary; FICTION / Romance / Romantic Comedy; FICTION / Women;
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Killing the mob : the fight against organized crime in America / by O'Reilly, Bill,author.; Dugard, Martin,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The true history of organized crime"--O'Reilly and co-author Martin Dugard trace the brutal history of 20th century organized crime in the United States, and expertly plumb the history of this nation's most notorious serial robbers, conmen, murderers, and especially, mob family bosses. Covering the period from the 1930s to the 1980s, they trace the prohibition-busting bank robbers of the Depression Era, such as John Dillinger, Bonnie & Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby-Face Nelson. In addition, the authors highlight the creation of the Mafia Commission, the power struggles within the "Five Families", the growth of the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover, the mob battles to control Cuba, Las Vegas and Hollywood, as well as the personal war between the U.S. Attorney General Bobby Kennedy and legendary Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa. The stories of these legendary criminals and their true-life escapades make for riveting reading.
Subjects: True crime stories.; Organized crime; Mafia;
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