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This book by jazz musician and lover Bob Gluck is a loving exploration of Metheny's long and fruitful career, helping readers understand his musical evolution. Gluck is an erudite connoisseur and musician, offering transcriptions and analysi3a258339-b0bf-11ef-b5dc-0a39ee06db20Mon, 02 Dec 2024 10:08:03 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2828229791.4572 LIF 2025 3a25833a-b0bf-11ef-b5dc-0a39ee06db20Mon, 02 Dec 2024 10:08:03 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2696445253 COS 2024 "Since leaving local church ministry, Mike Cosper spent time examining the church's often troubled witness, its ongoing crisis of leadership, and the epidemic of narcissism, abuse, and cover-up that has continued to emerge. This book shares his journey-the shattering of dreams and the grace that restored a broken faith in the aftermath"--3a25833b-b0bf-11ef-b5dc-0a39ee06db20Mon, 02 Dec 2024 10:08:03 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2827822613.79 HER 2024 f35fc9cc-b0d8-11ef-8e1e-0a39ee06db20Mon, 02 Dec 2024 13:12:11 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2837573B CHIHULY, DALE "Travel along with Dale Chihuly on his life's journey full of curiosity, discovery, teamwork, and perseverance as he overcomes challenges to become a glass artist of international acclaim. Dale Chihuly's early life presented many challenges, such as tragic losses in his family at a young age and an accident that left him blind in one eye, yet his resilience, hard work, and optimism taught him life-long skills that became inseparable from his body of work-incomparable glass creations that providef35fc9cd-b0d8-11ef-8e1e-0a39ee06db20Mon, 02 Dec 2024 13:12:11 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2831267616.80479 LYM 2024 f35fc9ce-b0d8-11ef-8e1e-0a39ee06db20Mon, 02 Dec 2024 13:12:11 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2832990072 KIR 2024 The Newsmongers unfolds the seedy history of tabloid journalism, from the first printed 'Strange Newes' sheets of the sixteenth century to the sensationalism of today's digital age. The narrative weaves from Regency gossip writers through New York's 'yellow journalism' battles to the 'sex and sleaze' Sun of the 1970s; and from the Brexit-backing populism of the Daily Mail to the celebrity-obsessed Mail Online of the 2000s. 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The book will illustrate how this core tension within the new elite explains a nf35fc9d2-b0d8-11ef-8e1e-0a39ee06db20Mon, 02 Dec 2024 13:12:11 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2837335215 EPS 2024 "Today's tech has overtaken religion as the chief shaper of 21st-century human lives and communities. In this book, Greg M. 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Growing up as a Nigerian immigrant in the South Bronx, award-winning journalist Rita Omokha contended with her blackness. In 2020, when George Floyd died at the hands of a white police officer, her exploration further developed as she traveled to thirty states attempting to mine contemporaryf35fc9d7-b0d8-11ef-8e1e-0a39ee06db20Mon, 02 Dec 2024 13:12:11 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2830768814.54 WAL 2024 "Blending social history, bracing analysis, and autobiography, Walton investigates the hard realities and measured hopes of African Americans in the twenty-first century and arrives at fresh, startling conclusions. "The End of Respectability" is Walton's phrase for the next iteration of African American existence, the confusing and often contradictory maze of progress and backlash. The End of Respectability features essays published in The New York Times and The Atlantic-including "Willie Hortonf35fc9d8-b0d8-11ef-8e1e-0a39ee06db20Mon, 02 Dec 2024 13:12:11 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2836380370.1523 BOC 2024 SPANISH f35fc9d9-b0d8-11ef-8e1e-0a39ee06db20Mon, 02 Dec 2024 13:12:11 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2833755613.2 NI 2024 "In this new and expanded edition of his beloved bestseller, Dr. Mao Shing Ni reveals all the secrets to aging well in today's world-without diets, drugs, or procedures. Marrying the latest in contemporary science with powerful wisdom from traditional Chinese medicine, he presents hundreds of practices for longevity, including more than fifty new tips tailored to modern life. Overflowing with fascinating information and invaluable insights, this trove of advice and practical wisdom allows you tof35fc9da-b0d8-11ef-8e1e-0a39ee06db20Mon, 02 Dec 2024 13:12:11 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2835713821.134 GOM 2020 SPANISH f35fc9db-b0d8-11ef-8e1e-0a39ee06db20Mon, 02 Dec 2024 13:12:11 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2834630LT KIRWAN f35fc9dc-b0d8-11ef-8e1e-0a39ee06db20Mon, 02 Dec 2024 13:12:11 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2834656LT ALEXANDER f35fc9dd-b0d8-11ef-8e1e-0a39ee06db20Mon, 02 Dec 2024 13:12:11 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2839819370.973 ISE 1999 In this book you will discover "how good teachers across America have been forced to use controversial, non-academic methodology in their classrooms; how "school choice" is being used to further dangerous reform goals, and how home schooling and private education are especially vulnerable; how workforce training (school-to-work) is an essential part of an overall plan for a global economy, and how this plan will shortcircuit your child's future career plans and opportunities; [and] how the interf35fc9de-b0d8-11ef-8e1e-0a39ee06db20Mon, 02 Dec 2024 13:12:11 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2833962747 PRE 2024 18a9b2ce-b0f2-11ef-b5ca-0a39ee06db20Mon, 02 Dec 2024 16:12:11 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2833767616.8584 CYT 2024 "An award winning neurologist considers the effect of social media and digital devices on our brains, especially our ability to pay attention"--18a9b2cf-b0f2-11ef-b5ca-0a39ee06db20Mon, 02 Dec 2024 16:12:11 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2832996121 COL 2024 18a9b2d0-b0f2-11ef-b5ca-0a39ee06db20Mon, 02 Dec 2024 16:12:11 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2834237577.01 GOD 2024 "A philosopher's examination of how animal and plant life has shaped the history of our planet"--18a9b2d1-b0f2-11ef-b5ca-0a39ee06db20Mon, 02 Dec 2024 16:12:11 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2820662793.22 MUN 2024 18a9b2d2-b0f2-11ef-b5ca-0a39ee06db20Mon, 02 Dec 2024 16:12:11 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2822228973.04956 MUE 2024 18a9b2d3-b0f2-11ef-b5ca-0a39ee06db20Mon, 02 Dec 2024 16:12:11 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2827777641.589 ENC 2024 18a9b2d4-b0f2-11ef-b5ca-0a39ee06db20Mon, 02 Dec 2024 16:12:11 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2823454641.6379 NEL 2024 18a9b2d5-b0f2-11ef-b5ca-0a39ee06db20Mon, 02 Dec 2024 16:12:11 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2822049242.63 ADK 2024 CHOOSE STRONG TODAY.   The world might try to convince you differently, but being strong is a choice. Each day, you can choose God's way or the world's way. Right or wrong. Strong or weak. It's up to you. This book of strength-building devotions can help guide you to choose wisely. Every page provides you with scriptural truth, a relatable devotional reading, and a short prayer. 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That's exactly what you receive when you tap into the power of God's voice in your dreams!"--18a9b2dc-b0f2-11ef-b5ca-0a39ee06db20Mon, 02 Dec 2024 16:12:11 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2836176956.943 TIB 2024 18a9b2dd-b0f2-11ef-b5ca-0a39ee06db20Mon, 02 Dec 2024 16:12:11 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2819487791.43655 KEA 2024 "More than any other set of films from the classical era, the Hollywood film noir is known for its lighting: the cast shadows, the blinking street signs, the eyes sparkling in the darkness. Each effect is rich in symbolism, evoking a world of danger and doppelgangers. But what happens if we set aside the symbolism? This book offers a new account of film noir lighting, grounded in a larger theory of Hollywood cinematography as emotionally engaging storytelling. 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Including analysis of news reports, memoirs, novels, films and other cultural artefacts Ken Rose shows the war was much more disruptive to the lives of Americans in the military and on the home front during World War II than is generally acknowledged. Issues of racial, labor unrest, juvenile delinquency, and marital infidelity wer308f8b8c-b167-11ef-ac51-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 06:10:22 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2842490NONFICTION Raised in Appalachia, native daughter Ashleigh Shanti, a queer Black woman and acclaimed chef, knows Southern Black cooking means more than we've come to believe. While hot buttered cast-iron-pan cornbread and crunchy, juicy, lard-fried chicken have their roles to play, they are far from the entire story. The key to understanding how Black influence has defined foodways and cultures in the South is to explore its microregions, each with its own distinct flora and fauna, dialects, traditions, an308f8b8d-b167-11ef-ac51-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 06:10:22 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2842489NONFICTION The instant Sunday Times bestseller Blackwells Non-fiction Book of the Year Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year 'The star of her generation' – Dan Snow 'Utterly, utterly brilliant' – Tracy Borman Where were you at age eighteen? Could you have known where your life might lead? In this unconventional and witty history, award-winning writer and broadcaster Alice Loxton delves into Britain's past, exploring the country through eighteen notable figures at that most iconic age – eighteen. Fro308f8b8e-b167-11ef-ac51-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 06:10:22 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2842487NONFICTION Raised with hoarding and compulsive shopping, Emily Mester is caught in between. What happens when consumption begins to consume you back? In a series of deeply personal essays, Mester explores how the things we buy, eat, amass, and discard become an intimate part of our lives. We guiltily watch Amazon boxes pile up on the porch, wade through endless reviews to find the perfect product, and crave the comforting indulgence of a chain restaurant. With humor and sharp intellect, Mester reflects on308f8b8f-b167-11ef-ac51-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 06:10:22 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2842483NONFICTION Two comedians offer hilarious encouragement for your most mundane struggles. Anybody can tell you “You can do it!” before the big job interview, or before you walk down the aisle, or before you blast off on the first human-powered mission to Mars. But who’s going to gas you up for all of life’s low-stakes situations when you need an extra push?  Comedians Paula Skaggs and Josh Linden are here to cheerlead you through your daily challenges. You’ll find specific, constructive, and—most of all—very308f8b90-b167-11ef-ac51-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 06:10:22 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2842482NONFICTION Scientific Methods to accelerate your learning to save time, beat competition, and get from Point A to Point B at the speed of light. Learning is the key to bettering your circumstances and becoming the person you want to be. Skills, information, and abilities will never come to you - it's up to you to seek them out, and this book shows you how to do so in the most effective and efficient manner. Applicable and actionable advice - not just theory and description. Work smarter, not harder. The Sc308f8b91-b167-11ef-ac51-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 06:10:22 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2842477NONFICTION A sweeping history of mountaineering before Everest, and the epic human quest to reach the highest places on Earth. Whether in the name of conquest, science, or the divine, humans across the centuries have had myriad reasons to climb mountains. From the smoking volcanoes of South America to the great snowy ranges of the Himalaya, The White Ladder follows a cast of extraordinary characters—conquistadors and captains, scientists and surveyors, alpinists and adventurers—up the slopes of the world's308f8b92-b167-11ef-ac51-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 06:10:22 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2813355973.93409 DEV 2024 "An investigation into the Biden family's business relationships"--447c8ad4-b188-11ef-aeb9-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 10:07:09 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2837333330.90089 HIL 2024 "In the years immediately after the Civil War, tens of thousands of former slaves deposited millions of dollars into the Freedman's Bank. African Americans envisioned this new bank as a launching pad for economic growth and self-determination. But only nine years after it opened, their trust was betrayed and the Freedman's Bank collapsed. Fully informed by new archival findings, historian Justene Hill Edwards unearths a major turning point in American history in this comprehensive account of theb42786d6-b1a1-11ef-8616-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:09:14 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2839017B CLINTON, BILL #42 The 42nd President of the United States writes about his life since leaving the White House.b42786d7-b1a1-11ef-8616-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:09:14 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2837100332.6322 CAG 2024 Investing for the first time can be intimidating. In easy-to-understand language, Stock Market 101, 2nd Edition provides the groundwork needed to begin building knowledge on the stock market. It cuts out the boring explanations of basic investing, and instead provides hands-on lessons that keep you engaged as you learn how to build a portfolio and expand your wealth. Full of basic definitions and real-life examples, Stock Market 101, 2nd Edition alleviates any uneasy or overwhelmed feelings durib42786d8-b1a1-11ef-8616-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:09:14 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2827703226.092 MCN 2024 "Mary Magdalene's role in Jesus's ministry was pivotal, according to all four Gospels, but her story is too often overlooked, confused, or scandalized by the church. This book draws on Scripture and church history to recover her story of faith, encouraging the whole church to follow her example and proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ today"--b42786d9-b1a1-11ef-8616-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:09:14 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2839681793.93 SFI 2018 "Four Against Darkness is a solitaire dungeon-delving game that may also be played cooperatively. No miniatures are needed. All you need is this book, a pencil, two dice, and grid paper. Choose four characters from a list of classic types (warrior, wizard, rogue, halfling, dwarf, barbarian, cleric, elf), equip them, and venture into dungeons created by dice rolls and your own choices. You will fight monsters, manage resources, grab treasure, dodge traps, find clues, and even accept quests from tb42786da-b1a1-11ef-8616-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:09:14 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2839191378.30973 CHA 2025 A guide to controlling college costs offers advice on financial aid packages, educational loans, tax regulations, and additional sources of revenue, and includes the latest financial aid forms and updates on tax laws.b42786db-b1a1-11ef-8616-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:09:14 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2839194346.73077 LOF 2023 Newly revised and updated with the latest legal developments, this comprehensive guide for dealing with financial problems provides the essential information you need to manage your debt, deal with financial emergencies and formulate good practices for handling your money in the future.b42786dc-b1a1-11ef-8616-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:09:14 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2822048241.4 BRU 2024 God Wants You to Live a Courageous Life, Girl! This delightful devotional encourages you to take a few moments of your day to quiet your spirit, think on God's amazing love for you, and to choose courage in your thoughts, words, and actions.    Dozens of just-right-sized readings pack a powerful dose of comfort, encouragement, and inspiration and are designed to meet you right where you are in life. In only 3 short minutes, you'll be on your way to a bold, courageous faith!3b78624a-b1bb-11ef-b674-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:11:58 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2822062242.63 CAM 2024 As the world experiences a loneliness epidemic, we need friendship as much as we ever have before. People could live their whole lives online. School, church, work, and a social life can all be found on the internet, providing opportunities to trade deep friendships for convenient yet shallow acquaintances. The easier it becomes to be independent, the harder it is to find togetherness--especially for teen girls and young women. Hey Friend: 31 Journaling Devotions on Friendship helps girls know t3b78624b-b1bb-11ef-b674-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:11:58 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2837574B POWDER, CAROL "nisôhkisinân (We are strong) . . . ninikamonân (We are singing) . . . mîna nika-âhkamêyimonân (And we will continue) . . . Whenever young Carol sang along to her family's music, her heart felt light and full of joy. Learning from her grandfather, Moshum, Carol listened closely to the drums' heartbeat until one day, Moshum made her a drum of her very own. As Carol grew up, she passed down her songs to her children, grandchildren, and many women in her community, just as Moshum taught her-even as3b78624c-b1bb-11ef-b674-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:11:58 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2837581B GOOGOOSH "The legendary Iranian singer and actress Googoosh (born Faegheh Atashin) made her stage debut at age two while performing alongside her acrobat father. By the time she reached adulthood, she was widely considered to be Iran's first superstar. Googoosh was in the prime of her career and on the brink of international stardom, but after the 1979 Revolution, she was silenced and disappeared from public life for over twenty years. However, her fans did not forget her. And as they sought refuge aroun3b78624d-b1bb-11ef-b674-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:11:58 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2833960741.2 BUC 2025 "Debt Free Art Degree: Foundations in Drawing offers an affordable, easy-to-follow education in drawing that includes all the instruction and encouragement you need to succeed"--3b78624e-b1bb-11ef-b674-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:11:58 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2837568B PRICE, FLORENCE Florence Beatrice “Bea” Price loved music from a young age. When she wasn’t practicing on the piano, she tapped her feet, drummed her fingers, and whistled. Growing up in Little Rock, Arkansas, she was surrounded by Negro spirituals, classical music, Juba dance rhythms, and folk songs and even had the chance to play piano with John William “Blind” Boone. But as a young Black girl living in the South, Bea wasn’t offered the same chances as white children. Not allowed to perform in public, Bea’s f3b78624f-b1bb-11ef-b674-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:11:58 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2822241919.69 FOD 2025 3b786250-b1bb-11ef-b674-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:11:58 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2840790320.973 SAN 2022 "Twenty-five years after his prescient Democracy's Discontent, Michael Sandel updates his classic work for our more fractious age. He shows how, since the 1990s, Democrats and Republicans embraced a market faith that led to the toxic politics of our time. To rescue democracy, he argues, we must reimagine the economy and revitalize the civic project"--3b786251-b1bb-11ef-b674-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:11:58 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2839842B OSMOND, ALAN The Osmonds started from humble beginnings on a farm in Ogden, Utah. From the tender age of eight years, Alan Osmond was made the leader of his siblings in an unprecedented journey to international fame and stardom. The Osmonds sold over one hundred million records. Alan led their group for six decades, guiding the singing sensations to worldwide Osmondmania. Alan directed many music videos and was executive producer of the Donny & Marie TV series. He faced a devastating diagnosis of MS in his t3b786252-b1bb-11ef-b674-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:11:58 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2839182741.53 VAN 2018 This graphic novel history of the comic books medium continues, focusing on specific regions of the world and their contributions to the comic book art form. Includes the graphic novel, from its Swiss roots to today, British creators, manga, comics and comic book characters outside the traditional medium of comics, and spotlights on influential female creators and their impacts on the art form.3b786253-b1bb-11ef-b674-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:11:58 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2840795362.2936 NAR 2010 SPANISH 3b786254-b1bb-11ef-b674-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:11:58 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2842585272.9092 MUR 2009 "Sister Dorothy Stang, an American missionary, was murdered in 2005 in the Brazilian forest ... [S]he challenged the land-greedy, illegal ranchers who were destroying the Amazon rain forest. These ranchers threatened farmers, burned homes and even killed those who stood up to them. They wanted her dead. They succeeded"--Page [4], cover3b786255-b1bb-11ef-b674-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:11:58 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2837320641.255 RAI 2024 "Thought to be hallucinogenic and banned globally for a century, absinthe is once again legal and popular. Yet it is still associated with bohemian lifestyles, just as when it was the favorite drink of avant-gardists like Toulouse-Lautrec and Van Gogh and Baudelaire. And today, when vintage, pre-ban bottles are discovered, they can sell for exorbitant prices to private collectors. But such discoveries are increasingly rare. Which is why the absinthe demimonde of rich collectors was electrified w3b786256-b1bb-11ef-b674-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:11:58 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2837338344.76804 SUL 2024 "A riveting courtroom drama as victims of a manmade environmental disaster-the survivors-pursue justice in a Tennessee court led by a country lawyer challenging the notion that, in America, justice can be bought"--3b786257-b1bb-11ef-b674-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:11:58 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2837321070.92 COC 2024 Provided by publisher.3b786258-b1bb-11ef-b674-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:11:58 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2837332591.5 MON 2024 "How animals conceive of death and dying-and what they can teach us about our own relationships with mortalityWhen the opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralyzed. Her body temperature plummets, her breathing and heart rates drop to a minimum, and her glands simulate the smell of a putrefying corpse. Playing Possum explores what the opossum and other creatures can teach us about how we and other species understand mortality, and demonstrates that the concept of death, far from being a unique3b786259-b1bb-11ef-b674-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:11:58 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2835935355.63097 FIN 2024 "Glenn Fine, who served as the Inspector General for the Department of Justice from 2000 to 2011 and the Acting Inspector General of the Department of Defense from 2016 to 2020, highlights the importance of inspectors general to safeguarding our democracy by drawing on his own experiences in several high-profile investigations during his tenure, from 9/11 through COVID"--3b78625a-b1bb-11ef-b674-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:11:58 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2821975305.40977 MCM 2024 580905b8-b1d4-11ef-b9a5-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:11:43 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2834232567.9 BAR1 2024 "A beautifully illustrated and definitive book on dinosaur fossils"--580905b9-b1d4-11ef-b9a5-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:11:43 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2833080616.8311 BRE 2024 SPANISH 580905ba-b1d4-11ef-b9a5-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:11:43 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2833820306.73 HOF 2024 "Many modern daters are stuck playing by old and outdated rules that no longer reflect the world we live in. To find love that lasts, TV host, podcaster, and love expert Damona Hoffman encourages readers to break free of the myths that no longer serve us in the twenty-first century-and to write our own love stories. In F the Fairy Tale, Hoffman draws on twenty years of experience as a dating coach to bust four common myths-The List Myth, the Rules Myth, the Chemistry Myth, and the Soulmate Myth.580905bb-b1d4-11ef-b9a5-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:11:43 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2830801B BUSH, KATE 580905bc-b1d4-11ef-b9a5-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:11:43 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2833776209 OCK 2024 "A pop history of notable cults, the attraction of these dangerous groups, and the motivations of those who join them"--580905bd-b1d4-11ef-b9a5-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:11:43 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2827709631.58 THU 2024 580905be-b1d4-11ef-b9a5-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:11:43 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2833807345.02324 ALT 2024 580905bf-b1d4-11ef-b9a5-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:11:43 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2823827B HARTIG, KALMAN 580905c0-b1d4-11ef-b9a5-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:11:43 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2822250791.43023 BEN 2024 580905c1-b1d4-11ef-b9a5-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:11:43 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2823805956.053 THR 2024 580905c2-b1d4-11ef-b9a5-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:11:43 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2821074304.25 WRI 2023 580905c3-b1d4-11ef-b9a5-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:11:43 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2828222791.4572 HAG 2024 580905c4-b1d4-11ef-b9a5-0a39ee06db20Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:11:43 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2843085NONFICTION “A marvelous work of scholarship and storytelling" ( Wall Street Journal​ ), offering a global history of the world’s best-known and most influential book For Christians, the Bible is a book inspired by God. Its eternal words are transmitted across the world by fallible human hands. Following Jesus’s departing instruction to go out into the world, the Bible has been a book in motion from its very beginnings, and every community it has encountered has read, heard, and seen the Bible through its oadf6c7b0-b230-11ef-b2ce-0a39ee06db20Wed, 04 Dec 2024 06:12:41 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2843082NONFICTION We all crave intimacy! We all yearn for intimacy, but we avoid it. We want it badly, but we often run from it. At some deep level, we sense that we have a profound need for intimacy, but we are afraid to go there. Why? We avoid intimacy because having intimacy means exposing our secrets. Being intimate means sharing the secrets of our hearts, minds, and souls with another fragile and imperfect human being. Intimacy requires that we allow another person to discover what moves us, what inspires usadf6c7b1-b230-11ef-b2ce-0a39ee06db20Wed, 04 Dec 2024 06:12:41 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2843079NONFICTION From financial crises, to pandemic price-spikes, to recurring cycles of inflation, everyone agrees: the economy has seen better days. But as soon as pundits and politicians start discussing economics, things get murky. Most books ask more questions than they answer. Most books...but not this one. Judy Shelton —Senior Fellow at Independent Institute, former Chairman of the National Endowment for Democracy, and critically acclaimed monetary economist—has written a book with answer s. And not a momadf6c7b2-b230-11ef-b2ce-0a39ee06db20Wed, 04 Dec 2024 06:12:41 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2843050NONFICTION The untold story behind the hit true crime podcast The Clearing, this unforgettable memoir traces one daughter's moving quest to understand her larger-than-life childhood as she searches for the truth about her father, the serial killer Edward Wayne Edwards. One evening in 2009, April Balascio was searching online, as she had been every night, for unsolved murders in the towns her family had lived growing up, when she stumbled across the latest investigations into the "Sweetheart Murders" cold cadf6c7b3-b230-11ef-b2ce-0a39ee06db20Wed, 04 Dec 2024 06:12:41 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2843047NONFICTION In this bold, compassionate title, yoga teacher, wellness trainer and social media sensation Rhyanna Watson - who has come out the other side of a lot of personal trauma both stronger and happier - explores how to strip back your protective layers, feel brave and beautiful again, and make the rest of your life the best of your life. Rhyanna's nurturing yet empowering text encourages us to get out of our heads and more into our bodies and hearts in order to reconnect with both ourselves and otheradf6c7b4-b230-11ef-b2ce-0a39ee06db20Wed, 04 Dec 2024 06:12:41 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2843038NONFICTION A memoir of the author's journey from an office job to restoring a cabin in the Pacific Northwest, based on his wildly popular Outside Magazine piece. Wit's End isn't just a state of mind. It's the name of a gravel road, the address of a run-down off-the-grid cabin, 120 shabby square feet of fixer-upper Patrick Hutchison purchased on a whim in the mossy woods of the Cascade Mountains in Washington state. To say Hutchison didn't know what he was getting into is no more an exaggeration than to sayadf6c7b5-b230-11ef-b2ce-0a39ee06db20Wed, 04 Dec 2024 06:12:41 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2828218759.3 CAS 2024 34216a18-b26b-11ef-9213-0a39ee06db20Wed, 04 Dec 2024 13:11:37 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2828234792.09746 MAG 2024 34216a19-b26b-11ef-9213-0a39ee06db20Wed, 04 Dec 2024 13:11:37 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2823788818.6 STR 2024 34216a1a-b26b-11ef-9213-0a39ee06db20Wed, 04 Dec 2024 13:11:37 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2833783261.88 SWA 2024 "Two of the world's greatest crises, systemic racism and environmental destruction, share the same origin story. Both are rooted in economic forces that exploit and oppress both people and land. Pastor and activist David Swanson shows how we have failed our God-given duty as caretakers of creation, and how that failure has resulted in the exploitation of people and the extraction of natural resources. Racial and ecological injustice share the same root cause - greed - that turns people and the n34216a1b-b26b-11ef-9213-0a39ee06db20Wed, 04 Dec 2024 13:11:37 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2827741378.19829 ROS 2024 "The book's introductory chapter presents the book's core argument. It describes how education has played a central role in American political development and offers an overview of HBCUs-the distinctive educational institutions whose work has driven key changes in the American democratic landscape. The chapter highlights the contributions that HBCUs have made to the educational and political landscapes in the United States, paying particular attention to the disproportionate representation of HB34216a1c-b26b-11ef-9213-0a39ee06db20Wed, 04 Dec 2024 13:11:37 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2843279320.942 JUD 2019 704ba274-b284-11ef-aca6-0a39ee06db20Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:12:16 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2843278320.54095 WIL 2015 704ba275-b284-11ef-aca6-0a39ee06db20Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:12:16 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2843277305.520973 LIU 2021 Author Catherine Liu shows how Professional Managerial Class (PMC) elite workers who labor in a world of performative identity and virtue signaling stand in the way of social justice and economic redistribution. Virtue Hoarders is an unapologetically polemical call to reject making a virtue out of taste and consumption habits.--704ba276-b284-11ef-aca6-0a39ee06db20Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:12:16 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2843519NONFICTION In this groundbreaking book, Kevin Shipp, a veteran CIA agent who worked with all four Directorates of the agency, including protecting the head of the CIA, provides his perspective on how the agency has strayed so far from its original mission to provide accurate intelligence to the American president. You will learn about the founding of the Agency, how the intelligence agencies have manipulated journalists through Project Mockingbird, as well as their new efforts with the Center for Global Enc0c3606e-b2f9-11ef-afa3-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 06:12:02 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2843511NONFICTION Transform your entire life by cutting mental clutter, reducing overwhelm, and simplifying your daily routines with this inspiring and comprehensive guide from the bestselling author of Minimalista and Organized Living . As a professional home organizing expert with a diverse roster of clients ranging from students to CEOs, Shira Gill realized that almost everyone she worked with was overextended, overscheduled, and overwhelmed. So, using her signature blend of practical minimalism and organizatic0c3606f-b2f9-11ef-afa3-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 06:12:02 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2843496NONFICTION A book that explores the great American novelist and playwright Edna Ferber, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Ficton, whose work was made into many Academy Award-winning movies; the writing of her controversial, international best-selling novel about Texas, and the making of George Stevens’ Academy Award winning epic film of the same name, Giant. The stupendous publication of Edna Ferber's Giant in 1952 set off a storm of protest over the novel's portrayal of Texas manners, money and mores withc0c36070-b2f9-11ef-afa3-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 06:12:02 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2843494NONFICTION "A manageable plan, offering profound long-term benefits for both mind and body—it's a must-read for anyone serious about wellness. —Daniel G. Amen, MD, author of Change Your Brain Every Day The Sleep Doctor shows you how to transform your health by balancing your basics—sleep, hydration, and breathing are the keys to renewed energy, weight loss, lower stress, and improved cognition.   Good health doesn’t have to be complicated. Sleeping, hydrating, and breathing are fundamental to life, and makc0c36071-b2f9-11ef-afa3-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 06:12:02 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2843465NONFICTION A must-have guide to creating the most expansive life from the host of the mega-hit podcast Abundant Ever After , Cathy Heller. Abundant Ever After is a powerful guide for anyone ready to step into their light, unleash their most authentic self, and transform their lives. With three years of immersive study in Jewish mysticism in Jerusalem and over twenty years of dedicated meditation practice, this book brings a profound depth to this spiritual journey, inviting readers to recognize and embracec0c36072-b2f9-11ef-afa3-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 06:12:02 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2843464NONFICTION The New Psychology of Selling The sales profession is in the midst of a perfect storm. Buyers have more power—more information, more at stake, and more control over the sales process—than any time in history. Technology is bringing disruptive change at an ever-increasing pace, creating fear and uncertainty that leaves buyers clinging to the status quo. Deteriorating attention spans have made it difficult to get buyers to sit still long enough to "challenge," "teach," "help," give "insight," or sc0c36073-b2f9-11ef-afa3-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 06:12:02 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2840126332.024 MIS 2024 e505f038-b31a-11ef-8938-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 10:09:16 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2840155B ESTILAI, ELLEN "Exit Prohibited explores a side of Iran and Iranians seldom portrayed in popular media. It follows Ellen and her family after the 1979 Iranian Revolution as they attempt to leave Tehran, their home of nine years. At the airport, Ali, her Iranian husband, is inexplicably prevented from leaving. As he confronts hostile colleagues and the Islamic Republic's opaque bureaucracy, Ellen examines their lives, trying to understand what might have brought them to this point. It is a story of an Iran thate505f039-b31a-11ef-8938-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 10:09:16 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2840119201.762 GRU 2024 Do you look around at our country, our culture, and wonder: "HOW DID WE GET HERE? "The 1916 Project unearths the how and why of our "progressive" culture shift. In 1916, the founder of Planned Parenthood opened her first clinic that launched America into a moral revolution that would have far-reaching consequences worldwide. Seth traces a direct path from Planned Parenthood to the Nazis to the current Democratic Party. Along the way, he makes stops in unexpected places, like the offices of Playbe505f03a-b31a-11ef-8938-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 10:09:16 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2839820152.42 HUM 2020 If there is one thing that most of us aspire to, it is, simply, to be happy. And yet attaining happiness has become, it appears, anything but simple. Having stuff The Latest, The Newest, The Best Yet is all too often peddled as the sure fire route to happiness. So why then, in our consumer-driven society, is depression, stress and anxiety ever more common, affecting every strata of society and every age, even, worryingly, the very young? Why is it, when we have so much, that many of us still feee505f03b-b31a-11ef-8938-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 10:09:16 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2840196976.4147 BAR 2024 "Would you abandon your wealth and privilege to be with the person you loved? In late 1931, a tall, gaunt man named “Tom Palmer” stepped off the train in the border town of Brownsville, Texas. Weeks later, “Elizabeth McClinton Palmer” joined him. Each deserted prominent families who suppressed the reason for their disappearances to avoid scandal. His escape was an elaborate hoax that also defrauded his life insurance company. She simply walked away from her home. Betty and Tom then strove to buie505f03c-b31a-11ef-8938-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 10:09:16 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2840154332.024 HOU 2024 Rich Routines shows how to build towards financial wealth by starting with all areas of life that money serves: spiritual, physical, mental, and emotional. Build and follow simple habits in all these areas of life, and the rewards will be lasting. Rich Routines is the perfectly timed read for aspiring entrepreneurs who have big dreams beyond business, and don't want to sacrifice health for wealth.--Publisher.e505f03d-b31a-11ef-8938-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 10:09:16 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2840157975.004 TEU 2023 "Cherokee Earth Dwellers will be the first book to articulate a Cherokee view of the natural world grounded in Cherokee names for that world. Weaving together a chorus of voices of elders including Hastings Shade, who created booklets with over 600 Cherokee names for animals and plants, the manuscript explores how contemporary Cherokee knowledge keepers understand and engage the natural world. The core of the book is the names themselves, including birds, animals, edible plants, reptiles, amphibe505f03e-b31a-11ef-8938-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 10:09:16 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2830705152.335 WIL 2024 "A nonfiction narrative book about left-handedness"--68d4e20c-b334-11ef-ac92-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2833738636.7 MIC 2024 68d4e20d-b334-11ef-ac92-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2833112133.5 FLO 2024 SPANISH 68d4e20e-b334-11ef-ac92-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2823446641.5676 NAT 2025 "In Jewish tradition, holidays are a time for family and feasting, and for Joan Nathan, nothing embodies the holiday spirit more than cooking delicious festive favorites with friends and loved ones. When her own children were young, Nathan published the first version of this book, which covers nine Jewish holidays and includes step-by-step instructions for kids and their families to prepare accessible feasts. Now she updates a beloved go-to resource for her grandchildren's generation (Out with t68d4e20f-b334-11ef-ac92-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2840802.SCIENCE FICTION KELLY 68d4e210-b334-11ef-ac92-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2840796954 MUK 2023 "[This] book covers all the major landmarks of Indian history from prehistoric times up to the twenty-first century - starting with the country's geological origins a few billion years in the past and the migration of Homo sapiens from Africa into the region several millenia ago. It traces the evolution of Indian civilization through a multitude of epochs, personalities, and turning points, including the Harappan Culture, Vedic Society, the age of Mahavira and the Buddha, Ashoka and the Mauryas68d4e211-b334-11ef-ac92-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2823818818.6 KIE 2024 68d4e212-b334-11ef-ac92-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2827706B HARRIS, LARNELLE 68d4e213-b334-11ef-ac92-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2825790700.852 RIC 2024 "Few women artists feature prominently in the history of art, and even fewer who are mothers. Are motherhood and creativity at odds, or are other factors at play? The Mother Artist twines meditations on parenthood with studies of painters, writers, and others who blend caregiving and creative practice. Includes full-color images by mother artists"--68d4e214-b334-11ef-ac92-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2827729398.20943 GRI 2024 68d4e215-b334-11ef-ac92-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2827705248.843 RIE 2024 "In Sacred Refuge, Lynne Rienstra taps into the growing angst-turned-chronic-fear among women. Though fear puts women into hiding, God invites women to come out of hiding and into the unassailable shelter he has built for them in the gospel. In the pages of Sacred Refuge, readers will be challenged to consider where they've been finding shelter: in flimsy structures of their own making, or in the sacred refuge only Christ provides. Through the ten modern women and ten biblical women they'll meet68d4e216-b334-11ef-ac92-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2823816B POWELL-INGABIRE, DENECHIA 68d4e217-b334-11ef-ac92-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2842505306.87 LOU 2024 68d4e218-b334-11ef-ac92-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2839128523.2 HAR 2024 68d4e219-b334-11ef-ac92-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2833719641.56383 BUT 2024 68d4e21a-b334-11ef-ac92-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2839063B LEV, GIDON "Gidon Lev is eighty-eight years old. He's been a dance teacher and a farmer. He loves soccer, his kids, grandkids, and great-grandkids, his beloved wife of forty years, Susan, who died at age sixty-nine, and his unexpected late-in-life partner, Julie, who he met when he was eighty-one. He's a self-identified rascal and optimist. Gidon Lev is also a Holocaust survivor who was imprisoned for nearly four years in the concentration camp of Theresienstadt. Liberated when he was ten, he lost at least68d4e21b-b334-11ef-ac92-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2830746917.5924 KUB 2025 68d4e21c-b334-11ef-ac92-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2836411131 FLA 2024 SPANISH 68d4e21d-b334-11ef-ac92-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2839117530.076 PRI 2024 68d4e21e-b334-11ef-ac92-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2826003551.6 BIE 2024 68d4e21f-b334-11ef-ac92-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2834227597.89022 CRU 2024 "From morning to night and from the forest to the desert, what do frogs do all day? In this short book, celebrated biologist Marty Crump shows readers exactly how frogs spend their time. Each chapter covers a single frog during a single hour, highlighting twenty-four different species from around the globe. At midnight in Indonesia, we hear the rustle of leaves above. It's not a bird, but Wallace's flying frog, using its webbed feet and emerald-green skin flaps to glide through the forest canopy68d4e220-b334-11ef-ac92-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2837569B TYSON, CICELY #01 Cicely Tyson was born in New York City to parents originally from the Islands. No matter where she was, Cicely always carried light within her, a light that she let shine. After many years of discovering herself, Cicely finally found where her light could shine the brightest and touch others: in film. Spinning gorgeous verse, and weaving in the history of Black America, Watson beautifully introduces children to Cicely's world—the world that shaped a woman who went on to bring unparalleled grace68d4e221-b334-11ef-ac92-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2837589B BERRIEN, ELIZABETH "This inspirational picture book biography tells the story of how neurodivergent artist Elizabeth Berrien created three-dimensional wire sculptures and went on to become a leader of the contemporary wire sculpture movement"--68d4e222-b334-11ef-ac92-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2837582332.4 HOB 2024 Publisher Annotation: What is the meaning of all those symbols on US bills (and why are they so hard to counterfeit)? What’s with people calling money “bacon” or “cheddar” or “smackeroonies”? With savvy and wit, financial expert Mellody Hobson sheds a friendly light on a daunting subject, from the meteorites that created the first mineral deposits to the ancient Maya who used chocolate as currency to the beginnings of the banking system itself. Readers learn about bartering, profit and loss, the68d4e223-b334-11ef-ac92-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2827700264 PAS 2024 "Through liturgies and prayers in this illustrated devotional, spiritual director and beloved writer helps you use whatever emotion you're feeling as a pathway to meaningful connection with God"--8f055376-b34d-11ef-83c5-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:11:56 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2828217727.6 ROS 2024 "Sixteen of the world's preeminent architects offer insiders' views of how museums are designed and how they shape our experience of art"--8f055377-b34d-11ef-83c5-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:11:56 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2827791645 GIL 2024 "The author of Minimalista brings her signature organizational mindset and step-by-step approach to elevate and streamline all aspects of your life"--8f055378-b34d-11ef-83c5-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:11:56 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2826014597.928 FIG 2024 8f055379-b34d-11ef-83c5-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:11:56 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2830761690.80286 HUT 2024 "A memoir of the author's journey from an office job to restoring a cabin in the Pacific Northwest, based on his wildly popular Outside Magazine piece. Wit's End isn't just a state of mind. It's an address, for a run-down off-the-grid cabin, 120 shabby square feet of fixer-upper Patrick Hutchison purchased on a whim in the mossy woods of the Cascade Mountains in Washington state. To say Hutchison didn't know what he was getting into is no more an exaggeration than to say he's a man with nearly z8f05537a-b34d-11ef-83c5-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:11:56 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2833764641.5975 WHE 2024 8f05537b-b34d-11ef-83c5-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:11:56 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2827831006.3 MUE 2025 8f05537c-b34d-11ef-83c5-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:11:56 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2833782293.13 GAI 2024 8f05537d-b34d-11ef-83c5-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:11:56 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2843932327.73009 MAS 2024 "This book ... charts Imran Khan's journey from a combative opposition leader to the office of the Prime Minister ... with ... the exploration of the complex relationship between Imran Khan and the Pakistani military--and their subsequent falling out."--Page xiii.8f05537e-b34d-11ef-83c5-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:11:56 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2839821363.73874 ECO 2022 8f05537f-b34d-11ef-83c5-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:11:56 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2839843323.0922 MOO 2024 8f055380-b34d-11ef-83c5-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:11:56 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2839839976.9 DEA 2024 8f055381-b34d-11ef-83c5-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:11:56 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2833968741.5973 MAR 2024 8f055382-b34d-11ef-83c5-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:11:56 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2837566031.02 ALL 2024 Publisher Annotation: This timeless encyclopedia for children aged 9+ covers all their favorite topics in a friendly, easy-to-read Q&A format, perfect to dip into and browse. Find the answers to big questions like "How do airplanes fly?" " Why do tigers have stripes?" " What's inside a black hole?” and much more! Alongside the children's questions and the expert answers are beautiful illustrations, photographs, and diagrams that bring every topic to life in rich detail and with perfect clarity.8f055383-b34d-11ef-83c5-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:11:56 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2790018495.78342 WON 2025 8f055384-b34d-11ef-83c5-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:11:56 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2833775270.082 MAT 2024 "Despite real progress, women continue to be silenced, wounded, and relegated to the sidelines in our churches. But we can learn to do better. Exploring the history and culture of sexism in our contemporary evangelical world, Heather Matthews offers simple, practical steps for how Christians can actively fight sexism in its many forms"--8f055385-b34d-11ef-83c5-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:11:56 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2830738914.68 MOO 2024 8f055386-b34d-11ef-83c5-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:11:56 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2830731910.202 INS 2025 8f055387-b34d-11ef-83c5-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:11:56 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2822235914.9618 RIC 2024 8f055388-b34d-11ef-83c5-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:11:56 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2836190909.09749 ROB 2024 "Hugh Roberts fundamentally reassesses the Arab Spring, refuting the stories the Western powers fed to the world. There is no doubt that the toppling of Ben Ali in Tunisia in January 2011 and what followed amounted to a political revolution. But the uprisings in Egypt, Libya, and Syria-countries with quite different histories and political traditions-were never revolutions. As Hugh Roberts explains, the bitter conclusions of these episodes were inscribed in their misunderstood beginnings"--8f055389-b34d-11ef-83c5-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:11:56 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2836149001.944 SIE 2024 "Loch Ness Uncovered is an extensively researched, myth-busting account of the world's most famous monster hoax-the Loch Ness Monster-and a cautionary tale on the dangers of misinformation"--8f05538a-b34d-11ef-83c5-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:11:56 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2839189796.323 BUG 2023 Provided by publisher.8f05538b-b34d-11ef-83c5-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:11:56 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2839127B BJORNERUD, MARCIA "Rocks are the record of our creative planet reinventing itself for four billion years. Nothing is ever lost, just transformed. Marcia Bjornerud's life as a geologist has coincided with an extraordinary period of discovery. From an insular girlhood in rural Wisconsin, she found her way to an unlikely career studying mountains in remote parts of the world. As one of few women in her field, she witnessed the shift in our understanding of the Earth, from solid object to an entity in a constant stat8f05538c-b34d-11ef-83c5-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:11:56 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2684315NONFICTION From journalist, fashionista, and clothing resale expert Elizabeth L. Cline, “the Michael Pollan of fashion,”* comes the definitive guide to building an ethical, sustainable wardrobe you'll love. Clothing is one of the most personal expressions of who we are. In her landmark investigation  Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion, Elizabeth L. Cline first revealed fast fashion’s hidden toll on the environment, garment workers, and even our own satisfaction with our clothes. The Con8f05538d-b34d-11ef-83c5-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:11:56 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2839059B WHITE, JALEEL 8f05538e-b34d-11ef-83c5-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:11:56 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2836390B LUCIA, PACO DE SPANISH 8f05538f-b34d-11ef-83c5-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:11:56 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2836379613.2 LAM 2022 SPANISH 8f055390-b34d-11ef-83c5-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:11:56 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2833815364.1523 STE 2023 8f055391-b34d-11ef-83c5-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:11:56 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2833969758 ROB 2024 "Create beautiful artwork outdoors and on the go with Mini Plein Air Painting with Remington Robinson"--8f055392-b34d-11ef-83c5-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:11:56 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2837570B COLVIN, CLAUDETTE #05 Claudette Colvin helped change segregation in the South by refusing to give up her seat on the bus.8f055393-b34d-11ef-83c5-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:11:56 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2837580031.02 KNO 2024 Publisher Annotation: Leaf through the pages of this beautiful book and you’ll find out how lists, codes, systems, and collections make sense of our world. With its combination of attractive, timeless images and engaging text, this book is perfect for children aged 9+ (and adults!) who are curious about the world and the lists, systems, and categories that help us understand it.8f055394-b34d-11ef-83c5-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:11:56 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2837583B PRINCE #16 "From award-winning author Matthew Burgess and debut illustrator Sirin Thada, a picture book biography of music icon Prince, from childhood to superstardom, that crackles with electricity and soul Prince is remembered as one of the greatest musicians and performers of all time. But before he achieved global superstardom, he was a child growing up in Minneapolis, with a universe of music inside him. From his first forays into writing songs with his school friends to his unprecedented three-album8f055395-b34d-11ef-83c5-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:11:56 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2815722613.954 CAS 2024 8f055396-b34d-11ef-83c5-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:11:56 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2833971814.54 KAP 2024 8f055397-b34d-11ef-83c5-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:11:56 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2839115515.076 KAH 2024 8f055398-b34d-11ef-83c5-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:11:56 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2648049006.696 VAN 2024 "Blender, the free software for creating anything in 3D from scratch, is a dream come true for digital artists. This book is a treasure trove of information for anyone who wants to create their own animations. Explore every step in the 3D creation process with jargon-free instructions and walkthroughs. Ever if you've never created in 3D before, you can start building models, working with light and texture, rendering images, editing video, and finalizing your finished product."--Page 4 of cover.8f055399-b34d-11ef-83c5-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:11:56 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2826016591.5 DUG 2024 "In the cloud forests of Monteverde, Costa Rica, pairs of male long-tailed manakins-clad in their stunning, red, blue, and black plumage-use perches as a stage for a coordinated song-and-dance to attract mates. Because the potential benefits are so great, males compete intensely for access to the stage. Who wins that competition? If you want a good perch to attract a mate, you need to have connections-and be deeply embedded in the manakin social network from the days of your youth. This is justa97847cc-b366-11ef-b888-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 19:11:38 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2828237741.53522 LAN 2024 Provided by publisher.a97847cd-b366-11ef-b888-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 19:11:38 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2827772658.05 GEN 2024 "How surveillance and new management technologies are changing the nature of work, and how workers are fighting for more control over their workplaces"--a97847ce-b366-11ef-b888-0a39ee06db20Thu, 05 Dec 2024 19:11:38 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2844027NONFICTION Discover the powerful and universal lessons from the music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim, the genius behind such musical theater masterworks as Company , West Side Story , and Into the Woods . Stephen Sondheim died on November 26, 2021, but for countless fans around the world, he is "still here," to quote one of his lyrics. With acclaimed revivals of his landmark shows occurring around the world and introducing new generations to the man who transformed American musical theater, Sondheim's lega3ab872dc-b3c3-11ef-8e8f-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 06:14:15 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2844022NONFICTION This book is not about leadership, at least in the way we normally think about it. Leadership is not about position, or authority. It's not about big speeches or grand visions. Leadership is engaging others to solve daunting challenges. Those challenges appear in our professional lives, in our communities, our families—and they seem unsolvable, beyond our ability to see what needs to be done or outside our capacity to make the changes needed. They are not. Because, leadership is an activity—smal3ab872dd-b3c3-11ef-8e8f-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 06:14:15 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2844004NONFICTION A new edition of the first book by the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses -the fascinating story of the telegraph, the world's first "Internet," which revolutionized the nineteenth century even more than the Internet has the twentieth and twenty first. The Victorian Internet tells the colorful story of the telegraph's creation and remarkable impact, and of the visionaries, oddballs, and eccentrics who pioneered it, from the eighteenth-century French scientist Jean-Antoine3ab872de-b3c3-11ef-8e8f-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 06:14:15 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2844003NONFICTION As a leading Confederate general, Braxton Bragg (1817–1876) earned a reputation for incompetence, for wantonly shooting his own soldiers, and for losing battles. This public image established him not only as a scapegoat for the South's military failures but also as the chief whipping boy of the Confederacy. The strongly negative opinions of Bragg's contemporaries have continued to color assessments of the general's military career and character by generations of historians. Rather than take thes3ab872df-b3c3-11ef-8e8f-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 06:14:15 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2843999NONFICTION PROSE AWARDS MEDIA AND CULTURAL STUDIES FINALIST 2024 The Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to our digital present – and draws out lessons for the age to come. The age of print is a grand exception in history. For five centuries it fostered what some call print culture – a worldview shaped by the completeness, permanence, and authority of the printed word. As a technology, print at its birth was as disruptive as the digital migration of today. Now, as3ab872e0-b3c3-11ef-8e8f-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 06:14:15 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2843995NONFICTION From a Robert Frost poem on her debut album to the myth of Cassandra on The Tortured Poets Department , Taylor Swift’s lyrics are filled with literary connections. Make sure you're catching them all with this expert guide to the novels, poems, and plays that influence her songwriting. Let a literature professor and a musical theater artist guide you through the Taylor Swift canon—from Shakespeare to the Brontë sisters to Daphne du Maurier! Learn what "New Romantics" has to do with the old Romant3ab872e1-b3c3-11ef-8e8f-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 06:14:15 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2843989NONFICTION In this celebration of faith and freedom, Fox News Co-Host Emily Compagno shares first person accounts that show the profound role belief in God has played in the lives of U.S. military servicemembers as they served in combat from World War I to today—commemorating the courage, camaraderie, spirit, and sacrifice of America's heroes. In this moving and evocative collection, Emily Compagno explores the enduring role faith has played in the lives of American soldiers during wartime. Descending from3ab872e2-b3c3-11ef-8e8f-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 06:14:15 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2839028363.96097 GOR 2024 471393f6-b3e4-11ef-9f07-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 10:10:49 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2830745910.45 WHI 2025 471393f7-b3e4-11ef-9f07-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 10:10:49 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2836106941.08109 SOM 2024 "A riveting portrait of Queen Victoria and the ten prime ministers who headed the British government during her sixty-three-year reign"--471393f8-b3e4-11ef-9f07-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 10:10:49 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2830729918.5 FOD 2025 471393f9-b3e4-11ef-9f07-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 10:10:49 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2822251915.40453 LON 2024 471393fa-b3e4-11ef-9f07-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 10:10:49 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2824995782.14092 SCH 2024 471393fb-b3e4-11ef-9f07-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 10:10:49 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2839119530.076 PRI 2024 471393fc-b3e4-11ef-9f07-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 10:10:49 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2837522919.8904 NER 2024 Follow Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author G. Neri to the end of the world in a captivating travel memoir that explores Antarctica through the curiosity and wonder of his inner child-the kid who dreamed of one day becoming an explorer.8fdd7d0e-b3fd-11ef-9fe3-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 13:11:49 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2837585B SWIFT, TAYLOR #14 Publisher Annotation: Since the release of her self-titled first album, Taylor Swift has enchanted the world again and again. The fearless singer-songwriter empowers her listeners to be confident, brave, and expressive. This gorgeous picture book biography follows the big star from her childhood to present day. Follow Taylor’s earliest performances, her musical inspirations, and—above all else—her passion for writing and storytelling. Sweeter than fiction, Taylor’s story is the perfect collectib8fdd7d0f-b3fd-11ef-9fe3-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 13:11:49 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2836127B WILSON, WOODROW #42 8fdd7d10-b3fd-11ef-9fe3-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 13:11:49 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2834233576.83 LIV 2024 "For a long time, scientists have wondered how life has emerged from inanimate chemistry, and whether Earth is the only place where it exists. Charles Darwin speculated about life on Earth beginning in a warm little pond. Some of his contemporaries believed that life existed on Mars. It once seemed inevitable that the truth would be known by now. It is not. For more than a century, the origins and extent of life have remained shrouded in mystery. But, as Mario Livio and Jack Szostak reveal in Is8fdd7d11-b3fd-11ef-9fe3-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 13:11:49 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2839021914.5511 FOD 2025 8fdd7d12-b3fd-11ef-9fe3-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 13:11:49 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2826010567.3 LON 2024 8fdd7d13-b3fd-11ef-9fe3-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 13:11:49 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2834223508.795 CAS 2023 "A literary field guide of art, poetry, and natural history for 128 of the Beings that live in the thirteen biogregions that make up Cascadia, a region that ranges from southeast Alaska to northern California and from the Pacific coast to the Continental Divide"--8fdd7d14-b3fd-11ef-9fe3-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 13:11:49 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2828241791.4572 OHE 2024 "For seven seasons, Leslie Knope and the Parks and Recreation gang charmed millions of viewers with their quirky antics and unwavering positivity. The sitcom continues to be a fan-favorite for streaming services today, nearly a decade after its finale. Now for the first time, Jim O'Heir, who played the lovable Jerry (or, well, Garry/Larry/Terry/Barry, depending on the episode), invites readers back to Pawnee for an exclusive look behind the scenes. Joined by some of his Parks and Rec pals, inclu8fdd7d15-b3fd-11ef-9fe3-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 13:11:49 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2832997297.217 YAS 2024 "Lurking in the corner of your living room, perhaps reading this sentence over your shoulder right now, is an often invisible creature that is everywhere and nowhere. Djinn are the cool breezes in warm rooms, the materializations of your deepest desires, the monsters waiting beneath your bed. They have appeared in the stories of Muslim communities across time and throughout the world, but this is the first comprehensive illustrated guide to these beguiling creatures. Emmy Award-winning journalis8fdd7d16-b3fd-11ef-9fe3-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 13:11:49 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2827683179.3 HAL 2024 "A heartfelt, humane, and even hilarious account of why rule-obsessed veganism fails and how a focus on flourishing can bring about an abundant future for all. Perhaps you've looked at factory farming or climate change and thought, I should become a vegan. And like most people who think that, very probably you haven't. Why? Well, in our world, roast turkey emanates gratitude, steak confers virility, and chicken soup represents a mother's love. Against that, simply swapping meat for plants won't8fdd7d17-b3fd-11ef-9fe3-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 13:11:49 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2839116515.076 KAH1 2024 8fdd7d18-b3fd-11ef-9fe3-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 13:11:49 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2836183914.81 BLO 2024 8fdd7d19-b3fd-11ef-9fe3-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 13:11:49 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2836155028.7 TRU 2023 With the accelerating rise of online communication, there has also been an unprecedented spread of falsehoods. Readers coming of age in this world of information spreading at speeds faster than ever before may wonder about how technology can spread pervasive lies-and how they can play a part in making it more truthful. This enlightening title aims to guide readers in exploring how technology such as deepfakes and social media algorithms can convincingly distort the truth. They will not only lear8fdd7d1a-b3fd-11ef-9fe3-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 13:11:49 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2825999535 ARC 2024 8fdd7d1b-b3fd-11ef-9fe3-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 13:11:49 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2836139006.3 ART 2024 The concept of artificial intelligence (AI) has evolved greatly since the mid-twentieth century. This book examines the history of AI from early explorations to the latest technology. It also dives into the ethical questions surrounding AI, what AI might look like in the future, and ways in which AI can be used to improve human life. With text explaining the fundamentals of AI as well as current debates on the topic, teens will develop a strong understanding of how the field has evolved over tim8fdd7d1c-b3fd-11ef-9fe3-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 13:11:49 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2834221810.8036 BES 2024 8fdd7d1d-b3fd-11ef-9fe3-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 13:11:49 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2822364811.6 TOR 2024 8fdd7d1e-b3fd-11ef-9fe3-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 13:11:49 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2839066B PALMER, KEKE "Keke Palmer thought she knew who she was. What it means to be a good person and what it takes to be a success. It all seemed so simple, until she realized the challenges she would have to face to prove to herself who she wanted to be. From feeling alienated to having to restart her career after ten years in to becoming a single mother just months after her son was born-everything she worked for in life that she felt granted her what she wanted now also reminded her that "life is going to life"8fdd7d1f-b3fd-11ef-9fe3-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 13:11:49 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2834225572.865 KHA 2023 8fdd7d20-b3fd-11ef-9fe3-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 13:11:49 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2831259641.77 COM 2024 8fdd7d21-b3fd-11ef-9fe3-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 13:11:49 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2843181398.21 An23s After the Snow Queen abducts her friend Kai, Gerda sets out on a perilous and magical journey to find him.8fdd7d22-b3fd-11ef-9fe3-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 13:11:49 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2833725647.95757 BLA 2024 "Charleston Food Crawls is an exciting culinary tour through the largest city in South Carolina. Each crawl is the complete recipe for the perfect tourist day, a new way to experience your own city, or simply food porn and great stories to enjoy from home. Put on your walking shoes and your stretchy pants, and dig into Charleston one dish at a time"--8fdd7d23-b3fd-11ef-9fe3-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 13:11:49 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2836214956.94054 ROS 2024 8fdd7d24-b3fd-11ef-9fe3-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 13:11:49 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2837590331.702 FEI 2024 Publisher Annotation: With care and delight, New York Times columnists Shaina Feinberg and Julia Rothman take readers all over the world to explore the furthest reaches of passion and dedication in this collection of interviews. Meet a wildland firefighter, a surfer, a ferry captain, a designer of headscarves, an accessibility specialist, and many other real people doing the creative, fascinating, and often difficult jobs that make the world work. This ode to the wild and limitless range of jobb8a880f8-b416-11ef-acf2-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2836101796.33409 DEV 2024 b8a880f9-b416-11ef-acf2-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2839074B MYERS, CHRIS "Emmy Award-winning broadcaster Chris Myers reflects on his illustrious career as one of the most trusted and renowned journalists in sports. Myers has witnessed and participated in his fair share of historic events: on the field when the earthquake struck the 1989 World Series; on the air throughout the tragic aftermath of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing; on the sidelines during the Patriots' stunning comeback at Super Bowl LI; and a contentious live interview with the notorious OJ Simpson. Nb8a880fa-b416-11ef-acf2-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2839004303.483 ROS 2024 b8a880fb-b416-11ef-acf2-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2823808940.545 DOM 2024 b8a880fc-b416-11ef-acf2-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2833957746 ROS 2025 b8a880fd-b416-11ef-acf2-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2833746613.26 BER 2025 b8a880fe-b416-11ef-acf2-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2833954746.46041 PAR 2025 "Anna Maria's Blueprint Quilting guides you to stitch 16 stunning quilts and patchwork projects based on four underlying "blueprints," while learning skills to create your own original designs"--b8a880ff-b416-11ef-acf2-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2833745641.824 POL 2024 b8a88100-b416-11ef-acf2-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2837446975.918 KAD 2022 b8a88101-b416-11ef-acf2-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2788912005.10285 URW 2024 b8a88102-b416-11ef-acf2-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2836065B CORBETT, DANIEL b8a88103-b416-11ef-acf2-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2833808306.76808 LAN 2024 b8a88104-b416-11ef-acf2-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2823447641.512 EBY 2024 b8a88105-b416-11ef-acf2-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2826001500 SCH 2024 b8a88106-b416-11ef-acf2-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2839057B BROLIN, JOSH "From Josh Brolin, a unique and decidedly un-celebrity memoir, by turns affecting, funny, uncanny, and unforgettable. Weaving a latticework of different strands, moving back and forth through time, Josh Brolin captures a life marked by curiosity, pain, devotion, kindness, humor. He recounts an unconventional childhood far from Hollywood. Raised on a ranch in Paso Robles, California, he was surrounded as a child by the wolves, cougars, and other wild animals gathered by his fearless and explosiveb8a88107-b416-11ef-acf2-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2825004818.5409 DID 2024 b8a88108-b416-11ef-acf2-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2836197914.81 NAT 2024 b8a88109-b416-11ef-acf2-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2833814320.12 DIE 2024 "Compelling and accessible, this Very Short Introduction challenges common perceptions of borders as merely lines on maps or physical barriers snaking across the landscape. Instead, borders are shown to be powerful forces integral to the economic, social, political, and environmental processes that shape our lives. By highlighting their prominent role in global history and across a gamut of contemporary international events, Alexander Diener and Joshua Hagen demonstrate the impact borders have ob8a8810a-b416-11ef-acf2-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2833977700.46 SPI 2023 "Spirit in the Land, a contemporary art exhibition and catalogue, uniquely examines today's urgent ecological concerns through a cultural lens, demonstrating how our identity and the natural environment are intricately intertwined. Through their artwork and writing, the artists show us how cultural identity and traditions are deeply rooted in our relationship with the land. Together they illustrate the restorative need to return to nature and exemplify how biodiversity and cultural diversity areb8a8810b-b416-11ef-acf2-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2839111576.82 MIN 2024 b8a8810c-b416-11ef-acf2-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2843103741.56973 BAR 2024 "From the Everglades to the Grand Canyon, danger and intrigue at every turn! Carl Barks's first foray into his signature series of adventures in "lost civilizations'' takes the Ducks deep into the Everglades, where they find themselves bedeviled by the enigmatic Gneezles, who have escaped detection from outsiders since the days of Ponce de León -- and want to keep it that way. Then, the fun comes fast and furious as Donald invents a radar detector to track the nephews, the boys open their own deb8a8810d-b416-11ef-acf2-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2837441700.4112 BLO 2024 Contemporary Art Underground presents more than 100 permanent projects completed between 2015 and 2023 by MTA Arts & Design. This ground-breaking program of site-specific projects by a broad spectrum of well-known and emerging contemporary artists has helped to create a sense of character and place at subway and commuter rail stations throughout the MTA system. Among the featured artists are Yayoi Kusama, Kiki Smith, Nick Cave, Ann Hamilton, Xenobia Bailey, Jim Hodges, Alex Katz, Sarah Sze, andb8a8810e-b416-11ef-acf2-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2827807618.2 PRE 2024 b8a8810f-b416-11ef-acf2-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2828239683.40075 STA 2025 b8a88110-b416-11ef-acf2-0a39ee06db20Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:11:55 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2844203NONFICTION Autumn recipes from Sourdough-Sage Stuffing to Grand Marnier Soufflé: “Well suited to the home cook who revels in the simple pleasures of the table” ( Saveur ). CANAL HOUSE COOKING, VOLUME N° 2, FALL & HOLIDAY is filled with recipes that will make you want to run into the kitchen and start cooking. It is a collection of our favorite fall and holiday recipes. We are home cooks writing about home cooking for other home cooks. Our recipes are easy to prepare, and completely doable for the novice ane677ce60-b48b-11ef-bb16-0a39ee06db20Sat, 07 Dec 2024 06:10:43 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2844196NONFICTION In this pioneering book for believers, nonbelievers, and anyone curious about the supernatural, renowned exorcist Father Carlos Martins shares his real-life experiences with demonic activity and explores how we can remain safe against its power. In his blockbuster podcast, The Exorcist Files , Fr. Martins uncovers the disturbing reality of the forces of evil in our world, guiding listeners through many of his most graphic encounters with demonic entities. In this groundbreaking book, he dives dee677ce61-b48b-11ef-bb16-0a39ee06db20Sat, 07 Dec 2024 06:10:43 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2844195NONFICTION Cheryl and Griffith Day,  New York Times  bestselling authors and owners of Savannah’s must-visit Back in the Day Bakery, share 33 homespun recipes for delicious special occasion entertaining. Try Pumpkin Crunch Bars for a Thanksgiving table, Gingerbread Cupcakes with Lemon–Cream Cheese Frosting for a caroling party, Pecan Brittle as a hostess gift, and Salted Caramel Popcorn when it’s time to pile into the den together and watch a favorite holiday movie.   This book has been adapted from The Bae677ce62-b48b-11ef-bb16-0a39ee06db20Sat, 07 Dec 2024 06:10:43 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2844193NONFICTION The ultimate guide for getting it together, from lockers and backpacks to bedrooms, closets, and vanities—by the New York Times bestselling authors of The Home Edit. The Home Edit for Teens is a playbook for owning your style, your confidence, your life . Being organized means you’ll never scramble to find your favorite sweatshirt again and forgetting assignments will be a thing of the past. But the best part of Clea and Joanna’s signature approach to organizing is that it makes space for you toe677ce63-b48b-11ef-bb16-0a39ee06db20Sat, 07 Dec 2024 06:10:43 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2844188NONFICTION The women tell remarkable stories of their lives and actions.... This book pays powerful tribute to their resolve and passion for economic justice. ― Publishers Weekly Holding the Line , Barbara Kingsolver's first non-fiction book, is the story of women's lives transformed by an a signal event. Set in the small mining towns of Arizona, it is part oral history and part social criticism, exploring the process of empowerment which occurs when people work together as a community. Like Kingsolver'se677ce64-b48b-11ef-bb16-0a39ee06db20Sat, 07 Dec 2024 06:10:43 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2844185NONFICTION Menus and anecdotes give away one man's secrets for entertaining in style. Steven Stolman has a gregarious personality. He loves to entertain: cocktail parties in Palm Beach, football game-day gatherings in Wisconsin, family Passover Sedars in Connecticut, and dinner parties in his New York apartment. "Of all our friends, we have the smallest places, yet we seem to do more entertaining than anyone." It's about the people and the food, he says. He also loves old community and church cookbooks froe677ce65-b48b-11ef-bb16-0a39ee06db20Sat, 07 Dec 2024 06:10:43 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2844181NONFICTION Welcome to the ultimate TBR list! With meticulously researched book descriptions and hundreds of guided prompts and reading tips, The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge is an officially licensed, one-of-a-kind fan's guide to the Gilmore Girls universe and all 339 books referenced in the series. For fans of Gilmore Girls , one of the most dedicated ways to tap into the psyche of Rory Gilmore is committing to one Herculean task: The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge. Over the course of seven seasons, Rore677ce66-b48b-11ef-bb16-0a39ee06db20Sat, 07 Dec 2024 06:10:43 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2844180NONFICTION When people leave your home, are they spiritually refreshed or merely impressed? Here's how to make others feel welcomed and loved wherever you are.e677ce67-b48b-11ef-bb16-0a39ee06db20Sat, 07 Dec 2024 06:10:43 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2844178NONFICTION Nothing makes a statement like a celebration cake, especially when you bake it from scratch. Cheryl and Griffith Day, New York Times bestselling authors and owners of Savannah’s must-visit Back in the Day Bakery, touch all the high points of American cake magic—coconut, red velvet, carrot with cream cheese frosting, chocolate (both traditional and flourless), spice, angel food, and the essential pineapple upside-down— with 36 truly decadent, showstopping creations.   This book has been adapted fe677ce68-b48b-11ef-bb16-0a39ee06db20Sat, 07 Dec 2024 06:10:43 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2844174NONFICTION In a first-of-its-kind volume, The New Testament in Color offers biblical commentary that is: Multiethnic Diverse Contextual Informative Reflective Prophetic Inspiring "I wish someone had handed The New Testament in Color to me twenty-five years ago, and I hope many will read it now." —Nijay Gupta, bestselling author of Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church . Historically, Bible commentaries have focused on the particular concerns of a limited segment of the ce677ce69-b48b-11ef-bb16-0a39ee06db20Sat, 07 Dec 2024 06:10:43 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2844168NONFICTION THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THROWING THE PERFECT PARTY—FROM ONE OF TODAY’S MOST SOUGHT-AFTER CATERERS. When A-listers want to host a standout event, they call New York caterer Mary Giuliani. Her motto? Eat. Drink. Play. Recover. She prefers a “simple yet special” approach to entertaining but still manages to make the ordinary extraordinary. 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And once we've tackled those questions, how do we go about actually downsizing our clutter? Told through individual client stories, Stop Buying Bins reveals the8206d5d0-b6e7-11ef-a84d-0a39ee06db20Tue, 10 Dec 2024 06:11:30 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2844575NONFICTION Decluttering your home has never been easier with this step-by-step action plan. Plus, hundreds of genius tricks help you create a calm and tidy life. Often the hardest part of organizing is getting started. This attractive book from the experts at Good Housekeeping breaks down your decluttering to-do list into smaller zones so you can tidy up and whip your home into shape.  Whether you're looking to take on every room in the house or focus on trouble spots (like your linen closet and that junk8206d5d1-b6e7-11ef-a84d-0a39ee06db20Tue, 10 Dec 2024 06:11:30 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2844573NONFICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION For fans of H Is for Hawk and Shop Class as Soulcraft comes a captivating literary memoir, immersing readers in the life of a Scottish carpenter as he perfects his craft, builds a business, and reflects on what inheritance and shared responsibility really mean. The eldest son of a master woodworker, Callum Robinson spent his childhood surrounded by wood and trees, absorbing craft lessons in his father's workshop. 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Their success spurred a chilling backlash from elite, white male physicians who were obsessed with eugenics and th8206d5d4-b6e7-11ef-a84d-0a39ee06db20Tue, 10 Dec 2024 06:11:30 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2844562NONFICTION 75 recipes for a full year of celebrations with family and friends the Chinese American way in this deeply personal intergenerational cookbook, cowritten by mother and daughter. Covering everything from traditional Lunar New Year menus with recipes passed down generations to Thanksgiving get-togethers celebrated with tantalizing side dishes, Feasts of Good Fortune invites you to take a seat at the Chou's warm family dinner table. Author and former James Beard Foundation cookbook committee chair8206d5d5-b6e7-11ef-a84d-0a39ee06db20Tue, 10 Dec 2024 06:11:30 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2844561NONFICTION Do laundry right the first time with The Laundry Book , the ultimate reference guide for all things laundry. If you're like most people, laundry is a never-ending chore that you want to spend as little time, effort, and money on as possible, and no one has ever properly taught you how to tackle this chore. Laundry influencer Zach Pozniak and his father, Jerry Pozniak, owners of the luxury dry-cleaning company Jeeves New York and fabric-care experts break down this tedious task into playful and e8206d5d6-b6e7-11ef-a84d-0a39ee06db20Tue, 10 Dec 2024 06:11:30 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2844560NONFICTION The powerful and inspiring story of an all-American wrestler who defied the odds—Now an original movie produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, starring Jennifer Lopez, Jharrel Jerome, Don Cheadle, Michael Peña and Bobby Cannavale! Anthony Robles is a three-time all-American wrestler, the 2011 NCAA National Wrestling Champion, and a Nike-sponsored athlete. He was also born without his right leg. 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You’ll feel better, I promise.”—Celeste Headlee, journalist and bestselling author Systemic Shame is the socially engineered self-loathing that says we are solely to blame for our circumstances.8206d5d8-b6e7-11ef-a84d-0a39ee06db20Tue, 10 Dec 2024 06:11:30 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2827699220.92 WAD 2015 9521a0d4-b708-11ef-863d-0a39ee06db20Tue, 10 Dec 2024 10:08:16 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2827694158.13 BRA 2024 9521a0d5-b708-11ef-863d-0a39ee06db20Tue, 10 Dec 2024 10:08:16 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2837329954.0533 BHA 2024 "Since Narendra Modi's election in May 2014, India has become more dysfunctional and dangerous than ever. The "world's largest democracy" has seen a cascade of events ushered in by a nationalistic and religious government that have threatened the freedoms and identities of its citizens. If you support Modi, you are a bhakt, among the devoted. 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Once the ancient water body became polluted, so did the drinking water of the largely Mexican American community living above. 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Because you can't catch what you don't chase. Beloved bestselling author Bob Goff takes you on a yearlong journey into the uplifting, inspiring, and unexpected possibilities waiting for you every day. With his trademark storytelling and winsome take on life, Bob returns with Catching Whimsy, a 365-day devotional where he offers you a daily tap on the shoulder to remind you how over the moon God is about you and your beautiful, often complicatedf8ee81ba-b7b0-11ef-b652-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 06:13:39 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2844732NONFICTION A vivid look at 10 astonishing people who are maintaining some of the world's oldest and rarest cultural traditions. Eliot Stein has traveled the globe in search of remarkable people who are preserving some of our most extraordinary cultural rites. In Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive, Stein introduces readers to a man saving the secret ingredient in Japan's 700-year-old original soy sauce recipe. In Italy, he learns how to make tf8ee81bb-b7b0-11ef-b652-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 06:13:39 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2844724NONFICTION A harrowing history of a grim chapter in politics and science, in which groups of influential thinkers shaped global policy with the aim of determining who had the right to have children—and who was worthy of life. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read. For the last two centuries, groups of influential men have, in the professed interest of fiscal responsibility, crime reduction, and outright racism, attempted to control who was allowedf8ee81bc-b7b0-11ef-b652-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 06:13:39 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2844721NONFICTION Learn the science needed to perfect your stroke, swim faster, and endure for longer. Science of Swimming dives deeper than any other book to examine the muscle groups and bodily systems involved in being an effective swimmer; how they interact with the hydrodynamics of water resistance; and how you can apply this knowledge to streamline your technique and achieve your training goals. Each swim stroke is anatomized so you can analyze and adapt your stroke to swim smarter. Full-spectrum training pf8ee81bd-b7b0-11ef-b652-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 06:13:39 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2844719NONFICTION A victim of her mother’s Munchausen by proxy and child abuse survivor, Gypsy-Rose Blanchard’s unique and controversial case made headlines across the world. Now, she’s finally free to start living her life on her terms—and to tell her own story as only she can. Forced to use a wheelchair in public and endure a lifetime of faux illness, fraud, and exploitation, Gypsy was subjected not only to her mother’s medical, physical, and emotional abuse, but deprived of childhood milestones. Prevented fromf8ee81be-b7b0-11ef-b652-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 06:13:39 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2844701NONFICTION When she lost her mother to cancer, everything changed for Jennifer Love Hewitt. In the pages of Inheriting Magic , she recounts her journey, sharing memories, photographs, recipes, and the magic-making ethos of a self-proclaimed “Holiday Junkie.” A heartfelt, candid chronicle that charts a course from sorrow to celebration, this unique memoir includes:  Never-seen-before family photos and vintage snapshots  Jennifer’s favorite recipes, from her grandmother’s chicken and dumplings to her husbandf8ee81bf-b7b0-11ef-b652-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 06:13:39 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2844699NONFICTION Follow the most riveting cases of an elite investigative team of volunteers brought together by a famed FBI Profiler dedicated to solving crimes no one else could When Gregory M. Cooper, former head of the FBI's Behavioral Sciences Unit, founded the Cold Case Foundation in 2013, he had high expectations, but couldn't anticipate the level of response. What started with just a half-dozen or so retired FBI agents and homicide detectives has ballooned to more than 150 women and men who volunteer thef8ee81c0-b7b0-11ef-b652-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 06:13:39 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2844695NONFICTION Now from the comfort-food authorities at Taste of Home comes Comfort Food Classics , the ultimate roundup of go-to dishes for bringing joy and lifting spirits. If there's one thing we can all agree on, it's that comfort food is where the heart is! Now from the comfort-food authorities at Taste of Home comes Comfort Food Classics, the ultimate roundup of go-to dishes for bringing joy and lifting spirits. Serve the stick-to-your-ribs greats that families clamor for from potpies, mashed potatoes anf8ee81c1-b7b0-11ef-b652-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 06:13:39 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2844687NONFICTION A highly original hybrid of literary criticism and political history, telling of the enduring, surprising and ever-evolving relevance of Milton’s epic poem through the scandalous life of its creator and the revolutionary lives that were influenced by it. What in Me Is Dark tells the unlikely story of how Milton’s epic poem came to haunt political struggles over the past four centuries, including the many different, unexpected, often contradictory ways in which it has been read, interpreted, andf8ee81c2-b7b0-11ef-b652-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 06:13:39 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2844683NONFICTION "This is a serious, meticulous history that will also appeal to Game of Thrones fans, who will discover intriguing parallels between history and fiction." — Booklist "An enlightening portrait of the medieval mindset." — Publishers Weekly The authors of The Bright Ages return with a real-life Game of Thrones—the story of the Carolingian Civil War, a bloody, protracted battle pitting brother against brother, father against son, that would end an empire, upend a continent, and redefine the future of8ee81c3-b7b0-11ef-b652-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 06:13:39 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2844670NONFICTION "The definitive look at the most remarkable business story of this era." —Morgan Housel, New York Times best-selling author of The Psychology of Money and Same As Ever "The Nvidia Way is a riveting history of Nvidia's unexpected ascent to the top of the tech sector—and a compelling case for why cofounder Jensen Huang is one of history's great CEOs." —Chris Miller, New York Times best-selling author of Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology A deeply reported business historyf8ee81c4-b7b0-11ef-b652-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 06:13:39 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2844667NONFICTION Economic anxiety and loss of trust in civic institutions are driving more and more people to political extremes. How did we get here, and how do we get our economic policies back on track before the democracies of the world derail? From former Belgian minister of finance and bestselling author Johan Van Overtveldt comes a new analysis of the economic forces that have driven us to the brink of a democratic breakdown. The Icarus Curse offers a stark assessment of the current state of Western democf8ee81c5-b7b0-11ef-b652-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 06:13:39 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2844661NONFICTION "The Afterlife Is Letting Go is a meditative consideration of Japanese American incarceration during WWII by Brandon Shimoda, author of the PEN Open Book Award–winning The Grave on the Wall."— Matt Seidel, Publishers Weekly's "Big Indie Books of Fall 2024" "Both personal and choral, The Afterlife is Letting Go is deeply felt, precise, and as generous in its insights as it is unsparing in its critiques of how 'exclusion zones' proliferate and reach across time and space. A stirring, trenchant, anf8ee81c6-b7b0-11ef-b652-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 06:13:39 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2823838B DAWSON, WILLIAM "Black composer William L. Dawson earned wide recognition for his arrangements of Black American spirituals and his Negro Folk Symphony. Gwynne Kuhner Brown provides a sensitive and multifaceted look at the career of an important twentieth-century artist. Born in 1899, Dawson studied music at the Tuskegee Institute before embarking on a wide-ranging career. Brown's account follows the composer from his Kansas City years of studying music and performing on trombone to his time in Chicago. There,48f9056a-b7d2-11ef-baed-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:12:06 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2843101658.048 ARM 2024 48f9056b-b7d2-11ef-baed-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:12:06 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845333eBook hoopla From Southern Grit author, Top Chef winner, TV personality, and queen of Southern hospitality Kelsey Barnard Clark, here are more than 100 irresistible recipes perfect for a crowd, plus all the expert wisdom and inspiration you need to host exceptional gatherings. Call some friends, arrange some flowers, and whip up a quick bite. Let's get the party started, y'all! Chef Kelsey Barnard Clark catered her first wedding at age fifteen and has been hosting events ever since. In these pages, Kelsey d48f9056c-b7d2-11ef-baed-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:12:06 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845332eBook hoopla Inspector Roderick Alleyn has been invited to an opening night, a new play in which two characters quarrel and then struggle for a gun, with predictably sad results. Even sadder, the gun was not, in fact, loaded with blanks. And when it comes to interviewing witnesses, actors can be a deceptive lot ...48f9056d-b7d2-11ef-baed-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:12:06 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845331eBook hoopla The possibilities are endless in the world of Roblox! This popular platform lets players make their own games, collect unique items, attend fun events, and connect with friends. But when did Roblox start, who is behind it, and how has it grown? These questions and more are answered in this title filled with informative text and crisp photos. Special features profile an important person, highlight key events in the brand's history, and show off what makes Roblox special. Readers will enjoy buildi48f9056e-b7d2-11ef-baed-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:12:06 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845330eBook hoopla WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 - INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize "A prophetic masterpiece." - Ron Charles, Washington Post On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police on her step. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart, caught in the grip of48f9056f-b7d2-11ef-baed-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:12:06 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845329eBook hoopla Live large with James Patterson's winning follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life. After sixth grade, the very worst year of his life, Rafe Khatchadorian thinks he has it made in seventh grade. He's been accepted to art school in the big city and imagines a math-and-history-free fun zone. Wrong! It's more competitive than Rafe ever expected, and to score big in class, he needs to find a way to turn his boring life into the inspiration for a work of48f90570-b7d2-11ef-baed-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:12:06 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845328eBook hoopla From this New York Times bestselling author, the first novel in a new trilogy that finds Empress Agrippina and her young son, Nero, fending off ambitious rivals while shaping their own destiny, if Nero is to become the most feared and notorious emperor of them all. The story begins with a hand curled around another man's throat. This is Roman justice: Emperor Tiberius first dispatches a traitor, a friend he once trusted with the city, then the man's whole family and all of his friends. It is as48f90571-b7d2-11ef-baed-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:12:06 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845327eBook hoopla This gorgeous book brings together 100 of the top crochet projects from the bestselling Twenty to Make series. With contributions from five top crochet designers and bestselling authors, these fabulous designs are quick and easy to make, and include stylish purses and hats, cute teddy bears, flowers, hearts and festive decorations. Whether you are on a budget and want to make a quick and quirky gift for a friend, or wish to indulge in a special treat for yourself, you will discover a treasure tr48f90572-b7d2-11ef-baed-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:12:06 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845326eBook hoopla From Amazon's #1 bestselling author in Gothic Romance comes a haunting and forbidden love strong enough to murder fears and break centuries-old curses. Once upon a time, there lived a girl named Fallon who was taken far away from home shortly after she was born. A home that held more than strange traditions and bizarre superstitions. Twenty-four years later, she returned to Weeping Hollow, a town she'd only heard about in stories during restless nights under a marble moon, to take care of her la48f90573-b7d2-11ef-baed-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:12:06 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845325eBook hoopla Synopsis currently unavailable.48f90574-b7d2-11ef-baed-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:12:06 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845324eBook hoopla British Intelligence Service agent Davina Graham falls in love with the KGB defector she has been ordered to debrief in this cold war thriller. British operative Davina Graham's life is her work. Her latest assignment is her most daunting. For the past five months, she's been trying to gain the confidence of Ivan Sasanov - and against her better judgment, she's falling in love with him. Sasanov, a top KGB agent who defected to America, has an Achilles heel: He desperately misses the family he le48f90575-b7d2-11ef-baed-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:12:06 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845323eBook hoopla Audio narration brings the story to life in this enhanced eBook, while word-for-word highlighting text makes it easy for the reader to follow along. When all roads into the city are blocked on Thanksgiving, Team Spidey works together to clear them so travelers can reach their holiday destinations in time for Thanksgiving dinner. This 32-page level 1 reader relives the excitement of this Spidey and His Amazing Friends holiday episode. Explore the World of Reading Disney's World of Reading series48f90576-b7d2-11ef-baed-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:12:06 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845322eBook hoopla Navy SEALs Bug-In Guide: 5 Books in 1 - Transform Your Home into an Impenetrable Fortress Create The Safest Haven Right in Your Own Home. Are you prepared for the ultimate survival challenge? While most guides focus on bugging out, this first-of-its-kind Navy SEALs Bug-In Guide reveals why staying put is often the smartest-and safest-choice during a crisis. From wildfires to tornados, there are only a few rare situations where leaving home makes sense. In almost every other disaster, your best c48f90577-b7d2-11ef-baed-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:12:06 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845321eBook hoopla The Pfizer Papers features new reports written by WarRoom/DailyClout research volunteers, which are based on the primary source Pfizer clinical trial documents released under court order and on related medical literature. The book shows in high relief that Pfizer's mRNA COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial was deeply flawed and that the pharmaceutical company knew by November 2020 that its vaccine was neither safe nor effective. The reports detail vaccine-induced harms throughout the human body, incl48f90578-b7d2-11ef-baed-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:12:06 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845320eBook hoopla The first new series in two decades from multi-award-winning international bestseller Mark Billingham that introduces Detective Miller: a man who's unique, unconventional, and criminally underestimated. Maverick sleuth Declan Miller is back at work following the murder of his wife (and amateur ballroom dancing partner) Alex. Working with new partner and heavy metal enthusiast DS Sara Xiu, he is tasked with investigating the double killing of gangland family scion Adrian Cutler and IT consult48f90579-b7d2-11ef-baed-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:12:06 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845319eBook hoopla COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE: - A comprehensive Travel Smart section provides all the important nuts and bolts information about traveling to and in Italy, as well as Italian phrases and sample itineraries. - Expertly researched features on must-visit sights, including an eight-age spread on Vatican City's extraordinary Sistine Chapel and a five-page spread on Florence's Duomo. TOURISM TRENDS: - The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that started in 2019 has caused a drop-off in tourism to many destinations48f9057a-b7d2-11ef-baed-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:12:06 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845318eBook hoopla Preorder the BRAND NEW instalment in the gripping Armstrong and Oscar cozy mystery series set in gorgeous Tuscany - it's murder in paradise! A tragic accident? When Italy's greatest opera singer, Rodolfo Argento, is killed in a terrible car accident, the police initially rule his death a tragic accident or suicide. But his elderly mother, Violetta, believes this to be poppycock! Her son was a brilliant driver and had too much to live for. She suspects foul play and turns to Private Investigato48f9057b-b7d2-11ef-baed-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:12:06 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845317eBook hoopla When May becomes a lady's maid at sea, she's hoping for an innocent adventure but instead must navigate rough waters, deadly combat, and unexpected love. 1811, Mediterranean Sea May Byam grew up following her father to his work at the ropemaking factory and listening to her uncle's tales of life aboard a Royal Navy ship. After tragedy and scandal shatter her family, May is desperate to escape the shame that follows her. Despite her mother's pleadings against it, May signs on as a lady's maid to48f9057c-b7d2-11ef-baed-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:12:06 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845316eBook hoopla A podcaster digs into strange connections between a cult's mass suicide and the murder of a local beauty queen in this twisty psychological thriller about true crime culture, perfect for fans of Riley Sager and Lisa Jewell. The mass suicide of a cult known as the Flock sent shockwaves through the small rural town of Iola, Michigan. Led by the charismatic Dominic Bragg, the Flock camped at an abandoned bird sanctuary before their sudden and shocking demise. The deaths came just weeks after one of48f9057d-b7d2-11ef-baed-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:12:06 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845315eBook hoopla When Harriet Vane finds a dead body on the beach, she and Lord Peter Wimsey must solve a murder when all the evidence has washed out to sea. Harriet Vane has gone on vacation to forget her recent murder trial and, more importantly, to forget the man who cleared her name: the dapper, handsome, and maddening Lord Peter Wimsey. She is alone on a beach when she spies a man lying on a rock, surf lapping at his ankles. She tries to wake him, but he doesn't budge. His throat has been cut, and his blood48f9057e-b7d2-11ef-baed-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:12:06 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845314eBook hoopla Aurelia Mazón is determined to escape her high-mountain town and head for the big city-even though her father owns the town silver mine. When he vows to send Aurelia and her mother to Guanajuato if the silver thefts continue, Aurelia sets a plan in motion to make her dreams come true. But just when her plan begins to work, the unthinkable happens: a handsome Texas lawman is arrested for the thefts. Desperate to keep her big city dreams alive, Aurelia has no choice but to break the gringo out and48f9057f-b7d2-11ef-baed-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:12:06 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845313eBook hoopla Find out what would happen if a walrus and an elephant seal got in a fight and who would win. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Beginning Readers is an imprint of Spotlight, a division of ABDO.48f90580-b7d2-11ef-baed-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:12:06 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845312eBook hoopla It takes a lot for Salem locals to get excited about their historic Massachusetts town being known as "the witch city." But when a major studio arrives to shoot a witchcraft-themed movie, folks go Hollywood. For WICH-TV'S program director and chief documentary-maker, Lee Barrett, however, the project may come complete with a real-life death scene... Between documenting the progress of the movie, corralling starstruck autograph seekers and fans, and managing unmanageable traffic on Salem's narrow48f90581-b7d2-11ef-baed-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:12:06 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845311eBook hoopla Give thanks with Elmo and celebrate love and joy in this sweet Thanksgiving picture book! All around us, there is so much to be thankful for! From the world-renowned brand Sesame Street comes a special gratitude book for kids in which Elmo, Abby Cadabby, Cookie Monster, and their Sesame Street friends celebrate and say thank you for so many amazing things in the world around them-like food, family, and even giggles! This cozy fall book introduces children to the concept of thankfulness that can48f90582-b7d2-11ef-baed-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:12:06 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845310eBook hoopla When doubt is cast on a presidential election, it sets off an "intricate, skillfully spun" tale of intrigue in this near-future political thriller (Publishers Weekly). At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the CIA has been disbanded and a secret society has taken hold of powerful positions across Washington. After a long and contentious campaign, President Bedford Lockwood is celebrating his reelection. But the revelry is cut short when it's discovered that his over-zealous aides may have t48f90583-b7d2-11ef-baed-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:12:06 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845309eBook hoopla It is an image etched in the minds of a generation: Ronald Reagan perched atop his horse, riding through the dusty trails and canyons of his California ranch with his beloved wife, Nancy, at his side. But what most of us did not see was the man who always rode just a few steps away. John Barletta was a Vietnam veteran and Secret Service agent who spent over a decade with the Reagans, poised to give his own life at any moment to save the 40th president of the United States. His superior riding s48f90584-b7d2-11ef-baed-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:12:06 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845308eBook hoopla When Beck Wise vanished his girlfriend Melissa Makepeace poured herself into caring for the family farm, silently absorbing yet another man disappearing from her life. But when Beck reappears three months later, thin, pale, with no idea what day it is and filled with memories of being bees, a series of layered mysteries begins to unravel. What had happened to Beck? Where did her father go? How can she keep the farm together? With gorgeous descriptions, deft characterizations and a page-turning p48f90585-b7d2-11ef-baed-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:12:06 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845307eBook hoopla Claire Keegan's brilliant debut collection, Antarctica, was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, and earned her resounding accolades on both sides of the Atlantic. Now she has delivered her next, much-anticipated book, Walk the Blue Fields, an unforgettable array of quietly wrenching stories about despair and desire in the timeless world of modern-day Ireland. In the never-before-published story 'The Long and Painful Death,' a writer awarded a stay to work in Heinrich Böll's old cottage has her48f90586-b7d2-11ef-baed-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:12:06 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845306eBook hoopla I don't love him. I don't even like him.I just want him. Eli Loveless was my nemesis from the first day of kindergarten until we graduated high school. Everything I did, he had to do better - and vice versa. The day he left town was the best day of my life. Ten years later, the day he came back was the worst. Now he's my co-worker. Grown-up Eli Loveless is sexy as sin. He's hotter than asphalt in the summer. The irritating kid I once knew is gone, and he's been replaced by a man with green eyes,48f90587-b7d2-11ef-baed-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:12:06 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845305eBook hoopla Wrenched by tragedy from a peaceful and respectable middle-class home in Victorian London, Hannah Kemball finds herself accompanying her father, Captain "Cracker Jack" Kemball, aboard the tea-clipper Erl King on a voyage to China. It is 1869. In shanghai and Foochow, the crack British tea-clippers are loading the season's tea, preparing for the annual race to bring their valuable cargoes and the fortunes of their swaggering crews halfway around the world to the London market. Unfortunately for H48f90588-b7d2-11ef-baed-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:12:06 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845304eBook hoopla The classic makeup and style book, now updated for the 1990s and expanded to 12 color palettes.48f90589-b7d2-11ef-baed-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:12:06 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845303eBook hoopla Prince of Bloodshed: Daughter of Darkness Book 2 Daughter of Darkness - Wielder of Shadows - Prince of Bloodshed Braern is defeated, his rebels destroyed, yet treachery festers in the Fae realm of Lóna as Azran and Elanor are forced apart. Compelled by fate's cruel hand, Azran crosses the Váyan Sea toward distant Zetrea, leaving General Calen in charge and Elanor trapped in a deathless trance. As he grapples with Elanor's absence and faces old enemies, the fate of Lóna hangs in the balance48f9058a-b7d2-11ef-baed-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:12:06 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845302eBook hoopla An FBI agent finds himself in the insular world of a fishing village on the Maine coast where the rules are different sometimes lethally so. After his wife and two children are killed in a car crash, Ryan Tapia starts a new life in Maine. But his first case there is a puzzling oddball, the corpse of a fisherman washes up on federal land, while the man's boat drifts into waters that are part of an Indian reservation. Ryan quickly learns the nuances of Maine life as he delves into two illicit coas48f9058b-b7d2-11ef-baed-0a39ee06db20Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:12:06 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845301eBook hoopla The High Republic continues in this fast-paced adventure that picks up from Escape from Valo, perfect for fans of sci-fi action. 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"Truly "thoughts are things," and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire for their translation into riches, or other material objects." (taken from Chapter 1, Introduction) Napoleon Hill's thirteen step programme will set you on the path to wealth and success. Think and Grow Rich reveals the money-making secrets of hundreds of America's most affluent people. By thinking like them, y931ecbd2-b879-11ef-8c9d-0a39ee06db20Thu, 12 Dec 2024 06:09:37 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845686NONFICTION The first book to lay bare the life of a Nazi camp guard who settled in a Chicago suburb and to explore how his community and others responded to discoveries of Nazis in their midst. Reinhold Kulle seemed like the perfect school employee. But in 1982, as his retirement neared, his long-concealed secret came to light. 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Iain Maloney, author of The Only Gaijin in the Village 'Fascinating, fact-packed and very funny..An excellent and enjoyable read for the Japan-curious. I loved it and learned a lot.' Sam Baldwin, autf488d90c-b942-11ef-955d-0a39ee06db20Fri, 13 Dec 2024 06:11:09 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845887NONFICTION Graphically exuberant and endlessly inspiring - New York Times The ultimate trip planner for every month of the year: discover the best places to visit throughout the seasons. Spark your curiosity with decision-making flowcharts to inspire your next unforgettable city break, tropical beach vacation, wildlife encounter and more - all organised by month with amazing weekend escapes, one and two week experiences. 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With Overcoming Relationship Anxiety , yf488d910-b942-11ef-955d-0a39ee06db20Fri, 13 Dec 2024 06:11:09 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845875NONFICTION A comprehensive, physiology-based guide to peak performance for active women approaching or experiencing menopause—from the author of Roar , renowned exercise and nutrition scientist Dr. Stacy Sims For active women, menopause hits hard. Overnight, your body doesn’t feel like the one you know and love anymore—you’re battling new symptoms, might be gaining weight, losing endurance and strength, and taking longer to bounce back from workouts that used to be easy. 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Fef488d912-b942-11ef-955d-0a39ee06db20Fri, 13 Dec 2024 06:11:09 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845870NONFICTION “Readers should come away from Crisis Averted with a better comprehension of what public health does and why it is such a crucial endeavor.” — The Washington Post "A master class in how we can pinpoint and prevent health crises before they spiral out of control."—Scott Gottlieb, MD, author of Uncontrolled Spread A fascinating window into the secret life of epidemiology, weaving together stories of triumph and tragedy, with a boots-on-the-ground perspective on how we can avert the next public heaf488d913-b942-11ef-955d-0a39ee06db20Fri, 13 Dec 2024 06:11:09 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845868NONFICTION Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to Japan. Discover popular and off the beaten track experiences from visiting Yoshino for Japan's most famous cherry-blossom-viewing festival to sipping sake at a 300-year-old brewery in Niigata, and exploring the Unesco-listed streetscapes of Hagi.  Build a trip to remember with Lonely Planet's Japan Travel Guide: Our classic guidebook format provides you with the most comprehensive level of informatf488d914-b942-11ef-955d-0a39ee06db20Fri, 13 Dec 2024 06:11:09 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845867NONFICTION Discover the freedom of the open road with Lonely Planet's USA's Best Trips. This trusted travel companion features 51 amazing road trips, from 2-day escapes to 2-week adventures. Cruise down the California Coast, gaze up at the Rocky Mountains, or immerse yourself in New England's history. Jump in the car, turn up the tunes, and hit the road! 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Adam Kahane has faced this challenge many times, working on big issues like democracy and jobs andf488d916-b942-11ef-955d-0a39ee06db20Fri, 13 Dec 2024 06:11:09 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2713763378.1662 BAR 2024 "Barron's ACT Premium Study Guide with 6 Practice Tests provides online practice, customizable study plans, and expert advice from experienced teachers who know the test. Step-by-step review helps you master the content, and full-length practice tests in the book and online provide a realistic testing experience so you're prepared for the exam"--2ac0f92a-b97d-11ef-95e3-0a39ee06db20Fri, 13 Dec 2024 13:07:51 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2834240520 TYS 2024 2ac0f92b-b97d-11ef-95e3-0a39ee06db20Fri, 13 Dec 2024 13:07:51 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2837578B HARRIS, KAMALA #12 A picture book celebration of United States Vice President Kamala Harris-the first female, Black, and South Asian American person to be vice president of the US-from her childhood to her historic run for president. Ever since she was a child defending against classroom bullies, Kamala Harris has been raising her hand. She raised her hand to advocate in her neighborhood, on her college campus, in court, and in Congress. Then in 2021, Kamala Harris raised her hand and became the first woman, first75ab1218-b996-11ef-9067-0a39ee06db20Fri, 13 Dec 2024 16:08:54 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2710672005.2762 JAV YUE 2021 Everything teens need to get started with JavaScript Have you ever wanted to make your own game? How about an awesome website? Then JavaScript Coding for Teens is the book for you! It doesn't matter if you're not sure what a variable is, are stumped about syntax, or don't even know how to use JavaScript on your computer! This simple guide to coding for beginners walks you through every part of the process with easy-to-understand language and straightforward directions. You'll be coding like a pr75ab1219-b996-11ef-9067-0a39ee06db20Fri, 13 Dec 2024 16:08:54 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2836163B GRIMM, JACOB #01 75ab121a-b996-11ef-9067-0a39ee06db20Fri, 13 Dec 2024 16:08:54 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2836140006.3 ALL 2024 "Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence of machines or software, as opposed to the intelligence of humans. AI might someday become valued assistants in hospitals, medical clinics, law offices, science labs, military bases, and anywhere else where rapid data analysis is key. While AI is still a developing technology, there are concerns as well as excitement surrounding it"--75ab121b-b996-11ef-9067-0a39ee06db20Fri, 13 Dec 2024 16:08:54 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2830769289.33209 GAY 2024 75ab121c-b996-11ef-9067-0a39ee06db20Fri, 13 Dec 2024 16:08:54 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2836138006.3 ART 2024 Over the past decade alone, artificial intelligence (AI) has become exponentially more sophisticated. Many applications of AI in our daily lives go practically unnoticed, from navigation applications to online shopping algorithms. However, new developments in the field have raised concerns about the role AI should have in society. AI-fueled chatbots and art generators have caused some to question whether artificial intelligence is capable of consciousness and, if so, what that would mean for hum75ab121d-b996-11ef-9067-0a39ee06db20Fri, 13 Dec 2024 16:08:54 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2836143006.35 CHA 2025 Ever since the large language model-based AI chatbot ChatGPT launched in 2022, there has been a significant amount of buzz and concern around the possibility of this technology impacting writing as both a creative and professional pursuit. 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Their success spurred a chilling backlash from elite, white male physicians who were obsessed with eugenics and t9d4fae32-b9af-11ef-828a-0a39ee06db20Fri, 13 Dec 2024 19:08:58 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2839905649.1 ORI 2024 ee6d79f2-ba2c-11ef-adbb-0a39ee06db20Sat, 14 Dec 2024 10:06:01 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2836146001.9 RAY 2022 The sky is falling with this complete collection of history's greatest end-of-the-world predictions! Every time you scan the news, it feels as though the world is hurtling toward its end. While no one knows whether that is actually true or not, A History of the End of the World makes it clear that this inclination toward apocalyptic thinking has been present throughout human history, guiding some of its most powerful personages and brightest minds. Paced by frightful prophecies, catastrophic pre1b68116a-ba46-11ef-a7fb-0a39ee06db20Sat, 14 Dec 2024 13:06:14 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2840158B ABZUG, BELLA #01 "As long as people are reading this book, Bella will be with us still." -Gloria Steinem Meet unique and outspoken Bella Abzug, the iconic Jewish politician and activist who fought for justice and women's rights, in this compelling picture book biography. Battling Bella Abzug was born bellowing! From her childhood in the Bronx to her years as a lawyer, activist, wife, mother, and congresswoman, Bella battled for justice and fairness for everyone. Inspired by her Jewish upbringing and wholehearted6ebd907e-ba5f-11ef-8fcc-0a39ee06db20Sat, 14 Dec 2024 16:07:31 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2840179B BURNETT, FRANCES #04 A picture book biography of Frances Hodgson Burnett's winding and captivating life. Frances Hodgson Burnett-best known for writing The Secret Garden, Little Lord Fauntleroy, and The Little Princess-had a difficult childhood, losing her father when she was very young and moving with her family from England to Tennessee in hopes of a better life. She'd been making up stories her entire life but didn't try to write professionally until she was a teenager to help feed her family. Her first submissio6ebd907f-ba5f-11ef-8fcc-0a39ee06db20Sat, 14 Dec 2024 16:07:31 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2836177730.922 GRE 2024 6ebd9080-ba5f-11ef-8fcc-0a39ee06db20Sat, 14 Dec 2024 16:07:31 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2827808618.2 SIM 2024 6ebd9081-ba5f-11ef-8fcc-0a39ee06db20Sat, 14 Dec 2024 16:07:31 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2836144004 CUR 2024 "Though experts disagree about the specific meaning of the term digital literacy, it is usually used to refer to a variety of skills, including the ability to find content online, to create digital content, to communicate digitally, and-perhaps most important-to evaluate what is found online for accuracy and trustworthiness"--6ebd9082-ba5f-11ef-8fcc-0a39ee06db20Sat, 14 Dec 2024 16:07:31 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2833753158.1 MOO 2024 6ebd9083-ba5f-11ef-8fcc-0a39ee06db20Sat, 14 Dec 2024 16:07:31 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2836151001.94 SPI 2024 Stories about mysterious disappearances have gripped human imagination throughout history. From lost explorers through missing armies and hidden princes, human history is full of unanswered questions. This high-interest title will enthrall readers with its investigation of past vanishings and the intriguing answers that could solve these disappearance mysteries of history.a68a58a0-bbd8-11ef-b994-0a39ee06db20Mon, 16 Dec 2024 13:07:45 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2837572370.15 WEA 2024 "Narrated by dolls, this book tells the little-known story of two Black psychologists who used Black and white dolls in their research about the effects of school segregation on children"--a68a58a1-bbd8-11ef-b994-0a39ee06db20Mon, 16 Dec 2024 13:07:45 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2830739INDETERMINATE a68a58a2-bbd8-11ef-b994-0a39ee06db20Mon, 16 Dec 2024 13:07:45 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2845693INDETERMINATE "Claire Summers replies to an advertisement to help run a Sidmouth boarding house, but her handsome, secretive business partner might send her packing if he learns her genteel façade hides a less-than-respectable past. And will a hoped-for reunion with her family lead to reconciliation or leave her estranged forever?"--a68a58a3-bbd8-11ef-b994-0a39ee06db20Mon, 16 Dec 2024 13:07:45 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2836555INDETERMINATE a68a58a4-bbd8-11ef-b994-0a39ee06db20Mon, 16 Dec 2024 13:07:45 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2837571B GOGH, VINCENT VAN #06 A touching look at Van Gogh's time in the south of France, and the support given to him by his brother Theo. Vincent is fed up with life in the gray city, but things are about to change! With the support of his loving brother Theo, Vincent sets off on a journey to the sunny south. There he will discover new and inspiring places and make new friends. But will he be able to paint the picture of his dreams? A heart-warming snapshot of a happy and creative period in Van Gogh's life, this story focusa68a58a5-bbd8-11ef-b994-0a39ee06db20Mon, 16 Dec 2024 13:07:45 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2830804792.7028 RIF 2024 a68a58a6-bbd8-11ef-b994-0a39ee06db20Mon, 16 Dec 2024 13:07:45 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2836181796.51097 BUR 2024 a68a58a7-bbd8-11ef-b994-0a39ee06db20Mon, 16 Dec 2024 13:07:45 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2827717261.85 WOO 2015 a68a58a8-bbd8-11ef-b994-0a39ee06db20Mon, 16 Dec 2024 13:07:45 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2825789791.43023 ENE 2024 "Films like The Eternal Daughter and the diptych The Souvenir and The Souvenir Part II have cemented Joanna Hogg's reputation as an original voice in contemporary cinema. Her rigorous and quiet style draws on the histories of film and art to tell stories that weave autobiography with studies in human opacity. Shonni Enelow analyzes Hogg's six feature films around the concepts of turning away, the reality effect, and the impossible encounter. Throughout, Enelow explores the tension between absorpa68a58a9-bbd8-11ef-b994-0a39ee06db20Mon, 16 Dec 2024 13:07:45 GMThttps://pac.lfpl.org/polaris/view.aspx?CN=2828216782.42166 WOM 2024 a68a58aa-bbd8-11ef-b994-0a39ee06db20Mon, 16 Dec 2024 13:07:45 GMT