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Central Piedmont Library - New Titles: April 2024

A list of new materials - books, DVDs, audiobooks, ebooks - added to the library collection each month. Click the title to see more information about it, to place a request, or begin using it.

Leisure Books

How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin

It’s 1965 and teenage Frances Adams is at an English country fair with her two best friends. But Frances’s night takes a hairpin turn when a fortune-teller makes a bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered. Frances spends a lifetime trying to solve a crime that hasn’t happened yet, compiling dirt on every person who crosses her path in an effort to prevent her own demise. For decades, no one takes Frances seriously, until nearly sixty years later, when Frances is found murdered, like she always said she would be.
 
In the present day, Annie Adams has been summoned to a meeting at the sprawling country estate of her wealthy and reclusive great-aunt Frances. But by the time Annie arrives in the quaint English village of Castle Knoll, Frances is already dead. Annie is determined to catch the killer, but thanks to Frances’s lifelong habit of digging up secrets and lies, it seems every endearing and eccentric villager might just have a motive for her murder. Can Annie safely unravel the dark mystery at the heart of Castle Knoll, or will dredging up the past throw her into the path of a killer?
 
As Annie gets closer to the truth, and closer to the danger, she starts to fear she might inherit her aunt’s fate instead of her fortune.

 

The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to improve the family's social position.

What begins as simple amusement for the nobility takes a perilous turn when Luzia garners the notice of Antonio Pérez, the disgraced secretary to Spain's king. Still reeling from the defeat of his armada, the king is desperate for any advantage in the war against England's heretic queen―and Pérez will stop at nothing to regain the king's favor.

Determined to seize this one chance to better her fortunes, Luzia plunges into a world of seers and alchemists, holy men and hucksters, where the lines between magic, science, and fraud are never certain. But as her notoriety grows, so does the danger that her Jewish blood will doom her to the Inquisition's wrath. She will have to use every bit of her wit and will to survive―even if that means enlisting the help of Guillén Santángel, an embittered immortal familiar whose own secrets could prove deadly for them both.

 

The House on Biscayne Bay by Chanel Cheeton

With the Great War finally behind them, many Americans flock to South Florida with their sights set on making a fortune. When wealthy industrialist Robert Barnes and his wife, Anna, build Marbrisa, a glamorous estate on Biscayne Bay, they become the toast of the newly burgeoning society. Anna and Robert appear to have it all, but in a town like Miami, appearances can be deceiving, and one scandal can change everything.

Years later following the tragic death of her parents in Havana, Carmen Acosta journeys to Marbrisa, the grand home of her estranged older sister, Carolina, and her husband, Asher Wyatt. On the surface, the gilded estate looks like paradise, but Carmen quickly learns that nothing at Marbrisa is as it seems. The house has a treacherous legacy, and Carmen’s own life is soon in jeopardy . . . unless she can unravel the secrets buried beneath the mansion’s facade and stop history from repeating itself.

 

Close to Death by Anthony Horowitz

Riverside Close is a picture-perfect community. The six exclusive and attractive houses are tucked far away from the noise and grime of city life, allowing the residents to enjoy beautiful gardens, pleasant birdsong, and tranquility from behind the security of a locked gate.

It is the perfect idyll, until the Kentworthy family arrives, with their four giant, gas-guzzling cars, gaggle of shrieking children, and plans for a garish swimming pool in the backyard. Obvious outsiders, the Kentworthys do not belong in Riverside Close, and quickly offend every last one of the neighbors.

When Giles Kentworthy is found dead on his own doorstep, a crossbow bolt sticking out of his chest, Detective Hawthorne is the only investigator they can call to solve the case.

Because how do you solve a murder when everyone is a suspect?

 

While We Were Burning by Sara Koffi

After her best friend's mysterious death, Elizabeth Smith’s picture-perfect life in the Memphis suburbs has spiraled out of control—so much so that she hires a personal assistant to keep her on track. Composed and elegant, Brianna is exactly who she needs and slides so neatly into Elizabeth’s life, almost like she belonged there from the start. Soon, the assistant Elizabeth hired to distract her from her obsession with her friend's death is the same person working with her to uncover the truth behind it.

Because Brianna has questions too.

She wants to know why the police killed her young Black son. Why someone in Elizabeth’s neighborhood called the cops on him that day. Who took that first step that stole her child away from her. And the only way she’s ever going to be able to find out is to entwine herself deep into Elizabeth’s life, where the answers to her questions lie. As the two women hurtle towards an electrifying final showdown, and the lines between employer and friend blur, it becomes clear that neither of them is what they first appear.

 

It Had to Be You by Mary Higgins Clark

The two identical brothers seemed perfect in every way—handsome, intelligent, popular—until a shocking summer night when one brother killed his parents in cold blood while the other brother had an iron-clad alibi. But which twin was where during the murders? And is it possible the two of them planned the perfect crime together?

Years later, the twins are long estranged, each of them claiming to be convinced that the other is responsible for the death of their parents. Married now with children of their own, they may finally be ready to clear one name at the expense of the other and turn to Laurie Moran and her team to reinvestigate their parents’ murder. But as the Under Suspicion crew gets closer to the truth, the danger that was assumed to be left in the past finds its way into the present.

B: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Ethics

D: World History

DK508.852 .M548 2023  The war came to us : life and death in Ukraine / Christopher Miller

E & F: American History & Western Hemisphere

E185.615 .W636 2022  Reckoning : Black Lives Matter and the democratic necessity of social movements / Deva R. Woodly

 

 

 

E210 .C56 2023  Revolutionary America, 1763-1815 : a political history / Francis D. Cogliano

 

 

 

E915 .A56 2023  Democracy amid crises : polarization, pandemic, protests, and persuasion / the Annenberg IOD Collaborative

 

 

 

E98.P86 A35 2021  The Native American contest powwow : cultural tethering theory / Steven Aicinena and Sebahattin Ziyanak

 

 

 

America's good terrorist : John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid  online

G: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation

GT2850 .N48 2023  Global dishes : favorite meals from around the world / Caryn, E. Neumann, Lori L. Parks, and Joel G. Parks

 

 

 

GT615 .S54 2022  Wartime style : fashion and American culture during 20th century conflicts / Lora Ann Sigler

 

 

 

GV1449.5 .S65 2023  The woodpecker method / by Axel Smith & Hans Tikkanen

 

 

 

GV1450.7 .C365 2022  How to beat your dad at chess / Murray Chandler

 

 

 

GV1785.A1 V36 2023  Black swans / written by Laurel van der Linde ; illustrated by Sawyer Cloud

 

 

GV191.7 .H85 2024  Camping and hiking encyclopedia / by Kathryn Hulick

H: Social Sciences: Business, Economics, Sociology

HD57.7 .M37 2022  The art of leadership / George Manning, Kent Curtis

 

 

 

HD58.9 .S436 2024  Security risk management : the driving force for operational resilience : the firefighting paradox / Jim Seaman and Michael Gioia

 

 

HD6095 .P3149 2022  Organizing women : home, work, and the institutional infrastructure of print in twentieth-century America / Christine Pawley

 

 

HD8066 .K455 2022  Fight like hell : the untold history of American labor / Kim Kelly ; foreword by Sara Nelson

 

 

 

HD9011.5 .A76 2022  Feeding the nation in World War II : rationing, digging for victory and unusual food / Craig Armstrong

 

 

 

HE8700.65 .M33 2023  Avidly reads screen time / Phillip Maciak

 

 

 

HM1033 .B576 2023  Self and identity : the basics / Megan E. Birney

 

 

 

HM851 .S249 2022  Digital detox : why taking a break from technology can improve your well-being / Bernadette H. Schell

 

 

 

HQ1154 .M4735 2020  The women's history of the modern world

 

 

 

HQ1155 .R53 2021  Hate speech against women online : concepts and countermeasures / Louise Richardson-Self

 

 

 

HV6080 .H4197 2023  Copycat crime : how media, technology, and digital culture inspire criminal behavior and violence / Jacqueline B. Helfgott

 

 

HV6250.3.U5 R33 2023  Teaching fear : how we learn to fear crime and why it matters / Nicole E. Rader

 

 

 

HV6250.4.W65 J64 2023  Enough : the violence against women and how to end it / Harriet Johnson

 

 

 

HV640.4.U54 W45 2023  Unaccompanied : stories of brave teenagers seeking asylum / by Tracy White

 

 

 

HV6437 .T48 2023  Thug criminology : a call to action / edited by Adam Ellis, Olga Marques, and Anthony Gunter

 

 

 

HV6626.2 .S545 2023  Inequality across state lines : how policymakers have failed domestic violence victims in the United States / Kaitlin N. Sidorsky, Wendy J. Schiller

 

 

HV9471 .S2453 2022  States of Incarceration : rebellion, reform, and America's punishment system / Jarrod Shanahan and Zhandarka Kurti

 

 

 

HV9950 .H445 2023  Rules of the road : the automobile and the transformation of American criminal justice / Spencer Headworth

 

 

The illusionists : a film about the globalization of beauty  evideo

J: Political Science

JA79 .J29 2023  The two moralities : conservatives, liberals, and the roots of our political divide / Ronnie Janoff-Bulman

 

 

 

JK1726 .R535 2023  Democracy awakening : notes on the state of America / Heather Cox Richardson

 

 

 

JK716 .T7314 2017  Jobseeker's guide : Ten Steps to a Federal Jobs for military and spouses / Kathryn Troutman with Paulina Chen

 

 

JZ5588 .G8 2023  Security studies : critical perspectives / Xavier Guillaume, Kyle Grayson

 

 

 

The Man Card  evideo

K: Law

K564.C6 K35 2023  Regulating the metaverse : a critical assessment / Ignas Kalpokas and Julija Kalpokiena

 

 

 

KF9619 .B353 2022  The plea of innocence : restoring truth to the American justice system / Tim Bakken

L: Education

LB2331 .E524 2024  Emerging stronger : pedagogical lessons from the pandemic / edited by Jeffrey Chin and Michele Lee Kozimor, Ph.D.

 

 

LB2340.2 .L56 2023  Crushed : how student debt has impaired a generation and what to do about it / David E. Linton ; foreword by John Katzman

 

 

 

LB2343 .L328 2023  Community college student mental health : faculty experiences and institutional actions / Amanda O. Latz

 

 

 

LB3609 .D48 2023  The student wellbeing toolkit : preparing for life at college, university and beyond / Camila Devis-Rozental

 

 

 

LC4818.38 .B87 2020  Creating inclusive learning opportunities in higher education : a universal design toolkit / Sheryl E. Burgstahler

M: Music

ML420.S33 A3 2016  Diary of a madman : the Geto Boys, life, death, and the roots of Southern rap / Brad Scarface Jordan and Benjamin Meadows Ingram

P: Language, Literature

P96.H65 C53 2023  The myth of harm : horror, censorship and the child / Sarah Cleary

 

 

 

PE1112 .D878 2023  Easy English grammar step-by-step : master high-frequency skills for grammar proficiency--fast! / Phyllis Dutwin

 

 

PE1128 .D44 2021  Workplace vocabulary for ESL students : with exercises and tests / G. De Gennaro

 

 

PE1137 .B67 2023  ESL : more things to know about English / by Kenneth D. Bostain

 

 

 

PE1157 .C54 2009  The bug in the jug wants a hug : a short vowel sounds book / Brian P. Cleary

 

 

 

PE1319 .H35 2020  Phrasal verbs / Carl W. Hart

 

 

 

PE1460 .B64 2022  199 really useful English phrases and expressions : for intermediate-advanced ESL/EFL learners / Jackie Bolen

 

 

PE1464 .L53 2022  Take my word for it : a dictionary of English idioms / Anatoly Liberman

 

 

 

PN4888.T4 S75 2023  Broken news : why the media rage machine divides America and how to fight back / Chris Stirewalt

 

 

 

PN6727.L56 B53 2023  Blackward / Lawrence Lindell

 

 

 

PN6727.T567 I87 2022  It's lonely at the centre of the earth : an auto-bio-graphic-novel / Zoe Thorogood

 

 

 

PN6733.C38 G84 2023  A guest in the house / Emily Carroll

 

 

 

PN6790.J33 I66813 2023  Vagabond. Volume 2 / story & art by Takehiko Inoue ; English adaptation, Yuji Oniki

 

 

 

PN6790.J33 I84813 2017  Tokyo ghoul: re / Vols. 1-10 story and art by Sui Ishida

 

 

 

PR9188.2.I54 P45 2023  Indigenous novels, indigenized worlds : exploring the indigenization of fictional worlds / Don K. Philpot

PS3558.E63 C48 2020  Chapterhouse: Dune / Frank Herbert

 

 

 

PS3558.E63 C49 2020  Children of Dune / Frank Herbert 

 

 

 

PS3558.E63 D8 2005  Dune / Frank Herbert 

 

 

 

PS3558.E63 D86 2020  Dune messiah / Frank Herbert 

 

 

 

PS3558.E63 G6 2020  God emperor of Dune / Frank Herbert 

 

 

 

PS3558.E63 H4 2020  Heretics of Dune / Frank Herber

 

 

 

PS3602.O88955 F57 2021  Firekeeper's daughter / Angeline Boulley

 

 

 

PS3608.A78754 A439 2017  Amazing grace / John G. Hartness

 

 

 

PS3619.T3747 L37 2023  Last to leave the room : a novel / Caitlin Starling

 

 

 

PZ7.1.F3544 Di 2023  Dim Sum Palace / words and pictures by X. Fang

 

 

 

PZ7.1.K87 Sn 2023  Snake's big mistake / Sarah Kurpiel

 

PZ7.1.M377 Bu 2020  Buddy the bulldozer learns to calm down / by Arica Marshall

 

 

PZ7.7.C734 Ne 2019  New kid / Jerry Craft ; with color by Jim Callahan

 

 

 

PZ7.7.S6425 G43 2021  The golden hour / Niki Smith

 

 

 

PZ7.7.Y56 Hu 2023  Hungry ghost / Victoria Ying

 

 

 

PZ7.D29 Mo 2018  Mommy, am I pretty?

 

 

 

PZ7.D38 Bo 2023  Bone button borscht / written by Aubrey Davis

 

 

PZ7.F3546 Pri 2023  Princess Pru and the ogre on the hill / by Maureen Fergus

 

 

PZ7.R3476235 Gho 2018  Ghost boys / Jewell Parker Rhodes

 

 

 

PZ7.S52865 Baj 2004  A bad case of stripes / David Shannon

 

 

PZ7.W65535 Can 2010  Can I play, too? / by Mo Willems

 

 

 

The Night Traveler  online

 

 

 

My Friend Dahmer  online

 

 

 

Black Elk Speaks  online

Q: Mathematics, Computer Science, Sciences

R: Medicine, Nursing

R123 .S454 2023  Mastering healthcare terminology / Betsy J. Shiland

 

 

 

R725.5 .C676 2023  Accountability and professionalism in nursing and healthcare / Marc Cornock

 

 

 

RA1214 .H864 2023  Sweetie, that's not sweets! / Dr. Kathleen Humel

 

 

RA395.A3 M532 2022  Foundations of rural public health in America / Mark J. Minelli, Joseph N. Inungu

 

 

 

RA441 .S655 2023  Social science perspectives on global public health / edited by Vincent La Placa and Julia Morgan

 

 

 

RA644.C67 C668 2021  COVID chronicles : a comics anthology / edited by Kendra Boileau and Rich Johnson

 

 

 

RB38.2 .V36 2023  Davis's comprehensive manual of laboratory and diagnostic tests with nursing implications / Anne M. Van Leeuwen, Mickey Lynn Bladh

 

 

RC211.P5 W38 2023  America's first plague : the deadly 1793 epidemic that crippled a young nation / Robert P. Watson print & online

 

 

 

RC280.C6 H55 2022  I'm a terminal cancer patient, but I'm fine / (true) story and art by Hilnama ; translation, Beni Axia Conrad

 

 

 

RC394.A85 H36 2023  Self-care for people with ADHD : 100+ ways to recharge, de-stress, and prioritize you! / Sasha Hamdani, MD

 

 

RC553.A88 H4615 2023  Is this autism? : a guide for clinicians and everyone else / Donna Henderson, Psy.D., Sarah Wayland, Ph.D. with Jamell White, Ph.D.

 

 

 

RC564 .H86 2023  Addiction : a very short introduction / Keith Humphreys

 

 

 

RC643 .P5613 2022  Down to the bone : a leukemia story / Catherine Pioli 

 

 

 

RC954 .N886 2024  Redfern's nursing older people

 

 

RD32.3 .F84 2022  Workbook for surgical technology : principles and practice / prepared by Elizabeth Ness

 

 

 

RG951 .D87 2023  Davis advantage for maternal-newborn nursing : critical components of nursing care / Roberta F. Durham

 

 

 

RM300 .W67 2023  Essentials of pharmacology for health professions / Bruce J. Colbert

 

 

 

RT51 .R692 2023  The handbook for nursing associates and assistant practitioners

 

 

RT55 .I793 2023  Next generation NCLEX-RN prep 2023-2024 : practice tests + proven strategies

 

 

 

RT83.3 .E874 2022  Essentials about LGBTQ+ care for nurses / Tyler Traister

 

 

 

RT86.54 .H43 2023  The health care professional's guide to cultural competence / edited by Rani H. Srivastava

 

 

 

RT87.T45 H37 2023  Palliative and end of life nursing care / Beth Hardy, Kate Flemming

T: Technology, Culinary

Z: Publishing, Library Science, Information Resources