March 29, 2021
Adult Fiction
Assassin’s Strike by Ward Larsen.
"In a Syrian palace, the presidents of Russia and Syria undertake a
clandestine meeting. No staff or advisors are permitted in the room. No records
are kept. By necessity, however, there are two witnesses: the interpreters. The
Russian, Ludmilla Kravchuk, returns to her hotel room burdened by what she has
heard. When her Syrian counterpart is murdered before her eyes, Kravchuk fears
she is next and goes into hiding in Syria. The CIA gets word of the defection.
Desperate to uncover the purpose of the meeting, they task their newest
off-the-books operator-legendary assassin David Slaton-to undertake a daring
rescue. A thousand miles south, in the lawless reaches of Darfur, a cattle
herder and his son stumble upon a deadly cache of chemical weapons. Their
horrible deaths are soon uncovered, and evidence ties the tragedy to Slaton's
mission. Behind the conspiracy is a shadowed figure: he claims to be the fifth
Rashidun of Islam, but his true identity is even more stunning. The spectacular
attack he is planning will tear the Middle East apart and return a notorious
clan to power. Only one person stands in his way - Slaton. An assassin without
peer."-- Provided by publisher.
Amnesty by Aravind Adiga.
Danny--formerly Dhananjaya
Rajaratnam--is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia, denied refugee status
after he fled from Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery
storeroom, for three years he's been trying to create a new identity for
himself. And now, with his beloved vegan girlfriend, Sonja, with his hidden
accent and highlights in his hair, he is as close as he has ever come to living
a normal life. But then one morning, Danny learns a female client of his has
been murdered. The deed was done with a knife, at a creek he'd been to with her
before; and a jacket was left at the scene, which he believes belongs to
another of his clients--a doctor with whom Danny knows the woman was having an
affair. Suddenly Danny is confronted with a choice: Come forward with his
knowledge about the crime and risk being deported? Or say nothing, and let
justice go undone? Over the course of this day, evaluating the weight of his
past, his dreams for the future, and the unpredictable, often absurd reality of
living invisibly and undocumented, he must wrestle with his conscience and
decide if a person without rights still has responsibilities.
Immortal Life: A Soon
to Be True Story by Stanley Bing.
Immortal Life. A fantasy.
An impossible dream. For now, maybe. But as we speak the moguls of Big Tech are
pouring their mountain of wealth into finding a cure for death. Don't tell them
they won't succeed. None of these titans is richer than Arthur Vogel. This
inventor, tech tycoon, and all-round monster has amassed trillions (with a T)
and rules over a corporate empire stretching all the way to Mars. The
newest--and most expensive--life extension technology has allowed him to live
to 127 years, but time is running out. His last hope to escape the inevitable
lies with Gene, a human being specifically created for the purpose of housing
Arthur's consciousness. The plan is to discard his used-up old carcass and come
to a second life in a young, strong body with all appropriate working parts.
But there's a problem: Gene. He may be artificial, but he is a person. And he
has other ideas. As Arthur sets off to achieve his goal of world domination,
Gene hatches a risky plan of his own. The forces against him are very, very
rich, extremely determined, and used to getting what they pay for. The battle
between creator and creation is joined as the two minds wrestle for control of
one body.
Adult Non-Fiction
The Hope of Glory by Jon Meacham.
For Jon Meacham, as for
believers worldwide, the events of Good Friday and Easter reveal essential
truths about Christianity. A former vestryman of Trinity Church Wall Street and
St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, Meacham delves into that intersection of faith
and history in this meditation on the seven phrases Jesus spoke from the cross.
Beginning with "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they
do" and ending with "Father, into thy hands I commend my
spirit," Meacham captures for the reader how these words epitomize Jesus's
message of love, not hate; grace, not rage; and, rather than vengeance,
extraordinary mercy. For each saying, Meacham composes an essay on the origins
of Christianity and how Jesus's final words created a foundation for oral and
written traditions that upended the very order of the world. Writing in a tone
more intimate than any of his previous works, Jon Meacham returns us to the
moment that transformed Jesus from a historical figure into the proclaimed Son
of God, worshiped by billions.
A Man Named Dave by Dave Pelzer.
Dave Pelzer's incredible
and inspiring life story has already captured the interest of more than one
million readers. A Man Named Dave is the long-awaited conclusion to his trilogy
in which he describes how he triumphed over years of physical and emotional
abuse from his parents to become a self-accepting and confident adult. Readers
of Pelzer's previous two bestsellers await this book--the first of Pelzer's
books to be available in hardcover--to learn how he finally confronts his
pathologically abusive mother and his neglectful, alcoholic father in an effort
to turn a childhood marked by rejection and emotional abuse into an adulthood
filled with love and acceptance.
Easy/Juvenile/Young Adult/Graphic Novel
What is Nintendo? by Gina Shaw. J NF
Founded in 1889, Nintendo
started out as a small playing card company in Japan. Though the cards sold
well, Nintendo really became popular when it began creating toys in the 1960s,
and then became internationally renowned after developing video games and
consoles in the 1970s and '80s. After introducing the world to some of the
best-known and top-selling video game franchises of all-time, such as Super
Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, Animal Crossing, and Pokémon, it's clear to
see why Nintendo is beloved by parents as a company that creates nonviolent,
family-friendly entertainment for kids.
Caleb & Kate by William Steig. E
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