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Steinbaum, Linda Felton

Savar, Carly Steinbaum

Animals

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Beautiful watercolor paintings bring this story of friendship, inclusivity, and adventure to life. Separated from its family after a devastating wildfire, a lonely pig befriends a pony. Together they travel across the island of Maui in hopes of reuniting the pig with its family. Along the way they seek help from a variety of Maui's friendly animals.

The Pig and The Pony

Helmkamp, Josh And Eric

Michael Hellstern, Joe Kinney

Greer, Izzy

A mother's delight are her grandchildren. For this "grandmother" a special time for her was to share Halloween. The grandchildren would always stop at grandma's house dressed in their costumes prior to their night of trick or treating and listened to spooky stories of ghost, goblins, and witches. As grandma read her stories, her grandchildren listen wide-eyed and spellbound. Little did the children know, though they may have suspected, Grandma was the witch in her stories. Surely not, the children "all agreed, the stories were not true" - but fun to tell and read. No witch could brew a magic stew or cast a magic spell! That is all just make believe for nights like Halloween" . . . or was it?

Grandma's Halloween Stories

Tenner, Joan

Science Fiction & Fantasy

WHAT HAPPENS AT THE CHURCH STREET BREWERY DOESN'T ALL STAY THERE The Church Street Brewery is located in the center of Uptown, in what use to be called Mechanicsville, a mile north of downtown. In the 1930s, during the Depression, only the rich factory owners could afford to live in downtown. The small-business owners of automobile shops or tailors moved to Mechanicsville, where now stands The Church Street Brewery. On any night, this former furniture factory, a one-story remodeled building is surrounded by several dozen folks sitting or standing on the outdoor patio or attending a university-sponsored religions discussion. Some sit like Rae and some stand like Professor David. A reserved Nadia sits at a nearby table and talks with her college friend Yuan, a 20-something Chinese-born student. Some men, like the 70-something Jim, a pillar of the community, float around the patio with a glass of chardonnay in hand. The reserved Carlton is a 71-year-old widower whose wife Dorothy died of breast cancer nine months ago. On sunny days, a cancer survivor, Debra, dons a cap to hide her hair loss while she strokes paint across a canvas. Next to Debra is Katherine, a 40-something, single, political operative who works for the governor of North Carolina. Then one fall Wednesday evening, all thesecharacters strangely (coincidentally?) meet, converse, and warm their bodies from thepatio fire pit. Some drink and some just talk.Some are kind and some are rude. At least one person's life is changed ina moment that Wednesday night.

The Gathering at the Church Street Brewery

Literature & Fiction

Horne, Christopher K

United States

Our country faces a multitude of problems and challenges. Included are rising college costs, widening income inequality, immigration, global warming, inadequate health care, and numerous others. There is certainly no lack of discussion and debate about these issues. While solutions are often offered, the remedies are usually little more than generalities. The solutions are typically phrased as "we need to do more to-fill the blank." Little attention is given to how the recommended solution will work, if it will work, how it will be funded, and if there is any solid research backing its claims. It's little wonder our big national problems never seem to be solved. "Real Solutions" is different. It offers specific, research-backed, fully funded recommendations for finally addressing our biggest challenges. The real solutions are not sugar-coated and they involve sacrifices. But they show our problems can be addressed-if we want to address them. Michael Walden is uniquely suited to provide these real solutions. As an academic for over forty years, he knows the research behind the problems and how to address them. But as an academic who has worked with elected officials, business owners, workers, and everyday people, he knows how to translate academic findings into understandable plans. With "Real Solutions," there's finally a public policy book with both a firm foundation and logical and workable ideas for ending our debates and solving our most pressing problems.

Real Solutions: Common Sense Ideas For Solving Our Most Pressing Problems

Business & Money

Walden, Michael L.

Economics

This memoir is a good read and reference for those interested in learning about supporting faculty and students in college, raising money for worthy causes, working with legal systems, avoiding problems with college presidents, and recognizing the benefits of collaboration, especially for small colleges. The author describes her 25 years of leading an association of 35 colleges, first as a program at the University of KY and then as a nonprofit association housed in Berea, KY. She became head of the Appalachian College Program (ACP) three years after the program started at UK and president of the Appalachian College Association (ACA) ten years later. With little experience in fund-raising, Brown built the association into one so familiar to federal agencies and foundations that when she retired after 15 years with the ACA, she left an endowment of $25 million, a reserve fund of about $250,000, $3 million for active grants, and contacts with roughly 20 foundations and federal agencies that had funded the association for many of her 25 years. This memoir chronicles 25 years of persistence and dedication in higher education by someone who came to understand many aspects of higher education that as a faculty and staff member herself she never knew. Readers can benefit from her 25 years of routinely learning something new about the field of higher education, how to survive and even succeed in it.

Fifty Million for Faculty and Students: My Fundraising Years

Education & Teaching

Brown, Alice Lee Williams

Higher & Continuing Education

Dr. Thomas Benson III is on an extraordinary journey in life and is a man of many accolades with a story worth telling. From being a husband, father, son, and brother to being a longtime educator and mentor, and former athlete, Dr. Benson III is a multifaceted human being. In A Legacy Created, Dr. Benson III recounts his life experiences growing up in rural South Carolina. He takes readers on an honest journey of overcoming life adversities and gives insight into what it means to be resilient in the face of setbacks. Dr. Benson III touches on first-hand accounts of discrimination and the courage it takes to push forward. Told in an open, candid way that we can all understand, A Legacy Created is a story for everybody, young and old, to look for the silver lining in this life and to have a tenacious spirit.

A Legacy Created: Memoir of a Boy from the South

Biographies & Memoirs

Benson, Thomas

Community & Culture

Finding Gauguin: Paul Gauguin's Lost Masterpiece

David A Hiser

Danny and the Moon

Jennifer Dawson

The Paris Photo compassionately conveys the story of American soldier Ben Gordon and his relationship with a young mother and her son just after the Liberation of Paris in August 1944. Despite the strength of this relationship during the war, Ben's eventual return to America separates them. Decades later, Ben's daughter stitches the relationship back together when she discovers a photograph of her late father with an unknown woman and boy. Eager to uncover more of her father's past, she travels to Paris to learn about the people in the photograph. The Paris Photo lifts characters out of the pages of a history book, richly depicting the human emotion that pervades our memories.
The Paris Photo will appeal to lovers of historical fiction, particularly those with an interest in WWII. Jane S. Gabin creates a vivid picture of life in Paris during the dark days of the Nazi occupation, as well as a depiction of the contemporary city that still carries scars from the war. Interweaving mystery, romance, and historical research, The Paris Photo demonstrates how the traumas of wartime loss persist into the present.

The Paris Photo

Jane S. Gabin

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