Scarborough Public Library: Forthcoming Titles: September 11. 2025

Ain't Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton
by Martha Ackmann

A larger-than-life ... biography of country music legend and philanthropist Dolly Parton, [in which] Martha Ackmann chronicles the life of an American original. From her impoverished childhood in the Smoky Mountains to international stardom as a singer, songwriter, actress, businesswoman, and philanthropist, Dolly Parton has exceeded everyone's expectations--except her own. ... Ain't Nobody's Fool is a deep dive into the social, historical, and personal forces that made Dolly Parton one of the most beloved and unifying figures in public life and includes interviews with friends, family members, school mates, Nashville neighbors, members of her band, studio musicians, producers, and many others. It also features never before seen photographs and unearthed documents shedding light on her family's hardscrabble life--

The 30-Day Inflammatory Reset: A Complete Guide to Healing Your Immune System
by Josh Redd

A practical, science-based roadmap to identify and eliminate hidden inflammation--the root cause of chronic health issues--through diet, lifestyle changes, and environmental modifications that will help you reclaim your energy, clarity, and vitality in just thirty days. From diabetes to cardiovascular issues, infertility to Alzheimer's disease, chronic inflammation is an undiagnosed epidemic behind countless conditions. In his eight clinics, Dr. Josh Redd has spent years searching for the best protocols to reduce inflammation and now, the culmination of his research is The 30-Day Inflammatory Reset. This comprehensive, actionable guidebook provides: - A comprehensive 30-day program that readers can start immediately, including activities, exercises, self-care treatments, therapies, and rethinking your diet for healing. - Equal emphasis on both the consequences and causes of inflammation and practical solutions - Coverage of often-overlooked causes like childhood trauma, environmental toxins, and excessive screen time. - Ninety-four delicious anti-inflammatory recipes that make the program sustainable for breakfasts, drinks and smoothies, snacks, main dishes, and more. - A systematic approach to identifying and addressing personal inflammation triggers. - Clear explanations of how inflammation affects different body systems. Whether dealing with ongoing health issues, seeking weight loss, or simply wanting to prevent future issues, The 30-Day Inflammatory Reset is at once a practical and transformative book to help you achieve better health, longevity, and overall well-being.

Call Me Ishmaelle
by Xiaolu Guo

1843. Ishmaelle is born in a small village on the stormy Kent coast where she grows up swimming with dolphins. After her parents and infant sister die, her brother, Joseph, leaves to find work as a sailor. Abandoned and desperate for a life at sea, Ishmaelle disguises herself as a cabin boy and travels to New York. Nearly twenty years later, as the American Civil War breaks out, Ishmaelle boards the Nimrod, a whaling ship led by the obsessive Captain Seneca, a Black free man of heroic stature who is haunted by a tragic past. Here, she finds protectors amidst the bloody male violence of whaling and discovers a mysterious bond between herself and the white whale who claimed Seneca's leg. Built on the bones of Melville's classic, Call Me Ishmaelle is a dynamic new tale, imbued with a diverse, swashbuckling crew--from a Polynesian harpooner to a Taoist Monk-and a powerful exploration of human nature, gender, and the nature of home-- Provided by publisher.

The Castaways
by Lucy Clarke

From million-copy and internationally bestselling author Lucy Clarke, The Castaways is an adrenaline-fueled thriller about two sisters torn apart when a vacation turns unthinkably deadly-perfect for fans of Long Bright River and Lost. Two years ago, a small plane disappeared over Fiji. For Erin, it's been two years of obsessing over every detail, refusing to move forward even as life does. Her sister Lori was on that plane, and Erin was meant to be, too, but after a bitter argument, she failed to show. Everyone thinks Lori is dead, but Erin refuses to let go. Just when Erin is on the verge of losing hope, the pilot of the missing plane turns up, seemingly with no memory of the crash. In a final bid to find her sister, Erin travels alone to a remote Fijian island-but what she discovers is beyond anything she could have predicted. Sharp-edged and darkly propulsive, The Castaways is another scorcher from one of our foremost thriller writers-- Provided by publisher.

Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America's New Age of Disaster
by Jacob Soboroff

A revelatory and searingly immediate report from the frontlines of the firestorm that consumed Los Angeles, from the MS NOW reporter and New York Times bestselling author of Separated, who covered the fires on the ground as an LA native.On the morning of January 7, 2025, a message pinged the phone of Jacob Soboroff, a national reporter for MS NOW. Big Palisades fire. We are evacuating, his brother texted within minutes of the blaze engulfing the hillside behind the home where he and his pregnant wife were living. Really bad. An attached photo showed a huge black plume rising from behind the house, an umbrella of smoke towering over everything they owned. Jacob rushed to the office of the bureau chief.I should go. I grew up in the Palisades.Soon he was on the front line of the blaze--his first live report of what would turn out to be weeks covering unimaginable destruction, from both the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire, in Altadena. In the days to come, Soboroff appeared across the networks of NBC News as Los Angeles was ablaze, met with displaced residents and workers, and pressed Governor Gavin Newsom in an interview on Meet the Press. But no story Soboroff has covered at home or abroad--the trauma of family separation at the border, the displacement of the war in Ukraine, the collapse of order in Haiti--could have prepared him for reporting live as the hallmarks of his childhood were engulfed in flames around him while his hometown burned to the ground.But for Soboroff, questions remained after the fires were controlled: what had he just witnessed? How could it have happened? Is it inevitable something like it will happen again? This set Soboroff off on months of reporting--with firefighters, fire victims, political leaders, academics, earth scientists, wildlife biologists, meteorologists and more--that made him keenly aware of how the misfortune of seeing his past carbonize was also a form of time travel into the dystopian world his children will inhabit. This is because the 2025 LA fires were not an isolated tragedy, but rather they are a harbinger--the fire of the future, in the words of one senior emergency--management official.Firestorm is the story of the costliest wildfire in American history, the people it affected and the deeply personal connection to one journalist covering it. It is a love letter to Los Angeles, a yearning to understand the fires, and why America's new age of disaster we are living through portends that--without a reckoning of how Los Angeles burned--there is more yet, and worse, to come.

The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery in the Americas
by Carrie Gibson

For more than four centuries, enslaved people across the Americas, from the United States and the Caribbean to Brazil, fought any way they could to gain their freedom. For the first time, their dramatic stories are gathered in one sweeping narrative that offers a message of inspiration in our own time.Among the emancipators are the millions whose stories will never be known. They lived the struggle. They were the great resistance. Thus does acclaimed historian Carrie Gibson conclude her magisterial chronicle of four centuries of effort by enslaved people in the western hemisphere to gain their freedom. Freedom is an idea, she writes, and the actions of the thousands who fought to escape slavery made clear that freedom had to be for everyone, otherwise it was a lie.The horrific enslavement by Europeans of twelve million Africans taken to the Americas has been widely written about, and important individual slave revolts have been recorded; but Gibson tells a larger story, portraying the multitude of freedom struggles across the entire hemisphere--from North America to the Caribbean to Brazil--as one long-running quest for freedom. From the first African revolt in 1521 on the island of Hispaniola, to the 18th-century Maroon Wars on Jamaica and the revolution that gave Haiti its independence, and thousands of smaller acts of defiance in between, Gibson vividly chronicles the continuum of resistance that eventually ended the slave trade and, with Brazil's decision in 1888, the institution of slavery itself.This was the most diverse ongoing insurrection the world has ever known, and the way it was responded to shaped every nation in the Americas in meaningful ways. If scholars were to emphasize the efforts of the enslaved more than the condition of slavery, historian Vincent Brown has written, we might at least tell richer stories about how the endeavors of the weakest and most abject have at times reshaped the world. With its deep scholarship and rich narrative, The Great Resistance is a major contribution to the literature around slavery and freedom and, in our time, a tribute to the persistence of the human spirit to overcome even the darkest of circumstances.

Humor Me: How Laughing More Can Make You Present, Creative, Connected, and Happy
by Chris Duffy

From a comedian and host of hit TED podcast, How to Be a Better Human, a hilarious and enlightening guide to laughing your way into a fuller life Warning: this book may cause repeated smiling. It's a delightful read about how we can bring more levity into our lives.--Adam Grant, author of Hidden Potential and Think Again In his days as an exhausted fifth grade teacher, Chris Duffy taught the funniest person he's ever met: eleven-year-old Gary. Gary was the school newspaper's official food critic, blasting cafeteria pizza for looking like cardboard and opining that the baked beans weren't beany enough. These days, Duffy is a professional comedy writer and the host of a podcast with millions of listeners, but he's never forgotten the transformative joy of laughing with Gary during a bleak Boston winter. In Humor Me, he shares a road map for how to cultivate and strengthen a sense of humor in a challenging world. Duffy embarks on a journey that takes him from comedy clubs to emergency rooms to a helicopter full of Navy SEALs and back to his own keyboard to reveal how--and why--a good laugh can bring us closer to the good life. Drawing on personal stories, insights from the social sciences, and the wisdom of comedians, Duffy offers practical strategies, including: How to hone the art of noticing, finding humor in the most unlikely placesWhy you should take social risks (to build connection through humor )How to apply the comedy secret that laughs come in threes.Humor Me promises to deepen your friendships, enhance your creativity, and lighten life's burdens, and is a genuinely funny read along the way.

The Invisible Woman: A Thriller
by James Patterson

From New York Times bestselling author James Patterson, an undercover FBI agent investigates a family with suspected ties to organized crime--by posing as their live-in nanny. No one sees her, but she sees everything. Elinor Gilbert was once a young woman with a thriving career at the FBI. Now decades past solving crimes with the bureau, she is personally and professionally forgettable. Which is exactly what her former FBI boss needs. He disguises Elinor as a middle-aged nanny, and casts her as an agent on the inside of his investigation into a New York art dealer suspected of ties to organized crime. But as Elinor pushes toward the truth, her superpower--anonymity--morphs into a fatal flaw. The more the invisible woman integrates into her host family, the more dangerously memorable she becomes.

The List of Suspicious Things
by Jennie Godfrey

We'll make a list. A list of all the people and things we see that are suspicious. And then... we'll investigate them. Miv is panicking. Life hasn't been amazing since her mom got sick, but now her dad is talking about wanting to move their family away from the town Miv has lived in her whole life. Because of the murders. But leaving Yorkshire and her best friend Sharon simply isn't an option, no matter the dangers lurking round their way; or the strangeness at home that started the day Miv's mum stopped talking. Perhaps if she could solve the case of the disappearing women, they could stay after all? So, Miv and Sharon decide to make a list: a list of all the suspicious people and things on their street. People they know. People they don't. But their search for the truth reveals more secrets in their neighborhood, within their families-and between each other-than they ever thought possible. What if the real mystery Miv needs to solve is the one that lies much closer to home?--

Order of Royals
by Jude Deveraux

Princess Aradella is trapped in the iron grip of her evil and powerful aunt, Queen Olina. Navigating the treacherous waters of political machinations and familial duties, Aradella discovers allies in unexpected places, including Tanek, a swansman with his own mysterious connections. Set in a world where royalty, magic, and mythical beings coexist, Aradella's path is intertwined with that of Kaley Arens, an Earthling who becomes deeply entangled in the planet's intricate social hierarchy, as she is faced with a choice between her homeland and newfound love. As Aradella and her companions uncover dark secrets and hidden agendas, they embark on an adventure filled with loyalty, romance, and courage, where the lines between magic and reality blur. Aradella's heart finds a beacon in Mekos, the son of Tanek, whose distinct heritage and protective nature captivate her--

The Rest of Our Lives
by Ben Markovits

FINALIST FOR THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE Feels less like reading a novel and more like sitting in a car beside a dear friend as he navigates the road up ahead. A profoundly moving experience. --Ann Patchett Deeply human...a beautifully quiet and devastating book. --Sarah Jessica Parker A triumphantly life-affirming road trip novel about marriage, middle-age, and a man at a crossroads in his life. When Tom Layward's wife had an affair twelve years ago, he resolved to leave her as soon as his youngest child left the nest. Now, while driving his college-bound daughter to Pittsburgh, he remembers his promise to himself. He is also on the run from his own health issues and a forced leave from work. So, rather than returning to his wife in Westchester, Tom keeps driving west, with the vague plan of visiting people from his past--an old college friend, his ex-girlfriend, his brother, his son--en route, maybe, to California. He's moving towards a future he hasn't even envisioned yet while he considers his past and the choices he's made that have brought him to this particular present. Pitch-perfect, tender, and keenly observed, The Rest of Our Lives is a story about what to do when the rest of your life is only just the beginning of your story.

Skylark
by Paula McLain

The New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife weaves a mesmerizing tale of Paris above and below--where a woman's quest for artistic freedom in 1664 intertwines with a doctor's dangerous mission during the German occupation in the 1940s, revealing a story of courage and resistance that transcends time. 1664: Alouette Voland is the daughter of a master dyer at the famed Gobelin Tapestry Works, who secretly dreams of escaping her circumstances and creating her own masterpiece. When her father is unjustly imprisoned, Alouette's efforts to save him lead to her own confinement in the notorious Salpêtrière asylum, where thousands of women are held captive and cruelly treated. But within its grim walls, she discovers a small group of brave allies, and the possibility of a life bigger than she ever imagined. 1939: Kristof Larson is a medical student beginning his psychiatric residency in Paris, whose neighbors on the Rue de Gobelins are a Jewish family who have fled Poland. When Nazi forces descend on the city, Kristof becomes their only hope for survival, even as his work as a doctor is jeopardized. A spellbinding and transportive look at a side of Paris known to very few--the underground city that is a mirror reflection of the glories above--Paula McLain's unforgettable new novel chronicles two parallel journeys of defiance and rescue that connect in ways both surprising and deeply moving.

Song of Ancient Lovers
by Laura Restrepo

Award-winning Colombian author Laura Restrepo weaves contemporary themes and ancient myth in this story of star-crossed lovers in a world on the brink of collapse-- Provided by publisher.

Weightless: A Doctor's Guide to Glp-1 Medications, Sustainable Weight Loss, and the Health You Deserve
by Rocio Salas-Whalen

A board-certified endocrinologist shares her must-have guide to using GLP-1 medications, such as Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound, to reverse obesity and take charge of your health, with established strategies for maximizing your results This book is a game-changer. Dr. Salas-Whalen gives you the science and the compassion this conversation has been missing. You are not alone anymore.--Mel Robbins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Let Them Theory Whether your struggle to lose weight has lasted years or started more recently, GLP-1 medications will help you finally end it. While GLP-1s have redefined how we treat obesity, the search for expert care is likely to leave you feeling confused, overwhelmed, and unheard. Misconceptions are everywhere. Many doctors are still catching up with the science. And you may find a prescription but not the medical supervision you need for the best results. In Weightless, Dr. Rocio Salas-Whalen, a board-certified endocrinologist and expert in obesity medicine, delivers the real-world strategies that have helped thousands of patients achieve health goals that once felt out of reach. Her deeply compassionate approach sees obesity, not as a personal failure but as a chronic health condition that deserves medical treatment. Drawing on years of clinical expertise and the lived experience of her patients, she explains how to: - Rethink what you know about weight management Learn why eat less, move more is an outdated and ineffective prescription.- Give your GLP-1 journey a strong start: Choose an experienced provider, ask the right questions at every appointment, and get better outcomes if you're using telehealth.- Preserve muscle for long-term success: Follow Dr. Salas-Whalen's advice for increasing protein intake and optimizing your strength training.- Protect your progress: Manage side effects with evidence-based care, recognize when you need a dosage change, and know what to do when GLP-1s don't work.- Adjust to life after GLP-1s: Navigate the unexpected physical, social, and psychological changes that accompany significant weight loss. Comprehensive and empowering, Weightless offers judgment-free support that ensures you never feel alone on this journey.

Wreck Your Heart: A Mystery
by Lori Rader-Day

From award-winning author Lori Rader-Day, Wreck Your Heart is an engaging, wisecracking and wonderful crime novel with a big heart, about a country and midwestern singer out to catch her big break before family--or murder--wrecks everything. Dahlia Doll Devine had the kind of hardscrabble beginning that could launch a thousand broken-hearted country songs, but now she's the star of her own stage at McPhee's Tavern. As part of Chicago's--yes, Chicago's--country music scene, Dahlia is an up-and-coming singer in spangles and boots of classic country tunes. Up and coming, that is, until her boyfriend Joey up and went, taking the rent money with him. So Dahlia is back to square one, relying on Alex McPhee--again. Alex helped her out of a bad situation when she was a kid living rough with her mother. Now he's part landlord, part band booster, all-around rescuer. It's just that Dahlia wishes she didn't keep giving him reasons to have to do it. Just as Dahlia suspects she's scraped rock bottom, the mother she hasn't spoken to in twenty years shows up with something to say. The next morning, a distraught young woman arrives at the bar, asking after her missing mother--Dahlia's mother, too, even if the missing suburban PTA mom the girl describes sounds pretty different from the one who let Dahlia down all those years ago. Though no one is using the word sister any time soon, Dahlia lets herself be drawn into reuniting the family that might have been hers. But when a body is discovered outside McPhee's Tavern, the crime threatens not just the place Dahlia has made into a home, but everything she's believed about her past, her dreams for the future, and the people she was just, maybe, beginning to let into her heart.

The Viper: A Zig & Nola Novel
by Brad Meltzer

A thrilling adventure, full of twists and turns, gripping from the first page to the last. Hugely enjoyable. The perfect book to meet Zig & Nola. -- Alex Michaelides, New York Times bestselling author of The Silent PatientNew York Times bestselling author Brad Meltzer is back with his thrilling Zig and Nola series, unraveling a shocking cold case with a personal--and deadly--twist.Andrew Fechmeier is a master at hiding. He'd better be--he's spent decades concealing a secret that could get him killed. So when he's diagnosed with a terminal disease, he heads for the local funeral home carrying the blue suit he eventually wants to be buried in. But what no one knows is that Fechmeier secretly tucked something inside, turning the suit into a final, untraceable hiding spot.It's a perfect plan. Until Fetch is brutally murdered by a mysterious killer who will stop at nothing to find the priceless object hidden in the suit.Wasting no time, the cunning but unconventional Roddy LaPointe opens an investigation into Fetch's murder, recruiting help from his friend, the brilliant Zig Zigarowski. But it doesn't take long for Zig to discover the real reason Roddy cares so much about this case: Fetch's death is tied to Roddy's mother, who was murdered decades earlier.As the relentless killer closes in, Roddy's twin sister--the enigmatic and volatile Nola Brown--starts investigating for herself, uncovering a sinister plot that reveals their mother's dark history, the true identity of her killer, and the shocking secret behind her death.Don't turn your back on The Viper.The Viper is a pulse pounding adventure that takes you on a journey into the darkest recesses of the human heart. -- S.A. Cosby, New York Times bestselling author of All the Sinners Bleed and King of AshesExpertly crafted and charged with tension, Meltzer delivers exactly what readers crave: a killer story from a true master of the craft. Smart, sharp, and undeniably gripping--this is Meltzer doing what he does best. -- Jack Carr, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Red Sky Mourning

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