A Farewell Message

 

After seventeen years with HCC's Brandon LRC I am turning in my keys.  I want everyone to know how much I have loved working with you and how grateful I am to have spent those years here on the Brandon Campus. Thank you for the many times you assisted me.  Thank you for the many times you've showed concern. But most of all, thank you for laughing at my jokes. 

To HCC's students: You are the reason I went to college and came to work at HCC. Your successes have made every day worthwhile.

 I wish you all the very best in the future. 

 

Shout out to the student who kindly added

Brian to our whiteboard. He's my spirit animal.

Laurie Glen MacNicol

February 28, 2023

New Non-Fiction

In addition to the new fiction titles in our Lease Book Collection, we continue to recieve non- fiction titles for our permanent collection. For those with special interest we offer this sampling of our new titles. We have also added more titles to our Spanish Language collection for Spanish speakers, and those learning Spanish.

Have a safe and enjoyable holiday.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

Madhouse at the End of the Earth

The Belgica's Journey to the

Dark Antarctic Night

Influenced 

The Impact of Social Media 

on Our Perception

The Experimental Fire

Inventing English Alchemy

Madam Speaker

Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power

Stan Lee, A Life

The Celtic Myths 

That Shape the way We Think

The Sum of Us

What Racism Costs Everyone

And How We Can Prosper Together

Gossip Men

J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy,

Roy Cohn, and the Politics of

Insinuation

The Restless and Relentless Mind of Wes Jackson

Searching for Sustainability

Nature Fast and Nature Slow

How Life Works from Fractions of a Second 

To Billions of Years

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Foster Angel Tree

 

For most of us the holiday season can be busy and stressful. For children, who see the lights and colors change their everyday world, it's touched by a bit of magic. However, much of that feeling comes from being a part of the event. Foster Angels is here to make sure children in foster care feel a part of the event, and to know they are in someone's thoughts.

The Foster Angel Tree went up Tuesday evening and the next morning we received the first gift bag! I hope we continue the momentum, as the tree is up about a week earlier this season to give everyone time.

The procedure is the same as before. Choose a tag, or more than one. Buy one or more gifts listed on the tag. Wrap everything up and attach the tag(s) securely to the gift(s) and bring them back to the tree. The deadline is December 16th at noon, and yes, I will send reminders!  Laurie~

 

New Fiction!

 

Legacy by Nora Roberts

A Peculiar Combination: An Electra McDonnell  by Ashley Weaver

Arctic Storm Rising by Dale Brown

The Damage by Caitlin Wahrer

The Other Black Girl by Zakiya  Dalila Harris 

The Bullet by Iris Johansen

The Stepsisters by Susan Mallory

The Eagle's Claw a Novel of the Battle of Midway by Jeff Shaara

The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot: a novel by Marianne Cronin

Malibu Rising by Reid, Taylor Jenkins

Hidden by Fern Michaels

The Cave Dwellers by Christina McDowell

Dream Girl by Laura Lippman

The Very Nice Box by Laura Blackett & Eve Gleichman

Choose me by Tess Gerritsen and Gary Braver

Viral by Robin Cook

Rock the Boat by Beck Dorey-Stein

Another Kind of Eden by James Lee Burke

The Rehearsals by Annette Christie

A Place like Home by Rosamunde Pilcher; introduction by Lucinda Riley

The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix

Everyone in this Room will someday be Dead by Emily Austin

Give my Love to the Savages by Chris Stuck

The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

An Irish Hostage by Charles Todd

The Bone Code by Kathy Reichs

The Stranger in the Mirror by Liv Constantine

False Witness by Karin Slaughter

The Shadow by James Patterson and Brian Sitts

Count the Ways by Joyce Maynard

The Forbidden by Heather Graham

Bloodless: A Pendergast Novel by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

For your own good by Samantha Downing

The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny

 

  Happy Halloween!

 

NEW IN THE BLRC!

 

Tropic of Stupid by Tim Dorsey

Serpentine by Jonathan Kellerman

If I Disappear by Eliza Jane Brazier

Faye, Faraway by Helen Fisher

Before she Disappeared by Lisa Gardner

The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

The Survivors by Jane Harper

   Robert Ludlum's the Treadstone Exile by Joshua Hood

The Lost Boys by Faye Kellerman

The War Widow by Tara Moss

Super Host by Kate Russo

The Power Couple by Alex Berenson

The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles

Faithless in Death by J.D. Robb

Relentless by Mark Greaney

Missing and Endangered by J.A. Jance

Blood Grove by Walter Mosley

The Scorpion's Tail: A Nora Kelly Novel 

by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

A Matter of Life and Death: A Robin Lockwood Novel by Phillip Margolin

Blink of an Eye by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen

Eternal by Lisa Scottoline

Mother May I by Joshilyn Jackson

Animal Instinct by David Rosenfelt

Good Company by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

The Son of Mr. Suleman by Eric Jerome Dickey

Sooley by John Grisham

Death with a Double Edge by Anne Perry

The Venice Sketchbook by Rhys Bowen

The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth

The Last Night in London by Karen White

The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon

Devil's Hand: A Thriller by Jack Carr

Finding Ashley by Danielle Steel

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba by Chanel Cleeton

The Perfect Daughter by D.J. Palmer

The Lady has a Past by Amanda Quick

A Gambling Man by David Baldacci

Lover Unveiled by J.R. Ward

Olympus, Texas by Stacey Swann

The Woman with the Blue Star by Pam Jenoff

Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau

21st Birthday by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

A Dog's Courage by W. Bruce Cameron

New in the Library!

 

Spring Semester Greetings to one and all!

We've put together a long list of new items in The Lease Book Collection and highlighted the author's names in blue if you're looking for someone in particular. Our faithful regulars, James Patterson, Mary Higgins Clark, David Baldacci, Anthony Horowitz, Stuart Woods and others are here for a chilly day. Then there are a couple of new twists on traditional tales offered up as Molly Greeley chooses a minor character for a look at Pride and Prejudice from another perspective in The Heiress: The Revelations of Anne de Bourgh, (one of the most mother dominated females in English Literature). We also have In the Garden of Spite: A Novel of the Black Widow of La Porte, a fictionalization of the life of Belle Gunness, one of the most prolific female serial killers in American History. And for those who love historical fiction, Bernard Cornwell's last installment in The Saxon Saga; War Lord, is here so we all can know what happens to Uhtred of Bebbanburg and(spoiler alert for those who don't read history) the outcome of Alfred the Great's plans for England. 

Be safe ~Laurie

 Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline

Dark Tides by Philippa Gregory 
Little Wishes by Michelle Adams
Daylight by David Baldacci
Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz
Perestroika in Paris by Jane Smiley
Little Cruelties by Liz Nugent
Murder is a Must by Marty Wingate
Cobble Hill by Cecily von Ziegesar
We Hear Voices by Evie Green
Piece of my Heart by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke
Choppy Water by Stuart Woods
War Lord by Bernard Cornwell
The Best of Me by David Sedaris
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
Jolene by Mercedes Lackey
Cold Wind by Paige Shelton
White Ivy by Susie Yang
The Children's Train by Viola Ardone; 
translated by Clarissa Botsford
Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour
The Push by Ashley Audrain
In the Garden of Spite: by Camilla Bruce
Spin by Patricia Cornwell
Wrong Alibi by Christina Dodd
The Butterfly House by Katrine Engberg; 
translated by Tara Chase
The Wrong Family by Tarryn Fisher
The Heiress: The Revelations of Anne de Bourgh 
by Molly Greeley
Twenty by James Grippando
The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins
The Frozen Crown by Greta Kelly
The Last Garden in England by Julia Kelly
My Year Abroad by Chang-rae Lee
The Russian by James Patterson and James O. Born
The Woman outside My Door by Rachel Ryan
The Broken Spine by Dorothy St. James
Deep into the Dark by P.J. Tracy
     

Sorry, ....No Tree

This is the time of year when Laurie in the BLRC starts nagging us about 

Foster Angels of Hillsborough County and handing out deadlines before we even celebrate Thanksgiving. In fact, before the turkey left overs are cold and another slice of pumpkin pie is indulged, she's on about Black Friday! 

But not this year. Due to the conditions of Covid-19 collecting tags, presents and picking up is less than practical.  So...No Tree This Year.  However, I'm still going to nag you a little bit, because after Black Friday comes Cyber Monday, and after that...Giving Tuesday!

 Perhaps you can hold back what you might have spent on a gift for a Foster Angel and make a direct donation. The link to the Foster Angels website is below.  Just click on "How can you help?" You can also look at the list of locations and ask if any of those close to you are active this year. 

As HCC employees we were able to work from home and continued to receive income. Whereas, many people in the community did with less or completely without. This time of year, which can be difficult for many, has become impossible. So, if not Foster Angels, please give to any program of your choice and have an impact in your community for the holidays, and beyond.

Many Thanks to all for your generosity 

~Laurie

http://fosterangels.com

New Best Sellers in the Library

                                         

Salt River by Randy Wayne White

The Other Mrs. by Mary Kubica

The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

A Song for the Dark Times: An Inspector Rebus novel by Ian Rankin

Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger

Troubles in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand

The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline

A Time for Mercy by John Grisham

Sucker Punch by Laurell K. Hamilton

The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis

The Silent Wife by Karin Slaughter

Elsewhere by Dean Koontz

A Private Cathedral by James Lee Burke

Squeeze Me by Carl Hiaasen

Thick as Thieves by Sandra Brown

Deadlock by Catherine Coulter

The Gift of the Magpie: a Meg Langslow Mystery by Donna Andrews

Cardiff, by the Sea: Four Novellas of Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates

The Last Druid by Terry Brooks

The Dirty South by John Connolly

The Noel Letters by Richard Paul Evans

Fortune and Glory: Tantalizing Twenty-seven by Janet Evanovich

Love your life by Sophie Kinsella

1st Case by James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts

House of Correction by Nicci French

                         Three Women Disappear: with a bonus novel: Come and Get Us                     by James Patterson and Shan Serafin

              Robert Ludlum's The Treadstone Resurrection by Joshua Hood

We are back!

We are Back!

THE BLRC IS OPEN

Monday-Thursday 9:00 to 4:30

-Limited seating for social distancing-  

-Students, faculty and staff only-

Masks must be worn 

You  may also email us at BRlibrary@hccfl.edu or 

https://libguides.hccfl.edu/hcclibraries-

 

                                 

NEW BESTSELLERS!

  New titles are now available in the Lease Book Collection. Lee Child, Stuart Woods, Jonathan Kellerman and Isabelle Allende are among the many. Annette Hess's The German House, touches on the current wave of World War II novels by examining the repercussions of that war through the 1963 Frankfurt Auschwitz trials. A young woman working as a translator struggling to come to grips with the questions over German culpability and begins to doubt her own choices. 

Thomas Keneally's historical novel, The Book of Science and Antiquities, travels back into prehistoric time where "Learned Man" begins a journey beyond simple existence in the course of human development and aspires to ideals and achievement. Forty thousand years later his story is pursued by a documentary film maker, not so very different in his own goals, as he follows the trail across Southeast Asia, Africa and the Australian Outback. 
Mysteries, thrillers and more are here so please stop by soon!
~Laurie

Blue Moon: A Jack Reacher Novel / Lee Child

When Old Midnight Comes Along: An Amos Walker novel / Loren D. Estleman

The German House / Annette Hess

Trace of Evil / Alice Blanchard

The Wicked Redhead / Beatriz Williams

The Book of Science and Antiquities / Thomas Keneally

A Long Petal of the Sea / Isabel Allende

Highfire / Eoin Colfer

A Longer Fall / Charlaine Harris

Deep State: A Thriller / Chris Hauty

Light Changes Everything / Nancy E. Turner

The Wives / Tarryn Fisher

Big Lies in a Small Town / Diane Chamberlain

Lost / James Patterson and James O. Born

Too Close to Home / Andrew Grant

The Vanishing / Jayne Ann Krentz

Lost Hills / Lee Goldberg

Such a Fun Age / Kiley Reid

Dear Edward / Ann Napolitano

Mr. Nobody / Catherine Steadman

Treason / Stuart Woods

American Dirt / Jeanine Cummins

When you see me / Lisa Gardner

Many Rivers to Cross: A DCI Banks Novel / Peter Robinson

All the Ways we said Goodbye: A Novel of the Ritz Paris / Beatriz Williams

The Museum of Desire / Jonathan Kellerman

Golden in Death / J. D. Robb

Into the Fire / Gregg Hurwitz

The Look-Alike / Erica Spindler

Cleaning the Gold: A Jack Reacher Short Story / Karin Slaughter and Lee Child

Perfect Little Children / Sophie Hannah