Author: Jordan, Leslie, 1955-2022 author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 792.02
Format: Books
Summary: Viral sensation and Emmy Award-winner Leslie Jordan regales fans with entertaining stories about the odd, funny, and unforgettable events in his life in this unmissable essay collection that echoes his droll, irreverent voice. When actor Leslie Jordan learned he had "gone viral," he had no idea what that meant or how much his life was about to change. On Instagram, his uproarious videos have entertained millions and have made him a global celebrity. Now, he brings his bon vivance to the page with this collection of intimate and sassy essays. Bursting with color and life, dripping with his puckish Southern charm, How Y'all Doing? is Leslie doing what Leslie does best: telling stories that make us laugh and lift our spirits even in the darkest days. Whether he's writing about his brush with a group of ruffians in a West Hollywood Starbucks, or an unexpected phone call from legendary Hollywood start Debbie Reynolds, Leslie infuses each story with his fresh and saucy humor and pure heart.
How Y'all Doing? is an authentic, warm, and joyful portrait of an American Sweetheart--a Southern Baptist celebutante, first-rate raconteur, and keen observer of the odd side of life whose quirky wit rivals the likes of Amy Sedaris, Jenny Lawson, David Rakoff, and Sarah Vowell.
Author: Brockwell, Emma, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 618.2
Format: Books
Summary: "For too long, women have been told that debilitating conditions following pregnancy are normal, to be expected, and something to just put up with. Emma Brockwell is on a mission to change this. Having been through two difficult pregnancies herself, Emma combines her expertise as a specialist women's health physiotherapist with personal experience to create a warm, honest, informative and essential handbook to help pregnant women and new mums take control and care for their changing bodies. Find out how to: protect your pelvic floor, heal effectively from birth--both vaginal deliveries and caesarean sections, tackle common--and treatable--post-birth problems, exercise safely after birth. Every woman has the right to be informed and this empowering guide gives you all the tools you need to look after your amazing body throughout motherhood."--
Author: Richardson, Kim Michele author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: F RICHARDS
Format: Books
Summary: "Cussy Mary Carter is the last of her kind, her skin the color of a blue damselfly in these dusty hills. But that doesn't mean she's got nothing to offer. As a member of the Pack Horse Library Project, Cussy delivers books to the hill folk of Troublesome, hoping to spread learning in these desperate times. But not everyone is so keen on Cussy's family or the Library Project, and the hardscrabble Kentuckians are quick to blame a Blue for any trouble in their small town. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a story of raw courage, fierce strength, and one woman's determination to bring a little bit of hope to the darkly hollers"-- 1936. Tucked deep into the woods of Troublesome Creek, KY, lives blue-skinned Cussy Carter, the last living female of the rare Blue People ancestry. She joins Roosevelt's Pack Horse Library Project of Kentucky and becomes a traveling librarian, riding across slippery creek beds and up treacherous mountains on her mule to deliver books and other reading material to the impoverished hill people of Eastern Kentucky. Along her route, Cussy faces doubters at every turn, but is determined to bring the joy of books to the hardscrabble Kentuckians. -- Adapted from back cover.
Author: Ernaux, Annie, 1940- author. Strayer, Alison L., translator.
Published: 2017
Call Number: B ERNAUX
Format: Books
Summary: "Available in English for the first time, the latest astonishing, bestselling, and award-winning book by Annie Ernaux. The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present -- even projections into the future -- photos, books, songs, radio, television and decades of advertising, headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts and writing notes from six decades of diaries. Local dialect, words of the times, slogans, brands and names for the ever-proliferating objects, are given voice here. The voice we recognize as the author's continually dissolves and re-emerges. Ernaux makes the passage of time palpable. Time itself, inexorable, narrates its own course, consigning all other narrators to anonymity. A new kind of autobiography emerges, at once subjective and impersonal, private and collective. On its 2008 publication in France, The Years came as a surprise. Though Ernaux had for years been hailed as a beloved, bestselling and award-winning author, The Years was in many ways a departure: both an intimate memoir "written" by entire generations, and a story of generations telling a very personal story. Like the generation before hers, the narrator eschews the "I" for the "we" (or "they", or "one") as if collective life were inextricably intertwined with a private life that in her parents' generation ceased to exist. She writes of her parents' generation (and could be writing of her own book): "From a common fund of hunger and fear, everything was told in the "we" and impersonal pronouns.""--
Author: Braswell, Liz, author.
Published: 2016 2015
Call Number: Y BRASWELL
Format: Books
Summary: "Aladdin is a street rat. Like most, he's just trying to survive another day in impoverished Agrabah. Jasmine is a princess, one who is about to enter into an arranged marriage. All she wants is to escape her fate, to see what lies beyond the palace walls. But everything changes when the sultan's trusted advisor, Jafar, suddenly rises to power. With the help of an ancient lamp, Jafar becomes determined to break the laws of magic and gain control over love and death. Soon Aladdin and the deposed princess Jasmine must unite the people of Agrabah in rebellion to stop the power-mad ruler threatening to tear the kingdom apart."--Back cover.
Author: DeAngelis, Camille author.
Published: 2015
Call Number: F DEANGELI
Format: Books
Summary: "Since she was a baby, Maren has had serious trouble accepting affection. Any time someone gets too close to her, she's overcome by the desire to eat them. Abandoned by her mother the day after her sixteenth birthday, Maren goes looking for the father she has never known, but finds much more than she bargained for along the way. Faced with a world of fellow eaters, potential enemies, and the prospect of love, Maren realizes she isn't only looking for her father, she is looking for herself. The real question is: will she like who she finds?"--Publisher.
Author: Coelho, Paulo author. Clarke, Alan (Alan R.), translator. Smith, James Noel, illustrator.
Published: 2014
Call Number: F COELHO
Format: Books
Summary: "A special 25th anniversary edition of Paulo Coehlo's extraordinary international bestselling phenomenon--the inspiring spiritual tale of self-discovery that has touched millions of lives around the world. Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations. Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different--and far more satisfying--than he ever imagined. Santiago's journey teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, of recognizing opportunity and learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, most importantly, to follow our dreams"--
Author: Tucci, Stanley, author.
Published: 2012 1999
Call Number: 641.5945
Format: Books
Summary: Presents more than two hundred authentic Italian recipes and shares authors' family stories. "Featuring nearly two hundred irresistible recipes, perfectly paired with delicious wines, The Tucci Cookbook is brimming with robust flavors, beloved Italian traditions, mouthwatering photographs, and engaging, previously untold stories from the family's kitchen." --Front jacket flap.
Author: Hilderbrand, Elin, author.
Published: 2010 2008
Call Number: PB HILDERBR
Format: Books
Summary: Reluctantly agreeing to organize a children's benefit at which a rock-star ex-lover is performing, Claire Danner Crispin finds her efforts complicated by her clashes with a fellow organizer, her best friend's catering mishaps, and a new relationship.
Author: Miller, Fred, 1941- author. Miller, Susan, author.
Published: 2009
Call Number: 974.904
Format: Books
Summary: The Ocean City Baby Parade is the longest continuously held baby parade in the nation, tracing back to August 10, 1901, when the city's first baby show was held. From its beginning with 46 babies in the prettiest, cutest, and fattest baby categories, it has grown into a boardwalk extravaganza with 300 entrants, bands and bugle corps, professionally decorated commercial floats, homemade baby floats, grand marshals, and cartoon characters. Many families plan their vacations around this well-known event, and they are among the thousands of spectators lining the boardwalk each year.
Author: Picoult, Jodi, 1966- author.
Published: 2006 1998
Call Number: F PICOULT
Format: Books
Summary: A teenage suicide pact between a pregnant girl and her boyfriend, both children of wealthy New England families. He shoots her, but fails to shoot himself and is charged with murder. At the trial he explains what made them do it. "The Golds and the Hartes, neighbors for eighteen years, have always been inseparable. So have their children--and it's no surprise that in high school, Chris and Emily's friendship blossoms into something more. And then, suddenly, unimaginable tragedy strikes, threatening the bonds that had seemed so indestructible... This extraordinary, poignant novel paints an indelible portrait of two families in anguish as they find themselves on opposite sides of a painful divide . . . and confronts every parent's worst fear." --Back cover of 2006 First Harper Perennial edition
Author: Baltasar Kormákur, 1966- film director, film producer. Engle, Ryan, 1979- screenwriter. Sullivan, Jaime Primak, screenwriter. Lopez, James F., film producer. Packer, Will, film producer.
Published: 2022
Call Number: BEAST
Format: Video disc
Summary: When a widowed father decides to bring his daughters to a South African game reserve, they find themselves being stalked by an aggressive lion. Recently widowed Dr. Nate Daniels and his two teenage daughters travel to a South African game reserve managed by Martin Battles, an old family friend and wildlife biologist. However, what begins as a journey of healing soon turns into a fearsome fight for survival when a lion, a survivor of bloodthirsty poachers, begins stalking them.
Author: Motion picture adaptation of (work): Harkness, Deborah E., 1965- All souls trilogy. Donoughue, Jamie, television director. Gardner-Paterson, Debs, television director. Holdsworth, Lisa, 1973- screenwriter. Raynor, Helen, screenwriter.
Published: 2022
Call Number: DISCOVER SEASON 3
Format: Video disc
Summary: Matthew and Diana return from their trip to 1590 to find tragedy has occurred at Sept-Tours. They are closer to knowing the location of the Book of Life and its missing pages, but enemies from their past and present are threatening from all sides.
Author: Campion, Jane, 1954- film director, screenwriter, film producer. Seghatchian, Tanya, film producer. Sherman, Emile, film producer. Canning, Iain, film producer. Frappier, Roger, film producer.
Published: 2022 2021
Call Number: POWER
Format: Video disc
Summary: Jane Campion returns to the kind of mythic frontier landscape--pulsating with both freedom and menace--that she previously traversed in The Piano in order to plumb the masculine psyche in The Power of the Dog, set against the desolate plains of 1920s Montana and adapted by the filmmaker from Thomas Savage's novel. After a sensitive widow and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son move in with her gentle new husband, a tense battle of wills plays out between them and his brutish brother, whose frightening volatility conceals a secret torment, and whose capacity for tenderness, once reawakened, may offer him redemption or destruction. Campion, who won an Academy Award for her direction here, charts the repressed desire and psychic violence coursing among these characters with the mesmerizing control of a master at the height of her powers.
Author: Nutter, David, 1960- television director. Moffat, Steven, 1961- screenwriter. Leslie, Rose, 1987- actor. James, Theo, 1984- actor. Borges, Desmin, actor.
Published: 2022
Call Number: TIME SERIES
Format: Video disc
Summary: The out-of-order love story between Clare and Henry is as complicated as his attempts to explain his "condition" -- a tendency to get displaced in time when he becomes too emotional. Despite the odds, the woman who has known her husband since she was 6 and he was 40, and the 20 year old man who meets a beautiful redhead for the first time at his library job, manage to make a life and love worth having.
Author: Winning, David, 1961- film director. Dobson, Erinne, 1976- screenwriter. Routh, Brandon, actor. Sustad, Kimberley, actor. Harrison, Gregory, 1950- actor.
Published: 2022 2021
Call Number: NINE
Format: Video disc
Summary: Cat lovers Zachary and Marilee are thrown back together at Christmas when they're tasked with finding homes for a litter of adorable kittens.
Author: Sorrentino, Joseph (Filmmaker), film director, screenwriter. Mount, Anson, 1973- actor. Patric, Jason, actor. Richards, Jen, actor. Newman, Jaime Ray, 1978- actor.
Published: 2022
Call Number: MK ULTRA
Format: Video disc
Summary: Based on the infamous CIA experiments from the early 1960s, the psychological thriller follows a brilliant doctor who unknowingly becomes entangled with a dangerous government entity fixated on mind control. When his research is hijacked by the agency, the psychiatrist is recruited to run a subsect of the program in a rural Mississippi mental hospital.
Author: Boyum, Steve, director. Scaia, Stephen, director, screenwriter. Federman, Matthew, screenwriter. Silverman, Benjamin, 1970- producer. Weisleder, Jay, producer.
Published: 2022 2021
Call Number: TV BLOOD SEASON 2
Format: Video disc
Summary: A globe-trotting action-adventure drama about a brilliant antiquities expert and a cunning art thief who team up to catch a ruthless terrorist who funds his attacks through stolen treasure.
Author: Alvarado, David (David Anthony), film director, screenwriter. Sussberg, Jason, film producer. Merkerson, S. Epatha, 1952- narrator. Fritch, William Ryan, composer (expression) Structure Films, production company.
Published: 2020 2019
Call Number: 616.462
Format: Video disc
Summary: Looks at the stories of people living with diabetes. "Diabetes is a hidden epidemic that affects over 100 million people in the US, claiming more lives than cancer and HIV combined and costing close to $350 billion each year. Blood Sugar Rising puts human faces to these statistics, presenting personal stories that showcase the struggles of living with this illness and revealing new hopes for better diabetes management and prevention."--Amazon.
Author: Baltasar Kormákur, 1966- film director, film producer. Engle, Ryan, 1979- screenwriter. Sullivan, Jaime Primak, screenwriter. Lopez, James F., film producer. Packer, Will, film producer.
Published: 2022
Call Number: BEAST
Format: Video disc
Summary: When a widowed father decides to bring his daughters to a South African game reserve, they find themselves being stalked by an aggressive lion. Recently widowed Dr. Nate Daniels and his two teenage daughters travel to a South African game reserve managed by Martin Battles, an old family friend and wildlife biologist. However, what begins as a journey of healing soon turns into a fearsome fight for survival when a lion, a survivor of bloodthirsty poachers, begins stalking them.
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