Author: Verghese, Abraham, 1955-
Published: 2009
Call Number: F VERGHESE
Format: Books
Summary: Marion, fresh out of medical school, flees Ethiopia and makes his way to America, finding refuge in his work as an intern at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches up to him--nearly destroying him--Marion must entrust his life to the two men he thought he trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him.
Author: Sloper, Tom.
Published: 2007
Call Number: 795.34
Format: Books
Summary: The Red Dragon & The West Wind is the perfect introduction to this ancient game of strategy and subterfuge, covering all aspects of the two most common varieties, American and Chinese, along with an overview of other global approaches. The book begins with the history and origin and moves on to the rules of play and ways to win and avoid essential errors as well as the etiquette to follow. With everything from clear instructions on dealing, building, and distributing tiles to a look at the history and future of the game, this is the essential book for anyone who wants to have fun-and win-while playing mah-jongg.
Author: Monteverde, Alejandro, film director, screenwriter. Barr, Rod, screenwriter. Verástegui, Eduardo, 1974- film producer, actor. Caviezel, Jim, 1968- actor. Godino, Javier, 1978- actor.
Published: 2023
Call Number: SOUND
Format: Video disc
Summary: Is based on an incredible true story, and shines a light on even the darkest of places. After rescuing a young boy from ruthless child traffickers, a federal agent learns the boy's sister is still captive and decides to embark on a dangerous mission to save her. With time running out, he quits his job and journeys deep into the Colombian jungle, putting his life on the line to free himself from a fate worse than death.
Author: Bancroft, Tony (Animator), film director. Blunt, Emily, voice actor. DeVito, Danny, voice actor. Fierstein, Harvey, 1952- voice actor. Gottfried, Gilbert, 1955-2022, voice actor.
Published: 2023 2021
Call Number: J ANIMAL
Format: Video disc
Summary: A family must use a magical box of animal crackers to save a run-down circus from being taken over by their evil uncle, Horatio P. Huntington.
Author: O'Sullivan, Thaddeus, 1947- film director. Smallhorne, Jimmy, screenwriter. Prager, Timothy, screenwriter. Maurer, Joshua, screenwriter, film producer. Witlin, Alixandre, 1964- film producer.
Published: 2023
Call Number: MIRACLE
Format: Video disc
Summary: Set in 1967, a heartwarming film that follows the story of three generations of close friends, Lily, Eileen, and Dolly of Ballygar, a hard-knocks community in Dublin, who have one tantalizing dream: to win a pilgrimage to the sacred French town of Lourdes, that place of miracles that draws millions of visitors each year. When the chance to win presents itself, the women seize it. However, just before their trip, their old friend Chrissie arrives in Ballygar for her mother's funeral, dampening their good mood and well-laid plans. The women secure tickets and set out on the journey that they hope will change their lives, with Chrissie, a skeptical traveler, joining in place of her mother. The glamor and sophistication of Chrissie, who has just returned from a nearly 40-year exile in the United States, are not her only distancing traits: Old wounds are reopened along the way, forcing the women to confront their pasts even as they travel in search of a miracle. Their shared traumas can only be healed by the curative power of love and friendship.
Author: Cundieff, Rusty, film director, screenwriter. Blair, Macon, screenwriter. Furst, Griff, 1981- film producer. Vitale, Thomas P., film producer. McCreary, Lori, film producer.
Published: 2023
Call Number: FIFTY
Format: Video disc
Summary: When a tech blogger discovers a time-altering device, he unleashes its power to rewrite the past and seek revenge against the ruthless corporate empire that destroyed his family. But his actions soon trigger a terrifying chain of events, propelling him into a pulse-pounding battle for survival where every second counts.
Author: Blomkamp, Neill, 1979- film director. Hall, Jason, 1972- screenwriter. Baylin, Zach, 1980- screenwriter. Tse, Alex, screenwriter. Belgrad, Doug, 1965- film producer.
Published: 2023
Call Number: GRAN
Format: Video disc
Summary: Based on the unbelievable true story of a team of unlikely underdogs, a struggling working-class gamer, a failed former race-car driver, and an idealistic motorsport executive. Together, they risk it all to take on the most elite sport in the world. It is an inspiring, thrilling, and action-packed story that proves that nothing is impossible when you're fueled from within.
Author: Fuqua, Antoine, film director, film producer. Wenk, Richard, screenwriter. Black, Todd, film producer. Blumenthal, Jason, film producer. Washington, Denzel, 1954- film producer, actor.
Published: 2023
Call Number: EQUALIZE 3
Format: Video disc
Summary: Since giving up his life as a government assassin, Robert McCall has struggled to reconcile the horrific things he's done in the past and finds a strange solace in serving justice on behalf of the oppressed. Finding himself surprisingly at home in Southern Italy, he discovers his new friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia.
Author: Alexander, Michael, film director. Cole, Deon, on-screen participant. Garlin, Jeff, 1962- on-screen participant. Howery, Lil Rel, 1979- on-screen participant. Buress, Hannibal, on-screen participant.
Published: 2023
Call Number: 809.917
Format: Video disc
Summary: Comics talk about the trials and tribulations of starting a comedy career in Chicago, where the comedy scene is as polarized and segregated as the city itself.
Author: Monteverde, Alejandro, film director, screenwriter. Barr, Rod, screenwriter. Verástegui, Eduardo, 1974- film producer, actor. Caviezel, Jim, 1968- actor. Godino, Javier, 1978- actor.
Published: 2023
Call Number: SOUND
Format: Video disc
Summary: Is based on an incredible true story, and shines a light on even the darkest of places. After rescuing a young boy from ruthless child traffickers, a federal agent learns the boy's sister is still captive and decides to embark on a dangerous mission to save her. With time running out, he quits his job and journeys deep into the Colombian jungle, putting his life on the line to free himself from a fate worse than death.
Author: Bancroft, Tony (Animator), film director. Blunt, Emily, voice actor. DeVito, Danny, voice actor. Fierstein, Harvey, 1952- voice actor. Gottfried, Gilbert, 1955-2022, voice actor.
Published: 2023 2021
Call Number: J ANIMAL
Format: Video disc
Summary: A family must use a magical box of animal crackers to save a run-down circus from being taken over by their evil uncle, Horatio P. Huntington.
Author: O'Sullivan, Thaddeus, 1947- film director. Smallhorne, Jimmy, screenwriter. Prager, Timothy, screenwriter. Maurer, Joshua, screenwriter, film producer. Witlin, Alixandre, 1964- film producer.
Published: 2023
Call Number: MIRACLE
Format: Video disc
Summary: Set in 1967, a heartwarming film that follows the story of three generations of close friends, Lily, Eileen, and Dolly of Ballygar, a hard-knocks community in Dublin, who have one tantalizing dream: to win a pilgrimage to the sacred French town of Lourdes, that place of miracles that draws millions of visitors each year. When the chance to win presents itself, the women seize it. However, just before their trip, their old friend Chrissie arrives in Ballygar for her mother's funeral, dampening their good mood and well-laid plans. The women secure tickets and set out on the journey that they hope will change their lives, with Chrissie, a skeptical traveler, joining in place of her mother. The glamor and sophistication of Chrissie, who has just returned from a nearly 40-year exile in the United States, are not her only distancing traits: Old wounds are reopened along the way, forcing the women to confront their pasts even as they travel in search of a miracle. Their shared traumas can only be healed by the curative power of love and friendship.
Author: Cundieff, Rusty, film director, screenwriter. Blair, Macon, screenwriter. Furst, Griff, 1981- film producer. Vitale, Thomas P., film producer. McCreary, Lori, film producer.
Published: 2023
Call Number: FIFTY
Format: Video disc
Summary: When a tech blogger discovers a time-altering device, he unleashes its power to rewrite the past and seek revenge against the ruthless corporate empire that destroyed his family. But his actions soon trigger a terrifying chain of events, propelling him into a pulse-pounding battle for survival where every second counts.
Author: Blomkamp, Neill, 1979- film director. Hall, Jason, 1972- screenwriter. Baylin, Zach, 1980- screenwriter. Tse, Alex, screenwriter. Belgrad, Doug, 1965- film producer.
Published: 2023
Call Number: GRAN
Format: Video disc
Summary: Based on the unbelievable true story of a team of unlikely underdogs, a struggling working-class gamer, a failed former race-car driver, and an idealistic motorsport executive. Together, they risk it all to take on the most elite sport in the world. It is an inspiring, thrilling, and action-packed story that proves that nothing is impossible when you're fueled from within.
Author: Fuqua, Antoine, film director, film producer. Wenk, Richard, screenwriter. Black, Todd, film producer. Blumenthal, Jason, film producer. Washington, Denzel, 1954- film producer, actor.
Published: 2023
Call Number: EQUALIZE 3
Format: Video disc
Summary: Since giving up his life as a government assassin, Robert McCall has struggled to reconcile the horrific things he's done in the past and finds a strange solace in serving justice on behalf of the oppressed. Finding himself surprisingly at home in Southern Italy, he discovers his new friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia.
Author: Alexander, Michael, film director. Cole, Deon, on-screen participant. Garlin, Jeff, 1962- on-screen participant. Howery, Lil Rel, 1979- on-screen participant. Buress, Hannibal, on-screen participant.
Published: 2023
Call Number: 809.917
Format: Video disc
Summary: Comics talk about the trials and tribulations of starting a comedy career in Chicago, where the comedy scene is as polarized and segregated as the city itself.
Author: Clarren, Rebecca, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: 978.3 CLARREN
Format: Books
Summary: "An award-winning author investigates the entangled history of her Jewish ancestors' land in South Dakota and the Lakota, who were forced off that land by the United States government. "A brilliantly conceived family history, one that places questions of responsibility and atonement at the center of the conversation about America's political future."--the Whiting Foundation. Growing up, Rebecca Clarren only knew the major plot points of her tenacious immigrant family's origins. Her great-great-grandparents, the Sinykins, and their six children fled antisemitism in Russia and arrived in the United States at the turn of the 20th century, ultimately settling on a 160-acre homestead in South Dakota. Over the next few decades, despite tough years on a merciless prairie and multiple setbacks, the Sinykins became an American immigrant success story. What none of Clarren's ancestors ever mentioned was that their land, the foundation for much of their wealth, had been cruelly taken from the Lakota by the United States government. By the time the Sinykins moved to South Dakota, America had broken hundreds of treaties with hundreds of Indigenous nations across the continent, and the land that had once been reserved for the seven bands of the Lakota had been diminished, splintered, and handed for free, or practically free, to white settlers. In The Cost of Free Land, Clarren melds investigative reporting with personal family history to reveal the intertwined stories of her family and the Lakota, and the devastating cycle of loss of Indigenous land, culture, and resources that continues today. With deep empathy and clarity of purpose, Clarren grapples with the personal and national consequences of this legacy of violence and dispossession. What does it mean to survive oppression only to perpetuate and benefit from the oppression of others? By shining a light on the people and families tangled up in this country's difficult history, The Cost of Free Land invites readers to consider their own culpability and what, now, can be done"--
Author: Varon, Elizabeth R., 1963- author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: B LONGSTRE
Format: Books
Summary: "An authoritative biography of the second-highest-ranking and most controversial Confederate general, who rejoined the Union after the Civil War, advising other Confederate soldiers to put that war behind them. After joining an interracial government in New Orleans, Longstreet fought against white supremacists when they attacked these postwar elected officials, for which he was vilified and attacked by other Southerners, and blamed for the South's defeat in the Civil War"--
Author: Steel, Danielle, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: F STEEL
Format: Books
Summary: It's the summer of 1959 and the Palace of Versailles is hosting an event that will make history. It is an exclusive dusk-to-dawn ball in which a select group of American and French debutantes will be presented to international society and royalty. Four young women, all with something to prove, receive what some see as the invitation of a lifetime. Amelia Alexander, who hopes to eventually attend law school, hesitates to participate in what she sees as an archaic and privileged tradition. But her indomitable widowed mother, Jane, who's struggled financially and sacrificed for a career, encourages her to attend. Jane would do anything for Amelia to have the chance at a happily ever after. Felicity Smith is equally uncertain about the ball. Although her family is prominent in the Dallas social scene, Felicity prefers to keep to herself, avoiding the older sister who torments her. But to get out of her sister's shadow, Felicity decides to accept. If it's a success, the tables will have turned at last. For Caroline Taylor, the beautiful ingénue and daughter of Hollywood legends, the ball is an irresistible opportunity. But an unexpected heartbreak just before she leaves for France gets things off to a bad start. Then there's Samantha Walker, an art history major with an overprotective father. Her excitement about the invitation is overshadowed by the emotional and physical effects of a past tragedy that still haunts her. For all these young women, Paris and one transcendent night will change their lives forever.
Author: Fosse, Jon, 1959- author. Searls, Damion, translator.
Published: 2023
Call Number: F FOSSE
Format: Books
Summary: "A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and left, and ultimately finds himself stuck at the end of a forest road. It soon grows dark and begins to snow. But instead of searching for help, he ventures, foolishly, into the dark forest. Inevitably, the man gets lost, and as he grows cold and tired, he encounters a glowing being amid the obscurity. Strange, haunting and dreamlike, A Shining is the latest work of fiction by National Book Award-finalist Jon Fosse, "the Beckett of the twenty-first century" (Le Monde)."--
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