A Portrait of a Stalwart Life, and of America Itself
Laird Hunt’s novel “Zorrie” is a rich study of a life in rural Indiana, through love and tragedy.
The Love Triangle That Caused a Religious Panic
“Doomed Romance,” by Christine Leigh Heyrman, offers a window onto ambition and hypocrisy in the 19th-century American evangelical movement at a critical moment in its history.
Was Bugsy Siegel the ‘Supreme Gangster’? A Biography Makes the Case
Michael Shnayerson’s “Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream” is a rise-and-fall story of the bootlegger and murderer who practically invented Las Vegas.
'We Run The Tides' Pulls You Into The Rough Seas Of Female Adolescence
Vendela Vida's novel centers on four 13-year-old girls who are perched on the edge of adulthood — and the recognition that some things they do or say now will change who they become as adults.
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'Under A White Sky' Examines What It Might Take For Humans To Continue To Exist
Elizabeth Kolbert makes clear how far we already are from a world of undisturbed, balanced nature — and how far we must go to find a new balance for the planet's future, one that still includes us.
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Electrons, Photons, Gluons, Quarks: A Nobel-Winning Physicist Explains It All
In “Fundamentals,” Frank Wilczek describes his own love for physics and details what we all need to understand about the forces that shape our physical world.
Powerful 'Removed' Walks A Path Between Memory And Mourning
Brandon Hobson's new novel crosses back and forth between past and present, mourning and memory to tell the story of a Cherokee family grappling with the death of a son at the hands of the police.
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Facing Down The Monster Within in 'What Big Teeth'
Rose Szabo has created a monstrous, dysfunctional family far worse than anything Charles Addams ever dreamed up — and young daughter Eleanor may be the worst of them. She just doesn't know why.
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When Silver Linings Don’t Cut It, Honesty Helps
When Suleika Jaouad was 22, she learned she had leukemia. In her memoir, “Between Two Kingdoms,” she looks back on what got her through.
Compelling Queer Romance Eclipses Sci-Fi Stakes in 'Winter's Orbit'
This charming, trope-laden sci-fi romance started life as an original story posted to a fanfiction site, and it wears its fannish influences proudly. Fake-dating? Hurt/comfort? Sunny/grumpy? Yes!
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A Journalist's Eye Enlivens 'Land Of Big Numbers'
Journalist Te-Ping Chen's fiction debut puts her reportorial talents to brilliant use, in a collection of short stories about Chinese life that will make readers reconsider their settled notions.
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Tesla [DVD]
Author: Almereyda, Michael, film director, film producer, screenwriter. Robbins, Isen, film producer. Melita, Per, film producer. Campbell, Christa, 1972- film producer. Singer, Uri, film producer.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: TESLA
Format: Video disc
Summary: Brilliant, visionary Nikola Tesla fights an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition, then faces thornier challenges with his new system for worldwide wireless energy. The film tracks Tesla's uneasy interactions with his fellow inventor Thomas Edison and his patron George Westinghouse. Another thread traces Tesla's sidewinding courtship of financial titan J.P. Morgan, whose daughter Anne takes a more than casual interest in the inventor.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: TESLA
Format: Video disc
Summary: Brilliant, visionary Nikola Tesla fights an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition, then faces thornier challenges with his new system for worldwide wireless energy. The film tracks Tesla's uneasy interactions with his fellow inventor Thomas Edison and his patron George Westinghouse. Another thread traces Tesla's sidewinding courtship of financial titan J.P. Morgan, whose daughter Anne takes a more than casual interest in the inventor.
Synchronic [DVD]
Author: Benson, Justin, film director, screenwriter, film producer. Moorhead, Aaron Scott, 1987- film director, film producer. Mendelsohn, Michael, film producer. Lawson, David Clarke, Jr., 1981- film producer. Mackie, Anthony, 1978- actor.
Published: 2021 2019
Call Number: SYNCHRON
Format: Video disc
Summary: When New Orleans paramedics and longtime best friends Steve and Dennis are called to a series of bizarre and gruesome accidents, they chalk it up to a mysterious new drug found at the scene. But after Dennis's oldest daughter disappears, Steve stumbles upon a terrifying truth about the supposed psychedelic that will challenge everything he knows about reality, and the flow of time itself.
Published: 2021 2019
Call Number: SYNCHRON
Format: Video disc
Summary: When New Orleans paramedics and longtime best friends Steve and Dennis are called to a series of bizarre and gruesome accidents, they chalk it up to a mysterious new drug found at the scene. But after Dennis's oldest daughter disappears, Steve stumbles upon a terrifying truth about the supposed psychedelic that will challenge everything he knows about reality, and the flow of time itself.
The village in the woods [DVD]
Author: McCormack, Raine, film director. Park, Beth, actor. Bradley, Therese, actor. Hope, Richard (Actor), actor. 4Digital Media, publisher.
Published: 2021 2019
Call Number: VILLAGE
Format: Video disc
Summary: Every village, every person, has a secret, none more so than the inhabitants of this isolated, murky village whose fate relies on the luring of two unsuspecting pawns to satisfy their appetite and determine their being.
Published: 2021 2019
Call Number: VILLAGE
Format: Video disc
Summary: Every village, every person, has a secret, none more so than the inhabitants of this isolated, murky village whose fate relies on the luring of two unsuspecting pawns to satisfy their appetite and determine their being.
Snowpiercer [DVD]. Season 1.
Author: Hawes, James, television director. Lob, Jacques, 1932- creator, screenwriter. Friedman, Josh, screenwriter. Manson, Graeme (Writer), screenwriter. Legrand, Benjamin, screenwriter.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: SNOWPIER SEASON 1
Format: Video disc
Summary: Seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a perpetually-moving train that circles the globe, where class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: SNOWPIER SEASON 1
Format: Video disc
Summary: Seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a perpetually-moving train that circles the globe, where class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out.
Dreamland [DVD]
Author: Joris-Peyrafitte, Miles, 1992- film director. Zwart, Nicolaas, 1986- screenwriter. Kavanaugh-Jones, Brian, film producer. Cahill, Rian, film producer. Robbie, Margot, 1990- film producer, actor.
Published: 2021 2019
Call Number: DREAMLAN
Format: Video disc
Summary: A teen bounty hunter is torn between helping or capturing a seductive fugitive bank robber hiding in his small town during the Great Depression.
Published: 2021 2019
Call Number: DREAMLAN
Format: Video disc
Summary: A teen bounty hunter is torn between helping or capturing a seductive fugitive bank robber hiding in his small town during the Great Depression.
Born a champion [DVD]
Author: Ranarivelo, Alex, film director. Quaid, Dennis, actor. Bowden, Katrina, 1988- actor. Flanery, Sean Patrick, actor. Graham, Currie, 1967- actor.
Published: 2021
Call Number: BORN
Format: Video disc
Summary: One of the first American black belts in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Mickey Kelley, gets pulled away from everything he loves and into an unsanctioned MMA tournament.
Published: 2021
Call Number: BORN
Format: Video disc
Summary: One of the first American black belts in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Mickey Kelley, gets pulled away from everything he loves and into an unsanctioned MMA tournament.
The twilight zone [DVD]. Season 2
Author: Serling, Rod, 1924-1975, creator. Kinberg, Simon, creator. Peele, Jordan, 1979- creator, actor, narrator. Ramirez, Marco (Screenwriter), creator. Simpson, Jimmi, actor.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: TWILIGHT SEASON 2
Format: Video disc
Summary: Jordan Peele and Simon Kinberg's modern re-imagining of the classic TV series continues the legacy of socially conscious storytelling. The series' second season uses introspection and self-exploration to usher viewers into a dimension filled with endless possibilities.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: TWILIGHT SEASON 2
Format: Video disc
Summary: Jordan Peele and Simon Kinberg's modern re-imagining of the classic TV series continues the legacy of socially conscious storytelling. The series' second season uses introspection and self-exploration to usher viewers into a dimension filled with endless possibilities.
The keeper [DVD]
Author: Milne, Steve, film producer. Rosenmüller, Marcus H., 1973- screenwriter, film director. Schofield, Nicholas J., screenwriter. Marciniak, Robert, film producer. Curling, Chris, film producer.
Published: 2021 2018
Call Number: DRAMA KEEPER
Format: Video disc
Summary: When a German POW is signed to the Manchester football club as a goalie, the public outcry from fans -- especially Jews -- is overwhelming. With the support of Rabbi Alexander Altmann and the British woman he loves, together they overcome prejudice, public hostility, and personal tragedy.
Published: 2021 2018
Call Number: DRAMA KEEPER
Format: Video disc
Summary: When a German POW is signed to the Manchester football club as a goalie, the public outcry from fans -- especially Jews -- is overwhelming. With the support of Rabbi Alexander Altmann and the British woman he loves, together they overcome prejudice, public hostility, and personal tragedy.
Elyse [DVD]
Author: Hopkins, Stella, film producer, screenwriter, film director. Arkins, Audrey, screenwriter. Hopkins, Anthony, 1937- composer (expression), film producer, actor. Arroyave, Tara, film producer, actor. Tucker, Aaron, film producer, actor.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: ELYSE
Format: Video disc
Summary: Memory and hallucination intertwine to expose a history of trauma, revealing Elyse is Catatonic and institutionalized in a State Hospital. Elyse languidly meanders out of a cold, concrete, designer house mirroring a mausoleum, externalizing the spirit of her dead son, Cody. She returns home disoriented, unwilling to join the family dinner, misconceives the gathering as a threat to her private life, and is infuriated with her egocentric mother, Goldie, and her devoted husband, Steven. In a psychotic blackout, Elyse commits vehicular manslaughter of her son and his nanny, Julia. Elyse isn't the only victim; her delusional thinking, narcissism, and violence annihilate her husband. Memory and hallucination intertwine to expose a history of trauma, revealing the truth: Elyse is catatonic and institutionalized in a State Hospital. Elyse's recovery is reliant on the dissolution of her marriage, the restoration of the relationship with her mother, and the mutual absolution with the nanny's daughter, Carmen. It's the care from Dr. Lewis and the unconditional love from her nurse, David, that promise Elyse a new life.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: ELYSE
Format: Video disc
Summary: Memory and hallucination intertwine to expose a history of trauma, revealing Elyse is Catatonic and institutionalized in a State Hospital. Elyse languidly meanders out of a cold, concrete, designer house mirroring a mausoleum, externalizing the spirit of her dead son, Cody. She returns home disoriented, unwilling to join the family dinner, misconceives the gathering as a threat to her private life, and is infuriated with her egocentric mother, Goldie, and her devoted husband, Steven. In a psychotic blackout, Elyse commits vehicular manslaughter of her son and his nanny, Julia. Elyse isn't the only victim; her delusional thinking, narcissism, and violence annihilate her husband. Memory and hallucination intertwine to expose a history of trauma, revealing the truth: Elyse is catatonic and institutionalized in a State Hospital. Elyse's recovery is reliant on the dissolution of her marriage, the restoration of the relationship with her mother, and the mutual absolution with the nanny's daughter, Carmen. It's the care from Dr. Lewis and the unconditional love from her nurse, David, that promise Elyse a new life.
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