Ann Patchett Spins a Modern Fairy Tale in Her Luminous New Novel
In “The Dutch House,” a brother and sister — exiled from their childhood home after the death of their father — grapple with family history.
Patti Smith Plumbs Her Dreams in ‘Year of the Monkey’
In her third memoir, the singer-songwriter, poet and author writes about her otherworldly experiences crisscrossing the country in 2016.
The Secret Is Out: Penguins Are Promiscuous Too
Lloyd Spencer Davis’s new book, “A Polar Affair,” explores long-suppressed, eyebrow-raising findings from an early expedition to Antarctica.
Preschool Storytime
Recommended for ages 3 1/2-5. Registration requested.The latest books & some old favorites will help introduce new vocabulary & reinforce learning.
Children & their caregivers will enjoy stories, songs, crafts, games & movement while building language & literacy skills.
Children & their caregivers will enjoy stories, songs, crafts, games & movement while building language & literacy skills.
Motherless Children Make Their Own Family In 'The Dutch House'
Ann Patchett's new novel is a story of paradise lost, dusted with fairy tale. It follows two siblings who bond after their mother leaves the family home — an ornate mansion she always hated.
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Preschool Storytime
Recommended for ages 3 1/2-5. Registration requested. The latest books & some old favorites will help introduce new vocabulary & reinforce learning.
Children & their caregivers will enjoy stories, songs, crafts, games & movement while building language & literacy skills.
Children & their caregivers will enjoy stories, songs, crafts, games & movement while building language & literacy skills.
Chanel Miller Says 'Know My Name,' As She Reflects On Her Assault By Brock Turner
At points, it is hard to read Miller's devastating, immersive memoir and breathe at the same time. Miller is an extraordinary writer, with her sharpest moments focusing on her family and their grief.
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'Hope Is Our Only Wing' Tackles Tough Issues With Straightforward Style
Rutendo Tavengerwei's YA debut is a glimpse into the lives of two struggling teens: Shamiso, who moves to Zimbabwe after her father dies in a suspicious car accident, and cancer survivor Tanyaradzwa.
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Kick Off Fall With This Trio Of Innovative YA Graphic Novels
This month sees the arrival of a handful of bold new graphic novels aimed at young adult readers, with unexpected topics and settings from a contemporary Chinese American community to the Old West.
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A Stitch In Time Saves A Life In 'A Single Thread'
Tracy Chevalier's new novel follows a woman left alone after her fiance and brother died in World War I. She decides to make her mark on the world by joining a guild of embroiderers at a cathedral.
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'A Cosmology Of Monsters' Blends Freaky Frights And Family Feels
Shaun Hamill's new novel uses the lens of horror to examine the ways we interact and fail to interact with each other, and the way a family can be held together by the very things that tear it apart.
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Rafiki [DVD] = Friend
Author: Kahiu, Wanuri, film director, screenwriter. Bass, Jenna, screenwriter. Markovitz, Steven, film producer. Mugatsia, Samantha, actor. Munyiva, Sheila, actor.
Published: 2019
Call Number: RAFIKI
Format: Video disc
Summary: Kena and Ziki long for something more. Despite the political rivalry between their families, the girls resist and remain close friends, supporting each other to pursue their dreams in a conservative society. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety. Inspried by Monica Arac de Nyeko's "Jambula Tree", which chronicles a story of two girls in love in Uganda, "Rafiki" challenges deep rooted cynicism about same sex relationships among actors, crew, friends, and family in Kenya.
Published: 2019
Call Number: RAFIKI
Format: Video disc
Summary: Kena and Ziki long for something more. Despite the political rivalry between their families, the girls resist and remain close friends, supporting each other to pursue their dreams in a conservative society. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety. Inspried by Monica Arac de Nyeko's "Jambula Tree", which chronicles a story of two girls in love in Uganda, "Rafiki" challenges deep rooted cynicism about same sex relationships among actors, crew, friends, and family in Kenya.
Toni Morrison [DVD] : the pieces I am
Author: Greenfield-Sanders, Timothy, film director, film producer. Giebelhaus, Johanna, film producer. Thompson, Chad (Filmmaker), film producer. Walker, Tommy (Filmmaker), film producer. Guzman, Sandra, interviewer (expression)
Published: 2019
Call Number: B MORRISON
Format: Video disc
Summary: An artful and intimate meditation on the life and works of the acclaimed novelist. From her childhood in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio to '70s-era book tours with Muhammad Ali, from the front lines with Angela Davis to her own riverfront writing room, Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics, and colleagues on an exploration of race, America, history and the human condition as seen through the prism of her own literature.
Published: 2019
Call Number: B MORRISON
Format: Video disc
Summary: An artful and intimate meditation on the life and works of the acclaimed novelist. From her childhood in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio to '70s-era book tours with Muhammad Ali, from the front lines with Angela Davis to her own riverfront writing room, Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics, and colleagues on an exploration of race, America, history and the human condition as seen through the prism of her own literature.
What we left behind [DVD] : looking back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Author: Behr, Ira Steven, film director. Zappone, David, film director. Brooks, Avery, on-screen participant. Farrell, Terry, 1963- on-screen participant. De Boer, Nicole, on-screen participant.
Published: 2019
Call Number: 791.45
Format: Video disc
Summary: Through extensive interviews with cast and creators, original show footage presented in HD. For the first time, and brand-new animated storyboards, directors Ira Steven Behr (showrunner of the original series) and David Zappone (Star Trek docs The Captains and For the Love of Spock) present an in-depth look at this beloved TV show, its fans, and its ongoing appeal to Trekkies of all ages.
Published: 2019
Call Number: 791.45
Format: Video disc
Summary: Through extensive interviews with cast and creators, original show footage presented in HD. For the first time, and brand-new animated storyboards, directors Ira Steven Behr (showrunner of the original series) and David Zappone (Star Trek docs The Captains and For the Love of Spock) present an in-depth look at this beloved TV show, its fans, and its ongoing appeal to Trekkies of all ages.
Supergirl [DVD]. Season 4.
Author: Benoist, Melissa, actor. Brooks, Mehcad, 1980- actor. Jordan, Jeremy, 1984- actor. Warner Home Video (Firm), distributor.
Published: 2019
Call Number: SUPERGIR SEASON 4 DISC 1-2
Format: Video disc
Summary: Season three saw the hero stop Reign and the other Worldkillers' threat to the planet, and in the process, Kara discovered her mother survived the destruction of Krypton. Reconnecting with her past caused Kara to realize that her true home is on Earth, where big changes are taking place for her and all her friends in National City, and also, it appears, for a doppelganger in Russia.
Published: 2019
Call Number: SUPERGIR SEASON 4 DISC 1-2
Format: Video disc
Summary: Season three saw the hero stop Reign and the other Worldkillers' threat to the planet, and in the process, Kara discovered her mother survived the destruction of Krypton. Reconnecting with her past caused Kara to realize that her true home is on Earth, where big changes are taking place for her and all her friends in National City, and also, it appears, for a doppelganger in Russia.
The tomorrow man [DVD]
Author: Jones, Noble, 1963- film director, screenwriter. Rivett, Luke, film producer. Bertelsen, Nicolaas, film producer. Schamus, James, 1959- film producer. Lipp, Tony, film producer.
Published: 2019
Call Number: TOMORROW
Format: Video disc
Summary: Ed Hemsler spends his life preparing for a disaster that may never come, and Ronnie Meisner spends her life shopping for things she may never use. These two people will try to find love while trying not to get lost in each other's stuff.
Published: 2019
Call Number: TOMORROW
Format: Video disc
Summary: Ed Hemsler spends his life preparing for a disaster that may never come, and Ronnie Meisner spends her life shopping for things she may never use. These two people will try to find love while trying not to get lost in each other's stuff.
#digitallivesmatter [DVD]
Author: Vaughn, Terri J., 1969- film director, actor. Sigers, Cas, screenwriter. DC Young Fly, actor. Hudson, Emmanuel, actor. Johnson, Ernestine, actor.
Published: 2019
Call Number: #DIGITAL
Format: Video disc
Summary: DC Young Fly is on top of the world with his over three million followers, and his fame is growing with every one of his posts. However, when this social media influencer crosses the wrong computer geek, all hell breaks loose, and DC wakes up to find all of his followers are gone! This catastrophe couldn't happen on a worse day! DC has a career-changing audition, and he actually needs at least a million followers to even get in the door.
Published: 2019
Call Number: #DIGITAL
Format: Video disc
Summary: DC Young Fly is on top of the world with his over three million followers, and his fame is growing with every one of his posts. However, when this social media influencer crosses the wrong computer geek, all hell breaks loose, and DC wakes up to find all of his followers are gone! This catastrophe couldn't happen on a worse day! DC has a career-changing audition, and he actually needs at least a million followers to even get in the door.
The landlord
Author: Ashby, Hal, film director. Gunn, Bill, 1934-1989, screenwriter. Jewison, Norman, 1926- film producer. Grant, Lee, 1927- actor. Bridges, Beau, actor.
Published: 2019
Call Number: LANDLORD
Format: Video disc
Summary: Legendary filmmaker Hal Ashby makes his directing debut with this acclaimed social satire starring Beau Bridges as a wealthy young man who leaves his family's estate in Long Island to pursue love and happiness in a Brooklyn ghetto. When Elgar Enders buys a Park Slope tenement, he fully intends to evict the occupants and transform the building into a chic bachelor pad.
Published: 2019
Call Number: LANDLORD
Format: Video disc
Summary: Legendary filmmaker Hal Ashby makes his directing debut with this acclaimed social satire starring Beau Bridges as a wealthy young man who leaves his family's estate in Long Island to pursue love and happiness in a Brooklyn ghetto. When Elgar Enders buys a Park Slope tenement, he fully intends to evict the occupants and transform the building into a chic bachelor pad.
Styx [DVD]
Author: Fischer, Wolfgang, 1970- film director, screenwriter. Künzel, Ika, 1978- screenwriter. Kantis, Marcos, film producer. Lehwald, Martin, 1965- film producer. Pokorny, Michal, 1969- film producer.
Published: 2019
Call Number: STYX
Format: Video disc
Summary: ER doctor Rike (Susanne Wolff) embarks on a one-woman solo sailing trip to Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean. When Rike comes across a sinking ship of refugees, she is quickly torn out of her contented and idealized world and must make a momentous decision. Aptly named after the mythological river that separates the living from the dead, STYX is an astute modern day parable of Western indifference in the face of marginalized suffering. Carrying practically the entire film Wolff is never less than remarkable in a riveting role as a woman pushed to her physical, psychological, and moral limits.
Published: 2019
Call Number: STYX
Format: Video disc
Summary: ER doctor Rike (Susanne Wolff) embarks on a one-woman solo sailing trip to Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean. When Rike comes across a sinking ship of refugees, she is quickly torn out of her contented and idealized world and must make a momentous decision. Aptly named after the mythological river that separates the living from the dead, STYX is an astute modern day parable of Western indifference in the face of marginalized suffering. Carrying practically the entire film Wolff is never less than remarkable in a riveting role as a woman pushed to her physical, psychological, and moral limits.
Victoria & Albert : the wedding
Author: Denyer, Ian, film director, screenwriter, film producer, film director. Worsley, Lucy, on-screen presenter. BBC Studios, production company. British Broadcasting Corporation, production company. Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), production company, distributor.
Published: 2019 2018
Call Number: B VICTORIA
Format: Video disc
Summary: Lucy Worsley re-stages the wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, including the most important elements of the ceremony and the celebrations, scouring archival materials and Queen Victoria's diaries for the details. Lucy also tells the story of Victoria and Albert's courtship and engagement as she reveals how this one extraordinary event helped to invent modern marriage.
Published: 2019 2018
Call Number: B VICTORIA
Format: Video disc
Summary: Lucy Worsley re-stages the wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, including the most important elements of the ceremony and the celebrations, scouring archival materials and Queen Victoria's diaries for the details. Lucy also tells the story of Victoria and Albert's courtship and engagement as she reveals how this one extraordinary event helped to invent modern marriage.
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