Author: Tucci, Stanley, film director, screenwriter. Egan, Gail, film producer. Bower, Nik, film producer. Girard, Ilann, film producer. Hammer, Armie, 1986- actor.
Published: 2018
Call Number: FINAL
Format: Video disc
Summary: In the 1960s, renowned artist Alberto Giacometti requests for the writer James Lord to become the subject of one of his portraits. Although this seems like an innocent suggestion at first, Lord is quickly drawn into the strange web of Giacometti's beautiful, controversial and difficult world. The portrait sitting becomes so much more than what it seems at face value, and Lord's entire life sits on the precipice due to his association with the wildly talented artist.
Author: Nyholm, Kristoffer, 1951- television director. Engström, Anders, 1962- television director. Knight, Steven, 1959- screenwriter, television series creator. Hardy, Chips, 1950- screenwriter, television series creator. Ballou, Emily, screenwriter.
Published: 2018
Call Number: TABOO SEASON 1
Format: Video disc
Summary: Danger-courting excursionist James Delaney returns to London in 1814 in order to attend his father's funeral. He not only inherit his notorious father's shipping empire, but all the enemies and debts created by his father's dubious dealings.
Author: Minn, Charlie, film director, actor. Dreamscape Media, distributor.
Published: 2018
Call Number: 363.285 BULLETS
Format: Video disc
Summary: This examination of three separate killings along the USA-Mexico border shines a spotlight on the violence there and why Donald Trump wants to build a wall.
Author: James, Anna Elizabeth, film director, screenwriter. Peters, Brennan Elizabeth, screenwriter. Carroll, Madeline, 1996- actor. Richards, Denise, 1971- actor. Lawrence, Joey, 1976- actor.
Published: 2018
Call Number: DESTINED
Format: Video disc
Summary: Lily's life is turned upside down when she is forced to leave her friends to spend the summer on a remote ranch with her nature-loving aunt. Convinced her social life is over, she is surprised to meet an unlikely group of friends and embarks on an adventure of a lifetime.
Author: Govan, Maria, film director, screenwriter, film producer. Jones, Petrice, actor. Jenkins, Gareth, actor. Nicholas, Akil, actor. Breaking Glass Pictures (Firm), presenter, film distributor.
Published: 2018
Call Number: DRAMA PLAY
Format: Video disc
Summary: Gregory, a gifted working-class teenager from Paramin, stars in a theater play that brings him to the attention of James, an affluent businessman. The two men strike and uncanny friendship as James takes Greg under his wing, pushing him to discover himself professionally, creatively, and intimately.
Author: Sobol, Jonathan, film director. Kunc, Stephen, screenwriter. Tabarrok, Nicholas D., film producer. Roth, Tim, actor. Guzmán, Luis, 1956- actor.
Published: 2018
Call Number: PADRE
Format: Video disc
Summary: Hellbent on justice, retired US Judge Randall Nemes and his hired gun, Gaspar, track down a small-time con man posing as a priest in a small Colombian town, only to be thrown off course by a scrappy sixteen-year-old local girl intent on reuniting with her little sister in the US.
Julian Lucas talks about the role of curses in contemporary African literature, and Abby Ellin discusses “Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Married.”
Some best-selling novelists have written books about their craft. Others dispense advice on Twitter, their websites and in interviews and articles.
In “A Thousand Sisters,” Elizabeth Wein tells the thrilling true story of the World War II Soviet all-female air regiments who flew 24,000 missions into “a continuous curtain of fire.”
In “The Red Address Book,” by Sofia Lundberg, an elderly woman looks back at the loves of her life.
Mesha Maren’s debut novel, “Sugar Run,” sets a quest for re-entry against the backdrop of modern Appalachia.
Story collections by Akiyuki Nosaka and Taeko Kono, plus a short novel by the great Yukio Mishima.
Sarah Moss’s novel “Ghost Wall” describes how the notion of “original Britishness” can lead to no good.
In 1952, Meyer Levin reviewed “The Diary of a Young Girl” for the Book Review. Here’s an excerpt.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
“Revolution Sunday,” by the banned novelist Wendy Guerra, traces a young exile’s struggle against censorship — political, literary and personal.
In “Duped,” Ellin describes her ruinous relationship and other cases of deception.
In “We Are Displaced,” the Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai gathers stories from girls around the world who, like her, have had to flee their homes.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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