Author: DuVernay, Ava, writer, director. Ellis, Aunjanue, actor. Bernthal, Jon, actor. Farmiga, Vera, actor. McDonald, Audra, actor.
Published: 2024 2023
Call Number: ORIGIN
Format: Video disc
Summary: A journalist investigates caste and it's dark influence on society while also experiencing love, loss, and witnessing the beauty of human resilience. "While investigating the global phenomenon of caste and its dark influence on society, a journalist experiences soaring love and unfathomable loss as she uncovers the beauty of human resilience. Inspired by the New York Times best seller "Caste" and starting Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Ava DuVernay's Origin explores the mystery of history, the wonders of romance and a fight for the future of us all" --
Author: Pryor, Richard, 1940-2005, actor. Frank, Ron (Ron H.), film director. Wilder, Gene, 1933-2016, on-screen-participant. Alda, Alan, 1936- on-screen-participant. Brooks, Mel, 1926- on-screen-participant.
Published: 2024
Call Number: B WILDER
Format: Video disc
Summary: The loving tribute to Gene Wilder celebrates his life and legacy as the comic genius behind an extraordinary string of film roles, from his first collaboration with Mel Brooks in The Producers to the enigmatic title role in the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory to his inspired on-screen partnership with Richard Pryor in movies like Silver Streak. It is Illustrated by a bevy of touching and hilarious clips and outtakes, never-before-seen home movies, narration from Wilder's audiobook memoir, and interviews with a roster of brilliant friends and collaborators like Mel Brooks, Alan Alda, and Carol Kane. It shines a light on an essential performer, writer, director, and all-around mensch.
Author: Dowling, Chris, film director, screenwriter. Howard, Ben (Film producer), film producer. Carpenter, Ken (Producer/Director), film producer. Gallivan, Clarke, film producer. Bolton, Martha, 1951- screenwriter.
Published: 2024 2023
Call Number: ROLL
Format: Video disc
Summary: Facing unexpected foreclosure on her home, a small-town Biscuit Barrel waitress enters the Cheatham County Fair Karaoke Showdown to win the cash prize. With the support of her faith, family, and friends, Bonnie steps up to the mic and is ready to "roll with it."
Author: Read, Steve (Art director), film director. Hopkins, Bernard, 1965- on-screen participant. Holmes, Larry, 1949- on-screen participant. Witherspoon, Tim, 1957- on-screen participant. Shavers, Earnie, 1944- on-screen participant.
Published: 2024 2023
Call Number: 796.83
Format: Video disc
Summary: In the Company of Kings follows a fight fan's unforgettable journey into the dark heart of American boxing to talk to eight former World Champs and those closest to his hero, Muhammad Ali, about race, struggle, victory, defeat and picking yourself up off the canvas. Features Larry Holmes, Bernard Hopkins, Tim Witherspoon, Earnie Shavers, the Spinks brothers, Bob Arum and more.
Author: Keaton, Michael, 1951- film director, film producer, actor. Poirier, Gregory, screenwriter. Matthews, Trevor, 1982- film producer. Gordon, Nick (Producer), film producer. Sugar, Michael, film producer.
Published: 2024 2023
Call Number: KNOX BLU-RAY
Format: Video disc
Summary: John Knox is a hit man attempting to make amends before his recently discovered dementia takes over. Aided by a trusted friend with his own shady past, Knox races against the police and his own rapidly deteriorating mind to save his estranged son from a vengeance-fueled mistake and "cash out" before it's too late.
Author: Ritchie, Guy, film director, screenwriter, film producer. Amel, Arash, screenwriter. Tamasy, Paul, screenwriter. Johnson, Eric (Screenwriter), screenwriter. Bruckheimer, Jerry, film producer.
Published: 2024
Call Number: MINISTRY
Format: Video disc
Summary: The British military enlists a small group of highly skilled soldiers to launch an attack against German forces behind enemy lines during World War II.
Author: Shinkai, Makoto, film director, screenwriter. Nishimura, Takayo, film director. Mizuhashi, Kenji, 1975- voice actor. Kondou, Yoshimi, voice actor. Hanamura, Satomi, 1984- voice actor.
Published: 2022 2007
Call Number: 5 CENTIMET JPN BLU-RAY
Format: Video disc
Summary: Told in three vignettes, two childhood friends drift apart after one moves away, but Takaki moves through life haunted by all the things he wished he had said to Akari, his first love who was left behind.
Author: Shinkai, Makoto, film director. Shout! Studios, publisher.
Published: 2022 2005
Call Number: PLACE JPN BLU-RAY
Format: Video disc
Summary: In an alternate post-war world Japan, three teenagers became obsessed with a mysterious tower across the Union border, which reaches far into the sky. Hiroki and Takuya work on a makeshift airplane, which they promise their friend Sayuri they will use to visit the tower together someday, but she disappears before it is completed. Several years later, the tower suddenly activates, staring a phenomenon that threatens the world. And the young men now discover their long-lost friend Sayuri may hold the key to it all...
Author: Miyazaki, Hayao, 1941- television director. Ohara, Noriko, 1935- voice actor. Nobusawa, Mieko, 1947- voice actor. Nagai, Ichiro, voice actor. Aoki, Kazuyo, voice actor.
Published: 2021 1978
Call Number: FUTURE COMPLETE SERIES JPN BLU-R
Format: Video disc
Summary: Twenty years ago, a terrible war fought with magnetic weapons caused the earth's axis to tilt, and earthquakes and tidal waves destroyed civilization. Conan is born into this new world, raised by his grandfather on an isolated island. But his life is forever changed when a mysterious girl named Lana washes ashore, pursued by shadowy operatives who seek to use her in a new scheme to control what's left of the world.
Author: Howard, Leslie, 1953- author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F HOWARD
Format: Books
Summary: "Keep sweet no matter what, for this is the way to be lifted up Keep sweet with every breath, for it is a matter of life or death 1964. Fifteen-year-old Daisy Shoemaker dreams of life beyond her small, isolated fundamentalist Mormon community of Redemption on the Canada--US border--despite Bishop Thorsen's warning that the outside world is full of sin. According to the Principle, the only way to enter the celestial kingdom is through plural marriage. While the boys are taught to work in the lucrative sawmill that supports their enclave, Daisy and her best friend, Brighten, are instructed to keep sweet and wait for Placement--the day the bishop will choose a husband for them. But Daisy wants to be more than a sister-wife and a mother. So when she is placed with a man forty years her senior, she makes the daring decision to flee Redemption. Years later, Daisy has a job and a group of trustworthy friends. Emboldened by the ideas of the feminist and counterculture movements, she is freer than she has ever been...until Brighten reaches out with a cry for help and Daisy's past comes hurtling back. But to save the women she left behind, Daisy must risk her newfound independence and return to Redemption, where hellfire surely awaits. For readers of Emma Cline's The Girls and Ami McKay's The Virgin Cure comes an arresting coming-of-age novel about a fearless young girl's fight for freedom at a time of great historic change."--
Author: Hessler, Peter, 1969- author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: 378.1
Format: Books
Summary: "More than two decades after teaching English during the early part of China's economic boom, an experience chronicled in his book River Town, Peter Hessler returned to Sichuan province to instruct students from the next generation. At the same time, Hessler and his wife enrolled their twin daughters in a local state-run elementary school, where they were the only Westerners. Over the years, Hessler had kept in close contact with many of the people he had taught in the 1990s. By reconnecting with these individuals-members of China's "Reform generation," now in their forties-while teaching current undergrads, Hessler gained a unique perspective on China's incredible transformation. In Peter Hessler's hands, China's education system is the perfect vehicle for examining the country's past, present, and future, and what we can learn from it, for good and ill"--
Author: Ellis, David, 1967- author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F ELLIS
Format: Books
Summary: "Leo Balanoff is a diagnosed pathological liar with unthinkable skeletons in his family's closet. He's also a crusading attorney who seeks justice at all costs. When a ruthless drug dealer is found dead and Leo's fingerprints show up on the murder weapon, no one believes a word he says. But he might be the FBI's only shot at taking down the dealer's brutal syndicate. Risk his life going undercover for the Feds or head straight to prison for murder? Leo accepts the FBI's offer--but it comes with a price, including a collision course with his ex, Andi Piotrowski, a former cop and "the one who got away." Forced to walk a tightrope between an ambitious FBI agent and a cruel, calculating crime boss, Leo's trapped in a corner. But he has more secrets than anyone realizes, and a few more cards left to play ..."--
Author: Grames, Juliet, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F GRAMES
Format: Books
Summary: "Calabria, 1960. Francesca Loftfield, a twenty-seven-year-old, starry-eyed American, arrives in the isolated mountain village of Santa Chionia tasked with opening a nursery school. There is no road, no doctor, no running water or electricity. And thanks to a recent flood that swept away the post office, there's no mail, either. Most troubling, though, is the human skeleton that surfaced after the flood waters receded. Who is it? And why don't the police come and investigate? When an old woman begs Francesca to help determine if the remains are those of her long-missing son, Francesca begins to ask a lot of inconvenient questions. As an outsider, she might be the only person who can uncover the truth. Or she might be getting in over her head. As she attempts to juggle a nosy landlady, a suspiciously dashing shepherd, and a network of local families bound together by a code of silence, Francesca finds herself forced to choose between the charitable mission that brought her to Santa Chionia, and her future happiness, between truth and survival. Set in the wild heart of Calabria, a land of sheer cliff faces, ancient tradition, dazzling sunlight-and one of the world's most ruthless criminal syndicates-The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia is a suspenseful puzzle mystery, a captivating romance, and an affecting portrait of a young woman in search of a meaningful life"--
Author: Wolverton, Nicole M., author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: Y WOLVERTO
Format: Books
Summary: "Lemon Ziegler wants to escape rural Devil's Elbow, Pennsylvania to attend college--but that's impossible now that she's expected to impersonate the town's lake monster for the rest of her life. Her family has been secretly keeping the tradition of Old Lucy, the famed (and very fake) monster of Lake Lokakoma, alive for generations, all to keep the tourists coming. Without Lemon, the town dies, and she can't disappoint her grandparents...or tell her best friends about any of it. That includes Troy Ramirez, who has been covertly in love with Lemon for years, afraid to ruin their friendship by confessing his feelings. When a very real, and very hungry monster is discovered in the lake, secrets must fall by the wayside. Determined to stop the monster, Lemon and her best friends are the only thing standing between Devil's Elbow and a monster out for blood"--
Author: Davis, Lindsey, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F DAVIS
Format: Books
Summary: "In first century Rome, a murder victim found in the Tiber leads to a brutal gang war and Flavia Albia to a confrontation with her long-hated nemesis, with all that she loves in the balance. First century Rome is plagued by all the evils the have beset major cities since time immemorial: crime, corruption, squalor, and worst of all, tourists. When a barge full of those entitled creatures arrives in Rome, they hit all the touristy hot-spots (the Amphitheatre, the Capitol, the dodgy bars with dubious entertainments) before departing for the next destination - leaving behind one of their party, dead and floating in the Tiber. While the authorities first try to pass her death off as a suicide, it's quickly proved that the victim strangled to death and her body dumped. When Flavia Albia, a private informer, learns that the victim was in Rome searching for the man who abandoned her, Florius, Albia's vicious nemesis, Albia is determined to find out the truth behind the murder and finally have her revenge. Florius is the husband of the leader of the Balbinus, one of Rome's most vicious criminal gangs, giving him even more reason to have murdered his former mistress. Currently engaged in a brutal turf war, with bodies dropping everywhere, Florius is fighting for his very survival and has little interest in one dead body. Now Albia must risk everything, including the life she has carefully built, if she is finally to bring Florius to justice. If justice is even possible"--
Author: Oda, Tomohito, 1991- author, artist. Werry, John (Translator), translator, adapter.
Published: 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
Call Number: Y GN ODA V.1
Format: Books
Summary: Socially anxious high school student Shoko Komi would love to make friends, but her shyness is interpreted as reserve, and the other students keep her at a distance. Only timid Tadano realizes the truth, and despite his own desire to blend in, he decides to help her achieve her goal of making 100 friends -- V.1. Timid Tadano is a total wallflower, and that's just the way he likes it. But all that changes when he finds himself alone in a classroom on the first day of high school with the legendary Komi. He quickly realizes she isn't aloof - she's just super awkward. Now he's made it his mission to help her on her quest to make 100 friends. V.2. It's time for the national health exam at Itan High, and the excitement of eye exams and height measurements have fanned the flames of competition for the unremarkable Makeru Yadano. She's determined to beat the class idol Komi in the health test, and Komi's total obliviousness to their impassioned duel just feeds Makeru's determination. As the epic battle heats up, how will Komi hand her first rival when she's barely made her first friends? V.3. Summer is about to begin, and Komi would love to be able to spend the long, hot vacation days hanging out with her friends. But even though she's made great strides in her personal quest, she still has problems communicating. For instance, making phone calls is so anxiety provoking that it keeps her up at night. Thankfully, Tadano always seems to know how to help her calm down. V.4. School is out for summer, and Komi is still getting used to this strange new world of having friends. She's discovering that friendship with a person doesn't automatically save you from awkward situations with them. But it does turn even an emergency homework session into something fun. And for the first time in her life, Komi isn't anxious for summer to end.
Author: Brenner, Jamie, 1971- author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F BRENNER
Format: Books
Summary: In her return to Provincetown after a best-selling novel exposes local secrets, an author returns to her idyllic Cape Cod hometown to face her betrayal but rediscovers her passion and community through a summer managing a friend's bookstore. "Author Shelby Archer found inspiration for her first novel while living on the picturesque shores of Provincetown on Cape Cod. When she comes to the town to celebrate her new bestseller, she is expecting a warm homecoming. But instead she is confronted with the cold shoulders of friends and neighbors who feel exposed and betrayed. Heartbroken, Shelby tries to move on and focus on her next novel. But then an unexpected call comes: her dear friend who owns the beloved Land's End bookshop needs help for the summer. Shelby reluctantly returns to the Cape to manage the store..." --Amazon.com
Author: Day, Jamie, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F DAY
Format: Books
Summary: ""An unputdownable and gripping thriller with nonstop twists and turns!" -Freida McFadden, New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid The next riveting summer suspense by the bestselling author of The Block Party, Jamie Day. Could this reunion be the death of them? The Precipice is a legendary, family-owned hotel on the rocky coast of Maine. With the recent passing of their father, the Bishop sisters--Iris, Vicki, and Faith--have come for the weekend to claim it. But with a hurricane looming and each of the Bishop sisters harboring dangerous secrets, there's murder in the air-- and not everyone who checks into the Precipice will be checking out. Each sister wants what is rightfully hers, and in the mix is the Precipice's nineteen-year-old chambermaid Charley Kelley: smart, resilient, older than her years, and in desperate straits. The arrival of the Bishop sisters could spell disaster for Charley. Will they close the hotel? Fire her? Discover her habit of pilfering from guests? Or even worse, learn that she's using a guest room to hide a woman on the run. With razor-sharp wit, heart, thrills, and twists, Jamie Day's One Big Happy Family delivers a unique brand of summertime suspense"--
Author: Mabry, Samantha, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: Y MABRY
Format: Books
Summary: When Case arrives at her best friend Drea's isolated West Texas home and finds her missing, she embarks on a search for clues about Drea's disappearance while facing the unsettling, cult-like and possibly murderous behavior of Drea's roommates. "When Case arrives at a run-down, ivy-covered house tucked deep in the West Texas woods, an ashy haze lingers in the air and the sky is tissue-paper pink. Her best friend Drea has been living here with a few classmates Case has never met, and Drea asked her to visit in a letter dated two weeks ago. But now Drea is nowhere to be found. Drea's roommates can't--or won't--answer questions, leaving Case to search alone. She finds bits of Drea's journal hidden in the tiles of the bathroom wall, in a beat-up cooler by the muddy river, wedged into the frame of her closet door. As Case pieces together Drea's life in this strange house, the roommates' behavior puts her increasingly on edge--and she's not the only one. The animals nearby are lashing out, attacking each other, threatening the humans..."--Amazon
Author: Shaffer, Meg, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F SHAFFER
Format: Books
Summary: "Inspired by C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, this wild and wondrous novel is a fairy tale for grown-ups who still knock on the back of wardrobes--just in case--from the author of The Wishing Game. As boys, best friends Jeremy Cox and Rafe Howell vanished in a West Virginia state park, only to mysteriously reappear six months later with no explanation for where they'd gone or how they'd survived. Fifteen years after their miraculous homecoming, Jeremy is a famous missing persons investigator with an uncanny ability to find the lost, while Rafe is a reclusive artist unable to stop creating otherworldly paintings and sculptures he shows to no one. He bears scars inside and out from his disappearance but has no memory of what happened while they were gone. Jeremy alone knows the fantastical truth behind their time in the woods. While the rest of the world was searching for them, the two missing boys were in a magical realm filled with impossible beauty and terrible danger. However, Jeremy has kept Rafe in the dark since their return for his own inscrutable reasons. But the time for burying secrets comes to an end when vet tech Emilie Wendel hires Jeremy to find her long-lost sister... the long-lost sister he and Rafe knew while living in that hidden kingdom. Now the former lost boys must confront their shared past, no matter how traumatic the memories. Alongside the headstrong Emilie, Rafe and Jeremy return to the enchanted world they called home for six months... for only then can they get back everything and everyone they've lost"--
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