Author: Allison, Cheryl, on-screen participant, film director, film producer, screenwriter. Murray, Natalie, film producer. Smith, Alison, film producer. Rogers, Kathy, on-screen participant. Purdy, Mary Beth, on-screen participant.
Published: 2022
Call Number: 598.41
Format: Video disc
Summary: The power of love shines in this heartwarming tale of friendship and inspiration between an unlikely duo. Cheryl inadvertently befriends a mourning goose, Honk, while recycling in the local park. As the budding friendship blossoms and Cheryl seeks Honk a new home, he becomes a viral sensation capturing the hearts and minds of millions.
Author: Hopper, Dennis, 1936-2010, film director, actor. Yakir, Leonard, screenwriter, film producer. Nielson, Brenda, screenwriter. Jouvenat, Gary Jules, film producer. Sevigny, Chloë, presenter.
Published: 2022 1980
Call Number: OUT
Format: Video disc
Summary: CeBe is a fifteen-year-old who idolizes Elvis, punk rock and her ex-con father, is surrounded by junkies and predators, and follows them all into oblivion. Follows the story of a troubled fifteen-year-old girl whose interests are in Elvis Presley and punk rock, and whose father is an ex-convict.
Author: Aragoni, Mauro, television director, screenwriter. O'Malley, Brian, (Director), television director. Ebreul, Sylvia, screenwriter. Izzo, Marcello, screenwriter. Paladini, Fabio, screenwriter.
Published: 2022
Call Number: THAT SEASON 1
Format: Video disc
Summary: Over eight long days two men dramatically clash: McCoy, an incorruptible sheriff with a dark past, and Red Bill, a dirty, taciturn bounty killer trapped in a desire for vengeance that cannot be fulfilled. Follows a clash between the sheriff of a depressed ex-gold rush town and a bounty hunter seeking vengeance for the death of his mother.
Author: Godoy, Melissa Littig, film director, director of photography, editor of moving image work. Cahalane, Laurie, film producer. Barry-Tanner, Therese, film producer. Littig, Eileen, film producer. Robinson, Jeannette (Narrator), narrator.
Published: 2022 2021
Call Number: 616.831
Format: Video disc
Summary: Examines various ways to cope with and fight against Alzheimer's disease. In this episode of Nova, three women at risk of developing Alzheimer's join a groundbreaking study to try to prevent the disease, while sharing their ups and downs, anxiously watching for symptoms, and hoping they can make a difference.
Author: Benson, Ann, film producer, on-screen participant. Howard, Paul, film director, screenwriter. Campbell, Karis, on-screen participant. Freestyle Digital Media, publisher.
Published: 2022
Call Number: 361.973
Format: Video disc
Summary: From its humble beginnings in the 1890s through today, the Assistance League has been creating ripples and changing lives for over 125 years. This enjoyable documentary tells the story of Anne Banning, a forgotten American Pioneer who formed the Assistance League and changed charity. Ann Benson (Betty White's Off Their Rockers and Ann Asks) hosts a journey that includes multiple chapters of Assistance League and the people whose lives the organization has touched, including a former NFL player, an assault survivor who now helps other women, an Orthodontist who was helped as a teen, the Organization's dedicated volunteers, and the countless children impacted even today by Assistance League's signature program, Operation School Bell. Animated sequences throughout the film give Anne Banning her rightful place in history, and the Assistance League the credit it deserves as a storied, innovative, ripple-creating organization. This film will leave you smiling and inspired.
Author: Kaufman, Jeff (Jeffrey), film director. Carroll, Rocky, actor. Crystal, Billy, actor. Daly, Tyne, actor. David, Keith, actor.
Published: 2022 2012
Call Number: 781.6509
Format: Video disc
Summary: A documentary on drummer/bandleader Chick Webb, Ella Fitzgerald, and Harlem's Savoy Ballroom.
Author: Hester, Sarah, film producer. Cook, Cindy, film producer. Hester, R.S., film director. Roberts, Eric, 1956- actor. Lei, Lily, actor.
Published: 2022 2021
Call Number: TOWN
Format: Video disc
Summary: Pastor John Corell, a preacher in the old west, is suddenly confronted with the death of his only brother when a posse of vigilantes kills him at the midnight hour. As John paces back and forth inside the church house contemplating his strategic revenge on his brother's murderer, he remembers supernatural stories of the past that influence his next steps.
Author: Hardy, Justice, film producer. Hunt, Tyler, film director, film producer, screenwriter, actor. Kelly, Megan Elisabeth, actor. Dakin, Ashley, actor. Alvarado, Matt, actor.
Published: 2022
Call Number: WHO
Format: Video disc
Summary: When obsessive free spirit Stephen finds out his teen half-sister Sarah is pregnant, he desperately tries to convince her to keep the baby. Sarah finally agrees when Stephen promises to father the child, and they embark on the journey of parenthood for which neither of them is ready.
Author: Tabone, Vin, television producer, screenwriter. Frederick, Paul J., director of photography, editor of moving image work, television producer. Chandler, Bruce (Voice actor), narrator. Wilmerding, John, commentator. VJT Productions, production company.
Published: 2019 2018
Call Number: 758.109
Format: Video disc
Summary: A look at the Hudson River school, the first American school of landscape painting. In the nineteenth century, artist Thomas Cole and engraver Asher Durand established an artistic movement. The next generation expanded their palette with a technique that was immersed in light. The artistic innovation was later hailed as, 'The Luminist Movement.' The film tells the story of these artists who became the greatest landscape painters in the world!
Author: Lehane, Dennis, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: F LEHANE
Format: Books
Summary: "One night Mary Pat's teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn't come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances. The two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched--asking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, and the men who work for him, men who don't take kindly to any threat to their business"--
Author: Smith, Michael F. (Michael Farris), 1970- author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: F SMITH
Format: Books
Summary: A young woman returns home with her child to her ghost-haunted father, while a religious extremist hunts the stormridden territory of southern Mississippi to find the girl who may be a savior in the apocalypse. "There was no rising from the dead and there was no hand to calm the storms and there was no peace in no valley. In the hurricane-ravaged bottomlands of south Mississippi, where stores are closing and jobs are few, a fierce zealot has gained a foothold, capitalizing on the vulnerability of a dwindling population and a burning need for hope. As she preaches and promises salvation from the light of the pulpit, in the shadows she sows the seeds of violence." --Front jacket flap
Author: Tate, Dizz, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: F TATE
Format: Books
Summary: A group of teenage girls discover a dark secret about their fame-hungry Florida town that will haunt them for the rest of their lives when their friend, the local preacher's daughter, Sammy, goes missing. We would not be born out of sweetness, we were born out of rage, we felt it in our bones. In Falls Landing, Florida--a place built of theme parks, swampy lakes, and scorched bougainvillea flowers--something sinister lurks in the deep. A gang of thirteen-year-old girls obsessively orbit around the local preacher's daughter, Sammy. She is mesmerizing, older, and in love with Eddie. But suddenly, Sammy goes missing. Where is she? Watching from a distance, they edge ever closer to discovering a dark secret about their fame-hungry town and the cruel cost of a ticket out. What they see will continue to haunt them for the rest of their lives. Through a darkly beautiful and brutally compelling lens, Dizz Tate captures the violence, horrors, and manic joys of girlhood. Brutes is a novel about the seemingly unbreakable bonds in the "we" of young friendship, and the moment it is broken forever.
Author: Robb, Alice, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: 792.809
Format: Books
Summary: "An incisive exploration of ballet's role in the modern world, told through the experience of the author and her classmates at the most elite ballet school in the country: the School of American Ballet. Ballet is an art full of hyper-feminine trappings, but beneath the ornate costumes and exaggerated stage makeup, traits like thinness, stoicism, and submission are valued above all else. Journalist Alice Robb spent years immersed in that universe as a child, but as an adult, she couldn't shake the feeling that the same laws that governed the dance world still applied in the regular one. Certain bodies hold more value than others, and men oftentimes hold the most power of all. Pain is best left concealed, along with sexuality, in all of its messiness. Obedience and conformity are rewarded, while standing out comes at a cost. Profound, nuanced, and obsessively researched, Don't Think, Dear, is Robb's excavation of her adolescent years as a dancer, and an exploration of how those days informed her life for years to come. As she grapples with the pressure she faced as a student at the storied School of American Ballet, she explores the fates of her former classmates as well. From sweet and shy Emily--whose body was deemed "thin enough" only when she was too ill to eat--to the precocious and talented Meiying--who despite her success, had to contend with the fact that she was the only Vietnamese-American in the school. Altogether, their stories are ones of heartbreak and resilience, of reinvention and regret. Along the way, Robb weaves in the myths of famous ballerinas past and present, from the groundbreaking Misty Copeland, to the controversial George Balanchine. Ballet does not exist in a vacuum, it is a laboratory of womanhood, a test-tube world in which traditional femininity is exaggerated. By exploring the psyche of a dancer, Don't Think, Dear grapples with the contradictions and challenges of being a woman today. It's also a story about chasing your dreams, however complicated, and learning when to let them go"--
Author: Helfer, Monika, 1947- author. Davidson, Gillian, translator.
Published: 2023 2020
Call Number: F HELFER
Format: Books
Summary: "The multi-generational family saga set in a fractured rural village in WWI Austria. Maria and Josef live with their children in a valley in westernmost Austria. When the First World War breaks out and Josef is drafted into the army, Maria is left to provide for her family alone. Every day is a struggle against starvation, the harsh alpine climate and the hostile nearby villagers who see Maria as little more than a beautiful temptress out for the men left behind. But when a red-haired stranger arrives in the village, Maria feels happiness seep back into her life and she faces a choice whose consequences will affect the lives of her family for generations to come. Based on the Austrian novelist Monika Helfer's own family history, Last House Before the Mountain is a propulsive, haunting, multi-layered saga about love, family, and the hidden wages of war"--
Author: Griffin, Laura, 1973- author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: PB GRIFFIN
Format: Books
Summary: "With two brothers on the police force, Leyla Breda is well aware of the rising crime in her small beach town, but she never expected it to show up on her doorstep. When Leyla finds one of her employees murdered in the alley behind her coffee shop, she's shaken, and as a new law enforcement officer in town begins to circle her place of business, her instincts only sharpen. Sean Moran is on an undercover assignment. The picturesque seaside community of Lost Beach might look like it belongs on a postcard, but his team suspects it's an intersection for multiple crime syndicates the FBI has been investigating for years." --Back cover
Author: Roberts, Sheila, 1951- author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: PB ROBERTS
Format: Books
Summary: "Bonnie Brinks and her all-woman band, The Mermaids, are the pride of Moonlight Harbor. They're the house band at The Drunken Sailor, and that's just the right amount of fame for Bonnie. A lifetime ago, she went to Nashville to make it big, but she returned home with a broken heart and broken dreams. Now she's got a comfortable life and a brilliant daughter, Avril, who plays for The Mermaids alongside Bonnie and Bonnie's mother, Loretta. Avril has big dreams of her own... She can't help wondering if there's something more out there for her. And she doesn't understand why her mom won't support her going to Nashville to find out." -- Back cover.
Author: Chin, Ava, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: 974.71
Format: Books
Summary: "Mott Street follows Chinese American writer Ava Chin, who grew up estranged from her father, as she seeks the truth about her family history--and uncovers a legacy of exclusion and resilience that speaks to the American experience past and present. Chin's ancestors became lovers, classmates, sworn enemies, and, eventually, through her birth, kin--all while converging at a single Chinatown address"-- "As the only child of a single mother in Queens, Ava Chin found her family's origins to be shrouded in mystery. She had never met her father, and her grandparents' stories didn't match the history she read about at school. Mott Street traces Chin's quest to understand her Chinese American family's story. Over decades of painstaking research, she finds not only her father but also the building that provided a refuge for them all." --Front jacket flap
Author: Glenconner, Anne, 1932- author.
Published: 2023 2022
Call Number: B GLENCONN
Format: Books
Summary: Now in her ninth decade and at her happiest, the New York Times best-selling author of Lady in Waiting--and the eldest daughter of the 5th Earl of Leicester--shares everything her extraordinary and unexpected life has taught her, in this entertaining treasury of hard-won wisdom. "Lady in Waiting brought us royal magic, beguiling insight, and jaw-dropping stories from life inside Anne Glenconner's privileged circle, which though golden didn't always glitter. As she revealed in her memoir, it has been one of stark contrasts--from growing up in the splendor of Holkham Hall to living in a tent in the jungle of Mustique, from traveling the world with Princess Margaret to coping with her wildly unpredictable husband Lord Glenconner. She has also survived the tragic loss of two of her sons and nursed a third son back from a coma. Now in her ninth decade and at her happiest, she's keen to share everything her unexpected life has taught her--the wise, the hilarious, the poignant, and the illuminating. As a wife, she became a master in the art of keeping the peace, knowing when to pick her battles, when she needed help--and when to take a lover. As a hostess, she acquired great practical skills in throwing marvelous parties and looking after magnificent homes, and, as a lady in waiting, became well versed in diplomacy and etiquette. It was as a mother she learnt the toughest lessons of all, and through them the value of friendship, family, and laughter to get her through the worst moments in life, as well as celebrate the best of them." -- Front jacket flap.
Author: Pelayo, Cynthia, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: F PELAYO
Format: Books
Summary: "Paloma has been watching the Grand Vespertilio Show her entire life. Grand, America's most beloved horror host showcases classic, low-budget and cult horror movies with a flourish, wearing his black tuxedo and hat, but Paloma has noticed something strange about Grand, stranger than his dark make-up and Gothic television set. After Paloma's husband, a homicide detective, discovers an obscure movie poster pinned on a mutilated corpse on stage at the Chicago Theater, she knows that the only person that can help solve this mystery is Grand. When another body appears at an abandoned historic movie palace the deaths prove to be connected to a silent film, lost to the ages, but somehow at the center of countless tragedies in Chicago. The closer Paloma gets to Grand she discovers that his reach is far greater than her first love, horror movies, and even this film. And she soon becomes trapped between protecting a silent movie that's contributed to so much death in her city and the life of her young son."--
Author: Row, Jess, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: F ROW
Format: Books
Summary: Demanding that her mother, father, and brother emerge from their self-imposed isolations and gather once more for her wedding, Winter Wilcox and her fractured Jewish family must face the harms of the past and decide if they can ever reconcile in the face of humanity's uncertain future. "For fifteen years, the Wilcoxes have been a family in name only. Though never the picture of happiness, they had once been a seemingly close-knit Jewish clan from the Upper West Side. But in the early 2000s, two events ruptured the relationships among them. First, Naomi, who appeared to be white, revealed to her children that her biological father was actually Black. In the aftermath, college-age daughter Bering left home to become a radical peace activist in Palestine's West Bank, where she was killed by an Israeli army sniper." --Front jacket flap
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