Author: Marguiiles, Raphael, film producer. Lifschitz, J.D., film producer. Maguiles, Adam, film producer. Thomas, Keith, film director, screenwriter. Davis, Dave, 1989- actor.
Published: 2021
Call Number: VIGIL
Format: Video disc
Summary: A young man agrees to fulfill the duties of a 'shomer,' the ritualistic practice of looking after a dead body over the course of one night. He soon finds himself opposite a malevolent entity.
Author: Lee, Justin (Director), film director, screenwriter. Hillin, Daemon, film producer. Ziering, Ian, 1964- actor. Burke, Phil, 1982- actor. Morrone, Ed, actor.
Published: 2021
Call Number: HUNTERS
Format: Video disc
Summary: Several years after a virus has ravaged the world, a soldier named John T Wrecker continues his task of protecting a group of refugees and the base he was assigned to even though supplies are scarce and survivors are few and far between. As he goes about his daily routine, the threat of something new and even more dangerous grows ever closer. The arrival of another soldier from a different outpost gives John hope that they might be able to fight this new monstrous threat together. With time running out and the new mutations closing in, John must confront the dangers head on or face the annihilation of his mission and the lives that rely on him.
Author: Gout, Everardo Valerio, film director. Demonaco, James, screenwriter, film producer. Blum, Jason, film producer. Bay, Michael, 1964- film producer. Form, Andrew, film producer.
Published: 2021
Call Number: BLU-RAY FOREVER
Format: Video disc
Summary: On the run from a drug cartel, a Mexican couple battle vicious thugs who plan to continue the violent tradition of the now-outlawed Purge.
Author: Gout, Everardo Valerio, film director. Demonaco, James, screenwriter, film producer. Blum, Jason, film producer. Bay, Michael, 1964- film producer. Form, Andrew, film producer.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: ACTION FOREVER
Format: Visual Materials
Summary: On the run from a drug cartel, a Mexican couple battle vicious thugs who plan to continue the violent tradition of the now-outlawed Purge.
Author: Williams, Matt, 1964- film producer. Grass, Ben, film producer. Maza, Jason, 1987- film producer. Clarke, Noel, 1975- film producer. Wrathall, John, screenwriter.
Published: 2021
Call Number: TWIST
Format: Video disc
Summary: Inspired by Charles Dickens's iconic novel Oliver Twist, this action-fueled crime-thriller set in contemporary London follows the journey of Twist, a gifted graffiti artist trying to find his way after the loss of his mother. Lured into a street gang headed by the paternal Fagin, Twist is attracted to the lifestyle and to Red, an alluring member of Fagin's crew. But when an art theft goes wrong, Twist's moral code is tested as he's caught between Fagin, the police, and a loose-cannon enforcer.
Author: Schneider, Steven Jay, 1974- film producer. Taylor, Shane Dax, 1975- film producer, screenwriter, film director. Burke, Kenneth, film producer. Thorne, Bella, 1997- actor. Lind, Alyvia Alyn, actor.
Published: 2021
Call Number: MASQUERA
Format: Video disc
Summary: A young girl fights to survive after a group of home invaders break into her house to steal her family's inestimable artwork.
Author: Lorre, Chuck, creator. Molaro, Steven, creator. Armitage, Iain, actor. Perry, Zoe, 1983- actor. Barber, Lance, 1973- actor.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: YOUNG SEASON 4
Format: Video disc
Summary: The precocious young preteen Sheldon Cooper is ready for his newest challenge -- college -- as his twin sister enters middle school.
Author: Lang, Chris (Christopher), creator, screenwriter. Wilson, Andy, 1958- television director. De Glanville, Guy, television producer. Walker, Nicola, actor. Bhaskar, Sanjeev, 1964- actor.
Published: 2021
Call Number: UNFORGOT SEASON 4
Format: Video disc
Summary: "This program includes material that may not be appropriate for younger viewers. Viewer discretion is advised."-- "The BAFTA-winning hit series returns, as DCI Cassie Stuart ... and DI Sunny Khan ... investigate a cold case with alarming links to the police force. A corpse is discovered in a scrap yard, his features frozen in time. Four suspects emerge. All four have links to the law and attended the same police training course back in 1989. Since then, their lives have gone in very different directions. Some have thrived and others have faltered. But exactly who is fighting for justice? Can the police force ever really be trusted? And will Cassie and Sunny find themselves on the wrong side of the law?"--
Author: Teo, Pearry Reginald, film director screenwriter. D M X, actor. Burn, Natalie, actor. Bacon, Randall J., actor. Hoffman-Lew, Lyndon, actor.
Published: 2021
Call Number: FAST
Format: Video disc
Summary: A man returns to his old stomping ground to find the men responsible for the death of his brother. Upon hearing word of his brother's death, Shen returns to Drag City to find the men responsible and take vengeance into his own hands. He learns that a biker named Cobra and his gang, The Midnight Squad were the ones responsible for his death. But to get anywhere close to them, he must enter into the dark, turbulent realm of underground motorcycle racing. Enlisting the aid of a drag-racing-champion-turned-mechanic, Shen teams up with Tek (aka Andromeda) to build a motorcycle to compete in the drag races where he will have his one moment of chance with Cobra. But when the triads learn that Shen is disrupting their operations, he must fight is way from the ring to the streets where his fists will tell the story of his vengeance.
Author: Yost, Peter, television director, television producer, screenwriter. Alburquerque, Edna, screenwriter, television producer. Rashad, Condola, 1986- narrator. Pangloss Films, production company. GBH Studio Six, production company.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 616.89
Format: Video disc
Summary: A four-episode program on the history of mental illness, exploring the questions: what causes it, and what is the best way to treat it?
Author: Kingston, Kofi, 1981- on-screen participant. Bliss, Alexa, 1991- on-screen participant. Asuka, 1981- on-screen participant. Anoa'i, Leati Joseph, 1985- on-screen participant. Copeland, Adam, 1973- on-screen participant.
Published: 2021
Call Number: WWE
Format: Video disc
Summary: Hanging twenty feet above the ring lies the Money in the Bank briefcase, one of WWE's most sought-after prizes. Those who grab it are granted a WWE Championship opportunity anytime, anywhere. Who will cash in and alter the course of their careers forever in the fallout of WrestleMania?
Author: Wilson, Andy, 1958- television director. Glanville, Guy de, television producer. Lang, Chris (Christopher), screenwriter, creator. Walker, Nicola, actor. Bhaskar, Sanjeev, 1964- actor.
Published: 2019 2018
Call Number: UNFORGOT SEASON 3
Format: Video disc
Summary: When human remains are found by a highway near London, Cassie and Sunny are called in. Dogged work leads the team to a sixteen-year-old girl who went missing on the eve of the millennium. A close-knit group of old school friends holds the key to what happened. Is one of them capable of murder? Cassie is determined to correct the mistakes made in the original investigation no matter the personal cost.
Author: Lang, Chris (Christopher), screenwriter. Bradley, Tim (Television producer), television producer. Wilson, Andy, 1958- television director. Walker, Nicola, actor. Bhaskar, Sanjeev, 1964- actor.
Published: 2018
Call Number: UNFORGOT SEASON 1
Format: Video disc
Summary: When a body is discovered in a derelict building, DCI Cassie Stuart must untangle lies that have been covered up for nearly forty years. With her partner, DI Sunil Sunny Khan they narrow the list to four suspects, each with something to hide. As their deceptions are discovered, the people they love most begin to wonder what else they might be capable of.
Author: Lang, Chris (Christopher), screenwriter, creator. Bradley, Tim (Television producer), television producer. Wilson, Andy, 1958- television director. Walker, Nicola, actor. Bhaskar, Sanjeev, 1964- actor.
Published: 2018 2017
Call Number: UNFORGOT SEASON 2
Format: Video disc
Summary: DCI Cassie Stuart and DI Sunny Khan face an impossible cold case. A lawyer. A nurse. A schoolteacher. A police officer. These four suspects are the pieces of the puzzle. But as Cassie and Sunny put this picture together, the more blurred it becomes. The investigation will question their assumptions about the most damaged and destructive in society. When a victim becomes a criminal, is punishment the same as justice? Seen on Masterpiece Mystery!
Author: Aoki, Ryka, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F AOKI
Format: Books
Summary: "Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in Ryka Aoki's Light From Uncommon Stars, a defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian bargains, and queer alien courtship over fresh-made donuts. Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. She has already delivered six. When Katrina Nguyen, a young transgender runaway, catches Shizuka's ear with her wild talent, Shizuka can almost feel the curse lifting. She's found her final candidate. But in a donut shop off a bustling highway in the San Gabriel Valley, Shizuka meets Lan Tran, retired starship captain, interstellar refugee, and mother of four. Shizuka doesn't have time for crushes or coffee dates, what with her very soul on the line, but Lan's kind smile and eyes like stars might just redefine a soul's worth. And maybe something as small as a warm donut is powerful enough to break a curse as vast as the California coastline. As the lives of these three women become entangled by chance and fate, a story of magic, identity, curses, and hope begins, and a family worth crossing the universe for is found"--
Author: Ellis, Joseph J., author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 973.3
Format: Books
Summary: "A culminating work on the American Founding by one of its leading historians, The Cause rethinks the American Revolution as we have known it. George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction. At the time, no one called it the "American Revolution": former colonists still regarded themselves as Virginians or Pennsylvanians, not Americans, while John Adams insisted that the British were the real revolutionaries, for attempting to impose radical change without their colonists' consent. With The Cause, Ellis takes a fresh look at the events between 1773 and 1783, recovering a war more brutal than any in American history save the Civil War and discovering a strange breed of "prudent" revolutionaries, whose prudence proved wise yet tragic when it came to slavery, the original sin that still haunts our land. Written with flair and drama, The Cause brings together a cast of familiar and forgotten characters who, taken together, challenge the story we have long told ourselves about our origins as a people and a nation"--
Author: Soyinka, Wole, author.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: F SOYINKA
Format: Books
Summary: "In an imaginary Nigeria, a cunning entrepreneur is selling body parts stolen from Dr. Menka's hospital for use in ritualistic practices. Dr. Menka shares the grisly news with his oldest college friend, bon viveur, star engineer, and Yoruba royal, Duyole Pitan-Payne. The life of every party, Duyole is about to assume a prestigious post at the United Nations in New York, but it now seems that someone is deter­mined that he not make it there. And neither Dr. Menka nor Duyole knows why, or how close the enemy is, or how powerful. [This book] is at once a literary hoot, a crafty whodunit, and a scathing indictment of political and social corrup­tion."--Dust jacket flap.
Author: Sparks, Nicholas, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: LP F SPARKS
Format: Large print
Summary: A successful travel photographer, Maggie Dawes, struggling to come to terms with a sobering medical diagnosis, is unexpectedly grounded over Christmas with her young assistant and begins to tell him the story of the love that set her on a course she never could have imagined. In 1996 everything changed Maggie Dawes. Living with an aunt she barely knew in Ocracoke, a remote village on North Carolina's Outer Banks, she could think only of the friends and family she left behind. She meets Bryce Trickett, handsome, genuine, and newly admitted to West Point, Bryce gradually shows her how much there is to love about the wind-swept beach town, and introduces her to photography, a passion that will define the rest of her life. By 2019 Maggie is a renowned travel photographer. She splits her time between running a successful gallery in New York and photographing remote locations around the world. But this Christmas Maggie is struggling to come to terms with a sobering medical diagnosis. Increasingly dependent on a young assistant, she begins to tell him the story of another Christmas, decades earlier-- and the love that set her on a course she never could have imagined. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Hanson, Thor, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 577.22
Format: Books
Summary: "In his three previous books--Feathers, The Triumph of Seeds, and Buzz--Thor Hanson has taken his readers on unforgettable journeys into nature, rendered with great storytelling, the soul of a poet, and the insight of a biologist. In this new book, he is doing it again, but exploring one of the most vital scientific and cultural issues of our time: climate change. As a young biologist, Hanson by his own admission watched with some detachment as our warming planet presented plants and animals with an ultimatum: change or face extinction. But his detachment turned to both concern and awe, as he observed the remarkable narratives of change playing out in each plant and animal he studied. In Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid, Hanson tells the story of how nature--both plants and animals, from beech trees to beetles--are meeting the challenges of rapid climate change head-on, adjusting, adapting, and sometimes noticeably evolving. Brown pelicans are fleeing uphill, seeking out new lives in the mountains. Gorillas in Uganda are turning to new food sources, such as eucalyptus trees (which humans only imported to Africa in the past several decades), as their old sources wain. Auklets, a little sea bird, aren't so lucky: changes in the life cycles of their primary food source means they return at specific times of year to oceanic feeding grounds expecting plankton blooms that are no longer there. As global warming transforms and restructures the ecosystems in which these animals and others live, Hanson argues, we are forced to conclude that climate change will not have just one effect: Some transformations are beneficial. Others, and perhaps most, are devastating, wiping out entire species. One thing is constant: with each change an organism undergoes, the delicate balance of interdependent ecosystems is tipped, forcing the evolution of thousands more species, including us. To understand how, collectively, these changes are shaping the natural world and the future of life, Hanson looks back through deep time, examining fossil records, pollen, and even the tooth enamel of giant wombats and mummified owl pellets. Together, these records of our past tell the story of ancient climate change, shedding light on the challenges faced by today's species, the ways they will respond, and how these strategies will determine the fate of ecosystems around the globe. Ultimately, the story of nature's response to climate change is both fraught and fascinating, a story of both disaster and resilience, and, sometimes, hope. Lyrical and thought-provoking, Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid is poised to transform the conversation around climate change, shifting the focus from humans to the lattice of life, of which humans are just a single point"--
Author: Doerr, Anthony, 1973- author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: LP F DOERR
Format: Large print
Summary: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the bestselling and most beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. Set in Constantinople in the fifteenth century, in a small town in present-day Idaho, and on an interstellar ship decades from now, Anthony Doerr's gorgeous third novel is a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, hope--and a book. In Cloud Cuckoo Land, Doerr has created a magnificent tapestry of times and places that reflects our vast inter-connectedness--with other species, with each other, with those who lived before us, and with those who will be here after we're gone. Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests. Restless, insatiably curious, Anna learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds a book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky. This she reads to her ailing sister as the walls of the only place she has known are bombarded in the great siege of Constantinople. Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, miles from home, conscripted with his beloved oxen into the invading army. His path and Anna's will cross. Five hundred years later, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno, who learned Greek as a prisoner of war, rehearses five children in a play adaptation of Aethon's story, preserved against all odds through centuries. Tucked among the library shelves is a bomb, planted by a troubled, idealistic teenager, Seymour. This is another siege. And in a not-so-distant future, on the interstellar ship Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault, copying on scraps of sacking the story of Aethon, told to her by her father. She has never set foot on our planet. Like Marie-Laure and Werner in All the Light We Cannot See, Anna, Omeir, Seymour, Zeno, and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders who find resourcefulness and hope in the midst of gravest danger. Their lives are gloriously intertwined. Doerr's dazzling imagination transports us to worlds so dramatic and immersive that we forget, for a time, our own. Dedicated to "the librarians then, now, and in the years to come," Cloud Cuckoo Land is a beautiful and redemptive novel about stewardship--of the book, of the Earth, of the human heart.
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