Author: Thompson, Barnaby, film producer, film director. Clayton, James, film producer. Thompson, Preston, screenwriter. Baldwin, Alec, 1958- actor. Meaney, Colm, 1953- actor.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: PIXIE
Format: Video disc
Summary: On a path to avenge her mother's death, Pixie Hardy attempts a heist that will give her the means to leave her small town life behind. When the plan goes horribly wrong, she's forced to team up with a pair of misfits who are clearly in over their heads. On the run from an organized gang--criminal priests, and nuns, led by Father McGrath (Baldwin)--the trio will scheme and swindle anyone they come across in this hilarious and thrilling adventure.
Author: Lorenz, Robert (Robert B.), film director, screenwriter, film producer. Charles, Chris, 1983- screenwriter Kravitz, Danny, screenwriter. Duncan, Tai, 1976- film producer. Williams, Mark (Producer), film producer.
Published: 2021
Call Number: MARKSMAN
Format: Video disc
Summary: Jim is a former Marine who lives a solitary life as a rancher along the Arizona-Mexican border, but his peaceful existence soon comes crashing down when he tries to protect a boy on the run from members of a vicious cartel. When the boy's mother asks him to take her son to her family in Chicago, the two hit the road with the cartel's assassins in pursuit.
Author: Paronnaud, Vincent, 1970- film director, screenwriter. Perrier, Alexandre, film producer. Roland, Benoît, film producer. Debay, Lucie, actor. Worthalter, Arieh, actor.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: HUNTED
Format: Video disc
Summary: While staying at a hotel on a business trip one evening, Eve decides to let loose at a local nightclub. There, she meets a seemingly charming man who invites her back to his car to continue their night together. Eve quickly realizes the man is trying to kidnap her as he shoves her into the trunk. When the car is in a collision, Eve seizes her opportunity to escape and flees into the nearby woods, sparking a dire, life-or-death chase through the wilderness.
Author: Drake, Edward, film director. Willis, Bruce, 1955- actor. Grillo, Frank, 1963- actor. Lee, Brandon Thomas, actor. Perry, C. J., actor.
Published: 2021
Call Number: COSMIC
Format: Video disc
Summary: In the year 2524, four centuries after humans started colonizing the outer planets, retired Gen. James Ford gets called back into service after a hostile alien fleet attacks soldiers on a remote planet. The threat against mankind soon escalates into an interstellar war as Ford and a team of elite soldiers try to stop the imminent attack before it's too late.
Author: Dion, Garrick, 1974- film producer. Mellinghaus, Matthias, film producer. Blaszak, Scott, screenwriter. Ezban, Isaac, 1986- film director. Quinlan, Kathleen, 1954- actor.
Published: 2020
Call Number: PARALLEL
Format: Video disc
Summary: A group of friends stumble upon a mirror that serves as a portal to a "multiverse," but soon discover that importing knowledge from the other side in order to better their lives brings increasingly dangerous consequences.
Author: Russell, Keri, 1976- actor. Ulrich, Skeet, actor. Winningham, Mare, actor. Shields, Brent, director. Television adaptation of (work): Creel, Ann Howard. Magic of ordinary days.
Published: 2018 2005
Call Number: MAGIC
Format: Video disc
Summary: Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII. Near the end of World War II, pregnant Olivia Dunne is forced into marriage and banished to a remote Colorado farm, where she develops a relationship with her new husband and with two Japanese-American sisters living in a nearby internment camp.
Author: Chamberlain, Lauryn, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F CHAMBERL
Format: Books
Summary: "A timeless story about female friendship with an incredibly timely hook that makes it perfect for the millennial reader"-- Jules O'Brien and Michelle Davis has been best friends since third grade. Now in their midtwenties, the friends live miles and worlds apart. When Jules agrees to be a maid of honor in Michelle's wedding, she realizes how different the two have become.
Author: Morgyn, Ava, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: Y MORGYN
Format: Books
Summary: Upon her grandmother's death, seventeen-year-old Cat must move to New Orleans with her bipolar mother, where she is haunted by strangely familiar visitors who know more about her than they should. Ten years ago, Cat's mother, Mary, left her at her grandmother's house with nothing but a deck of tarot cards. Cat is determined to make her life as different from Mary's as possible, but after her grandmother dies Cat is forced to move to New Orleans with her mother. There, she discovers a picture of Mary holding a baby that's not her, leading her to unravel a dark family history and challenge her belief that Mary's mental health issues are the root of all their problems. As Cat explores the reasons for her mother's breakdown, she fears she is experiencing her own. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Quindlen, Kelly, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: Y QUINDLEN
Format: Books
Summary: Getting into a fender-bender with a beautiful rival after an embarrassing loss to her ex, a talented basketball athlete reluctantly agrees to a carpool arrangement before an opportunity for revenge leads to an unlikely relationship. After an embarrassing loss to her ex-girlfriend in their first basketball game of the season, seventeen-year-old Scottie Zajac gets into a fender bender with her nemesis, Irene Abraham, head cheerleader for the Fighting Reindeer. When the accident sends Irene's car to the shop for repairs, the girls are forced to carpool, and their rocky start only gets worse. In trying to get back at her toxic ex, Scottie bribes Irene into a fake-dating scheme that threatens to reveal some very real feelings.
Author: Colley, Linda, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 342
Format: Books
Summary: "A groundbreaking work that retells modern history through the rise and spread of written constitutions-some enlightened, many oppressive-to every corner of the globe. Filling a crucial void in our understanding of world history, Linda Colley reconfigures the rise of the modern world over three centuries through the advent of written constitutions. Her absorbing work challenges accepted narratives, focusing on rulers like Catherine the Great, who wrote her enlightened Nakaz years before the French Revolution; African visionaries like Sierra Leone's James Africanus Beale Horton; and Tunisias's soldier-constitutionalist Khayr-al-Din, who championed constitutional reform in the Muslim world. Demonstrating how constitutions repeatedly evolved in tandem with warfare, and how they were used to free, but also exclude, people (especially women and indigenous populations), this handsomely illustrated history-with its pageant of powerful monarchs, visionary lawmakers, and insurrectionist rebels-evokes The Silk Roads in its range and ambition. Whether reinterpreting the lasting influence of Japan's 1889 Meiji constitution or exploring the first constitution to enfranchise women in tiny Pitcairn Island in 1838, this book is one of the most original and absorbing histories in decades"--
Author: Posey, Rafe, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F POSEY
Format: Books
Summary: "In 1927, orphaned eight-year-old Alec Oswin sails from India to an unknown future in England. Meanwhile, in the English fenlands, June Attwell memorizes maps, patterns, and railway timetables, hoping for a future beyond her father's vicarage. Alec and June become friends, and, in time, marry. When the Second World War breaks out, Alec joins the RAF, while the Foreign Office sends June to its covert Y-service outposts on the edge of the war-torn Empire. Their post-war reunion is bittersweet: Alec, shot down and imprisoned in a series of POW camps, grapples with his feelings of uselessness, while June has found her calling"--
Author: Torres, John E., author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 616.02
Format: Books
Summary: "A practical, all-encompassing guide to disaster preparedness-from avalanches and blackouts to pandemics and wildfires-from NBC News senior medical correspondent and emergency medicine physician Dr. John Torres"--
Author: Rogen, Seth, 1982- author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: B ROGEN
Format: Books
Summary: "A collection of funny personal essays from one of the writers of Superbad and Pineapple Express and one of the producers of The Disaster Artist, Neighbors, and The Boys. (All of these words have been added to help this book show up in people's searches using the wonders of algorithmic technology. Thanks for bearing with us!) Hi! I'm Seth! I was asked to describe my book, Yearbook, for the inside flap (which is a gross phrase) and for websites and shit like that, so... here it goes!!! Yearbook is a collection of true stories that I desperately hope are just funny at worst, and life-changingly amazing at best. (I understand that it's likely the former, which is a fancy "book" way of saying "the first one.") I talk about my grandparents, doing stand-up comedy as a teenager, bar mitzvahs, and Jewish summer camp, and tell way more stories about doing drugs than my mother would like. I also talk about some of my adventures in Los Angeles, and surely say things about other famous people that will create a wildly awkward conversation for me at a party one day. I hope you enjoy the book should you buy it, and if you don't enjoy it, I'm sorry. If you ever see me on the street and explain the situation, I'll do my best to make it up to you"--
Author: Aleman, Daniel, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: Y ALEMAN
Format: Books
Summary: New York City high school student Mateo dreams of becoming a Broadway star, but his life is transformed after his parents are deported to Mexico. Mateo Garcia and his younger sister, Sophie, have been taught to fear one word for as long as they can remember: deportation. Ma and Pa have been in the United States for so long, they have American-born children, and they're hard workers and good neighbors. When Mateo returns from school one day to find that his parents have been taken by ICE, he realizes that his family's worst nightmare has become a reality. Now Mateo must figure out who he is and what he is capable of, even as he is forced to question what it means to be an American. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Lee, Jenny, 1971- author. Sequel to (work) : Lee, Jenny, 1971- Anna K. Adaptation of (work) : Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910. Anna Karenina.
Published: 2021
Call Number: Y LEE
Format: Books
Summary: After the scandal surrounding the tragic death of her first love, Alexis, Anna K's father takes her to South Korea to "connect with family" but it feels more like exile. Back in the states, all her friends are spending their summers in different ways, but also each needs to face the reality of their relationships in order to move forward in the wake of last school year.
Author: Mustian, Kelly, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F MUSTIAN
Format: Books
Summary: "Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her unbearable life on the swamp, and to her harsh father in Mississippi. But now, after running away to Baton Rouge and briefly knowing a different kind of life, she finds herself with nowhere to go but back home. And she knows there will be a price to pay with her father. Matilda, daughter of a sharecropper, is from the other side of the Trace. Doing what she can to protect her family from the whims and demands of some particularly callous locals is an ongoing struggle. She forms a plan to go north, to pack up the secrets she's holding about her life in the South and hang them on the line for all to see. As the two girls are drawn deeper into a dangerous world of bootleggers and moral corruption, they must come to terms with the complexities of their tenuous bond and a hidden past that links them in ways that could cost them their lives."--Provided by publisher.
Author: Granata, Vince, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: B GRANATA
Format: Books
Summary: "Vince Granata remembers standing in front of his suburban home in Connecticut the day his mother and father returned from the hospital with his three new siblings in tow. He had just finished scrawling their names in orange chalk on the driveway: Christopher, Timothy, and Elizabeth. Twenty-three years later, Vince was a thousand miles away when he received shocking news that would change his life-his younger brother, Tim, propelled by unchecked schizophrenia, had killed their mother in their childhood home. Not only devastated by the grief of losing his mother, Vince is consumed by the act itself, so incomprehensible that it overshadows every happy memory of life growing up in a seemingly idyllic middle-class family. In an extraordinary feat of willpower, he decides to examine the disease that irrecoverably changed his family's destiny and piece together his brother's story. In this vibrant combination of personal memoir and journalism, Vince begins the painstaking process of recovering the image of his remarkable mother and salvaging the love for his brother as he faces trial for their mother's murder. Written in stark, precise, and beautiful prose, Everything Is Fine is a powerful and reaffirming portrait of loss and forgiveness"-- Granata was a thousand miles from home when he received shocking news that his younger brother, Tim, propelled by unchecked schizophrenia, had killed their mother in their childhood home. Devastated by the grief of losing his mother, Granata was also consumed by the act itself, so incomprehensible that it overshadows every happy memory of life growing up in a seemingly idyllic middle-class family. He decides to examine the disease that irrecoverably changed his family's destiny and piece together his brother's story. In the painstaking process of recovering the image of his remarkable mother and salvaging the love for his brother as Tim faces trial for their mother's murder, Granata provides a powerful and reaffirming portrait of loss and forgiveness. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Koresky, Michael, 1979- author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: B KORESKY
Format: Books
Summary: Films of Endearment is a heartwarming memoir, chronicling a young man's dynamic relationship with his mother, as told through the 80s movies they shared together, exploring themes of loss and resilience, the bonds between family, gender equality, and the birth of a critic's sensibility. Koresky's most formative memories were simple ones: A movie rental. A mug of tea. And a few shared hours with his mother. Now a successful film critic, he set out on a journey with his mother to discover more about their shared cinematic past. They rewatched ten films that she first introduced to him as a child, one from every year of the '80s, each featuring women leads. Together these films form the story of an era that Koresky argues should rightly be called "The Decade of the Actress." -- adapted from jacket
Author: Gordon-Reed, Annette, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 326.8
Format: Books
Summary: "'It is staggering that there is no date commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.' -Annette Gordon-Reed. The essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth's integral importance to American history, as told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Texas native. Interweaving American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed, the descendant of enslaved people brought to Texas in the 1850s, recounts the origins of Juneteenth and explores the legacies of the holiday that remain with us. From the earliest presence of black people in Texas--in the 1500s, well before enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown--to the day in Galveston on June 19, 1865, when General Gordon Granger announced the end of slavery, Gordon-Reed's insightful and inspiring essays present the saga of a "frontier" peopled by Native Americans, Anglos, Tejanos, and Blacks that became a slaveholder's republic. Reworking the "Alamo" framework, Gordon-Reed shows that the slave-and race-based economy not only defined this fractious era of Texas independence, but precipitated the Mexican-American War and the resulting Civil War. A commemoration of Juneteenth and the fraught legacies of slavery that still persist, On Juneteenth is a stark reminder that the fight for equality is ongoing"--
Author: St. John, Katherine, 1979- author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: ST JOHN
Format: Books
Summary: "In the midst of a sizzling hot summer, some of Hollywood's most notorious faces are assembled on the idyllic Caribbean island of St. Genesius to film The Siren. Written and directed by Cole Power's son, the thriller promises to entice audiences with its sultry storyline and intimately connected cast. Three very different women arrive on set, each with her own motive. Stella, an infamously unstable actress, is struggling to reclaim the career she lost in the wake of multiple, very public breakdowns. Taylor, a fledgling producer, is anxious to work on a film she hopes will turn her career around after her last job ended in scandal. And Felicity, Stella's mysterious new assistant, harbors designs of her own that threaten to upend all their plans. With a hurricane brewing offshore, each woman finds herself trapped on the island, united against a common enemy. But as deceptions come to light, misplaced trust may prove more perilous than the storm itself."--Provided by publisher.
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