Author: Whitehead, Colson, 1969- author.
Published: 2016
Call Number: PS3573.H4768 U53 2016
Format: Books
Summary: A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels.
Author: Patterson, James, 1947-, author.
Published: 2012
Call Number: F PATTERSO
Format: Books
Summary: It's Christmas Eve and Detective Alex Cross is called away from his family to resolve a horrific hostage situation that is spiraling out of control. It's a snowy Christmas Eve, and Detective Alex Cross is at home celebrating with his family. Then he is called to a nearby home, where a a father is threatening to murder his own children and his ex-wife. Then just as the insanity peaks, a second horrific situation explodes -- one that no one could have foreseen and that puts millions of people at risk. This is a red alert of the darkest kind, and Alex is forced to make a decision that could end as many lives as it saves -- including his own.
Author: Iweala, Uzodinma.
Published: 2005
Call Number: F IWEALA
Format: Books
Summary: In this stunning debut novel, Agu, a young boy in an unnamed West African nation, is recruited into a unit of guerrilla fighters as civil war engulfs his country. Haunted by his father's own death at the hands of militants, which he fled just before witnessing, Agu is vulnerable to the dangerous yet paternal nature of his new commander. While the war rages on, Agu becomes increasingly divorced from the life he had known before the conflict started -- a life of school friends, church services, and time with his family still intact. As he vividly recalls these sunnier times, his daily reality spins further downward into inexplicable brutality, primal fear, and loss of selfhood. His relationship with his commander deepens even as it darkens, and his camaraderie with a fellow soldier lends a deceptive sense of normalcy to his experience. In a powerful, strikingly original voice that vividly captures Agu's youth and confusion, Uzodinma Iweala has produced a harrowing, deeply affecting novel. Both a searing take on coming-of-age and a vivid document of the dark face of war, Beasts of No Nation announces the arrival of an extraordinary new writer.
Author: Greenlaw, Linda, 1960-
Published: 2002
Call Number: B GREENLAW
Format: Books
Summary: The author details her return to Isle au Haut, a tiny Maine island with a population of seventy year-round residents, many of whom are her relatives, to describe small-town life in a lobster-fishing village.
Author: Simmons, Dan, 1948-
Published: 1998 1985
Call Number: F SIMMONS
Format: Books
Summary: Robert Luczak, sent to Calcutta to interview the mysterious poet, M. Das, who has been missing for ten years, discovers that the missing man is mixed up in the death-worshiping cult of Kali.
Author: Yolen, Jane author.
Published: 1990
Call Number: Y YOLEN
Format: Books
Summary: Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage until time travel places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Author: Kaufman, Amy, film producer. Lundberg, Daniela Taplin, film producer. Marker, Riva, 1978- film producer. Crown, Daniel, film producer. Elba, Idris, actor, film producer.
Published: 2021 2015
Call Number: BEASTS
Format: Video disc
Summary: "The nightmare of war is seen through the eyes of one of its most tragic casualties--a child soldier--in this harrowing vision of innocence lost from Cary Joji Fukunaga. Based on the acclaimed novel by Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation unfolds in an unnamed, civil-war-torn West African country, where the young Agu (Abraham Attah), in a haunting debut performance) witnesses carnage in his village before falling captive to a band of rebel soldiers led by a ruthless commander (an explosive Idris Elba), who molds the boy into a hardened killer. Fukunaga's relentlessly roving camera work and stunning visuals--realism so intensely visceral it borders on the surreal--immerse the viewer in a world of unimaginable horror without ever losing sight of the powerful human story at its center"--Container.
Author: Range, Gabriel, film director, screenwriter. Bell, Christopher, 1983- screenwriter. Van Carter, Paul, 1976- film producer. Taussig, Nick, 1973- film producer. Code, Matt, film producer.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: STARDUST
Format: Video disc
Summary: It chronicles the young David Bowie's first visit to the US in 1971, a trip that inspired the invention of his iconic alter ego Ziggy Stardust.
Author: Motion picture adaptation of (work): Frazee, Marla. Boss baby. McCullers, Michael, screenwriter. Hermann, Jeff, film producer. McGrath, Tom, 1964- film director, screenwriter. Baldwin, Alec, 1958- voice actor.
Published: 2021
Call Number: J BOSS
Format: Video disc
Summary: Now adults, Theodore Templeton and his estranged brother take a magical formula that transforms them into babies for 48 hours. Together, they must now go under cover to prevent an evil genius from turning fellow toddlers intro monstrous brats.
Author: Snyder, Zack, 1966- film director, screenwriter. Terrio, Chris, screenwriter. Beall, Will, screenwriter. Roven, Charles, film producer. Snyder, Deborah, film producer.
Published: 2021
Call Number: ZACK
Format: Video disc
Summary: Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists newfound ally Diana Prince to face an even greater threat. Together, Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to recruit a team to stand against this newly awakened enemy. Despite the formation of an unprecedented league of heroes, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg and the Flash, it may be too late to save the planet from an assault of catastrophic proportions.
Author: Stone, Emma
Published: 2021
Call Number: CRUELLA
Format: Video disc
Author: Roche, Isabelle, film producer. Descraques, Francois, screenwriter. Lubrano, Guillaume, creator, screenwriter. Loken, Kristanna, 1979- actor. Ryan, Michelle, 1984- actor.
Published: 2020 2019
Call Number: HORROR DARK
Format: Video disc
Summary: When Christine is attacked by a bloodthirsty creepy doll, she has to use all her imagination to distract it with horror stories. Zombies, Ghosts, Djinns, Aliens and Ghouls legends help her get through the night.
Author: Kaufman, Amy, film producer. Lundberg, Daniela Taplin, film producer. Marker, Riva, 1978- film producer. Crown, Daniel, film producer. Elba, Idris, actor, film producer.
Published: 2021 2015
Call Number: BEASTS
Format: Video disc
Summary: "The nightmare of war is seen through the eyes of one of its most tragic casualties--a child soldier--in this harrowing vision of innocence lost from Cary Joji Fukunaga. Based on the acclaimed novel by Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation unfolds in an unnamed, civil-war-torn West African country, where the young Agu (Abraham Attah), in a haunting debut performance) witnesses carnage in his village before falling captive to a band of rebel soldiers led by a ruthless commander (an explosive Idris Elba), who molds the boy into a hardened killer. Fukunaga's relentlessly roving camera work and stunning visuals--realism so intensely visceral it borders on the surreal--immerse the viewer in a world of unimaginable horror without ever losing sight of the powerful human story at its center"--Container.
Author: Range, Gabriel, film director, screenwriter. Bell, Christopher, 1983- screenwriter. Van Carter, Paul, 1976- film producer. Taussig, Nick, 1973- film producer. Code, Matt, film producer.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: STARDUST
Format: Video disc
Summary: It chronicles the young David Bowie's first visit to the US in 1971, a trip that inspired the invention of his iconic alter ego Ziggy Stardust.
Author: Motion picture adaptation of (work): Frazee, Marla. Boss baby. McCullers, Michael, screenwriter. Hermann, Jeff, film producer. McGrath, Tom, 1964- film director, screenwriter. Baldwin, Alec, 1958- voice actor.
Published: 2021
Call Number: J BOSS
Format: Video disc
Summary: Now adults, Theodore Templeton and his estranged brother take a magical formula that transforms them into babies for 48 hours. Together, they must now go under cover to prevent an evil genius from turning fellow toddlers intro monstrous brats.
Author: Snyder, Zack, 1966- film director, screenwriter. Terrio, Chris, screenwriter. Beall, Will, screenwriter. Roven, Charles, film producer. Snyder, Deborah, film producer.
Published: 2021
Call Number: ZACK
Format: Video disc
Summary: Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists newfound ally Diana Prince to face an even greater threat. Together, Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to recruit a team to stand against this newly awakened enemy. Despite the formation of an unprecedented league of heroes, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg and the Flash, it may be too late to save the planet from an assault of catastrophic proportions.
Author: Stone, Emma
Published: 2021
Call Number: CRUELLA
Format: Video disc
Author: Roche, Isabelle, film producer. Descraques, Francois, screenwriter. Lubrano, Guillaume, creator, screenwriter. Loken, Kristanna, 1979- actor. Ryan, Michelle, 1984- actor.
Published: 2020 2019
Call Number: HORROR DARK
Format: Video disc
Summary: When Christine is attacked by a bloodthirsty creepy doll, she has to use all her imagination to distract it with horror stories. Zombies, Ghosts, Djinns, Aliens and Ghouls legends help her get through the night.
Author: Brett, Simon, author.
Published: 2022 2021
Call Number: F BRETT
Format: Books
Summary: "When the body of a prospective client is discovered in her burned-out home, declutterer Ellen Curtis is drawn into a baffling investigation where nothing is as it first appears"-- When Alexandra Richards approaches professional declutterer Ellen Curtis to ask her to help sort out her mother's chaotic flat, Ellen gets the impression Alexandra doesn't like her mother very much. But when Ingrid Richards' body is discovered in her burned-out home, Alexandra's exasperated words don't seem such a joke. Due to the hazardous state of the victim's over-cluttered residence, the police are inclined to dismiss her death as an unfortunate accident. Ellen's not so sure. Could Alexandra's resentment towards her mother have escalated into outright violence? The more she discovers about the dead woman's remarkable past, the more convinced Ellen becomes that there's something decidedly suspicious about her death. At least she can console herself that clearing out widower Edward Finch's bungalow will be a straightforward job in comparison. But in this assumption, Ellen couldn't be more wrong...
Author: Markel, Howard, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: 572.86
Format: Books
Summary: "A definitive history of the race to unravel DNA's structure, by one of our most prominent medical historians. Biologist James Watson and physicist Francis Crick's 1953 revelation about the double helix structure of DNA is the foundation of virtually every advance in our modern understanding of genetics and molecular biology. But how did Watson and Crick do it--and why were they the ones who succeeded? In truth, the discovery of DNA's structure is the story of a race among five scientists for advancement, fame, and immortality: Watson, Crick, Rosalind Franklin, Maurice Wilkins, and Linus Pauling. They were fascinating and brilliant, with strong personalities that often clashed. But it is Rosalind Franklin who becomes a focal point for Markel. The Secret of Life is a story of genius and perseverance, but also a saga of cronyism, misogyny, anti-Semitism, and misconduct. Markel brilliantly recounts the intense intellectual journey, and the fraught personal relationships, that resulted in the discovery of DNA"--
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