Author: Costabile, David, narrator. Durrance, Chris, television director. Youngelson, Jack, television director. Goodman, Barak, screenwriter, television producer. Ward, Geoffrey C., screenwriter.
Published: 2020
Call Number: GENE
Format: Video disc
Summary: Scientific genetics, little more than a century old, holds at once the promise of eradicating disease and the threat of altering the very essence of what it means to be human. It traces the dizzying evolution of this new science as researchers race to identify treatments for genetic diseases, such as cancer and sickle cell anemia, and to perfect tools for rewriting DNA.
Author: Teicher, Jeremy, film director, screenwriter. Kroll, Nick, actor, screenwriter. Pappas, Alexi, actor, screenwriter. Kenworthy, Gus, actor. Schild, Morgan, actor.
Published: 2020
Call Number: OLYMPIC
Format: Video disc
Summary: Penelope is a first time Olympian and introverted cross-country skier, who, after finishing her event early, finds herself spending time in Athletes Village with the gregarious and outgoing Ezra. As they grow closer, they push one another to embrace qualities they lost sight of in pursuit of their dreams. Will they be able to help each other take a leap of faith into the unknown?
Author: Zobel, Craig, film director. Cuse, Nick, screenwriter. Lindelof, Damon, screenwriter. Blum, Jason, film producer. Lindelof, Damon, film producer.
Published: 2020
Call Number: HUNT BLU-RAY
Format: Video disc
Summary: Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen - for a very specific purpose - The Hunt.
Author: Bellocchio, Marco, film director. Favino, Pierfrancesco, actor. Lo Cascio, Luigi, 1967- actor. Alesi, Fausto Russo, actor. Cândido, Maria Fernanda, 1974- actor.
Published: 2020
Call Number: TRAITOR
Format: Video disc
Summary: The real life of Tommaso Buscetta, the so-called "boss of the two worlds," the first mafia informant in Sicily in the '80s.
Author: Rainwater, Rotimi, film director, on-screen participant. Haddish, Tiffany, 1979- on screen participant. Berry, Halle, on-screen participant. Dawson, Rosario, on-screen participant. Jewel, 1974- on-screen participant.
Published: 2020
Call Number: 362.592
Format: Video disc
Summary: In the world's wealthiest country, 4.2 million teenagers are homeless. Former Navy veteran and homeless youth, director Rotimi Rainwater shows viewers the realities of life on the streets as he travels the country to shine a light on the epidemic of youth homelessness in America. With the help of celebrities and politicians who have been homeless themselves or advocates of the repressed, the film takes a large scale issue down to a very personal level.
Author: Gomez-Rejon, Alfonso, director. Cumberbatch, Benedict, 1976- actor. Shannon, Michael, 1974- actor. Waterston, Katherine, actor.
Published: 2020 2017
Call Number: CURRENT
Format: Video disc
Summary: Tells the story of the competition between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse over whose electric power delivery system will be used in the electrification of America.
Author: Wilde, Autumn de, film director. Catton, Eleanor, 1985- screenwriter. Bevan, Tim, film producer. Fellner, Eric, film producer. Broadbent, Graham, film producer.
Published: 2020
Call Number: EMMA BLU-RAY
Format: Video disc
Summary: Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse is a restless queen bee without rivals in her sleepy little town, In this glittering satire of social class and the pain of growing up, Emma must adventure through misguided matches and romantic missteps to find the love that has been there all along.
Author: Gerwig, Greta, film director, screenwriter. Di Novi, Denise, film producer. Swicord, Robin, film producer. Pascal, Amy, 1958- film producer. Ronan, Saoirse, 1994- actor.
Published: 2020
Call Number: LITTLE BLU-RAY
Format: Video disc
Summary: Writer-director Greta Gerwig has crafted a film that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott and unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig's take, the beloved story of the March sisters, four young women each determined to live life on her own terms, is both timeless and timely.
Author: Hauer-King, Jonah, 1995- actor. Hunt, Helen, 1963- actor. Bean, Sean, actor. Manville, Lesley, actor. Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), film distributor..
Published: 2020
Call Number: WORLD SEASON 1 DISC 1-2
Format: Video disc
Summary: Summer 1939. Harry, a translator at the British Embassy in Warsaw, is falling in love with Polish waitress Kasia. When German tanks roll into Poland, and Britain declares war on Germany, Harry and Kasia face terrible choices. With her life in grave danger, can Harry help her, and if he can, how will he ever explain himself to Lois Bennett, the girl he left behind in Manchester?
Author: Green, Mike, film director, screenwriter, film producer. Kelly, Brian, screenwriter. Kneebone, Julie, film producer. Lofberg, Lauren, actor. Wiese, Taylor, actor.
Published: 2020
Call Number: OUTBACK
Format: Video disc
Summary: The terrifying tale of a young couple lost in the wilderness and fighting for survival. Wade and Lisa head to Australia hoping to recharge their ailing romance. When their GPS fails, they leave their car and head off on foot to find a new route. As daylight fades, they're forced to spend the night in the bush without food, water, or weapons, surrounded by snakes, scorpions, and wild dogs. Now, one decision could mean the difference between life and certain death.
Author: Luke, Derek, 1974- actor. Martini, Max, 1969- actor. Núñez, Paola, 1978- actor. Allen, Joel, (Actor) actor. Aytes, Rochelle, 1976- actor.
Published: 2020
Call Number: PURGE SEASON 2
Format: Video disc
Summary: A single Purge Night affects the lives of four interconnected characters over the ensuing year, all inevitably leading up to the next Purge.
Author: Junger, Gil, film director, screenwriter. Lazar, Andrew, film producer. Chen, Cory, film producer. Zhang, Linshu, film producer. Strauss, John J., 1957- screenplay.
Published: 2020
Call Number: THINK
Format: Video disc
Summary: Josh Duhamel and Megan Fox star in this whimsical family comedy about a boy and his dog, and a science project that will change all of their lives forever. It follows twelve-year-old Oliver, a tech prodigy, whose middle-school science fair experiment goes awry, creating a telepathic connection between him and his furry friend, Henry. The bond brings Oliver and Henry even closer as they join forces to comically overcome complications at school, and help Oliver?s parents rekindle their marriage.
Author: Patterson, James, 1947- author. Paetro, Maxine, author.
Published: 2020
Call Number: LP F PATTERSO
Format: Large print
Summary: Three victims, three bullets, three cities. The shooters' aim is as fearsomely precise as their target selection. When Lindsay realizes that the fallen men and women excel in a lucrative, criminal activity, she leads the charge in the manhunt for the killers. As the casualty list expands, fear and fascination with this suspicious shooting gallery galvanizes the country. The victims were no angels, but are the shooters villains . . . or heroes?
Author: Chiavaroli, Heidi, author.
Published: 2020
Call Number: LP F CHIAVARO
Format: Large print
Summary: "Boston, 1773: Emma Malcolm's heart belongs to Noah Winslow. But her father has promised her to Samuel Clarke, a sadistic man. After Emma is drawn into the Boston Tea Party, Samuel blackmails her. Emma realizes she must protect those she loves, even if it means becoming Samuel's wife. Present Day:Lieutenant Hayley Ashworth is determined to be the first woman in the Navy SEALs. When an unexpected encounter with the man she once loved leads to the discovery of a tea chest and the document within, she wonders if perhaps true strength and freedom are buried deeper than she first realized. Two women, separated by centuries, must find the strength to fight for love and freedom."--Back cover.
Author: Brunstetter, Wanda E., author.
Published: 2020
Call Number: LP F BRUNSTET
Format: Large print
Summary: "When Vernon King, his son, and son-in-law are involved in a terrible accident, three women are left to cope with their deaths, as they become the sole providers of the family they have left. The women's only income must come from the family greenhouse, but someone seems to be trying to force them out of business. Amy King has just lost her father and brother, and her mother needs her to help run the family's greenhouse. It doesn't seem fair to ask her to leave a job she loves, when there is still a sister and brother to help. But Sylvia is also grieving for her husband while left to raise three children, and Henry, just out of school, is saddled with all the jobs his father and older brother used to do. As Amy assumes her new role, she also asks Jared Riehl to put their courtship on hold. When things become even more stressful at the greenhouse, will Amy crumble under the pressure?"--
Author: Jance, Judith A., author.
Published: 2020
Call Number: LP F JANCE
Format: Large print
Summary: Ali Reynolds and her team at High Noon Enterprises must race against the clock to save an archbishop as he faces mysterious death threats in the next "devilish page-turner" (People) in the New York Times bestselling series by J.A. Jance.
Author: Ridley, Matt, author.
Published: 2020
Call Number: 303.483 RIDLEY
Format: Books
Summary: Building on his national bestseller The Rational Optimist, Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society. Forget short-term symptoms like Donald Trump and Brexit, it is innovation that will shape the twenty-first century. Yet innovation remains a mysterious process, poorly understood by policy makers and businessmen alike. Matt Ridley argues that we need to see innovation as an incremental, bottom-up, fortuitous process that happens as a direct result of the human habit of exchange, rather than an orderly, top-down process developing according to a plan. Innovation is crucially different from invention, because it is the turning of inventions into things of practical and affordable use to people. It speeds up in some sectors and slows down in others. It is always a collective, collaborative phenomenon, involving trial and error, not a matter of lonely genius. It happens mainly in just a few parts of the world at any one time. It still cannot be modeled properly by economists, but it can easily be discouraged by politicians. Far from there being too much innovation, we may be on the brink of an innovation famine. Ridley derives these and other lessons from the lively stories of scores of innovations, how they started and why they succeeded or failed. Some of the innovation stories he tells are about steam engines, jet engines, search engines, airships, coffee, potatoes, vaping, vaccines, cuisine, antibiotics, mosquito nets, turbines, propellers, fertilizer, zero, computers, dogs, farming, fire, genetic engineering, gene editing, container shipping, railways, cars, safety rules, wheeled suitcases, mobile phones, corrugated iron, powered flight, chlorinated water, toilets, vacuum cleaners, shale gas, the telegraph, radio, social media, block chain, the sharing economy, artificial intelligence, fake bomb detectors, phantom games consoles, fraudulent blood tests, hyperloop tubes, herbicides, copyright, and even life itself.
Author: Johns, Geoff, 1973- writer. Robinson, James, 1963- writer. Goyer, David S., writer. Moder, Lee, artist. Kolins, Scott, artist.
Published: 2020
Call Number: Y JOHNS
Format: Books
Summary: "Soon to star in her very own live action series, Stargirl by Geoff Johns collects his earliest work at DC Comics as he introduces the young woman who becomes Stargirl, Courtney Whitmore! Before her adventures with the Justice Society of America as Stargirl, Courtney Whitmore was part just a normal kid. When Courtney discovers her stepfather, Pat Dugan was the sidekick of the original Star-Spangled Kid, she decides to teach him a lesson for marrying her mother and moving from Los Angeles to Nebraska! After finding his old gear in his belongings, Courtney dons the costume and becomes the all-new Star-Spangled Kid! Seeing no other alternative Pat constructs an 8-foot mechanical suit of armor and takes the codename S.T.R.I.P.E. to protect her!"--
Author: Hardinge, Frances, author.
Published: 2020 2019
Call Number: Y HARDINGE
Format: Books
Summary: The gods are dead. Decades ago, they turned on one another and tore each other apart. When 15-year-old Hark finds the still-beating heart of a terrifying deity, he risks everything to keep it out of the hands of smugglers, military scientists, and a secret fanatical cult so that he can use it to save the life of his best friend, Jelt. But with the heart, Jelt gradually and eerily transforms. How long should Hark stay loyal to his friend when he's becoming a monster and what is Hark willing to sacrifice to save him?
Author: Mann, J. Albert, author.
Published: 2020
Call Number: Y MANN
Format: Books
Summary: In 1928, Maxine, Rose, Alice, and London face vicious attendants and bullying older girls at the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded, each determined to change her fate at all costs. Includes historical notes about eugenics. 1928. At the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded, Maxine is doing everything she can to protect her younger sister Rose. Vicious attendants and bullying older girls treat them as the morons, imbeciles, and idiots the doctors have deemed them to be. Alice was left there when her brother couldn't bring himself to support a sister with a club foot. London was dragged there from the best foster situation she's ever had, thanks to one unexpected, life altering moment. But each girl is determined to change her fate, no matter what it takes. -- adapted from jacket
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