Author: Bird, Kai, author. Sherwin, Martin J., author.
Published: 2006 2005
Call Number: B OPPENHEI
Format: Books
Summary: J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to his central role in the Cold War. --From publisher's description.
Author: Flynn, Gillian, 1971- author.
Published: 2006
Call Number: F FLYNN
Format: Books
Summary: Returning to her hometown after an eight-year absence to investigate the murders of two girls, reporter Camille Preaker is reunited with her neurotic mother and enigmatic, thirteen-year-old half-sister as she works to uncover the truth about the killings.
Author: Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900, author.
Published: 2003 1891
Call Number: F WILDE
Format: Books
Summary: 'How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young! If it was only the other way!' Wilde's first and only published novel recounts the story of handsome Dorian Gray who upon having his portrait painted desires that it will age and grow ugly while he may remain eternally beautiful. The painting, which reflects each of Gray's sins and transgressions in its hideousness, haunts him until it finally becomes unbearable. In this dark tale of duplicity and mortality, Wilde creates a world where art and reality collide. A young man's quest for eternal youth and beauty ends in scandal, depravity and death. Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life, indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The picture of Dorian Gray was a succes de scandale. Early readers were shocked by its hints at unspeakable sins, and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at his trial at the Old Bailey in 1895.
Author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939, author.
Published: 2002 1992
Call Number: 821.8 YEATS
Format: Books
Author: Herbert, Frank author.
Published: 1999 1965
Call Number: F HERBERT
Format: Books
Summary: Originally published in 1965, this best-selling classic won the first Nebula Award and shaped modern science fiction; it will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Muad'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family--and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream. A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics.
Author: Matheson, Richard, 1926-2013, author.
Published: 1999 1971
Call Number: F MATHESON
Format: Books
Summary: A group of four people enter Belasco House, known as the "Mount Everest of haunted houses." From the author of I Am Legend comes Richard Matheson's Hell House, the basis for the supernatural horror film starring Pamela Franklin, Roddy McDowall, Clive Revill. Rolf Rudolph Deutsch is going die. But when Deutsch, a wealthy magazine and newspaper publisher, starts thinking seriously about his impending death, he offers to pay a physicist and two mediums, one physical and one mental, $100,000 each to establish the facts of life after death. Dr. Lionel Barrett, the physicist, accompanied by the mediums, travel to the Belasco House in Maine, which has been abandoned and sealed since 1949 after a decade of drug addiction, alcoholism, and debauchery. For one night, Barrett and his colleagues investigate the Belasco House and learn exactly why the townsfolk refer to it as the Hell House.
Author: Greene, Robert. Elffers, Joost.
Published: 1998
Call Number: 303.3 GREENE
Format: Books
Summary: Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this bestselling work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws. As attention-grabbing in its design as it is in content, this bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun-tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other great thinkers.
Author: Di Ionno, Mark.
Published: 1997
Call Number: NJC 917.49 DIIONNO
Format: Books
Author: Rice, Anne, 1941-2021, author.
Published: 1988
Call Number: F RICE
Format: Books
Summary: Intertwines the stories of rock star and vampire Lestat, beautiful twins haunted by a gruesome tragedy, and Akasha, mother of all vampires, who dreams of godhood. In a feat of virtuoso storytelling, Anne Rice unleashes Akasha, the queen of the damned, who has risen from a six-thousand-year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. Akasha has a marvelously devious plan to "save" mankind and destroy the vampire Lestat--in this extraordinarily sensual novel of the complex, erotic, electrifying world of the undead.
Author: King, Stephen, 1947- author.
Published: 1975
Call Number: F KING
Format: Books
Summary: A stranger with an evil secret harms the lives of many inhabitants of a small New England town. The town knew darkness ... and the awful, heavy silence of terrifying images grotesquely dancing in and out of the shadows ... and stark white faces, huge empty eyes and long gnarled hands that reached out with lustful insistence ... and the paralyzing fear of a diabolical corruption and a hideous peril more dreadful than death. Ben Mears has returned to Jerusalem's Lot in hopes that exploring the history of the Marsten House, an old mansion long the subject of rumor and speculation, will help him cast out his personal devils and provide inspiration for his new book. But when two young boys venture into the woods, and only one returns alive, Mears begins to realize that something sinister is at work- in fact, his hometown is under siege from the forces of darkness. And only he, with a small group of allies, can hope to contain the evil that is growing within the borders of this small New England town. With this, his second novel, Stephen King established himself as the indisputable master of American horror, able to transform the old conceits of the genre into something fresh and all the more frightening for taking place in a familiar, idyllic locale.
Author: Story, Tim, film director, film producer. Oliver, Tracy, screenwriter, film producer. Perkins, Dewayne, screenwriter, actor. Clark, Jason (Film producer), film producer. Brown, Marcei A., film producer.
Published: 2023 2022
Call Number: BLACKENI
Format: Video disc
Summary: The film centers around a group of Black friends who reunite for a Juneteenth weekend getaway only to find themselves trapped in a remote cabin with a twisted killer. Forced to play by his rules, the friends soon realize this ain't no motherf****** game. Directed by Tim Story (Ride Along, Think Like a Man, Barbershop), this film skewers genre tropes and poses the sardonic question: if the entire cast of a horror movie is Black, who dies first?
Author: Marchese, Thomas, film director. Frazier, Kelly, film producer. Camp, Anna, 1982- actor. Ales, John, actor. Lafleur, Jennifer, actor.
Published: 2023
Call Number: FROM
Format: Video disc
Summary: A young mother, crushed by guilt after the disappearance of her young son five years previously, is presented with a bizarre offer to learn the truth and set things right. But is she willing to pay a terrifying price for a chance to hold her boy again?
Author: Oblowitz, Michael, film director, screenwriter. Cummings, Daniel, film producer. Kaycheck, Michael, screenwriter. Nasser, Brooke, screenwriter. Purcell, Dominic, 1970- actor.
Published: 2023
Call Number: CONFIDEN
Format: Video disc
Summary: A police detective suffering from cancer makes a deal with an informant to get killed in the line of duty, so his family can receive the hefty death benefits from the department.
Author: Anderson, Wes, 1969- film director, screenwriter, film producer. Coppola, Roman, screenwriter. Rales, Steven, film producer. Dawson, Jeremy (Producer), film producer. Schwartzman, Jason, 1980- actor.
Published: 2023
Call Number: ASTERIOD BLU-RAY
Format: Video disc
Summary: The production of a play is frought with drama and romance in and of itself, from its writing and casting to rehearsals and staging. Onstage, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events while each attendee and their family members deal with their own interpersonal issues.
Author: Atencio, Peter, film director, film producer. Biegel, Kevin, screenwriter. Landes, Scotty, screenwriter. Kreischer, Bert, film producer, actor. Kreischer, Leeann, film producer.
Published: 2023
Call Number: MACHINE
Format: Video disc
Summary: Bert Kreischer rose to fame as a stand-up comedian known as The Machine, and in his signature set he recounts his true experience with Russian mobsters while on a booze-soaked college trip. Now, 23 years later, that trip has come back to haunt him as he and his estranged father are kidnapped back to Russia by the mob to atone for something they say he did. Together, Bert and his father must retrace the steps of his younger self amid a war within a sociopathic crime family, all while attempting to find common ground in their often fraught relationship.
Author: Ketai, Ben, film director, screenwriter. Le, Mike (Mike Nguyen), screenwriter. O'Neill, Denis, screenwriter. Gavanski, Ogden, film producer. Roberge, Anne-Marie, film producer.
Published: 2023
Call Number: RIVER
Format: Video disc
Summary: Joey fears there could be trouble ahead after her brother Gray invites Trevor, a childhood friend with a troubled past, on their whitewater rafting adventure with two tourists. Once they become stranded in raging rapids, the thrill-seeking trip quickly turns from exciting to utterly terrifying as the rafters are trapped in a desperate fight for their lives, all while someone seems intent on sabotaging to ensure shocking secrets stay buried. To survive the wild river, Joey will have to face her fears, and everyone will have to develop killer instincts before they're torn apart by deception aboard the raft, or by deadly waters wreaking havoc all around them.
Author: Wigon, Zachary, 1986- film director. Stewart, Ilya, film producer. Burian, Pavel, film producer. Wilcox, Stephanie, film producer. Lancaster, David, film producer.
Published: 2023 2022
Call Number: DRAMA SANCTUAR
Format: Video disc
Summary: In the wake of inheriting his father's hotel chain, Hal attempts to end his long and secret relationship with a dominatrix. A battle of wills ensues to keep the upper hand as the power dynamics swing wildly back and forth.
Author: Holofcener, Nicole, film director, screenwriter, film producer. Bregman, Anthony, film producer. Azpiazu, Stefanie, 1975- film producer. Louis-Dreyfus, Julia, film producer, actor. Menzies, Tobias, 1974- actor.
Published: 2023
Call Number: COMEDY YOU
Format: Video disc
Summary: Beth, a popular writer, and her husband Don, a well-liked teacher, share the kind of relationship that truly, seriously, for the love of God cannot be real: that is, they're actually in love. Even after decades of marriage, parenting, and successful careers, their physical spark has somehow not diminished; in fact, they seem to relish the opportunity to share a single ice cream cone and drive others including their son, Charlie, mad. Should it come as a surprise then that his marriage is in crisis? But when Beth discovers that Don has been untruthful to her about his opinion of her work for years Beth's world comes crashing down. Has their whole relationship been one Big Fat Lie?
Author: Qualley, Margaret Falardeau, Philippe, screenwriter, director. Qualley, Margaret, actor. Weaver, Sigourney, 1949- actor. Booth, Douglas, 1992- actor. Motion picture adaptation of (work):
Published: 2021
Call Number: MY
Format: Video disc
Summary: An aspiring writer receives personal advice from reclusive author J.D. Salinger.
Author: Story, Tim, film director, film producer. Oliver, Tracy, screenwriter, film producer. Perkins, Dewayne, screenwriter, actor. Clark, Jason (Film producer), film producer. Brown, Marcei A., film producer.
Published: 2023 2022
Call Number: BLACKENI
Format: Video disc
Summary: The film centers around a group of Black friends who reunite for a Juneteenth weekend getaway only to find themselves trapped in a remote cabin with a twisted killer. Forced to play by his rules, the friends soon realize this ain't no motherf****** game. Directed by Tim Story (Ride Along, Think Like a Man, Barbershop), this film skewers genre tropes and poses the sardonic question: if the entire cast of a horror movie is Black, who dies first?
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