Author: Lindsay, Sally, 1972- creator, screenwriter, actor. Boyd, Dermot, television director. Morgan, Andy, television producer. Vincent, Sue (Actor), screenwriter, actor. Edge, Steve, 1972- actor.
Published: 2022 2021
Call Number: MADAME SERIES 1
Format: Video disc
Summary: After the sudden death of her husband, an English antique dealer relocates to her cottage in France and starts investigating his death and other mysteries involving antiques. Antiques dealer Jean White is nearly bankrupt after her husband's sudden death, and so she heads to their one last asset: a cottage in antiques hub Sainte Victoire, France. There, Jean begins investigating his death, aided by sympathetic taxi driver Dom. She soon finds the colorful locals have a treasure trove of other mysteries for her to assess, too.
Author: Cullari, Chris, film director, screenwriter. Raite, Jennifer, film director, screenwriter. Akerman, Malin, 1978- actor. Izzo, Lorenza, 1989- actor. Messina, Chris, actor.
Published: 2022
Call Number: AVIARY
Format: Video disc
Summary: The twisted journey of two women's desperate flee to escape the clutches of Skylight, an insidious cult. Lured in by the promise of "freedom" in the isolated desert campus called The Aviary, Jillian and Blair join forces to escape in hopes of real freedom. Consumed by fear and paranoia, they can't shake the feeling that they are being followed by the cult's leader, Seth, a man as seductive as he is controlling. The more distance the pair gains from the cult, the more Seth holds control of their minds. With supplies dwindling and their senses failing, Jillian and Blair are faced with a horrifying question: how do you run from an enemy who lives inside your head?
Author: Stearns, Riley, 1986- film director, screenwriter, film producer. Bolotin, Nate, 1982- film producer. Tertzakian, Aram, film producer. Kim, Lee, 1972- film producer. Spicer, Nick, film producer.
Published: 2022
Call Number: DUAL
Format: Video disc
Summary: A woman diagnosed with a terminal illness decides to undergo a cloning procedure, but she is forced to have a duel with her clone after she makes an unexpected recovery. Upon receiving a terminal diagnosis, Sarah opts for a cloning procedure to ease her loss to her friends and family. When she makes a sudden and miraculous recovery, her attempts to have her clone decommissioned fail and lead to a court-mandated duel to the death.
Author: Adams, Zelda, film director, actor, screenwriter. Poser, Toby, 1969- film director, actor, screenwriter. Adams, John (Director),- film director, actor, screenwriter. Adams, Lulu, actor. Wonder Wheel Productions, presenter.
Published: 2022 2021
Call Number: HELLBEND
Format: Video disc
Summary: Locked away from the world by her mother who has convinced her she has a chronic illness, teenaged Izzy finally escapes into town for some expected rebellion. A night of drinking and high school cruelty unleashes a new kind of hunger within her, but when she goes to her mother for answers, she keeps them tightly guarded, not knowing Izzy's true nature is about to burst forth and devour everything.
Author: Keith, Penelope, 1940- actor. Bowles, Peter, 1936-2022, actor. Thorne, Angela, 1939- actor. British Broadcasting Corporation, publisher.
Published: 2021 1979
Call Number: TO SERIES
Format: Video disc
Summary: The life of Audrey Forbes-Hamilton, who is horrified to discover that she is bankrupt and must sell her beloved Grantleigh Manor. She moves into the Manor's lodge, where she schemes to reclaim her ancestral home.
Author: Calderon, Gerald, film director. Dreamscape Media, publisher. Productions Philippe Dussart (Paris, France), production company.
Published: 2021 2001
Call Number: 591.77 OCEAN
Format: Video disc
Summary: This documentary dives deep to uncover our roots and examines the fascinating sea creatures that might hold the secret of how life ever came to be. Four billion years ago, scientists believe that the first sparks of life began in the ocean. As life developed, it slowly formed into the first vertebrate to emerge onto dry land. This emergence opened a path to the conquest of the continents. This documentary dives deep to uncover our roots and examines the fascinating sea creatures that are still alive today.
Author: Cresswell, Luke, film director, creator. McNicholas, Steve, film director, creator. Kempf, Don, film producer. Kempf, Steve, film producer. Marks, David (David Jon), film producer.
Published: 2020 2008
Call Number: 577.7 WILD
Format: Video disc
Summary: This documentary reveals the economic and cultural impact of the ocean while celebrating communal efforts to protect invaluable marine resources. Explores the fragile food chain of sea life off the coast of Kwazulu Natal in Southeast Africa.
Author: Leduc, Chloé, screenwriter. Leboeuf, Marie-Pier, screenwriter. Huot, Jadrino, producer. Leduc, Christopher, film director. Dreamscape Media, publisher.
Published: 2019 2018
Call Number: 551.4613 ATLANTIC
Format: Video disc
Summary: Follow the daily lives of a crew during a two-month trip across the Atlantic Ocean. See the crew board the ship, passing along coasts and islands, all the way to the heart of the French Antilles. Be a part of this unique nautical discovery of cultures and the ocean.
Author: Vision Video (Firm), publisher.
Published: 2019
Call Number: 551.468 OCEAN
Format: Video disc
Summary: Tells the story of a team of high school students taking part in the International Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE competition that chellenges participants to advance deep sea technologies for autonomous ocean exploration. The journey of Valley Christian Schools' junior high and high school students as they compete in the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE Global Ocean Mapping Challenge, making history as the first students ever to qualify for the semi-final round. Find out what happens when youthful ambition and innovation encounter impossible obstacles, with moments that will have audiences laughing, cheering, and leaving inspired to explore the world around them.
Author: Ackerman, Sara, author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: F ACKERMAN
Format: Books
Summary: A brilliant female codebreaker. An "unbreakable" Japanese naval code. A pilot on a top-secret mission that could change the course of WWII. The Codebreaker's Secret is a dazzling story of love and intrigue set during America's darkest hour. A dual-timeline historical novel of codebreaking, secrets, murder, and romance, set in Hawaii in 1943 and 1965, follows two women--a cryptanalyist working to defeat the Japanese Army, and a rookie journalist investigating the disappearance of a high-profile guest during the grand opening of the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel. 1943. As war in the Pacific rages on, Isabel Cooper and her codebreaker colleagues huddle in "the dungeon" at Station HYPO in Pearl Harbor, deciphering secrets plucked from the airwaves in a race to bring down the enemy. Isabel has only one wish: to avenge her brother's death. But she soon finds life has other plans when she meets his best friend, a hotshot pilot with secrets of his own. 1965. Fledgling journalist Lu Freitas comes home to Hawai'i to cover the grand opening of the glamorous Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Rockefeller's newest and grandest project. When a high-profile guest goes missing, Lu forms an unlikely alliance with an intimidating veteran photographer to unravel the mystery. The two make a shocking discovery that stirs up memories and uncovers an explosive secret from the war days. A secret that only a codebreaker can crack.
Author: Bowen, Rhys, author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: F BOWEN
Format: Books
Summary: London, 1940. Bombs fall and Josie Banks's world crumbles around her. Her overbearing husband, Stan, is unreachable, called to service. Her home, a ruin of rubble and ash. Josie's beloved tearoom boss has been killed, and Josie herself is injured, with nothing left and nowhere to go. Evacuated to the English countryside, Josie ends up at the estate of the aristocratic Miss Harcourt, a reluctant host to the survivors of the Blitz. Awed as she is by the magnificent landscape, Josie sees opportunity. Josie convinces Miss Harcourt to let her open a humble tea shop, seeing it as a chance for everyone to begin again. When Josie meets Mike Johnson, a handsome Canadian pilot stationed at a neighboring bomber base, a growing intimacy brings her an inner peace she's never felt before. Then Stan returns from the war. Now a threat looms larger than anyone imagined. And a dangerous secret is about to upend Josie's life again. Her newfound courage will be put to the test if she is to emerge, like a survivor, triumphant.
Author: Lemire, Jonathan, 1979- author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: 324.973
Format: Books
Summary: "A probing and illuminating analysis of current state of American politics, focusing on Donald Trump's lie about election fraud, by the White House Bureau Chief of Politico and the host of MSNBC's Way Too Early Donald Trump first tried it out in 2016, at an August rally in Ohio. He said that perhaps he wouldn't accept the election results in his race against Hillary Clinton, that the election was "rigged." He then mentioned it at more rallies and even at one of the fall debates. He didn't have to challenge the result that year, but the stage was set. When he lost in 2020, he started the lie back up again and to devastating results: an insurrection at the Capitol in January 2021. In the more than five tumultuous, paradigm-shifting years of Donald Trump's presidency and beyond, his near-constant lying has become a fixture of political life. It is inextricably linked with how his party behaves, how the Democrats respond to it, and how he remains relevant, even after a decisive loss in 2020. Jonathan Lemire brings his connections, profile, and dogged reportorial instincts to bear in his first book that explores how this phenomenon shapes our politics. He uncovers that "The Big Lie," as it's been termed, isn't just about the 2020 election. It's become a political philosophy that has only further divided the two parties. Republicans are still wholly under Trump's sway. From his retirement at his Florida and New Jersey clubs he meets with Republican officials, aspiring candidates, and advisers and demands loyalty about this twisted way of thinking. And Democrats still deal with him as their opposition party is driven by a blatant lie. The parties aren't divided by the aisle-they're on different planets. Written with sharp political insight and detailed with dozens of interviews, The Big Lie is the first book to examine this unprecedented and tenuous moment in our nation's politics"--
Author: Sweet, John Wood, 1966- author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: 345.7302
Format: Books
Summary: "A riveting historical drama that tells the story of the first rape trial on record in American history and the fault lines of class privilege and gender bias that it exposed, showing how much has changed over two centuries and how much has not"-- Summer, 1793. A crime was committed in the back room of a New York brothel-- the kind of crime that even victims usually kept secret. Instead, seventeen-year-old seamstress Lanah Sawyer charged a gentleman with rape. Her accusation sparked a raw courtroom drama and a relentless struggle for vindication that threatened both Lanah's and her assailant's lives. The trial exposed a predatory sexual underworld, sparked riots in the streets, and ignited a vigorous debate about class privilege and sexual double standards. Sweet takes us from a chance encounter in the street, and shows that if our laws and our culture were changed by a persistent young woman and the power of words two hundred years ago, they can be changed again. - adapted from jacket
Author: Sussman, Elissa, author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: F SUSSMAN
Format: Books
Summary: "A restless young journalist with big dreams interviews a Hollywood heartthrob--and, ten years later, it's clear that their time together meant more than meets the eye in this sexy, engrossing debut novel. Then. Twentysomething writer Chani Horowitz is stuck. While her former MFA classmates are nabbing book deals, she's in the trenches writing puff pieces. Then she's hired to write a profile of movie star Gabe Parker. The Gabe Parker--her forever celebrity crush, the object of her fantasies, the background photo on her phone--who's also just been cast as the new James Bond. It's terrifying and thrilling all at once... yet if she can keep her cool and nail the piece, it could be a huge win. Gabe will get good press, and her career will skyrocket. But what comes next proves to be life-changing in ways Chani never saw coming, as the interview turns into a whirlwind weekend that has the tabloids buzzing..."--
Author: Turtledove, Harry, author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: F TURTLEDO
Format: Books
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove, the modern master of alternate history, a novel of alien contact set in the tumultuous year of the Watergate scandal. It's 1974, and Jerry Stieglitz is a grad student in marine biology at UCLA with a side gig selling short stories to science fiction magazines, just weeks away from marrying his longtime fiancée. Then his life is upended by grim-faced men from three-letter agencies who want him to join a top-secret "Project Azorian" in the middle of the north Pacific Ocean-and they really don't take "no" for an answer. Further, they're offering enough money to solve all of his immediate problems. Joining up and swearing to secrecy, what he first learns is that Project Azorian is secretly trying to raise a sunken Russian submarine, while pretending to be harvesting undersea manganese nodules. But the dead Russian sub, while real, turns out to be a cover story as well. What's down on the ocean floor next to it is the thing that killed the sub: an alien spacecraft. Jerry's a scientist, a longhair, a storyteller, a dreamer. He stands out like a sore thumb on the Glomar Explorer, a ship full of CIA operatives, RAND Corporation eggheads, and roustabout divers. But it turns out that he's the one person in the North Pacific who's truly thought out all the ways that human-alien first contact might go. And meanwhile, it's still 1974 back on the mainland. Richard Nixon is drinking heavily and talking to the paintings on the White House walls. The USA is changing fast-and who knows what will happen when this story gets out? Three Miles Down is both a fresh and original take on First Contact, and a hugely enjoyable romp through the pop culture, political tumult, and conspiracies-within-conspiracies atmosphere that was 1974"--
Author: Mackintosh, Clare, author.
Published: 2022 2021
Call Number: F MACKINTO
Format: Books
Summary: "A claustrophobic thriller set over twenty hours on one airplane flight, with the heart-stopping tension of The Last Flight and the wrenching emotional intensity of Room, Hostage takes us on board the inaugural nonstop flight from London to Sydney. Mina is trying to focus on her job as a flight attendant, not the problems of her five-year-old daughter back home, or the fissures in her marriage. But the plane has barely taken off when Mina receives a chilling note from an anonymous passenger, someone intent on ensuring the plane never reaches its destination. Someone who needs Mina's assistance and who knows exactly how to make her comply. It's twenty hours to landing. A lot can happen in twenty hours.."--
Author: Woods, Stuart, author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: F WOODS
Format: Books
Summary: "After returning home from a treacherous adventure, Stone Barrington is all too happy to settle back down in his New York City abode. But when he's introduced to a glamorous socialite with a staggering inheritance, Stone realizes his days are about to be anything but quiet. As it turns out, Stone's intriguing new companion has some surprisingly familiar ties and other far more sinister ones--including a nefarious enemy who gets too close for comfort. When it becomes clear that this miscreant will stop at nothing to get what he wants, and will endanger all whom Stone holds hear, Stone must step in to protect his friends and prevent a dangerous madman from wreaking havoc across the city"--Front jacket flap.
Author: Green, George Dawes, author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: F GREEN
Format: Books
Summary: "Savannah may appear to be "some town out of a fable," with its vine flowers, turreted mansions, and ghost tours that romanticize the city's history. But look deeper and you'll uncover secrets, past and present, that tell a more sinister tale. It's the story at the heart of George Dawes Green's chilling new novel, The Kingdoms of Savannah. It begins quietly on a balmy Southern night as some locals gather at Bo Peep's, one of the town's favorite watering holes. Within an hour, however, a man will be murdered and his companion will be "disappeared." An unlikely detective, Morgana Musgrove, doyenne of Savannah society, is called upon to unravel the mystery of these crimes. Morgana is an imperious, demanding, and conniving woman, whose four grown children are weary of her schemes. But one by one she inveigles them into helping with her investigation, and soon the family uncovers some terrifying truths--truths that will rock Savannah's power structure to its core. Moving from the homeless encampments that ring the city to the stately homes of Savannah's elite, Green's novel brilliantly depicts the underbelly of a city with a dark history and the strangely mesmerizing dysfunction of a complex family"--
Author: Burian, Natalka, author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: F BURIAN
Format: Books
Summary: Only by traveling into the past can Jean discover a happy future... Hidden behind back doors of bars and restaurants and theaters and shops all over New York City are shortcuts--secret passageways that allow you to jump through time and space to emerge in different parts of the city. No one knows where they came from, but there are rules--you can only travel through them one way and only at night. When Jean's work friend Iggy introduces her to the shortcuts, it's to help shorten her commute between her night shifts bartending and her work at an upscale bakery. Jean is intrigued but has a hard time shaking the side effects--the shortcuts make her more talkative, more open to discussing her past and recalling memories she's tried hard to forget. When Iggy goes missing, Jean believes it's related to the shortcuts and his growing obsession with them. But as she starts digging into their origins, she comes to find a strange connection between herself and the shortcuts. A shimmering, propulsive novel set in New York City during the early aughts and across time, The Night Shift shows that by confronting the past can we reshape our future.
Author: Martin, Madeline, author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: F MARTIN
Format: Books
Summary: "Ava thought her job as a librarian at the Library of Congress would mean a quiet, routine existence. But an unexpected offer from the US military has brought her to Lisbon with a new mission: posing as a librarian while working undercover as a spy gathering intelligence. Meanwhile, in occupied France, Elaine has begun an apprenticeship at a printing press run by members of the Resistance. It's a job usually reserved for men, but in the war, those rules have been forgotten. Yet she knows that the Nazis are searching for the press and its printer in order to silence them. As the battle in Europe rages, Ava and Elaine find themselves connecting through coded messages and discovering hope in the face of war" --Jacket flap.
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