Author: Karam, Stephen, film director, film producer, screenwriter. Lovegrove, Louise, film producer. Jenkins, Richard, 1947- actor. Houdyshell, Jayne, 1953- actor. Schumer, Amy, actor.
Published: 2022 2021
Call Number: DRAMA HUMANS
Format: Video disc
Summary: Erik Blake has gathered three generations of his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter's apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside and eerie things start to go bump in the night, the group's deepest fears are laid bare. The piercingly funny and haunting debut film from writer-director Stephen Karam, adapted from his Tony Award-winning play, The Humans explores the hidden dread of a family and the love that binds them together.
Author: Bentley, Clint, film director, screenwriter, film producer. Kwedar, Greg, screenwriter, film producer. Schafer, Nancy, film producer. Collins, Clifton, Jr., actor. Parker, Molly, 1972- actor.
Published: 2022 2021
Call Number: JOCKEY
Format: Video disc
Summary: An aging jockey aims for a final championship, when a rookie rider arrives claiming to be his son.
Author: Duncan, Dayton, screenwriter. Burns, Ken, 1953- film director, film producer. Schmidt, David, 1956- film producer. Coyote, Peter, narrator. Patinkin, Mandy, voice actor.
Published: 2022
Call Number: B FRANKLIN
Format: Video disc
Summary: Profile of scientist, inventor, and political philosopher Benjamin Franklin. Ken Burns's two-part, four-hour documentary explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century's most complex and consequential figures, whose work and words unlocked the mystery of electricity and helped create the United States.
Author: Sen, Ivan, film director, film producer, screenwriter. Jowsey, David (Motion picture producer), film producer. Simpkin, Greer, film producer. Littlejohn, Angela, film producer. Kwanten, Ryan, 1976- actor.
Published: 2022
Call Number: SCI-FI EXPIRED
Format: Video disc
Summary: A man and woman develop a relationship in an uncharted future, and confront each other with the things they have done and what they have become. As Jack works as a hitman, his lonely life is altered by two strangers--one a club singer, the other a scientist. Jack and the singer fall in love, but as their relationship grows stronger, Jack grows physically weaker, unable to assassinate the targets he seeks, and it doesn't take long for the scientist to discover the shocking reasons behind Jack's deadly affliction.
Author: Barrett, Simon, film director, screenwriter. Reeder, Jennifer, 1971- film director, screenwriter. Okuno, Chloe, film director, screenwriter. Tjahjanto, Timo, 1980- film director, screenwriter. Prows, Ryan, film director, screenwriter.
Published: 2022 2021
Call Number: VHS94
Format: Video disc
Summary: 1994. After the discovery of a mysterious VHS tape, a brutish police swat team launch a high-intensity raid on a remote warehouse, only to discover a sinister cult compound whose collection of pre-recorded material uncovers a nightmarish conspiracy.
Author: Sutter, Kurt, creator. James, Elgin, creator. Pardo, J. D., actor. Cardenas, Clayton, actor. Irby, Michael, actor.
Published: 2020 2019
Call Number: MAYANS SEASON 2
Format: Video disc
Summary: Follows Ezekiel "EZ" Reyes, a prospect for the Mayans Motorcycle Club who was recently released from prison, set in the fictional California border town of Santo Padre. Includes all ten episodes of season two. The next chapter in Kurt Sutter's award-winning Sons of Anarchy saga. Set in a post-Jax Teller world, Ezekiel 'EZ' Reyes is fresh out of prison and a prospect in the Mayans M.C. charter on the California/Mexico border. Now, EZ must carve out his new identity in a town where he was once the golden boy with the American Dream in his grasp.
Author: Sutter, Kurt, creator. James, Elgin, creator. Pardo, J. D., actor. Cardenas, Clayton, 1984 or 1985- actor. Bolger, Sarah, 1991- actor.
Published: 2019 2018
Call Number: MAYANS SEASON 1
Format: Video disc
Summary: The next chapter in Kurt Sutter's award-winning Sons of Anarchy saga. Set in a post-Jax Teller world, Ezekiel "EZ" Reyes is fresh out of prison and a prospect in the Mayans M.C. charter on the California/Mexico border. Now, EZ must carve out his new identity in a town where he was once the golden boy with the American Dream in his grasp
Author: C. K., Louis, screenwriter, producer. Galifianakis, Zach, screenwriter, producer, actor. Krisel, Jonathan, screenwriter. Kelly, Martha, 1968- actor. Anderson, Louie, actor.
Published: 2019
Call Number: BASKETS SEASON 4
Format: Video disc
Summary: Big changes are underway for the Baskets family. After 49 years, Chip (Zach Galifianakis) decides it is finally time to move out of his mom's place. But, even with the help of Martha (Martha Kelly) and a life coach, he learns that leaving the nest is hard, to say the least. Christine (Louie Anderson) and Ken (Alex Morris) move into a new place they can call their own, but carpet emergencies and missing kitchen magnets make the transition rockier than expected. Due to financial difficulties and his inability to learn French, Chip Baskets flunks out of clown school in France, returning home to California to live with his mother and work as a rodeo clown while confronting his past.
Author: Krisel, Jonathan, creator, screenwriter, television director. C. K., Louis, creator. Galifianakis, Zach, creator, actor. Kelly, Martha (Actor), actor. Anderson, Louie, actor.
Published: 2019 2018
Call Number: BASKETS SEASON 3
Format: Video disc
Summary: After failing at a prestigious French clowning college, Chip Baskets looks to keep his dream of becoming a professional clown alive. Due to financial difficulties and his inability to learn French, Chip Baskets flunks out of clown school in France, returning home to California to live with his mother and work as a rodeo clown while confronting his past.
Author: Giacco, Francesca, author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: F GIACCO
Format: Books
Summary: "Emilia arrives in Rome reeling from heartbreak and reckoning with her past. What was supposed to be a romantic trip has, with the sudden end of a relationship, become a solitary one instead. As she wanders, music, art, food, and the beauty of Rome's wide piazzas and narrow streets color Emilia's dreamy, but weighty experience of the city. She considers the many facets of her life, drifting in and out of memory, following her train of thought wherever it leads. While climbing a hill near Trastevere, she meets John, an American expat living a seemingly idyllic life. They are soon navigating an intriguing connection, one that brings pain they both hold into the light. As their intimacy deepens, Emilia starts to see herself anew, both as a woman and as an artist. For the first time in her life, she confronts the ways in which she's been letting her father's success as a musician overshadow her own. Forced to reckon with both her origins and the choices she's made, Emilia finds herself on a singular journey--and transformed in ways she never expected. Equal parts visceral and cerebral, Six Days in Rome is an ode to the Eternal City, a celebration of art and creativity, and a meditation on self-discovery"--
Author: Richardson, Kim Michele, author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: F RICHARDS
Format: Books
Summary: "In the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned, Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. But when her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away for good. Picking up her mother's old packhorse library route, Honey begins to deliver books to the remote hollers of Appalachia. Honey is looking to prove that she doesn't need anyone telling her how to survive. But the route can be treacherous, and some folks aren't as keen to let a woman pave her own way. If Honey wants to bring the freedom books provide to the families who need it most, she's going to have to fight for her place, and along the way, learn that the extraordinary women who run the hills and hollers can make all the difference in the world"--
Author: Wentworth, Alexandra, author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: B WENTWORT
Format: Books
Summary: Like many, Ali Wentworth spent the pandemic seesawing between highs, lows, and baking an unnecessary amount of chocolate cake. Between binging every tv show in existence to conquering TikTok to becoming a (semi) empty-nester, Ali experienced her share of turmoil (including an early case of Covid), but she also grew a little, learned a lot, and found comfort in some unexpected people and places.
Author: Ebert, Lily, author. Forman, Dov. author.
Published: 2022 2021
Call Number: B EBERT
Format: Books
Summary: "When Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in 1945, a Jewish-American soldier gave her a banknote on which he'd written 'Good luck and happiness'. And when her great-grandson, Dov, decided to use social media to track down the family of the GI, 96-year-old Lily found herself making headlines round the world. Lily had promised herself that if she survived Auschwitz she would tell everyone the truth about the camp. Now was her chance. In Lily's Promise she writes movingly about her happy childhood in Hungary, the death of her mother and two youngest siblings on their arrival at Auschwitz in 1944 and her determination to keep her two other sisters safe. She describes the inhumanity of the camp and the small acts of defiance that gave her strength. From there she and her sisters became slave labour in a munitions factory, and then faced a death march that they barely survived. Lily lost so much, but she built a new life for herself and her family, first in Israel and then in London. It wasn't easy; the pain of her past was always with her, but this extraordinary woman found the strength to speak out in the hope that such evil would never happen again"--Publisher's description.
Author: Kaye, Lenny, author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: 781.6609
Format: Books
Summary: Memphis, 1954. New Orleans 1957. Philadelphia 1959. Liverpool, 1962. San Francisco 1967. Detroit 1969. New York, 1975. London 1977. Los Angeles 1984 / Norway 1993. Seattle 1991. Rock and roll was birthed in basements and garages, radio stations and dance halls, in cities where unexpected gatherings of artists and audience changed and charged the way music is heard and celebrated, capturing lightning in a bottle. Musician and writer Lenny Kaye explores ten crossroads of time and place that define rock and roll, its unforgettable flashpoints, characters and visionaries, how each generation came to be, how it was discovered by the world. Whether Elvis Presley's Memphis, the Beatles' Liverpool, Patti Smith's New York or Kurt Cobain's Seattle, Lightning Striking reveals the communal energy that creates a scene, a guided tour inside style and performance, to see who's on stage, along with the movers and shakers, the hustlers and hangers-on, and why everybody is listening. Grandly sweeping and minutely detailed, informed by Kaye's acclaimed knowledge and experience as a working musician, Lightning Striking is an ear-opening insight into our shared musical and cultural history, a carpet ride of rock and roll's most influential movements and moments.
Author: Ahmed, Samira (Fiction writer), author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: Y AHMED
Format: Books
Summary: After discovering the body of fourteen-year-old Jawad Ali in Jackson Park, seventeen-year-old journalism student Safiya Mirza begins investigating his murder and ends up confronting white supremacy in her own high school.
Author: Atlantic County (N.J.). Executive.
Published: 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018
Call Number: R 352.12 ATLANTIC 2017
Format: Continuing Resources
Author: Woods, Stuart, author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: LP F WOODS
Format: Large print
Summary: "Stone Barrington is looking forward to some quiet time in New York City, until he is asked to transport precious, top-secret cargo across the Atlantic. Taking on the challenge, Stone flies off unaware of what--or who--he is bringing with him. But his plans to lie low are quickly spoiled when a dangerous dispatcher tracks down Stone and his tantalizing mystery guest, intent on payback--and silencing anyone who poses a threat. From the English countryside to the balmy beaches of Key West, Stone is on an international mission to hide and protect those closest to him"--
Author: Adams, Ellery, author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: F ADAMS
Format: Books
Summary: When a deputy asks for help with a wedding proposal and a man connected to his future wife is found dead, Nora Pennington and her fellow readers investigate the connection to the woman's past and the secret she is hiding from everyone. "While January snow falls outside in Miracle Springs, North Carolina, Nora Pennington is encouraging customers to cozy up indoors with a good book. Even though the shop and her bibliotherapy sessions keep Nora busy during the day, her nights are a little too quiet--until Deputy Andrews pulls Nora into the sci-fi section and asks her to help him plan a wedding proposal. His bride-to-be, Hester, loves Little Women, and Nora sets to work arranging a special screening at the town's new movie theater. But right before the deputy pops the question, Nora makes an unsettling discovery--someone has mutilated all her store's copies of The Scarlet Letter, slicing angrily into the pages wherever Hester Prynne's name is mentioned. The coincidence disturbs Nora, who's one of the few in Miracle Springs who knows that Hester gave up a baby for adoption many years ago. Her family heaped shame on her, and Hester still feels so guilty that she hasn't even told her future husband. But when a dead man is found on a hiking trail just outside town, carrying a rare book, the members of the Secret, Book, and Scone Society unearth a connection to Hester's past. Someone is intent on bringing the past to light, and it's not just Hester's relationship at stake, but her life."--
Author: Asher, Zain E. (Zain Ejiofor), author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: B ASHER
Format: Books
Summary: "Living in Brixton and awaiting the return of her husband and young son from Nigeria, Obiajulu Ejiofor received shattering news. There had been a fatal car crash, and one of them was dead. In Where the Children Take Us, Obiajulu's daughter, Zain Asher, tells the story of her family and her mother's deeply personal fight to protect her children from the daily pressures of poverty, crime, and racism in 1980s and '90s South London as a widowed emigrant. Young Arinze and Obiajulu meet as teens in war-stricken Nigeria. Together, they emigrate to London in the 1960s to escape civil war and make a better life for themselves and their family. While seeking to achieve as much as they could, Obiajulu and Arinze experience prejudice and racism that overshadows their dreams and makes it difficult for them to make connections in a white Western society. When grief threatens to engulf her fractured family, the academic futures of her mourning children are put in jeopardy, but Obiajulu, suddenly a single mother in a foreign land, refuses to accept defeat. She buys the Western literary classics and instills a nightly book club, testing her children on their literacy nightly and challenging their deeper understanding. When they gravitate toward distractions, she eliminates the television and substitutes the phone for a residential pay phone, instead running theatre lines with her son and finishing homework into the early morning with Zain. Drawing on Nigerian parenting strategies encompassing adaptability, language, and foresight, Obiajulu enables her children to succeed under any and all conditions--a drive firmly instilled in her sons and daughters, who grow up to become an international journalist, an Oscar-nominated actor -- Asher's older brother Chiwetel Ejiofor -- a medical doctor, and a thriving entrepreneur. The story of a woman who survived genocide, famine, poverty, and crushing grief to rise from war torn Africa to the streets of Brixton and eventually the drawing rooms of Buckingham Palace, Where the Children Take Us is an unforgettable portrait of strength, tenacity, love, and perseverance embodied in one towering woman"--
Author: Gross, Rachel E., author. Veve, Armando, illustrator.
Published: 2022
Call Number: 618.1
Format: Books
Summary: "A scientific journey to the center of the new female body. The Latin term for the female genitalia, pudendum, means "parts for which you should be ashamed." Until 1651, ovaries were called female testicles. The fallopian tubes are named for a man. Named, claimed, and shamed: Welcome to the story of the female body, as penned by men. Today, a new generation of (mostly) women scientists is finally redrawing the map. With modern tools and fresh perspectives, they're looking at the organs traditionally bound up in reproduction--the uterus, ovaries, vagina--and seeing within them a new biology of change and resilience. Through their eyes, journalist Rachel E. Gross takes readers on an anatomical odyssey to the center of this new world--a world where the uterus regrows itself, ovaries pump out fresh eggs, and the clitoris pulses beneath the surface like a shimmering pyramid of nerves. Full of wit and wonder, Vagina Obscura is a celebratory testament to how the landscape of knowledge can be rewritten to better serve everyone"--
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