Lost & Found is as much a philosophical reckoning with the experiences of losing and finding as it is a record of New Yorker writer Kathryn Schulz's personal grief and love stories.
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It would have been easy for the famous journalist to fall into the nostalgia trap with his memoir, which chronicles his earliest years in the newspaper business. Happily, he doesn't.
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“The Final Case” interrogates a father-son relationship alongside a family in crisis.
In “The Zen of Therapy,” Mark Epstein weaves together two ways of understanding how humans can feel more settled in their lives.
“Present Tense Machine,” a novel by Gunnhild Øyehaug, considers two lives, and a familial bond, abruptly rerouted.
In “I Came All This Way to Meet You,” the novelist reveals how far she’s traveled — and how many obstacles she’s cleared — to get where she is now.
In “Lost & Found,” Kathryn Schulz explores the confluence of death, love and hope.
In “Call Me Cassandra,” by Marcial Gala, a young man’s visions make his tortured existence more bearable, but also constrain him.
The idea of something within sight but just out of reach is at the core of Jabari Asim’s new novel, which follows a group of enslaved people living in 1852.
Jonathan Evison’s novel “Small World” follows the lives of several travelers and their 19th-century ancestors.
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Set in the claustrophobic world of academia, Mark Prins' debut novel is saturated with references to Classical mythology and, like the best thrillers, is ingenious in its sinister simplicity.
UnCovered
review by Kate Snyder, ACLS Pleasantville Branch
Who
doesn’t love a good mystery? Sophie Hannah delivers with The Monogram Murders. With the permission of the
Agatha Christie estate, she has resurrected the Belgian detective, Hercule
Poirot. Poirot, enjoying a cup of rich coffee at his favorite coffee
house, witnesses a woman stumble in terrified. She tells him someone is trying
to kill her and, when he does, justice will be served. Poirot is not to try to
find her killer. Later he learns of three people poisoned at a posh London
hotel, each with a monogramed cufflink in their mouth. Is it suicide? Murder
and back to suicide again? There are more plot twists here than a tangled
jumble of holiday lights. As usual, Poirot sums everything up at the end with a
somewhat plausible explanation.
Sophie
Hannah does Christie proud in bringing back to life Hercule Poirot and his
“little gray cells, mon amie.” I found this book an easy read and great fun and
look forward to her next Poirot novel, Closed
Casket.
Nikki May's novel captures issues of modern city living: women's evolving roles in home and work, interracial relationships, multicultural identity, and competition that runs under many friendship.
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In Xochitl Gonzalez’s debut novel, “Olga Dies Dreaming,” a Puerto Rican family reckons with abandonment, secrets and vastly different priorities.
Footsteps behind you... Conspiracy theories... A race against time... Horrific consequences... If you're seeking white knuckles and a racing heart, you've come to the right place. Monthly.
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Author: Chbosky, Stephen, film director. Levenson, Steven, 1984- screenwriter. Platt, Marc, 1957- film producer. Siegel, Adam (Film producer), film producer. Platt, Ben, actor.
Published: 2021
Call Number: DEAR
Format: Video disc
Summary: The breathtaking, generation-defining Broadway phenomenon becomes a soaring cinematic event as Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award winner Ben Platt reprises his role as an anxious, isolated high schooler aching for understanding and belonging amid the chaos and cruelty of the social-media age. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Stephen Chbosky, the film is written for the screen by the show's Tony winner Steven Levenson with music and lyrics by the show's Oscar, Grammy, and Tony-winning songwriting team of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. A high school senior struggling with social anxiety disorder goes on a journey of self-discovery in the wake of a fellow student's suicide.
Author: Hawkins, Britta, director. Smith, Mike (Television director), director. McNaughton, Kiel, television director. Wolfe, Katie, 1968- television director. Hurst, Michael, 1973- television director.
Published: 2021
Call Number: MY SERIES 2
Format: Video disc
Summary: Follows retired detective, Alexa Crowe, as she helps her former colleague solve crimes with the help of a young police data analyst. When determined detective Alexa Crowe brings her unique brand of investigation to an unsuspecting New Zealand, she quickly finds herself entangled in compelling new murder mysteries centered on fascinating and dangerous characters who will challenge, flirt with and frustrate her, and sometimes threaten everything she cares about. Being back in her hometown brings its own brand of difficulties as she has to confront the family she's avoided for decades.
Author: Smith, Charles Martin, film director. Jenkins, Garry, screenwriter. Rolston, Adam, film producer. Jarvis, Tracy, film producer. Jarvis, Steve (Producer), film producer.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: GIFT
Format: Video disc
Summary: Street musician James Bowen and his beloved cat Bob spend their final Christmas on the street together. Christmas gifts come in all shapes and sizes. For James, a struggling street musician, a very special one arrives in the form of Bob, a strong-willed stray cat who wanders into James's tiny flat. Bob enriches James's life, giving him companionship, purpose, and a large, new audience. When Animal Welfare officers threaten to take Bob, the local community rallies to help James and Bob sparking a journey that takes the pair to places they never imagined in this heartwarming, spirit-lifting movie for the whole family.
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