Author: Falardeau, Philippe, film director, screenwriter. Dery, Luc, film producer. McCraw, Kim, film producer. Qualley, Margaret, actor. Weaver, Sigourney, 1949- actor.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: MY
Format: Video disc
Summary: An aspiring writer receives personal advice from reclusive author J.D. Salinger. "After leaving graduate school to pursue her dream of becoming a writer, Joanna gets hired as an assistant to Margaret, the stoic and old-fashioned literary agent of J.D. Salinger. Fluctuating between poverty and glamour, she spends her days in a plush, wood-paneled office ... and her nights in a Brooklyn apartment with her socialist boyfriend. Joanna's main task is processing Salinger's voluminous fan mail, but as she reads the heart-wrenching letters from around the world, she becomes reluctant to send the agency's impersonal standard letter and impulsively begins personalizing the responses. The results are both humorous and moving as Joanna, while using the great writer's voice, begins to discover her own"--Container.
Author: Roessler, Lina, film director. Grieco, Anthony, screenwriter. Vanger, Jonathan, film producer. Even, Pierre (Producer), film producer. Plaza, Aubrey, 1984- actor.
Published: 2021
Call Number: BEST
Format: Video disc
Summary: In a last-ditch effort to save her father's publishing house, an ambitious young editor goes on a book tour with an author who put the publishing house on the map decades before but is now bitter, booze-addled and hasn't written a new book since.
Author: Burns, Anthony Scott, 1977- film director, screenwriter. Hoban, Steve, 1964- film producer. Smith, Mark film producer, film producer. Kawchuk, Brent, film producer. Radzion, Skylar, actor.
Published: 2021 2019
Call Number: COME
Format: Video disc
Summary: A teenage runaway takes part in a sleep study that becomes a nightmarish descent into the depths of her mind and a frightening examination of the power of dreams.
Author: McCarthy, Damian, film director, screenwriter. Hyne, Justin, film producer. French, Jonathan, actor. Sykes, Leila, actor. Caplan, Ben, actor.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: CAVEAT
Format: Video disc
Summary: After accepting a job to look after his landlord's troubled niece, which involves wearing a leather harness and chain to restrict his movements, a man with partial amnesia makes horrific discoveries. In desperate need of money, Isaac accepts a job looking after his landlord's niece, Olga, for a few days. He discovers there is a catch: he must wear a leather harness and chain that restricts his movements to certain rooms in order to protect Olga's extremely frail mental state. Once left alone with Isaac, Olga exhibits erratic behavior while Isaac makes horrific discoveries in the house that trigger a deeply buried, traumatic memory.
Author: Ford, Tom, 1961- film director, screenwriter, film producer. Grau, Eduard, 1981- cinematographer. Weitz, Chris, 1969- film producer. Miano, Andrew, film producer. Salerno, Robert, film producer.
Published: 2021 2009
Call Number: DRAMA SINGLE
Format: Video disc
Summary: Based on the novel of the same name by Christopher Isherwood. Set in Los Angeles in 1962 at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, it is the story of a British college professor who is struggling to find meaning in his life after the death of his longtime partner. The story is a romantic tale of love interrupted, the isolation that is an inherent part of the human condition, and, ultimately, the importance of the seemingly smaller moments in life.
Author: Lipsius, Adam, film director, film producer, screenwriter. Wynne, Kris, film producer. Sorvino, Mira, actor. Dreyfuss, Richard, actor. Taylor-Vince, Pruitt, 1960- actor.
Published: 2021
Call Number: ACTION CRIME
Format: Video disc
Summary: When ex-mob boss Ben Myers is targeted in a home robbery, he goes on a deadly rampage of vengeance. But with his family caught in the crosshairs, Myers must finally face the consequences of his dark past in this action-packed crime thriller. Starring Academy Award winners Richard Dreyfuss (The Goodbye Girl, Jaws) and Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite, Mimic). When ex-mob boss Ben Myers (Dreyfuss) is targeted in a home robbery, he goes on a deadly rampage of vengeance. But with his family caught in the crosshairs, Myers must finally face the consequences of his dark past in this action-packed crime thriller
Author: García, Rodrigo, 1959- film director, screenwriter, film producer. Saslow, Eli, screenwriter. Avnet, Jon, 1949- film producer. Grasic, Marina, film producer. Avnet, Jake, film producer.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: FOUR
Format: Video disc
Summary: Emerging from a detox clinic, a young addict must stay clean while living with her mother for the next four days.
Author: Sono, Sion, 1961- film director. Hendry, Aaron, screenwriter. Safai, Reza Sixo, screenwriter, film producer. Mendelsohn, Michael, film producer. Rister, Laura, film producer.
Published: 2021
Call Number: PRISONER
Format: Video disc
Summary: In the treacherous frontier city of Samurai Town, a ruthless bank robber is sprung from jail by a wealthy warlord, The Governor, whose adopted granddaughter Bernice has run away. Strapped into a leather suit that will self-destruct within five days if he doesn't find the missing girl, the bandit sets off on a journey to find the young woman, and his own path to redemption.
Author: Falardeau, Philippe, film director, screenwriter. Dery, Luc, film producer. McCraw, Kim, film producer. Qualley, Margaret, actor. Weaver, Sigourney, 1949- actor.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: MY
Format: Video disc
Summary: An aspiring writer receives personal advice from reclusive author J.D. Salinger. "After leaving graduate school to pursue her dream of becoming a writer, Joanna gets hired as an assistant to Margaret, the stoic and old-fashioned literary agent of J.D. Salinger. Fluctuating between poverty and glamour, she spends her days in a plush, wood-paneled office ... and her nights in a Brooklyn apartment with her socialist boyfriend. Joanna's main task is processing Salinger's voluminous fan mail, but as she reads the heart-wrenching letters from around the world, she becomes reluctant to send the agency's impersonal standard letter and impulsively begins personalizing the responses. The results are both humorous and moving as Joanna, while using the great writer's voice, begins to discover her own"--Container.
Author: Cameron, Stella, author.
Published: 2022 2021
Call Number: F CAMERON
Format: Books
Summary: "Six weeks after a battered body is found in the grounds of the village cricket club, DCI Dan O'Reilly and his team are no further forward in the investigation. No witnesses, no leads, no clues whatsoever. Then a second body is discovered in the nearby tithe barn used by the local amateur dramatics society, artfully posed just like the first. Could there be a serial killer on the loose? When evidence leads O'Reilly to visit the Black Dog pub, owner Alex Duggins and her partner Tony are once again drawn into a police investigation. But Tony is dealing with some disturbing news of his own. Someone from his past has reached out and threatens all he holds dear. Are they who they claim to be, and what do they really want . . .?"--Publisher.
Author: Erdrich, Louise, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F ERDRICH
Format: Books
Summary: A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading with murderous attention, must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year of grief, astonishment, isolation, and furious reckoning.
Author: Todd, Janet, 1942- author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F TODD
Format: Books
Summary: "Eccentric Fran wants a second chance. Thanks to her intimacy with Jane Austen, and the poet Shelley, she finds one. Jane Austen is such a presence in Fran's life that she seems to share her cottage and garden, becoming an imaginary friend. Fran's conversations with Jane Austen guide and chide her - but Fran is ready for change after years of teaching, reading and gardening. An encounter with a long-standing English friend, and an American writer, leads to new possibilities. Adrift, the three women bond through a love of books and a quest for the idealist poet Shelley at two pivotal moments of his life: in Wales and Venice. His otherworldly longing and yearning for utopian communities lead the women to interrogate their own past as well as motherhood, feminism, the resurgence of childhood memory in old age, the tensions and attractions between generations. Despite the appeal of solitude, the women open themselves social to ways of living - outside partnership and family. Jane Austen, as always, has plenty of comments to offer. The novel is a (light) meditation on age, mortality, friendship, hope, and the excitement of change."--Publisher website.
Author: Lloyd, Robert J., author.
Published: 2021 2013
Call Number: F LLOYD
Format: Books
Summary: "The City of London, New Year's Day, 1678. Eleven years have passed since the Great Fire ripped through the City. Twenty since the death of Cromwell and the restoration of a king. London is gripped by hysteria, where rumors of Catholic plots and sinister foreign assassins abound. When the body of a young boy drained of his blood is discovered on the snowy bank of the Fleet River, Robert Hooke, the Curator of Experiments of the Royal Society for the Improving of Natural Knowledge, and his assistant Harry Hunt, are called in to explain such a ghastly finding--and whether it's part of a plot against the king. Wary of the political hornet's nest they are walking into--and using scientific evidence rather than paranoia in their pursuit of truth--Hooke and Hunt must discover why the boy was murdered, why his blood was taken. And what does the strange sequence of numbers inscribed on his body mean?" --
Author: Henderson, Alice, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F HENDERSO
Format: Books
Summary: Fresh off her wolverine study in Montana, wildlife biologist Alex Carter lands a job studying a threatened population of polar bears in the Canadian Arctic. Embedded with a small team of Arctic researchers, she tracks the majestic bears by air, following them over vast, snowy terrain, spending days leaning precariously out of a helicopter with a tranquilizer gun, until she can get down on the ice to examine them up close.
Author: McHugh, Laura, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F MCHUGH
Format: Books
Summary: "On a hot, hazy summer day, Sarabeth is forced to work her family's farmstand in Arkansas. It was only recently that Sarabeth had a normal teenage life in town, able to see her friends, starting to date--but that was before her parents found God and moved her and her siblings to a farm in the middle of nowhere. Now she has to wear long dresses even in the blistering heat, can't cut her hair, and can't spend time with anyone her age. Sarabeth has become rebellious and wayward, refusing to adapt--then she is taken. Blindfolded and chained to a basement wall, Sarabeth is held captive for weeks by a person she never sees or speaks to, and just when she thinks her life is about to be over, she wakes up along the side of a highway, where she is discovered by a passing motorist. Now an adult, she goes by Sarah, has cut ties with her family entirely, and has made a contented, if solitary life for herself as an adult in St. Louis. That is, until Detective Nick Farrow with the Missouri Highway Patrol Missing Persons calls her, wanting her help to investigate the recent disappearance of a young girl in a case which bears striking similarities to Sarah's own. In this riveting new novel from Laura McHugh, a woman finds that sometimes our attempt to loosen the ties to our past only bind us further. "--
Author: Hazelwood, Ali, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F HAZELWOO
Format: Books
Summary: "When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman's carefully calculated theories on love into chaos. As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships--but her best friend does, and that's what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily ever after was always going to take more than hand-wavy Jedi mind tricks: Scientists require proof. So, like any self-respecting biologist, Olive panics and kisses the first man she sees. That man is none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor--and well-known ass. Which is why Olive is positively floored when Stanford's reigning lab tyrant agrees to keep her charade a secret and be her fake boyfriend. But when a big science conference goes haywire, putting Olive's career on the Bunsen burner, Adam surprises her again with his unyielding support and even more unyielding...six-pack abs. Suddenly their little experiment feels dangerously close to combustion. And Olive discovers that the only thing more complicated than a hypothesis on love is putting her own heart under the microscope"--
Author: Shupe, Joanna, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: PB SHUPE
Format: Books
Summary: "The woman no one notices...Shy heiress Alice Lusk is tired of being overlooked by every bachelor. Something has to change, else she'll be forced to marry a man whose only desire is her fortune. She needs to become a siren, a woman who causes a man's blood to run hot...and she's just met the perfect rogue to help teach her. He's the life of every party...Christopher "Kit" Ward plans to open a not-so-reputable supper club in New York City, and he's willing to do whatever it takes to hire the best chef in the city to guarantee its success. Even if it requires giving carnal lessons to a serious-minded spinster who has an in with the chef. Their bedroom instruction grows passionate, and Alice is a much better pupil than Kit had ever anticipated. When the Society gentlemen start to take notice, Kit has to try to win Alice in other ways...but is he too late to win her heart?" --
Author: Wilde, Lori, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: PB WILDE
Format: Books
Summary: When, while organizing the living Nativity, best friends Joel and Jana find a baby in the manger, they decide to take the child home. And as they begin to fall in love with the precious bundle, they realize that their relationship goes far deeper than friendship. It's Christmastime in Twilight, TX. The lights are twinkling, carols are being sung, and the cookies are baking. And this year, best friends Joel and Jana discover a shocking surprise: as they are organizing the living Nativity, they find a sweet little baby in the manger with a note saying the mother will return...soon. Jana tucks the infant into her arms, and she and Joel make the impulsive decision to take the baby home. Jana is spontaneous, Joel is a planner, but they agree that it's better to care for this precious bundle for the holidays, in hopes that the mother really will come back by New Year's. As the days pass, the pair begins to fall in love with the child and they're also forced to face facts: their relationship goes far deeper than friendship. As the spirit of Christmas--and the magic of Twilight, TX--takes over, this unlikely couple must open up to the feelings they've been hiding from each other all along.
Author: Evanovich, Janet, author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F EVANOVIC
Format: Books
Summary: "When Stephanie Plum is woken up in the middle of the night by the sound of footsteps in her apartment, she wishes she didn't keep her gun in the cookie jar in her kitchen. And when she finds out the intruder is fellow apprehension agent Diesel, six feet of hard muscle and bad attitude who she hasn't seen in more than two years, she still thinks the gun might come in handy. Turns out Diesel and Stephanie are on the trail of the same fugitive: Oswald Wednesday, an international computer hacker as brilliant as he is ruthless. Unsure if Diesel is her partner or her competition in this case, she'll need to watch her back every step of the way as she sets the stage to draw Wednesday out from behind his computer and into the real world"--
Author: Morris, Wanda M. (Wanda Michelle), 1959- author.
Published: 2021
Call Number: F MORRIS
Format: Books
Summary: "Ellice Littlejohn seemingly has it all: an Ivy League law degree, a well-paying job as a corporate attorney in midtown Atlanta, great friends, and a "for fun" relationship with a rich, charming executive, who just happens to be her white boss. But everything changes one cold January morning when Ellice arrives in the executive suite and finds him dead with a gunshot to his head. And then she walks away like nothing has happened. Why? Ellice has been keeping a cache of dark secrets, including a small-town past and a kid brother who's spent time on the other side of the law. She can't be thrust into the spotlight--again. But instead of grieving this tragedy, people are gossiping, the police are getting suspicious, and Ellice, the company's lone black attorney, is promoted to replace her boss. While the opportunity is a dream come true, Ellice just can't shake the feeling that something is off. When she uncovers shady dealings inside the company, Ellice is trapped in an impossible ethical and moral dilemma. Suddenly, Ellice's past and present lives collide as she launches into a pulse-pounding race to protect the brother she tried to save years ago and stop a conspiracy far more sinister than she could have ever imagined..." --
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