“Two-Way Mirror,” by Fiona Sampson, is the first biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning in many years. It aims to restore the now overlooked poet’s reputation as a major innovator.
New story collections from Chris Stuck, Simon Rich and Jaime Cortez.
Two new books, “The American War in Afghanistan,” by Carter Malkasian, and “The Afghanistan Papers,” by Craig Whitlock, trace Washington’s long history of mistakes and miscalculations.
Four new books examine some of the darker corners of World War II and the Cold War.
This year's Summer Poll is all about the past decade in science fiction and fantasy, so we asked critic Jason Sheehan to come up with his own list of the new sci-fi that's blowing his mind.
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Jaime Cortez's debut collection, Gordo, is set in and around the same dusty California town that inspired John Steinbeck. It's a lovely portrait of a time and place that still manages to be universal.
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In “The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You,” the city’s Black residents try to hold onto what the hurricanes and gentrifiers haven’t taken yet.
In “I Live a Life Like Yours,” Jan Grue, a Norwegian professor, writes of living with a rare form of spinal muscular atrophy.
Benjamin T. Smith explains in “The Dope” why policing has failed to stop the drug trade from Mexico, and why violence keeps rising.
Words can seem infinite — but language has limits. In his new poetry collection, Pilgrim Bell, Kaveh Akbar shapes language into prayer, into body, into patchwork — but only into what can be known.
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In Sarah Zachrich Jeng's debut thriller The Other Me, a young woman wanders away from a boring birthday party and finds herself in a different life, with a husband and family she didn't have before.
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Author: Hill, Tim (Director), film director, screenwriter. Aibel, Jonathan, 1969- screenwriter. Berger, Glenn, screenwriter. Harris, Ryan (Producer), film producer. Kenny, Tom, 1962- voice actor.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: J SPONGEBO
Format: Video disc
Summary: After SpongeBob's beloved pet snail Gary is snail-napped, he and Patrick embark on an epic adventure to The Lost City of Atlantic City to bring Gary home.
Author: Berardo, John, film director, screenwriter. LaVanchy, Lindsay, screenwriter, actor. Frager, Brian, screenwriter. Arntzen, Alexander, composer. Flaherty, Jessica, costume desginer.
Published: 2021
Call Number: HORROR INITIATI
Format: Video disc
Summary: During a university's pledge week, the carefree partying turns deadly serious when a star athlete is found impaled in his dorm. The murder ignites a spree of sinister social-media messages, sweeping the students and police into a race against time to uncover the truth behind the school's dark secrets' and the horrifying meaning of a recurring symbol: a single exclamation mark.
Author: Emmett, Randall, film director, film producer. Horsnail, Alan, screenwriter. Willis, Bruce, 1955- actor. Fox, Megan, 1986- actor. Hirsch, Emile, 1985- actor.
Published: 2021
Call Number: MIDNIGHT
Format: Video disc
Summary: When a young woman goes missing at a truck stop along I-50, an FBI agent and a Texas Ranger team up for an unauthorized investigation to find her before she becomes the latest victim of an elusive serial killer.
Author: McGregor, Ewan, 1971- actor. Kilmer, Val, 1959- actor. Bracco, Lorraine, 1955- actor. Pastore, Vincent, actor. Sorvino, Paul, actor.
Published: 2021
Call Number: BIRTHDAY
Format: Video disc
Summary: On the tenth anniversary of his father's mysterious death, Gio brings a birthday cake prepared by his mother to a memorial celebration hosted by his uncle Angelo, a Brooklyn mafia boss. Gio's life begins to change as he pieces together what happened to his father all those years ago, coming face to face with a kind of violence he has been trying to avoid his whole life.
Author: Lembeck, Michael, film director. Martin, Donald (Screenwriter), screenwriter. Powell, Harrison A., film producer. Telson, Dominique, 1961- film producer. Bernstein, Fred, film producer.
Published: 2021
Call Number: QUEEN
Format: Video disc
Summary: While her house undergoes repairs, fiercely independent senior Helen temporarily moves into a nearby retirement community. Once behind the doors of Pine Grove Senior Community, she encounters lusty widows, cutthroat bridge tournaments and a hotbed of bullying 'mean girls' the likes of which she hasn't encountered since high school, all of which leaves her yearning for the solitude of home. But somewhere between flower arranging and water aerobics Helen discovers that it's never too late to make new friends and perhaps even find a new love.
Author: Crystal, Billy, film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor. Bernstein, Fred, film producer. Telson, Dominique, 1961- film producer. Zweibel, Alan, screenwriter, film producer. Haddish, Tiffany, 1979- film producer, actor.
Published: 2021
Call Number: HERE
Format: Video disc
Summary: When veteran comedy writer Charlie Burnz meets New York singer Emma Payge, they form an unlikely yet hilarious and touching friendship that kicks the generation gap aside and redefines the meaning of love and trust.
Author: Bousman, Darren Lynn, film director. Stolberg, Josh, 1971- screenwriter. Goldfinger, Peter, screenwriter. Koules, Oren, film producer. Burg, Mark, film producer.
Published: 2021
Call Number: SPIRAL BLU-RAY
Format: Video disc
Summary: A criminal mastermind unleashes a twisted form of justice in this terrifying new chapter from the book of Saw. Working in the shadow of his father, an esteemed police veteran, brash Detective Ezekiel "Zeke" Banks and his rookie partner take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city's gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at the center of the killer's morbid game.
Author: Delpy, Julie, 1969- film director, actor. Ally, Sophia, actor. Armitage, Richard, 1971- actor. Arterton, Gemma, actor. Blue Fox Entertainment (Firm), publisher.
Published: 2021 2019
Call Number: MY
Format: Video disc
Summary: Following a divorce, geneticist Isabelle is trying to rebuild her life. She has a new boyfriend and plans to revitalize her career. But ex-husband James can't accept this and makes her life difficult as they co-parent their daughter Zoe. When a tragedy strikes, the already broken family's world is shattered, and Isabelle decides to take the girl's fate into her own hands.
Author: Sheridan, Taylor, film director, screenwriter, film producer. Koryta, Michael, screenwriter. Leavitt, Charles, screenwriter. Zaillian, Steven, film producer. Basch, Garrett, film producer.
Published: 2021
Call Number: THOSE
Format: Video disc
Summary: Oscar winner Angelina Jolie stars as Hannah, a smoke jumper still reeling from the loss of three lives she failed to save from a fire when she comes across a traumatized twelve-year-old boy with nowhere else to turn.
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