This month, we're bringing you stories from around the world, featuring royals and regular boys and girls who risk it all for their happy ever after — from Vietnam to California to Scotland.
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In “Spying on the South,” Tony Horwitz recreates a trip taken by Frederick Law Olmsted in the early 1850s.
Sandhya Menon's followup to her hit young adult novel When Dimple Met Rishi follows a young woman with a big voice, a big personality — and to her family's dismay (though not her own), a big body.
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We're trying not to make the "long, strange trip" joke about Rudy Rucker's new novel, but it's about three teens in a beat-up purple wagon with a dark energy motor, traveling across dimensions, so ...
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Nafiza Azad creates a fantastical yet believable Silk Road city in her new young adult novel, building a world of humans and djinns, spices and sounds, woven through with Urdu, Arabic and Hindi.
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Casey McQuiston's tale of a British prince who falls for the son of the U.S. president (who's a woman, by the way) is a snappy, banter-packed rom-com that's also empowering and uplifting.
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“Red Birds,” a new novel by the Pakistani author Mohammed Hanif, satirizes America’s never-ending military conflicts in the Middle East.
Brenda Wineapple’s “The Impeachers” is a revealing history of the trial of Andrew Johnson in 1868.
Author: Shankman, Adam, film director. Waters, Jas, screenwriter. Chism, Tina Gordon, screenwriter. Huyck, Peter, screenwriter. Gregory, Alex (Screenwriter), screenwriter.
Published: 2019
Call Number: WHAT BLU-RAY
Format: Video disc
Summary: Ali Davis is left on the outside by her fellow sports agents because she is a woman in a male-dominated profession, but she acquires an unexpected edge when she develops the ability to hear men's thoughts.
Author: Segal, Peter, 1962- film director. Zackham, Justin, 1970- film producer, screenwriter. Goldsmith-Thomas, Elaine, film producer, screenwriter. Lopez, Jennifer, 1970- film producer, actor. Medina, Benny, film producer.
Published: 2019
Call Number: SECOND BLU-RAY
Format: Video disc
Summary: A big box store worker, Maya, reinvents her life story to land a job in the corporate side of the company she works for. After the aid of a fabricated resume and social network profile, she is offered the position. She accepts the position to try to prove what street smarts can do.
Author: Heller, Marielle, film director. Holofcener, Nicole, screenwriter. Whitty, Jeff, screenwriter. Carey, Anne (Film producer), film producer. Nauiokas, Amy, 1972- film producer.
Published: 2019
Call Number: CAN BLU-RAY
Format: Video disc
Summary: Lee Israel made her living in the 1970s and 1980s profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. Though Lee Israel has undeniable profiling skills, her work has grown stale and hackneyed, rendering her profession unnecessary and insignificant. Now in times of financial hardship, Israel must find other ways to make a living. With assistance from her steadfast friend, Jack, the two endeavor to keep Israel afloat. With a dose of trickery and deceptive eye, they do just that.
Author: Jenkins, Barry, 1979- film director, screenwriter, film producer. Romanski, Adele, film producer. Murphy, Sara (Film producer), film producer. Gardner, Dede, film producer. Kleiner, Jeremy, film producer.
Published: 2019
Call Number: IF BLU-RAY
Format: Video disc
Summary: A timeless love story set in early 1970s Harlem involving newly engaged nineteen-year- old Tish and her fiance Fonny who have a beautiful future ahead. But their plans are derailed when Fonny is arrested for a crime he did not commit. Now the pair and their families must fight for justice in the name of love and the promise of the American dream.
Author: Cornish, Joe, 1968- film director, screenwriter. Park, Nira, film producer. Bevan, Tim, film producer. Fellner, Eric, film producer. Serkis, Louis Ashbourne, actor.
Published: 2019
Call Number: KID BLU-RAY
Format: Video disc
Summary: Alex believes he is just another nobody until he stumbles upon Excalibur, the mythical sword in the stone. He unites the wizard Merlin, his enemies, and his friends to take on Morgana, the enchantress.
Author: Sparkes, John, 1954- voice actor. Banks, Morwenna, voice actor. Ridings, Richard, voice actor. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc., publisher.
Published: 2019
Call Number: J PEPPA
Format: Video disc
Summary: Peppa and her friends are using their imagination to decide what to be when they grow up. They explore helping others when learning about the police, doctors, and the fire engine. Later, the playgroup gets excited for a bit of show time! Then it's time to shake, rattle and bang while learning to play instruments for an oinktastic performance! Watch all twelve Peppa-sodes for lots of giggles with Peppa, her little brother George, Mummy Pig, Daddy Pig, and friends!
Author: Farhādī, Aṣghar, 1972- film director, screenwriter. Mallet-Guy, Alexandre, film producer. Longoria, Alvaro, film producer. Cruz, Penélope, actor. Bardem, Javier, 1969- actor.
Published: 2019
Call Number: EVERYBOD SPA
Format: Video disc
Summary: Laura and her children travel from Buenos Aires to the small Spanish village where she was born to attend her sister's wedding. Unexpected events soon lead to a crisis that exposes the family's hidden past. Suspicions mount, loved ones begin to turn on one another, and dark secrets long hidden threaten to come to light, revealing shocking truths.
Author: Merchant, Stephen, film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor. Misher, Kevin, film producer. Johnson, Dwayne, 1972- film producer, actor. Vaughn, Vince, actor. Headey, Lena, actor.
Published: 2019
Call Number: FIGHTING
Format: Video disc
Summary: The family that fights together, stays together. Headed by reformed gangster Ricky, his wife Julia, and their two kids Zak and Paige, the Bevis family barely gets by wrestling for small audiences at dinky venues. When Zak and Paige have the once in a lifetime chance to audition for the WWE, the family has to navigate the trials that come with the bright lights and big money that comes with fame.
Author: Pelecanos, George, creator. Simon, David, 1960- creator. Franco, James, 1978- actor. Gyllenhaal, Maggie, 1977- actor. Akinnagbe, Gbenga, actor.
Published: 2019 2018
Call Number: DEUCE SEASON 2 DISC 1-2
Format: Video disc
Summary: A portrayal of the prostitution business in New York in the 1970s. The story follows characters that are forced to venture toward relatively safer and more discreet forms of the same work.
Author: Landon, Christopher, 1975- film director, screenwriter. Blum, Jason, film producer. Rothe, Jessica, actor. Broussard, Israel, actor. Sharma, Suraj, 1993- actor.
Published: 2019
Call Number: HAPPY
Format: Video disc
Summary: It's déjà vu all over again for Tree Gelbman, the snarky sorority sister who solved her own murder by repeatedly reliving her death. When the masked campus killer mysteriously returns to terrorize new targets, Tree cycles through another time loop of clever chills and suspense in the inventive follow-up to Blumhouse's hit thriller.
Author: Moland, Hans Petter, film director. Baldwin, Frank (Screenwriter), screenwriter. Shamberg, Michael, film producer. Shukla, Ameet, film producer. Kvae, Stein B., 1969- film producer.
Published: 2019
Call Number: COL
Format: Video disc
Summary: Nels Coxman is a family man whose quiet life with his wife is upended following the mysterious death of their son. Nels's search for justice turns into a vengeful hunt for Viking, a drug lord he believes is connected to the death. As one by one Viking's associates 'disappear,' Nels goes from upstanding citizen to ice-cold vigilante, letting nothing, and no one, get in his way.
Author: López-Gallego, Gonzalo, film director. Widen, Gregory, screenwriter. De Laurentis, Raffaella, film producer. Baldwin, William, 1963- actor. Anderson, Joe, 1982- actor.
Published: 2019
Call Number: BACKDRAF 2
Format: Video disc
Summary: When fire investigator Sean McCaffrey is assigned to investigate a deadly fire, he and partner Maggie soon realize that they are dealing with something much more than a routine fire. The clues they discover lead them down a treacherous path of arson, murder, and international terrorism. Sean must use his intuition, along with the help of infamous jailed arsonist Ronald Bartel, in a race to find out who is behind the fire and stop them from accomplishing their devious plans.
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