Screenwriter Dustin Lance Black's new book is a memoir of his relationship with his mother, and how they found a way forward after he came out as gay and left the Mormon church that she loved.
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Most of the people Michael Croley's debut story collection feel like they don't belong, even in the places they call home — and Croley conjures that unsettled feeling in understated, beautiful prose.
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Looks like this year, April showers brought April flowers. As in, a bouquet of outstanding poets. So stop and smell the roses, my friends.
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Artist Scott Hampton has a big job in this second volume of an ambitions, three-book adaptation of Neil Gaiman's American Gods: Depict Gaiman's deadly serious characters without making them quaint.
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Josh Malerman's latest imagines two towers full of boys and girls, raised in isolation and ignorance of the opposite sex, but spends too much time creating a world and not enough on its consequences.
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Author: Robitel, Adam, 1978- film director. Schut, Bragi F., screenwriter. Melnik, Maria, 1970- screenwriter. Moritz, Neal H., film producer. Marmur, Ori, film producer.
Published: 2019
Call Number: SUSPENSE ESCAPE
Format: Video disc
Summary: An intriguing invitation brings six strangers together. Initially, they think they have gathered for a highly immersive escape room, but they soon make the sickening discovery that they are pawns in a sadistic game of life and death. Together, they move from one terrifying scenario to the next as they find clues and solve puzzles. But the players soon learn that exposing their darkest secrets may hold the key to survive.
Author: Ruben, Katt Shea, film director. Fiore, Nina (Screenwriter), screenwriter. Herrera, John, screenwriter. Kleeman, Jeff, film producer. Diggins, Chip, film producer.
Published: 2019
Call Number: DRAMA NANCY
Format: Video disc
Summary: After the death of his wife, Carson Drew decides to leave Chicago behind and make a fresh start with his daughter in River Heights. But for sixteen-year-old Nancy Drew, life in a small town is mighty dull. She longs for excitement, adventure, and the chance to make a difference. Nancy gets that opportunity when she is asked to help solve the ghostly activity at the Twin Elms mansion. Can she help explain the creaking footsteps, exploding lightbulbs, and the ominous creature?
Author: Levinson, Stephen, creator. Johnson, Dwayne, 1972- actor. Corddry, Rob, actor. Washington, John David, 1984- actor. Miller, Omar Benson, actor.
Published: 2019
Call Number: TV BALLERS SEASON 4
Format: Video disc
Summary: Spencer is back in a new season of the hit comedy that explores the glamorous, and often cutthroat, world of pro football, as seen through a group of past and present players striving to stay in the game.
Author: Kusama, Karyn, film director. Hay, Phil, screenwriter, film producer. Manfredi, Matt, screenwriter, film producer. Berger, Fred, 1981- film producer. Kidman, Nicole, 1967- actor.
Published: 2019
Call Number: ACTION DESTROYE
Format: Video disc
Summary: LAPD detective Erin Bell was, as a young cop, placed undercover with a gang in the California desert with tragic results. When the leader of that gang re-emerges many years later, Bell must work her way back through the remaining members and into her own history with them to finally reckon with the demons that destroyed her past.
Author: Herngren, Felix, 1967- television director. Bucht, Emma, television director. Ulvshammar, Rikard, screenwriter. Hultkvist, Erik, screenwriter. Gottfridsson, Linn, screenwriter.
Published: 2019
Call Number: SIMPLE SERIES 1
Format: Video disc
Summary: When two women find themselves overlooked and underappreciated as they face their older years, they resort to drastic measures to get payback. Jenny is a teacher struggling to stay afloat during a messy divorce, while her best friend, gastroenterologist Cecilia, has financial problems from a failed stock investment. After Cecilia learns of a bank robbery plan from a dying patient, she convinces Jenny that a crime spree is just what they need to take control of their lives.
Author: Blair, David, film director. Rheon, Iwan, 1985- actor. Gibson, Milo, actor. Martini, Stefanie, 1990- actor. Dorociński, Marcin, 1973- actor.
Published: 2019
Call Number: MISSION
Format: Video disc
Summary: A group of brave Polish pilots known as Squadron 303 fought in the skies over England in World War II, not just to keep Great Britain free from the Nazis, but also to keep alive the very idea of their own country, which had existed in its modem form for barely 20 years before it was crushed between the opposing jaws of Germany and Russia. Equipped with the almost-obsolete Hurricane airplane and RAF blue uniforms, they fought, and Poland lived.
Author: Knight, Steven, 1959- film director, film producer, screenwriter. Shapiro, Greg, film producer. Heeley, Guy, film producer. McConaughey, Matthew, 1969- actor. Hathaway, Anne, 1982- actor.
Published: 2019
Call Number: SERENITY
Format: Video disc
Summary: Baker Dill is a fishing boat captain that leads tours off Plymouth Island. His quiet life is upended when Karen, his ex-wife, tracks him down to ask him for help. She begs him to save her and their son from her new husband. She requests that Dill take her husband out on a fishing expedition and leave him to the sharks.
Author: Wainwright, Sally, 1964- creator, television writer, television director. Hardiman, Neasa, television director. Charlesworth, Juliet, television producer. Lancashire, Sarah, 1964- actor. Finneran, Siobhan, 1967- actor.
Published: 2018
Call Number: HAPPY SEASON 2
Format: Video disc
Summary: Set in West Yorkshire's Calder Valley, police sergeant Catherine Cawood leads her officers in investigating a possible string of serial killings.
Author: Lane, Charles, 1961- author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: B WHITLEY
Format: Books
Summary: Chronicles the story of the Reconstruction-era Secret Service and its battle against the KKK's effort to suppress the emancipated African-American vote, sharing particular insights into the career of controversial Secret Service chief, Hiram C. Whitley. In the years following the Civil War, a new battle began. Newly freed African American men had gained their voting rights and would soon have a chance to transform Southern politics. Former Confederates and other white supremacists mobilized to stop them. Thus, the KKK was born. After the first political assassination carried out by the Klan, Washington power brokers looked for help in breaking the growing movement. They found it in Hiram C. Whitley. He became head of the Secret Service, which had previously focused on catching counterfeiters and was at the time the government's only intelligence organization. Whitley and his agents led the covert war against the nascent KKK and were the first to use undercover work in mass crime--what we now call terrorism--investigations. Like many spymasters before and since, Whitley also had a dark side. His penchant for skulduggery and dirty tricks ultimately led to his involvement in a conspiracy that would bring an end to his career and transform the Secret Service. Populated by intriguing historical characters--from President Grant to brave Southerners, both black and white, who stood up to the Klan--and told in a brisk narrative style, Freedom's Detective reveals the story of this complex hero and his central role in a long-lost chapter of American history.
Author: Harrington, Anne, 1960- author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: 616.89 HARRINGT
Format: Books
Summary: In Mind Fixers, Anne Harrington, author of The Cure Within, explores psychiatry's repeatedly frustrated struggle to understand mental disorder in biomedical terms. She shows how the stalling of early twentieth-century efforts in this direction allowed Freudians and social scientists to insist, with some justification, that they had better ways of analyzing and fixing minds.
Author: Asher, C., author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: B ALGREN
Format: Books
Summary: "This definitive biography reclaims Nelson Algren as a towering literary figure and exposes how his radical politics sabotaged his career. For a time, Nelson Algren (1909-1981) was America's most famous author. Millions bought his books; The Man with the Golden Arm, winner of the first National Book Award, was made into a film starring Frank Sinatra. Yet the cause of Algren's decline was never clear. Some said he drank his talent away, others cited writer's block. The truth, hidden in the pages of his books, is far more complicated and tragic. In this magisterial biography--drawing from interviews, archived correspondence, and the first unredacted version of Algren's FBI file--Colin Asher reestablishes Algren not only as a legendary figure, but a dramatic iconoclast. He recounts the author's development as a thinker, his affair with Simone de Beauvoir, and his unapologetic left-leaning politics. Most intriguingly, Asher uncovers the true cause of Algren's artistic exile: a reckless creative decision that led to increased FBI scrutiny and may have caused a mental breakdown"--
Author: Ellis, Helen, author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: 817
Format: Books
Summary: "A fiercely funny collection of essays on marriage and manners, thank you notes and three-ways, ghosts, gunshots, gynecology, and the Calgon-scented, onion-dipped, monogrammed art of living as a Southern Lady" --
Author: Oneill, Therese, author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: 649
Format: Books
Summary: Presents a humorous guide to Victorian child-rearing that includes such advice as how much lager to consume while pregnant and which toys are most likely to render children sexual deviants.
Author: Ellis, Bret Easton, author. Ellis, Bret Easton. Empire. Ellis, Bret Easton. Acting. Ellis, Bret Easton. Second self. Ellis, Bret Easton. Post-sex.
Published: 2019
Call Number: 814
Format: Books
Summary: "Combining personal reflection and social observation, Bret Easton Ellis's first work of nonfiction is an incendiary polemic about this young century's failings, e-driven and otherwise, and at once an example, definition, and defense of what 'freedom of speech' truly means. Bret Easton Ellis has wrestled with the double-edged sword of fame and notoriety for more than thirty years now, since Less Than Zero catapulted him into the limelight in 1985, earning him devoted fans and, perhaps, even fiercer enemies. An enigmatic figure who has always gone against the grain and refused categorization, he captured the depravity of the eighties with one of contemporary literature's most polarizing characters, American Psycho's iconic, terrifying Patrick Bateman. In recent years, his candor and gallows humor on both Twitter and his podcast have continued his legacy as someone determined to speak the truth, however painful it might be, and whom people accordingly either love or love to hate. He encounters various positions and voices controversial opinions, more often than not fighting the status quo. Now, in White, with the same originality displayed in his fiction, Ellis pours himself out onto the page and, in doing so, eviscerates the perceived good that the social-media age has wrought, starting with the dangerous cult of likeability. White is both a denunciation of censorship, particularly the self-inflicted sort committed in hopes of being 'accepted,' and a bracing view of a life devoted to authenticity. Provocative, incisive, funny, and surprisingly poignant, White reveals not only what is visible on the glittering, pristine surface but also the riotous truths that are hidden underneath"--
Author: Lane, Christina, 1984- author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: 641.56 LANE
Format: Books
Summary: Sharing a meal is something most couples love to do; meal-planning programs such as Blue Apron have made it easy and fun to prepare dinner together, too. But home cooks who enjoy homemade food at a reasonable cost really only need a great cookbook, with a friendly voice and delicious recipes, designed to be made and eaten by two. Here is that book. From simple meals to celebratory dinners, comfort food to healthy but hearty options, Dinner Just for Two features 100 dishes, including:Bourbon- Glazed Turkey BurgersCreamy Baked Spaghetti for TwoPear Pecorino PastaSheet Pan Summer SalmonGorgeously designed with more than 100 photographs, Dinner Just for Two is destined to be a classic.
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