Author: Zhukhovit͡skiĭ, Leonid, screenwriter. Muratova, Kira, 1934-2018, film director, screenwriter, actor. Ruslanova, Nina, 1945-2021, actor. Vysotsky, Vladimir, 1938-1980, actor. Sharko, Zinaida, 1929-2016, actor.
Published: 2024 1967
Call Number: BRIEF RUSSIAN
Format: Video disc
Summary: Kira Muratova's first solo feature, Brief Encounters, already displays her sui generis approach to cinema, in an impressionistic portrait of women at work and in love. Through an intricate play of flashbacks and shifting perspectives, Brief Encounters reveals the tangled romantic triangle that connects a hard-nosed city planner, her free-spirited geologist husband, and the young woman from the countryside whom she hires as her housekeeper. Blending observational realism with striking New Wave-style experimentation, Muratova crafts a wryly perceptive study of two very different women bound by chance and each navigating her own career, dreams, and disappointments. Long Farewell: For a long time, Yevgenia Vasilyevna was busy only with her son Sasha. With the advent of free time, as her son grew older, Nikolai Sergeyevich began to look after her. In the summer, the son went to visit his father. After his return, he began to change. His mother understands that her son wants to leave, but she does not have enough wisdom to behave properly in the current situation.
Author: Easton, Nick (Television producer), television director, television producer. Ridgeon, Will, television director, television producer. Cashell, Kiri, television director, television producer. Bostock, Charlotte, television director, television producer. Whalley, Sarah, television director, television producer.
Published: 2024 2023
Call Number: 591
Format: Video disc
Summary: Completing the Planet Earth trilogy, Planet Earth III explores the greatest habitats on our planet and the extraordinary animals that live in them. Filled with wonder and insight, Planet Earth III celebrates places and animals beyond our imagination. From the depths of the ocean to the most remote jungle, discover the planet's last great wild places and the astonishing strategies animals have evolved to survive. Each episode focuses on a distinct and dazzling habitat, including grasslands and deserts, forests, freshwater habitats, and coasts. This contemporary chapter of Planet Earth also reveals the new challenges that wildlife faces in our modern and crowded world.
Author: McCarthy, Damian (Filmmaker), film director, screenwriter. Tunstall, Laura, film producer. Kongsved, Mette-Marie, 1984- film producer. Holly, Katie, film producer. Horan, Evan, film producer.
Published: 2024 2023
Call Number: ODDITY
Format: Video disc
Summary: After Dani is brutally murdered, her blind occultist twin sister Darcy, goes after those responsible using inherited haunted items as her tools of revenge.
Author: Stevenson, Arkasha, film director, screenwriter. Smith, Tim (Screenwriter), screenwriter. Thomas, Keith, 1975- screenwriter. Jacoby, Ben, screenwriter. Goyer, David S., film producer.
Published: 2024
Call Number: FIRST
Format: Video disc
Summary: When a young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, she encounters a darkness that causes her to question her own faith and uncovers a terrifying conspiracy that hopes to bring about the birth of evil incarnate.
Author: Snow, Rebecca (Film director), film director, screenwriter. Budreau, Robert, film producer. Bronfman, Jonathan, film producer. Madrzyk, Adam, director of photography. Swartz, Robert (Film editor), editor of moving image work.
Published: 2024 2023
Call Number: BOY
Format: Video disc
Summary: The Boy in the Woods tells the remarkable true story of Max, a Jewish boy escaping Nazi persecution in Eastern Europe. After he is separated from his family, Max finds refuge with Christian peasant Jasko, who hides him in plain sight until a tense stand-off with Nazi police. Afraid for his own family's life, Jasko sends Max to live in the woods where he learns to survive alone. With echoes of a Grimms' Fairy Tale, Max's experience is both terrifying and magical. He inhabits a landscape crawling with Nazis, partisans and haunted by ghosts. Based on the best-selling memoir by Canadian Holocaust survivor Maxwell Smart and inspired by the award-winning documentary Cheating Hitler: Surviving The Holocaust.
Author: Farrell, Alexander J., film director, screenwriter. Ellison, Greer Taylor, screenwriter. Merton, Merlin, film producer. Owen, Martin (Filmmaker), film producer. Hamilton, Ryan (Film producer), film producer.
Published: 2024 2023
Call Number: BEAST
Format: Video disc
Summary: After a series of strange events leads her to question her family's isolated life in a remote fortified compound, 10-year-old Willow follows her parents on one of their secret late-night treks deep into the heart of the ancient forest. But upon witnessing her father undergo a terrible transformation, she too becomes ensnared by the terrifying ancestral secret they've tried so desperately to conceal.
Author: Zhukhovit͡skiĭ, Leonid, screenwriter. Muratova, Kira, 1934-2018, film director, screenwriter, actor. Ruslanova, Nina, 1945-2021, actor. Vysotsky, Vladimir, 1938-1980, actor. Sharko, Zinaida, 1929-2016, actor.
Published: 2024 1967
Call Number: BRIEF RUSSIAN
Format: Video disc
Summary: Kira Muratova's first solo feature, Brief Encounters, already displays her sui generis approach to cinema, in an impressionistic portrait of women at work and in love. Through an intricate play of flashbacks and shifting perspectives, Brief Encounters reveals the tangled romantic triangle that connects a hard-nosed city planner, her free-spirited geologist husband, and the young woman from the countryside whom she hires as her housekeeper. Blending observational realism with striking New Wave-style experimentation, Muratova crafts a wryly perceptive study of two very different women bound by chance and each navigating her own career, dreams, and disappointments. Long Farewell: For a long time, Yevgenia Vasilyevna was busy only with her son Sasha. With the advent of free time, as her son grew older, Nikolai Sergeyevich began to look after her. In the summer, the son went to visit his father. After his return, he began to change. His mother understands that her son wants to leave, but she does not have enough wisdom to behave properly in the current situation.
Author: Easton, Nick (Television producer), television director, television producer. Ridgeon, Will, television director, television producer. Cashell, Kiri, television director, television producer. Bostock, Charlotte, television director, television producer. Whalley, Sarah, television director, television producer.
Published: 2024 2023
Call Number: 591
Format: Video disc
Summary: Completing the Planet Earth trilogy, Planet Earth III explores the greatest habitats on our planet and the extraordinary animals that live in them. Filled with wonder and insight, Planet Earth III celebrates places and animals beyond our imagination. From the depths of the ocean to the most remote jungle, discover the planet's last great wild places and the astonishing strategies animals have evolved to survive. Each episode focuses on a distinct and dazzling habitat, including grasslands and deserts, forests, freshwater habitats, and coasts. This contemporary chapter of Planet Earth also reveals the new challenges that wildlife faces in our modern and crowded world.
Author: Hobbs, Elizabeth, author.
Published: 2025 2024
Call Number: F HOBBS
Format: Books
Summary: A young woman is invited to a mysterious relative's estate and winds up entangled in a murder investigation. "Miss Marigold Manners may be steeped in the etiquette of her old-money Boston family, but she is also an accomplished, modern woman and an avid student of archaeology who can handle any situation with poise. When the death of her parents leaves her too destitute to purse her academic career and she receives a letter from a distant relative on Great Misery Island, Marigold decides she must do what any person of superior sense and greater-than-average curiosity would: she mourns her trust bicycle and heads up the craggy, fog shrouded coast of New England for a date with fate. . ."--
Author: Cameron, W. Bruce, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F CAMERON
Format: Books
Summary: "My Three Dogs is a charming and heartfelt new novel from the #1 bestselling author of A Dog's Purpose, about humankind's best, most loyal friend, and a wonderful adventure of love and finding home. When a tragic accident separates three dogs from their human, they find themselves up for adoption--separately. But Riggs, an Australian Shepherd with a heart of gold, refuses to see his family torn apart. After the exuberant and fun-loving doodle Archie and quick-witted jack russell Luna are taken to new homes, Riggs' powerful herding instincts send him on a journey to bring his pack back together again. Cameron's signature style shines in this whirlwind of a novel that showcases how determination, instinct, and love can make a family whole once more"--
Author: Whalen, Marybeth, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F WHALEN
Format: Books
Summary: "A small Southern town. An ordinary Saturday night. A little boy disappears without a trace"-- "Everyone in Wynotte, North Carolina, knows the name Davy Malcor. Knows the video clip of him juggling four balls, 'All at the very same time!' Knows the Marty McFly jacket his mother made for his birthday that he wore proudly, and often. But no one knows what happened to him the night he went missing more than twenty years ago. When the jacket is unexpectedly uncovered, the cold case reopens, and Davy's family is thrust into yet another media storm. But at the heart of the story are four people forever changed by one single night. . ."--
Author: Tackett, Michael, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: B MCCONNEL
Format: Books
Summary: The first definitive biography of Mitch McConnell, revealing the personal and political life of one of the most powerful senators in American history. Drawing on thousands of pages of archival materials, letters, and more than 100 interviews with associates, colleagues, and McConnell himself, Michael Tackett pieces together the story of McConnell's early life, his formative battle with polio as a young child, and the teenage infatuation with politics that persisted through his four decades in the Senate.
Author: Leong, Julie, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F LEONG
Format: Books
Summary: "A fortune teller finds an unexpected family on her journeys in this heartwarming and charming fantasy debut. Tao, an immigrant fortune teller, lives in a wagon and roams the dusty outskirts of the kingdom of Eshtera. Fleeing a troubled past, she travels between villages telling only small fortunes: whether it will hail next Thursday; what boy will kiss which barmaid; when the cow will calve. Big fortunes come with big consequences...which she wants to avoid at all costs. Life on the road can be lonely but, to Tao's surprise, companionship comes unexpectedly. She encounters Mash and Silt, an ex-mercenary and semi-reformed thief; the oddball pair endear themselves to Tao and enlist her in the search for Mash's lost daughter. Next the trio finds Kina, a brilliant baker, with a knead for adventure. And, finally, Fidelitus rounds out their party, a cat smart enough to mark the travelers as ready suppliers of fish. As they journey together across Eshtera, confronting small-minded villagers and philosophizing trolls alike, Tao's unlikely new friends break down her walls and unravel her secrets. Ultimately, Tao must decide what's more important: her hard-won freedom, or reuniting a family not her own"--
Author: Tahir, Sabaa, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: Y TAHIR
Format: Books
Summary: "An orphan. An outcast. A prince. And a killer who will bring an empire to its knees. Growing up in the Kegari slums, AIZ has seen her share of suffering. An old tragedy fuels her need for vengeance, but it is love of her people that propels her. Until one hotheaded mistake lands her in an inescapable prison, where the embers of her wrath ignite. Banished from her people for an unforgivable crime, SIRSHA is a down-on-her-luck tracker who uses magic to trace her marks. Destitute, she agrees to hunt down a killer who has murdered children across the Martial Empire. All she has to do is carry out the job and get paid. But when a chance encounter leads to an unexpected attraction, Sirsha learns her mission might cost her far more than she's willing to give up. QUIL is the crown prince of the Empire and nephew of a venerated empress, but he's loath to take the throne when his aunt steps down. As the son of a reviled emperor, he, better than anyone, understands that power corrupts. When a vicious new enemy threatens the survival of the Empire, Quil must ask himself if he can rise above his tragic lineage and be the heir his people need. Beloved storyteller Sabaa Tahir interweaves the lives of three young people as they grapple with power, treachery, love, and the devastating consequences of unchecked greed, on a journey that may cost them their lives--and their hearts. Literally"--
Author: Ali, S. K., author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: Y ALI
Format: Books
Summary: Raisa of Upper Earth has only lived a life of privilege and acquiescence. Ever dutiful, she accepts her father's arrangement of her marriage to Lein, Crown Prince of the corrupt, volatile lands of Lower Earth. Though Lein is a stranger, Raisa knows the wedding will unite their vastly different worlds in a pact of peace: an infusion of Upper Earth technology will usher in the final age of enlightenment, ending war between humans forever. Or is justice more urgent?
Author: Brown, Rita Mae, author. Gildea, Lee, Jr., illustrator.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F BROWN
Format: Books
Summary: "An eye-wateringly expensive watch is found discarded on the land days prior to a dead body turning up. "Sister" Jane Arnold sets out to find the connection between the two, with a little help from her friends--both two legged and four--in this transportive mystery from New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown"-- "Between organizing a joint session with her friends at Bull Run Hunt, leading her own Jefferson Hunt Club's fox hunting season, and looking after her beloved hounds and horses, 'Sister' Jane Arnold is as busy as can be. She and her friend Tootie Harris are helping to lure home hunt club member Cindy Chandler's two escaped cows, Clytemnestra and Orestes, when they discover an expensive watch carelessly abandoned on an overgrown path. The last thing Sister needs is another mystery to solve, but when one falls into her lap, she can't help but get involved. . ."--
Author: Brown, Craig, 1957- author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: B ELIZABET
Format: Books
Summary: "With equal measures of wit and wisdom, the author of 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret draws a deeply original, hilarious, and telling portrait of the Queen herself"-- "She was the most famous person on earth; she first appeared on the cover of Time magazine at the age of three. When she died, few people were old enough to recall a time when she was not alive. Her likeness has been reproduced--in photographs, on stamps, on the notes and coins of thirty different currencies--more than any since Jesus. It is probable that, over the course of her ninety-six years, she was introduced to a greater number of different people than anyone else who has ever lived--likely well over half a million. Yet this most closely observed of all women rarely left any real impression on those she encountered beyond vague notions of her 'radiance' and 'sense of duty.' A high proportion of those she met can remember what they said to her, but not a word of what she said to them." --Amazon.com
Author: Vidal, Juan, 1981- author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: Y VIDAL
Format: Books
Summary: "When sixteen-year-old Marcos travels to Cartagena, Colombia, to scatter his late father's ashes, he strikes up a friendship with Camilo, a boy his age who works as a local taxi driver and shares Marcos' love for the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude"-- "Have you ever encountered a book that KO'd you, Iron Mike Tyson style? One that hit you square in the face and heart like some abracadabra casting a hex from an unknown planet? For sixteen-year-old poet and b-baller Marcos Cadena, that book is the beat-up copy of One Hundred Years of Solitude he finds among his late father's possessions after Papi is killed in an accident. Marcos' papi has always loomed large in his eyes. So, when Marcos travels to his parents; childhood home of Cartagena, Colombia to spread his Papi's ashes, he brings his father's book with him, convinced that Gabriel Garcia Marquez's masterpiece holds the key to understanding Papi's life and accepting his death. In Cartegena, Marcos befriends eighteen-year-old Camilo, a taxi driver and fellow Garcia Marquez fan who appoints himself Marcos' unofficial tour guide. Together, the two boys explore the landscape of Cartagena, from the picturesque streets of Old Town to the poor neighborhood where Camilo grew up. . ."--
Author: Michaels, Fern, author.
Published: 2024 2000
Call Number: LP F MICHAELS
Format: Large print
Summary: "Against all odds, Abby Mitchell has turned her life around. But in her crowning moment of celebration, dark clouds from the past threaten to undo everything she's worked so hard for... For the first time ever, Abby Mitchell feels that the world is her oyster. Her first book has found a publisher, a daring new surgery is on the horizon, and there's a new man in her life, a man who sees beyond any flaws...into her heart. Best of all, though, is that Abby has been reunited with her sister Mallory. Separated as girls after their parents died in a double tragedy, Abby always dreamed that, one day, they would be together again. But while the two loving sisters make up for lost time, danger hides in the shadows. Now, Abby and Mallory have planned a sumptuous party-unaware that their gathering will include an uninvited guest who will do anything to keep the past hidden.."--
Author: Underwood, Sarah, 1999- author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: Y UNDERWOO
Format: Books
Summary: On the island of Zakynthos, nothing is more powerful than Desire--love itself, bottled and sold to the highest bidder by Leandros, a power-hungry descendant of the god Eros. Eirene and her beloved twin sister, Phoebe, have always managed to escape Desire's thrall--until Leandros's wife dies mysteriously and he sets his sights on Phoebe. Determined to keep her sister safe, Eirene strikes a bargain with Leandros: If she can complete the four elaborate tasks he sets her, he will find another bride. But it soon becomes clear that the tasks are part of something bigger; something related to Desire and Lamia, the strange, neglected daughter Leandros keeps locked away. Lamia knows her father hides her for her own protection, though as she and Eirene grow closer, she finds herself longing for the outside world. But the price of freedom is high, and with something deadly--something hungry--stalking the night, that price must be paid in blood. . . .--
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