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Final cut by Charles BurnsAs a child, Brian and his friend Jimmy would make sci-fi films in their yards, convincing their friends to star as victims of grisly murders, smearing lipstick on the "bodies" to simulate blood. Now an artist and aspiring filmmaker, Brian and his friends, set off to a remote cabin in the woods with an old 16 millimeter camera to make a true sci-fi horror movie, an homage to Brian's favorite movie: Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Rife with references to classic sci-fi and horror movies and filled with panels of stunning depictions of nature, film and the surreal, Burns blurs the line between Brian's dreams and reality, imagination and perception.
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Good Dirt: a novel by Charmaine WilkersonEbby Freeman's life unravels when her brother is killed and a centuries-old family heirloom is shattered but years later, while fleeing a public breakup, she uncovers how that lost, shattered jar may hold secrets to her future. Also available on Libby |
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The Sirens by Emilia HartLucy searches for her missing sister Jess in a modern-day coastal Australian town shrouded in eerie legends, uncovering connections to Jess's adolescent past and twin sisters from 1800 whose haunting ties to the sea ripple across generations.
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Helen of Troy, 1993: poems by Maria ZoccolaIn the hills of Sparta, Tennessee, in the early nineties, Helen makes a drastic choice to break free from the life that stifles her: marriage, motherhood, the monotonous duties of a small-town housewife. But in this world of community and tradition, leaving isn't the same thing as staying gone. This debut poetry collection explores Helen's isolation and rebellion as her expansive personality wars against the social rigidity of her community. Part retelling, part character study, Helen of Troy, 1993 is a sharp, visceral debut poetry collection that blends the line between myth and modernity with an unforgettable voice that shows the Homeric Helen like she's never been seen before.
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The History of Sound: stories by Ben ShattuckA collection of twelve stories set across three centuries, from 1700s Nantucket to the contemporary woods of New Hampshire and beyond, examines the unexpected ways the past returns to us and how love and loss are entwined and transformed for generations.
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Noodles on a Bicycle by Kyo MaclearIn this fast-paced historical picture book about Tokyo's bicycle food deliverers, children watch the delivery men set off to deliver steaming trays of noodles to hungry customers all over the city and want to be them, practicing with bowls of wobbling water stacked on trays. Also available on Hoopla |
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Open Season by Jonathan KellermanThe body of an aspiring actress is found, another victim is shot by a sniper, and then more bodies pile up, and psychologist Alex Delaware and homicide detective Milo Sturgis must face a highly complex killer that will require all their skills to decipher. Also available on Libby |
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Lies He Told Me by James PattersonWhen Marcie Bowers, an attorney and mother of two in Hemingway Grove, Illinois, discovers her husband David's secret life, it could mean a death sentence for them all.
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In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John became fast friends with Henry and in the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, preventable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing over a million people every year. In Everything is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry's story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world--and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis.
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The Wedding People by Alison EspachMistaken for a wedding guest while staying at the grand Cornwall Inn, Phoebe Stone, at rock bottom, is determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself, and unexpectedly becomes bride's confidant and through her, meets a cast of surprising characters who help her start anew. Also available on Libby |
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theatrical, rock-injected, arena-ready pop is surprisingly representative of Fireworks & Rollerblades, an album flush with full-throated (sometimes strained) belting, earnest affirmations, self-doubt, and good relationship intentions." Available on Hoopla |
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Written in the Waters: a memoir of history, home, and belonging by Tara RobertsRecounts the author's transformative journey with the underwater archaeology group Diving With a Purpose, exploring shipwrecks of the transatlantic slave trade across various countries while connecting with fellow divers and delving into her own family history, ultimately seeking to understand her identity as a Black woman shaped by the legacy of enslavement. Available on Hoopla |
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Cue the Sun: the invention of reality TV by Emily NussbaumFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker writer this history of reality television focuses on its origins as told through the voices of those who built it as well as the consequences of the hunt for something real inside something fake. Also available on Libby |
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I Must Betray You by Ruta SepetysIn a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Also available on Libby |
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Go Tell It on the Mountain by James BaldwinGo Tell It on the Mountain was James Baldwin's first major work, based in part on his own childhood in Harlem. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a Pentecostal storefront church in Harlem. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle toward self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understood themselves. Also available on Libby |
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Telephone Tales by Gianni RodariA children's collection of nearly seventy short and surreal stories told by Signor Bianchi, a traveling salesman, to his daughter over the telephone nightly
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