Upload
others
View
0
Download
0
Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
March 2015 New DVDs
The Habitable Planet What makes Earth unique
among planets? This multimedia course explores
the natural functions of Earth’s systems, placing emphasis on the effects that human actions have
had on these systems. Professional development guide also available in the
LMC.
Glacial Balance A contemplative
documentary film showing the effects climate change is
having on Andean glaciers and the lives of those who
depend on them for survival. In the film, we travel along
the spine of the Andes mountain range, from Colombia to Argentina,
getting to know the lives of those who will be first
affected by the dwindling glacier reserve.
Into the Woods
A witch tasks a childless baker and his wife with procuring magical items from classic fairy tales to reverse the curse put on
their family tree.
The Green Prince
The Green Prince exposes a world of betrayals,
impossible choices, and deadly secrets amidst the chaos in the Middle East,
detailing the extraordinary true story of a Palestinian born Israeli informant and
his Israeli Shin Bet handler.
March 2015 New DVDs
Blackfish Killer whales are beloved,
majestic, friendly giants, yet infamous for their capacity to kill viciously. Blackfish
unravels the complexities of this dichotomy, employing the story of the notorious performing whale Tilikum,
who -- unlike any orca in the wild -- has taken the lives of
several people while in captivity.
Do the Right Thing It is the hottest day of the
year on a block in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn; a scorching 24-
hour period that will change the lives of its residents
forever.
Walking With Dinosaurs The first series to use
special effects to present dinosaurs in the style of a
natural history documentary is now newly remasterd and better than
ever! The world of the dinosaurs is stunningly
brought back to life to the long-extinct world of the
past.
Boyhood Filmed over 12 years with
the same cast, Richard Linklater's Boyhood is a groundbreaking story of
growing up as seen through the eyes of a boy named
Mason, who ages from 6-18 years old on screen.
Starring Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette as
Mason's parents.
March 2015 New DVDs
Finding Vivian Maier Now considered one of the
20th century's greatest street photographers, Vivian Maier was a mysterious nanny who secretly took over 100,000
photographs that went unseen during her lifetime. Since
buying her work by chance at auction, amateur historian
John Maloof has crusaded to put this prolific photographer in the history books. Maier's strange and riveting life and
art are revealed.
Stand By Me In a small woodsy Oregon town, a group of friends--
sensitive Gordie (Wil Wheaton), tough guy Chris
(River Phoenix), flamboyant Teddy (Corey Feldman), and
scaredy-cat Vern (Jerry O'Connell)--are in search of a missing teenager's body.
Chef
Jon Favreau leads a hilarious all-star cast in this inspiring comedy about a gifted chef who teams up
with his ex-wife, best friend and son to launch a food
truck business.
Life’s Greatest Miracle NOVA collaborates with
Swedish scientific photographer Lennart
Nilsson to use breathtaking new footage and state-of-the-
art computer animation to show - in more complete
detail than ever before - the making of a human life.
Among the stunning sequences shot by Nilsson is the incredible voyage of the
sperm toward the egg.
March 2015 New DVDs
The Overnighters
A modern-day Grapes of Wrath, this award-winning
documentary is an intimate portrait of job-seekers
desperately chasing the broken American Dream to
the tiny oil boom town of Williston, North Dakota, and
the local pastor who risks everything to help them.
March 2015 New Fiction
The Last American Vampire In Reconstruction-era
America, vampire Henry Sturges is searching for renewed purpose in the
wake of his friend Abraham Lincoln's shocking death. Expansive in scope and
serious in execution, this is sure to appeal to the
passionate readers who made Abraham Lincoln:
Vampire Hunter a runaway success.
The Alex Crow Grasshopper Jungle author
Andrew Smith chronicles the story of Ariel, a refugee who is the sole survivor of an attack
on his small village. Now living with an adoptive family in
Sunday, West Virginia, Ariel's story is juxtaposed against those of a schizophrenic
bomber and the diaries of a failed arctic expedition from
the late nineteenth century . . . and a depressed, bionic
reincarnated crow.
Hold Me Closer Filled with honesty, humor,
and “big, lively, belty” musical numbers, Hold Me
Closer is the no-holds-barred (and many-bars-
held) entirety of the beloved musical first introduced in Will Grayson, Will Grayson,
the award-winning bestseller by John Green
and David Levithan.
The Unraveling of Mercy Louis In this intricate novel of
psychological suspense, a fatal discovery near the
high school ignites a witch-hunt in a Southeast Texas refinery town, unearthing
communal and family secrets that threaten the lives of the town’s girls.
March 2015 New Fiction
Half the World The second installment of the
Shattered Sea series. New York Times bestselling author
Joe Abercrombie’s thrilling new series continues in the
follow-up to Half a King, which George R. R. Martin
hailed as “a fast-paced tale of betrayal and revenge that grabbed me from page 1 and
refused to let go.”
The Infinite Sea How do you rid the Earth of
seven billion humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.
Surviving the first four waves was nearly impossible. Now
Cassie Sullivan finds herself in a new world, a world in which
the fundamental trust that binds us together is gone. As the 5th Wave rolls across the landscape, Cassie, Ben, and Ringer are forced to confront the Others’ ultimate goal: the extermination of the human
race.
My Sunshine Away In My Sunshine Away, M.O. Walsh brilliantly juxtaposes
the enchantment of a charmed childhood with the
gripping story of a violent crime, unraveling families, and consuming adolescent
love. Acutely wise and deeply honest, it is an astonishing
and page-turning debut about the meaning of family, the power of memory, and our
ability to forgive.
Cut Me Free Charlotte begins to receive
mysteriousmessages. Threatening notes left in her apartment--without a trace of entry. And they’re addressed to Piper, her old name. As the messages grow in frequency,
she doesn’t just need to uncover who is leaving them;
she needs to stop whoever it is before anyone else she loves
ends up dead.
March 2015 New Fiction
Green on Blue
Having served five tours of duty in Afghanistan and
Iraq, Elliot Ackerman has written a gripping, morally complex debut novel, an
astonishing feat of empathy and imagination about boys caught in a deadly conflict.
The Sound of Letting Go For sixteen years, Daisy has
been good. A good daughter, helping out with her autistic
younger brother uncomplainingly. A good
friend, even when her best friend makes her feel like a
third wheel. When her parents announce they’re sending her
brother to an institution—without consulting her—Daisy’s furious, and decides the best way to be a good sister is to
start being bad.
Seeker The night Quin Kincaid takes
her Oath, she will become what she has trained to be her entire life. As a Seeker, Quin
will fight beside her two closest companions, Shinobu and John, to protect the weak
and the wronged. Together they will stand for light in a
shadowy world.And she'll be with the boy she loves--who's
also her best friend. But the night Quin takes her
Oath, everything changes.
Game Seven Since he was ten, Julio has lived in the shadow of his famous father. Not just because Julio Senior is a
pitcher for the Miami Marlins, but because he fled
Cuba to play professional baseball, leaving his Julio and his mother and sister branded as the family of a
traitor.
March 2015 New Fiction
The Wrong Side of Right Fans of Sarah Dessen and
Huntley Fitzpatrick will enjoy this smart debut young adult
novel, equal parts My Life Next Door and The Princess
Diaries—plus a dash of Aaron Sorkin.Kate Quinn’s mom died
last year, leaving Kate parentless and reeling. So
when the unexpected shows up in her living room, Kate
must confront another reality she never thought possible—or
thought of at all.
The Memory Key Lora's story of longing for
her lost mother—and for the truth behind her broken
memories—takes readers on a twisty ride. The authentic, emotional
narrative sparks fascinating questions about memory
and privacy in a world that increasingly relies on
electronic recall.
Bzrk Apocalypse The staggering conclusion to the BZRK trilogy, from the author of GONE. The members of BZRK are preparing for their final
stand. Noah and Sadie have seen death, and it holds no
fear for them. Madness does, though. And losing
each other.
Whatever Life Throws At You Seventeen-year-old Annie Lucas's life is completely
upended the moment her dad returns to the major leagues as the new pitching coach for the Kansas City Royals. Now she's living in Missouri (too cold), attending an all-girls
school (no boys), and navigating the strange world of professional sports. But Annie has dreams of her own—most
of which involve placing first at every track meet…
March 2015 New Fiction
The Cipher
Eerily close to reality and full of shocking twists, this techno-thriller reveals how
easily the private can become public, and just
how dangerous it can be to encrypt our personal
histories.
The Distance Between Lost and Found
Blending elements of Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak and
Gary Paulsen's Hatchet, debut novelist Kathryn Holmes
delivers a gripping story that author Richard Peck calls a "page-turner about several kinds of survival." From the catty atmosphere of high
school to the unpredictable terrain of the mountains, this
novel is a poignant, raw journey about finding yourself.
Both of Me When her carry-on bag is
accidentally switched with Elias’s identical pack, Clara uses
the luggage tag to track down her things. At that address she discovers there is not one Elias
Phinn, but two: the odd, paranoid, artistic, and often angry Elias she met on the
plane, who lives in an imaginary world of his own making called Salem; and the kind, sweet, and
soon irresistible Elias who greets her at the door, and who
has no recollection of ever meeting Clara at all.
City of Savages
After the Red Allies turn New York City into a POW
camp, two sisters must decipher the past in order to protect the future in this
action-packed thriller with a dual narrative.
March 2015 New Fiction
Infandous Sephora Golding lives in the shadow of her unbelievably
beautiful mother. Even though they scrape by in the seedier part of Venice Beach, she's always felt lucky. As a child, she imagined she was
a minor but beloved character in her mother's
fairy tale. But now, at sixteen, the fairy tale is less
Disney and more Grimm.
Mosquitoland “I am a collection of oddities, a
circus of neurons and electrons: my heart is the ringmaster, my soul is the
trapeze artist, and the world is my audience. It sounds
strange because it is, and it is, because I am strange.” Told in
an unforgettable, kaleidoscopic voice,
Mosquitoland is a modern American odyssey, as hilarious
as it is heartbreaking.
The View From Who I Was While recovering from her
suicide attempt, Oona discovers that the roots of her problems go beyond
herself. To fully understand what happened that night in
the woods, she must confront not only her own pain but the hidden past
that’s suffocating someone she loves.
As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
Banished! is how twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce laments her predicament, when her father and Aunt Felicity ship her off to Miss Bodycote’s Female
Academy. The sun has not yet risen on Flavia’s first day in
captivity when a gift lands at her feet. Flavia being Flavia,
that gift is a charred and mummified body, which
tumbles out of a bedroom chimney.
March 2015 New Fiction
The 5th Wave After the 1st wave, only
darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.
Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie
runs from Them.
Half a King Book one of the Shattered
Sea series. Prince Yarvi has vowed to regain a throne he never wanted. But first he
must survive cruelty, chains, and the bitter
waters of the Shattered Sea. And he must do it all with only one good hand.
Silent Alarm Alys’s whole world was
comprised of the history project that was due, her upcoming violin audition, being held tightly in the
arms of her boyfriend, Ben, and laughing with her best friend, Delilah. At least it
was—until she found herself on the wrong end of a shotgun in the school
library.
The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley
A heartbreaking yet
uplifting story of grief about a boy who has lost
everything, but finds new hope drawing in the
shadows of a hospital. Features a thirty-two-page
graphic novel.
March 2015 New Fiction
Infected Littlefield has written a
heart-stopping adventure about a future in which
science has become humanity’s enemy. A
thrilling read for those who enjoy mysteries, strong
female protagonists, and a smattering of math and
science references in their YA lit.
The Last Time We Say Goodbye
From New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Hand comes a gorgeous
and heart-wrenching story of love, loss, and letting go.
The Last Time We Say Goodbye is a thoughtful and deeply affecting novel that
will change the way you look at life and death.
Casebook
Casebook brilliantly reveals an American family coming
apart at the seams and, simultaneously,
reconstituting itself to sustain its members
through their ultimate trial.
Bone Gap As we follow them through
their melancholy pasts, their terrifying presents, their
uncertain futures, acclaimed author Laura Ruby weaves a
heartbreaking tale of love and loss, magic and mystery,
regret and forgiveness—a story about how the face the world sees is never the sum
of who we are.
March 2015 New Fiction
The Girl With All The Gifts Melanie is a very special girl. Dr Caldwell calls her "our little genius." Every
morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for
her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they
don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite, but they
don't laugh.
Shadow Scale The kingdom of Goredd: a world where humans and dragons share life with an
uneasy balance, and those few who are both human and
dragon must hide the truth. Seraphina is one of these, part
girl, part dragon, who is reluctantly drawn into the
politics of her world. When war breaks out between the
dragons and humans, she must travel the lands to find
those like herself.
Little White Lies The first time Lou meets mysterious Christian, she knows he is The One. But
Christian is hiding a terrible secret. Why does he clam up every time Lou asks about his
past? Why doesn’t he have any family photos, and why does he dye his blond hair black? When Christian’s house goes
up in flames, his tires are slashed, and he flees for his life, Lou insists on going with
him.
March 2015 New Non-Fiction
The Man from Essence depicts with candor and
insight how Edward Lewis, CEO and publisher of
Essence, started a magazine with three black men who would transform
the lives of millions of black American women and alter the American marketplace.
Rebel Music This fascinating, timely, and
important book on the connection between music
and political activism among Muslim youth around the
world looks at how hip-hop, jazz, and reggae, along with
Andalusian and Gnawa music, have become a means of building community and
expressing protest in the face of the West’s policies in the
War on Terror.
Here. From one of the great
comic innovators, the long-awaited fulfillment of a pioneering comic vision.
Richard McGuire’s Here is the story of a corner of a
room and of the events that have occurred in that space over the course of hundreds
of thousands of years.
(With full-color illustrations throughout.)
Exposing Torture Exposing Torture tackles
complex questions, delving into the history of torture
around the world, from the flayings, burnings, and other methods of torture in ancient societies to the humiliating forms of psychological and
sexual torture of the twenty-first century. But is torture an effective means of controlling
human behavior?
March 2015 New Non-Fiction
No Place to Hide Greenwald fits all the pieces together, recounting his high-intensity ten-day trip to Hong Kong, examining the broader
implications of the surveillance detailed in his reporting for The Guardian,
and revealing fresh information on the NSA’s
unprecedented abuse of power with never-before-seen
documents entrusted to him by Snowden himself.
Buy-ology How much do we know about
why we buy? What truly influences our decisions in today's message-cluttered
world? An eye-grabbing advertisement, a catchy
slogan, an infectious jingle? Or do our buying decisions
take place below the surface, so deep within our
subconscious minds, we're barely aware of them?
Dead Wake The untold story of the
Lusitania. This title switches between hunter and hunted
while painting a larger portrait of America at the height of the
Progressive Era. Full of glamour and suspense, Dead Wake brings to life a cast of
evocative characters. Gripping and important, it captures the sheer drama and emotional power of a disaster whose intimate details and true meaning have long been
obscured by history.
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom
Straightforward and inspiring, this beautifully illustrated memoir brings readers into the middle of the Civil Rights Movement, complementing Common Core classroom learning and bringing history alive
for young readers.
March 2015 New Non-Fiction
Nature Anatomy See the world in a new way! Acclaimed illustrator Julia Rothman celebrates the diverse curiosities and
beauty of the natural world in this exciting new volume.
With whimsically hip illustrations, every page is an extraordinary look at all
kinds of subjects
The Truth About Nature Does moss only grow on the north side of a tree? Is the
North Star really the brightest star? Will a mother bird
abandon its baby if you put it back in its nest? Will toads
really give you warts?The Truth About Nature answers all of these questions and more.
This useful compendium for parents and children to read
together sets the record straight on nature myths
once and for all.
The Hunt for the Golden Mole Girling, named
Environmental Journalist of the Years 2008 and 2009,
has here chronicled – through the hunt for the
Somali golden mole – the development of the
conservation movement, the importance of diversity in the
animal kingdom, including humankind within this realm,
as well as a hard look at extinction.
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
A heartfelt, and riveting biography of the short life of
a talented young African-American man who escapes
the slums of Newark for Yale University only to
succumb to the dangers of the streets—and of one’s
own nature—when he returns home.
March 2015 New Non-Fiction
American Sniper Kyle, who was tragically killed in 2013, writes honestly about the pain of war,and in moving
first-person passages throughout, his wife, Taya, speaks openly about the
strains of war on their family, as well as on Chris. Gripping
and unforgettable, Kyle’s masterful account of his extraordinary battlefield
experiences ranks as one of the great war memoirs of all
time.
Ghost Boy They all thought he was gone. But he was alive and trapped inside his own body for ten
years. Ghost Boy is the heart-wrenching story of one boy’s
return to life through the power of love and faith. In these pages, readers see a
parent’s resilience, the consequences of
misdiagnosis, abuse at the hands of cruel caretakers, and
the unthinkable duration of Martin’s mental alertness
betrayed by his lifeless body.
A Cup of Water Under My Bed
A heartfelt exploration of
family, identity, and language, A Cup of Water
Under My Bed is ultimately a daughter’s story of finding herself and her community,
and of creating a new, queer life.
The People’s Republic of Chemicals
Maverick environmental writers William J. Kelly and Chip Jacobs
follow up their acclaimed Smogtown with a provocative
examination of China’s ecological calamity already imperling a
warming planet. Toxic smog most people figured was obsolete
needlessly kills as many as died in the 9/11 attacks every day, while sometimes Grand Canyon-sized drifts of industrial particles aloft
on the winds rain down ozone and waterway-poisoning mercury in
America.
March 2015 New Non-Fiction
Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be
Over the last few decades, Americans have turned
college admissions into a terrifying and occasionally
devastating process. Where you go isn't who you'll be.
Americans need to hear that-and this indispensable manifesto says it with
eloquence and respect for the real promise of higher
education.
The Wal-Mart Effect Wal-Mart isn’t just the
world’s biggest company, it is probably the world’s most written-about. But no book until this one has managed
to penetrate its wall of silence or go beyond the
usual polemics to analyze its actual effects on its
customers, workers, and suppliers.
Deep In Deep, Nestor embeds with a gang of extreme athletes and renegade researchers who are transforming not only our knowledge of the
planet and its creatures, but also our understanding of the human body and mind. Along
the way, he takes us from the surface to the Atlantic’s
greatest depths, some 28,000 feet below sea level.
Dreaming In Indian A powerful and visually
stunning anthology from some of the most
groundbreaking Native artists working in North
America today. Truly universal in its themes, Dreaming In Indian will shatter commonly held
stereotypes and challenge readers to rethink their own
place in the world.