Summary: Bait: A tale of deception and seduction, directed by and starring Hugo Haas features three people searching for a lost gold mine: the dangerous Marko, young miner Ray and the comely Peggy. As Marko and Ray search for the mine, Peggy arrives, stirring Ray's passion and igniting Marko's suspicion. As months pass, the three find themselves closing in on the mine, but the tension between them is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOIFalconer, Ian
Summary: Listening in on her mother's conversations hoping to discover the secret plan for her upcoming birthday, Olivia instead hears her mother talking about her poor behavior and becomes concerned she'll be sent to military school.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2017
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E FALCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FALSummary: When two friends tape-recorded the fights of their violently noisy neighbors, they accidentally created one of the world's first 'viral' pop-culture sensations. The tapes went on to inspire a cult following, spawning sell-out CDs, comic artworks, stage plays, music from the likes of Devo, and a Hollywood feeding frenzy. For the newly famous neighbors Eddie and Mitchell, this would be a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Video Group 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SHUScott, Brett
Summary: A monetary anthropologist examines how the drive to create a cashless digital money empire could lead to dire consequences for our civil liberties and create a dangerous nexus of Big Finance and Big Tech.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.4 SCOSimpson, Mona.
Summary: "From the acclaimed and award-winning author of Anywhere But Here and My Hollywood, a powerful new novel about a young boy's quest to uncover the mysteries of his unraveling family. What he discovers turns out to be what he least wants to know: the inner workings of his parents' lives. And even then he can't stop searching. Miles Adler-Hart starts eavesdropping to find out what his mother is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMKeefe, Patrick Radden
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.12 KEESummary: Set in East Berlin in 1984, a secret service agent assigned to monitor a playwright and his girlfriend begins to question his assignment and his loyalty to the government.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LIV1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LIV
Glancy, Robert
Summary: As the African nation of Bwalo prepares for The Big Day--the only day in the year the ailing King talks to his subjects--we meet five very different people: Charlie, a curious boy with a dangerous dictaphone habit, eavesdrops on the eccentric guests of the Mirage Hotel. Sean, an Irishman who's given his heart (and the best part of his liver) to Bwalo, struggles to write the great African...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Glancy 2016Greenberg, Louis
Summary: When Lucie Sterling's daughter is abducted, she knows it'll be no easy feat to find answers. Stanton is no ordinary city: invasive digital technology has been banned, by public vote. No surveillance state, no shadowy companies holding databases of information on private citizens, no phones tracking their every move. Only one place stays firmly anchored in the bad old ways, in a huge bunker...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SF Greenberg 2019Molloy, Aimee
Summary: "Newlyweds Sam Statler and Annie Potter are head over heels, and excited to say good-bye to New York and start a life together in Sam's sleepy hometown in upstate New York. Or, it turns out, a life where Annie spends most of her time alone while Sam, her therapist husband, works long hours in his downstairs office, tending to the egos of his (mostly female) clientele. Little does Sam know that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MOLSummary: The encyclopedia of crime & justice not only discusses many different kinds of crime--from perjury to terrorism--but also looks at law enforcement, legal procedures and penalties and the social causes and wide-ranging impact of crimes on society. The articles reflect issues dominating the news and entertainment media--topics that are frequently discussed or assigned in both high school and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Reference USA 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Reference, Call number: R 364.03 EncSummary: The encyclopedia of crime & justice not only discusses many different kinds of crime--from perjury to terrorism--but also looks at law enforcement, legal procedures and penalties and the social causes and wide-ranging impact of crimes on society. The articles reflect issues dominating the news and entertainment media--topics that are frequently discussed or assigned in both high school and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Reference USA 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Reference, Call number: R 364.03 EncSummary: The encyclopedia of crime & justice not only discusses many different kinds of crime--from perjury to terrorism--but also looks at law enforcement, legal procedures and penalties and the social causes and wide-ranging impact of crimes on society. The articles reflect issues dominating the news and entertainment media--topics that are frequently discussed or assigned in both high school and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Reference USA 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Reference, Call number: R 364.03 EncSummary: Amid the rise of suburbia, television, rock 'n' roll, and the baby boom generation, jazz lost a beloved and burned-out star: Billie Holiday. But the music still had its two guiding lights. In 1956, the first year Elvis topped the charts, Duke Ellington recaptured the nation's ear with a performance at the Newport Jazz Festival. The next year, Louis Armstrong made headlines when he condemned...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
View online at AVOD
Summary: In this retelling of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," Kathy, deemed "too sensitive for her own good" and told to control herself, is confined to a child's bedroom with barred windows and garish decor by her well-meaning husband. As the enforced idleness of a rest cure begins to drive her mad, Kathy imagines there is someone imprisoned within the wallpaper, and she works to set...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010