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McAnulty, Stacy

Summary: Nine-year-old Frank, his cousin Sam, and cat Saurus's efforts to keep Peanut the newly-hatched dinosaur's existence a secret become more complicated when their grandmother finds a new fossil that looks like Peanut's horn, but a thousand times bigger, and a crew comes to make a movie about it.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J DF 2

Melleby, Nicole

Summary: On a quest to become someone's favorite Ali-O'Connor, ten-year-old middle child Marina enlists Boom, her new neighbor, to help make a documentary about her, but when things do not go according to plan, Marina begins to wonder if she will ever feel like she belongs.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MEL

Summary: Margot, a young woman who was abandoned by her mother as a baby, travels to a secluded Amish community with a documentary film crew seeking answers about her mother and extended family.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2022

Sorry, no copies available

Rodkey, Kelsey

Summary: Eighteen-year-old ex-friends, Saine and Holden, are forced to work together on a documentary that threatens to reveal their true feelings.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROD

Watson, S. J. (Steven J.)

Summary: When two girls disappear from the town of Blackwood Bay, Alex intends to have the residents record their own stories. But she finds a village haunted by a tragedy that overshadows every corner.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WAT

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction Wat

Jackson, Holly

5 holds on 4 copies

Summary: When her mother, who disappeared 16 years before, reappears while a true crime documentary about her case is being filmed, 18-year-old Bel, not buying her mom's unbelievable story about what happened to her, must uncover the real reason Rachel Price is back from the dead.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2024

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JAC

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC JAC

Welch, Jenna Evans

2 holds on 3 copies

Summary: Liv Varanakis's father fled to Greece when she was only eight. What Liv does remember is their shared love for Greek myths and the lost city of Atlantis. When she receives a postcard from her father explaining that National Geographic is funding a documentary about his theories on Atlantis, she jumps at the chance to fly out to Greece and help. On gorgeous Santorini, Liv doesn't want their past...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2020

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Allison, John

Summary: "THE SECRETS OF THE OTHERWORLD ARE REVEALED. It's time to uncover the truth of what really happened to old Chet Charles, how the Eidolon was created...and what it has to do with Jane's parents. But as Heather, Jane, and their increasingly improbable team come face to face with the terrible truth of Spectrum, they'll be forced to make choices that will forever change their futures--or totally,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Box 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 ALL

Walls, Dale

Summary: Making a documentary about queer love that will hopefully win her a scholarship to film school, Dawn is determined to reach her goal, no matter what it takes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WAL

Watson, S. J. (Steven J.)

Summary: When two girls disappear from the town of Blackwood Bay, Alex intends to have the residents record their own stories. But she finds a village haunted by a tragedy that overshadows every corner.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WAT

Summary: A spectacular visual essay composed of epic tableaus, a haunting vision of our modern food industry, and the methods and technology utilized for mass production.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Icarus Films Home Video 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OUR
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OUR

Summary: From real-life friends Annie Clark and Carrie Brownstein comes the metafictional account of two creative forces banding together to make a documentary about St. Vincent's music, touring life, and on-stage persona. But they quickly discover unpredictable forces lurking within subject and filmmaker that threaten to derail the friendship, the project, and the duo's creative lives. From first-time...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC NOW

Summary: An experimental film which uses numerous cinematic techniques (split screens, multiple superimpositions, variable speeds, et cetera) to present a dawn to dusk view of the Soviet Union to study the relation between cinema and reality.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Film Preservation 1998

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MAN

Summary: A filmmaker travels to a remote mountain village secretly planning to record a local ritual ceremony surrounding an old dying woman. He befriends a local boy who ultimately becomes his informant on the fate of the old woman. As the rustling wind, golden light, and deep shadows of the village cast an alluring spell, the deathwatch drags on as the woman stubbornly clings to life, leaving the crew...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WIN

Summary: A look at the world's water crisis and how the causes of the depleting water supply is connected to pollution, human rights, and even politics. Features interviews with scientists and activists. Includes commentary, expanded interviews, and more.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FLO

Golden, Christopher

Summary: "Christopher Golden's Road of Bones is a stunning supernatural thriller set in Siberia, where a film crew is covering an elusive ghost story about a highway built on top of the bones of prisoners of Stalin's gulag. Kolyma Highway, otherwise known as the Road of Bones, is a 1200 mile stretch of Siberian road where winter temperatures can drop as low as sixty degrees below zero. Under Stalin, at...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOL

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOL

Wilson, Kea

Summary: "An ambitious debut novel by an original young writer, We Eat Our Own blurs the lines between life and art with the story of a film director's unthinkable experiment in the Amazon. When a nameless, struggling actor in 1970s New York gets the call that an enigmatic director wants him for an art film set in the Amazon, he doesn't hesitate: he flies to South America, no questions asked. He...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIL

Summary: Shot over a ten-year period, this documentary follows the changing times in New York's East Village as seen through the eyes of Josh Pais who grew up on 7th Street.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paradise Acres Productions 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SEV

Landis, Matthew

Summary: Seventh grader Oliver, a Civil War buff and weekend reenactor, is partnered with two misfits--Ella, who is on the verge of failing all her classes, and Kevin, who is Oliver's lunch companion--to create a documentary about the wartime experience of a CivilWar contemporary, and while they conduct research in local historical societies, collaborate on a script, and edit the film, they discover...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2018

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LAN

Watson, S. J. (Steven J.)

Summary: "Blackwood Bay. An ordinary place, home to ordinary people. It used to be a buzzing seaside destination. But now, ravaged by the effects of dwindling tourism and economic downturn, it's a ghost town--and the perfect place for film-maker Alex to shoot her new documentary. But the community is deeply suspicious of her intentions. After all, nothing exciting ever happens in Blackwood Bay--or does...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAT

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAT

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WAT

Summary: Lars von Trier enters the world of documentary filmmaking and challenges his idol Jørgen Leth to remake his 1967 film The Perfect Human five times, each time with a new obstruction, hoping each time that he will fail!

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FIV

Binchy, Maeve.

Summary: Ella Brady, hoping to capture the spirit of Dublin from the 1970s through the end of the century by filming a documentary on the popular restaurant, Quentins, and its owners, Patrick and Brenda Brennan, begins to wonder if there are some stories that are just too precious to be told.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIN

Carpenter, Emily

Summary: "Dove Jarrod was a renowned evangelist and faith healer. Only her granddaughter, Eve Candler, knows that Dove was a con artist. In the eight years since Dove's death, Eve has maintained Dove's charitable foundation--and her lies. But just as a documentaryteam wraps up a shoot about the miracle worker, Eve is assaulted by a vengeful stranger intent on exposing what could be Dove's darkest...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAR

Coble, Colleen

Summary: Police Chief Jane Hardy is still reeling from the scandal that rocked her small-town department just as she took over for her retired father--the man who wrecked her life with one little lie. Now she's finally been reunited with her presumed-dead fifteen-year-old son, Will, and his father, documentarian Reid Bechtol. When a murder aboard the oil platform Zeus exposes an environmental...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COB

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