Summary: Three young, unemployed Frenchmen living in the ghettos surrounding Paris get embroiled in a violent conflict with the local police.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London, an irrepressible mum and dad and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a sneering layabout. A vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams (such as the father's desire to open a food truck) carry enormous weight. Perched on the line between humor and melancholy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LIFSummary: In the heart of the 1970s, amid a flurry of feathered hair and flared jeans, Gru (Oscar nominee Steve Carell) is growing up in the suburbs. A fanboy of a supervillain supergroup known as the Vicious 6, Gru hatches a plan to become evil enough to join them. Luckily, he gets some mayhem-making backup from his loyal followers, the Minions. Together, Kevin, Stuart, Bob, and Otto, a new Minion...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MINKukafka, Danya
Summary: "When fifteen-year-old Lucinda Hayes is found dead in her sleepy Colorado suburb, the secret lives of three people connected to her are revealed: the social outcast who loved her from afar, the jaded girl who despised her, and the policeman investigating her death"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUKHerold, Benjamin
Summary: "Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son. North of Dallas, a conservative white family relocates to an affluent suburban enclave, but can't escape the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Ball, Bethany
Summary: "Welcome to small town Connecticut, a place whose inhabitants seem to have it all-the status, the homes, the money, and the ennui. There's Tripp and Virginia, beloved hosts whom the community idolizes, and whose basement hides among other things a secret stash of guns and a drastic plan to survive the end times. There's Gunter and Rachel, recent transplants who left New York City to raise their...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BALGallagher, Leigh
Summary: "For nearly 70 years, the suburbs were as American as apple pie. As the middle class ballooned and single-family homes and cars became more affordable, we flocked to pre-fabricated communities in the suburbs, a place where open air and solitude offered a retreat from our dense, polluted cities. Before long, success became synonymous with a private home in a bedroom community complete with a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.74 GALAcampora, Lauren.
Summary: John likes to arrive first. He enjoys standing quietly with a house before his clients arrive, and today, although he feels pinned beneath an invisible weight, he resolves to savor this solitary moment. It's one of those overhauled ranches so common to Old Cranbury these days, swollen and dressed to resemble a colonial. White, of course, with ornamental shutters and latches pretending to hold...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ACAAdelman, Melissa A.
Summary: "Desperate Housewives meets The Couple Next Door in a chilling story of murder and intrigue set in a well-to-do DC suburb. Sometimes the darkest acts occur in the most beautiful houses... When Alexis and her husband Sam buy a neglected Cape Cod house in an exclusive DC suburb, they are ecstatic. Sam is on the cusp of making partner at his law firm, Alexis is pregnant with their second child,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ADEBrubaker, Ed
Summary: Like a true crime podcast crossed with a long-lost diary, Where the Body Was is unlike anything Brubaker and Phillips have ever done, and a must-have for all their avid fans! A boarding house full of druggies. A neglected housewife. A young girl who thinks she's a superhero. A cop who wants to be left alone. And a Private Detective looking for a runaway girl. These stories collide one fateful...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics, Inc. 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BRULancaster, Jen
Summary: Longing for the high-school days when she was popular and feared, thirty-seven-year-old Lyssy Ryder moves back into her parents' home after being dumped by her husband, a situation that compels her to try to change the mean person she was as a teenager.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANLeinberger, Christopher B.
Contents: Introduction -- Futurama and the 20th-century American dream -- The rise of drivable sub-urbia -- The standard real estate product types : why every place looks like every place else -- Consequences of drivable sub-urban growth -- The market rediscovers walkable urbanism -- Defining walkable urbanism : why more is better -- Unintended consequences of walkable urbanism -- Achieving the next...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.76 LEISummary: New parents Mac and Kelly are living the American Dream, complete with a baby girl and a new home in the suburbs. Still, they want to believe that they are still cool, so when they discover that their new next-door neighbors are dozens of fraternity brothers-led by charismatic Teddy-they try to play along. But when the parties grow increasingly more epic, both sides begin to fend for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NEICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NEI RATED RHeadley, Maria Dahvana
Summary: From the perspective of those who live in Herot Hall, the suburb is a paradise. Picket fences divide buildings--high and gabled--and the community is entirely self-sustaining. Each house has its own fireplace, each fireplace is fitted with a container of lighter fluid, and outside--in lawns and on playgrounds--wildflowers seed themselves in neat rows. But for those who live surreptitiously...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Headley 2018Kiste, Gwendolyn
Summary: "Three childhood friends miraculously survive the night when everyone in their suburban hometown turns into ghosts"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2024
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC KISLangan, Sarah
Summary: "From three-time Bram Stoker-Award-winning novelist Sarah Langan comes a propulsive literary suburban noir set in near-future America during the hottest summer on record. Maple Street has a neighborly cul-de-sac, where a terrible secret tears a rift between two misfit moms who were once best friends. When innocent Shelly Schroeder falls down a sinkhole, it's one mom's word against the other's,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANSummary: After his father's death, Kale Brecht becomes a sullen, withdrawn, and troubled young man. He finds himself under a court-ordered sentence of house arrest after a run in with the law. His mother, Julie, works night and day to support herself and her son, only to be met with Kale's indifference and lethargy. As the walls of his house begin to close in on Kale, he turns into a voyeur as his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER DISAlbert, Melissa
Summary: Ivy's summer break kicks off with an accident, a punishment, and a mystery: a stranger whose appearance in the middle of the road, in the middle of the night, heralds a string of increasingly unsettling events. As the days pass, Ivy grapples with eerie offerings, corroded memories, and a secret she's always known: that there's more to her mother than meets the eye. Back then, the summer Dana...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALBTobin, Paul
Summary: Zomboss struggles to nab his future technology when Crazy Dave's frog-belching machine keeps closing his portals. Future Nate and Rose fight Super Brainz. Future Patrice tries to give Zomboss an E.M. Peach in one of his portals while Citron fights off zombies. Patrice keeps guard on the ice cream cruise, while Nate is distracted by a machine proclaiming it has the best ice cream.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2018
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC TOBPlatt, Christine A.
Summary: De’Andrea Whitman, her husband Malik, and their five-year-old daughter, Nina, are new to the upper-crust white suburb of Rolling Hills, Virginia—a move motivated by circumstance rather than choice. De’Andrea is heartbroken to leave her comfortable life in the Black oasis of Atlanta, and between her mother-in-law’s Alzheimer's diagnosis, her daughter starting kindergarten, and the overwhelming...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PLAAcampora, Lauren
Summary: "Celebrated by the Boston Globe as "a brilliant anthropologist of the suburbs," the seductively weird and darkly offbeat Lauren Acampora returns to the lush world that got us all hooked on the NPR Best Book of the Year The Wonder Garden, drawing us into the secret lives of a polished Connecticut haven and jolting us with the sparks that fly when those lives collide. Formerly a model and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ACACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ACADeneen, Brendan
Summary: "Barely employed millennials Tom and Jenny Decker have to grow up fast when they lose their cheap Manhattan apartment. Leaving "the city" is hard, but the blow is softened when they stumble upon a surprisingly affordable house in the suburbs. For Tom, the bills, the mortgage, and Jenny's unexpected pregnancy add up to terror. He's not ready for this kind of responsibility. Then he finds the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 2018