Summary: When a ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a soap salesman channel their aggresion into therapeutic "fight clubs", an eccentric woman gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIGRegan, Lisa
Summary: Children will follow Henry as he deals with his feelings of anger and his bad habit of hitting through various situations involving friends and family. His big brother Ben cheats at hide-and-seek. A group of children playing in the park leave him out of their game. His father asks him to behave while they shop. Readers are given a description of the situation, three choices, the action chosen...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 303.6 REGJeffers, Oliver
Summary: Merging space travel with a road trip, a father drives all over the solar system at 37mph in order to allow his children to view the conflicts of Earth's history in the rearview mirror. Whether it's only been the 78 years it takes to drive to Venus or the 8,000 it takes to get to Neptune, humans have been fighting each other for small pieces of space on our planet.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JEFEnglehardt, John
Summary: Bloomland opens during finals week at a fictional southern university, when a student walks into the library with his roommate's semi-automatic rifle and opens fire. When he stops shooting, twelve people are dead. In this richly textured debut, John Englehardt explores how the origin and aftermath of the shooting impacts the lives of three characters: a disillusioned student, a grieving...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dzanc Books 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENGRose, Jacqueline
Summary: We see it in the streets, where black people are dying at the hands of the police. We see it in our courts, whose scales are tipped toward the powerful. What about the violence behind closed doors? Rose examines violence from postapartheid South Africa to Trump's White House; trans rights, sexual assault, and the #MeToo movement. Is violence always gendered and, if so, always in the same way?...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.88 ROSHill, Anita
Summary: "From the woman who gave the landmark testimony against Clarence Thomas as a sexual menace, a new manifesto about the origins and course of gender violence in our society; a combination of memoir, personal accounts, law, and social analysis, and a powerful call to arms from one of our most prominent and poised survivors. In 1991, Anita Hill began something that's still unfinished work. The...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 HILCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 HILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 HILO'Connell, Mark
Summary: "From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous murder in modern Irish history, at once a propulsive work of true crime and an act of literary subversion. Malcolm MacArthur was a well-known Dublin socialite and heir. Suave and urbane, he passed his days mingling with artists and aristocrats, reading philosophy, living a life of the mind. But by 1982, his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 O'COGibson, S. T.
Summary: "A dizzying nightmare of a romance that will leave you aching, angry and ultimately hopeful." --Hannah Whitten, New York Times bestselling author of For the WolfA deliciously dark retelling of Dracula, A Dowry of Blood is a saga of obsession, desire and the lengths we will go to protect the ones we love.Saved from the brink of death by a mysterious stranger, Constanta is transformed from a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Redhook 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIB1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC GIB
Gill, Joel Christian
Summary: "Fights is the visceral and deeply affecting memoir of artist/author Joel Christian Gill, chronicling his youth and coming of age as a Black child in a chaotic landscape of rough city streets and foreboding backwoods"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 GILSteel, Danielle
Summary: Bill Browning heads the trauma unit at San Francisco's busiest emergency room, SF General. With his ex-wife and daughters in London, he immerses himself in his work and lives for rare visits with his children. A rising star at her teaching hospital, UCSF at Mission Bay, Stephanie Lawrence has two young sons, a frustrated stay-at-home husband, and not enough time for any of them....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STEZizek, Slavoj.
Summary: "Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj Zizek examines the ways we perceive and misperceive violence. Drawing from his unique cultural vision, Zizek brings new light to the Paris riots of 2005; he questions the permissiveness of violence in philanthropy; and, in daring terms, he reflects on the powerful image and determination of contemporary...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.7 ZIZSummary: Paul is a lone drifter who wanders into the forgotten town of Denton, Texas, dubbed by the locals as the valley of violence. There, he picks a fight with the wrong man, Gilly, the troublemaking son of the town's unforgiving marshal. As tensions arise between Paul and Gilly, an inevitable act of violence starts a disastrous chain reaction that quickly drags the whole town into the bloody...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INSummary: In 2029, a weary Logan earns a living as a chauffeur while caring for the ailing Professor X in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to escape from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant girl with extraordinary fighting prowess requires his help to outrun sinister figures working for a powerful corporation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Miller, Frank
Summary: Stuck with nothing but a seedy gumshoe job and some demons, Dwight's thinking of all the ways he's screwed up and what he'd give for one clear chance to wipe the slate clean, to dig his way out of the numb gray hell that is his life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MILSummary: "One of Mexico's most highly regarded works of political cinema, Canoa: A Shameful Memory reimagines a real-life incident that had occurred just eight years before its release, when a group of urban university employees on a hiking trip were viciously attacked by residents of the village of San Miguel Canoa who had been manipulated by a corrupt priest into believing the travelers were communist...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CANSummary: Elder Tales has become a global phenomenon, immersing millions of players in its online fantasy world. However, something goes wrong with the twelfth expansion pack. Eight-year veteran Shiroe and 30,000 other players suddenly find themselves trapped in the game's no-longer-fictional universe!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME LOGHoock, Holger
Summary: "The American Revolution is often portrayed as an orderly, restrained rebellion, with brave patriots defending their noble ideals against an oppressive empire. It's a stirring narrative, and one the founders did their best to encourage after the war. But as historian Holger Hoock shows in this ... account of America's founding, the Revolution was not only a high-minded battle over principles,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 HOOThomas, Angie
Summary: Starr a 16 ans, elle est noire et vit dans un quartier difficile, rythmé par les guerres de gangs, la drogue et les descentes de police. Tous les jours, elle rejoint son lycée blanc situé dans une banlieue chic; tous les jours, elle fait le grand écart entre ses deux vies, ses deux mondes. Mais tout vole en éclats le soir où son ami d'enfance Khalil est tué. Sous ses yeux, de trois balles dans...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nathan 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD FRENCH THOYoung, Skottie
Summary: As Gert navigates a fairy-tale netherworld with a capital "H," Fairyland's baddies brood and brew to revitalize a rotten ruler. Can Fairyland hope to survive the coming storm when the only people trying to save it are the mastermind tag team of Larry and Duncan Dragon? Are the fates of Gertrude and the land she loves to hate more intertwined than anyone expected?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2018
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Iceland's official submission to the Academy Awardsʼ for Best International Feature Film! Addi, a boy raised by a clairvoyant mother, decides to adopt a bullied misfit into his gang of outsiders. Left to their own devices, the boys explore aggression and violence but also learn about loyalty and love. As the group's behavior escalates towards life-threatening situations, Addi begins to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BEASummary: It's 40 years after killer Michael Myers wreaked his havoc on Halloween night. Laurie Strode remembers the horrific event from her first-hand experience of it all. Although Myers has been imprisoned, Strode has been preparing herself for the chance that he'll somehow get out to embark on another killing spree. When Myers does, Strode will be ready to try to end the killer's murderous ways, once...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019