mother! directed by Darren Aronofsky...

Darren Aronofksy is BACK and he's bringing Javier Bardem, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jennifer Lawrence and Ed Harris with him for his newest psychological thriller, mother!
Click here to see the Vanity Fair article which features a tiny clip. 
Trailer: August 8th
Movie: September 15th 
See you at the movies!

Darron Aronofsky's films include: Pi, The Fountain, Black Swan, Requiem for a Dream, Noah and The Wrestler. 





 

Memoir "The Glass Castle" will be on the big screen August 11th...

Summary: A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty.

Starring Academy Award winner Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson and Naomi Watts, "The Glass Castle" is based on the book by Jeanette Walls. 

Click here to see an interview with Jeanette Walls and read more about the book. 

National Book Lovers Day is August 9th!

NATIONAL BOOK LOVERS DAY
Fun facts:

*The very first books used parchment or 

vellum (calf skin) for the book pages.

*The book covers were made of wood and often covered with leather.

*The books were fitted with clasps or straps.

*Public libraries appeared in the Middle Ages.

*Books in public libraries were often chained to a bookshelf or a desk to prevent theft.

Check out our Staff Picks table to find a book to celebrate!

2017 Man Booker Long List is here!

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, first awarded in 1969, is open to writers of any nationality, writing in English and published in the UK.

The 2017 longlist, or Man Booker ‘Dozen’, of 13 novels, is:

4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster (US) 

Days Without End by Sebastian Barry (Ireland) 

History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund (US) 

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (Pakistan-UK) 

Solar Bones by Mike McCormack (Ireland) **

Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor (UK) **

Elmet by Fiona Mozley (UK) **

The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy (India) 

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (US) 

Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (UK-Pakistan) 

Autumn by Ali Smith (UK) 

Swing Time by Zadie Smith (UK) 

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (US) 

** - not available in US yet.

You've read everyone else's summer reads, but how about ours? Get 'em quick!

Director Ellen Firer recommends:

Saints for All Occasions, J. Courtney Sullivan
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Women, by Balli Kaur Jaswal
The Alice Network, Kate Quinn
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman
The Bloom Girls, Emily Cavanagh
The Little French Bistro, Nina George
Seven Days of Us, Francesca Hornak
The Magpie Murders, Anthony Horowitz
(place your hold request here)

  
  

I recommend:

  
   
  

The Marsh King's Daughter by Karen Dionne
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Women, by Balli Kaur Jaswal
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman
The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy
The Dry by Jane Harper
Before We Visit the Goddess by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Stranger in the Woods, Michael Finkel
See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt
The Bone Mother by David Demchuk
Alone by Christophe Chaboute
(place your hold requests here)
Enjoy!!

A compelling true crime memoir you won't want to miss...

The Fact of a Body 
by Alexandra Marzano-Lesnevich

Merrick Library made this compelling memoir an instant Staff Pick.

 A National Endowment for the Arts fellow documents the story of how a summer job at a Louisiana law firm and the case of a convicted murderer and child molester changed her views about the death penalty and forced her to confront traumatic secrets in her own family.

The NYT reviews it here.

Here's what the critics say:

“A True Crime Masterpiece” – Vogue 
Entertainment Weekly "Must" List and Best Books of the Year So Far
Real Simple's Best New Books

"The Fact of a Body is one of the best books I've read this year. It's just astounding."
― Paula Hawkins, author of Into the Water and The Girl on the Train

"This book is a marvel. The Fact of a Body is equal parts gripping and haunting and will leave you questioning whether any one story can hold the full truth." ― Celeste Ng, author of the New York Times bestselling Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere

The Dark Tower is coming to theaters August 4th. Are you ready?

Reserve the book that started it all or read them all:
The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands 
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
The Dark Tower VIII: The Wind Through the Keyhole

Whew, that was exhausting!
 Click on any title above to place your reserve. 

Once you start reading, you won't be able to put them down. Perfect binge-reading material! ENJOY.

Click here for some movie times--

be sure to check with the theater just in case!

What's all the hoopla about? 
Read this piece from Off the Shelf...