New DVDs at the Merrick Library

"My Dog Tulip" - The acclaimed animated memoir of a man and his German shepherd - features the voices of Christopher Plummer, Isabella Rossellini and the late Lynn Redgrave

"Ironclad" - Knights struggle to the death against King John in the era of Magna Carta - stars Paul Giamatti, James Purefoy and Derek Jacobi

"Trust" - A family is ripped apart by the father's determination to find his daughter's attacker - stars Clive Owen and Catherine Keener

"Source Code" - How often must a time traveler relive a tragedy to prevent a greater one? - stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan and Vera Farmiga

Tom Cruise is Jack Reacher

It has been confirmed that Tom Cruise has been cast as Jack Reacher, the character in Lee Child's his popular series, in the upcoming film production of One Shot.

Many fans are concerned with this choice, since Jack Reacher is described as a 6'5" 220lb menacing force to be reckoned with. Lee Child thinks that Tom Cruise's global stardom will make up for the lacking physical similarities. Opinions?

New DVD Arrivals

"Arthur" - A modern remake of the classic 1981 comedy, starring Russell Brand, Jennifer Garner and Helen Mirren

"Limitless" - A thriller concerning the price of having it all, starring Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish and Robert DeNiro

"Potiche" - from France - A comedy about finding hidden potential under one's own roof, starring Cathering Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu

"Take Me Home Tonight" - A comedy that deals with surviving the quest for the object of one's dreams, starring Topher Grace and Anna Faris

Books into Movies!

The First Avenger: Captain America
Cast: Chris Evans, Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving, Dominic Cooper, Neal McDonough, Derek Luke, Stanley Tucci, Hayley Atwell, Sebastian Stan, Kenneth Choi
Director: Joe Johnston
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
MPAA Rating: Not yet rated
Release Date: July 22nd (wide)
Based On: Captain America, the Marvel Comics series by Ed Brubaker

Steve Rogers volunteers to participate in an experimental program that
turns him into the Super Soldier known as Captain America. As Captain
America, Rogers joins forces with Bucky Barnes and Peggy Carter to
wage war on the evil HYDRA organization, led by the villainous Red
Skull.

Sarah's Key
Cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Niels Astrup, Melusine Mayance, Frédéric Pierrot, Michel Duchaussoy
Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Distributor: The Weinstein Company
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Release Date: July 22nd (limited)
Based On: SARAH'S KEY by Tatiana de Rosnay

Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a 10-year old girl, is taken with her parents
by the French police as they go door-to-door arresting Jewish families
in the middle of the night. Desperate to protect her younger brother,
Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard --- their secret hiding place
--- and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released.
Sixty-seven years later: Sarah's story intertwines with that of Julia
Jarmond, an American journalist investigating the roundup. In her
research, Julia stumbles onto a trail of secrets that link her to
Sarah, and to questions about her own romantic future.

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New Audiobook Arrivals!!

When her husband swindles his billionaire clients, Meredith Martin Delinn loses not only her home, but her friends and reputation as well. About to lose her house, Meredith is offered a lifeline from her old friend Connie, who proposes the two of them spend the summer in Nantucket to unwind and heal emotionally. As both women tend to their emotional traumas, they slowly learn to live again.




Jack, terminally ill and preparing to say goodbye to his family, has a miraculous recovery after his wife is killed in a car accident and struggles to reunite his family at her childhood home on the South Carolina oceanfront.







When a corpse is found swinging from the marble angel in her family's cemetery, heiress Ashley Donegal turns to an elite team of paranormal investigators to find the truth and must risk everything to unravel family secrets with the help of Jack Mallory, a gifted New Orleans musician with a special ability.






A famous lifestyle arbiter and her shy chef daughter have their lives profoundly transformed on the eve of their 60th and 30th birthdays when a chance encounter in an elevator and a holiday weekend indiscretion lead to new chances at love.







Hoping to set up his own spy operation in his Boston home town, Nick Heller is contacted by a desperate family friend to rescue his kidnapped daughter, whose terrifying incarceration in an underground crypt is being broadcast on the Internet.

Featured Staff Picks!

On the day she was abducted, Annie O'Sullivan, a thirty-two year old realtor, had three goals--sell a house, forget about a recent argument with her mother, and be on time for dinner with her ever- patient boyfriend. The open house is slow, but when her last visitor pulls up in a van as she's about to leave, Annie thinks it just might be her lucky day after all. Interwoven with the story of the year Annie spent as the captive of psychopath in a remote mountain cabin, which unfolds through sessions with her psychiatrist, is a second narrative recounting events following her escape--her struggle to piece her shattered life back together and the ongoing police investigation into the identity of her captor.

The truth doesn't always set you free.
Still Missing is that rare debut find--a shocking, visceral, brutal and beautifully crafted debut novel.



When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life-like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family's future resting on her shoulders, or her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition-Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles.

Through Kimberly's story, author Jean Kwok, who also emigrated from Hong Kong as a young girl, brings to the page the lives of countless immigrants who are caught between the pressure to succeed in America, their duty to their family, and their own personal desires, exposing a world that we rarely hear about. Written in an indelible voice that dramatizes the tensions of an immigrant girl growing up between two cultures, surrounded by a language and world only half understood, Girl in Translation is an unforgettable and classic novel of an American immigrant-a moving tale of hardship and triumph, heartbreak and love, and all that gets lost in translation.