DVDs @Your Library

Hello again, movie buffs!
For those of you who don’t already participate in the
Friday afternoon mad rush for DVDs, maybe this will draw you in…




In the collection now:

Jumper, call number 1525V
Superbad, call number 516V
There Will Be Blood, call number 654V
P.S. I Love You, call number 1515V
House – Season 3, call number 1517V
27 Dresses, call number 1514V


And coming soon, watch for these new titles:

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Baby Mama
Bank Job
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Mad Men – Season 1
Semi-Pro
Persepolis
Pushing Daisies
The Spiderwick Chronicles

We will be adding new titles throughout the year, so be sure to check back to find out what’s new and noteworthy.

Just in time for those leisurely fall afternoons when you’re dying to relax with a good read (i.e. not required for class)! Here are a just a few highlights of new books in the Leisure Reading Collection:


Supreme Courtship, by Christopher Buckley
What would happen if the president of the United States nominated a tv judge to the Supreme Court? A comic novel that delves into the psyche of the Supreme Court, from the mind that brought you Thank You for Smoking and Little Green Men.

Resistance, by Agnes Humbert (translated by Barbara Mellor)
Subtitled “A Woman’s Journal of Struggle and Defiance in Occupied France”, this moving first-person account of the German occupation of France during the Second World War is a gripping read. Agnes Humbert was a respected art historian and a founder of the Musee de l’Homme resistance group. Her original journal was published in France in 1946, but never before translated into English.

Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men, by Michael Kimmel
Based on interviews with young men aged 16 to 26, high school to college, frat house to military academy, sports bar and beyond, Kimmel provides insight into what constitutes “Guyland”, a phase of social development that is seemingly immune to the influences of parents, girlfriends, kids and other hallmarks of adulthood.

Indignation, by Philip Roth
The newest novel from PEN and National Book Award winning author Roth, Indignation has been described as Roth’s most autobiographical novel yet. The book tells the tale of a young man from Newark, NJ experiencing college in the Midwest in the early 1950’s, struggling to understand the cultural and social constrictions of a very different world.

Being Elizabeth, by Barbara Taylor Bradford
Okay, I’ll admit it – I ordered this one based on the title alone. But it’s not about me, or even a librarian.
Being Elizabeth is the story of a young woman catapulted to a senior position in a global corporation after the death of the matriarch. In classic Bradford fashion, this novel tells the tale of a woman who is successful because she is determined, clever and committed, but not without sacrifice and heartbreak along the way. Doesn’t sound a bit like my life, but an entertaining read nonetheless.

This is just a sampling of titles found in the Leisure Collection, located on the 2nd floor