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Stephanie's Picks - Books and Movies that Make Me Happy

by Vickie Montigaud-Green on 2020-03-05T12:42:00-05:00 in Staff Picks | 0 Comments

Stephanie Gardner, our Special Collections Librarian, has chosen a wide range of DVDs and books that make her happy. Can we ask for anything more? Enjoy these selections and share in the happiness.

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Some Books:

Slade House by David Mitchell

Call Number: PR 6063 .I785 S53 2016

Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door. Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, you'll find the entrance to Slade House. A stranger will greet you by name and invite you inside. At first, you won't want to leave. Later, you'll find that you can't. . . "...the ultimate spooky nursery tale for adults."--The Huffington Post

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende; Magda Bogin (Translator)

Call Number: 863 A432ho, 1993

The House of the Spirits is the magnificent epic of the Trueba family -- their loves, their ambitions, their spiritual quests, their relations with one another, and their participation in the history of their times, a history that becomes destiny and overtakes them all.

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman; Dave McKean (Illustrator); Margaret Atwood (Foreword by)

Call Number: Juv. Fic. G141gr, 2008

Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place--he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well as their ghostly teachings--such as the ability to Fade so mere mortals cannot see him. Can a boy raised by ghosts face the wonders and terrors of the living world?

Spook: science tackles the afterlife by Mary Roach

Call Number: BL 535 .R63 S66 2006

What happens when we die? Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life goes on after we die. She begins the journey in rural India with a reincarnation researcher and ends up in a University of Virginia operating room where cardiologists have installed equipment near the ceiling to study out-of-body near-death experiences.

The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey

Call Number: PS 3551 .B2 M66 2000

Edward Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang a "comic extravaganza," which it is, although one with a clear, serious message: to protect the American wilderness from the forces of commercial enterprise. The story centers on George Hayduke, an ex-Green Beret and Vietnam vet, who returns to the Southwestern desert after the war to find his beloved canyons and rivers threatened by industrial development.

The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers

Call Number: 813.54 P888an, 1997

Brendan Doyle, a specialist in the work of the early-19 c. poet William Ashbless, reluctantly accepts an invitation to act as a guide to time-travelling tourists. He becomes marooned in Regency London, where dark and dangerous forces know about the gates in time. Caught up in the intrigue between rival bands of beggars, pursued by Egyptian sorcerers, and befriended by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, does Doyle escape?

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Call Number: 823.92 C611jo, 2009

In nineteenth-century England, all is going well for rich, reclusive Mr Norell, who has regained some of the power of England's magicians from the past, until a rival magician, Jonathan Strange, appears and becomes Mr Norrell's pupil.

The Sandman Omnibus by Neil Gaiman

Call Number: PN 6278 .S26 G35 2013

The Sandman is the universally lauded masterwork following Morpheus, Lord of the Dreaming--a vast hallucinatory landscape housing all the dreams of any and everyone who's ever existed. Regardless of cultures or historical eras, all dreamers visit Morpheus' realm--be they gods, demons, muses, mythical creatures, or simply humans who teach Morpheus some surprising lessons.

Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

Call Number: PS 3561 .I496 P76 2000

Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia. At the heart of these intertwined narratives is a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region.

And Some DVDs:

Harvey

Call Number: DVD 791.4372 H341, 2000

Comedy about a good-natured fellow whose constant companion is a six-foot tall invisible rabbit.

O Pioneers

Call Number: DVD 791.4372 O11p, 2003

Based on the novel by Willa Cather, this 1992 hallmark Hall of Fame production recounts the story of the turn of the century, an immigrant's daughter inherits her family's Nebraska farm and her father's fierce love for the land.

Rocketman

Call Number: DVD 791.4372 R6825 2019

An epic musical fantasy about the uncensored human story of Sir Elton John's breakthrough years.

Cave of forgotten dreams by Werner Herzog

Call Number: DVD 759.0112 C378o, 2011

Overcoming considerable technical challenges, iconic director Werner Herzog takes viewers into the interior of Chauvet Cave, home of 32,000-year-old artworks--pristine and astonishingly realistic drawings of horses, cattle, and lions--come alive in the torchlight, as Herzog muses on the earliest manifestation of our primal desire to communicate and represent the world around us, which leads him to wider metaphysical contemplations on evolution and our place within it, and ultimately on what it means to be human.

Robin Hood: Prince of Theives

Call Number: DVD 791.4372 R655hp 2010

After returning home from the crusades and finding his home gone and the people of Sherwood oppressed by the evil Sheriff of Nottingham, Robin fights for the good of all men and the love of one woman.

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