Marilyn Monroe

Sunday, August 5 marks 50 years since the passing of Marilyn Monroe. Watch a movie featuring the actress or read a book that examines or imagines her life.

Sunday, August 5 marks 50 years since the passing of Marilyn Monroe. Watch a movie featuring the actress or read a book that examines or imagines her life.

FILMS

All About Eve
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington moves relentlessly towards her goal: taking the reins of power from the great actress Margo Channing.

The Asphalt Jungle: City Under the City
An aging criminal is released from prison and decides to assemble the old gang to go on one last heist.

Bus Stop
A young cowboy finds the girl of his dreams, and when she is reluctant to accept his proposal, forces her to get on a bus bound for Montana.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Two showgirls set sail on a cruise ship in hopes of catching wealthy husbands.

The Misfits
A group of cowboys and a young divorcee meet in the Nevada desert to try to find a new life.

My Week with Marilyn
While filming “The Prince and the Showgirl,” an assistant director befriends Monroe, and shows her what life in London is like without the spotlight of celebrity.

The Seven Year Itch
A husband of seven years, alone in New York while his family vacations, fantasizes an affair with the TV model in the upstairs apartment.

Some Like it Hot
On the run musicians disguise themselves as women and join a singer in an all-female jazz band in order to escape the mob.

BIOGRAPHIES

Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters by Marilyn Monroe
A collection of written artifacts, notes to herself, letters, even poems, in Marilyn’s own handwriting, never before published, along with rarely seen intimate photos.

Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox by Lois Banner
A portrait of the actress analyzes the paradoxes in her life while reinterpreting previously unexplored aspects of her character, from her foster-care childhood and struggles with sexual abuse to her spiritual side and intellectual views.

Marilyn and Me: Sisters, Rivals, Friends by Susan Strasberg
A unique view of a Hollywood icon by actress Susan Strasberg, who knew Marilyn intimately and competed with her for the attention of her parents, acting teachers Lee and Paula Strasberg.

The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe by J. Randy Taraborrelli (eBook)
Explores the roles of the influential women in her life, including her mentally ill mother, in an account that also discusses Monroe’s own struggles with mental illness, her estranged father, and the Kennedys.

NOVELS

Bye Bye, Baby by Max Allan Collins
Hired by Marilyn Monroe to listen to threatening phone calls from a movie studio that wants to fire her, celebrity private investigator Nate Heller discovers a massive conspiracy to murder the iconic star and faces a career-ending challenge when Monroe turns up dead shortly after.

The Empty Glass by J. I. Baker
A tale inspired by historical events and conspiracy theories follows L.A. County Deputy Coroner Ben Fitzgerald’s investigation into the death of Marilyn Monroe, whose diary describes a doomed love affair and suggests a high-level cover-up.

The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe by Andrew O’Hagan
Given as a Christmas present to Marilyn Monroe, Maf the dog provides keen insight into the world of the Hollywood starlet during the last two years of her life.

Memorial Day

Monday, May 28 is Memorial Day, which commemorates the men and women who died while in the military service. Watch a movie featuring the experiences of soldiers during war and in its aftermath.

Monday, May 28 is Memorial Day, which commemorates the men and women who died while in the military service.  Watch a movie featuring the experiences of soldiers during war and in its aftermath.

Apocalypse Now & Apocalypse Now Redux

Beneath Hill 60

The Best Years of Our Lives

Black Hawk Down

The Bridge on the River Kwai

A Bridge Too Far

The Caine Mutiny

The Deer Hunter

Destination Tokyo

The Devil’s Brigade

Flags of Our Fathers

From Here to Eternity

The Hurt Locker

The Longest Day

Midway

Rescue Dawn

Restrepo

Saving Private Ryan

Taking Chance

The Pacific

The Red Badge of Courage

The Ritchie Boys

The War

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!

Celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day with a movie set in Ireland.

Celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day with a movie set in Ireland.

December Bride
A proud Irish servant girl rebels against her strict upbringing by having love affairs with two brothers at the same time.

Kisses
Two Irish children, both seeking to escape their home lives, run away and wander the streets of Dublin.

Leap Year
Hurt by her boyfriend’s lack of a marriage proposal on their anniversary, Anna flies to Ireland to propose to him on Leap Day and meets a man who helps her get across the country.

Michael Collins
The life and struggles of Irish statesman Michael Collins who negotiated Ireland’s break with England.

Ondine
A fisherman pulls up his nets one day to find a woman inside, which his daughter believes to be a selkie, but as they fall in love, a figure from her past threatens to disrupt their happiness.

Ryan’s Daughter
In the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.

The Eclipse
In a seaside Irish town, romance sparks between a widower, who believes he is seeing the ghost of his not-yet-dead father-in-law, and a horror writer who is in town for a literary festival.

The Guard
A small-town Irish cop with a confrontational personality joins forces with an uptight FBI agent in an effort to take down a gang of drug traffickers.

The Quiet Man
When an American prize-fighter kills a man in the ring, he returns to the Irish village where he was born to find peace and there he meets and falls in love with the sister of the village bully.

The Wind that Shakes the Barley
In 1920s Ireland, two brothers join guerrilla squads fighting British soldiers for Ireland’s independence.

Veronica Guerin
An Irish journalist is assassinated by drug dealers she wrote about in a series of stories.

Visions of Ireland
Explores Ireland’s most scenic views through ground and aerial footage.

Waking Ned Devine
When Ned Devine dies from shock of winning the lottery, two old friends enlist the help of the whole village in defrauding the lottery to claim the prize.

Oscar Best Picture Winners

The 84th annual Academy Awards ceremony is Sunday, February 26. Celebrate by watching one of the previous Best Picture winners!

The 84th annual Academy Awards ceremony is Sunday, February 26. Celebrate by watching one of the previous Best Picture winners!

2010 – The King’s Speech

2009 – The Hurt Locker

2008 – Slumdog Millionaire

2007 – No Country for Old Men

2006 – The Departed

2005 – Crash

2004 – Million Dollar Baby

2003 – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2002 – Chicago

2001 – A Beautiful Mind

2000 – Gladiator

1999 – American Beauty

1998 – Shakespeare in Love

1997 – Titanic

1996 – The English Patient

1995 – Braveheart

1994 – Forrest Gump

1993 – Schindler’s List

1992 – Unforgiven

1991 – The Silence of the Lambs

1990 – Dances With Wolves

1989 – Driving Miss Daisy

1988 – Rain Man

1987 – The Last Emperor

1986 – Platoon

1985 – Out of Africa

1984 – Amadeus

1983 – Terms of Endearment

1982 – Gandhi

1981 – Chariots of Fire

1980 – Ordinary People

1979 – Kramer vs. Kramer

1978 – The Deer Hunter

1977 – Annie Hall

1976 – Rocky

1975 – One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest

1974 – The Godfather Part II

1973 – The Sting

1972 – The Godfather

1971 – The French Connection

1970 – Patton

1969 – Midnight Cowboy

1968 – Oliver!

1967 – In the Heat of the Night

1966 – A Man for All Seasons

1965 – The Sound of Music

1964 – My Fair Lady

1963 – Tom Jones

1962 – Lawrence of Arabia

1961 – West Side Story

1960 – The Apartment

1959 – Ben-Hur

1958 – Gigi

1957 – The Bridge on the River Kwai

1956 – Around the World in 80 Days

1955 – Marty

1954 – On the Waterfront

1953 – From Here to Eternity

1952 – The Greatest Show on Earth

1951 – An American in Paris

1950 – All About Eve

1949 – All the Kings Men

1948 – Hamlet

1947 – Gentleman’s Agreement

1946 – The Best Years of Our Lives

1945 – The Lost Weekend

1944 – Going My Way

1943 – Casablanca

1942 – Mrs. Miniver

1941 – How Green Was My Valley

1940 – Rebecca

1939 – Gone with the Wind

1938 – You Can’t Take It with You

1937 – The Life of Emile Zola

1936 – The Great Ziegfeld

1935 – Mutiny on the Bounty

1934 – It Happened One Night

1932/1933 – Cavalcade

1931/1932 – Grand Hotel

1930/1931 – Cimarron

1929/1930 – All Quiet on the Western Front

1928/1929 – The Broadway Melody

1927/1928 – Wings

February is Black History Month

February is Black History Month. Come into the library for books and DVDs exploring African-American heritage.

February is Black History Month. Come into the library for books and DVDs exploring African-American heritage.

Books

Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle
The Black History of the White House by Clarence Lusane
From Midnight to Dawn: The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad by Jacqueline Tobin with Hettie Jones
Harlem: The Four Hundred Year History from Dutch Village to Capital of Black America by Jonathan Gill
Harlem Speaks: A Living History of the Harlem Renaissance edited by Cary D. Wintz


The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave by Jennifer Fleischner
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
Stories of Freedom in Black New York by Shane White
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

DVDs

The Color Purple
For Colored Girls
The Help

Killer of Sheep
Only the Ball Was White
Passing Strange: The Movie

Scary Movies for Halloween

Celebrate Halloween with a scary movie from the library!

Celebrate Halloween with a scary movie from the library!


1408

The Amityville Horror

The Birds

The Blair Witch Project

Carrie

The Collector

The Crazies

Dawn of the Dead

The Exorcist

Eyes Without a Face

The Grudge

The Hills Have Eyes

Insidious

Jaws

Magic

Mirrors

The Mist

The Omen

Paranormal Activity

Ringu

The Strangers

The Uninvited

Vacancy

Vampyr

White Noise

And, some Frightening Reads.

Novel Destinations: Cuba

Travel the world this summer with our Adult Summer Reading Program, Novel Destinations.

Travel the world this summer with our Adult Summer Reading Program, Novel Destinations.

CUBA:

FICTION

Beautiful Maria of My Soul: Or the True Story of Maria Garcia y Cifuentes, the Lady Behind a Famous Song by Oscar Hijuelos

Dancing to “Almendra” by Mayra Montero

Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina García

Fidel’s Last Days by Roland Merullo

Havana Bay by Martin Cruz Smith

Havana Fever by Leonardo Padura

Havana World Series by José Latour

Tango for a Torturer by Daniel Chavarría

Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner

NON-FICTION

The Boys from Dolores: Fidel Castro’s Schoolmates from Revolution to Exile by Patrick Symmes

The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America’s Doomed Invasion of Cuba’s Bay of Pigs by Jim Rasenberger

Cuba Diaries: An American Housewife in Havana by Isadora Tattlin

Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba–and Then Lost It to the Revolution by T.J. English

The Sugar King of Havana: The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba’s Last Tycoon by John Paul Rathbone

FILMS

Nada

Our Man in Havana

Viva Cuba

Novel Destinations: India

Travel the world this summer with our Adult Summer Reading Program, Novel Destinations.

Travel the world this summer with our Adult Summer Reading Program, Novel Destinations.

INDIA:

FICTION

An Atlas of Impossible Longing by Anuradha Roy

The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing: From the Files of Vish Puri, India’s Most Private Investigator by Tarquin Hall

Dark Road to Darjeeling by Deanna Raybourn

A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta by Paul Theroux

The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri

East of the Sun by Julia Gregson

English, August: An Indian Story by  Upamanyu Chatterjee

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

The Girl in the Garden by Kamala Nair

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The Hero’s Walk by Anita Rau Badami

The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh

Ladies Coupé by Anita Nair

The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay by Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi

The Marriage Bureau for Rich People by Farahad Zama

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

The Miniaturist by Kunal Basu

The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Lekha Banerjee Divakaruni

Partitions by Amit Majmudar

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra

The Sandalwood Tree by Elle Newmark

Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

Six Suspects by Vikas Swarup

The Splendor of Silence by Indu Sundaresan

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

Tiger Hills by Sarita Mandanna

The Toss of a Lemon by Padma Viswanathan

The Weight of Heaven by Thrity Umrigar

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

NON-FICTION

Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors by Lizzie Collingham

Eating India: An Odyssey into the Food and Culture of the Land of Spices by Chitrita Banerji

In the Valley of Mist: Kashmir: One Family in a Changing World by Justine Hardy

India: A History by John Keay

Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple

The Ramayana: A Modern Retelling of the Great Indian Epic by Ramesh Menon

Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India by Miranda Kennedy

Taj Mahal: Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Moghul Empire by Diana and Michael Preston

The Tiger Ladies: A Memoir of Kashmir by Sudha Koul

Two Under the Indian Sun by Jon and Rumer Godden

FILMS

3 Idiots

Aloo Chaat

Bride & Prejudice

The Darjeeling Limited

Gandhi

Like Stars on Earth

Monsoon Wedding

The Music Room

Singh is Kinng

Slumdog Millionaire

A Wednesday!

Novel Destinations: Australia & New Zealand

Travel the world this summer with our Adult Summer Reading Program, Novel Destinations.

Travel the world this summer with our Adult Summer Reading Program, Novel Destinations.

AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND:

FICTION

The Adventures of Miles and Isabel by Tom Gilling

After the Fire, a Still Small Voice by Evie Wyld

At Home with the Templetons by Monica McInerney

Blood Moon by Garry Disher

Carpentaria by Alexis Wright

The Colour by Rose Tremain

Dead Man’s Chest: A Phryne Fisher Mystery by Kerry Greenwood

Death of a River Guide by Richard Flanagan

Gunshot Road by Adrian Hyland

Oscar & Lucinda by Peter Carey

The Secret River by Kate Grenville

Sorry by Gail Jones

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

Truth by Peter Temple

The Unquiet Night by Patricia Carlon

The Wives of Henry Oades by Johanna Moran

The World Beneath by Cate Kennedy

NON-FICTION

A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia by Thomas Keneally

The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes

In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson

The Proving Ground: The Inside Story of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Race by G. Bruce Knecht

The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin

FILMS

The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert

Australia

Animal Kingdom

A Cry in the Dark

Hey Hey It’s Esther Blueburger

Rabbit-Proof Fence

The Road from Coorain

The Square

The Sundowners

Ten Canoes

Whale Rider

Walkabout

Novel Destinations: Japan

Travel the world this summer with our Adult Summer Reading Program, Novel Destinations.

Travel the world this summer with our Adult Summer Reading Program, Novel Destinations.

JAPAN:

FICTION

The Cloud Pavilion by Laura Joh Rowland

Cloud of Sparrows by Takashi Matsuoka

Country of Origin by Don Lee

Fear and Trembling by Amélie Nothomb

Girl in a Box by Sujata Massey

The Masuda Affair: A Sugawara Akitada Mystery by I.J. Parker

On Parole by Akira Yoshimura

The Pearl Diver by Jeff Talarigo

The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

The Tale of Murasaki by Liza Dalby

The Tales of the Heike translated by Burton Watson

The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery

Tokyo Year Zero by David Peace

Volcano by Shusaku Edno

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Villain by Shuichi Yoshida

NON-FICTION

Geisha: A Life by Mineko Iwasaki

The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan by Christopher Benfey

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix

The Japanese Experience: A Short History of Japan by W.G. Beasley

Japanese Hot Pots: Comforting One-Pot Meals by Tadashi Ono & Harris Salat

Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life by Lafcadio Hearn

Samurai: The Story of Japan’s Great Warriors by Stephen Turnbull

Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan by Jake Adelstein

Writings from Japan: An Anthology by Lafcadio Hearn

FILMS

The Ballad of Narayama

Departures

High and Low

Hula Girls

Japan’s Killer Quake

The Last Samurai

Lost in Translation

Memoirs of a Geisha

Ran

Rashomon

Ringu

Seven Samurai

Sway

Tokyo Sonata

Twenty-Four Eyes

Who’s Camus Anyway?

The Yakuza Papers: Battles Without Honor & Humanity