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• Little Fires Everywhere

  Ng, Celeste

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  TV series is now available for streaming on Hulu. Little Fires Everywhere explores the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, and the ferocious pull of motherhood - and the danger of believing that following the rules can…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Call Me by Your Name

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  Based on the 2007 novel by André Aciman. In Northern Italy in 1983, seventeen year old Elio begins a relationship with visiting Oliver, his father's research assistant, with whom he bonds over his emerging sexuality, their Jewish…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Call Me by Your Name

  Aciman, André

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  The 2018 movie adaption featuring Timothée Chalemet and Armie Hammer is available through the library. Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We the Animals

  Torres, Justin, 1980-

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  The 2018 movie adaptation feautring Raul Castillo is available through the library. Manny, Joel, and Jonah tear their way through childhood and push against the volatile love of their parents. As Manny and Joel grow into versions of their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We the Animals

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  Based on the 2011 autobiographical novel by Justin Torres. Manny, Joel, and Jonah tear their way through childhood and push against the volatile love of their parents. As Manny and Joel grow into versions of their father and Ma dreams of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Little Women

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  Based on the 1868 novel by Louisa May Alcott. Writer-director Greta Gerwig has crafted a film that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott and unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March reflects back and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Little Women

  Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888

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  The 2020 movie adaptation by Greta Gerwig can be borrowed from the library. For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Inventor

  Out for Blood in Silicon Valley

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  Considered a companion piece to John Carreyrou's 2018 book, Bad Blood. Academy Award winner Alex Gibney directs a documentary investigating the rise and fall of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar healthcare company founded by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bad Blood

  Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

  Carreyrou, John

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  A companion documentary by Alex Gibney, The Inventor, is available through the library. Academy Award winner Alex Gibney directs a documentary investigating the rise and fall of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar healthcare…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Half of a Yellow Sun

  Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-

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  The 2013 movie adaptation directed by Biyi Bandele is available for streaming through Kanopy. With the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Adichie weaves together the lives of five characters caught up in the extraordinary tumult…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Half of a Yellow Sun

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  Based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Olanna (Thandie Newton) and Kainene (Anika Noni Rose) are glamorous twins from a wealthy Nigerian family. Upon returning to a privileged city life in newly independent…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bloom

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  Adapted from James Joyce's Ulysses, Bloom is the enthralling story of June 16th, 1904 and a gateway into the consciousness of its three main characters: Stephen Dedalus, Molly Bloom and the extraordinary Leopold Bloom. Winner of Best…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ulysses

  Joyce, James, 1882-1941

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  The 2003 movie adaptation starring Stephen Rea and Angeline Ball is available for streaming through Kanopy. James Joyce's novel Ulysses is said to be one of the most important works in Modernist literature. It details Leopold Bloom's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Never Let Me Go

  Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-

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  2011 movie adaptation featuring Carey Mulligran, Andrew Garfield, and Keira Knightley is available through the library. Hailsham is an idyllic boarding school with a dark secret-its students are clones who are raised to provide organ…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Never Let Me Go

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  Based on the 2005 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy are best friends who grow up together at an English boarding school with a chilling secret. When they learn the shocking truth that they are genetically engineered clones…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Good Omens

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  Based on the 2006 novel by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. In the beginning and eleven years ago, two immortal beings decide that it might not be time to start an Apocalypse. Having followed the wrong boy for years, Aziraphale and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Good Omens

  the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

  Gaiman, Neil

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  2019 TV series written by the author can be borrowed from the library and and is available for streaming on Amazon. The world is going to end next Saturday, but there are a few problems--the Antichrist has been misplaced, the Four…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Molly's Game

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  Based on the 2014 memoir by Molly Bloom. The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target.

• Molly's Game

  From Hollywood's Elite to Wall Street's Billionaire Boys Club, My High-stakes Adventure in the World of Underground Poker

  Bloom, Molly

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  2018 movie adaptation featuring Jessica Chastain is available through the library and streaming on Netflix. In Molly's Game, Molly Bloom takes the reader through her adventures running an exclusive high-stakes private poker game. Her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Norwegian wood

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  Based on the 2000 novel by Haruki Murakami. Tokyo, the late 1960s. Students around the world are uniting to overthrow the establishment and Toru Watanabe's personal life is similarly in turmoil. At heart, he is deeply devoted to his first…Read moreRead more of this annotation