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Saturday Features from the OCPL - Books Coming to Screen - May 21, 2022

Posted 05/21/22

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Title: The Terminal List

Author(s): Jack Carr

Book Summary:  On his last combat deployment, Lieutenant Commander James Reeces entire team was killed in a catastrophic ambush. But when those dearest to him are murdered on the day of his homecoming, Reece discovers that this was not an act of war by a foreign enemy but a conspiracy that runs to the highest levels of government.Now, with no family and free from the military's command structure, Reece applies the lessons that he's learned in over a decade of constant warfare toward avenging the deaths of his family and teammates. With breathless pacing and relentless suspense, Reece ruthlessly targets his enemies in the upper echelons of power without regard for the laws of combat or the rule of law.

Publication Information: New York, NY Emily Bestler Books, 2020.

Production Release: July 1, 2022 - Amazon Prime 

Production Starring: Chris Pratt, Taylor Kitsch, Constance Wu, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Riley Keough, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Arlo Mertz

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Title: The Lost Girls

Author(s): Laurie Anne Fox

Summary:  "Wendy has long heard the family legend - madness strikes the Darling women at a certain age, traditionally after romance visits in the form of an overgrown boy. The Darling girl will fall in love, the boy will desert, and the girl is left on her heels, heartbroken and flirting ever after with lunacy's lure. Wendy knows she should be grateful for her childhood adventure, but instead she finds herself adrift; resenting the heartache-turned-eccentricity of her mother; envious of the oddball antics of her Great-Nana; and consumed by the mystery of her grandmother Jane, whose disappearance following her own youthful romance remains unsolved." "When Wendy falls in love with Freeman, an exuberant and irreverant man-child himself, she finds herself perpetuating the pattern she thought she had missed. And then along comes her daughter, Berry, the precocious but sullen child with the eyes of a sage. When it is Berry's time to go off to The Neverland, Wendy, like so many mothers before her, questions who she has become. Is she "barking mad"? Is Berry?"--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Publication Information: New York : Simon & Schuster

Production Release: June 17, 2022 

Production Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, Emily Carey,  Iain Glen, Louis Partridge

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Title: Conversations with Friends

Author(s): Sally Rooney

Summary: Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend and comrade-in-arms is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, Frances and Bobbi catch the eye of Melissa, a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into Melissa's world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman's sophisticated home and tall, handsome husband, Nick. However amusing and ironic Frances and Nick's flirtation seems at first, it gives way to a strange intimacy, and Frances's friendship with Bobbi begins to fracture. As Frances tries to keep her life in check, her relationships increasingly resist her control: with Nick, with her difficult and unhappy father, and finally, terribly, with Bobbi. Desperate to reconcile her inner life to the desires and vulnerabilities of her body, Frances's intellectual certainties begin to yield to something new: a painful and disorienting way of living from moment to moment. Written with gem-like precision and marked by a sly sense of humor, Conversations with Friends is wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youth, and the messy edges of female friendship.

Publication Information: London : Hogarth, 2017.

Production Release: May 15, 2022 - Hulu

Production Starring: Alison Oliver, Sasha Lane, Joe Alwyn, Jemima Kirke

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Title: Firestarter

Author(s): Stephen King

Summary: The Department of Scientific Intelligence, aka "The Shop," never anticipated that two participants in their research program would marry and have a child. Charlie McGee inherited pyrokinetic powers from her parents, who had been given a low-grade hallucinogen called "Lot Six" while at college. Now the government is trying to capture young Charlie and harness her powerful firestarting skills as a weapon.

Publication Information: First Pocket books edition. PocketBooks
New York : PocketBooks ; 2016.

Production Release: May 13, 2022

Production Starring: Zac Efron, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Sydney Lemmon, Michael Greyeyes

CLICK HERE TO PLACE A HOLD ON Firestarter AT THE OCPL

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE E-BOOK OF Firestarter ON WV DELI ONLINE

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE E-AUDIOBOOK OF Firestarter ON WV DELI ONLINE

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