New movies available at the library now

Summer is a great time for movie watching!  You may borrow two movies at a time for a week.

A woman in a red period dress is shown in front of a winter background.DVD cover shows half of Bradley Cooper's face on the left and half of Jennifer Lawrence's face on the right. The title, "Silver Linings Playbook" is in the middle between their faces.

New Feature Films:

Anna Karenina

Argo

Django UnchainedShows soldiers outside a compound attempting to get in.A young girl's face and windswept hair are on the bottom of the cover. Four of the main characters, two males and two females, appear on the top.

Les Miserables

Life of Pi

Lincoln

The Master

Perks of Being a WallflowerProfile view of Lincoln against a white background.

A tiger face hovers over a scene with a tiger in a boat and a boy standing on a bit of shore beside it.

Silver Linings Playbook

Zero Dark Thirty

Documentaries:

The Abolitionists

Brushes with Life: Art, artists, and mental illness

Bully

Cuban Missile Crisis: Three men go to war

Dropout NationA man with a guitar on his back walks down the middle of an urban street.Shows the back of a white male embracing a black female.

Forensics on Trial

From the Other Side

How to Survive a Plague

Hot Coffee: Is justice being served?

The Loving story

Makers: Women who make America

Headshots of a diverse group of women.Overlooks urban area in Myanmar.

Poor Kids: An intimate portrait of America’s economic crisis

Searching for Sugar Man

They Call It Myanmar: Lifting the curtain

Weight of the Nation

Search the online catalog for call numbers and more information about the films.

At the top, a coffee cup is upside down, and $100 dollar bills are falling out.Landscape photo of a fence with a side posted nearby, and below that, a photo of a young person sitting inside.

Get growing with great gardening resources

Check out the library’s display of gardening resources downstairs on the lower level for ideas and inspiration:

Green text says, "Gardening Resources." Images below of a tomato, peppers, and carrots. Brown text below that says, "Get Growing!" A gardening spade is at the very bottom.

  •  American grown : the story of the White House kitchen garden and gardens across America  
  • The vegetable gardener’s container bible : how to grow a bounty of food in pots, tubs, and other containers
  • The ultimate guide to growing your own food : save money, live better, and enjoy life with food from your own garden
  • From seed to skillet : a guide to growing, tending, harvesting, and cooking up fresh, healthful food to share with people you love
  • Reclaiming our food : how the grassroots food movement is changing the way we eat
  • Grow great grub : organic food from small spaces
  • Basic gardening skills
  • The new American homestead : sustainable, self-sufficient living in the country or in the city
  • Organic manifesto : how organic farming can heal our planet, feed the world, and keep us safe
  • Growing it here, growing it now [videorecording]
  • The garden [videorecording]

Search the online catalog for more titles. Recommended gardening blogs and websites: