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Nifty Thrifty donated $1500 towards our Summer Reading Programming! Thank you to everyone at the thrift shop for all you do for our community!
Coming up May 20 at 6 p.m., Kris Harmelink comes to talk about ways to harmonize your life in "Spring Cleaning: Organizing and Decluttering".
New DVDs:
"It: Welcome to Derry" (TV-MA). Set 30 years before the 2017 movie, a young boy moves to town as another goes missing, setting off a chain of events that will terrorize the town.
"The Count of Monte Cristo" (2026). Edmond Dantes, a sailor falsely accused of treason, is imprisoned in the Château d'If off Marseille. After escaping, and adopting the identity of the Count of Monte Cristo, he plans revenge against those who wrongly accused him.
"Before Night Falls" (Rated R). Victimized by a government that banned his books and jailed him for a crime he didn't commit in Castro's Cuba, poet Reinaldo Arenas endured persecution in a courageous stand against censorship and oppression. Without a country, he fled to America where he continued to fight for personal expression and produced a stirring body of work.
New Fiction:
"Your Behavior Will Be Monitored" by Justin Feinstein. The corporation, UniView, is poised to cement their reputation as "the most trusted name in AI." After pioneering the world's first widely adopted AI bots, they are barreling toward an audacious new launch. Enter Noah. A down-and-out copywriter reeling from a midlife crisis, he isn't the typical hire for a groundbreaking tech company full of brilliant engineers and run by a cutthroat CEO. But UniView's latest venture — a bot named Quinn that creates revolutionary personalized advertising — needs expert training. Noah needs to teach Quinn — a much better student than he ever could have hoped for — the finer points of consumer motivation and the art of writing a catchy tagline. But when corporate competitors force UniView to accelerate its timeline to market, guardrails around the AI loosen just as Quinn seems to be learning a bit too much.
"The Model Patient" by Lucy Ashe. Evelyn Westbrook has given up her career as a model and wants to find fulfillment in married life. But when they start trying for a baby, everything begins to unravel. Struggling to cope with crippling nightmares, Evelyn goes to see a psychotherapist. She is apprehensive about exposing her intimate issues: she absolutely does not want to unearth the secrets of her past. The enigmatic Dr. Daley, however, is determined to take her back there, and she soon finds herself drawn to him. Evelyn's interest in her therapist turns to obsession, and she becomes locked in a powerful relationship where the question of whether he is caring for her or manipulating her becomes impossible to untangle.
"Martyr Loser King" by Saul Williams. Can you name the ghost in your machine? The precious ore coltan can be found in every cell phone and computer on Earth. And in a small East African country, both the population and the land are exploited for this precious resource ― the people as a source of cheap, expendable labor; the land as a mining site and dumping ground for defunct technology. Yet from the rubble, creativity and rebellion rise. An encounter between a miner and an otherworldly stranger named Neptune results in the birth of a hacker named MartyrLoserKing, and the launch of a global cyberattack. Their plan will rock the world to its foundations.
