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LISTS: Quests, Secrets, and Intrigue

Books, parchment, scrolls, letters…these things will always be intriguing when found tucked away in dusty boxes, attics, and archives. They are especially mysterious and enthralling when they’re full of secret information, conspiracies, and supernatural knowledge that lead a character on dangerous exploits.

If you liked National Treasure, but want a darker story in book form, click here.

By Readers' Advisor on October 12, 2012 Categories: Books, Lists, Mysteries/Thrillers/Suspense

LISTS: Rockabilly Music

Well, be-bop-a-lula, do you like rockabilly? Rockabilly is where country music meets rock ‘n roll. It was popularized in the 1950s by such legends as Bill Haley, Carl Perkins, Gene Vincent, and Elvis Presley – and it sure isn’t dead!

Click here for contemporary and classic rockabilly music that will get you wailin’ and wigglin’.

By Readers' Advisor on October 5, 2012 Categories: Lists, Music

LISTS: Trains in Movies

G.K. Chesterton once wrote, “The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.” But are you sure you want to catch the train in the first place? Murder! Mystery! Heists! Trains are a classic high drama setting in movies.

To see what train-centric films the Library has, click here.

By Readers' Advisor on September 28, 2012 Categories: Lists, Movies and Television

LISTS: Actor Martin Clunes

Martin Clunes is a British actor best known as the lead character Doctor Martin Ellingham in the BBC series Doc Martin. Clunes has been around much longer than Doc Martin though, and he’s taken on everything from Shakespeare to serial killers in his acting.

Click here to see what movies and TV the Library has starring Martin Clunes.

By Readers' Advisor on September 21, 2012 Categories: Lists, Movies and Television

LISTS: Courtroom Flicks

“I’ve got a judge that’s just aching to throw me in jail. An idiot who wants to fight me for two hundred dollars. Slaughtered pigs. Giant loud whistles. I ain’t slept in five days. I got no money, a dress code problem, and a little murder case which, in the balance, holds the lives of two innocent kids.”

To see what other problems Vinny has, check out the comedy My Cousin Vinny.

To see what other courtroom movies the Library owns, click here.

By Readers' Advisor on September 14, 2012 Categories: Lists, Movies and Television

LISTS: What Alice Might Read While in Wonderland

What books would be waiting for Alice if she fell down the rabbit hole to Wonderland today? These novels focus on adventuring, entering new worlds, and Victorian era settings.

Click here to see what books Alice might enjoy when resting from all that growing and shrinking.

By Readers' Advisor on September 7, 2012 Categories: Books, Fantasy & Sci-Fi, Historical Fiction, Lists

LISTS: Famous Writer Biopics

Hunter S. Thompson was known to shoot typewriters. Dorothy Parker drank more than she wrote. Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin’s relationship was equal parts eros and literature. There are even rumors that the Marquis de Sade wrote a manuscript in blood.

Click here for movies on the strange and passionate lives of famous writers.

By Readers' Advisor on August 24, 2012 Categories: Lists, Literary, Movies and Television

LISTS: The New Wave of Australian Cinema

From the early 1970s through the mid-to-late 1980s, Australian movies surged in popularity, especially in America. Movies like My Brilliant Career and Mad Max, resuscitated the declining Australian movie market with worldwide audience attention.

Click here to explore Australian New Wave cinema.

By Readers' Advisor on August 10, 2012 Categories: Lists, Movies and Television

LISTS: Audiobooks by African-American Writers

“I like to tell the truth as I see it. I hope others do the same. That’s why literature is so important. We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline, nor to sociology, nor science, nor economics to tell the story of our people.” – Nikki Giovanni

For African-American writers on audiobook, click here.

By Readers' Advisor on August 3, 2012 Categories: Audiobooks, Books, Lists

LISTS: Medical Thrillers

James Patterson, Michael Crichton, Robin Cook, Michael Palmer, Tess Gerritsen, and Robert Ludlum have something in common. They’ve all written exhilarating medical suspense. If you like your danger and conspiracies to be mixed with doctors, diseases, and hospitals, we’ve got something for you.

Click here to let the bloodletting medical thrillers begin!

By Readers' Advisor on July 27, 2012 Categories: Books, Lists, Mysteries/Thrillers/Suspense