New Media Titles: August 2016 Library Phone No: 607-936-3713 Website: SSCLIBRARY.ORG Note: Titles Are Dvds Unless Otherwise Noted

Southeast Steuben County Library What To Read Next!

New Media Titles: August 2016 Library Phone No: 607-936-3713 Website: SSCLIBRARY.ORG Note: Titles are DVDs unless otherwise noted.

Alex Haley's Queen: "There are two sides to every story", or so the saying goes. For best-selling author Alex Haley, one side was Roots – the towering chronicle tracing seven generations of his mother's family. The other side comes to the screen in Alex Haley's Queen, the remarkable history of a paternal side of the author's family. David L. Wolper (Roots, The Thorn Birds) is the executive producer of this acclaimed adaption of the story Haley was working on when he died. Oscar® and Emmy® winner Halle Berry plays Queen, daughter of a slave and a plantation owner. During the turbulent decades of the antebellum South, the Civil War, Reconstruction and beyond, she searches for a home in the two cultures of her heritage – and at times is shunned by both. But rejection and hate are no match for her unconquerable will. Ann- Margret, Danny Glover, Martin Sheen and Ossie Davis also star in this poignant, uplifting final chapter of the Haley legacy.

Banshee: Season 3: From Alan Ball, the creator of 'True Blood,' Banshee a thrilling Cinemax action series that charts the twists and turns of Lucas Hood (Antony Starr), a recently paroled ex-con who assumes the identity of a small town's new sheriff.

Beverly Hills Ninja: Farley stars as Haru, an orphaned American who washes to shore in Japan and is mistaken for the Great White Ninja of legend. Raised among the finest Ninjas, Haru grows into a big, strong, slapstick disaster! An embarrassment to his clan, Haru has no hope of ever becoming a full Ninja. But when a beautiful blonde pleads for help, Haru is given one dangerously funny chance to prove himself.

Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (PBS): More than 40 years after the Black Panther Party was founded the group and its leadership remain powerful and enduring images in our popular imagination. This will weave together the voices of those who lived this story -- police informants journalists white supporters and detractors those who remained loyal to the party and those who left it.

Curse of the Pink Panther: Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for him. However, Clouseau's enemy, Dreyfus, rigs the Surete's

1 computer to select, instead, the world's WORST detective, NYPD Sgt. Clifton Sleigh. Sleigh obtusely bungles his way past assassins and corrupt officials as though he were Clouseau's American cousin.

Ghost Whisperer: The Complete Series, Jennifer Love Hewitt: Every soul has something to say, and no one knows this better than Melinda Gordon (Jennifer Love Hewitt). Melinda inherited a unique gift from her grandmother: the ability to communicate with the spirits of people who have died, but who have unfinished business with the living. Over five moving seasons, Melinda navigates between this life and the next one, with help from her husband Jim (David Conrad), and devoted friends Delia (Camryn Manheim), Andrea (Aisha Tyler), Rick (Jay Mohr), Ned (Christoph Sanders) and Eli (Jamie Kennedy). A near-death experience has also left Eli with the ability to hear ghosts. In this complete series, 29-disc set containing all 107 episodes, Melinda meets a world of lost souls with messages for those they love. And she vows that she won't rest in peace until they do.

Grace And Frankie Season 1: All 13 episodes of the first season of the offbeat Netflix comedy- drama about two women in their seventies looking to reboot their lives. Straight-laced Grace (Jane Fonda) and free-spirited Frankie (Lily Tomlin) form an unlikely duo, but are brought together after their husbands, Robert (Martin Sheen) and Sol (Sam Waterston), announce that they are in love with each other and plan to wed. Together, they reclaim their own lives, finding joy in unexpected places, embarking on new adventures, and connecting with their own children.

Grey's Anatomy: Season 11: It's time to bring the thunder as the doctors of Grey Sloan Memorial face stunning surprises, unprecedented challenges and life-changing decisions in ABC's GREY'S ANATOMY: THE COMPLETE ELEVENTH SEASON. Primetime television's most riveting hour hits new heights as secrets of the past come to light and critical choices shape the future. Relationships are in turmoil as things between Callie and Arizon cool -- and Owen and Amelia's romance ignites. April and Jackson face a heartbreaking tragedy. Meanwhile, Meredith makes a stunning family discovery as opportunities pull Derek further away. And Maggie's shocking announcement proves that blood is thicker than water. Experience every pulse- pounding moment of the electrifying eleventh season with this 24-episode collection, and venture deeper into the heart of GREY'S ANATOMY with never-before-seen bonus features available only on DVD.

Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording)(Edited)(2CD): Disc: 1 1. Alexander Hamilton 2. Aaron Burr, Sir 3. My Shot 4. The Story Of Tonight 5. The Schuyler Sisters 6. Farmer Refuted 7. You'll Be Back 8. Right Hand Man 9. A Winter's Ball 10. Helpless 11. Satisfied 12. The Story of Tonight (Reprise) 13. Wait For It 14. Stay Alive 15. Ten Duel Commandments 16. Meet Me Inside 17. That Would Be Enough 18. Guns and Ships 19. History Has Its Eyes On You 20. Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down) 21. What Comes Next? 22. Dear Theodosia 23. Non-Stop

Disc: 2 1. What'd I Miss

2. Cabinet Battle #1 3. Take A Break 4. Say No To This 5. The Room Where It Happens 6. Schuyler Defeated 7. Cabinet Battle #2 8. Washington On Your Side 9. One Last Time 10. I Know Him 11. The Adams Administration 12. We Know 13. Hurricane 14. The Reynolds Pamphlet 15. Burn 16. Blow Us All Away 17. Stay Alive (Reprise) 18. It's Quiet Uptown 19. The Election of 1800 20. Your Obedient Servant 21. Best of Wives and Best of Women 22. The World Was Wide Enough 23. Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story

Ken Burns: Jackie Robinson (PBS): Tells of the story of Jack Roosevelt Robinson, a sharecropper's son who elevated an entire race and country when he broke major league baseball's color barrier in 1947. The film illuminates Robinson's place as a leader and icon of the civil rights movement whose exemplary life and aspirational message of equality continues to inspire generations of Americans.

Lady in the Van: Based on the true story of Miss Shepherd (played by a magnificent Maggie Smith), a woman of uncertain origins “temporarily” parks her van in Alan Bennett’s (Alex Jennings) London driveway and proceeds to live there for 15 years. What begins as a begrudged favor becomes a relationship that will change both their lives.Acclaimed director Nicholas Hytner reunites with iconic writer Alan Bennett to create this rare and touching portrait.

Medium - The Complete First Season: "General patron requests for more supernatural TV series. Description: It's not a coincidence that Medium represents not only Glen Gordon Caron's best TV work since Moonlighting but also his most successful siege on the Nielsen ratings since the 1980s heyday of the latter show. In an interview included in this five-disc set (which contain all 16 episodes from the first season, in addition to bountiful bonus features), the writer- director-producer confides that the series was partly inspired by films like Something Wild and Married to the Mob, in which director Jonathan Demme achieved a balance of what Caron calls ""the serious and the frivolous."" Medium also contains elements of Moonlighting and another Caron creation,1999's underrated Now and Again; there are echoes of The Sentinel and The Dead Zone as well, not to mention a hefty dose of The Sixth Sense. So while it's not what you'd call unique (then again, what on TV is?), Medium nevertheless provides engaging, rewarding entertainment. Patricia Arquette stars as Allison DuBois, whose skills as both a medium (i.e., she sees dead people) and a psychic (she can fairly accurately read minds and predict future events) make her an invaluable help to the Phoenix district attorney (Miguel Sandoval). But like most characters possessed of extraordinary powers, Allison isn't entirely comfortable in her own skin; plagued by awful nightmares (one of which kicks off every episode), she tends to become cranky and depressed, has a hint of a drinking problem, and regularly gets into it with her supportive but skeptical husband, Joe (Jake Weber). Those are the very characteristics that make the show consistently watchable. Although one might wish that she would find herself in real danger more often as she deals with everything from necrophiliac serial killers and air crashes to ghosts and child molesters, Caron focuses less on special effects and police procedure than on Allison's humanity, including her efforts to balance work and family responsibilities (sub-plots involving her young daughters are usually effective, if sometimes a bit too cute). It's the stories and the writing that make Medium work; Caron, in fact, is the show's real star. Well over an hour's worth of bonus features include deleted scenes, commentary on some episodes, a couple of ""making of"" featurettes, and a look at the real-life Allison DuBois, whose powers are apparently every bit as impressive as her fictional counterpart's. --Sam Graham, Amazon.com"

Medium - The Complete Second Season, Patricia Arquette: "Season Two of NBC-TV's hit series Medium finds the show gradually evolving, and while the changes aren't all for the better, the combination of star Patricia Arquette, creator-executive producer Glen Gordon Caron, and the other contributors still makes for entertaining viewing. As Allison DuBois, whose skills as both a medium and psychic make her indispensable to Phoenix district attorney Manuel Devalos (Miguel Sandoval), Arquette, a 2005 Emmy winner, is still at center stage. It is her visions of murderers, serial killers, child abductors, and such that help solve the show's various crimes; the fact that these visions (which usually arrive via some very unsettling nightmares) can be ambiguous and open to misinterpretation, resulting in bizarre, embarrassing behavior on Allison's part, remains an integral part of the show's appeal.

The 22 Season Two episodes (on six discs) contain plenty of genuinely gripping, even shocking moments, but Caron (who also wrote and directed some episodes) clearly wants to focus increasingly on Allison's personal and home life. That's a mixed blessing. Although Medium still has its share of violence and shocking moments, it has become a little more tame, as frequent scenes between squabbling daughters Ariel (Sofia Vassilieva) and Bridgette (Maria Lark), while mostly credible, tend to undermine its dramatic effect. On the other hand, the struggles of Joe DuBois (Jake Weber), Allison's husband, to hold it together when the demands of her gig or the sheer weirdness of what's in her head threaten to take over are very well done; he's become an increasingly important character, there to ground her when her emotions and her visions intertwine and conflict. Best of all are episodes in which Allison's family and work are both in play, like ""Judge, Jury & Executioner,"" in which Joe serves as a juror on a case in which Allison is involved, or ""Doctor's Orders,"" which finds Ariel pursued by the ghost of a serial killer from the previous season.

Of course, any TV show helmed by Caron (who created both the popular Moonlighting and the underrated Now and Again) will have its share of inspired ideas and eccentric touches (not to mention guest stars like David Carradine and co-executive producer Kelsey Grammer). Thus we have an ""origin"" episode (""Sweet Dreams""), a story in which Allison's dream sequence lasts for the entire first act (""Time Out of Mind""), and another (""Knowing Her"") offering insight into Det. Scanlon's (David Cubitt) past. In ""The Song Remains the Same"" Allison is bedeviled by Gloria Gaynor's ""I Will Survive,"" which she literally can't get out of head; after five or six non-stop, high volume minutes, you'll never want to hear it again. And while ""Still Life 3-D"" is a pretty cool idea, let's face it: those cardboard 3-D glasses (two pairs come in the box set) are still hokey as all get out. Generous bonus features include commentary on select episodes, a

6 mini-doc about the making of Season Two, and considerably more. --Sam Graham"

Orange is the New Black, Season 3: Season three of the popular Netflix original series about Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), a classy woman in her thirties who is sentenced to prison after being convicted of a ten-year-old crime of trafficking money for her drug-dealer girlfriend.

Place Called Home, Season 3: The powerful, utterly addictive Australian saga returns with new challenges for resolute nurse Sarah Nordmann (Marta Dusseldorp, Jack Irish) and the aristocratic Bligh family. Torn between her traumatized husband, Rene (Benjamin Winspear, The Babadook), and dashing ex-fiancé, George Bligh (Brett Climo, Snowy River: The McGregor Saga), Sarah must make a heartrending decision. Meanwhile, the Blighs face their own obstacles: the marriage between young lovers Anna (Abby Earl, The Great Mint Swindle) and Gino (Aldo Mignone, Danger 5) is off to a rocky start; new mother Olivia (Arianwen Parkes- Lockwood, Underbelly) tries to keep a devastating secret from her husband, James (David Berry, Home and Away); matriarch Elizabeth (Noni Hazlehurst, Little Fish) contemplates life away from Ash Park; and the villainous Regina (Jenni Baird, The 4400) will do anything to get what she wants—even if it means tearing the family apart. Set in the 1950s, this “captivatingly filmed, deeply romantic drama” (The Wall Street Journal) deals with weighty themes such as anti-Semitism, sexuality, and social class with intelligence and intrigue.

Pretty Little Liars, Season 2: Filled with mystery, scandal and intrigue, the hit drama, nominated for a People's Choice Award for Favorite TV Obsession, continues for another suspenseful season. In season one, as four 16-year-old girlfriends - Aria , Hanna, Spencer and Emily - dealt with the aftermath of their best friend Alison's mysterious disappearance and death, they thought their secrets were safe forever. Yet they began to receive messages from someone named "A" who seemed to know their most private details - details they wanted to keep hidden - threatening everything they held dear as secrets, lies and betrayals continued to unfold. Season two begins moments after the explosive season one finale and the girls are the talk of the town. Surprises and challenges will be in store for each, and "A" may succeed in her quest. The series also stars Holly Marie Combs, Ian Harding, Laura Leighton and Chad Lowe.

Pretty Little Liars, Season 1: A kind of a Desperate Housewives for teens, Pretty Little Liars follows four high-school girls as they struggle to deal with the unthinkable tragedy of the disappearance and probable murder of their best friend Alison. There's also the usual angst that comes with stress over school exams and getting into a good college, teen romance and sexuality, navigating the high-school rumor mill and popularity chain, small-town nosiness, and

7 rocky parent and adult relationships. Rosewood is a little town in Pennsylvania with a troublemaker on the loose and a bunch of buried secrets. A year after Alison's death, BFFs Aria, Spencer, Hanna, and Emily have grown apart, but are forced back together by the discovery of Alison's body, her funeral, and threatening texts and notes that start appearing from a mysterious person who signs the notes "A" and seems to know things that only Alison could possibly know. Each of the girls is desperately hiding something from the others, their parents, and the police, and A seems to know exactly how to manipulate them and stir up trouble. The road to unraveling just what happened to Alison is full of twists, turns, and plenty of suspense. The girls' journey reveals a lot about just what kind of person each of them really is, and about their own sense of self-worth--and how one powerful person can control the lives of many. Based on the bestselling book series by Sara Shepard, the TV show initially views kind of like a horror film mashed together with a chick-clique flick. But as the mystery unfolds and the characters are fleshed out, teen viewers will find themselves hooked not only by the suspense and the mystery, but also by the sense that in some essential way, these girls are just like them or someone they know. Like most teenagers, the characters in Pretty Little Liars are often vain, immature, and maddeningly illogical, but they're also vulnerable, complex, and deceptively captivating. (Ages 13 and older) --Tami Horiuchi, Amazon.com

Silicon Valley: The Complete First Season: From the offbeat mind of Mike Judge (Office Space, Beavis and Butt-head), this HBO half-hour comedy takes viewers inside the world of tech start- ups – and the socially awkward underdogs who try to navigate its lucrative potential. Starring a talented ensemble of young comic actors (see below) and veterans, Silicon Valley charts the rising fortunes of Richard, an introverted computer programmer who lives in a “Hacker Hostel” start-up incubator along with his friends Big Head, Gilfoyle, and Dinesh. These social misfits live under the watch of Erlich, a dotcom millionaire who lets them stay in his house for free – as long as he gets a 10% stake in their projects. Stuck working part-time at a large tech company called Hooli, Richard’s obscure website, Pied Piper, is going nowhere fast. But when a mid-level Hooli executive named Jared is apprised of the value of the site’s novel compression algorithm, Richard finds himself caught in the middle of an extreme bidding war between Hooli founder Gavin Belson and independent billionaire venture capitalist Peter Gregory.

Spirit of West Point: The story of Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis, two All-American football players at the U.S. Army Military Academy at West Point. They absorb the traditions of the place, get on the team, and face the pitfalls--mainly math-- of a cadet's career.

Stranger To Stranger (2016) CD by Paul Simon: "The idea is not to just make another album,' Simon explains. 'The idea is to make something that s really worth a listen.' For anyone who s been listening to great music during the past half-century, Paul Simon is certainly no stranger. So one of the most remarkable things about his extraordinary new masterpiece, Stranger to Stranger Paul Simon s 13th solo record is that it conjures a vivid and vital new context to his well-established genius as a singer and songwriter. Full of thrilling textures that feel fresh and modern, while still offering subtle and artful allusions to our shared musical past, Stranger to Stranger presents the perfect opportunity to get to know Paul Simon in a new way. A significant sonic breakthrough on Stranger to Stranger came when Simon wrote the song 'Insomniac s Lullaby,' and found himself reminded of the musical possibilities first suggested by Harry Partch the 20th Century American composer and theorist who created custom-made instruments in microtonal tunings. Besides recording sounds from various Partch instruments, one of the key realizations Simon gathered from Partch was the observation that singing in music is akin to human speech, and Simon started to shape vocal lines on the album that way. Stranger to Stranger allows the listener to experience Simon s singular voice with the shock of the new. Here, his strong voice and conversational lyrics usher us into a brave new musical world where expectations are defied and exceeded, as they were thirty years ago with another masterpiece, Graceland. On Stranger to Stranger, Simon worked with old friend and collaborator Roy Halee a name familiar from countless recordings now rightly considered classic. 'It s about getting you to actually hear something in a new way. It s about making music that sounds old and new at the same time; music with a sense of mystery,' says Simon. Paul Simon s collage of sounds for Stranger to Stranger also includes the Italian electronic dance music artist Clap! Clap!, whose sound he ended up putting on three of the tracks ('The Werewolf,' 'Wristband' and 'Street Angel'). 'Sound is the theme of this album as much as it’s about the subjects of the individual songs. If people get that, I ll be pleased,' explains Simon.... 'The right song at the right time can live for generations. A beautiful sound, well that's forever.'"

Revised 8/8/2016 LR