Catalog Search Results
Series
Shout select volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the post-war boom period of the late '40s, Willy Loman is an aging, traveling salesman, who despairs that his life his been lived in vain. Facing dispensability and insignificance in a heated, youthful economy, Willy is not ready to part with his cherished fantasies of an America that admires him for personable triumphs in the marketplace.. But the reality is far more difficult than that, and the measure of Willy's self-delusion and contradictions...
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the not-so-distant future, strong-willed and beautiful Kate possesses a precious commodity that most women have lost and most men want to control: fertility. Forced into a brain-washing boot camp that turns fertile women into surrogate mothers for social-elite men and their infertile wives, Kate thinks she's made out well when she's assigned to an eminent party leader. But when she learns that he's sterile, she's faced with an impossible choice:...
3) Talk to me
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Washington, D.C., in the mid-to-late 1960s, vibrant soul music and exploding social consciousness were combining to become a unique and powerful effect. It was the place and time for Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene, Jr. to fully express himself and "tell it like it is." With the support of his irrepressible and tempestuous girlfriend Vernell, the new ex-con talks his way into an on-air radio gig. He forges a friendship and a partnership with Dewey Hughes....
Series
Shout select volume 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
A crime novelist, whose research on Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid wreck, must confront his worst fears, when a film executive takes a sudden interest in his movie script.
5) Midnight run
Series
Language
English
Description
Jack Walsh is a tough ex-cop turned bounty hunter. Jonathan "The Duke" Mardukas is a sensitive accountant who embezzled $15 million from the Mob, gave it to charity and then jumped bail. Jack's in for a cool $100,000 if he can deliver The Duke from New York to L.A. on time, and alive. Sounds like just another Midnight Run (a piece of cake in bounty hunter slang), but it turns into a cross-country chase. The FBI is after The Duke to testify. The Mob...
6) Car wash
Series
Language
English
Description
An earthy, irreverent but affectionate look at a typical day in a Los Angeles car wash.
7) Mr. Mom
Series
Shout select volume 28
Language
English
Description
When his wife starts bringing home the bacon, an out-of-work 'house-husband' has to learn to fry - among other heinous domestic tasks - in this hysterically funny comedy.
9) Dragnet
Author
Series
Shout select volume 52
Language
English
Description
Comic rendition of the original police drama in which two LAPD officers with contrasting work attitudes team up to rescue L.A. from a power-mad minister and a corrupt Police Commissioner.
Author
Series
Shout select volume 42
Language
English
Description
When Philip Marlowe takes on a search for an ex-convict's girlfriend and investigates the murder of a client, he finds himself in danger after discovering a connection between the two cases; private eye Philip Marlowe gets caught up in a twisted tale of blackmail and murder.
11) The tiger hunter
Series
Shout select volume 38
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is the story of Sami Malik, a young Indian who travels to 1970s America to become an engineer in order to impress his childhood crush and live up to the legacy of his father, a legendary tiger hunter back home. When Sami's job falls through, he takes a low-end job and joins with a gang of oddball friends in hopes of convincing his childhood sweetheart that he's far more successful than he truly is, or perhaps ever could be.
12) Jeffrey
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Jeffrey, a gay man disheartened by the AIDS epidemic, takes a vow of celibacy just before he meets the man who may be the love of his life.
14) Sliding doors
Series
Language
English
Description
A contemporary comic romance about a young woman who explores two different scenarios of love and lifestyle.
15) The wizard
Author
Series
Shout select volume 102
Language
English
Description
After a boy discovers that his emotionally troubled brother is a prodigy at video games, the two set off for California to enter a video game tournament.
16) Human nature
Series
Shout select volume 118
Language
English
Description
Lila Jute, a nature writer with excessive body hair, and her boyfriend, Nathan Bronfman, a scientist trying to teach mice table manners, meet a feral man in the woods and bring him back to the city.
Series
Shout select volume 123
Language
English
Description
George Burns stars as the good Lord in this heavenly trilogy of divine comedy!
18) Wildcats
Series
Language
English
Description
A physical education teacher gets a chance to coach an inner-city high school football team.
In ILL (Inter-Library Loan) Services
Didn't find what you needed? Items not owned by the member libraries of the Westchester Library System can be requested via Inter-library Loan from other libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.