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1) Sing Sing
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Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men, including a wary newcomer, in this stirring true story of resilience, humanity, and the transformative power of art, starring an unforgettable ensemble cast of formerly incarcerated actors.
2) Conclave
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Conclave follows one of the world's most secretive and ancient events--selecting the new Pope. Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with running this covert process after the unexpected death of the beloved Pope. Once the Catholic Church's most powerful leaders have gathered from around the world and are locked together in the Vatican halls, Lawrence uncovers a trail of deep secrets left in the dead Pope's wake, secrets which could shake the foundations of...
3) Conclave
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"The Pope is dead. Behind locked doors of the Sistine chapel, 118 cardinals from around the world will cast their votes in the world's most secretive election. They are holy men, but they are men of the world, and they have rivals. And over the next seventy-two hours one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on earth..."--Dust jacket.
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The Apprentice is a dive into the underbelly of the American empire. It charts a young Donald Trump's ascent to power through a Faustian deal with the influential right-wing lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn.
5) Dune
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Dune novels. Main series volume 1
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12 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Watauga Public Library - Watauga Second Adult Special Collection
LARGE PRINT F HERBERT
1 available
LARGE PRINT F HERBERT
1 available
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In new, hardcover edition is the novel that shaped modern science fiction. Set on the desert planet Arrakis begins the story of a great family's plan to bring to fruition an unattainable dream. Winner of the first Nebula Award. This is the best-selling science fiction classic. It begins the story of the man known at Muad'dib & of a great family's ambition to bring to fruition humankind's most ancient & unattainable dream. "Unique-I know nothing comparable...
6) Dune: Part 2
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The mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen on a warpath of revenge and endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee.
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as...
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Demi Moore gives a career-best performance as Elisabeth Sparkle, a former A-lister fired from her fitness TV show by studio head Harvey. She is drawn to the Substance. All it takes is one injection and she is reborn as the gorgeous Sue.
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Wicked years volume 1
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eAudiobook
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3 copies, 27 people are on the wait list.
eBook
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3 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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"Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skin—no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. Still, Elphaba is smart, and by the time she enters Shiz University, she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz’s most promising...
10) Wicked
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Wicked, the untold story of the witches of Oz, a young woman, misunderstood because of her unusual green skin, who has yet to discover her true power, and Glinda, a popular young woman, gilded by privilege and ambition, who has yet to discover her true heart. The two meet as students at Shiz University in the fantastical Land of Oz and forge an unlikely but profound friendship. Following an encounter with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, their friendship...
11) A real pain
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Mismatched cousins reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother, but their old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.
12) Inside Out 2
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Watauga Public Library - Children/Juvenile DVD
DVD J INS
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DVD J INS
2 available
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The little voices inside Riley's head know her inside and out - but everything changes with the introduction of a new emotion: Anxiety. Includes "Why" language track.
13) The wild robot
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Wild robot volume 1
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Watauga Public Library - Children/Juvenile Fiction
J F BROWN
1 available
J F BROWN
1 available
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Watauga Public Library - Children/Juvenile Books on CD (Spoken Word)
ACD J BROWN
1 available
ACD J BROWN
1 available
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.
14) The Wild Robot
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The epic adventure follows the journey of a robot, Rozzum unit 7134, 'Roz' for short, that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling.
15) Nosferatu
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Watauga Public Library - Blu-ray - New Display Area
HORROR NOS
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HORROR NOS
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A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake. Includes both the theatrical and extended cut versions of the film.
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17) Dracula
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Watauga Public Library - College Bound Collection
YA F STOKER
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YA F STOKER
1 available
Watauga Public Library - Horror
HORROR F STO
1 available
HORROR F STO
1 available
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Watauga Public Library - College Bound Collection
ACD YA F STOKER
1 available
ACD YA F STOKER
1 available
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'I am Dracula. And I bid you welcome to my house.' He is deathly pale. His fingernails are cut to sharp points. His teeth protrude menacingly from his mouth in clouds of rancid breath. Yet even Count Dracula's unnerving appearance and the frightened reaction of the local peasants fail to warn Jonathan Harker, a young man from England, about his host. Little does Jonathan know that this is a land where babies are snatched for their blood and wolves...
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United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the U.S. State Department swings into action, sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup. Director Johan Grimonprez captures the moment when African politics and American jazz collided in this magnificent essay film, a...
19) Alien: Romulus
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Watauga Public Library - DVD - New Display Area
SCIENCE FICTION ALI
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SCIENCE FICTION ALI
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While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.
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Director Wes Ball breathes new life into the global, epic franchise set several generations in the future following Caesar's reign, in which apes are the dominant species living harmoniously and humans have been reduced to living in the shadows. As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all that he has known about the past and to make choices that will define a future...