Recreation

New Titles Audio and Video July 2016 (arrived in June 2016)

CDs

BALLET

Orchestral works. 1, Ballets, Aaron Copland.
BBC Philharmonic.

BLUES

My California, Beth Hart.

Classical

Amuse-bouche : French choral delicacies, I Fagiolini.
Requiem : music for All Saints & All Souls.,
Recorded in Cathedral Abbey Church, St. Albans, UK
Become ocean, John Luther Adams.
Recorded at Mark Taper Auditorium in 2013.
Mass in B minor = Messe h-moll BMV 232, Johann Sebastian Bach.
Maria Kohane, Else Torp, Joanne Lunn, sopranos.
Sei suonate a cembalo certato e violino solo : BWV 1014-1019 ], Johann Sebastian Bach.
Leila Schayegh, violin.
Legende : works for trumpet and piano, Alison Balsom, Tom Poster.
Alison Balsom, trumpet; Tom Poster, Piano.
Symphony no. 9, Beethoven-Liszt.
Yury Martynov, piano.
Complete music for solo piano, Pierre Boulez.
Marc Ponthus, piano.
I stayed a minute : a collaboration of music, Eve de Castro-Robinson and photography by Harvey Benge ; performed by Dean Sky-Lucas.
Collegium regale, Herbert Howells.
Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge under Stephen Layton.
Neeme Jarvi conducts Ibert, Jacques Ibert.
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Jarvi.
Secular works, Arnold & Hugo de Lantins.
Featuring Miroir de Musique.
Concerto for orchestra, Witold Lutoslawski. Piano quartet in G minor, op. 25
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra.
Piano concertos 2 & 5, Sergei Prokofiev.
Vadim Kholodenki, piano
Western wind : mass and court music for Henry VIII, John Taverner.
Emily van Evera, soprano; Charles Daniels, tenor; Taverner Choir.
Complete overtures, Carl Maria von Weber.
Howard Griffiths, conductor.
Four studies ; Honest music, Nico Muhly
Angela & Jen Chun

COUNTRY

Havin' a party : live!, Asleep at the Wheel
Shot of gold, Jackie Bristow.
Montevallo, Sam Hunt.
Detour, Cyndi Lauper.
A sailor's guide to Earth, Sturgill Simpson.

JAZZ

The Rodger Fox Big Band plays New Zealand., Rodger Fox Big Band
Take me to the alley, Greg Porter.

POPULAR

7/27, Fifth Harmony.
Shout to the top : the collection, The Style Council.
Lemonade, Beyonce.
5 classic albums plus bonus singles and twistin' tracks, Chubby Checker.
Deep dark savage heart, Melody Pool.
The no. 1's, Diana Ross & the Supremes.
Restless years, Leo Sayer.
Closer to the people, Tanita Tikaram.
Thank you, Meghan Trainor.
Ripcord, Keith Urban.
Arrangingtime, Pete Yorn.

ROCK

Atomic : a soundtrack, Mogwai.
Emotions & singles A's & B's, Pretty Things.
Essential, Talking Heads.
Paging Mr. Proust, The Jayhawks.
Super, Pet Shop Boys.
The ultimate collection, Air Supply.
The shadow side, Andy Black.
Electronica. 2, Heart of noise, Jean-Michel Jarre.
The stillness, Pacific Heights.

WORLD

Ne so, Rokia Traore.

DVDs

FILM

3 is a crowd,
A self-centered engineer tries to win back his wife after she takes a new lover. In French with English subtitles
A heart elsewhere,
A timid scholar falls in love with a blind socialite who is using him to get back at her former fiance. In Italian with English subtitles.
Another woman's life,
A young woman falls in love and she wakes up a decade later to find herself getting divorced with a young son. In French with English subtitles.
Balibo,
War correspondent Roger East and the young Jose Ramos-Horta travel to East Timor to investigate the murders of the Balibo Five in 1975.
Berberian Sound Studio,
A sound engineer tortures people to get the sounds he needs for his work in an Italian horror studio. English subtitles
Blue Hawaii,
After being discharged from the U.S. Army, cool guy Chadwick Gates (Elvis Presley) returns home to Hawaii.
Boomerang,
For his sister's 40th birthday, a man surprises her with a trip to Noirmoutier, an island where they spent many summers together as children. In French with English
Broken hallelujah,
Three families bound by love and broken by betrayal, each reach breaking point until a single event brings them together. Can desperateness and frustration turn to hope and compassion?
Calendar,
A woman stays in Armenia after her photographer husband completes his assignment and returns home to Canada. In Armenian and English with English subtitles.
Cecil B. DeMille's The greatest show on Earth,
The dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer are told against a background of circus spectacle.
Concussion,
In Pittsburgh, pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu uncovers the truth about brain damage in football players who suffer repeated concussions in the course of normal
Courted,
A feared judge is extremely strict in all aspects of his life until he meets a beautiful juror. In French with English subtitles.
Daddy's home,
Brad Whitaker is a radio host trying to get his stepchildren to love him and call him Dad. But his plans turn upside down.
Decision at sundown,
A 1957 western starring Randolph Scott
Dr Plonk : a comedy about the end of the world,
In 1907, Dr. Plonk predicts the world will end in 101 years unless something is done to stop it.
El Dorado,
Cole Thornton (John Wayne) joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Hara (Tobert Mitchum). Together with an old Indian fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.
Free ride,
A single mom caught up in the Florida drug trade during the late 1970s tries to make a better life for her two girls.
Gilda,
Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford) is a gambling cheat who turns straight to work for an unsettling casino owner Ballin Mundson. But things take a turn for Johnny as his alluring ex-lover appears as Mundson's wife, and Mundson's machinations begin to unravel.
Grandma,
A misanthropic poet (Lily Tomlin) takes her granddaughter (Julia Garner) across Los Angeles in search of the money she needs to terminate her unwanted pregnancy.
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral,
Lawman Wyatt Earp (Burt Lancaster) and outlaw Doc Holliday (Kirk Douglas) form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Homeboy,
A simple self-destructive drifter and tough small-time boxer with a brain injury that could kill him meets and falls for a cute beach carnival owner, Ruby, but also befriends a sleazy friendly criminal, Wesley, who's planing a big score.
I killed my mother,
A semi-autobiographical story about Hubert as a young homosexual at odds with his mother. In French with English subtitles.
Jack Irish. Black tide,
A judge hires Jack (Guy Pearce) to track down a mysterious red book that has left a trail of corpses in its wake. Adapted from the book 'Black tide' by Peter
James White,
A young New Yorker (Christopher Abbott) struggles to control his reckless behavior as his mother (Cynthia Nixon) battles cancer.
Kaidan,
Two young people fall in love, but are hounded by the ghost of a murdered moneylender who seeks revenge, which leaves a lasting effect on the couple. In Japanese with English subtitles.
Late spring,
Noriko is 27 and still living with her widowed father. Everybody tries to talk her into marrying, but Noriko wants to stay at home caring for her father. In Japanese with English
Love and honor, .
The wife of a blind young samurai will do anything to defend her husband's honor. In Japanese with English subtitles.
Love at first fight,
A small-town man falls in love with an apocalyptic-minded woman and joins her at boot camp to learn survivalist skills. In French with English subtitles.
Love like poison,
Anna comes home from her Roman Catholic boarding school and has her faith shaken by her father's abandonment and her budding attraction to a free-spirited lad named Pierre. In French, Italian and English with English subtitles.
Mala noche,
Walt is madly in love/lust with a young illegal Mexican immigrant. However, the object of his unrequited affection doesn't even speak any English and finds Walt really strange and undesirable.
Mississippi grind,
Convinced that his newfound friend (Ryan Reynolds) is a good-luck charm, a gambling addict (Ben Mendelsohn) takes the man on a road trip to a high-stakes poker game in New Orleans.
Once upon a Texas train,
An outlaw and a Texas Ranger captain have a life-long personal feud but 20 years later, with old-age settling-in, they must put their differences aside in order to face the latest Texas problem - the youngest generation of outlaws.
Passion play,
An angel under the thumb of a ruthless gangster is saved by a trumpet player down on his luck.
Rocky II,
Starring Sylvester Stallone.
Spotlight,
The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
Term life,
A vengeful drug lord and three corrupt cops pursue a thief and his estranged daughter.
The Adjustment Bureau,
The affair between a politician and a contemporary dancer is affected by mysterious forces keeping the lovers apart.
The assassin,
In 9th century China, an exiled assassin must choose between love or duty when she receives orders to kill a man from her past. Mandarin dialogue; English
The bells of St. Mary's,
At a big city Catholic school, Father O'Malley (Bing Crosby) and Sister Benedict (Ingrid Bergman) indulge in friendly rivalry, and succeed in extending the school through the gift of a building.
The bridges at Toko-ri,
Set during the Korean War, a Navy fighter pilot must come to terms with with his own ambivalence towards the war and the fear of having to bomb a set of highly defended bridges.
The darkest hour,
In Moscow, five young people lead the charge against an alien race who have attacked Earth via our power supply.
The finest hours,
The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.
The front page,
As a tabloid newspaper editor tries to prevent his top reporter from retiring, an escaped death row convict shows up at the office trying to convey his innocence.
The garden of words,
Takao trains to become a shoemaker and meets with a mysterious woman in the park when it rains. In English and Japanese. Subtitles in English.
The lady vanishes, Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
While traveling by train, a young socialite is befriended by a charming yet enigmatic older woman. However, when the woman disappears, the other passengers deny she ever existed.
The mystery of happiness,
When her husband goes missing, a woman works with his business partner and a private detective to find him. In Spanish with English subtitles.
The power of emotion,
A densely layered meditation on the mechanism of human emotion. In German with English subtitles.
The return,
In the Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father - a man they know only through a single photograph - resurfaces. In Russian with English subtitles.
The tomb of Ligeia,
A man's obsession with his dead wife drives a wedge between him and his new bride. Stars Vincent Price.
The truth about Charlie,
A young woman in Paris is about to divorce her husband when she discovers... he's dead; and all their money is gone. She meets a mysterious man, who tells her that the money was really his, and he wants it back, seemingly convinced that she's hiding the cash. Meanwhile, more people end up dead.
The young and prodigious T.S. Spivet,
A 10 year-old cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country aboard a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.
The young sinner,
The story of a small-town football star, Chris Wotan, who defies society, morals and his God and gets into so much trouble that he is expelled from school.
There's always tomorrow,
Feeling neglected by his wife (Joan Bennett) and children, a toy manufacturer (Fred MacMurray) has a fling with an old flame (Barbara Stanwyck).
Top gun,
As students at the U.S. Navy's elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom. Starring Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis.
Tour de force,
A forlorn biking fanatic embarks on his own Tour de France to win his wife back. In French with English subtitles.
Two-bit waltz,
Suspension from school, the loss of a friend, a broken heart and lack of inspiration lead to Maude's downfall in this romp through teenage error.
Upside down,
Though it is forbidden, a man (Jim Sturgess) devises a way to reunite with a long-lost love (Kirsten Dunst) from the twin world that sits just above his own.
Va savoir,
A vivacious student tests a director's loyalty to his lover, an actress starring in his play in Paris. In French with English subtitles.
Victor Frankenstein,
An American science fiction fantasy horror film based on contemporary adaptations of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein. Starring James McAvoy and Daniel
Vive la France,
The son of a politician recruits two peaceful shepherds to destroy the Eiffel Tower. In French with English subtitles.
Where hope grows,
A troubled ex-ballplayer finds his life reinvigorated through his friendship with a mentally challenged grocery-store employee.
Woodlawn,
A gifted high school football player must learn to embrace his talent and his faith as he battles racial tensions on and off the field.
Zoolander 2,
Derek and Hansel are lured into modeling again, in Rome, where they find themselves the target of a sinister conspiracy.
The hound of the Baskervilles,
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes (Peter Cushing) is hired to
Steve Jobs,
Takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution, to paint a portrait of the man at its epicenter.
A day late and a dollar short,
Worried that her next asthma attack may kill her, a woman (Whoopi Goldberg) tries to solve the problems of her estranged husband and their four adult
90 minutes in heaven,
A man involved in a horrific car crash is pronounced dead, only to come back to life an hour and a half later, claiming to have seen Heaven.
The Browning version,
Forced to retire from an English public school, an unpopular professor must confront his failure as a teacher and husband. Stars Sir Michael Redgrave.
The choice,
Based on Nicholas Sparks' novel of the same name about two neighbors who fall in love at their first meeting.
It's kind of a funny story,
A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.
The house of mirth,
A woman risks losing her chance of happiness with the only man she has ever loved.

MUSIC

Michael Houstoun performs Beethoven : the last three piano sonatas,
Diamond night, Judith Durham.
On a clear day you can see forever, Directed by Vincente Minnelli.
A 1970 American musical/romantic fantasy film starring Barbra Streisand.

Non-fiction

Best of enemies : Buckley vs. Vidal, .
A documentary on the series of televised debates in 1968 between liberal Gore Vidal and conservative William F. Buckley.
The Galapagos affair : Satan came to Eden,
About a series of unsolved disappearances on the Galapagos Island of Floreana in the 1930s.
Tales from the Royal wardrobe and bedchamber : the artifacts and stories surrounding the royal household past and present.,
Dr. Lucy Worsley peeks under the robes of Britain's Kings and Queens past and present, asking what their chosen garments reveal about their reigns.
Dawn of humanity,
Deep in a South African cave, an astounding discovery reveals clues to what made us human.
Peggy Guggenheim : art addict,
Filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland examines the life of Peggy Guggenheim, the wealthy socialite who developed an extensive art
In search of Chopin,
The life and music of pianist and composer Frederic Chopin.
Jimi Hendrix : hear my train a comin',
Includes never-before-seen footage, home movies, photographs, drawings, family letters, interviews with Hendrix as well as commentary by Paul McCartney, Noel Redding, Mitch Mitchell, Billy Cox, Eddie Kramer, and Steve Winwood.
Idris Elba : no limits.,
Elba meets speed challenges with different vehicles.
William Shakespeare's The taming of the shrew, Directed by Franco Zeffirelli.
Stars Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton as Shakespeare's Kate and Petruchio.
Princes of the palace : the House of Windsor's royal princes.,
1916 : the Irish rebellion

Talking Books

ADVENTURE

The eye of heaven [MP3 CD], Clive Cussler and Russell Blake.
The eye of heaven, Clive Cussler and Russell Blake.
Memo random, Anders De La Motte.
Call after midnight, Tess Gerritsen.
In their footsteps, Tess Gerritsen.
The other side of silence, Philip Kerr.
New York night [MP3 CD], Stephen Leather.
New York night, Stephen Leather.
The amber shadows, Lucy Ribchester.
When the lion feeds, Wilbur Smith.

FANTASY

Voyage of the Basilisk : a memoir by Lady Trent, Marie Brennan.
Fellside [MP3 CD], M.R. Carey.
Fellside, M.R. Carey.

FICTION

A country road, a tree, Jo Baker.
A country road, a tree [MP3 CD], Jo Baker.
The blue guitar, John Banville.
Conditional love, Cathy Bramley.
Cities of the red night, William S. Burroughs.
Amanda's wedding, Jenny Colgan.
The dust that falls from dreams, Louis de Bernieres.
The secrets of happiness, Lucy Diamond.
What a way to go, Julia Forster
Into the valley, Ruth Galm.
The book of Memory, Petina Gappah.
The woman who upped and left, Fiona Gibson
The flower arrangement, Ella Griffin.
The past, Tessa Hadley.
The wolf border, Sarah Hall.
The dressmaker, Rosalie Ham.
Song of the skylark, Erica James.
Fear of dying, Erica Jong.
Shtum, Jem Lester.
The chandelier ballroom, Elizabeth Lord.
Thirteen ways of looking, Colum McCann.
After you, Jojo Moyes.
The Sunshine Cruise Company, John Niven.
The maker of swans, Paraic O'Donnell.
Under Italian skies, Nicky Pellegrino.
The house of hidden mothers, Meera Syal.
The night that changed everything [MP3 CD], Laura Tait & Jimmy Rice.
The night that changed everything, Laura Tait & Jimmy Rice.
The little friend, Donna Tartt.
A spool of blue thread, Anne Tyler.
The gap of time, Jeanette Winterson.
Those were the days, Terry Wogan

HISTORICAL

The long sword, Christian Cameron.
The strangler vine, M.J. Carter.
The wild hunt, Elizabeth Chadwick.
The taming of the Queen, Philippa Gregory.
The dovekeepers, Alice Hoffman.
The marriage of opposites, Alice Hoffman.
Paper daisies, Kim Kelly.
Lady of passion, Freda Lightfoot.
This ravished land, Pamela Oldfield.
Madonna of the seven hills, Jean Plaidy.
The Jacobite lass, Janet MacLeod Trotter.

HORROR

Sing me to sleep, Chris Simms.

MYSTERY

Fever city, Tim Baker.
A taste of ashes, Tony Black.
Death comes first, Hilary Bonner.
A siege of bitterns, Steve Burrows.
A time of torment, John Connolly.
A time of torment [MP3 CD], John Connolly.
Cheating the hangman, Judith Cutler.
Cheating the hangman [MP3 CD], Judith Cutler.
Brothers in blood, David Stuart Davies.
Numero zero, Umberto Eco
The big nowhere, James Ellroy.
The big nowhere [MP3 CD], James Ellroy.
Tricky twenty-two [MP3 CD], Janet Evanovich.
Tricky twenty-two, Janet Evanovich.
Front runner, Felix Francis.
Killing me softly, Nicci French.
Waiting for Wednesday, Nicci French.
Waiting for Wednesday [MP3 CD], Nicci French.
Playing with fire, Tess Gerritsen.
The primrose path, Rebecca Griffiths.
The governor's wife, Michael Harvey.
Tastes like fear [MP3 CD], Sarah Hilary.
Tastes like fear, Sarah Hilary.
Maestra, L.S. Hilton.
Orphan X, Gregg Hurwitz.
Blood game, Iris Johansen.
The loving husband, Christobel Kent.
The method, Shannon Kirk.
Luckiest girl alive, Jessica Knoll.
Tennison, Lynda La Plante.
The fall, John Lescroart.
Diamond solitaire, Peter Lovesey.
The darkest secret, Alex Marwood.
The darkest secret [MP3 CD], Alex Marwood.
The President's shadow, Brad Meltzer.
The chosen, Kristina Ohlsson.
Empty vessels, Marina Pascoe.
Alert [MP3 CD], James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge.
Alert, James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge.
Lifeguard, James Patterson and Andrew Gross.
The lake house, James Patterson.
Truth or die, James Patterson & Howard Roughan.
Truth or die [MP3 CD], James Patterson & Howard Roughan.
The night hunter, Caro Ramsay.
Constable on trial, Nicholas Rhea.
Obsession in death, J.D. Robb.
Blue smoke, Nora Roberts.
Close your eyes, Michael Robotham.
Wine of violence, Priscilla Royal.
The sign of fear, Robert Ryan.
Gathering prey, John Sandford.
Lullaby girl, Aly Sidgwick.
The woman who walked in sunshine, Alexander McCall Smith.
Rough cut, Anna Smith.
Promises of blood, David Thorne.
The burden of proof, Scott Turow.
The burden of proof [MP3 CD], Scott Turow.
Death wears a mask, Ashley Weaver.

Non-fiction

How to change the world, John-Paul Flintoff.
Buster : the dog who saved a thousand lives, Will Barrow.
The unknown universe, Stuart Clark.
Outback midwife, Beth McRae [with Charlotte Ward].
Reckoning, written and read by Magda Szubanski.
Maverick mountaineer : George Ingle Finch, the wild colonial boy who took on the British Alpine establishment, Robert Wainwright.
Warriors on horseback : the inside story of the professional jockey, John Carter.
Island home : a landscape memoir, Tim Winton.
Testament of youth, Vera Brittain.
My life in ruins : from Petra to Glenrowan my adventures and misadventures in archaeology, Adam Ford.
The Nazi hunters : the ultra-secret SAS unit and the quest for Hitler's war criminals, Damien Lewis.
The road to Little Dribbling : more notes from a small island, Bill Bryson.
Tracks across America, Billy Connolly.

ROMANCE

The Westerby inheritance, M.C. Beaton.
Thief of hearts, Tess Gerritsen.
Grey [MP3 CD], E.L. James.
Grey, E.L. James.
I don't want to talk about it, Jane Lovering.
Less of a stranger, Nora Roberts.
Stars of fortune, Nora Roberts.
The liar, Nora Roberts.

SAGA

Liverpool gems, Anne Baker.
Scorpion sunset, Catrin Collier.
Evie's war, Kitty Danton.
The buffer girls, Margaret Dickinson.
Cinnamon Gardens, Anna Jacobs.
The tea planter's wife, Dinah Jefferies.
The Patterson girls, Rachael Johns.
Daughter of the house, Rosie Thomas.
Iris & Ruby, Rosie Thomas.
Summer on the river, Marcia Willett.
The sea garden, Marcia Willett.
The summer house, Marcia Willett.
The way we were, Marcia Willett.
Emily, Val Wood.

WESTERN

The long trail, Arthur Henry Gooden.
Drifter's end, Ray Hogan.
Longhorn Trail, Lauran Paine.
Thicker than water, W.C. Tuttle.