LibGuides: Read the Book...Watch the Movie!: Fiction

BOOKS (all located on the 1st floor)

The Danish Girl: A Novel
by David Ebershoff
Call Number: Fict Ebe
ISBN: 9780143108399
Publication Date: 2015-10-27
Inspired by the true story of Danish painter Einar Wegener and his California-born wife, this tender portrait of a marriage asks, "What do you do when someone you love wants to change?"
White Oleander: A Novel
by Janet Fitch
Call Number: Fict Fit
ISBN: 0316285269
Publication Date: 1999-04-01
Ingrid, a smart, free-spirited, and somewhat narcissistic artist, kills her deceitful lover in a crime of passion. Even while serving a prison sentence, she exerts control over her adoring teenage daughter, Astrid, who's forced to spend this time in a series of foster homes before becoming her own person.
Gone Girl: A Novel
by Gillian Flynn
Call Number: Fict Fly
ISBN: 9780307588364
Publication Date: 2012-06-05
On the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick's wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police immediately suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Call Number: Fict Foe
ISBN: 9780547735023
Publication Date: 2011-11-01
Meet Oskar Schell, an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist, correspondent with Stephen Hawking and Ringo Starr. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search…to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11.
Water for Elephants: A Novel
by Sara Gruen
Call Number: Fict Gru
ISBN: 9781565125605
Publication Date: 2007-05-01
Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression and his friendship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie, the elephant who gave them hope.
Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Call Number: Fict Ish
ISBN: 9781400078776
Publication Date: 2006-03-14
A reunion with two childhood friends draws Kathy and her companions on a nostalgic odyssey into their lives at Hailsham, an isolated private school in the English countryside, and a confrontation with the truth about their childhoods.
Schindler's List
by Thomas Keneally
Call Number: Fict Ken
ISBN: 0671516884
Publication Date: 1994-09-01
The story of a Catholic war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who risked his life and went bankrupt in order to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in concentration camps. He employed Jews in his crockery factory manufacturing goods for the German army. At the same time he tries to stay solvent with the help of a Jewish accountant and negotiates business with a vicious Nazi commandant who enjoys shooting Jews as target practice from the balcony of his villa that overlooks the prison camp he commands.
The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd
Call Number: Fict Kid
ISBN: 9780143114550
Publication Date: 2008-08-20
Lily Owens is a young girl who lives on the peach farm that her abusive father owns. Rosaleen is a black woman hired by Lily's father to be a stand-in mother for Lily. Rosaleen insults some of the biggest racists in their town. Lily and Rosaleen run away to a town Lily believes that her mother once lived in. They go to live with the three Boatwright sisters on their honey farm. She finds solace in their mesmerizing world of beekeeping.
Atonement: A Novel
by Ian McEwan
Call Number: Fict McE
ISBN: 9780385721790
Publication Date: 2003-02-25
In the summer of 1935, 13-year-old Briony Tallis wildly misinterprets the relationship between her sister Cecilia and Robbie Turner…when her young cousin is assaulted, Briony gives in to her hyperactive imagination and blames the atrocity on Robbie. It is a terrible decision that alters lives and fills Briony with an everlasting sense of guilt.
One Day
by David Nicholls
Call Number: Fict Nic
ISBN: 9780307474711
Publication Date: 2010-06-15
Over twenty years, snapshots of an unlikely relationship are revealed on the same day — July 15th — of each year…as the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed, Dex Mayhew and Em Morley must come to grips with the nature of love and life itself.
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
Call Number: Fict Nif
ISBN: 9780156029438
Publication Date: 2004-07-05
Henry is a time traveler, cursed with a rare genetic anomaly that causes him to live his life on a shifting timeline… Despite the fact that Henry's travels force them apart with no warning, Clare desperately tries to build a life with her one true love.
Fight Club
by Chuck Palahniuk
Call Number: Fict Pal
ISBN: 9780393327342
Publication Date: 2005-10-17
When a ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a soap salesman channel their aggression into therapeutic "fight clubs," an eccentric woman gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
The Reader
by Bernhard Schlink
Call Number: Fict Sch
ISBN: 9780307454898
Publication Date: 2008-11-25
Fifteen-year-old Michael begins a love affair with 38-year-old Hanna in 1958 West Germany. As part of their relationship, Michael reads aloud from classic works of philosophy and literature. Hanna disappears suddenly, leaving Michael unsettled and confused. Seven years later, they meet again: he, a law student; she, standing trial for Nazi war crimes.
The Help
by Kathryn Stockett
Call Number: Fict Sto
ISBN: 9780399155345
Publication Date: 2009-02-10
In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women — black and white, mothers and daughters — view one another.

MOVIES (all located on the 1st floor)

The Danish Girl
Call Number:
DVD DANI
ISBN: 0025192324598
Publication Date: 2016
White Oleander
Call Number:
DVD WHIT
ISBN: 0085392341429
Publication Date: 2003
Gone Girl
Call Number:
DVD GONE
ISBN: 0024543954521
Publication Date: 2015
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Call Number:
DVD EXTR
ISBN: 0883929213054
Publication Date: 2012
Water for Elephants
Call Number:
DVD WATE
ISBN: 0024543740681
Publication Date: 2011
Never Let Me Go
Call Number:
DVD NEVE
ISBN: 0024543714262
Publication Date: 2011
Schindler's List
Call Number:
DVD SCHI
ISBN: 0025192168857
Publication Date: 2013
The Secret Life of Bees
Call Number:
DVD SECR
ISBN: 0024543556329
Publication Date: 2008
Atonement
Call Number:
DVD ATON
ISBN: 0025193328526
Publication Date: 2008
One Day
Call Number:
DVD ONED
ISBN: 0025192082719
Publication Date: 2011
The Time Traveler's Wife
Call Number:
DVD TIME
ISBN: 0794043132353
Publication Date: 2010
Fight Club
Call Number:
DVD FIGH
ISBN: 0024543000358
Publication Date: 2000
The Reader
Call Number:
DVD READ
ISBN: 0796019819572
Publication Date: 2009
The Help
Call Number:
DVD HELP
ISBN: 0786936814309
Publication Date: 2011