August 2, 2016 | madame librarian
Looking for a good movie? Check out these AARP Movies for Grownups.
It tells the riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world's oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper's tenacious "Spotlight" team of reporters delve into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government establishment..
Elle has just gotten through breaking up with her girlfriend when Elle's granddaughter Sage unexpectedly shows up needing $600 bucks before sundown. Temporarily broke, Grandma Elle and Sage spend the day trying to get their hands on the cash as their unannounced visits to old friends and flames end up rattling skeletons and digging up secrets.
"An initially breezy family comedy about mothers, daughters and abortions that slowly sneaks up on you and packs a major wallop."--Variety.
May 2, 2014 | madame librarian
Spy vs Spy. Espionage. State Secrets. Romance. Who do you trust?
Covert warriors [large print] by W.E.B. Griffin ; with William E. Butterworth IV
December 20, 2012 | SuzyQ
The recent film Argo starring Ben Affleck tells the true but improbable story of a covert operation to save six Americans hiding in the Canadian Embassy during the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis. The history of espionage is filled with many such hard to believe tales and the Library's collection has many great titles to pick from.
Double cross: the true story of the D-day spies by Ben Macintyre — What did a Polish patriot, a Peruvian party girl, a Serbian playboy, an eccentric Spanish chicken farmer, and a volatile dog-loving Frenchwoman have in common? These five spies formed the nucleus of the Double Cross system which tricked the Nazis into keeping an entire army waiting for a fake invasion, thus assuring the Allied success on D-Day.
Wild Bill Donovan: the spymaster who created the OSS and modern American espionage by Douglas C. Waller — A fascinating biography of the father of today's CIA.
December 15, 2011 | madame librarian
Scent of murder by James O. Born
All the old knives by Olen Steinhauer
Soul of discretion: a Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler mystery by Susan Hill
The German agent by J. Sydney Jones
Bye, bye love: a Cat DeLuca mystery by K.J. Larsen
Thanksgiving angels: a Mercy Allcutt mystery by Alice Duncan
