In the spirit of getting to know the people who comprise the Acquisitions & Collections Services Department, our staff are given the space to share a book, TV show, game, podcast, or album title that entertained them this quarter. The Wreck of the Medusa: The Most Famous Sea Disaster of the Nineteenth Century By Jonathan Miles Overview: The Wreck of the Medusa is a spellbinding account of the most famous shipwreck before the Titanic. Drawing on contemporaneously published accounts and journals of survivors, historian Jonathan Miles brilliantly reconstructs the ill-fated voyage and the events that inspired ThĆ©odore GĆ”ricaultās magnificent painting The Raft of the Medusa. Bright Young Women By Jessica Knoll Overview: Masterfully blending elements of psychological suspense and true crime, Jessica Knoll delivers a new and exhilarating thriller in Bright Young Women. The book opens on a Saturday night in 1978, hours before a soon-to-be-infamous murderer descends upon a Florida sorority house with deadly results. The lives of those who survive, including sorority president and key witness, Pamela Schumacher, are forever changed. Across the country, Tina Cannon is convinced her missing friend was targeted by the man papers refer to as the All-American Sex Killerāand that heās struck again. Determined to find justice, the two join forces as their search for answers leads to a final, shocking confrontation. Doctor Who (2023) Starring Ncuti Gatwa Overview: The Time Lord known as the Doctor travels through space and time with his companions, having incredible adventures and facing dangerous enemies. Mantis: Grab & Game Edition By Exploding Kittens Games Overview: Mantis Grab & Game takes the simplicity of UNOĀ® and the reasoning of Gin Rummy and gives it a colorfully cutthroat makeover youāll play again and again. Wyrm Written & Directed by Christopher Winterbauer Overview: In an alternative 1990s equal parts Yorgos Lanthimos and Todd Solondz (but gentler), an awkward young teen must complete a school requirement in which students wear electronic collars that detach only upon engaging in their first kiss. |