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Featured Titles

Women's History Month

Gregory, Philippa.

Normal women : 900 years of making history

Hummer, Jill Abraham

First ladies and American women : in politics and at home

Tepper, Jennifer Ashley

Women writing musicals : the legacy that the history books left out

Aleksievich, Svetlana, 1948-

The unwomanly face of war : an oral history of women in World War II

Sobel, Dava

The elements of Marie Curie : how the glow of radium lit a path for women in science

Here Be Dragons

Yarros, Rebecca

Iron Flame

Martin, George R. R.

A Game of Thrones

McCaffrey, Anne.

The Dragonriders of Pern

Williamson, S. F

A language of dragons

Reintgen, Scott.

The Last Dragon on Mars

Books About Movies

Frankel, Glenn

Shooting Midnight cowboy : art, sex, loneliness, liberation, and the making of a dark classic

Frankel, Glenn

High noon : the Hollywood blacklist and the making of an American classic

1001 movies you must see before you die

Lumet, Sidney, 1924-2011

Making movies

Callow, Simon, 1949-

Orson Welles

Shelf Help - Recommended reading from MCPL staff

Fischer, Paul (Documentary film producer)

The last kings of Hollywood : Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg--and the battle for the soul of American cinema

Kristoff, Jay.

Empire of the Vampire

Harrow, Alix E.

The Everlasting

Cashore, Kristin.

Graceling

Eason, K.

How Rory Thorne destroyed the multiverse

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