What’s New @ AFPLS

If you happen to be in Atlanta this Halloween, the Global Access Department of the Central Library has much and in many languages to frighten and delight.  We have ghosts, witches, epic struggles between good and evil, a few of the walking dead and some who are simply possessed (on page or screen, that is).

Books

Check Ðêm buom ma: tuyên t•âp truyên ma Viêt Nam by Ngô Tu Lâp (Vietnamese)
Kyoden kaiicho by Takahashi Katsuhiko (Japanese)
Li kuei hsien hsing ki by Chang Shou-lee (Chinese)                                                                                                   

Poe és kóvet”oi: rémiszt”o történetek, translated by Csaba Hunyadi (Hungarian)
Treize fantomes by George Langelaan (French)
Vlast’ karmy: roman by Theresa Weir (Russian)
Youisa ui haru by Yi Yu-jin (Korean)

DVDs

Darna zaroori hai (Hindi)
Fear  (Hindi)
Vellinakshathram (Malayam)
Viy (Russian)

Check the library catalog for these items and more.  Don’t be a zombie.  Get into the spirit and take possession of some of these great finds for Halloween.

Yet again a large number of fall films are based on books and plays. It’s always a good bet to get a copy of the book before the movie comes out, because by then everyone else has gotten the same idea! Here’s a list of fall films based on literature, just to give you a head start:

September
*The Duchess…based on Amanda Foreman’s excellent biography entitled Georgiana, The Duchess of Devonshire. Starring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes.
*Blindness…the story of the only seeing person when the world goes blind, based on Jose Saramago’s novel. Starring Julianne Moore and Gael Garcia Bernal.
*Appaloosa…a western starring Ed Harris and Viggo Moretensen, based on the Robert B. Parker novel.
*Choke…this Chuck Palahnuik novel is the story of a man, played by Sam Rockwell, who repays his mother’s hospital bills by swindling strangers who save him from choking to death.
*Nights in Rodanthe…Richard Gere and Diana Lane pair up for the third time in this romance from author Nicholas Sparks.

October
*How to Loose Friends & Alienate People…based on Toby Young’s memoir of a British writer trying to fit in in New York, starring Jeff Bridges and Simon Pegg
*Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist…this great teen novel written by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan gets the Hollywood treatment with Michael Cera and Kat Dennings
*What Just Happened?…Robert DeNiro tackles Art Linson’s story of a fading Hollywood producer
*City of Ember…another great teen book, this darker story by Jeanne Duprau stars Bill Murray as the Mayor of Ember
*Secret Life of Bees…Dakota Fanning, Paul Bettany and Queen Latifah star in this tale of 1964 South Carolina, based on Sue Monk Kidd’s novel

November
*Quantum of Solace…using the title from one of Ian Fleming’s short stories, this is the latest Bond film starring Daniel Craig
*Twilight…the popular vampire series by Stephenie Meyer finally hits theaters, starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson as Bella and Edward
*The Road…Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel is the tale of a father trying to get his son to safety in a dangerous world, starring Viggo Mortensen

December
*Frost/Nixon…based on Peter Morgan’s play, this is the story of the post-Watergate interviews by Frost of Nixon, starring Michael Sheen and Frank Langella
*Doubt…based on the play by John Patrick Shanley, it’s the story of a nun who confronts a priest she suspects is abusing an African-American student. Stars Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman
*The Tale of Despereaux…an animated feature based on Kate DiCamillo’s story about a misfit mouse. Features the voices of Emma Watson and Matthew Broderick
*The Spirit…Gabriel Macht and Scarlet Johanssen bring the Will Eisner comic to life
*Revolutionary Road…Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet appear again as an onscreen couple, only this time as a dissatisfied married couple in this film based on on Richard Yates’ novel
*Marley & Me…John Grogan’s memoir is brought to life by Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston

You can check the AFPLS catalog here to see which titles are available at your local branch or to put copies on hold. With all this rain and cooler weather we’ve been having, now is a great time to curl up with a good movie!

It seems only fitting that we find titles of books and films among the many languages and countries represented in the Olympic events in the Global Access Department of the Central Library.  Some of the material is recent and some of it provides a glimpse into the sportmanship, training and lives of athletes of years gone by. 

Boxing
• Boxeo (Spanish)

Soccer
• Psukas (Hungarian)
• Kaduregel : Hamadrikh hamale lamishak hamalhiv (Hebrew)
• Huong dân tâp luyên ky, chiên thuât bóng dá  (Vietnamese)
• Bóng dá, vu diêu hành tinh (Vietnamese)
• Ch‘ukku, anun mankum pointa (Korean)
• Manno Sanon, toup puo yo II (French)
• Haïti à Munich : vingt ans après : une analyse élargie de l’équipe haïtienne de 71-74 et des propositions pour un renouveau du foot-ball haïtien (French)

Track
• Tìm hiêu diên kinh theê giói (Vietnamese)

Wrestling
• Shaban Jafari (Farsi)

Among the DVD’s with sports themes, we have these:
Wrestling
• Un Titan en el Ring (Spanish)
Boxing
• Apne (Hindi)
Women’s Field Hockey
• Chak de! India (Hindi)

We have How to Be Like Mike (Michael Jordan) in Korean,
Mohammad Ali’s biography, I am the Greatest in Spanish, and several novels with equestrian elements in Russian. 

Enjoy browsing through the many languages, countries and sports.  More may be found in the library catalog.

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emporer will be released on August 1st. Are you ready to save the world again?  The library has materials in a number of languages on real-life archaeology and emporers in far away lands.  Languages and authors writing on topics in archaeology  include:
Ðô, Van Ninh (Vietnamese)
Lê, Ðình Phung (Vietnamese)
Matos Moctezuma, Eduardo (Spanish)
Diop, Cheikh Anta (Arabic)
Emery, Walter B (Arabic)
Babadzhanova, G. I. (Russian)

You can mix cinematic heroism with archaeology in these films:
Ji di huang ling—Chinese (The Undiscovered Tomb)

Naksha—Hindi

If you want to read something about emperors, we have authors in these and other languages:
Chen, Wende (Chinese)
Nadyi, Rashid Aktar (Urdu)
Granin, Daniil Aleksandrovich (Russian)

For a lighthearted look at the inhabitants in the world of Chinese Emperor Qianlong you might want this DVD:
Hangzhou wang ye (The Lord of Hangzhou)

Search the library catalog and you will be surprised at the treasures waiting to be found in the Global Access Department at the Central Library.

If all of the crimefighting in the blockbuster movies this summer has you anxious to get in on the action, you can catch even more bad guys on DVD when you team up with the library. Neither run-of-the-mill hooligans nor international criminal masterminds stand a chance in the DVD collection of the  Global Access Department of the Central Library.

DVD’s
Hindi
• Dhoom 2
• Deewaar

Spanish
• Como perros con rabia
• En las garras de la muerte
• El malviviente

Malayam
• Abhimanyu

Chinese
• Fei Chang tu ran (Fai seung dat yin)

Whether you prefer crimefighting humor or suspense, check the library catalog. Then in the language of your choice, just say, “book ‘em, Danno“.

William Petersen, the actor who portrays Gil Grissom, the leader of the crim-fighting lab rats from CSI, has announced that he is leaving the show after the 10th episode of the upcoming season. He will continue on as executive producer and will make an occassional guest appearance. However, Grissom will no longer lead the Las Vegas CSI unit.

Luckily for all of you Grissom, and William Petersen, fans, AFPLS has many of his previous film and tv works available. You can check the catalog here to see which are available at your local branch. We have the following Peterson films & television shows available throughout the system:

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Seasons 1-6
CSI: Miami Season 1 (Petersen is featured in the pilot episode)
The Contender co-starring Gary Oldman and Joan Allen
The Skulls co-starring Joshua Jackson
The Rat Pack co-starring Ray Liotta and Don Cheadle
12 Angry Men co-starring Courtney B. Vance and Jack Lemmon
Mulholland Falls co-starring Nick Nolte and Melanie Griffith
Return to Lonesome Dove co-starring Jon Voight and Barbara Hershey
Cousins co-starring Sean Young and Ted Danson
To Live and Die in L.A. co-starring Willem Dafoe

A few other great rolls of Petersen include being in the first Hannibal Lecter film, Manhunter, playing the character of Will Graham, who was recast as Edward Norton in the more recent Red Dragon; playing the family patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy on the TV mini-series The Kennedys of Massachusetts; and playing Pat Garrett in Young Guns II.

I don’t know about you, but I get excited when a book or movie that I have been waiting for for months is finally a week or two away! While not in the AFPLS catalog yet, these will be, either on or shortly after the publication date. Mark your calendars and get your library cards ready!

Week of July 14

If the release of the movie Get Smart whets your appetite for espionage in all of its many guises, then you may find that some materials in the Global Access Department of the Central Library warrant further investigation.  Here are some suggestions:

Non-Fiction
Hungarian  Sandor Rado
Russian  Vitaly Pavlov
Farsi   Abbas Amir Intizam
Chinese  Allen Welsh Dulles
Vietnamese  Richard Schultz
Korean Kang Pyong-won

Fiction
Russian  John LeCarre
Korean   Chon Suk-hui
Japanese  Ochiai Nobuhiko
Chinese  Luo Shunquan
Spanish  Francisco Martín Moreno

VHS
Arabic   al-Kafir

DVD
Hindi   Soldier (Soljara)

Whether your tastes run to fiction or non-fiction, Cold War or modern era, books or DVD’s, you will find titles in our collection from China, Russia, Poland, Viet Nam and many other places .  Become an armchair undercover agent, search our library catalog and treat yourself to a selection from our international collection of spy wares.

Welcome to the French Collection!!! The French Collection contains a variety of magazines, books, DVD’s and CD’s. We have the Le Monde, the daily newspaper published in Paris, one of the most important and widely respected newspapers in the world.  We also have the most exciting movies and the most exquisite, relaxing music collection. Come out and check out our fantastic collection.

 L’Express is France’s first weekly news magazine. When founded in 1953 during the First Indochina War, it was modeled on the American magazine TIME. The magazine was supportive of the policies of Pierre Mendès-France in Indochina, and in general had a left-of-centre orientation. The magazine opposed the war in Algeria, and especially the use of torture.

 Le Monde is a French daily evening newspaper. It is considered the French newspaper of record, and is generally well respected, often the only French newspaper easily obtainable in non-Francophone countries.

DVD’s – Here at Global Access, We also carry a lot of exciting movies. Come check them out!!!

• L’ enfant
• Perceval
• L’equive
• Les Bleu Poudre –La Crème
• Les Temps Qui Changent

CD’s – Here at Global Access, we have a large selection of musical artists. Our collection includes music from:

• Mario Pelchat
• Pierre Lapointe
• Piere Flynn
• Kain ( Music group)
…..and many more

Come and check out the variety of magazine and other materials at the Global Access on the 4th floor of the Central Library. Call 404.730.1915 for more details.

This post was written by Ms Katrina Buffington, library intern and senior at Fort Valley State University in Fort Valley, Georgia.  The staff of the Global Access Department would like to thank Ms Buffington for her hard work.

A small collection of Arabic materials is available in the Global Access Department at the Central Library.   There are books in a variety of subject areas such as fiction, poetry, religion, history and biography.  Most of the movies are VHS; a few are DVD’s.  All of the Arabic books and movies are available for circulation, and you can find these items  in the library catalog .

Authors include:
• Adunis
• Muhammed Arkoun
• Salim Barakat
• Mahmud Darwish
• Ibrahim NasrAllah
• Baha Tahir
• Hakim Tawfiq

We also carry the Arabic newspaper Al Ahram and the magazines: Achabaka, Adumatu, and Al Adab.  These materials do not circulate; they are to be read inside of the library.