There are new audio books at the Ellinwood School/Community Library. They are:
“Merry Christmas Alex Cross” by James Patterson. It’s a snowy Christmas Eve and Detective Alex Cross is at home celebrating with his family. Then his phone rings with news that shatters the night. At a nearby home, a family has been taken hostage, and the situation is spiraling out of control fast.
“Wicked Business” by Janet Evanovich. Lizzy Tucker’s once normal life as a pastry chef in Salem, Mass., turns upside down as she battles both sinister forces and an inconvenient attraction to her unnaturally talented but off-limits partner, Diesel. When a well-known Harvard professor is murdered, Lizzy and Diesel take up his twenty-year quest for an ancient relic which may have something to do with the death.
There are new videos for the holiday season. They are:
“Epic.” From the creators of Ice Age comes a magical animated world where a teenager is recruited to help the “Leafmen” save their existence, and ours, from warriors bend on destruction.
“World War Z.” Former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane is in a race against time to save both his family and the world from a pandemic that is toppling governments and threatening to destroy humanity itself.
“The English Teacher.” A forty-year-old unmarried high school English teacher’s simple life is turned upside-down when she agrees to produce a play at the high school by a hometown playwright with dreams of his own. With a flamboyant drama teacher directing the production, she puts her own reputation and teaching career on the line.
“The Adventures of Mickey Matson.” Unraveling a series of clues left behind by his grandfather, Mickey Matson and his friends embark on a magical journey in search of a mythical ancient device, with the future of the country handing in their success. They will have to outsmart and outrun an evil conspiracy that dates back to the Civil War.
“Hoodwinked.” The story of Little Red Riding Hood is turned upside-down and inside-out when the police arrive at Granny’s cottage in the woods to answer a domestic disturbance. But Red, Granny, the Big Bad Wolf, and the Woodsman are not your usual suspects, and they have their own dark secrets, wily deceptions and conflicting accounts of the crime!
“Warner Brothers Entertainment Academy Awards.” Enjoy 15 of the classic Warner Brothers short films which won animation academy awards, and feature favorites such as Bugs Bunny, Speedy Gonzales, Yosemite Same, and To.