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Thursday, April 25, 2013

Samuels Says - "What Movies Do You Love Most?"

For our display this month, we asked the staff: "What movies do you love most?" (We even created a nifty Samuels Choice Award-- a.k.a 'The Sammy'-- to honor the recipients.)  As you can see from the lists, we ended up with a very diverse selection of great movies.  So without further ado, here are the Sammy-Award nominations for Best Movie Ever-- and we'd love to hear your nominations too! Drum roll, please!

Ben:
Favorite genres: Anything good
Favorite/actor/actress/director: Meh... no favorites
Favorite DVDs:
2001: A Space Odyssey (DVD F Two)
Band of Brothers (DVD F Ban)
Batman Begins (DVD F Bat)
Casablanca (DVD F Cas)
The Dark Knight (DVD F Dar)
Deep Impact (DVD F Dee)
Iron Man (DVD F Iro)
Jaws (DVD F Jaw)
Jurassic Park (DVD F Jur)
Jurassic Park III (DVD F Jur)
Jurassic Park: The Lost World (DVD F Los)
Lincoln (the recent one) (DVD F Lin)
Lord of the Rings trilogy (DVD F Lor)
The Matrix trilogy (DVD F Mat)
Planet of the Apes (the original) (DVD F Plan)
Saving Private Ryan (DVD F Sav)
Star Trek (the movie and any of the episodes from the past) (DVD F Sta)                
Star Wars, Episodes I-VI (DVD F Sta & DVD J Sta)
The Avengers (DVD F Mar)
The Day After Tomorrow (DVD F Day)
WarGames (DVD F War)

Betty: 
Favorite genres: romantic comedy, suspense (not super scary)
Favorite actor/actress/director: Sandra Bullock, Keanu Reeves
Favorite DVDs:
The Lake House (DVD F Lak) 
Two Weeks Notice (DVD F Two) 
Speed (DVD F Spe) 
While You Were Sleeping (DVD F Whi) 
Martian Child (DVD F Mar) 
Pearl Harbor (DVD F Pea) 
Libel (DVD F Lib) 
The Blind Side (DVD F Bli) 
The Sixth Sense (DVD F Six) 
Mamma Mia! (DVD F Mam)

Boo:
Favorite genres: mystery/suspense, romantic with history
Favorite/actor/actress/director: Denzel Washington, Paul Newman, Johnny Depp, Clint Eastwood, Ron Howard, Steven Spielberg, Robert Redford, Tom Hanks, Jimmy Stewart, Sean Connery, Russell Crowe, Halle Berry, Sally Field, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep, Vivien Leigh, Kate Winslet, Sandra Bullock, Cameron Diaz
Favorite DVDs:
Julie & Julia (DVD F Jul) 
Steel Magnolias (DVD F Ste) 
Dances with Wolves (DVD F Dan) 
Gone Baby Gone (DVD F Gon) 
The Help (DVD F Hel) 
North and South (DVD F Nor) 
The Birds (DVD F Bir) 
Indiana Jones (DVD F Ind) 
Fried Green Tomatoes (DVD F Fri) 
Forrest Gump (DVD F For) 
On Golden Pond (DVD F On) 
Oliver! (musical) (DVD F Oli & DVD E Oli) 
South Pacific (DVD F Sou) 
Pirates of the Caribbean (all) (DVD F Pir) 
Mrs. Doubtfire (DVD F Mrs.)
Secondhand Lions (DVD F Sec & DVD J Sec) 
A River Runs Through It (DVD F Riv) 
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (DVD F Div) 
Five People You Meet in Heaven (DVD F Fiv) 
Ghost (DVD F Gho) 
Grease (DVD F Gre) 
Gran Torino (DVD F Gran) 
Hoosiers (DVD F Hoo) 
Field of Dreams (DVD F Fie) 
The Way We Were (DVD F Way) 
Shenandoah (DVD F She) 
War Horse (DVD F War) 
Mamma Mia! (DVD F Mam) 
Gone with the Wind (DVD F Gon) 
E.T. (DVD F E.T. & DVD J E.T.) 
While You Were Sleeping (DVD F Whi) 
Schindler’s List (DVD F Sch) 
The Great Escape (DVD F Gre) 
To Kill a Mockingbird (DVD F To)
All Disney :) but especially Beauty and the Beast (DVD E Bea) and Snow White and the Seven  
      Dwarves(DVD E Sno) 
Titanic (DVD F Tit) 
Shrek (DVD F Shr)

Cheryl:
Favorite genres: action/adventure, shoot ‘em up, funny
Favorite DVDs:
Jaws (DVD F Jaw)
Bullitt (DVD F Bul)
The Devil Wears Prada (DVD F Dev)
Ocean’s Twelve (DVD F Oce)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (DVD F Mr.)
Inglourious Basterds (DVD F Ing)
Moneyball (DVD F Mon)
10,000 BC (DVD F Ten)
Friday Night Lights (DVD F Fri)
The Fugitive (DVD F Fug)
Ghostbusters (DVD F Gho)
The General’s Daughter (DVD F Gen)
The Hunt for Red October (DVD F Hun)
High Plains Drifter (DVD F Cli)
The Incredibles (DVD J Inc)
Iron Man (DVD F Iro)
Mansfield Park (DVD F Man)
Ice Age (DVD J Ice)
Jurassic Park (DVD F Jur)
Pride and Prejudice (DVD F Pri)
Kill Bill (DVD F Kil) 

Danielle:
Favorite genres: Romance, SciFi/Fantasy, Musicals
Favorite actor/actress/director: Richard Armitage, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hiddleston, Danny Kaye, Bing Crosby, Julie Andrews, Hayao Miyazaki, Peter Jackson
Favorite DVDs:
Lord of the Rings trilogy (DVD F Lor)
Pride and Prejudice (Colin Firth & Jennifer Ehle) (DVD F Pri)
North and South (DVD F Nor)
Beauty and the Beast (DVD E Bea)
The Avengers (DVD F Mar)
Labyrinth (DVD J Lab)
The Princess Bride (DVD F Pri)
Star Wars—Original Trilogy (DVD F Sta & DVD J Sta)
Star Trek (2009) (DVD F Sta)
The Dark Knight (DVD F Dar)
August Rush (DVD F Aug)
My Fair Lady (DVD F My)
The King and I (DVD F Kin)
The Phantom of the Opera (Gerard Butler & Emmy Rossum) (DVD F Pha)
Midnight in Paris (DVD F Mid)
Les Miserables (2012) (DVD F Les)
Howl’s Moving Castle (DVD F How) 
Mary Poppins (DVD E Mar) 

Helen:
Back to the Future Trilogy (DVD F Bac)
Batman movies (DVD F Bat & more )
The Best of Mr. Ed (DVD F Mis)
The Blind Side (DVD F Bli)
The Bodyguard (DVD F Bod)
The Bourne Movies (DVD F Bou)
Braveheart (DVD F Bra)
City Slickers (DVD F Cit)
The Count of Monte Cristo (DVD F Cou)
Dances With Wolves (DVD F Dan)
Driving Miss Daisy (DVD F Dri)
E.T. (DVD J E.T.)
Elf (DVD J Elf)
Field of Dreams (DVD F Fie)
The Firm (DVD F Fir)
The Fox and the Hound (DVD E Fox)
Fred Claus (DVD J Fre)
Indiana Jones series (DVD F Ind)
The Karate Kid movies (DVD F Kar & DVD J Kar)
Lord of the Rings (all) (DVD F Lor)
The Mask of Zorro (DVD F Mas)
The Patriot (DVD F Pat)
Pretty Woman (DVD F Pre)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (DVD F Rob)
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (DVD F She)
Snow White and the Huntsman (DVD F Sno)
Spider-man (all) (DVD Spi & DVD Ama)

Jan:
Favorite genres: romantic comedy, drama
Favorite DVDs:
Top Ten:
Foyle’s War Series (DVD F Foy)
The Natural (DVD F Nat)
Sense and Sensibility (Emma Thompson version from 1999)(DVD F Sen)
West Wing Series (DVD F Wes)
While You Were Sleeping (DVD F Whi)
All the President’s Men (DVD F All)
Anne of Green Gables (DVD E Ann)
Doc Hollywood (DVD F Doc)
Downton Abbey Series 1,2, and 3 (DVD F Dow)
Roman Holiday (DVD F Rom)
The rest:
Doc Martin series (DVD F Doc)
Hachi: A Dog’s Tale (DVD F Hac)
Shall We Dance? (DVD F Sha)
Groundhog Day (DVD F Gro)
The Help (DVD F Hel)
The Lake House (DVD F Lak)
Little Dorrit (DVD F Lit)
Nine to Five (DVD F Nin)
The Right Stuff (DVD F Rig)
Romantics Anonymous (DVD F Rom)
Runaway Bride (DVD F Run)
Sabrina (1995 version) (DVD F Sab)
Remains of the Day (DVD F Rem)
Pride and Prejudice (2006) (DVD F Pri)
Two Weeks Notice (DVD F Two)
Night at the Museum (DVD F Nig & DVD J Nig)
National Treasure 1 &2 (DVD J Nat)
The Blue Planet (DVD 551.46 Blu)
Ballet Shoes (DVD J Bal)
Horatio’s Drive (DVD 917.304 Hor)
Lewis & Clark (DVD 978 Lew)
John Adams (DVD Bio Adams John)
Benjamin Franklin (DVD Bio Franklin Benjamin)
Anne of Green Gables, The Continuing Story (DVD E Ann)
Annie (DVD J Ann)
Apollo 13 (DVD F Apo)
Hugo (DVD J Hug)
Barefoot in the Park (DVD F Bar)
Cars (DVD E Car)
Cranford (DVD F Cra)
Funny Face (DVD F Fun)
Dave (DVD F Dav)
Dolphin Tale (DVD J Dol)
Driving Miss Daisy (DVD F Dri)
Finding Nemo (DVD E Fin)
Gandhi (DVD F Gan)
The Glenn Miller Story (DVD F Gle)
Julie & Julia (DVD F Jul)
We Bought A Zoo (DVD F We & DVD J We)
Marley & Me (DVD F Mar)
Pixar Short Films Collection, Volume 1 (DVD E Pix)
Ratatouille (DVD E Rat)
You’ve Got Mail (DVD F You) 

Jeanne:
Favorite genre: romance (duh!)
Favorite DVDs:
Casablanca (DVD F Cas)
Doctor Zhivago (DVD F Doc)
The Sound of Music (DVD F Sou)
Life is Beautiful (DVD F Lif)
Il Postino (DVD F Il)
M (DVD F M)
Amelie (DVD F Ame)
Das Boot (DVD F Boo)
Rebecca (DVD F Reb)
Shakespeare in Love (DVD F Shak)
The Sting (DVD F Sti)
The King’s Speech (DVD F Kin)
The Graduate (DVD F Grad)
Best Years of Our Lives (DVD F Bes)
My Mother’s Castle (DVD F My)
The African Queen (DVD F Afr)
 
Jessica:
Favorite genres: I like a variety.
Favorite actor/actress/director: No favorite actor/actress, but I really like Sofia Coppola and Wes Anderson as far as directors go.  Does Hayao Miyazaki count as a director? Because he is also brilliant.
Favorite DVDs:
Amelie (DVD F Ame)
Big Fish (DVD F Big)
My Neighbor Totoro (DVD E My)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (DVD F Lif)
Lost in Translation (DVD F Los)
The Lord of the Rings series (DVD F Lor)
Girl, Interrupted (DVD F Gir)
Castle in the Sky (DVD E Cas)
Alice in Wonderland (animated version) (DVD E Ali)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (DVD F Per)
Moonrise Kingdom (DVD F Moo)
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (DVD F Aus)
Donnie Darko (DVD F Don)
Food, Inc. (DVD 338.1 Foo)
Harry Potter series (DVD F Har & DVD J Har)
Hook (DVD F Hoo)
Howl’s Moving Castle (DVD F How)
MirrorMask (DVD F Mir)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (DVD F Mon)
Monty Python’s Life of Brian (DVD F Mon)
The Princess Bride (DVD F Pri)
Shaun of the Dead (DVD F Sha)
Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price (DVD 381.149 Wal)
Love, Actually (DVD F Lov)
Paris, Je T’aime (DVD F Par)
The Little Mermaid (DVD E Lit)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (DVD 751.7 Exi)

Joan:
Favorite genres: mystery (older ones especially); suspense, but without a lot of violence (or cars blowing up); comedy; comedy, but in good taste, not raunchy
Favorite actor/actress/director: Hmmm… so many… Clark Gable, Humphrey Bogart, Bradley Cooper, Sally Field, Audrey Hepburn, Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Hitchcock, the list goes on and on.
Favorite DVDs:
Gone with the Wind (DVD F Gon)
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (DVD F Gue)
The African Queen (DVD F Afr)
Any of the Agatha Christie movies (DVD F Aga & more)
Most of the Hitchcock movies
Lincoln (the new one) (DVD F Lin)
Life of Pi (DVD F Pi)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (DVD F Bea)
Argo (DVD F Arg)
Les Miserable (the new one) (DVD F Les)
West Side Story (DVD F Wes)
Up (DVD J Up)
The Help (DVD F Help)
Midnight in Paris (DVD F Mid)
Moneyball (DVD F Mon)
The King’s Speech (DVD F Kin)
Crazy Heart (DVD F Craz)
The Blind Side (DVD F Bli)
The Sound of Music (DVD F Sou)
South Pacific (DVD F Sou)
Bullitt (DVD F Bul)
The Great Escape (DVD F Gre)
Out of Africa (DVD F Out)
Lilies of the Field (DVD F Lil)
Forrest Gump (DVD F For)
Walk the Line (DVD F Wal)
Moulin Rouge (DVD F Mou)
Casablanca (DVD F Cas)
The Bridge On the River Kwai (DVD F Bri)
Chicago (DVD F Chi)
Driving Miss Daisy (DVD F Dri)
In the Heat of the Night (DVD F In)
My Fair Lady (DVD F My)
Mary Poppins (DVD E Mar)
The Little Mermaid (DVD E Lit)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (DVD F One)
Rain Man (DVD F Rai)
Rebecca—either version (DVD F Reb)
Slumdog Millionaire (DVD F Slu)
The Sting (DVD F Sti)
Titanic (DVD F Tit)
Cool Hand Luke (DVD F Coo)

John:
Favorite genres: noir, comedy, cult classics, foreign, b movies 
The Maltese Falcon (DVD F Mal)
Annie Hall (DVD F Ann)
Night and the City (DVD F Nig)
Duck Soup (DVD F Duc) or anything in The Marx Brothers: Silver Screen Collection (DVD  F Mar)
Any of the Preston Sturges comedies—especially Hail the Conquering Hero (DVD F Hai), The Lady 
     Eve (DVD F Lad), The Great McGinty (DVD F Gre), or Sullivan’s Travels (DVD F Sul)
Back to the Future (DVD F Bac)
Any Wes Anderson: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (DVD F Lif), Royal Tenenbaums (DVD F  
     Roy), Fantastic Mr. Fox (DVD J Fan), Moonrise Kingdom (DVD F Moo)
The Thing From Another World (DVD F Thi)
The Princess Bride (DVD F Pri)
Ratatouille (DVD E Rat)
Pandora’s Box (DVD F Pan)
Rashoman (DVD F Ras)
Breathless (DVD F Bre)
Winter’s Bone (DVD F Win)
Lost in Translation (DVD F Los)
Strictly Ballroom (DVD F Str)
Sneakers (DVD F Sne)
You Can’t Take it With You (DVD F You)
A Room with a View (DVD F Roo)
Almost any live-action Disney movie from the 1950s or 1960s, such as That Darn Cat (DVD E  
     Tha), Blackbeard’s Ghost (DVD E Bla), The Parent Trap (DVD E Par), Swiss Family Robinson 
     (DVD E Swi), or The Shaggy Dog (DVD E Sha)
Any of the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movies, though especially Swing Time (DVD F Swi) and Top 
     Hat (DVD F Top)
Mulholland Drive (DVD F Mul)
Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends (DVD E Rock)
Chinatown (DVD F Chin)
Requiem for a Dream (DVD F Req)
Star Wars—Original Trilogy (DVD F Sta)
Ghostbusters (DVD F Gho)
Pulp Fiction (DVD F Pul)
Any Coen Brothers—especially A Serious Man (DVD F Ser) or Fargo (DVD F Fargo)
King Kong—the original (DVD F Kin)
Night of the Living Dead (DVD F Nig)
Goldfinger (DVD F Gol)
The Great Muppet Caper (DVD F Gre)
Rear Window (DVD F Rea)
Wonder Boys (DVD F Won)
Winchester ’73 (DVD F Win)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (DVD F Ind)
The Conversation (DVD F Con)
Bringing Up Baby (DVD F Bri)
Dr. Strangelove (DVD F Dr.)
Harold and Maude (DVD F Har)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (DVD F Sev)
Z (DVD F Z)

Kathy J.:
Favorite genres: chick flicks, some action/suspense, comedy
Favorite actor/actress/director: Sandra Bullock, Harrison Ford, Sean Connery
Favorite DVDs:
Veggie Tales—all of them! (DVD E Veg)
Little House on the Prairie (DVD E Lit)
Bourne Series (DVD F Bou)
Star Wars IV, V, VI (DVD F Sta & DVD J Sta)
Mission Impossible movies (DVD F Mis)
Sleepless in Seattle (DVD F Sle)
You’ve Got Mail (DVD F You)
The Natural (DVD F Nat)
An Affair to Remember (DVD F Aff)
The American President (DVD F Ame)
Air Force One (DVD F Air)
Toy Story movies (DVD E Toy)
It’s a Wonderful Life (DVD F It’s)
The Wizard of Oz (DVD F Wiz)
The Ten Commandments (DVD F Ten)
The Color Purple (DVD F Col)
Big (DVD F Big)
Ocean’s 11,12,13 (DVD F Onc)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (DVD F Rob)
Field of Dreams (DVD F Fie)
Hook (DVD F Hoo)
Men in Black 1 and 3 (DVD F Men)
WarGames (DVD F War)

Katie:
Favorite genres: action, comedy, romantic comedy, tearjerker, documentary, book-to-movies
Favorite actor/actress/director: Kristen Wiig, James Franco, Tom Hanks, Anne Hathaway, Ellen Page, Ewan McGregor, Matt Damon, Denzel Washington, Daniel Craig
Favorite DVDs:
A Beautiful Mind (DVD F Bea)
Vantage Point (DVD F Van)
Good Will Hunting (DVD F Goo)
Big Fish (DVD F Big)
Grease (DVD F Gre)
Sister Act (DVD F Sis)
The Jane Austen Book Club (DVD F Jan)
The Lovely Bones (DVD F Lov)
One Day (DVD F One)
Anonymous (DVD F Ano)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (DVD F Cur)
All of the Lord of the Rings movies (DVD F Lor)
All of the Harry Potter movies (DVD J Har/DVD F Har)
Something’s Gotta Give (DVD F Som)
Julie & Julia (DVD F Jul)
Juno (DVD F Jun)
Into the Wild (DVD F Int)
Eighty-eight Minutes (DVD F Eig)
Amelie (DVD F Ame)
Casino Royale (DVD F Cas)
The Departed (DVD F Dep)
Elizabeth (DVD F Eli)
Inception (DVD F Inc)
Ratatouille (DVD E Rat)
Alice in Wonderland (with Johnny Depp) (DVD F Ali)
You’ve Got Mail (DVD F You)
Blue Planet/Earth DVDs (DVD 551.46 Blu & DVD 590 Ear)
Finding Nemo (DVD E Fin) 

Kristin:
Favorite genres: historical, drama, musical, golden age (1930s-1940s), French
Favorite actor/actress/director: Too many!
Favorite DVDs:
Amelie (DVD F Ame)
Gone with the Wind (DVD F Gon)
Never Let Me Go (DVD F Nev)
Melancholia (DVD F Mel)
The Artist (DVD F Art)
Atonement (DVD F Ato)
The Pillars of the Earth (DVD F Pil)
Birdsong (DVD F Bir)
The Big Bang Theory (DVD F Big)
Lost (DVD F Los)
It Happened One Night (DVD F It)
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (DVD F Bur)
Bridget Jones (1 &2) (DVD F Bri)
Casino Royale (DVD F Cas)
Cold Mountain (DVD F Col)
Any Elvis movies :)
Rebel Without a Cause (DVD F Reb)
East of Eden (DVD F Eas)
Giant (DVD F Gia)
Elizabeth (DVD F Eli)
Forrest Gump (DVD F For)
Indiana Jones series (but not Crystal Skull) (DVD F Ind)
Jurassic Park (DVD F Jur)
Mamma Mia! (DVD F Mam)
Moulin Rouge (DVD F Mou)
The Phantom of the Opera (DVD F Pha)
Pirates of the Caribbean 1-3 (not 4)(DVD F Pir)
The Princess Bride (DVD F Pri & DVD J Pri)
Roman Holiday (DVD F Rom)
Slumdog Millionaire (DVD F Slum)
Star Wars (DVD F Sta & DVD J Sta)
Titanic (DVD F Tit)
A Very Long Engagement (DVD F Ver)
Water for Elephants (DVD F Wat)
Edward Scissorhands (DVD F Edw)
Cary Grant—Bringing Up Baby (DVD F Bri), North by Northwest (DVD F Nor), Monkey Business   
     (DVD F Mon), His Girl Friday (DVD F His), An Affair to Remember (DVD F Aff)
W./E. (DVD F W./E.)
My Week with Marilyn (DVD F My)
Beginners (DVD F Beg)
Anonymous (DVD F Ano)
Midnight in Paris (DVD F Mid)
True Grit (DVD F Tru)
The Social Network (DVD F Soc)
Walk the Line (DVD F Wal)
The Court Jester (DVD F Cou)
The Young Victoria (DVD F You)
Food, Inc. (DVD 338.1 Foo)
Remember Me (DVD F Rem)
Scoop (DVD F Sco)
Pillow Talk (DVD F Pil)
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (DVD F Mis)
Oklahoma (DVD F Okl)

Melissa:
Favorite genres: Funny, unusual, foreign, documentaries
Favorite actor/actress/director: Hitchcock
Favorite DVDs:
Napoleon Dynamite (DVD F Nap)
Pollyana (DVD E Pol)
Chocolat (DVD F Cho)
Amadeus (DVD F Ama)
Rear Window (All Hitchy, really)(DVD F Rea)
Anonymous (DVD F Ano)
Secondhand Lions (DVD F Sec & DVD J Sec)
Fried Green Tomatoes (DVD F Fri)
Waking Ned Devine (DVD F Wak)
Election (DVD F Ele)
Food, Inc. (338.1 Foo)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (DVD 751.7 Exi)
Moonrise Kingdom (DVD F Moo)
Amelie (DVD F Ame)
Paris, Je T’aime (DVD F Par)
My Dog Skip (DVD F My)
Little Miss Sunshine (DVD F Lit)
The Bourne Trilogy (DVD F Bou)
Fargo (DVD F Far)
Back to the Future (first in the series only) (DVD F Bac)
The Sound of Music (DVD F Sou)
Mamma Mia! (DVD F Mam) 

Nicki:
Favorite genre: Foreign Films
Favorite DVDs:
Monsoon Wedding (DVD F Mon)
Cinema Paradiso (DVD F Cin)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (DVD F Cro)
Il Postino (The Postman) (DVD F Il)
My Mother’s Castle (DVD F My)

Tamara:
Favorite genres: all—mysteries, comedy, sci-fi, fantasy
Favorite actor/actress/director: Cary Grant and Harrison Ford, Katharine Hepburn, Alfred Hitchcock
Favorite DVDs:
The African Queen (DVD F Afr)
Alien (DVD F Ali)
The Princess Bride (DVD F Pri)
Bleak House (DVD F Ble)
Addams Family (DVD E Add)
Back to the Future (DVD F Bac)
Blade Runner (DVD F Bla)
Blazing Saddles (DVD F Bla)
The Blues Brothers (DVD F Blu)
The Breakfast Club (DVD F Bre)
Bridget Jones’s Diary (DVD F Bri)
Casablanca (DVD F Cas)
Chariots of Fire (DVD F Char)
Chicago (DVD F Chi)
Duck Soup (DVD F Duc)
Fried Green Tomatoes (DVD F Fri)
The Great Dictator (DVD F Gre)
High Anxiety (DVD F Hig)
His Girl Friday (DVD F His)
Anne of Green Gables (Megan Follows)(DVD E Ann)
Chicken Run (DVD E Chi)
The Muppet Movie (DVD E Mup)
Swiss Family Robinson (DVD E Swi)
Star Wars—original—the good one (DVD F Sta & DVD J Sta)
Jumanji (DVD F Jum)
North by Northwest (DVD F Nor)
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (DVD F Mr.)
Topper (DVD F Top)
The Thin Man series (DVD F Thi)

Wyatt:
Favorite genres: Sci-fi, horror, action, comedy
Favorite actor/actress/director: John Cusack, Michael J. Fox, Bill Murray, Robin Williams, Patrick Stewart 
Favorite DVDs:
The Back to the Future Trilogy (DVD F Bac)
Blade Runner (DVD F Bla)
Die Hard (DVD F Die)
District 9 (DVD F Dis)
Ghostbusters (DVD F Gho)
Groundhog Day (DVD F Gro)
Hook (DVD F Hoo)
Wallace and Gromit (DVD E Wal)
Gran Torino (DVD F Gran)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (DVD J Fan)
Big (DVD F Big)
Moonrise Kingdom (DVD F Moo)
The Muppets (DVD J Mup)
Minority Report (DVD F Min)
Rocky (DVD F Roc)
Inception (DVD F Inc)
Planet of the Apes (1968) (DVD F Pla)
Alien (DVD F Ali)
Howl’s Moving Castle (DVD F How)

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Samuels Says - "Which books would you want if you were stranded on a desert island?"


This month for our display, we asked the staff: "Which books would you want to have with you if you were stranded on a desert island?" (This is assuming that we have the foresight to pack a suitcase full of books or a solar-powered e-reader on every trip...) Here are our picks—we'd love to hear yours too!


Kristin:
The Pillars of the Earth, World without End, and the Century Trilogy by Ken Follett (F Fol)
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (F Mit) - I’ve read it 10+ times… I could read it forever!
His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman (YAF Pul)
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (F Tol)
Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling (YAF Row)
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie (823 Bar)
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (F Mor)
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (F Gab)
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (F Gru)
The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins (YAF Col)
Blue Latitudes by Tony Horwitz (910.92 Hor), The Tattoo Artist by Jill Ciment (F Cim) and Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton (F Cri) - to remind me that it could be worse!
Time Windows by Kathryn Reiss (YAF Rei)
The Bestseller by Olivia Goldsmith (F Gol)
East of Eden by John Steinbeck (F Ste)
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (811.52 Hu)
And anything by: Tana French, Michelle Moran, Philippa Gregory, Deanna Raybourn, Rosalind Miles, Colleen McCullough (especially Morgan’s Run), Edward Rutherfurd, Bill Bryson (non-fiction), Sarah Addison Allen, Linda Howard, Charlaine Harris (especially the Sookie books),  Jane Green (early books), and Helen Fielding. (All but Bryson available in adult fiction.)

Joan:
All Agatha Christie (F Chr)
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (F Mit)
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier (F Du)
The #1 Ladies Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith (F McC)
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (F Pat)
Defending Jacob by William Landay (F Lan)
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (F Kin)
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (F Wro)
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (F Fol)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (F Lee)
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (F Tol)
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (F Hos)
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (967.6 Di)
The Flavia de Luce books by Alan Bradley (F Bra)
Anything by: P.D. James, Elizabeth George, or Mark Twain.
And just to be practical: The Sierra Club Guide to Safe Drinking Water (363.61 Le)… some survival books...can I just take the whole library with me?

Jeanne:
Edible: An Illustrated Guide to the World’s Food Plants (581.632 Edi)
The Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn (PB Romance Q, F Qui)
613.69—Any and all!
Canoeing: Outdoor Adventures by Pamela S. Dillon (797.122 Dil)
Poetry: American Folk Poetry (811.04 Emr), Top 500 Poems (821.008 Top), Come Hither (821.008 De)
Animal Traps and Trapping by James Bateman (799.2 Bat)
The Happy Camper by Kevin Callan (796.54 Cal)
The Successful Retirement Guide by R. Kevin Price (646.79 Pri)
Nature as Spiritual Practice by Steven Chase (248 Cha)
Saints by Tom Morgan (282.092 Mor)
Go In and Go Out the Window (J 784.6 Go)
The New Painting (759.4 New)
Dr. Dog by Babette Cole (J 613.4 Co)
Sophie: the Incredible True Story of the Castaway Dog by Emma Pearse (636.737 Pea)

Katie:
“I decided to take this literally—I couldn’t live without these.“ :)
Just in Case by Kathy Harrison (613.6 Har)
The Survivors Club by Ben Sherwood (613.69 She)
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook by Joshua Piven (613.69 Piv)
Stalking the Wild Asparagus by Euell Gibbons (581.6 Gib)
Stalking the Healthful Herbs by Euell Gibbons (581.6 Gib)
Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants by Bradford Angier (581.6 Ang)
Field Guide to Medicinal Wild Plants by Bradford Angier (581.6 Ang)
The Backyard Homestead (641 Bac)
Made from Scratch by Jenna Woginrich (640 Wog)
Show Me How by Lauren Smith (640 Smi)

Kathy J.:
The Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder (J Wil, E Wil, J PB W, J Bio Wilder Laura Ingalls, 813.52 Wil)

Nicki:
Table of Contents (814 Mc) and The Pine Barrens (974.9 Mc) by John McPhee
Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley (F Mor)
Anything by John Muir, i.e. Travels in Alaska (917.98 Mu) and Nature Writings (Bio Muir John)
Any encyclopedia—pick any letter!
Newest edition of The World Almanac and Book of Facts (031 Wor)
A dictionary—especially with word origins, like Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins (422 Mo) or the Oxford English Dictionary

Michal:
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (F Gol)
The Original Adventures of Raggedy Ann by Johnny Gruelle (J SC Gru)
The Encyclopedia of Herbs by Arthur O. Tucker (635.7 Tuc)
Essence and Alchemy: A Book of Perfume by Mandy Aftel (688.54 Aft)
The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot (530 Ta)
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir (640.052 We)
The Life of Elizabeth by Alison Weir (Bio Elizabeth I)
A Favorite of the Queen by Jean Plaidy (F Pla)
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (YAF Fun)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (F Twa/Classic PB Twa/J F Twa)

John:
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (F Ham)
Roughing It by Mark Twain (818.4 Twa)
My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber (Bio Thurber James)
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh (F Wa)
Four Novels of the 1960s by Philip K. Dick (F Dic)
Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse (F Wod)
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (F Hel)
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (F Fit)
Any (or all) Calvin and Hobbes books by Bill Watterson (741.5 Wat)
Three Men in a Boat: (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome (F Jer)
The Annotated Alice: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (823.8 Car)
Half Magic by Edward Eager (J F Eag)
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (F He)
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (818.309 Poe)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (Bio Eggers Dave)
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (J F Jus)
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (Classic PB Ste)
Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut by P.J. O’Rourke (814.54 O’R)
Freddy the Detective by Walter R. Brooks (J F Br)
The Illustrated Woody Allen Reader by Woody Allen and Linda Sunshine (812.54 Al)
Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s and Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s  (813.0872 Cr)
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
And I would finally have time to read all those 800-page Charles Dickens novels I’ve been wanting to read, like Bleak House, Our Mutual Friend, Nicholas Nickleby, and Dombey and Son (F Dic/ Classic PB Dic)

Boo:
“If I don’t have an extra pair of contacts and/or glasses, I won’t be reading anything.” :(
Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss (J F Wys)
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel DeFoe (F DeF)
Life’s a Beach by Claire Cook (F Coo) :)
Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff by Richard Carlson (158.1 Car)
From the Jaws of Death by Brogan Steele (910.4 Ste)
Emergency Food Storage and Survival Handbook by Peggy Layton (613.69 Lay)
Heloise from A to Z by Heloise (648 Hel)
NTA Trapping Handbook by Tom Krause (799.2 Kra)
Wildlife Atlas by John Farndon (J 591.7 Far)
Dorling Kindersley Animal Encyclopedia (J 590 Dor)
The Camper’s Companion by Rick Greenspan (796.54 Gr)
The Wilderness Notebook by Herb Gordon (796.54 Go)
Just in Case by Kathy Harrison (613.6 Har)
A Healing Word by John Flanagan (248.8 Fl)
Lord, I Haven’t Talked to You Since the Last Crisis, but— by Lorraine Peterson (242.6 Pe)
Heroes and Pioneers (Ref 920 Her)
The Hot Flash Club by Nancy Thayer (F Tha)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book by Jeff Kinney (J Kin)
A Salty Piece of Land by Jimmy Buffet (F Buf)
Any Danielle Steel book (F Ste)

Jessica:
The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling (YAF Row)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams (F Ada)
Anything by Francesca Lia Block (YAF Blo, F Blo)
The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff (YAF Yov)
The Sevenwaters Trilogy by Juliet Marillier (F Mar)
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (YAF Jo)
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray (YAF Bra)
The Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander (J F Ale)
Stardust by Neil Gaiman (F Gai)
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (F Gai)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (J F Car, 823.8 Car)
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (J F Sai)
Faerie Wars by Herbie Brennan (YAF Bre)
Tithe by Holly Black (YAF Bla)
White Cat by Holly Black (YAF Bla)
The Septimus Heap books by Angie Sage (J F Sag)
Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion (F Mar)
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron (YAF Cam)
The Dark Divine by Bree Despain (YAF Des)
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl (YAF Gar)
The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan (YAF Rya)
Graceling by Kristin Cashore (YAF Cas)
Wither by Lauren DeStefano (YAF DeS)

Melissa:
U.S. Army Survival Manual (613.69 US) - A book about how to survive on a desert island :)
Just in Case: How to Be Self-Sufficient When the Unexpected Happens (613.6 Har)
How to Stay Alive in the Woods by Bradford Angier (613.69 Ang)
The Art of Dying by Patricia Weenolsen (155.937 We)
The Holy Bible (220.5 Hol)
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel (F Mar)

Betty:
The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Travel (613.69 Piv)
The latest Janet Evanovich books (F Eva)
The Me and Mr. Jones series by Jo-Ann Power (F Pow)
Lisa Lutz books (F Lut)

Wyatt:
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick (in Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s—F Dic)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson (Bio Thompson Hunter S)
Batman: Hush by Jeph Loeb (741.5 Loe)
Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne (J Mil, E Mil, and there’s even a Latin version in  870 Mil!)
Foundation by Isaac Asimov (F As)

Cheryl:
Vertical Run by Joseph Garber (F Ga)
The Meg series by Steve Alten (F Alt)
Anything by: Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Johanna Lindsey, Jon Katz (non-fiction), Patricia Briggs, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Teresa Medeiros, and Linda Lael Miller. (All but Katz available in adult fiction or paperback collections.)

Tamara:
Anything by Terry Pratchett (F Pra)
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (J F Mon)
Andrew Lang’s fairy tales (J 398 Lan)
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (F Gai)
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (J F Car, 823.8 Car)
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (J F Bau)
Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott (J F Al)
Various books in the Sweet Potato Queen series by Jill Connor Browne (LP F Bro, 818.54 Bro)
The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Travel (613.69 Piv)
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith (F Aus)
J.D. Robb’s In Death series (F Rob, PB Mystery R)
Stitch & Bitch knitting handbooks by Debbie Stoller (746.432 Sto)
The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn Iggulden (J 031.02 Igg)
The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher (F But, PB Fantasy B)
Foxfire books (mostly 917.58 Fox)
The Ashley Book of Knots by Clifford W. Ashley (623.88 As)
Anything by Diane Mott Davidson (F Dav, PB Mystery D)
The Den of Antiquity series by Tamar Meyers (F Mey, PB Mystery M)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide series by Douglas Adams (F Ada)
Books by Patrick F. McManus, including the Bo Tully series (F McM)
Calvin & Hobbes books by Bill Watterson (741.5 Wat)

Ben:

The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks (YAF Bro)
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Davis Wyss (J F Wys)
Don’t Let Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems (E Wil)
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin (F Mar)
The Prince by Machiavelli (320.1 Mac)
Dinosaur vs. the Library by Bob Shea (F She)
Redwall by Brian Jacques (YAF Jac)
A Fault in Our Stars by John Green (YAF Gre)
The Robot by Paul E. Watson (YAF Wat)
Duck for President by Doreen Cronin (E Cro)