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DVD

Pan's Labyrinth starring [a bunch of Spanish actors you never heard of]. Winner of three Academy awards (and loser of three, too). An adult fairy tale with young Ofelia enduring the cruelty of her fascistic military step-father in Spain. Escaping to a nearby garden Ofelia discovers a the fantastical creature living within it.

CDs

Music from the Motion Picture Black Snake Moan featuring S0n House, John Doe, R.L. Burnside, North Mississippi Allstars, Samuel L. Jackson, Bobby Rush. Blues soundtrack from Black Snake Moan.

Large Print

The River Knows by Amanda Quick. "Dashing Anthony Stalbridge had in common with Louisa was a passionate interest in the private affairs of Hastings, a prominent member of Society whom they both suspect of hiding terrible secrets."

Fiction

Good Guy by Dean Koontz. Tim likes to converse with the weird barflies at his friend's tavern. But, one night, one of those local eccentrics passes him in envelope. Inside is $10,000 cash and a woman's photo. Tim has has been mistaken as a hired killer. When the real hired killer sits next to him, Tim fakes it and says, "I've had a change of heart." After Tim discovers the real killer is a cop, he works to stop the intended killing.

Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon. An alternate history where the Israeli state collapsed in 1948. Surviving refugees started an autonomous region in Alaska. That autonomy is due to end and policeman Meyer Landsman is investigating a recent murder.

Freak Show by James St. James. Teenage drag queen matriculates at ultra-rich, ultra-conservative Dwight D. Eisenhower Academy.

Mystery

Dead Madonna by Victoria Houston. "A Loon Lake Mystery." Wisconsin author Houston was here in Lake Mills on May 19th. This is her eighth Loon Lake mystery with rural Wisconsin Police Chief Lew Ferris investigating two murders.

Science Fiction

The Alton Gift by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Deborah J. Ross. Geez, science fiction authors collaborate more than rappers. The sequel to Traitor's Sun. I'm not going to bother figuring out the labyrinthine plot to this one.