What Are Your Librarians Watching?

Description: The last years of the great Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh are dramatized. The focus is on the time the artist spent in Ales and Auvers-sur-Oise, France. The art of painting itself and the painter's relationship with the concept of infinity are central themes. Not an exhaustive overview of all events in the final years of Van Gogh's life, but focuses on key elements the artist experienced as he struggled with mental turmoil and produced some of his greatest masterpieces.

Description: Teenaged Astrid Lindgren, future author of Pippi Longstocking, leads a carefree life in rural Sweden. Eager to break free from her conservative upbringing, she accepts an internship at a local newspaper where she attracts the attention of its married editor. After Astrid becomes pregnant, she leaves home to give birth to a son, whom she reluctantly leaves with a foster mother. When the foster mother falls ill, Astrid uses her imagination and gift for storytelling to reconnect with her child.

Description: A South Korean man bumps into a former, but forgotten childhood classmate one day and he hits it off with the young woman. An immediate romantic tryst follows, but the young woman plans to leave for Africa in a few days. She asks her rediscovered friend to feed her cat while she is away. He does so and is eager for his new romantic interest to return. The situation quickly becomes complicated, however, when she returns from Africa with a mystery man who seems to be a dangerous trouble maker. Then when the young woman disappears, a disturbing situation unfolds.

Description: Based on the bestselling book by Jonathan Safran Foer and narrated by co-producer Natalie Portman, this is an urgent, eye-opening look at the environmental, economic, and public health consequences of factory farming. It offers attainable, common-sense solutions to a growing crisis while making the case that ethical farming is not only an animal rights issue but also one that affects every aspect of life.

Description: As the hit sci-fi drama returns, one year has passed since the synths began to gain consciousness. Fighting to survive in a world that hates and fears them, the synth community starts to fracture, risking all hope for peace and stability with humans.

Description: Though only fifteen, Maquia knows she will live for centuries without aging past adolescence. She belongs to the Iorph, a clan of ageless beings just like her. Maquia's elders warn her not to fall in love with anyone outside their realm, lest she wish to encounter true loneliness in the end. But fate pushes Maquia out into the mortal world one night, when an invading territory separates her from the clan. There she discovers an orphaned baby, Ariel, and takes him in as her own child.

Description: A group of misfits who are forced to attend adult classes in the longshot chance they'll pass the GED exam.

Description: Susanna gladly accepts help one day from handsome stranger Nate at her parents' garden store in small-town Georgia. Sparks between them fly, but when a photo of them gets leaked to the press, Susanna is in for the shock of her life when Nate is called back home by his mother for his coronation as the King Nathaniel of Cambria!

Description: To survive, Chise Hatori must learn how to master her magical powers while attracting more than a passing interest from the mage Elias.

Description: A Maori chieftain's son sets out to avenge the slaughter of his father and all male tribe members by a villainous tribe. Along the way, he is trained by a mysterious "Tonto-like" phantom warrior to pursue his quest for retribution to allow his family's souls to rest in peace.

Description: An ambitious, anxious young doctor is eager to impress his superiors and colleagues. He steps in when an 18-year-old patient Diane is admitted for a kidney infection and gets the much-needed boost of self-esteem he craves. But things take a dark turn as his enthusiasm begins to become an obsession.

Description: Captain Ed Mercer thrusts into space aboard the explorer ship the USS Orville. Joined by his first officer ex-wife and intergalactic crew, he grapples with everything from a planet-absorbing space anomaly to an overly amorous, gelatinous engineer.