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At Check These Out!, each month you will find a few recently published or upcoming titles that are worth “checking out” from the library.
At Check These Out!, each month you will find a few recently published or upcoming titles that are worth “checking out” from the library.
Fictional characters, run for the hills! Or better yet, stay home. Oscar is falling all over himself to fawn on biopics. The biopic (a biographical film based on the life of a public or historical figure) has always been Oscar bait.
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At Check These Out!, each month you will find a few recently published or upcoming titles that are worth “checking out” from the library.
January is the cruelest month for movies based on books—or movies in general, for that matter. The weakest releases typically happen in the early months of the year, far away from the summer and holiday blockbuster seasons.
Jenn Bailey has won blue ribbons for pie baking, roamed Australia as the still photographer for Continuum, and made it to the Top 40 in the Lego Master Builder competition. Bailey has her MFA in writing for children and young adults from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Here in L.A. we had a wet Thanksgiving and we probably won’t have a white Christmas, but we can still take part in that old tradition—big-budget holiday movies. December looks like a pretty mixed bag in terms of movies based on books—there are a few possible sugarplums and some likely lumps of coal.
We are excited to partner with Noname's Book Club to keep you up to date in finding all the selections free of charge.
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