Library Closures – Apple Blossom & Carpet Installation

All Handley Regional Library System branches will be closed Friday, May 2, and Saturday, May 3 for the Apple Blossom Festival.

Bowman Library only will also be closed Thursday, May 1 for carpet installation. Handley Library and Clarke County Library will remain open on May 1.

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Afraid

  • Curtis and his family are selected to test a revolutionary new home device: a digital family assistant called AIA. Taking smart home to the next level, once the unit and all its sensors and cameras are installed in their home, AIA seems able to do it all. She learns the family's behaviors and begins to anticipate their needs. And she can make sure nothing - and no one - gets in her family's way.
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The Outrun

  • Based on the best-selling memoir by Amy Liptrot, The Outrun is set in the otherworldly Orkney Islands of Scotland. A brutally honest drama about addiction and recovery, strength and survival, mental health and the ability of the sea, the land and of people to restore life and renew hope. After a decade away in London, 29-year-old Rona returns home to the Orkney Islands. Sober but lonely, she tries to suppress her memory of the events which set her on this journey of recovery. Slowly the mystical land enters her inner world and one day at a time Rona finds hope and strength in herself among the heavy gales and the bracingly cold sea.
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Dogfight [blu-ray]

  • An ineffably bittersweet portrait of youth in the 1960s, Nancy Savoca's funny, sensitive tale of love and war etches two vividly alive characters: aspiring San Francisco folk singer Rose and hotheaded, Vietnam-bound marine Eddie, who meet on the occasion of a cruelly misogynistic party where men compete to bring the most unattractive dates they can find. But what begins as a night to forget unexpectedly develops into something far more meaningful.
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Anora

  • Contemporary cinema's foremost chronicler of American dreamers and schemers hustling on the margins of capitalist promise, Sean Baker, reaches new heights of mastery with this audacious anti Cinderella story a whirlwind neorealist screwball comedy with an aching heart. In an electric, star-is-born performance, Mikey Madison soars as Anora, an enterprising, ferociously foulmouthed Brooklyn erotic dancer and sex worker whose Prince Not-So-Charming comes along in the form of a Russian oligarch's wild-child son.
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The Elephants and the Grass

  • Shamira Muhammed and her mother face a life-or-death decision in war-torn South Sudan, opting to trek 100 miles through harsh terrain to reach safety in a Ugandan refugee camp. The doc also recounts the ongoing struggle for peace in a country ravaged by one of the deadliest conflicts since WWII.
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High Noon [blu-ray]

  • A Marshall, personally compelled to face a returning deadly enemy, finds that his own town refuses to help him.
  • Originally released as a motion picture in 1952.
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September 5

  • September 5 unveils the decisive moment that forever changed media coverage and continues to impact live news today. Set during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, the film follows an American sports broadcasting team that quickly adapted from sports reporting to live coverage of the Israeli athletes taken hostage. Through this lens, September 5 provides a powerful new perspective on the live broadcast seen globally by an estimated one billion people at the time.
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Long Distance Swimmer : Sara Mardini

  • Sara Mardini, once a competitive swimmer in Syria, became Europe's most celebrated refugee after saving 18 people's lives. After working as a rescue volunteer in the Mediterranean, she is accused of people smuggling and faces a 25-year prison sentence. We follow her fight for justice and journey of self-discovery against the backdrop of Europe's refugee 'crisis.'
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The Substance

  • Demi Moore gives the career-best performance as Elisabeth Sparkle, a former A-lister fired from her fitness TV show by studio head Harvey. She is drawn to The Substance. All it takes is one injection and she is reborn as the gorgeous Sue.
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Girlfight [blu-ray]

  • Bullied by her father at home and feeling adrift at school, Diana Guzman finds refuge in an unexpected pocket of her native Brooklyn, a timeworn boxing gym, where she learns to channel her strength, discovers a sense of community, and falls for a rival fighter. In Karyn Kusama's raw, understated feature debut, Rodriguez commands the screen with both tightly coiled intensity and deep wells of vulnerability as a young woman hitting back at society's expectations and her own personal demons. Capturing the full emotional weight of Diana's journey and the kinetic thrill of bodies in motion, Kusama crafts a singularly uncompromising story of self-realization.
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Sight

  • Sight, starring Greg Kinnear and Terry Chen, follows the inspiring true story of Ming Wang, an impoverished Chinese prodigy who flees Communist China to become a pioneering eye surgoen in America. When tasked with restoring the sight of an orphan who was blinded by her step mother, he must confront the trauma of living through a violent uprising in his youth, the Cultural Revolution.
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Transformers One

  • The untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron. Known as sworn enemies, once they were friends bonded like brothers who changed the fate of Cybertron forever. The first-ever fully CG-animated Transformers movie.
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Nosferatu

  • A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.
  • Inspired by the screenplay "Nosferatu" by Henrik Galeen and the novel "Dracula" by Bram Stoker.
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Terraforma

  • TerraForma is the story of the remote desert island of Ascension: for a million years entirely devoid of life, but it was engineered by the process of 'terraforming' into a tropical paradise. It is also the story of what that transformation may mean for the fate of our planet, in a future when terraformed landscapes and human-engineered environments may come to warp our understanding of nature itself.
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