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Take a Break - Relaxing Reads and Free Flicks: 2024

Take a break. You deserve it. Engage in a great read or reel relaxation!
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About this guide


Have you seen all the new reads at the library? We just ordered some fantastic, popular titles that you can borrow for free! No need to think about what your next read will be, we've got you covered.

If books are not your thing, that's okay! 'Reel'ax with free movies from one of our streaming media sources at home.

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Award winners and nominees

Fiction

The Fury

Alex Michaelides, 2024

I Am Stan

Tom Scioli , 2023

Happiness for Beginners

As seen on Netflix - from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bodyguard and Hello Stranger

Chain Gang All Stars

New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year & & Finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction.

Footnotes in Gaza

Joe Sacco, 2010

graphic novel

This Place: 150 years retold

Explore the past 150 years through the eyes of Indigenous creators in this groundbreaking graphic novel anthology.

She Who Became the Sun

Shelley Parker-Chan, 2022

Sequel: He Who Drowned the World, 2023

The Hate U Give

Angie Thomas, 2022

Audio Cine Films: Blockbuster hits

Frozen

Directed by Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck, 2013

Running time: 1 hour, 42 minutes

All Eyez on Me

Directed by Benny Boom, 2017

Running time: 2 hours, 19 minutes

Avengers: Infinity War

Directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo, 2018
 
Running time: 2 hours, 29 minutes

 

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Directed by Marielle Heller, 2019

Running time: 1 hour, 48 minutes

Alice in Wonderland

Directed by Tim Burton, 2010

Running time: 1 hour, 48 minutes

A Dog's Purpose

Directed by Lasse Hallstrom, 2017

Running time: 1 hour, 47 minutes

Disneynature: Chimpanzee

Directed by Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield

Running time: 1 hour, 18 minutes

National Film Board of Canada

Woman taking selfie

Anything for Fame

Written and directed by Tyler Funk, 2023
Running time: 1 hour, 24 minutes

Ice Breakers

Written and directed by Sandamini Rankaduwa, 2019
Running time: 15 minutes

Tales of Ordinary Fatphobia

Written and directed by Josiane Blanc, 2019
Running time: 23 minutes

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Kenbe la, Until We Win

Written and directed by Will Prosper, 2019
Running time: 1 hour, 20 minutes

Criterion on Demand: More blockbuster movies

DC League of Super Pets

Directed by Jared Stern, 2022

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

Directed by Christopher McQuarrie, 2023

Bohemian Rhapsody

Directed by Brian Singer, 2018

Lucy and Whitney

Directed by Parker Gehring, 2022

Small Town Pride

Directed by Riley Sparks and Chelle Turingan, 2021

Barbie

Directed by Greta Gerwig, 2023

Butterfly Tale

Directed by Sophie Roy, 2023

 

To read or to watch? That is the question!

Love, Simon

Directed by Greg Berlanti, 2018

The Fault in Our Stars

By John Green (2014)

The Fault in Our Stars

Directed by Josh Boone, 2014

Indian Horse

By Richard Wagamese (2012)

Indian Horse

Directed by Stephen S. Campanelli, 2018

Books that made it to the screen

Book club worthy