Oregon Public Library discussion

Where the Crawdads Sing (Expected July 22)

Kya Clark, otherwise known as the Marsh Girl by the townspeople of Barkley Cove, is mysterious and wild. Abandoned by her family, Where the Crawdads Sing is a coming of age story of a young girl raised by the marshlands of the south in the 50's. Watching many years past, when the town hotshot is found dead, and inexplicably linked to Kya, the Marsh Girl is the prime suspect in his murder case.


Starring: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Harris Dickinson, and Taylor John Smith

White Bird: A Wonder Story (Expected September)

A heartrending story of how a young Jewish girl was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II and how the boy she and her classmates once shunned became her savior and best friend.

Starring: Gillian Anderson, Helen Mirren

She Said (expected November 18th)

New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation -- a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.

Starring: Carey Mulligan, Zoe Kazan, Samantha Morton, Patricia Clarkson

The Wonder (TBA)

Set in The Irish Midlands in 1862, the story follows a young girl who stops eating but remains miraculously alive and well. English nurse Lib Wright is brought to a tiny village to observe eleven-year old Anna O'Donnell. Tourists and pilgrims mass to witness the girl who is said to have survived without food for months. Is the village harbouring a saint 'surviving on manna from heaven' or are there more ominous motives at work?

Starring: Florence Pugh

Salem's Lot (expected September 9th)

Ben Mears, a writer who spent part of his childhood in Jerusalem's Lot, Maine, also known as 'Salem's Lot, has returned after twenty-five years to write a book about the long-abandoned Marsten House, where he had a bad experience as a child. He soon discovers that an ancient evil has also come to town and its turning the residents into vampires. He vows to stop the plague of undead and save the town

Starring: Lewis Pullman, Pilou Asbaek, John Benjamin, Hickey, Alfre Woodard

Luckiest Girl Alive (TBA)

A Sharp-Tongued New Yorker who appears to have it all: a sought-after position at a glossy magazine, a killer wardrobe, and a dream Nantucket wedding on the horizon. But when the director of a crime documentary invites her to tell her side of the shocking incident that took place when she was a teenager at the prestigious Brentley School, Ani is forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life.

Starring: Mila Kunis, Jennifer Beals, Connie Britton

The Time Traveler's Wife (TBA, HBO/HBO MAX)

The Intricate and magical love story between Clare, and Henry, and a marriage with a problem....time travel.

Starring: Rose Leslie, Theo James, Kate Siegel, Jaime Ray Newman, Josh Stamberg

Killers of the Flower Moon (TBA)

Members of the Osage tribe in the United States are murdered under mysterious circumstances in the 1920s sparking a major F.B.I investigation involving J. Edgar Hoover.

Starring: Jesse Plemons, Leonardo DiCaprio, Brendan Fraser, Robert De Niro, John Lithgow

Munich: The Edge of War (January 21, NETFLIX)

It is Autumn 1938 and Europe stands on the brink of war. Adolf Hitler is preparing to invade Czechoslovakia and Neville Chamberlain's government desperately seeks a peaceful solution. With the pressure building, Hugh Legat, British civil servant, and Paul von Hartmann, German diplomat, travel to Munich for the emergency Conference. As negotiations begin, the two old friends find themselves at the center of a web of political subterfuge and very real danger

Starring: Jeremy Irons, George MacKay, Jannis Niewohner

The Bad Guys (April 22)

Several reformed yet misunderstood villains known as Mr. Wolf, Mr. Piranha, Mr. Snake, Mr. Shark, and Mrs Tarantula hatch a plot to pull off the ultimate heist.

Starring: Sam Rockwell, Awkwafina, Anthony Ramos, Craig Robinson, Marc Maron