Film Series
Please visit our calendar to see the online and in-person events we offer.
Winter Film Series: The Night of the 12th, French, 114 mins
Monday, January 27 at 6:30 PM A young woman is murdered in this unnerving, fictionalized version of a real case that haunts the police officers unable to solve it. Drop In
Winter Film Series: American Fiction, 116 mins, Rated R
Monday, February 24 at 6:30 PM Monk is a frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment that profits from Black entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, he uses a pen name to write an outlandish Black book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain. Drop In
International Language Collection
Books
Check out our NEW adult international book collection in the library behind the lower information desk. There you can find fiction and non-fiction titles in eleven languages: French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Persian, Spanish, Tamil, Telugu and Vietnamese. This collection is intended to better meet the needs of patrons that make up Northville’s growing, diverse cultural community and has plans to grow over the years.
In addition to the new adult collection, the library also features an international collection for kids, featuring books and DVDs in over 20 languages.
Audio/Visual
The library has hundreds of CDs featuring music from around the world in our adult music CD collection. There are also over a thousand DVDs in the foreign film collection in over 70 different languages.
Digital/Downloadable
Overdrive/Libby
- E-BOOKS in Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Spanish
- E-AUDIOBOOKS in Chinese, French, German, Spanish
- MAGAZINES in Chinese, French, German, Korean, Japanese, Spanish
- MOVIES/TELEVISION in Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Persian
- E-BOOKS in French, German, Spanish, Hindi, Japanese, Vietnamese
- E-AUDIOBOOKS in Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Persian, Tamil, Vietnamese
- MUSIC in Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Tamil, Telugu, Vietnamese
- MOVIES/TELEVISION in Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Vietnamese
- COMICS in French
ComicsPLUS – E-comicbooks in Chinese, French, Korean and Spanish
Freegal – Music featuring many different artists from outside of the U.S.A.
Kanopy – Foreign Films from around the world