Film Series
Please visit our calendar to see the online and in-person events we offer.
Fall Film Series: Past Lives, Korean & English, 105 mins, Rated PG-13
Monday, November 25 at 6:30 PM Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny. Drop In
Winter Film Series: The Boys in the Boat, 123 mins, Rated PG-13
Monday, December 23 at 6:30 PM During the height of the Great Depression, members of the rowing team at the University of Washington get thrust into the spotlight as they compete for gold at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Based on the true story and the book The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown. 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