Summary: Severely wounded, their mother kept crying out, "Please don't kill me! Please don't kill me!" What effects do the sights and sounds of domestic violence have on the malleable minds of children? In this program, ABC News anchor Hugh Downs seeks to answer that question through interviews with Betsy McAlister-Groves, director of the Child Witness to Violence Project at Boston Medical Center, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Every 12 seconds, a woman is beaten in the U.S.-beaten by her lover, her husband, her partner in life. Year after year, the cycle of violence spins faster, spiraling down through the generations, father to son and mother to daughter. Only when communities and families say "Enough!" can the cycle be broken. This program shows how people can and have said "Enough!": women, men, and children who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Xiomara Fuentes, Amandeep Kaur, and Nneka-three wives beaten and humiliated by their husbands-are the subjects of Let's Talk About It, which gives a voice and a face to a spreading epidemic of spousal abuse. This program puts video cameras into the hands of these women's children who then interview their mothers about why they endured-and how they survived-such physical and emotional injury....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Xiomara Fuentes, Amandeep Kaur, and Nneka-three wives beaten and humiliated by their husbands-are the subjects of Let's Talk About It, which gives a voice and a face to a spreading epidemic of spousal abuse. This program puts video cameras into the hands of these women's children who then interview their mothers about why they endured-and how they survived-such physical and emotional injury....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Marcovitz, Hal
Summary: "Many extremist groups have emerged in recent years. Moreover, many individuals harbor extremist viewpoints and have taken action on their own. They do this to call attention to their beliefs, cause chaos, and very often commit acts of violence under the misguided notions that their causes are justified and would find widespread acceptance by the American people. Very often, though, these...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.5 MARSummary: Once accepted as a cultural norm in Africa, domestic violence is increasingly recognized for what it is-an assault on the rights and well-being of women, as well as a major impediment to progress on the continent. This program examines the issue in Ethiopia and South Africa, focusing on efforts to reduce and hopefully eliminate violence against women. Viewers meet survivors of domestic abuse...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Domestic violence is one of the least reported crimes in America. In Nashville, TN, we see how intense police investigation and follow-up of domestic abuse have led to the imprisonment of repeat offenders. Teens on Target shows the success of a program where a Los Angeles doctor (weary of treating young gunshot victims) and former teenage patients (half of whom have spinal injuries from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Americans have long debated how to balance protecting individual liberties while assuring public safety. This debate intensified after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, which prompted passage of the USA Patriot Act and other laws. These measures were designed to protect Americans from terrorism, but they also allowed increased government scrutiny of individual activities. Is it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Domestic Problems (Musical group)
Contents: What it is -- Patiently -- Where -- Beautiful girl -- Free -- Hey bartender -- Stand up -- Untitled -- In good time -- It's alright -- Peoria.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Triple Rock Records 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL DOMDomestic Problems (Musical group)
Contents: 24 hours (3:13) -- Would I want to know (4:00) -- Scattered pieces (5:41) -- I think it's funny (4:19) -- Livin' in a dream (4:38) -- I'm a line (4:11) -- Ernie's tragic love triangle (4:14) -- Listen for the B.J. (7:03) -- I know you are but what am I (7:42) -- untitled.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Triple Rock Records 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL DOMGoudge, Eileen.
Summary: Twenty-five years after being kicked out of the home of Gwen Meriwhether with her mother as a teenager, Abigail, feeling betrayed by Gwen's daughter Lila, finally gets the chance to settle old scores as she is reunited with Lila.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard Press 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GOUNoonan, Rosalind
Summary: Rachel Whalen and Ariel Alexander have been friends for more than a decade. Despite their differences--down-to-earth Rachel owns a local hair salon; Ariel is a vivacious former TV star determined to hold on to her looks--they've helped each other navigate single motherhood, banding together against the soccer moms of Timbergrove, Oregon. Yet lately, Rachel wonders about Ariel's increasingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOODomestic Problems (Musical group)
Contents: I think it's funny -- Summer in the sandbox -- I'm a lime -- Free -- Stump and hippie -- Bowling -- James Francis -- 24 hours -- Marry -- El matador -- Ernie's tragic love triangle -- Where have you gone -- Untitled.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Triple Rock Records 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL DOMGoudge, Eileen.
Summary: It begins with a betrayal that tears apart childhood friends, Abigail and Lila, when Abigail's mother, the housekeeper for Lila's wealthy family, is summarily banished, casting Abigail from the only home she has ever known. Now, twenty-five years later, Abigail is a self-made successful cookbook author and TV personality. When Lila, who married well and for decades lived the glittering life...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GOUSummary: Famed street photographer Ricky Powell made a name for himself taking wild portraits of New York City's who's who in the 80s and 90s. From the Beastie Boys to Basquiat, Powell's lens captured the grit and glamour of the city's downtown scene like never before. Powell and some of his notable subjects reflect on his fascinating life and work as well as the demons that shaped him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RICMoore-Lobban, Shavonne J.
Summary: "Black women experience domestic violence and abuse at a disproportionately high rate. Grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), this first-of-its-kind book addresses the unique struggles faced by Black women who have experienced domestic violence, and empowers them to understand and heal their trauma, leave harmful situations, and regain a sense of safety and freedom"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.82 MOOFoster, Josephine
Contents: Entrance -- Pendulum -- Dawn of time -- Burnt offering -- Entr'acte -- Gentlemen & ladies -- Shrine excerpt -- Birthday song for the dead -- Reminiscence -- Haunted house -- Sanctuary.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FOSGutcheon, Beth.
Summary: After the death of her ex-husband in a plane crash, Martha, a SoHo illustrator, is disturbed that the executor of his estate is Charlie, his despised and conservative divorce lawyer, but the two soon discover that a clash of life-styles can be the spark of life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Villard 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRENorman, Matthew.
Summary: Tom Violet's life has brought a far different reality from his dreams of having a beautiful wife, a satisfying career as a successful novelist and a happy dog to greet him as he returns home. But his novel is currently hidden in his desk drawer while his father has just won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. And the dog has acute anxiety.But Tom has decided to do something to control of his own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NORVarious artists.
Contents: Intro / Tundra -- Tuesday never comes / Take -- Intrid / Glen Porter -- Thief of tranquility / ILL Padre -- Building 453 / Milford Reynolds -- Image of you / Glen Porter -- Frowning / Unknown Source -- Prolong / Glen Porter -- Memoirs / Glen Porter -- This Rhythm / Urban Quilt -- Been so good / Akello Uchenna -- Sweet conversation / Akello Uchenna -- Lowe's market / Milford Reynolds -- ILL...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Inner Current RecordingsI 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC DOMBoland, Eavan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.914 BOLCarley, Rachel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 1994
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 728 CARMITCHELL MANUALS
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1978
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 1994