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Convents Drama East End (London, England) Drama Existentialism Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 1770-1831 London (England) Social conditions 20th century Drama Midwifery England London Drama Midwives England London Drama Nuns England London Drama Poplar (London, England) Drama Pregnant women England London DramaFilter By Subjects
Convents Drama East End (London, England) Drama Existentialism Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 1770-1831 London (England) Social conditions 20th century Drama Midwifery England London Drama Midwives England London Drama Nuns England London Drama Poplar (London, England) Drama Pregnant women England London DramaSummary: It's 1968 and Enoch Powell's infamous 'Rivers of Blood' speech creates serious tension in Poplar, especially when a group of dockers march in support of Powell. The midwives welcome a new nun, Sister Veronica, who's an instant hit with everyone, except Nurse Crane. Meanwhile, Trixie's relationship with Matthew goes from strength to strength, while Nurse Crane helps Nancy with her financial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV CALSummary: A drama about the lives of a group of midwives who care for expectant mothers in the East End of London during the 1950s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Call 2018Summary: A moving, intimate, funny, and true-to-life look at the colorful stories of midwifery and families in East London in the '50s. Based on the bestselling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth. When Jenny Lee first arrives in Poplar, she knows nothing about hardship, poverty, and life itself. But Jenny is brought up to speed fast once she joins a team of midwives who provide care to the poorest women.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ca 1Summary: The life and times of a group of midwives working at Nonnatus House--a nursing convent serving the impoverished of East London in the late 1950s and early 1960s--are chronicled in this appealing British series based on true events. The women learn powerful lessons about life's struggles while visiting with expectant mothers and poor children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Call 2020Summary: Now nearing the 1960s, the community enters a new time of social change, while stories of birth, life and death continue to touch your heart. Will live-wire Nurse Trixie marry her young curate? What new project calls for a heart as big as Chummy's? How will Sister Evangelina react to two new nurses? And why does Sister Julienne appear so unsettled by a mystery benefactor?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Call 2014Summary: The beloved nurses and nuns of Nonnatus House return to warm your heart as they care for the poorest women in London's East End. Life never stands still as the midwives face surprise pregnancy, disease, blossoming romance and missing friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bbc Us / Canada 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ca 5Summary: With Nonnatus House scheduled for demolition, Jenny, Chummy, and Sister Julienne search for a new location nearby, while Jenny₂s relationship with Alec continues to blossom. But an outbreak of polio affects the nurses and nuns more than they could have imagined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Call 2014Lloyd Webber, Andrew
Contents: Disc 1. Buns 'n' roses ; It has to be her ; Bad Cinderella ; So long ; Unfair ; Unbreakable ; Hunks' song ; Man's man ; So long (reprise) ; Introduction to Only you, lonely you ; Only you, lonely you ; The Queen's boudoir in the palace ; I know you ; I know you (reprise) ; The village square ; Unfair (reprise) ; The Godmother's shop ; Beauty has a price -- Disc 2. Fanfare ; The Cinderella waltz...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC CINSummary: When the rather austere Sister Ursula is appointed the new head of Nonnatus house, Sister Julienne finds herself demoted and working back alongside the midwives as an ordinary member of staff.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV CA 6Summary: Season Two continues to follow Jenny and the other midwives as they deal with all the problems the neighborhood of Poplar has to throw at them. A fascinating portrayal of birth, life, death and a community on the brink of huge social change, Call the Midwife offers a gripping insight into a way of life that is so drastically different from how we live now.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Call 2013Summary: Chronicles the lives of a group of midwives who care for expectant mothers in the East End of London in the late-1950s to mid-1960s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Call 2019Summary: The fourth season of this classic groundbreaking series saw the beginning of one-hour episodes. This allowed for more elaborate and detailed stories which plunged viewers even further into the twilight zone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIBancroft, Henrietta.
Summary: Describes the many different ways animals cope with winter, including migration, hibernation, and food storage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JE Animal BancroftBancroft, Henrietta.
Summary: Describes the many different ways animals cope with winter, including migration, hibernation, and food storage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591.54 BANMacDonald, George
Summary: Princess Irene's great-great-grandmother has a testing task for Curdie, but he will not go alone. She provides him with a companion--the oddest and ugliest creature he has ever seen, but one who turns out to be the most loyal friend he could have hoped for.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin 1994
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Place a hold to request this item.Scales, Helen
Summary: "Dive beneath the waves to meet 80 of the ocean's strangest and most surprising inhabitants. This beautifully illustrated aquatic world tour tells the fascinating stories of beguiling sea creatures and their ingenious feats of survival - from producing anti-freeze to enduring boiling temperatures - revealing the ways in which these seemingly remote creatures have shapes our own lives, whether...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Laurence King an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group Ltd. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 591.77 SCAMcKearin, George S. (George Skinner)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bonanza Books 1989
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 748.2913 MCKKraus, George
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Publisher / Publication Date: Published and distributed by Penfield Press 1984
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.2 WINE KRASummary: "Capped by one of the most famous speeches ever written, Shakespeare's Henry V recalls a truly great English victory. With comic sub-plots to be found among Henry's soldiers, the production boasts some terrific performances - including Sam Cox as the 'splendidly unhinged' Pistol (The Daily Telegraph). In the title role is Jamie Parker, who 'casts such a rapt spell that you feel the entire...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Opus Arte 2013
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS HENSummary: "It happens with startling swiftness and violence. An armed cadre seizes state control. Fortunately, a coup d'etat can't happen here. Or can it? ... At odds are a popular general and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman and an unpopular President with a pacifist agenda. At stake is the survival of the Republic. A vigilant colonel uncovers the scheme. But are the seven fateful days ahead enough time...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SEVEinem, Gottfried von
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allegro 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD O EINSummary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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Summary: "A monumental new biography of a pivotal yet poorly understood pioneer in modern philosophy. When a painter once told Goethe that he wanted to paint the most famous man of the age, Goethe directed him to Georg Friederich Wilhelm Hegel. Hegel, the most famous figure in modern philosophy, arguably its father, believed that to philosophize is to learn to live freely. He was slow and cautious in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stanford University Press 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Part 5 continues to explore the meaning of the scientific revolution and to examine the many problems that it raises. It is in this period that the West becomes keenly aware of the social and psychological origins and purposes of its activities. This is a period of spiritual turmoil as well as of material advance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000