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Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Fiction Ex-convicts Fiction Folk music Gender identity Fiction Man-woman relationships Man-woman relationships Drama Nuclear warfare Fiction Nurses History Drama United States 19th century Social conditions Drama United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 DramaHannah, James
Summary: He has all kinds of everyday joy in his life - he's young, he's in love, he has friends who promise to stand by him if life ever goes wrong. Then one day, life does go wrong. He makes a mistake, and it's big and unforgiveable. Now time is running out, and his life is falling apart. But he's going to put it back together again. His own way. This is a story about how far love must stretch to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Inc 2016
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Contents: Willie of Winsbury / Anaïs Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer (5:52) -- Hi ho ro tha mi duilich / Hi ho ro tha mi duilich (3:32) -- A cut above / The Hesleyside reel / Will Pound (4:19) -- Whiskey you're the devil / Bella Hardy (2:59) -- Delta dreams / Martin Simpson (4:14) -- Anyone but me / Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker (3:31) -- Mary Macdonald's / Rant (5:15) -- Love's for babies and fools / Linda...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Proper Music Distribution Ltd 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK BBCSummary: Nate suffers a near-fatal illness and is left a quadriplegic just weeks before departing for college. As Nate tries to adjust to his new life challenges, his mother helps him bring home an unlikely service animal, Gigi, a curious and intelligent capuchin monkey. Nate and Gigi form an unbreakable bond, but when it's threatened by a group trying to outlaw capuchins, Nate's family rallies behind...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GIGSummary: Abandoned as a baby, rescued and adopted by a country gentleman, Tom Jones grows up kind, handsome, free-spirited, and very popular with the ladies. But he cannot escape his lowly birth. When he falls in love with the bright, beautiful heiress Sophia Western, and she falls in love with him, their families unite against the match. They both end up in London, facing the wiles and whims of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV TOMBeck, Glenn
Summary: History is about so much more than memorizing facts. It is, as more than half of the word suggests, about the story. And, told in the right way, it is the greatest one ever written: Good and evil, triumph and tragedy, despicable acts of barbarism and courageous acts of heroism.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 973 BECSummary: Season two picks up directly from the dramatic events and the end of the season one finale, continuing to explore the growing chaos within Alexandria, the complicated interpersonal dynamics of Dr. Foster, Nurse Mary and the Mansion House staff, the increasingly precarious position of the Green family and the changing predicament of the burgeoning black population.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2017
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MER RATED NRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Mercy 2017Summary: Set in the Wild West early days of the Internet, the series is based on the incredible true story of the Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee sex tape. Stolen from the couple's home by a disgruntled contractor, the video went from underground bootleg-VHS curiosity to full-blown global sensation when it hit the Web in 1997. A love story, crime caper, and cautionary tale rolled into one, the eight-part...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2022
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PAMCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PAMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV PAMSummary: Follows the lives of two volunteer nurses on opposing sides of the Civil War - New England abolitionist Mary Phinney and Confederate supporter Emma Green.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MER NOT RATEDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Mercy 2016Jameson, Hanna
Summary: For fans of high-concept thrillers such as Annihilation and The Girl with All the Gifts , this breathtaking dystopian psychological thriller follows an American academic stranded at a Swiss hotel as the world descends into nuclear war--along with twenty other survivors--who becomes obsessed with identifying a murderer in their midst after the body of a young girl is discovered in one of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION JAMJameson, Hanna
Summary: An American academic is stranded at a Swiss hotel as the world descends into nuclear war, along with twenty other survivors, who become obsessed with identifying a murderer in their midst after the body of a young girl is discovered in one of the hotel's water tanks.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JAMSummary: An alcoholic and drug addict, 23 year-old James has two options: treatment or death. After waking up on a plane with a smashed up face and no memory of the past few weeks, he heads to rehab where he discovers much more than detox and therapy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MILCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MiHannaham, James
Summary: "Darlene, once an exemplary wife and a loving mother to her young son, Eddie, finds herself devastated by the unforeseen death of her husband. Unable to cope with her grief, she turns to drugs, and quickly forms an addiction. One day she disappears without a trace. Unbeknownst to eleven-year-old Eddie, now left behind in a panic-stricken search for her, Darlene has been lured away with false...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANHannaham, James
Summary: After more than twenty years in prison, a trans woman newly released on parole spends a whirlwind Fourth of July weekend in Brooklyn trying to reconcile with the son she left behind and to reunite with a family reluctant to accept her true identity. Carlotta Mercedes has been misunderstood her entire life. When she was pulled into a robbery gone wrong, she still went by the name she'd grown up...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022