Glenn Close
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xxii, 312 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
More than fifty million people a year are diagnosed with some form of mental illness. It spares no sex, race, age, ethnicity, or income level. And left untreated, mental disorders can devastate our families and communities. Family members and friends are often the first to realize when someone has a problem, but it is hard to know how to help or where to turn. From understanding depression, bipolar illness and anxiety to eating and traumatic disorders,...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (583 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Daniel Purcell, a man from Patty's past, storms back into her life, catapulting Patty into a new legal challenge. At the same time, Ellen is on a mission to take down Patty by acting as an informant for the FBI. Contains 13 episodes, such as: Burn It, Shred It, I Don't Care; They Had to Tweeze That Out of My Kidney; New York Sucks; Look What He Dug Up This Time, deleted scenes, commentaries, and more.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs in 2 separate volumes (DVD) (approximately 581 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Patty Hewes, the nation's most revered and most reviled litigator, and her bright, ambitious protégée Ellen Parsons become embroiled in a class action lawsuit targeting Arthur Frobisher, one of the country's wealthiest CEOs. As Patty battles Frobisher and his attorney, Ellen learns what it takes to win at all costs.
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 502 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bright and sharp law school graduate Ellen Parsons becomes the protegee of the successful and hard-hitting high stakes litigator Patricia Hewes. But nothing is what it seems.
6) Tarzan
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Deep within the jungle ... baby Tarzan is adopted by a family of gorillas. But his 'Two Worlds' collide with the arrival of humans, forcing Tarzan to choose between a 'civilized' life with the beautiful Jane and the life he shares with his fun-loving friends and his gorilla family"--Container.
7) Le divorce
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Isabel Walker receives word that her pregnant stepsister Rosy has been left by her philandering French husband, artist Charles-Henri de Persand, Isabel travels to Paris to offer her help and moral support.
8) The wife
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 100 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
Language
English
Description
The story of the couple's youthful passion and ambition interwoven with a portrait of a marriage, thirty-plus years later, a lifetime's shared compromises, secrets, betrayals, and mutual love.
9) 5 to 7
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A chance encounter on the streets of Manhattan draws twenty-something aspiring writer Brian into a passionate love affair with a glamorous French woman. But she's married, and can only meet him for hotel room trysts between the hours of five and seven. As Brian yearns for more than just two hours a day with the woman of his dreams, he learns hard won lessons about life and love.
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (573 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In season three, Patty Hewes is in a serious accident when another car broadsides her vehicle in an intersection, Ellen visits the woman in her dreams to learn if she is her birth mother, Patty is surprised when she runs into her son Michael's pregnant girlfriend, and more.
12) The natural
Language
English
Description
Nothing was going to stop Roy Hobbs from fulfilling his boyhood dream of baseball stardom. As a 14-year old he fashions a baseball bat from an oak tree. He soon impresses major league scouts with his ability. His talent also catches the eye of a sportswriter who eventually becomes instrumental in Hobbs' career. The appearance of a mysterious woman, however, shatters his dream. Years later Hobbs reappears as a rookie for the New York Knights and has...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Red ... [is] training with a mysterious covert group called the Sisters of the Hood. But Red is forced to cut her training short when she gets an urgent call from Nicky Flippers..., the head of the super secret Happily Ever After Agency, aka the HEA. A wicked witch ... has abducted two innocent children, Hansel ... and Gretel..., and Nicky needs the whole Hoodwinked gang--Red, Granny..., the ever-clueless Wolf..., and his over-caffeinated little...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
4 sound discs (270 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sheila Nevins shares the real life challenges of being a woman in a man's world, what it means to be a working mother, what it's like to be an older woman in a youth-obsessed culture, the sometimes changing, often sweet truth about marriages, what being a feminist really means, and who is in good company if adult children don't return phone calls.
"People Pick."--People
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Humanity has been all but destroyed by a fungal disease that eradicates free will and turns its victims into flesh-eating 'hungries'. Only a small group of children seem to be immune to its effects. At an army base in rural England, these unique children are being studied and subjected to cruel experiments. When the base falls, one little girl escapes and must discover what she is, ultimately deciding both her own future and that of the human race....
18) 102 dalmatians
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 videocassette (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in 18th century France, this is the story of two bored aristocrats and the havoc they wreak when they play dangerous games with people's lives. The beautiful widow Merteuil challenges rakish Valmont to seduce a virtuous young married woman, never suspecting that he would violate his personal credo and fall in love.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
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Description
When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.