Audra McDonald
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"This stunning new novel is Jodi Picoult at her finest--complete with unflinching insights, richly layered characters, and a page-turning plot with a gripping moral dilemma at its heart. Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years' experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she's been reassigned to another patient. The parents...
2) Respect
Language
English
Formats
Description
Offers a look into the life of Aretha Franklin: from her childhood traumatized by the loss of her mother through her difficult rise to international fame in the sixties, when she was also struggling with an abusive marriage and alcohol problems.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (DVD) (651 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Trying to maintain sanity in these insane times, the attorneys of Reddick, Boseman and Lockhart gain a new partner, endure a serial threat against lawyers, and brave a chaotic new world. Diane goes to extremes to deal with a growing threat, her struggling marriage and ever-changing politics. Meanwhile, Lucca, Maia and the firm expertly navigate a crooked cop conspiracy, a high-profile deportation and an audition for the DNC in a potential impeachment...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 545 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Diane Lockhart tries to figure out whether she can resist a crazy administration without going crazy herself, while Adrian Boseman and Liz Reddick-Lawrence struggle with a new post-factual world where the lawyer who tells the best story triumphs over the lawyer with the best facts. Meanwhile, Lucca Quinn balances a new baby with a new love, and Maia Rindell finds a new Mephistopheles in Roland Blum, a lawyer who is corruption incarnate.
5) The Vote
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 220 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One hundred years after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, it tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote, a transformative cultural and political movement that resulted in the largest expansion of voting rights in US history.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 491 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When her friend's multimillion-dollar investment scam ruins Diane Lockhart's plan for retirement, wipes out her savings and taints her reputation, she is literally at a loss. In Season 1 of The Good Fight (from The Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King), a disgraced Diane is forced out of her own law firm and joins another distinguished company as a junior partner. She recruits Maia Rindell, a promising young attorney with her own baggage: Maia's...
7) Respect
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (145 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The life story of legendary R&B singer Aretha Franklin.
8) Annie
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"For a young girl living a 'hard-knock life' in a children's orphanage, things may seem pretty bad -- especially at Christmas. But feisty Annie carries a song in her heart and hope in her locket -- the only thing she has from her parents. One day, fed up with the dastardly Miss Hannigan, Annie escapes the run-down orphanage determined to find her mom and dad. Her adventure takes her from the cold, mean streets of New York to the warm, comforting arms...
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A live performance of the classic musical. An aspiring nun in pre-WWII Austria leaves the abbey to become a governess for the widower Captain von Trapp's seven children and finds herself falling in love.
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 114 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"[The film] provides a ground-breaking exploration into how and why the human organism is moved by the undeniable effect of music, and the deep connection between music and our bodies and brains. The program follows visionary researchers and accomplished musicians to the crossroads of science and culture in search of answers to music's deep mysteries." -- Container.
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A live performance of the classic musical. An aspiring nun in pre-WWII Austria leaves the abbey to become a governess for the widower Captain von Trapp's seven children and finds herself falling in love.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dreams can make a life worth living, but they can also be dashed by bad decisions. This is the crossroads where the Younger family find themselves when their father passes away and leaves them with $10,000 in life insurance money. Decisions will need to be made on how to best spend the money, from buying a new family home, buying a liquor store or even paying for medical school tuition. While no choice is easy, life on the South Side of Chicago in...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approx. 8.5 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Renowned scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns for a new season. Using genealogical detective work and cutting-edge DNA analysis, Gates guides influential guests deep into the branches of their family trees, revealing surprising stories of love, hardship, and triumph that transcend borders and merge to form an American root system fortified by its diversity.
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The fantastic journey of Belle, a bright and independent young woman who takes her father's place as the prisoner of a beast in his castle. As Belle befriends the castle's enchanted staff, she and the Beast slowly begin to look beyond their initial reactions to each other and see who they truly are. But back in Belle's village, her father's fears for her safety drive him to rally the villagers to free Belle from the castle--a plan that goes awry,...