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Vera. [videorecording] / by Bazalgette, Ed.; Blethyn, Brenda,1946-; Cleeves, Ann.Vera Stanhope series.Videorecording.; Hoar, Peter.; Holmes, Julian.; Leon, David,1980-; Morrison, Jon.; Ritter, Paul(Actor); Whittington, Paul.; Acorn Media (Firm); ITV Studios.;
Brenda Blethyn, David Leon, Jon Morrison, Paul Ritter.Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope is obsessive about her work and driven by her own demons. If she's lonely she doesn't show it and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage. Her trusted and long suffering colleague is Sergeant Joe Ashworth. Together they approach every new case with unparalleled gusto and professionalism.PG.DVD, widescreen (16:9) presentation ; Dolby Digital stereo sound.
Subjects: Cleeves, Ann.; Criminal investigation; Criminal investigation; Detective and mystery television programs.; Stanhope, Vera (Fictitious character); Women detectives; Women detectives;
© c2014., Distributed by Acorn Media,
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Vera. [videorecording] / by Bazalgette, Ed.; Blethyn, Brenda,1946-; Cleeves, Ann.Vera Stanhope series.Videorecording.; Hoar, Peter.; Holmes, Julian.; Leon, David.; Morrison, Jon.; Ritter, Paul.; Whittington, Paul.; Acorn Media (Firm); ITV Studios.;
Castles in the air -- Poster child -- Young gods -- Prodigal son.Brenda Blethyn, David Leon, Jon Morrison, Paul Ritter.Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope is obsessive about her work and driven by her own demons. If she's lonely she doesn't show it and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage. Her trusted and long suffering colleague is Sergeant Joe Ashworth. Together they approach every new case with unparalleled gusto and professionalism.PG.DVD, widescreen (16:9) presentation ; Dolby Digital stereo sound.
Subjects: Cleeves, Ann.; Criminal investigation; Criminal investigation; Detective and mystery television programs.; Stanhope, Vera (Fictitious character); Women detectives; Women detectives;
© c2013., Distributed by Acorn Media,
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Vera. [videorecording] / by Bazalgette, Ed.; Blethyn, Brenda,1946-; Cleeves, Ann.Vera Stanhope series.Videorecording.; Hoar, Peter.; Holmes, Julian.; Leon, David,1980-; Morrison, Jon.; Ritter, Paul(Actor); Whittington, Paul.; Acorn Media (Firm); ITV Studios.;
Disc 1. Changing tides -- disc 2. Old wounds -- disc 3. Muddy waters -- disc 4. Shadows in the sky.Brenda Blethyn, David Leon, Jon Morrison, Paul Ritter.Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope is obsessive about her work and driven by her own demons. If she's lonely she doesn't show it and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage. Her trusted and long suffering colleague is Sergeant Joe Ashworth. Together they approach every new case with unparalleled gusto and professionalism.PG.DVD, widescreen (16:9) presentation ; Dolby Digital stereo sound.
Subjects: Cleeves, Ann.; Criminal investigation; Criminal investigation; Detective and mystery television programs.; Stanhope, Vera (Fictitious character); Women detectives; Women detectives;
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Madness : race and insanity in a Jim Crow asylum / by Hylton, Antonia,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks, and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the state's Hospital for the Negro Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports readers behind the brick walls of a Jim Crow asylum. In Madness, Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist Antonia Hylton tells the 93-year-old history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the last segregated asylums with surviving records and a campus that still stands to this day in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. She blends the intimate tales of patients and employees whose lives were shaped by Crownsville with a decade-worth of investigative research and archival documents. Madness chronicles the stories of Black families whose mental health suffered as they tried, and sometimes failed, to find safety and dignity. Hylton also grapples with her own family's experiences with mental illness, and the secrecy and shame that it reproduced for generations. As Crownsville Hospital grew from an antebellum-style work camp to a tiny city sitting on 1,500 acres, the institution became a microcosm of America's evolving battles over slavery, racial integration, and civil rights. During its peak years, the hospital's wards were overflowing with almost 2,700 patients. By the end of the 20th-century, the asylum faded from view as prisons and jails became America's new focus. In Madness, Hylton traces the legacy of slavery to the treatment of Black people's bodies and minds in our current mental healthcare system. It is a captivating and heartbreaking meditation on how America decides who is sick or criminal, and who is worthy of our care or irredeemable"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Crownsville State Hospital; African Americans; African Americans; Mentally ill; Psychiatric hospitals; Racism in medicine.;
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Pluck : a memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist / by Morrissey, Donna,1956-author.;
"A deeply personal account of love's restorative ability as it leads renowned novelist Donna Morrissey through mental illness, family death, and despair to becoming a writer--told with charm and inimitable humour. When Donna Morrissey left the only home she had ever known, an isolated Newfoundland settlement, at age 16, she was ready for adventure. She had grown up without television or telephones but had absorbed the tragic stories and comic yarns of her close-knit family and community. The death of her infant brother marked the family, and years later, Morrissey suffers devastating guilt about the accidental death of her teenage brother, whom she'd enticed to join her in the oilfields. Her misery was compounded by her own misdiagnosis of a terminal illness, all of which contributed to crippling anxiety and an actual diagnosis of PTSD. Many of those events and themes would eventually be transformed and recast as fictional gold in Morrissey's novels. In another writer's hands, Morrissey's account of her personal story could easily be a tragedy. Instead, she combines darkness and light, levity and sadness into her tale, as her indomitable spirit and humour sustain her. Morrissey's path takes her from the drudgery of being a grocery clerk (who occasionally enlivens her shift with recreational drugs) to western oilfields, to marriage and divorce and working in a fish-processing plant to support herself and her two young children. Throughout her struggles, she nourishes a love of learning and language. Morrissey layers her account of her life with stories of those who came before her, a breed rarely seen in the modern world. It centers around iron-willed women: mothers and daughters, wives, sisters, teachers and mentors who find the support, the wind for their wings, outside the bounds given to them by nature. And it is a mysterious older woman she meets in Halifax who eventually unleashes the writer that Morrissey is destined to become. An inspiring and insightful memoir, Pluck illustrates that even when you find yourself unravelling, you can find a way to spin the yarns that will save you--and delight readers everywhere."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Morrissey, Donna, 1956-; Anxiety disorders; Brothers; Novelists, Canadian (English);
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Mourning has broken : love, loss and reclaiming joy / by Davis, Erin,author.; Arden, Jann,writer of foreword.;
In her debut book, Erin Davis, one of Canada's most beloved radio personalities, explores her journey of grieving out loud with her family, friends and listeners after the unexplained death of her daughter on May 11, 2015. 'Mourning Has Broken' demonstrates by example how to pick up and keep going after suffering the worst loss a parent can endure.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Davis, Erin.; Davis, Erin; Adult children; Bereavement.; Grief.;
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A miracle on Christmas Lake [videorecording] / by Church, Jake,actor.; Jackson, Kristian,actor.; Kissack, John,film director.; Sasso, Will,1975-actor.; Williams, Siobhan,actor.; Vision Films,publisher.;
Music, Alec Harrison ; director of photography, Aaron Bernakevitch.Siobhan Williams, Will Sasso, Jake Church, Kristian Jackson.After suffering the loss of his best friend Charlie on Christmas Eve, sixteen-year-old Bobby Whiteside ventures out onto the lake where they played countless games of winter hockey. Upon shoveling the ice surface, he makes a shocking discovery: a magical, perfectly groomed hockey rink that appears only at night and only in his presence.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Christmas films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Grief; Hockey; Male friendship; Christmas;
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Catching the wind : Edward Kennedy and the liberal hour / by Gabler, Neal,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The epic, definitive biography of Ted Kennedy--an immersive journey through the life of a complicated man and a sweeping history of the fall of liberalism and the collapse of political morality. Edward M. Kennedy was never expected to succeed. The youngest of nine, he lacked his brothers' natural gifts and easy grace. Yet after winning election to the Senate at the tender age of thirty, he became the most consequential legislator of his lifetime, perhaps even American history. Surviving the traumas of his brothers' assassinations, Ted Kennedy ultimately exerted the greatest effort keeping alive the mission of an active and caring government. He swept into the Senate at the high-water mark of the mid-century New Deal consensus and fulfilled the promise of that momentum throughout his glory years in the Senate as the booming voice of American liberalism. That voice found its greatest impact in the laws he passed that wove government firmly into American life, extending aid and opportunity to those in most desperate need. Two thousand pieces of legislation, ranging from health care to education to civil rights, bore Ted's fingerprints. He worked tirelessly to better people's lives, even after the Reagan-era push for limited government rewrote the contract between nation and citizens. He did this because he felt he owed it to those who suffered, and those with whom he empathized out of his own pain and ever-present sense of inadequacy. But Ted Kennedy was not immune to the darkness that plagued his family. He lived long enough to fail, to sin, to fall in and out of favor. The infamous incident at Chappaquiddick marked an unfortunate turning point in the youngest Kennedy's life, and it would not be his last brush with controversy. As his personal failures compounded in the public eye, he struggled to maintain the traction that had carried his agenda so far. The product of a decade of work and hundreds of interviews, Catching the Wind will be an essential work of history and biography. The first of two volumes in a sweeping narrative, it traces the extraordinary life of an American statesman from his early years through the turning point of the 1970s. It is a landmark study of legislative genius and a powerful exploration of the man who spent his career upholding his mandate in service of a better America"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009.; United States. Congress. Senate; Legislators;
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Long bright river / by Moore, Liz,1983-author.;
"A suspense novel that also looks at the anatomy of a Philadelphia family rocked by the opioid crisis and the relationship between two sisters--one, suffering from addiction, who has suddenly gone missing amid a series of mysterious murders; the other a police officer who patrols the neighborhood from which she disappeared: a story about the formidable ties between place, family, and fate" --
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Domestic fiction.; Sisters; Drug addicts; Policewomen;
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The water cure : a novel / by Mackintosh, Sophie,author.;
"You are a girl. Your body is vulnerable. Men will break it if they can -- and out there, they absolutely will. Bodies must be controlled in order to be safe. Suffering will prepare you for the worst -- the cure is nothing compared to what you've been spared in the sickness. It takes a lot of love to hurt you like this." -- Page [4] of cover.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Dystopian fiction.; Women; Mothers and daughters; Sisters; Man-woman relationships;
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