Maura Tierney
Author
Language
English
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William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy: his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him. His skill on the basketball court earned him a scholarship to a college far away from his childhood home. Julia Padavano, a spirited and ambitious young woman, surprises William with her appreciation of his quiet steadiness. With Julia comes her three younger sisters: Sylvie, the dreamer, happiest with her nose in a book and dreams...
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (914 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room. These medical professionals remain determined to save lives in a place where nothing is taken for granted and nothing is certain, nothing except that another desperate person will be rushed through the emergency room doors in the next moment in need of their help.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (703 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With a murder unsolved and a betrayal exposed, the truth is suspect and shifting between the perspectives of Noah, Alison, Helen and Cole. The story now reveals the complex family ties, passionate betrayals and vengeful emotions that have resulted from the illicit summer liaison. And as the two estranged couples try individually to plan for the future, a new series of deceptions will once again force them to question everything they believed.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (825 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this penultimate season of the powerful, award-winning series, personal tragedies threaten, and sometimes strengthen, relationships among the staff. And the patients bring their own compelling stories. A boy genius diagnoses his mysterious illness, a cancer-ridden prison doctor is haunted by the men he put to death, a woman arrives in the ER expecting her 13th baby. Triumph, loss, tears, joy, next!
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (975 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Season 12 brings spiraling drama and suspense to the lives of ER veterans. Abby and Kovac share unexpected news. Gallant comes home from Iraq to be with Neela. Pratt goes to Darfur to work with Carter.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (1,012 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Former paramedic, now intern Dr. Tony Gates arrives with a straightforward attitude and a complicated personal life. Except for his devotion to healing, he's Gallant's opposite: brash, cocksure, with a bad-boy past, and maybe he's the right prescription for Neela's broken heart. Really shaking things up, Weaver leaves County General for a career move you wouldn't expect.
8) Baby mama
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kate is a successful and single businesswoman who has long put her career ahead of a personal life. At 37, she's finally determined to have a child on her own. Unable to get pregnant, a driven Kate allows South Philly working girl Angie Ostrowiski to become her unlikely surrogate. After learning that Angie is pregnant, Kate goes into precision nesting mode. She reads childcare books, baby-proofs the apartment and researches top pre-schools. But, Kate's...
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (987 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Continues to chronicle life and death in Chicago's Country General hospital emergency room. Portrays the plight of medical students in their quest to become physicians. Healing is teamwork and science with instant decisions and best guesses to be made. Joy one moment, tragedy the next, 24/7 readiness.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 9 hr., 50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"What are you holding on to? Long past the secrets that brought them together and tore their lives apart, Noah, Alison, Helen and Cole are on separate journeys with the promise of new relationships and a fresh start. But as the past continues to surface, they question what they re holding on to as their lives keep crashing back into one another."--Provided by publisher.
11) The iron claw
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray disc (approximately 132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 DVD.
Language
English
Description
The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s. Through tragedy and triumph, under the shadow of their domineering father and coach, the brothers seek larger-than-life immortality on the biggest stage in sports.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (696 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of horrific events, Noah and Helen try to come to terms with the consequences of their choices. Just when things seem to have stabilized, a chance encounter with someone from the distant past sets in motion a sequence of events that brings them both to their knees. They realize they must face their past in order to truly move on. And some years in the future, Alison and Cole's now adult daughter Joanie attempts to piece together the...
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (986 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Television series about the work and lives of a group of emergency room doctors in Chicago. In this season, Carter's playful office love affair becomes a 24/7 crisis; Kovac's partying affects his performance; Weaver is promoted to a position outside the ER-- but Romano replaces her; Kovac and Carter decide it's time for a change and opt for assignment in Africa.
14) Semi-pro
Language
English
Description
1970s, Flint, Michigan. Jackie Moon is a former pop sensation who somehow made enough money from a couple of hit records to buy Flint's semi-pro basketball team, the Tropics. The team consists of a bunch of disorganized losers with one genuine talent named Coffee Black. Despite knowing little about the game, Jackie is the Tropics' coach as well as a player. His greater love involves coming up with bizarre marketing stunts to draw in an audience. His...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 566 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three years after Noah's shocking admission of guilt at the murder trial of Scott Lockhart, he attempts to restart his life, but the damage wrought by his past decisions has made him a ghost of his former self. Alison has been raising daughter Joanie alongside Cole and Luisa in Montauk, but Alison's past continues to rear its ugly head as Cole and Luisa attempt to build their own future.
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (978 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Television series about the work and lives of a group of emergency room doctors in Chicago. The gurneys keep rolling in this season that includes: Abby's reunion with her mother, a turbulent woman suffering from bipolar disorder; Carter returns from detox; Abby goes back to square one in med training.
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (1,023 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Year 11 of the fast-paced series brings challenges and changes to the ER. Corday and Chen weigh work and family. Abby finds that being a good doctor is as tough as being a good nurse. Ray Barnett - doctor by day, rock star by night - arrives. Carter decides to leave; he set the tone, provided the example. His impact will endure.
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (981 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Television series about the work and lives of a group of emergency room doctors in Chicago. In this season, new hopefuls Army Reservist Michael Gallant and brash Gregory Pratt arrive to face the challenges of Trauma One life, Dr. Susan Lewis returns, Benton weighs career and family, Malucci crosses the line once too often, Chen defies demotion, and Greene fights what could be his last battle, leaving a void at the group's heart. His leadership may...
19) Primary colors
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hr., 24 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jack Stanton is a virtually unknown Southern governor on a quest for the White House with his strong, savvy and equally ambitious wife, Susan. Running against the odds, the Stantons need all the help they can get from their extremely colorful political team. Together, they take off on a hilarious, heart-wrenching and ultimately history-making roller coaster ride to the top.
20) Forces of nature
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English