Maura Tierney
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
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Description
"William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him. So it's a relief when his skill on the basketball court earns him a scholarship to college, far away from his childhood home. He soon meets Julia Padavano, a spirited and ambitious young woman who surprises William with her appreciation of his quiet steadiness. With Julia comes her family; she is inseparable from her three...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (559 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two married couples; one decimating extramarital love affair. Noah is a New York City schoolteacher and novelist who is happily married, but resents his dependence on his wealthy father-in-law. Alison is a young waitress trying to piece her life and marriage back together in the wake of a tragedy. The provocative drama unfolds when Alison and Noah meet in Montauk at the end of Long Island.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (703 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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
[2018]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 9 hr., 50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (1012 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
6) ER: season 9
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (986 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
7) ER: Season 7
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (978 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
8) Insomnia
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Crime never sleeps and neither does the veteran LAPD homicide detective invited to Nightmute, Alaska to head a murder investigation there. He finds the investigation disrupted by an ever-shining midnight sun that wreaks sleep-depriving havoc on his body clock. As his consciousness becomes more unstable, he is nagged by a sense of personal guilt over a second crime that might just be real.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 566 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Melvin goes to dinner with three, almost complete strangers. The frequently funny, but almost always heartfelt conversations go from dating to sex, to religion, to fetishes, to ghosts and everything in between.
11) ER: season 8
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (981 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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...
12) Scotland, PA
Author
Description
A modernized retelling of "MacBeth" set in 1970s suburban Pennsylvania. Joe McBeth, an unambitious hamburger stand employee, is driven to success by his scheming wife.
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (496 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In an economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, a complicated and compromised chief of police is forced to decide how far he's willing to go when the son of the woman he loves is accused of murder. A harrowing journey into the lives of a small town with big secrets, where people are driven by loyalty, love, and desperation, and bad choices come far too easy.
14) Liar liar
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Fletcher Reed is a fast-talking attorney and habitual liar. When his son Max blows out the candles on his fifth birthday cake, he has just one wish-- that his dad will stop lying for 24 hours. When Max's wish comes true, Fletcher discovers that his biggest asset-- his mouth-- has become his biggest liability.
15) The Temp
Author
Description
Peter Derns is afraid his future prospects are crumbling faster than the product he markets. Hope appears in the curvaceous form of Kris Bolin his new temp.
16) ER: Season 15
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (993 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
17) ER: season 14
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (825 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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!
18) ER: season 12
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (ca. 975 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
19) ER: season 11
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (1023 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
20) ER: Season 6
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (976 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In season 6, Carol gives birth to two baby girls, Lucy and Carter meet tragedy head on when a patient stabs them both, Elizabeth and Mark continue their romance, and nurse Abbey Lockhart joins the staff.