Gloria Reuben
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dovekeepers and The Museum of Extraordinary Things: a forbidden love story set on the tropical island of St. Thomas about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro the Father of Impressionism"--
3) Anesthesia
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
While on his way home one evening, Walter Zarrow, a popular Columbia University philosophy professor, is violently attacked on the street. Flashing back one week to the beginning of a domino effect of events that led up to this seemingly senseless assault, the film traces hidden connections between an apparently disparate group of people.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Jesse finds himself struggling to get his job back as the Paradise police chief, and he is forced to rely on his cop intuition to sort through a maze of misleading clues and hidden meaning as he attempts to solve a shocking and horrifying mob related double homicide.
8) Firestarter
Language
English
Description
For more than a decade, parents Andy and Vicky have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Andy has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain. But as Charlie turns eleven, the fire becomes harder and harder to control. After an incident reveals the family's location, a...
9) Admission
Author
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A Princeton college admission representative discovers that an applicant might be the son she gave up for adoption.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Follows the cases and lives of young lawyers on opposite sides of the bench. These include the public defenders and the district attorneys, as well as those who sit in judgement on their cases. With a new police initiative increasing the caseload, an idealistic public defender is so overworked that his boss has to return to the front lines. As they struggle to defend clients, or at least work out a decent plea deal, their toughest adversary may be...
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
"Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Colour, a dazzling yet damned class caught between the world of white privilege and black oppression."--Internet Movie Database.
12) Reasonable doubt
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Hotshot district attorney Mitch Brockden is involved in a fatal hit-and-run, but Clinton Davis is found with the body and charged with murder. Believing that Davis is innocent, Brockden is compelled to throw the trial. Soon after, Brockden's perfect life begins to unravels as he realizes that the man he set free is hiding a secret that will destroy him.
13) Life support
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Ana is an HIV-positive woman and recovering junkie, taking care of a 9-year-old daughter and a husband who is also HIV-positive. While making the most of a local social services program in order to regain stability in her life, she also attempts to reunite with her estranged teenage daughter, living with Ana's mother.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Elsbeth Tascioni, an astute but unconventional attorney who utilizes her singular point of view to make unique observations and corner brilliant criminals alongside the NYPD. After leaving her successful legal career in Chicago to tackle a new investigative role in New York City, Elsbeth finds herself jockeying with the toast of the NYPD, Captain C.W. Wagner.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
This popular television series 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. Includes all 331 episodes, spanning 15 seasons. Includes pilot episode.