Kate Mulgrew
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English
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"In this profoundly honest and examined memoir about returning to Iowa to care for her ailing parents, the star of Orange Is the New Black and New York Times bestselling author of Born with Teeth takes us on an unexpected journey of loss, betrayal, and the transcendent nature of a daughter's love for her parents. They say you can't go home again. But when her father is diagnosed with aggressive lung cancer and her mother with atypical Alzheimer's,...
Author
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English
Description
A chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes and a band of improbable heroes who battle to save it, led by one powerful and enigmatic man known as the Fireman. The Fireman is coming. Stay cool. No one knows exactly when it began or where it originated. A terrifying new plague is spreading like wildfire across the country, striking cities one by one: Boston, Detroit, Seattle. The...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photography, answers to unanswerable questions. On her Raleigh Tuff Burner bike, she makes her way to a rickety covered bridge that, within moments, takes her wherever she needs to go, whether it's across Massachusetts or across the country. Charles Talent Manx has a way with children. He likes to take them for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the NOS4A2...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
Raised by unconventional Irish Catholics who knew 'how to drink, how to dance, how to talk, and how to stir up the devil,' Kate Mulgrew grew up with poetry and drama in her bones. But in her mother, a would-be artist burdened by the endless arrival of new babies, young Kate saw the consequences of a dream deferred. Determined to pursue her own no matter the cost, at 18 she left her small Midwestern town for New York, where, studying with the legendary...
Author
Language
English
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"Snapshot" is the disturbing story of a Silicon Valley adolescent who finds himself threatened by "The Phoenician," a tattooed thug who possesses a Polaroid Instant Camera that erases memories, snap by snap.
In "Loaded," a mall security guard in a coastal Florida town courageously stops a mass shooting and becomes a hero to the modern gun rights movement. But under the glare of the spotlights, his story begins to unravel, taking his sanity with it....
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English
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Description
"In this masterful collection of short fiction, Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including "In The Tall Grass," one of two stories co-written with Stephen King, basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix. A little door that opens to a world of fairy tale wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping ground for a gang of hunters in "Faun." A grief-stricken librarian climbs behind...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (783 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A new regime has arrived at Litchfield and with it comes new business interests, spiritual movements, and parental problems that turn life behind bars upside down and ignite power struggles among Litchfield's residents and guards.
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 9
Language
English
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Description
Follows ninety-two-year-old Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane, as she joins her former tenant Brian on a road trip to Nevada where she attends to unfinished business she has long avoided.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 778 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
New faces and old resentments make for a potentially volatile blend, especially now that Litchfield is a for-profit business. This season delves into the racial and economic tensions that run rampant in the halls of Litchfield. Overrun with new inmates and overseen by inexperienced guards, the prison undergoes an unprecedented culture war.
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (359 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Four inspiring holiday films filled with stories of family and faith. From the church to the prairie, there's something for everyone in this Christmas collection. Includes bonus audio, Greatest Christmas Collection V.2.
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 730 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Brooklynite Piper Chapman, whose wild past comes back to haunt her and results in her arrest and detention in a federal penitentiary. To pay her debt to society, Piper trades her comfortable New York life for an orange prison jumpsuit and finds unexpected conflict and camaraderie amidst an eccentric group of inmates.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 774 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Picking up one week after the emergency response team stormed Litchfield Penitentiary, the ladies of Litch have been torn apart, literally and figuratively, as they enter a new facility. Now newbies starting at the bottom, they must navigate new rules and power dynamics while getting hazed by inmates and tortured by guards.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 13 hr. 41 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the show's final season, a recently paroled Piper tries to get back on her feet while life in Litchfield, as corrupt as ever, goes on without her.
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 244 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Roots: the gift (an expansion of the Roots saga with a Christmas theme three years after Kunta Kinte's first unsuccessful attempt to escape slavery) has Kunta Kinte and Fiddler desperately leading runaways through a network of safe havens to a getaway boat. As the boat fills there's room for one more passenger. A choice must be made; a Mandinka warrior can never abandon his friend.
The legacy of Roots, part one. Crossing over: how Roots captivated...