Gloria Reuben
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Terry McMillan's exuberant return to the four unforgettable heroines of Waiting to Exhale.
Waiting to Exhale was more than just a bestselling novel—its publication was a watershed moment in literary history. McMillan's sassy and vibrant story about four black women struggling to find love and their place in the world touched a cultural nerve, inspired a blockbuster...
Waiting to Exhale was more than just a bestselling novel—its publication was a watershed moment in literary history. McMillan's sassy and vibrant story about four black women struggling to find love and their place in the world touched a cultural nerve, inspired a blockbuster...
Author
Series
Alice Hoffman novel volume 28
Language
English
Description
"Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel's mother, a pillar of their small refugee community of Jews who escaped the Inquisition, has never forgiven her daughter for being a difficult girl who refuses to live by the rules. Growing up, Rachel's salvation is their maid Adelle's belief in her strengths, and her deep, life-long friendship with Jestine, Adelle's daughter. But Rachel's life is...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Paradise police chief Jesse Stone takes some well-deserved vacation time and chooses to spend it in Boston, where the Assistant State Homicide Commander, Lieutenant Sydney Greenstreet, aware of his previous experience as an LA Homicide detective, has sought his expertise in evaluating a packet of cold case murders. His cop-ly intuition leads him to a case that has already been closed, but when something about it catches his eye, it sets him off on...
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.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In its fifth season, third-year med student Lucy Knight joins the team in the ER and kindles a relationship with Dr. Carter. Dr. Green watches helplessly as his family is torn apart, and Dr. Ross leaves the ER for a new job.
7) Firestarter
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
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...
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...
12) Nick of time
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
No sooner does accountant Gene Watson arrive at L.A.'s Union Station with his six-year-old daughter than he's plunged into a nightmare. Two shadowy strangers separate Watson from his little girl, slap a gun into his hand and present a devil's bargain: kill a top government official before she leaves a nearby political rally-- or never again see his beloved child.
14) Admission
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A Princeton admissions officer, Portia Nathan, who is up for a major promotion, takes a professional risk after she meets a college-bound alternative school kid who just might be the son she gave up years ago in a secret adoption.
15) 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.
16) ER: Season 2
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The lives, loves and losses of the doctors and nurses of Chicago's County General Hospital continue. A behind-the-scenes look at what happens when your life is put into the hands of emergency room doctors and nurses.