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Thompson, Paul MatthewSummary: The life and times of a group of midwives working at Nonnatus House--a nursing convent serving the impoverished of East London in the late 1950s and early 1960s--are chronicled in this appealing British series based on true events. The women learn powerful lessons about life's struggles while visiting with expectant mothers and poor children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD CallSummary: It's 1966, and it's a testing time for the midwives. But there's excitement, too, as the women's rights movement intensifies. With Trixie's help, Sister Julienne is determined to steer Nonnatus House of its financial quandary. Dr. Turner deals with an array of difficult cases including a former soldier involved in nuclear test explosion. Meanwhile, Sister Monica Joan experiences a crisis of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD Call 10Summary: David Attenborough guides the viewer through a miniature universe teeming with life, never normally seen, yet all around us. New technology reveals surreal vistas and their extraordinary inhabitants. Though small, these creatures are ferocious.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD 592 LifeSummary: Old friends come to visit. Love is in the air for both young and old in Glenbogle. But nothing is as is seems on the Scottish estate. Will they all live happily ever after?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD DVD Mon#7Summary: A moving, intimate, funny, and true-to-life look at the colorful stories of midwifery and families in East London in the '50s. Based on the bestselling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth. When Jenny Lee first arrives in Poplar, she knows nothing about hardship, poverty, and life itself. But Jenny is brought up to speed fast once she joins a team of midwives who provide care to the poorest women.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD DVD CallSummary: The beloved nurses and nuns of Nonnatus House return to warm your heart as they care for the poorest women in London's East End. Life never stands still as the midwives face surprise pregnancy, disease, blossoming romance and missing friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bbc Us / Canada 2016
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD DVD Call5Summary: In the mid 1930s, as the Great Depression refuses to lift, Benny Goodman finds himself hailed as the "King of Swing" and becomes the first white bandleader to hire black musicians. He has a host or rivals among them, Chick Webb, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmie Lunceford, Glen Miller and Artie Shaw. Louis Armstrong heads a big band of his own, while Duke Ellington continues his independent course, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS DVD 2000
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD 781 BurnsSummary: Archie continues his struggles to make Glenbogle a success and sort out his complicated love life. Includes all eleven episodes from the third series, Richard Brier's last.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2010
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD DVD Monar-3Thompson, Paul Matthew
Summary: The hilariously mismatched detective duo of Luella Shakespeare and grumpy Frank Hathaway return for ten more episodes of the hit mystery/comedy- drama set in beautiful Stratford-upon-Avon. One might think the birthplace of William Shakespeare would be safe from fraud, extortion, vice, identity theft, and ransom, but they would be wrong.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD Shakespeare2Summary: When the rather austere Sister Ursula is appointed the new head of Nonnatus house, Sister Julienne finds herself demoted and working back alongside the midwives as an ordinary member of staff.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD DVD Call6Summary: Thomas Cromwell is a brutal blacksmith's son who rises from the ashes of personal disaster and deftly picks his way through a court where 'man is wolf to man.' King Henry VIII is obsessed with protecting the Tudor dynasty by securing his succession with a male heir to the throne. Told from Cromwell's perspective, "Wolf Hall" follows the complex machinations and back room dealings of this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD DVD WolfSummary: With Nonnatus House scheduled for demolition, Jenny, Chummy, and Sister Julienne search for a new location nearby, while Jenny's relationship with Alec continues to blossom. But an outbreak of polio affects the nurses and nuns more than they could have imagined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD DVD CallSummary: Between 1945 and 1955 jazz splinters into different camps: cool and hot, East and West, traditional and modern. One by one, the big bands leave the road, but Duke Ellington keeps his band together, while Louis Armstrong puts together a small group, the "All-Stars." Promoter Norman Granz insists on equal treatment for every member of his integrated troupes on his Jazz at the Philharmonic Tours....
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS DVD 2000
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD 781 BurnsSummary: Season two hits the ground running with Sarah in a desperate race to find her missing daughter Kira. Her scorched earth tactics spark a war with pro-clone Rachel, dividing and imperiling all the clones. As Sarah discovers more about her past, mysterious newcomers appear. But can they be trusted?
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2014
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD DVD Orph2Summary: A contemporary take on the classic Arthur Conan Doyle stories, Sherlock is a thrilling, funny, fast-paced adventure series set in present-day London. The iconic details from Conan Doyle's original books remain: they live at the same address, have the same names, and, somewhere out there, Moriarty is waiting for them. And so across three thrilling, scary, action-packed, and highly modern...
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Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corporation 2010
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD DVD SherlockSummary: Now nearing the 1960s, the community enters a new time of social change, while stories of birth, life and death continue to touch your heart. Will live-wire Nurse Trixie marry her young curate? What new project calls for a heart as big as Chummy's? How will Sister Evangelina react to two new nurses? And why does Sister Julienne appear so unsettled by a mystery benefactor?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD DVD CallSummary: The charming comedy-drama from BBC Four tells the story of Andy and Lance, members of the Danebury Metal Detectors Club. As Andy pursues a degree in archaeology and Lance considers being a musician, they spend their days searching through fields with their metal detectors, dreaming of finding a fortune.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD DVD Detect1Summary: Amid the hard times of the Depression new dances, the Lindy Hop and Swing, caught on at the dance halls of New York even as the jobless lined the streets and drought ruined Midwest farms. Jazz, during 1929 through 1935, lifted the nation's spirit. Record sales boomed while Armstrong became a major entertainer as singer, trumpeter, band leader, radio and film performer. Ellington's elegance,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS DVD 2000
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD 781 BurnsSummary: Between 1955 and 1960 rhythm and blues and rock ' roll erode jazz' audiences but the music still enjoys tremendous creativity. Saxophonist Sonny Rollins and trumpeter Clifford Brown make their marks while Duke Ellington emerges stronger than ever and Miles Davis and John Coltrane make legendary albums. Louis Armstrong jeopardizes his career when he condemns the government for its failure to act...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS DVD 2000
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD 781 BurnsSummary: From 1917 through 1924 the "Jazz Age" begins with speakeasies, flappers and easy money for some. The story of jazz becomes a tale of two cities, Chicago and New York and of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, whose lives and music will span three-quarters of a century. This episode also follows the careers of jazz greats James Reese Europe, King Oliver, Willie Smith, Fletcher Henderson, Paul...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS DVD 2000
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD 781 BurnsSummary: Season two begins 30 seconds after the final episode of the first season. Eve is reeling, and Villanelle has disappeared. Eve has no idea if the woman she stabbed is alive or dead, and now both of them are in deep trouble. Eve has to find Villanelle before someone else does, but unfortunately, she's not the only person looking for her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2019