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Joseph Sargent
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Working in 1940s Baltimore on an unprecedented technique for performing heart surgery on "blue babies", Dr. Alfred Blalock and lab technician Vivien Thomas form an impressive team. As Blalock and Thomas invent a new field of medicine, saving thousands of lives in the process, the social pressures of segregation threaten to undermine their collaboration and tear them apart.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The widowed Ellen Brody now finds herself reliving the horrors of the past when a mammoth shark kills her son. Grief-stricken, she travels to the Bahamas to be with her other son, a marine biologist, and his family. There she meets and falls for a carefree airplane pilot. But just as she is putting her life back together, the nightmare of the past returns when her granddaughter is attacked by an all-too-familiar Great White. Determined to end the...
4) MacArthur
Pub. Date
1977.
Language
English
Description
The film traces General Douglas MacArthur's career from 1942, when he leaves Corregidor pledging "I shall return", through his victories in the Pacific, his deft handling of the democratization of Japan during the postwar occupation, his Presidential ambitions, and return to war in Korea where his insubordination led to his dismissal by President Truman in 1951.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"James Garner stars as Woodrow F. Call, a wizened bounty hunter who has endured the death of his son and the financial failure of his Montana ranch. When a wealthy railroad president hires him to track down a young, cold-blooded bandit, Call travels south to seek out the fugitive and along the way encounters an array of old acquaintances, including his faithful ex-comrade."--Container.
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 64
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Janice and Abel live in their own world. A world of signs. Signs they are ashamed to show. They are quite young when they leave deaf school to marry, and they must fight for their lives in the hearing world. The depression is hard, but being unable to hear often means tragedy for their family. Their daughter Margaret can hear, and becomes the link for Janice and Abel to the world of hearers, a world they don't understand and don't trust. Margaret...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"It is 1932 when loyal, devoted Nurse Eunice Evers is invited to work with Dr. Brodus and Dr. Douglas on a federally funded program to treat syphilis patients in Alabama. Free treatment is offered to those who test positive for the disease, including Caleb Humphries and Willie Johnson. But when the government withdraws its support, money is offered for what will become known as 'The Tuskegee Experiment'; a study of the effects of syphilis on patients...
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 63
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"Dan Miller and his wife Laura only want what's best for their happy and healthy eight-year-old son Adam who's been deaf since age four. Laura, who is deaf, opposes the surgery, an implant. Dan, who is hearing, misses talking and listening to his son. This is a devoted family facing a moment of truth. Together or apart, Dan and Laura must make a life-altering decision on behalf of their son"--Container.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Perl spent WWII in charge of the woman's infirmary at Auschwitz. Hoping to leave her nightmares behind her after the liberation, she applies for American citizenship in 1946. However, she is hauled into military court to explain how much she "collaborated" with the Nazis during the war. The U.S. officials are especially disturbed by the number of illegal abortions Perl performed at the camp. Perl struggles to explain how she terminated the lives of...
10) Skylark
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 5
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Jacob's farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay, and what will happen to Jacob if she and the children have to leave the farm.
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Bail out: Three down-on-their-luck bounty hunters promise to deliver the daughter of a millionaire to trial on drug charges.
Somewhere tomorrow: A professional guardian angel has been transported to Earth to help a young woman.
Cuba crossing: An adventurer gets caught up in a plot to kill Fidel Castro.
When the bough breaks: A detective and a child psychologist investigate a child molestation ring that uses a center for troubled children as a front.
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