John Curran
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Language
English
Description
Trauma's lasting aftershock: misunderstood emotional disability
No one is immune from the pain of loss and abandonment. A beloved figure's death, a betrayal of trust, or abuse can inflict a degree of pain that is seriously traumatic. Those suffering such trauma may react with mistrust and depression, becoming unwilling or unable to reach out to others or accept attention and love. Their learning potential and life performance are impaired and their...
Author
Language
English
Description
Attachment Disability: Misunderstood, misdiagnosed, and mismanaged. Until now.
To be human is to cultivate attachments: to endeavor to form stable and trusting relationships. Attachment Disability results when stability and trust are broken, as a result, of separation, loss, abuse, or abandonment. People who undergo these traumas can react with lasting mistrust and paralyzing anxiety. But, there is hope for sufferers from Attachment Disability: an...
Author
Language
English
Description
John Curran reveals the secrets of the world's greatest mystery writer in Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making, the fascinating follow up to Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks featuring more insight into Christie's captivating life story and a new windfall of Christie's unpublished work-including letters, archival papers, and a keenly incisive analysis of Christie's last, unfinished novel.
For readers new to Christie's mysteries and for life-long...
Author
Series
Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Description
The wealthy Agatha Dawson is dead and there are no apparent signs of foul play. Lord Peter Wimsey, however, senses that something is amiss and he refuses to let the case rest--even without any clues or leads. Suddenly, he is faced with another murder--Agatha's maid. Can super-sleuth Wimsey find the murderer and solve the case before he becomes the killer's next victim?
7) Stone
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jack Mabry, a parole officer days away from retirement, is asked to review the case of Gerald 'Stone' Creeson, in prison for arson. Now eligible for early release, Stone needs to convince Jack he has reformed, but his attempts to influence the older man's decision with his wife Lucetta have profound and unexpected effects on them both.
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Language
English
Description
Congratulations! is an absurdist crime-thriller-comedy about Detective Dan Skok of the Missing Persons Bureau and the unusual case of Paul Ryan Gray, a boy who goes missing in his own house. Best Feature Film at the Atlanta Film Festival The official selection at the Nashville Film Festival and the SF Indie Fest.
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Language
English
Description
African-American life through the centuries in this Hudson Valley town, from Peekskill's official historian-includes maps and photos.
The first African Americans of Peekskill had no choice in making the Hudson Valley their home. What they did choose was what kind of home to make of it. Those choices would shape both their community and the course of American history.
Meet the African American sharpshooter who helped swing the balance of...
10) Peekskill
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Language
English
Description
Peekskill portrays the history of a small Dutch-style village that grew into a prosperous factory city, with scenic vistas that have always been a particular delight for photographers. Using many of the resulting photographs, Peekskill displays this delightful place, nestled into three surrounding hills where the Hudson River spreads into Peekskill Bay, approaching the Bear Mountain highlands. Peekskill also presents the prominent people of this community,...
11) The painted veil
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai. Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter discovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China that is being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. He takes his wife along and their journey brings meaning to their relationship and gives them...
12) Chappaquiddick
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on historical events, this suspenseful thriller examines the infamous 1969 death of Mary Jo Kopechne, who drowned after Senator Ted Kennedy drove off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, and the moral and legal complexities that play out over the following week.
Author
Publisher
Harper/HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
430 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Expert archivist John Curran examines the unpublished notebooks of the worlds best selling author, to explore the techniques she used to surprise and entertain generations of readers.
15) The Dark Red
Author
Language
English
Description
When a young woman is committed to a psychiatric hospital claiming that her newborn has been stolen by a dark cult in order to harvest its supernatural blood, her doctor must determine if she is dangerous before she can be released.
16) Tracks
Publisher
Starz Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (100 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It tells the remarkable true story of Robyn Davidson, a young woman who leaves her life in the city to make a solo trek through almost 2,000 miles of sprawling Australian desert. Accompanied by only her dog and four unpredictable camels, she sets off on a life-changing journey of self-discovery. Along the way, she meets National Geographic photographer Rick Smolan who begins to photograph her voyage.