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(0)Audra McDonald
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This stunning new novel is Jodi Picoult at her finest--complete with unflinching insights, richly layered characters, and a page-turning plot with a gripping moral dilemma at its heart. Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years' experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she's been reassigned to another patient. The parents...
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Join the Oceanside Wellness Group family as they try to balance work, friendship, and love while they lean on each other for the help and support they need. As Pete and Violet prepare for their wedding day, disagreements at the clinic put a strain on Addison and Sam's relationship.
Publisher
ABC Studios
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Addison learns a huge secret about her past, Sam and Naomi receive a life-changing announcement, Copper's personal life is affected when Charlotte joins the practice, Dell struggles to raise a daughter on his own, and Violet has an important decision to make regarding the well-being of her baby. Contains all 23 episodes, along with bonus features.
6) The vote
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
One hundred years after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, it tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote, a transformative cultural and political movement that resulted in the largest expansion of voting rights in US history.
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A poignant tale of a family in crisis. Izzy's dad has suffered a stroke and his mom's job as an English teacher barely pays the rent. Added to her burden is her three children. Her will to survive is palpable as she struggles with an unforgiving medical system and copes with Izzy, who teeters on the brink of adolescence and tries his hardest to escape the reality of it all by breaking into people's apartments.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Diane is forced to question whether it's appropriate for her to help run an African American law firm with Liz when the firm loses two top lawyers. Meanwhile, Marissa and the firm become entangled with Hal Wackner, a regular Chicagoan who decides to open his courtroom in the back of a copy shop.
13) Annie
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For a young girl living a 'hard-knock life' in a children's orphanage, things may seem pretty bad -- especially at Christmas. But feisty Annie carries a song in her heart and hope in her locket -- the only thing she has from her parents. One day, fed up with the dastardly Miss Hannigan, Annie escapes the run-down orphanage determined to find her mom and dad. Her adventure takes her from the cold, mean streets of New York to the warm, comforting arms...
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Addison Forbes Montgomery is a renowned neonatal surgeon realizes that her life isn't advancing at Seattle Grace and packs her bags and heads off to Santa Monica to start a new life. She reunites with her newly divorced med school friends and joins them in their chic private practice.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Trying to maintain sanity in these insane times, the attorneys of Reddick, Boseman and Lockhart gain a new partner, endure a serial threat against lawyers, and brave a chaotic new world. Diane goes to extremes to deal with a growing threat, her struggling marriage and ever-changing politics. Meanwhile, Lucca, Maia and the firm expertly navigate a crooked cop conspiracy, a high-profile deportation and an audition for the DNC in a potential impeachment...
18) Wit
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
An English professor, who alienates her students, has always had control over her life. That is until she is diagnosed with a devasting illness. She agrees to undergo a series of procedures that are brutal, extensive and experimental. She finds that the fine line between life and death can only be walked with wit.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Diane Lockhart tries to figure out whether she can resist a crazy administration without going crazy herself, while Adrian Boseman and Liz Reddick-Lawrence struggle with a new post-factual world where the lawyer who tells the best story triumphs over the lawyer with the best facts. Meanwhile, Lucca Quinn balances a new baby with a new love, and Maia Rindell finds a new Mephistopheles in Roland Blum, a lawyer who is corruption incarnate.
20) Respect
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following the rise of Aretha Franklin's career from a child singing in her father's church's choir to her international superstardom, 'Respect' is the remarkable true story of the music icon's journey to find her voice.
