Anna Smith
Author
Language
English
Description
This book is on long life and on long marriages. Looking at family and friends who emphasize building relations of hope, care, and friendship over time. Life and fruitfulness are a blessing and gifts of God. This book is a look too at marriage in America.
Anna Smith is a retired social worker who gave thirty-one years of service in Child Welfare Service. She spent her last working years in Adult Protective Services. She and Aaron A. Smith, PhD are...
Author
Language
English
Description
With a good dose of spiritual insight, parenting advice, and wry humor, Anna Smith chronicles her life as wife of the lead singer of Delirious?, the history-making band that launched the modern-day worship movement. A feast of behind-the-scenes insights about life as an international celebrity, this book is also a profound look at one family's quest to foster a rich spiritual life and care for others while living well in a consumption-driven world....
Author
Language
English
Description
Bored? Looking for some entertainment? Dive into these ten short stories, featuring: -An actor finding his dreams coming to life -A painter who gives up a successful career to start a business of a different kind -An explosion of color disrupting a quiet morning in a suburb And many more!
Author
Language
English
Description
Bored? Looking for some entertainment? Dive into these ten short stories, featuring: -A mechanic deciding whether or not to follow her mother's legacy of music -A fashion designer racing to leave her mark before her clock runs out-An android contemplating art And many more!
Author
Publisher
Canterbury University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (356 pages)
Language
English
Description
Four Wellington university students, Meg, Henry, Steph and Diana, are thrown together in the broad sphere of leftist politics, love and betrayal. Set in the 1970s. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
Compiled from dozens of interviews conducted by the author, Anna Deavere Smith's Let Me Down Easy is a bracing, tender, melancholy, and triumphant exploration of death and dying. The speakers Smith inhabits include healthcare professionals, theologians, artists, athletes, and activists. They speak of the body as a battleground, a tool, a weapon, a joy, a burden. Smith's great gift has always been her ability to break down her subjects' defenses and...
Author
Series
Poetry in America volume 9
Language
English
Description
"To Prisoners" by Gwendolyn Brooks, featuring Anna Deveare Smith, John McCain, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Li-Young Lee, and Innocence Project Exonerees
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 online resource (243 p.)
Language
English
Description
"To Hanako Shimoda, recently divorced, Luciano Pavarotti is a god. To her daughter, Emily, this fixation on Pavarotti is a harmless fantasy, the byproduct of loneliness. Meeting Luciano is the story of what happens when Hanako acts on her fantasy and invites opera star Pavarotti to dinner in their Westchester County home. Emily, with no real career plan, has gone back after college to work at her old summer job - waiting tables at the local Japanese...
10) Blood feud
Author
Series
Kerry Casey novels volume 1
Publisher
Quercus Editions Ltd
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
486 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"They came for her family. Now she's coming for them. This nail-biting thriller introduces Glasgow's newest gangland mistress, Kerry Casey - a gripping read perfect for fans of Martina Cole and Kimberley Chambers. Kerry Casey thought she'd made a life away from the dirty dealings of her gangster family. Her father wanted to make them legit - her brother Mickey had other ideas, and now it's got him killed. When Mickey's funeral turns into a bloodbath...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (333 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jackie Peyton is a sharp-tongued and quick-witted nurse who is trying to survive the chaotic grind of saving lives in a hectic New York City hospital. Jackie's a woman of substance who knows how to handle it all. With a white lie here, a bent rule there, and a steady dose of pain relievers for her chronic back pain, Jackie does whatever it takes to get the job done.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In popular culture, one type of love - passionate sexual romance - is prized above all. But there are many kinds of love that give shape and meaning to life. Explore real love stories of marriage, parents and children, romance, brotherly love, altruism, divine love, love of community, even the love of war.
Publisher
Lions Gate
Pub. Date
©2014
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (280 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The show returns for a fifth season. After leaving rehab early, Jackie finds sobriety and relative happiness, but that is the calm before the storm. With her marriage coming to an end, a careless accident sends Jackie to her own all Saints Hospital for emergency care. While recovering, she meets NYC policeman Frank Verelli, whose flirtatious advances may lead Jackie into uncharted territory: dating.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In and out of rehab for the past 10 years, Kym Buchman returns to the family home for the wedding of her sister Rachel. She brings with her a long history of personal crisis and family conflict. The wedding party, friends and relatives have gathered for an idyllic weekend of feasting, music and love, but Kym's passion for the dramatic incites tension in the family.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (280 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jackie Peyton, a strong-willed and brilliant but very flawed emergency room nurse. This season, Jackie comes to realize that both karma and sobriety can be a pain. In addition to finally confronting her addiction, Jackie's street smarts and sardonic wit are tested even further by an ambitious new hospital administrator determined to run a tight ship and keep Jackie in line.
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen presentation.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (334 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jackie's best friend and husband put the pieces together about her pill-popping ways and confront her about her addiction. But if the people in her life think one little intervention is going to stop her, they don't know Jackie. The great white liar returns for another hilarious season of 12 episodes.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (954 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The President and staff have been targeted for disruption by rival politicians, soon after being targeted by would-be assassins. The President heads through midterm elections and into a crisis that leads to allegations of criminal conduct. 22 episodes.