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Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 700 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The fifth season of Outlander sees a continuation of Claire and Jamie's fight to protect those they love, as they navigate the trials and tribulations of life in colonial America. The Frasers strive to flourish within a society which is unwittingly marching towards Revolution, and Jamie must now defend the home they have built together at Fraser's Ridge while Claire seeks to put her own skills and medical expertise to use in keeping her family together...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
47 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A story of a nineteen-year-old woman who disguised herself as a man to avoid an unwanted marriage and who distinguished herself as a male nurse during the Civil War, and later as a spy for the Union Army.
404) Black paradox
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Four people intent on killing themselves meet through the suicide website Black Paradox: Maruso, a nurse who despairs about the future; Taburo, a man who is tortured by his doppelganger; Pii-tan, an engineer with his own robot clone; and Baracchi, a woman who agonizes about the birthmark on her face. They wander together in search of the perfect death, fatefully opening a door that leads them to a rather bizarre destiny ..."--
406) Tomorrow to be brave
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First Free Press edition.
Physical Desc
287 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"From the top experts on healthcare workforce engagement comes the vital road map to reduce the alarmingly high-and fast-growing-rate of staff burnout and to transform care. More than half of U.S. physicians and 40 percent of nurses experience one or more symptoms of burnout. This crisis poses a serious threat to our health systems, impacting not only the well-being of the caregiving workforce but also that of patients. Written by a team of thought...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (528 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Establishing a home in the New World is by no means an easy task, particularly in the wild backcountry of North Carolina during a period of dramatic political upheaval. The Frasers strive to flourish within a society which, as Claire knows all too well, is unwittingly marching towards Revolution. Jamie must now defend this home established on land granted to him by the Crown although this new mantle of responsibility sees him pitted against his godfather,...
409) South Pacific
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 157 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young American nurse from Little Rock meets the handsome and mysterious French planter on a South Pacific island during World War II. Seeking respite from the battles around them, they find refuge in each other as their romance blooms in the lush tropical paradise.
410) Persona
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs + 1 Blu-ray (83 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (55 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm).
Language
Swedish
Description
An actress has inexplicably gone mute; a young nurse cares for her in a remote island cottage. While isolated together there, the women perform a mysterious spiritual and emotional transference that would prove to be one of cinema's most influential ideas.
Author
Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
xx, 267 pages : photographs ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"On August 14, 1945, Alfred Eisenstaedt took a picture of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square, minutes after they heard of Japan's surrender to the United States. Two weeks later LIFE magazine published that image. It became one of the most famous WWII photographs in history (and the most celebrated photograph ever published in the world's dominant photo-journal), a cherished reminder of what it felt like for the war to finally be over. Everyone...
413) A girl named Rose
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
271 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (591 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This drama follows Sarah Adams, a nurse returning to 1950s Australia after twenty years in Europe. A convert to Judaism, Sarah emerged from the horrors of World War II strong, principled, and defiant--a modern woman still bearing the weight of her past.
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
8 DVDs (approximately 1,140 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The cherry orchard: Madame Ranevskaya returns to her decaying estate in pre-Revolutionary Russia after an exile in Paris. The estate and its beloved cherry orchard are threatened by Ranevskaya's financial problems, and no one seems able to do anything about it.
Talking to a stranger: A grown-up brother and sister go home to visit their elderly parents, but a series of emotional developments lead to shocking resolutions. Consists of four episodes,...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 360 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Alexandria, Virginia, 1862. Mary Phinney, a staunch New England abolitionist, and Emma Green, a native Confederate belle, collide at Mansion House, the Green family's luxury hotel that has been transformed into a Union Army hospital. Ruled under martial law, the border town in Alexandria is now the melting pot of the region, filled with soldiers, civilians, female volunteers, doctors, wounded men from both sides, runaway slaves, prostitutes, speculators,...
417) Churchill's secret
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It is the summer of 1953 and Nurse Appleyard is rushed to a secret location where she discovers her patient is Winston Churchill, the elderly Prime Minister. Churchill has suffered a stroke and may not last the weekend. As Churchill's wife and family gather at his bedside, long-buried tensions rise to the surface.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 646 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A profile of the iconic Victorian social reformer evaluates her scandalous decision to break with the conventions of her privileged class to work as a nurse, the myths surrounding her, and the controversial nature of her achievements.
419) Clara Barton
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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420) Clara Barton
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea Juniors
Pub. Date
[i.e. 1991]
Physical Desc
79 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of the nurse who served on the battlefields of the Civil War and later founded the American Red Cross.
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