Linda Hunt
Author
Language
English
Description
The death of a child immerses parents into a life-long challenge of living with one of life's most heartbreaking losses. Pilgrimage through Loss tells the story of one family's journey, along with interviews from thirty other mothers and fathers who add their voices to the silences that often surround suffering in our 'mourning-avoidant' culture. Hunt illuminates the varied pathways parents eventually discover that open their lives to strength and...
3) Bold Spirit
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant named Helga Estby dares to cross 3500 miles of the American continent to win a $10,000 wager. On foot. A mother of eight living children, she attempts to save her family's homestead in Eastern Washington after the 1893 depression had ravaged the American economy.
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight named Helga Estby was behind on taxes and the mortgage when she learned that a mysterious sponsor would pay $10,000 to a woman who walked across America. Hoping to save her family's farm, Helga and her teenaged daughter Clara, armed with little more than a compass, red-pepper spray, a revolver, and Clara's curling iron, set out on foot from Eastern Washington. Their route would pass through 14 states,...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Follows the high-stakes world of the Office of Special Projects (OSP), a division of NCIS that is charged with apprehending dangerous and elusive criminals that pose a threat to the nation's security. By assuming false identities and utilizing the most advanced technology, this team of highly trained agents goes deep undercover, putting their lives on the line in the field to bring down their targets.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
When Coast Guard commander Frank Beardsley bumps into his old high school flame Helen North, sparks fly again, and the two quickly marry. Complications arrive when it comes time to merge their two families. Frank has 8 kids and Helen has 10 kids. With Frank looking to keep tight military control over the brood, and Helen preferring her loving, hippy-like ways of encouragement, the two struggle to maintain a family and home where the kids don't like...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The twelth season finds Callen and Sam continuing to take on dangerous, vital cases with international ties while working to find balance as they each try to maintain new and blossoming relationships. Also, Hetty finds a cryptic way to lure Nell back to NCIS, and Deeks and Kensi will take the big step of looking to purchase their first home as they continue to try to have a baby, which may need to take a backseat when Deeks finds himself sidelined...
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In the final season of NCIS: LOS ANGELES, amidst the happy news about Callen and Anna's engagement, Hetty Lange is still on a dangerous mission and will need the help of the NCIS team to save her. The NCIS team must also focus on dangers both at home and abroad, with a bombing at a military combat drone facility and shocking news about the fighting overseas. The six-Disc collection includes every thrilling episode, along with exclusive special features...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Spies. Terrorists. Arms dealers. For Special Agents ₃G₄ Callen, Sam Hanna, and the rest of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, it₂s just another day in paradise. But there₂s no time to lounge when the biggest cases of their careers come calling, whether it₂s local crises like the murder of a Naval lieutenant or the theft of a drone prototype, or international affairs like an impending missile attack in the Middle East.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The high-stakes world of the Los Angeles division of NCIS is charged with apprehending dangerous and elusive criminals that pose a threat to the nation's security. By assuming false identities and utilizing the most advanced technology, the team of highly trained agents goes deep undercover, putting their lives on the line in the field to bring down their targets.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The high-stakes world of the Los Angeles division of NCIS is charged with apprehending dangerous and elusive criminals that pose a threat to the nation's security. By assuming false identities and utilizing the most advanced technology, the team of highly trained agents goes deep undercover, putting their lives on the line in the field to bring down their targets. Contains all 24 action-packed third season episodes, plus commentary and featurettes....
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The action and suspense ramp up for Special Agents "G" Callen, Sam Hanna, and their elite team of operatives. Big changes are on deck for LA's homeland heroes as Special Agent Kensi Blye and LAPD liaison Marty Deeks tie the knot, tech geniuses Eric and Nell contemplate their futures, and Hetty's mysterious disappearance ends. This season also has the team protecting a Saudi prince, becoming the target of a vicious cartel, and joining with the FBI...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
NCIS: LOS ANGELES is a drama about the high stakes world of the Office of Special Projects (OSP), a division of NCIS that is charged with apprehending dangerous and elusive criminals that pose a threat to the nation's security. By assuming false identities and utilizing the most advanced technology, this team of highly trained agents goes deep undercover, putting their lives on the line in the field to bring down their targets.
Series
Language
English
Description
"'Auschwitz: inside the Nazi state' is the result of three years of research, drawing on the close involvement of world experts, recently discovered documents and nearly 100 interviews with camp survivors and perpetrators, many of whom are speaking on the record for the first time. Their stories are brought to life through the innovative use of archive footage, dramatic recreations of key ... moments, and their ... testimony"--Container label.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Harold Crick - IRS auditor, milquetoast, and poster child for obsessive-compulsive disorder - wakes one morning to hear a woman's voice in his bathroom, narrating his life as he is living it, subsequently announcing his imminent death. This is a big problem, since Harold has a burning crush on Ana, his latest audit case. Searching for the source of the voice, he turns to literary theory-spewing professor Jules Hilburt, who eventually discovers that...
17) She-Devil
Pub. Date
1989, 2015.
Language
English
Description
Ruth is a wife and a mother who tries to please her husband. When he has an affair, she wants revenge.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Team leader Special Agent 'G' Callen and his partner Sam Hanna are chameleons who have mastered the art of undercover operations. Special Agent Kensi Blye, LAPD liaison Marty Deeks, NCIS Assistant Director Owen Granger, and Operations Manager Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange, even Ops experts Eric and Nell get in on the action as the team works to stop a mastermind from bombing a train, solves a top-secret vaccine-related murder, and embarks on a rescue mission...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Shocking arrests, a spy inside the department, and a compromised secret mission in Syria change the game for everyone. In this 23 episode, six-disc collection, L.A.'s most elite squad proves their mettle time and again as they navigate humanity's deadliest threats, both domestically and abroad.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After suffering heartbreaking losses, Agents "G" Callen, Sam Hanna, and crew are ready to go where America needs them. They're prepped for every threat and any risk, as long as they have their courageous crew intact - Special Agent Kensi Blye and LAPD liason Marty Deeks put their lives on the line in the field, while tech experts Eric Beale and Nell Jones work their intel magic mainly from headquarters. The unit's commitment to our country is matched...