John Curran
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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...
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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...
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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Secret Notebooks featuring more insight into Christie's captivating life story and a new windfall of Christie's unpublished work-including letters, archival papers, and a keenly incisive analysis of Christie's last, unfinished novel.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...
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English
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Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks is the fascinating exploration of the contents of Agatha Christie's long hidden notebooks, including illustrations, analyses, and two previously unpublished Hercule Poirot short stories. Not only will Christie's legions of ardent fans find a treasure chest of new material from the author of such classics as And Then There Were None, Murder on the Orient Express, and Death on the Nile, but Agatha Christie's Secret...
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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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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
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English
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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...
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
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English
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Jack and Terry. Hank and Edith. They're two married couples and best friends with much in common. Jack and Hank are professors at Cedar County College. Terry and Edith are both stay-at-home moms. What will split them apart is that Jack and Edith are secret lovers. The interlocked foursome go into uncharted realms of anger, confrontation and lust - and making decisions that may or may not let love slip away.
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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...
9) Peekskill
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English
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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,...
10) Tracks
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Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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In 1977, Robyn Davidson travels from Alice Springs across 2,700 kilometres (1,700 miles) of Australian deserts to the Indian Ocean with her dog and four camels. National Geographic photographer Rick Smolan documents her journey.
11) Chappaquiddick
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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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.
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English
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Jack and Terry. Hank and Edith. They're married couples and best friends with much in common. Jack and Hank are professors at Cedar County College. Terry and Edith are stay-at-home moms. And Jack and Edith are secret lovers. Based on stories by Andre Dubus (In the Bedroom was also from one of his stories), this fearless exploration of marriages on the edge won the Sundance Film Festival's top screenwriting award for Larry Gross. Mark Ruffalo, Laura...
14) The Dark Red
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English
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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.
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