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Ever since she was a young girl, Melinda Gordon has been able to see and talk to dead people. Earth-bound spirits who have yet to cross over to the other side seek her help in communicating and resolving unfinished business with the living. " ... Hewitt created a likable, well-rounded character in Melinda Gordon ... *** Recommended"--Video Librarian.

"In this film based on Sidney Kingsley's Pulitzer Prize -winning play, Gable portrays Dr. George Ferguson, an intern involved with the spoiled, headstrong heiress (Myrna Loy) he loves and the sweet, gentle nurse who loves him. But when sudden tragedy strikes, Dr Ferguson discovers his greatest devotion is to his patients, his brilliant mentor - and his calling as a man of medicine."--Container insert

Jill Kinmont was paralyzed in a skiing accident while competing in an Olympic race. Jill returns to her childhood home where she fights off the memories of her ill-fated past and is reintroduced to the power of love by a sensitive trucker. Their unusual courtship and marriage is a true love story for everyone who believes in happy endings.

In 1991 the murder trial of Betty Broderick captured the nation's attention. After her picture-perfect marriage fell apart, Broderick killed her ex-husband and his new wife in a fit of rage. Was she an emotionally battered wife, or a cold-blooded killer?

The Hucksters (1947) is a considerably sanitized version of the best-selling novel by Frederic Wakeman. Directed by Jack Conway, the film is a slick but still powerful, and at times darkly funny, indictment of the seamy side of advertising, radio, and big business. Clark Gable plays a World War II veteran who gets a job in advertising, and finds that his work requires him to often abandon his principles. Deborah Kerr, in her American film debut, plays...

Two teenage girls travel across the U.S. in 1962, during the chaos of the Cuban missile crisis, in search of Eleanor Roosevelt.

Stella and Dot have been together for 31 years and have faithfully accompanied one another through life's ups and downs. Now in their seventies, Stella is hard of hearing and Dot is legally blind. Dotty's prudish granddaughter, Molly, decides the best place for Dot is a nursing home that will provide all the necessities. This forces Stella and Dot to make a bold decision: they will leave their hometown in Maine and make their way to Canada, where...

After twenty-five years together, the members of a world-renowned string quartet learn that their beloved cellist may soon be forced to retire. Competing egos, harbored resentment, and irrepressible lust threaten to derail the group as they struggle to maintain harmony in their music and their lives.

Desperate to escape both a world she never wanted to be part of and the man who turned her into a werewolf, Elena abandons her pack and takes refuge in a new city, starting over with a hot new romance and a successful photography career. But when bodies turn up in the werewolf sanctuary, Elena is torn between the life she's building and the wild and dangerously unpredictable one she thought she left behind.

A fiercely independent woman is gang raped, then battles the legal system twice, going after both her attackers and the onlookers whose cheering fueled and encouraged the assault.