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"For almost a decade, Claudia has counseled patients at Mercy Street, an embattled clinic in the heart of the city. The work is consuming, the unending dramas of women in crisis. For its patients, Mercy Street offers more than health care; for many, it is a second chance. But outside the clinic, the reality is different. Anonymous threats are frequent. A small, determined group of anti-abortion demonstrators appears each morning at its door. As the...
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Mercy Street volume 2
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Confederate belle Emma nurses her wounded friend. Dr. Foster wrestles with his marriage and career.
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Mercy Street volume 3
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Dr. Foster operates on his brother, a Confederate soldier. Alice realizes the depth of Tom's trauma.
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Mercy Street volume 4
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The Green girls plot to help Tom escape. Dr. Foster guides Samuel through a delicate operation.
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Mercy Street volume 1
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New England nurse Mary Phinney navigates her first day in a Union hospital in an occupied Southern town.
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Mercy Street volume 5
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The unexpected visit of a hospital inspector throws the staff into disarray.
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Mercy Street volume 6
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President Lincoln's visit sets in motion a rebel plot and offers an opportunity to free James Sr.
8) Mercy Street
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Inspired by real events, Mercy Street journeys beyond the battlefield and into the lives of a distinctive cast of characters -- doctors, nurses, contraband laborers and Southern loyalists -- realizing the chaotic world of Union-occupied Alexandria, Virginia and the Mansion House Hospital in the early years of the Civil War.
9) Mercy Street
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HELP FOR ALL-RUNNERS, CHUMMERS, AND DREGS...
Nestled in one of the worst parts of Seattle is a place where anyone can go to get patched up, no questions asked. They call it Mercy Street and it's a practically free clinic run by a drunk old troll named Shimura, who's seen a lot in his years.
When a decker named Lockdown Paradox shows up bleeding on his doorstep, it's just an average Tuesday, but when corporate stooges looking for her show up and...
10) Mercy Street: S2
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Inspired by real events, Mercy Street journeys beyond the battlefield and into the lives of a distinctive cast of characters — doctors, nurses, contraband laborers and Southern loyalists — realizing the chaotic world of Union-occupied Alexandria, Virginia and the Mansion House Hospital in the early years of the Civil War.
11) Mercy Street: S1
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Inspired by real events, Mercy Street journeys beyond the battlefield and into the lives of a distinctive cast of characters — doctors, nurses, contraband laborers and Southern loyalists — realizing the chaotic world of Union-occupied Alexandria, Virginia and the Mansion House Hospital in the early years of the Civil War.
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Alexandria, Virginia, 1862. Mary Phinney, a staunch New England abolitionist, and Emma Green, a naive 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 of 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,...
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Season two picks up directly from the dramatic events and the end of the season one finale, continuing to explore the growing chaos within Alexandria, the complicated interpersonal dynamics of Dr. Foster, Nurse Mary and the Mansion House staff, the increasingly precarious position of the Green family and the changing predicament of the burgeoning black population.
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A look at the lives of the real nurses depicted in the PBS show Mercy Street. Heroines of Mercy Street tells the true stories of the nurses at Mansion House, the Alexandria, Virginia, mansion turned war-time hospital and setting for the PBS drama Mercy Street. Among the Union soldiers, doctors, wounded men from both sides, freed slaves, politicians, speculators, and spies who passed through the hospital in the crossroads of the Civil War, were nurses...
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A look at the lives of the real nurses depicted in the PBS show Mercy Street and their Civil War struggles. Heroines of Mercy Street tells the true stories of the nurses at the Mansion House of Alexandria, Virginia, a mansion turned war-time hospital and setting for the new PBS drama Mercy Street. Among the Union soldiers, doctors, wounded men from both sides, freed slaves, politicians, speculators, and spies who passed through the hospital in the...
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The true stories of the real nurses on the PBS show Mercy Street The nurses of the Civil War ushered in a new era for medicine in the midst of tremendous hardship. While the country was at war, these women not only learned to advocate and care for patients in hostile settings, saved countless lives, and changed the profession forever, they regularly fell ill with no one to nurse them in return, seethed in anger at the indifference and inefficiency...
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A socioeconomic viewpoint from a street survivor, in the San Francisco North Bay, where the greatest amount of disparity between economic classes exists in America. Struggling to survive without shelter, we chronicle the continuing journey through homelessness. The issue is taken to the political level and the experience becomes written works as Fast Eddie still searches for mercy and home.
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Mercy Street Foundation novels volume 1
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On a balmy spring evening, four high school seniors enter a park in the small Pennsylvania city of Conroy. The next morning, two of the boys are found dead, and the other two have disappeared. Authorities conclude that one of the missing kids killed the others, but the missing boy's grandmother enlists the help of the parish priest, Kevin Burch. Father Burch in turn calls in former detective Mallory Russo to help police detective Charlie Wanamaker...
19) Mercy Street
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It takes viewers beyond the battlefield and into the lives of Americans on the Civil War home front as they face challenges of one of the most turbulent times in our nation's history. This series is about the drama and unexpected humor of everyday life behind the front lines. It's a fresh twist on an iconic story, one that resonates with larger themes we still struggle with today.
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Degrassi The Next Generation volume 4
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Feeling ignored on Student Council, Emma finds a way to get her voice heard when she takes up a new cause - ganging up with the cool kids to keep Terri's abusive ex-boyfriend Rick, out of Degrassi.
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