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1) Coming home
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A sad, poignant love story set against the social upheaval of the Vietnam war. Set in 1968, the story concerns a woman who, while her husband is serving in Vietnam, falls in love with a paraplegic while performing volunteer work at a San Diego veterans hospital.
2) In harmony
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After an equestrian stuntman is seriously injured in an accident, he meets the insurance worker in charge of his case and their interactions change each other's lives.
Author
Description
"An injured ex-athlete discovers that giving up on the game of life is not an option... As far as former NFL star Jake Masters is concerned, dreams are risky propositions. Years ago he came achingly close to achieving his ambition of playing in the Super Bowl--before a spinal injury ended his career. Confined to a wheelchair, unwilling to take a chance on another risky surgery that could restore his mobility, Jake now stays cocooned behind the imposing...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 25 cm
Description
The last place Private First Class Cameron Harris ever walked was in a field somewhere in Afghanistan. Four years later, on a hot August afternoon, Cameron suddenly and inexplicably stands up. In the aftermath of this "miracle," Cameron finds himself a celebrity at the centre of a contentious debate about what's taken place. And when scientists, journalists, and a representative from the Vatican start digging, Cameron's deepest secrets are endangered....
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Haughty nightclub singer Gloria Lyons doesn't have time for the little people, including Little Pinks, the busboy who adores her. Then Gloria is paralyzed when a mobster knocks her down the stairs, and those little people are the only ones who help her.
7) Passion fish
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After an auto accident leaves her paralyzed, ex-soap opera star May-Alice Culhane returns to her now-empty family home in the bayous of Louisiana where she proceeds to drive away a succession of nurses-- until Chantelle. May-Alice and Chantelle form an unlikely friendship, and explore the bayou, as well as the murkier aspects of men, romance, and family.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged)
Description
Hola, soy Gonzalo y os voy a contar una historia muy especial. Papá, mamá y yo somos compañeros inseparables. Si abres las páginas de este libro verás cómo es nuestro día a día, vivirás con nosotros increíbles aventuras en paracaídas y nos acompañarás en algunos de nuestros viajes más memorables. Y sabrás por qué nos llamamos "la familia que no se rindió jamás".
10) Aaltra
Series
Film Movement volume 4, film 3
Publisher
Distributed by RB Media
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Description
Rural neighbors who hate each other come to blows one day on a farm and get tangled up in a farm tractor, leaving them both paralyzed, wheelchair-bound, and simmering with spite. But rather than feel sorry for themselves, the embittered paraplegics decide to seek revenge against the tractor's manufacturer. They take to the road, redirecting their frustrations with their plights towards the people they meet on the way to Helsinki
Author
Publisher
Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xvi, 252 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"The Paralympic gold-medalist, world champion swimmer, ESPY winner, and NBC Sports commentator uses her extraordinary story to equip others to meet whatever challenges they face in life"--
12) Avatar
Formats
Description
Jake Sully is a former Marine confined to a wheelchair. But despite his broken body, Jake is still a warrior at heart. He is recruited to travel light years to the human outpost on Pandora, where a corporate consortium is mining a rare mineral that is the key to solving Earth's energy crisis. He is given a mission to infiltrate the Na'vi, who have become a major obstacle to mining the precious ore. But a beautiful Na'vi female, Neytiri, saves Jake's...
Author
Formats
Description
"From disability advocate with a PhD in disability studies and creative nonfiction, and creator of the Instagram account @ sitting pretty, an essay collection based on a lifetime of experiences in a paralyzed body, tackling themes of identity, accessibility, bodies, and representation"--
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
viii, 324 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"A decade ago, Special Forces warrior Jason Morgan parachuted into the Central American jungle on an anti-narcotics raid. He?d served with the famous Night Stalkers on countless such missions. This one turned out very different. Months later, he regained consciousness in a US military hospital, with no memory of how he?d gotten there. The first words he heard were from his surgeon telling him he would never walk again. The determined soldier responded:...
Series
Criterion collection volume 705
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (159 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
Paralyzed from an accident, an oil rig worker returns to his wife in a small religious community and urges her to have sex with another man.
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