Shirley Burns

ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.

Jeff, aka Mr. Pickles, is an icon of children's TV. But when his family begins to implode, Jeff finds no fairy tale or fable or puppet will guide him through this crisis, which advances faster than his means to cope. The result: a kind man in a cruel world faces a slow leak of sanity as hilarious as it is heartbreaking.

When Claude Mallard, an agoraphobic woman, is at risk of losing her home to eminent domain, she turns to Ray, her live-in life size mechanical human, and Norman Kim, the neighborhood grocer...  »