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Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
678 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A history of England from the Norman Conquest through the twentieth century, told through the stories of ordinary women"--
2) Gilded youth: a history of growing up in the royal family: from the Plantagenets to the Cambridges
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 277 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This look at growing up in the British royal family over the centuries looks beyond their often carefully depicted lives to show the more complex truth behind their eccentric upbringings.
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows a young Englishman as he joins the military to fight in the Korean War.
The sequel to Hope and glory, Bill Rohan is grown up and drafted into the army where he and his best mate battle their snooty superiors on the base and look for love in town.
4) Henry henry
Author
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
350 pages 23 cm
Language
English
Description
his mother is dead, his father is dying or remarrying or both, his siblings are fighting, his internship is pointless, and nobody will leave him alone. Â Everything is as it should be and yet nothing is right. Over the course of a year of partying, drinking, and flirting to dubious consequence, Hal is tested by brutal family legacies, Catholic guilt, and the terrifying possibility of being loved. All of which is complicated by a pattern of abuse that...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this exciting companion book to the epic The Last Kingdom series, three exclusive short stories introduce the iconic Uhtred of Babbanburgm the Saxon-born, Norse-raised warrior and rebel, immersing readers in Anglo-Saxon life in all its splendor, danger and beauty.
Author
Series
Young Sherlock Holmes volume 6
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Teen Sherlock battles a monstrous adversary on a mission to Ireland with his brilliant brother, Mycroft. Young Sherlock is thrown into a tangled web involving a spiritualist whose powers have attracted the attention of governments around the world. At the castle where the medium is demonstrating his "gift," Sherlock finds a household in turmoil. Servants and some of the guests are frightened but who--or what?--has terrified them so much that nobody...
Author
Series
Young Sherlock Holmes volume 5
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped and taken to China, teenage Sherlock finds himself plunged into the heart of a deadly mystery. How can three men be bitten by the same poisonous snake in different parts of Shanghai? Who wants them dead, and why? The answers seem to lie in a message hidden in a diagram that looks like a spider's web. But solving one puzzle only leads to an even more urgent question: What has all this got to do with a plot to blow up an American warship?...
Author
Series
A Veronica Speedwell mystery volume 9
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"Lord Rosemorran has purchased a wax figure of a beautiful reclining woman and asks Stoker to incorporate a clockwork mechanism to give the Rosemorran Collection its own Sleeping Beauty in the style of Madame Tussaud's. But when Stoker goes to cut the mannequin open to insert the mechanism, he makes a gruesome discovery: this is no wax figure. The mannequin is the beautifully preserved body of a young woman who was once very much alive. But who would...
Publisher
UK Film Council
Pub. Date
�2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The King's Speech" presents a sideways glance at a crucial period in 20th-century history--as the monumentally awkward Prince Albert, or Bertie, becomes King George VI unexpectedly in 1936 when his older brother Edward VIII abdicates to marry American divorc�ee Wallis Simpson. In imperial Britain between the wars, that was problem enough, but Bertie suffered from a chronic stammer that made his public appearances painful for everyone. In an age...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A popular author in 1932 is commissioned to write a history of food in England to lift the spirits of the country during the Great Depression and finds herself interviewing housewives for hidden culinary gems.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (246 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The Crawleys and their staff's adventures continue in two spectacular motion pictures, with a royal visit from the King and Queen of England, the filming of a new silent movie at Downton, and a journey to the south of France. Written by series creator Julian Fellowes and starring the original cast, these grand cinematic experiences will have you cheering for your favorite characters all over again."--Container.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xxx, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed, first-hand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Charles Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding system. Drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well as his own letters and diaries from the time, he reflects on the hopelessness and abandonment he felt at aged eight, viscerally describing the intense pain of homesickness...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Mrs. Jeffries must help Inspector Witherspoon crack a new case and catch a killer in this next installment of the beloved Victorian Mystery series. Successful businessman Jeremy Marks wasn't highly regarded by any of the members of the West London Archery Club. Most of them considered him a buffoon and a bore. But everyone was stunned when the fellow was murdered during a lull in the club's annual archery competition. He'd been shot with arrows from...
Author
Series
Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In order to introduce herself to the picturesque English village where she has just retired, Mrs. Agatha Raisin enters a quiche in a local competition and promptly finds herself a murder suspect when the judge dies from her poisonous pie.
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
159 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"You vs the World: The Bear Grylls Guide to Never Giving Up retells Bear Grylls' most extreme adventures in a kid-friendly way. He shares the life lessons he's learned along the way, and how the skills needed to survive in the wild can be used in everyday life. From finding confidence to bouncing back from failure, Bear gives children the tools they need to survive and thrive in their own lives"--
Author
Series
Enola Holmes mystery volume 9
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition
Physical Desc
296 pages : 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Enola Holmes, now independent and pursuing her profession as a scientific perditorian, joins forces with her brother Sherlock to solve the mysterious disappearance of Wolcott Balestier, a friend of Rudyard Kipling, as they uncover the ruthless world of book publishing and seek to bring him back safely.
Author
Series
Publisher
Baker Pub Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
384 p.
Language
English
Description
"Zivon Marin was one of Russia's top cryptographers until the October Revolution tore apart his world. Forced to flee to England after speaking out against Lenin, Zivon is driven by a growing anger and determined to offer his services to the Brits. But never far from his mind is his brother, whom Zivon fears died in the train crash that separated them. Lily Blackwell sees the world best through the lens of a camera and possesses unsurpassed skill...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's Spring 1940 and with Europe at war, the community in Darrowby are pulling together more than ever before. With Tristan away serving, Siegfried and James bring in some extra hands to help around the practice: highly efficient bookkeeper Miss Harbottle, and student vet Richard Carmody.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
xxi, 327 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery. Cloistered takes the reader deep into the hidden world of a traditional Carmelite monastery as it approaches the third Millennium and tells the story of an intense personal journey into and out of an enclosed life of poverty, chastity, and obedience. Finding an apparently perfect world at Akenside Priory, in Northumberland, Catherine trusts herself to a group of twenty...