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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly inherits a failing business; one man ruthlessly protects...
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1761, German Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz marries King George III, and in her new role, she navigates the intricate politics of the court while guarding her heart as she fights for herself, her husband, and for all her new subjects who look to her for guidance and grace.
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"--
Author
Series
Secret projects volume 2
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Tor edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 366 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A man awakes in a clearing in what appears to be medieval England with no memory of who he is, where he came from, or why he is there. Chased by a group from his own time, his sole hope for survival lies in regaining his missing memories, making allies among the locals, and perhaps even trusting in their superstitious boasts. His only help from the "real world" should have been a guidebook entitled The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval...
6) 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
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From The Lady's Guide to Swampshire, Volume 1: Acceptable topics of conversation: The weather, hats. Unacceptable topics of conversation: Gossip, France, missing person cases. Feisty, passionate Beatrice Steele has never fit the definition of a true lady, according to the strict code of conduct that reigns in Swampshire, her small English township--she is terrible at needlework, has no musical ability, and her artwork is so bad it frightens people....
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Series
Publisher
Timbuktu Labs
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
128 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Growing up in nineteenth century London, England, Ada is curious about absolutely everything. She is obsessed with machines and with creatures that fly. She even designs her own flying laboratory! According to her mother, Ada is a bit too wild, so she encourages Ada to study math. At first Ada thinks: Bleh! Who can get excited about a subject without pictures? But she soon falls in love with it. One day she encounters a mysterious machine, and from...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (585 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ambitious and acclaimed series from The Queen writer Peter Morgan offers a comprehensive look at the adult life and reign of Elizabeth II over a projected six-season arc. The fifth season follows Elizabeth from the early to late '90s, as the fraying union of Charles and Diana ultimately came to separation, and John Major saw his tenure as prime minister end with the election of Tony Blair.
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.
12) 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
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"East Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer, and servant, has lived peacefully for more than four decades in her beloved seaside village of Cleftwater. Having lost her voice as a child, Martha has not spoken a word in years. One autumn morning, a sinister newcomer appears in town. The witchfinder, Silas Makepeace, has been blazing a trail of destruction along the coast, and now has Cleftwater in his sights. His arrival strikes fear into...
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
Publisher
Harmony
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
287 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Diagnosed with autism at the age of thirty-four, one of the UK's hottest comedy stars reflects on the ways her undiagnosed autism influenced her youth, from the tree that functioned as her childhood best friend to the psychiatric facility where she ended up when no one knew what to do with her.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
v, 517 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This book is a sweeping transatlantic history of Puritanism from its emergence out of the religious tumult of Elizabethan England to its founding role in the story of America. Shedding critical new light on the diverse forms of Puritan belief and practice in England, Scotland, and New England, David Hall provides a multifaceted account of a cultural movement that judged the Protestant reforms of Elizabeth's reign to be unfinished. Hall's vivid and...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this much anticipated memoir, the man who wrote the lyrics for Elton John-and half of one of the greatest creative partnerships in popular music-shares, for the first time, his own account of their adventures, transporting readers across the decades and around the world.
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?...
20) A grave robbery
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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"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...