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Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
210 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
With Christmas just around the corner, Thomas Pitt's sister-in-law, Emily Radley, is suddenly called from London to be with her dying aunt. Leaving her husband and two children behind, she makes the long journey to her aunt's home in Connemara, an all-but-forgotten town on the coast of Western Ireland. Emily soon discovers that a tragic legacy is haunting the once close-knit community. Violent storms ravage the coast and keep alive painful memories...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Original UK edition.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (525 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
1922. Six months after Matthew's tragic death, his loss is still felt throughout Downton Abbey. Mary struggles to face a new future with her fatherless child, and is encouraged by the family to pick up the pieces. Accepting a new role on the estate, the now-eligible Mary also finds herself the reluctant object of attention from a number of eager suitors. With the twenties in full swing and the tides of change sweeping through Downton, Rose's continued...
65) Jane Eyre
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the story of an orphaned young English woman who accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall, a country estate owned by the mysteriously remote Mr. Rochester.
Author
Series
The Saxon tales volume 10
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Language
English
Description
With Britain in an uneasy state of peace, Uhtred of Bebbanburg at last has the chance to take back the home his traitorous uncle stole from him so many years ago -- and which his scheming cousin still occupies. But he will need all the skills he has learned in a lifetime of war to make his dream come true. --
68) Big sky
Author
Series
Jackson Brodie volume 5
Language
English
Description
Investigating a new client's suspicions about an unfaithful spouse, iconoclastic detective Jackson Brodie is catapulted by a chance encounter into a sinister network of secrets and lies.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
Original UK ed., widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (368 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in an Edwardian country house in 1912, Downton Abbey portrays the lives of the Crawley family and the servants who work for them. In the drawing rooms, library, and beautiful bedrooms, with their tall windows looking across the park, lives the family, but below stairs are other residents, the servants, as fiercely possessive of their ranks as anyone above.
71) From the dead
Author
Series
Tom Thorne volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
It has been a decade since Alan Langford's charred remains were discovered in his burnt-out car. His wife Donna was found guilty of conspiracy to murder her husband and served ten years in prison. But just before she is released, Donna receives a nasty shock: an anonymous letter containing a photo of her husband. The man she hates with every fiber of her being--the man she paid to have murdered--seems very much alive and well. How is it possible that...
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
viii, 355 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The much-anticipated new entree in the Sebastian St. Cyr "simply elegant" historical mystery series, from the national bestselling author of Who Buries the Dead and Why Kings Confess. Ayleswick-on-Teme, 1813. Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, has come to this seemingly peaceful Shropshire village to honor a slain friend and on a quest to learn more about his own ancestry. But when the body of a lovely widow is found on the banks of the River Teme,...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Language
English
Description
The War is over and a long-awaited engagement is on, but all is not tranquil at Downton Abbey as wrenching social changes, romantic intrigues, and personal crises grip the majestic English country estate for a third thrilling season. In the wake of World War I, Robert, Earl of Grantham, sticks to his duty to maintain Downton more firmly than ever. Also includes: Downtown Abbey behind the drama.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The #1 national bestselling, award-winning author of Life after Life transports us to the dazzling London of the Roaring Twenties in a whirlwind tale of corruption, seduction, and debts that have come due. 1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A portrait of Winston Churchill's extraordinary wife and her lesser-known role in World War II discusses her relationship with political mentor Eleanor Roosevelt, her role in safeguarding Churchill's health throughout key historical events and her controversial family priorities.
76) Victory
Author
Series
Thomas Kydd sea adventures volume 11
Publisher
McBooks Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
319 p. : maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Commander Thomas Kydd is eager to play his part in thwarting Bonaparte's plans for the invasion of England. Joining Admiral Nelson's command, Kydd and his ship soon find themselves at the heart of the action of Trafalgar. Kydd's journey takes him from false sightings of the enemy and dramatic chases across the Atlantic, to the bloody annihilation of the enemy during the actual battle, and the heroic aftermath. This is Kydd's most important adventure...
Author
Series
Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery volume 2
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In Brighton, England, in 1811, when the wife of an aging marquis is found dead in the arms of the Prince Regent, wearing an ancient necklace with mysterious ties to Sebastian St. Cyr, Sebastian turns sleuth to investigate the woman's death.
Author
Series
A Maisie Dobbs novel volume 13
Language
English
Description
When listeners last heard Maisie Dobbs, it was 1938, and the world was on the brink of war. Maisie herself was on a dangerous mission inside Nazi Germany, where she encountered an old enemy and the Fuhrer himself. In In This Grave Hour, a year has passed, and Maisie is back home in England - yet neither she nor her nation is safe. Britain has just declared war on Germany and is mobilizing for the devastating battle ahead. But when she stumbles on...
79) Beloved poison
Author
Series
Jem Flockhart volume 1
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Set in a crumbling 1850s London infirmary, a richly atmospheric Victorian crime novel where murder is the price to be paid for secrets kept"--
1880s London. As St. Saviour's Infirmary awaits demolition, the doctors bicker and backstab. When six tiny coffins are uncovered, inside each a handful of dried flowers and a bundle of moldering rags, it opens a long-forgotten past that will have fatal consequences. Everyone at the Infirmary has secrets...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Draws on advice manuals, court cases, and sermons to illustrate the social mores of the Elizabethan Era.