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Babson, Marian. Blackwood, Gary L. Gaynor, Hazel Maxwell, Cathy Morton, Kate O'Connor, JosephMorton, Kate
Summary: During a party at the family farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson has escaped to her childhood tree house and is dreaming of the future. She spies a stranger coming up the road and sees her mother speak to him. Before the afternoon is over, Laurel will witness a shocking crime that challenges everything she knows about her family and especially her mother, Dorothy....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MORSummary: A demented actor and his daughter set about murdering each of London's nine prominent drama critics according to murders in Shakespeare's plays.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THESummary: Dame Maggie Smith, Dame Judi Dench, Dame Eileen Atkins, and Dame Joan Plowright are among the most celebrated actresses of the time, with scores of iconic performances, decades of wisdom, and innumerable awards between them. They are also longtime friends who invite viewers to join them for a weekend in the country as they catch up with one another, reminisce, and share their candid,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD TEACopies Available at Woodmere
5 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TEACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TeSummary: Welcome to the 17th century stage, where Ned Kynaston's performance of Desdemona in Shakespeare's 'Othello' brings the house down nightly. Ned is the "most beautiful woman on the London stage". That is, until the King renounces the royal edict that only men can play women on stage. Enter Maria, Ned's seemingly loyal dresser, who becomes an instant star, leaving Ned to suppress his ardent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STASummary: Julia is a true diva: beautiful, talented, wealthy and famous. She has a devoted husband who has masterminded her brillant career - but after years of the spotlight she begins to suffer from a severe case of boredom and longs for something new and exciting to put the twinkle back in her eye. She finds what she is looking for in a handsome young American fan, who adds a few more sparks than...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Morton, Kate
Summary: During a party at the family farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson has escaped to her childhood tree house and is dreaming of the future. She spies a stranger coming up the road and sees her mother speak to him. Before the afternoon is over, Laurel will witness a shocking crime that challenges everything she knows about her family and especially her mother, Dorothy. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Thirty years after rising to global stardom in The Wizard of Oz, showbiz legend Judy Garland arrives in London to perform a five-week sold-out run at The Talk of the Town. While preparing for the shows, Garland battles with management, reminisces with friends and adoring fans, and embarks on a whirlwind romance with soon-to-be fifth husband Mickey Deans, all while bravely struggling to overcome...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JuCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JUDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD JUDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JUDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Judy 2019Maxwell, Cathy
Summary: Ten years after their brief romance ended in betrayal, a chance encounter between actress Kate Addison and Brandon Balfour, the leading member of the exclusive bachelor's club, the Logical Men's Society, revives their feelings for one another.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAXBabson, Marian.
Summary: As they make their rounds of London pubs in search of work, two aging actresses turn detective to investigate the death of a fellow actress. The heroines are Trixie and Evangeline, last seen in Even Yuppies Die.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BABBlackwood, Gary L.
Summary: In plague-ridden 1602 England, a fifteen-year-old orphan boy, who has become an apprentice actor, goes on the road with Shakespeare's troupe, and finds out more about his parents along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BLAO'Connor, Joseph
Summary: "Henry Irving is Victorian London's most celebrated actor and theater impresario. He has introduced groundbreaking ideas to the theater, bringing to the stage performances that are spectacular, shocking, and always entertaining. When Irving decides to open his own London theater with the goal of making it the greatest playhouse on earth, he hires a young Dublin clerk harboring literary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OCOGaynor, Hazel
Summary: At the Savoy hotel, two women with very different pasts try to forget the devastation of the Great War and forge a new life in a city where those who dare to dream can have it all. Dolly is the Savoy's newest chambermaid, whose proximity to the dazzling hotel guests fuels her dreams to be a star like her idol, Loretta May. Loretta, the daughter of an earl, has rebelliously turned her back on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAYSummary: Romance is in the air when a dashing diplomat is introduced to a beautiful and famous actress. The fact that he's married doesn't stop the love-struck pair from falling into a passionate affair.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2013
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE INDBabson, Marian.
Summary: Finding the shop owner dead on the floor was Cecile Savvy's first shock; finding the shop suddenly enveloped in flames was the next.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M BABSummary: Since first donning a tattered fedora and a glove of eviscerating blades in 1984, Robert Englund has become one our generation's most beloved horror icons. A classically trained actor and talented director, Englund has starred in many well-received movies in the years since Freddy's cinematic birth as well as directing his own feature film.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC HOLSummary: For me and my gal: Musical comedy about a vaudeville song-and-dance team who buck tough times and World War I on their way to success in show business.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013