Summary: Dan, an aspiring novelist, cannot help but feel immensely attracted to Alice, a young American waitress and stripper who is in London after escaping from a failed relationship. After some time Dan meets Anna, a photographer who also attracts him. From there, things go downhill for Alice and Dan. Eventually Dan, Alice, Anna and Alice's fiancé, Larry, take part in a twisted dance of deceit, guilt...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2005

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CLO

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Steel, Danielle

Summary: After losing his prestigious job as head of a film studio, Hollywood executive Andy Westfield retreats to a tiny coastal village in England to figure out his next move. There he hires a local woman, an unemployed former journalist and aspiring novelist named Violet, to help him get his affairs in order. When Violet leaves her unfinished manuscript at Andy's house, Andy reads it and realizes it...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2023

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC STE

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STE

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC STE
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STE

Summary: Harvey, a divorced, down-on-his-luck music jingle composer, and Kate, a lonely British airline employee, are brought together by chance. Harvey comes to London for his daughter's wedding, planning only to attend the wedding ceremony. However, he ends up being let go from his job before going back to America and decides to stay for the reception, asking Kate to accompany him. Thus begins a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LAS

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Last 2008

Summary: In the early 1960's, 16-year-old Jenny Mellor lives with her parents in a London suburb. She is smart, pretty, and working toward her goal of being accepted into Oxford. Her life will take a big turn when she meets David, a man twice her age. Now she must decide if she will pursue an education at Oxford, or if she will choose to learn all that a charismatic, older man can teach her.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EDU

Hepburn, Audrey

Summary: A Covent Garden flower girl becomes a lady, entering elite London society under the tutelage of an arrogant professor.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS Warner 2009

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family My 2004

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Summary: Nazneem is a young Bangladeshi woman who arrives in London during the 1980s. She leaves behind her beloved sister and home, for an arranged marriage and a new life. In a loveless marriage to the middle aged Chanu, she feels trapped within the four walls of her flat in East London. She begins to fear that her soul is quietly dying. Meanwhile, her sister Hasina, continues to live a carefree life...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRI

Lessing, Doris May

Summary: An old woman falls in love with a man who could be her grandson. She is Sarah Durham, 65, a widow working in the theater in England and she develops a passion for a young actor. A look at love in the golden age by the author of The Golden Notebook.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1996

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LES

Summary: In 1939 London, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew is a middle-aged governess who finds herself once again unfairly dismissed from her job. Now she must seize the day if she wants a job. She does this by intercepting an employment assignment outside of her comfort level as social secretary. Arriving at a penthouse apartment for the interview, Miss Pettigrew is catapulted into the glamorous world and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MIS

Summary: Depicts the romantic lives of two Londoners, a middle-aged doctor and a prickly thirty something divorcee, who are sleeping with the same handsome young artist. A revelation in its day, this may be the 1970s most intelligent, multitextured film about the complexities of romantic relationships; it is keenly acted and sensitively directed, from a penetrating screenplay.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SUN

Summary: Poppy is a life-loving and irrepressibly cheerful primary school teacher. She is thirty years old, single, and infinitely optimistic and accepting. She lives with her best friend and flatmate Zoe in London. She is tested by a repressed driving instructor with anger problems, and, in turn, she decides to test him. She has exciting flamenco lessons, an encounter with a homeless man, an argument...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2009

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Tempest, Kate.

Summary: "Becky, Harry, and Leon are leaving London in a fourth-hand Ford with a suitcase full of stolen money, in a mess of tangled loyalties and impulses. But can they truly leave the city that's in their bones?....Rich in character and restless in perspective, driven by ethics and empathy, it asks-and seeks to answer-how best to live with and love one another." -- page [2] book jacket.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TEM

Ryan, Renee

Summary: "With only two months before Elizabeth sets sail for London to marry a British lord, she resolves to live a lifetime of adventure. Lucian Griffin, her dearest friend's brother, intends to protect Elizabeth from letting her adventures forever sully her reputation. Soon his earnest fondness gives way to deep affection."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC RYA

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Ryan 2017

Summary: Carol is a fragile, frigid young Belgian beauty cracking up over the course of a terrifying weekend. Left alone by her vacationing sister in their London flat, she finds herself haunted by specters, real and imagined, as her insanity grows to a violent pitch.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2009

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA REP

Summary: Growing up poor in London, Becky Sharp defies her poverty-stricken background and ascends the social ladder alongside her best friend, Amelia.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VAN

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Summary: On the eve of World War II, Roy, a British officer, revisits Waterloo Bridge where he and Myra met and fell in love during an air raid at the beginning of World War I. Heartbroken after Roy was reportedly killed in action, Myra turned to prostitution to make her way. The report, however, was false, and when Roy returns from a POW camp, Myra's shattered spirit may no longer hold any room for...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WAT

Summary: Set in the glamour of the 1950's post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock and his sister Cyril are at the center of the British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutants and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock. Women come and go through Woodcock's life until he comes across a young, strong-willed woman, Alma, who soon becomes a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PHA

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Phantom 2018

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PHA

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PHA

Quinn, Julia.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 2007

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Summary: In an effort to give their younger brother, Norman a project to keep him busy now that he has joined the family publishing house, the older Warne brothers agree to publish Miss Beatrix Potter's first children's book. They don't expect the book to sell well, but they need to keep Norman busy. As a single woman living in Edwardian London, Beatrix suspects this endeavor may provide her with a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Products 2007

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIS

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MIS

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD M

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MIS RATED PG

Summary: A stuffy professor of phonetics takes a bet that in six months time he can turn a Cockney flower seller into a lady he could pass off as a duchess.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2006

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PYG

Maxwell, Cathy

Summary: "Once there were three Irish sisters--Gwendolyn, Dara, and Elise--who had to fend for themselves when their gambler of a father disappeared, leaving them with an unscrupulous cousin. Dara hatches a daring plan: they gamble what little they own to finance a London season. Her goal: to use their looks and their wits to find a duke to marry for each sister! It seems her crazy plot might work when...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MAX

Weldon, Fay

Summary: "1922. Vivien is twenty-four and a spinster. She wears fashionably droopy clothes, but she is plain and--almost worse--intelligent. At nearly six feet tall, she is known unkindly by her family as "the giantess." Fortunately, Vivien is rich, so she can travel to London and bribe a charismatic gentleman publisher to marry her. What he does not know is that Vivien is pregnant with another man's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEL

Kleypas, Lisa

Summary: Dr. Garrett Gibson, the only female physician in England, has never been tempted to embark on an affair. Until now.... Ethan Ransom, a former detective for Scotland Yard, as gallant as he is secretive, is rumored to be an assassin. For one exhilarating night they give in to their potent attraction before becoming strangers again. As a Ravenel by-blow spurned by his father, Ethan has little...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KLE

Summary: London-based thirty-something Bridget Jones continues her romantic relationship with Mark Darcy, despite many humorous complications.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRI