Cornioley, Pearl Witherington
Summary: "Pearl Witherington Cornioley, one of the most celebrated female World War II resistance fighters, shares her remarkable story in this firsthand account of her experience as a special agent for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). Told througha series of reminiscences--from a difficult childhood spent in the shadow of World War I and her family's harrowing escape from France as the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Independent Pub Group 2013
Summary: Dr. Lucy Worsley explores the royal wardrobes of our kings and queens over the last 400 years, from Elizabeth I to the present Queen Elizabeth II, explaining how the royal wardrobe is a carefully orchestrated piece of theater managed by the royals themselves to control the right image and project the right message to their subjects. Royal fashion is, and always has been, as much about politics...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Geary, Karl
Summary: Juno Loves Legs is the story of two teens labeled as delinquents. Juno and "Legs" grow up on the same housing estate in Dublin, where spirited, intelligent Juno is ostracized for her poverty and Legs is persecuted for his sexuality; they find safety only in each other. Set against the backdrop of Dublin in the 1980s, a place of political, social and religious change, the friends yearn for an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2023
Geary, Karl
Summary: As a gardener at the house on Montpelier Parade, Sonny is full of curiosity in his lonely life of dreams. Then the mysterious Vera comes around, and he falls in love for the first time. Casting off his life of solitude, Sonny longs to know Vera, even save her. But what is it that Vera isn't telling him?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2016
Hetherington, Nydia
Summary: "Born into a post-war circus family, our nameless star was unwanted and forgotten, abandoned in the shadows of the big top. until the bright light of Serendipity Wilson threw her into focus. Now an adult, haunted by an incident in which a child was lost from the circus, our narrator, a tightrope artiste, weaves together her spellbinding tales of circus legends, earthy magic and folklore, all in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quercus 2020
Pearle, Ida
Summary: The moon follows Addy all over the city before finally settling in at her house for bedtime.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2015
Pears, Iain.
Summary: n 1960s Oxford, Professor Henry Lytten is attempting to write a fantasy novel that forgoes the magic of his predecessors, J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. He finds an unlikely confidante in his quick-witted, inquisitive young neighbor Rosie. One day, while chasing Lytten's cat, Rosie encounters a doorway in his cellar. She steps through and finds herself in an idyllic, pastoral land where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
Peace
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Traffic Entertainment Group 2016
Tears for Fears (Musical group)
Contents: No small thing -- The tipping point -- Long, long, long time -- Break the man -- My demons -- Rivers of mercy -- Please be happy -- Master plan -- End of night -- Stay.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Titherington, Jeanne.
Summary: Jamie plants a pumpkin seed and, after watching it grow, carves it, and saves some seeds to plant in the spring.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1993
Titherington, Jeanne.
Summary: Jamie plants a pumpkin seed and, after watching it grow, carves it, and saves some seeds to plant in the spring.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulberry Books 1986
Titherington, Jeanne.
Summary: Jamie plants a pumpkin seed and, after watching it grow, carves it, and saves some seeds to plant in the spring.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1986
Heart
Summary: The sixteenth release and highly anticipated first album in over four years from Ann and Nancy Wilson. The album includes special guests Ne-Yo and Metallica's James Hetfield.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Concord Records 2016
Pears, Tim
Summary: "Somerset, 1911. The forces of war are building across Europe, but this pocket of England, where the rhythms of lives are dictated by the seasons and the land, remains untouched. Leo, a talented rider and son of the underkeeper to the head groundskeeper, grows up alongside the master's spirited daughter Charlotte"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017
Pedro.
Contents: Prefuse 73 -- Cherrystones -- Danger mouse -- Pedro -- Home skillet -- Fourtet.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Melodic 2004
Summary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
Pears, Iain.
Summary: Journeying to a remote French island to sit for a portrait that is painted by his tormented artist friend, an influential London art critic recalls the early years of their friendship, and his own influence over aspiring artists.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2005
Early Years (Musical group)
Contents: Nocturne -- Out of signal -- Fluxus -- For the fallen -- Hush -- Clone theory -- Do it (again) -- Near unison -- Hall of mirrors -- Memory case.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sonic Cathedral 2016