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Aristocracy (Social class) Fiction Elementary school teachers Fiction England Social life and customs 18th century Fiction Governesses Fiction Horror stories Large type books London (England) Fiction Man-woman relationships Fiction Upper class England Fiction Women teachers FictionSummary: Miss Phryne Fisher is a lady detective from Melbourne with a fabulous sense of fun and a flair for solving crimes.In a country reemerging from the shadow of World War I, Phryne takes life in her stride, and murder too. Detective Inspector Jack Robinson works alongside her, although she often outraces him to the crime scene. Season three includes eight all new episodes of the glamorous,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MISCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MIS NOT RATEDSummary: A collection of ten stories from award-winning YA authors celebrates first love, unrequited love, surprising love, and love that's been there all along.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SERCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SERSummary: Set over a tumultuous ten-year period in the early 20th century, this five-hour miniseries tells the story of an honorable Englishman coping with his growing disillusion at the end of a privileged era and the beginning of a new, egalitarian society. As the comfortable certainties of Edwardian England begin to give way to the chaos and destruction of WWI, nobleman Christopher Tietjens puts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PARSummary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OWarner, Mignon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: D. McKay Co. 1978
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Place a hold to request this item.James, Eloisa.
Summary: Theodora Saxby is the last woman anyone expects the gorgeous James Ryburn, heir to the Duchy of Ashbrook, to marry. But after a romantic proposal before the Prince himself, even practical Theo finds herself convinced of her soon-to-be duke's passion. Still, the tabloids give the marriage six months. Theo would have given it a lifetime .... until she discovers that James desired not her heart,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JAMBallard, Mignon Franklin.
Summary: Guardian angel and heavenly sleuth Augusta Goodnight joins forces with Lucy Nan Pilgrim, a long-time resident of Stone's Throw, South Carolina, to investigate the mysterious disappearances of a number of young women.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALBallard, Mignon Franklin.
Summary: It's 1942, and the residents of the small town of Elderberry, Georgia, have been rattled down to their worn, rationed shoes. For young teacher Charlie Carr, life and love aren't going exactly as planned--her head dictates loyalty to the handsome corpsman, Hugh, but whenever she thinks of her best friend's beau, Will, her heart does the Jersey Bounce. Charlie is doubly troubled by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALBallard, Mignon Franklin.
Summary: "It's the summer of 1944 and the world seems mired in a War that will never end. On the home front, the people of Elderberry, Georgia, are doing everything they can to support the troops. Even with a war on, the peaches are ripe for picking. As veteran teacher Miss Dimple Kilpatrick and her colleagues work in the orchard, they hear frantic calls for help: An eighteen-year-old girl, Prentice,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Ballard 2014Summary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATUnterman, Phoebe Eloise
Summary: Eva was born in Lodz, Poland in 1932, and by the time she was six, Nazi occupation of Poland forced her family to move from their home into the Lodz ghetto, where they remained until they were ordered onto a transport to Auschwitz and then on to other equally frightening destinations. Eva stayed by her mother{u2019}s side almost all the time, and it was because of this that she has a story to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Landmark House, Ltd. 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC UNTJames, Eloisa
Summary: Highly sought for her premiere governesses, witty and elusive Eugenia Snowe clashes with brilliant inventor Ward Reeve, who resorts to everything including kidnapping to claim her heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AvonBooks, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMJames, Eloisa
Summary: When Thorn Dautry, the bastard son of a duke, decides that he needs a wife, he enlists Lady Xenobia India to give him some society gloss, but when passion builds between them, they are tempted to risk everything for love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMJames, Eloisa
Summary: The handsome, rakish heir to a dukedom, Lord Roland Northbridge Wilde, known to his friends as North, left England two years ago, after being jilted by Miss Diana Belgrave. He returns from war to find that he's notorious: polite society has ruled him "too wild to wed." Diana never meant to tarnish North's reputation, or his heart, but in her rush to save a helpless child, there was no time to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMSummary: A collection of thirteen original ghost stories, some in rhyme, by Blaise Hemingway and Jesse Reffsin, accompanied by illustrations by Chris Sasaki and Jeff Turley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GHOHigson, Charles
Summary: When a plague turns anyone over the age of sixteen into flesh-craving monsters, a group of teenagers escape from their infested high school and head for London with the hopes of finding a safe haven there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HIGMagnan, Pierre
Summary: At the turn of the century in Upper Provence, a family is violently massacred. The sole survivor of the tragedy is a three-week-old baby. Twenty years later, the orphaned survivor returns home to avenge his family's killers, but for each murder he plots, another hand executes it in his place, and unexpected secrets set in motion a dreadful unveiling of the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M MAGMagson, Adrian
Summary: Harry Tate must find Clare Jardine, a former agent as skilled as himself, who was wounded saving his life and has now disappeared after the Russians assassinated a fellow hospital patient, before the Russians and an old enemy find her first.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAGMalle, Mirion
Summary: "In This is How I Disappear, Mirion Malle paints an empathetic portait of a young woman wrestling with psychological stress and the trauma following an experience of sexual assault. Malle displays frankness and a remarkable emotional intelligence as she explores depression, isolation, and self-harm in her expertly-drawn novel. Her heroine battles an onslaught of painful emotions and while Clara...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MALJames, Eloisa
Summary: Lord Alaric Wilde, son of the Duke of Lindow, is the most celebrated man in England, revered for his dangerous adventures and rakish good looks. Arriving home from years abroad, he has no idea of his own celebrity, until his boat is met by mobs of screaming ladies. Alaric escapes to his father's castle, but just as he grasps that he's not only famous but notorious, he encounters the very...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AvonBooks, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMDeLuise, Dom.
Summary: A caterpillar is rejected by various groups of animals, until he achieves his beautiful wings and is able to befriend a similarly unhappy caterpillar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers 1990
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC DELMagnan, Pierre.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvill Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAGJames, Eloisa
Summary: For beautiful, witty Lavinia Gray, there's only one thing worse than having to ask the appalling Parth Sterling to marry her: being turned down by him. Now the richest bachelor in England, Parth is not about to marry a woman as reckless and fashion-obsessed as Lavinia; he's chosen a far more suitable bride. As usual, there's no problem Parth can't fix. But when he learns of Lavinia's desperate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMJames, Eloisa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003