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Great Britain Great Britain Drama Great Britain History 20th century Drama Great Britain History Elizabeth II, 1952- Drama Great Britain Politics and government Drama Man-woman relationships Drama Princesses Great Britain Drama Queens Queens Great Britain Drama Women Political activity Great Britain DramaSummary: A cryptic message from Bond's past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organisation. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind Spectre.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE SPESummary: James Bond travels to San Francisco to thwart an industrialist intent on creating a microchip monopoly by flooding Silicon Valley. Features Roger Moore in the role of the MI6 super spy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios 2012
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE VIEHorowitz, Anthony
Summary: A prequel to "Casino Royale" follows the mysterious demise of Agent 007 in the French Riviera underworld and the emergence of new agent, James Bond.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HORCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORFleming, Ian
Summary: British secret agent James Bond assumes the identity of a captured courier and solicits the help of gorgeous Tiffany Case, the diamond smugglers' American go-between.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLEJago, Lucy
Summary: ""A bravura historical debut . . . a gloriously immersive escape." -Guardian Wolf Hall meets The Favourite in Lucy Jago's A Net For Small Fishes, a gripping dark novel based on the true scandal of two women determined to create their own fates in the Jacobean court. With Frankie, I could have the life I had always wanted . . . and with me she could forge something more satisfying from her own ....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAGSummary: At the beginning of WWII, with Britain becoming desperate, Churchill orders his new spy agency, SOE, to recruit and train women as spies.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CALCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CALCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CALCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CALSummary: Based on Gerald Durrell's trilogy of Corfu novels, this latest series sees sparky English widow Louisa Durrell and her brood continue to put down roots in their dilapidated rented house, alongside an ever-increasing menagerie of animals brought home by youngest son Gerry.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD DURCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Du 3Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Durrells 2018Summary: Ambitious and acclaimed series from The Queen writer Peter Morgan offers a comprehensive look at the adult life and reign of Elizabeth II over a projected six-season arc. The fifth season follows Elizabeth from the early to late '90s, as the fraying union of Charles and Diana ultimately came to separation, and John Major saw his tenure as prime minister end with the election of Tony Blair.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV CROCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CROSummary: A young woman, unable to be intimate with her husband after his war injuries, seeks solace and physical passion in the arms of a gamekeeper.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LADHooper, Judith
Summary: "Arm yourself against my dawn, which may at any moment cast you and Harry into obscurity, Alice James writes her brother William in 1891. In Judith Hooper's magnificent book, zingers such as this fly back and forth between the endlessly articulate and letter-writing Jameses, all of whom are geniuses at gossiping. And the James family did, in fact, know everyone intellectually important on both...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOOSummary: Season two follows Queen Elizabeth through the late 1950s and early '60s as she struggles to navigate a world that's changing around her. She must face the challenges of a new era, from the Suez Canal crisis to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, while preserving both the monarchy and her marriage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Cr 2Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CROCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Crown 2018Summary: The British Empire is in decline, the political world is in disarray, and a young woman takes the throne... a new era is dawning. Queen Elizabeth II is a 25-year-old newlywed faced with the daunting prospect of leading the world's most famous monarchy while forging a relationship with legendary Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CRO NOT RATEDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CROCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Cr 1Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Crown 2017Fellowes, Jessica
Summary: "The year is 1928, and after the death of a maid at a glamorous society party, fortune heir Bryan Guinness seizes life and proposes to eighteen-year-old Diana, most beautiful of the six Mitford sisters. The maid's death is ruled an accident, and the newlyweds put it behind them to begin a whirlwind life zipping between London's Mayfair, chic Paris and hedonistic Berlin. Accompanying Diana as...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC FELSummary: The world's quirkiest crime-solving antiques hero is back! Much to Lovejoy's annoyance, he's not the only one on a never-ending quest for wealth and valuables. However, while he proves unstoppable in the face of sinister Italians, vengeful customers and even Eric's vintage motorbikes, can he manage to escape the snares of love?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LOVWeir, Alison
Summary: Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir tells the tragic story of Henry VIIIs fifth wife, a nineteen-year-old beauty with a hidden past, in this fifth novel in the sweeping Six Tudor Queens series. In the spring of 1540, Henry VIII is desperate to be rid of his unappealing German queen, Anna of Kleve. A prematurely aged and ailing forty-nine, with an ever-growing waistline, he...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WEISummary: Worshipped as a national savior, Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson masterminded the naval victories that thwarted Napoleon's plans to invade Britain. Yet, in the midst of public adulation, rumors swirled about his private life. Nelson took a friend's wife as a mistress and even fathered a child by her in secret. Seen through the eyes of four people close to him: his wife, who feels bitter and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ISummary: Will Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and Detective Sergeant Annie Cabbot ever get their relationship together? Or will three wrenching crimes and the investigation of Detective Investigator Helen Morton keep them forever out of sync? Welcome back to the hit crime series set in a bucolic Yorkshire town, where you would never expect social workers to abduct a young boy ... never imagine...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DCISummary: Story of a doctor touring Morocco with his wife and child who accidentally becomes involved in an anarchist plot to assassinate a foreign diplomat in London.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER MANSummary: Colin, a young rebel and promising distance runner, is chosen to represent his reform school in a track race. However, the opposition for Colin isn't another runner, it's the Establishment.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LONGregory, Philippa
Summary: When Katherine of Aragon is brought to the Tudor court as a young bride, the oldest princess, Margaret takes her measure. With one look, each knows the other for a rival, an ally, a pawn, destined with Margaret's younger sister Mary to a sisterhood unique in the world. The three sisters will become the queens of England, Scotland, and France. United by family loyalties and affections, the three...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GREChiaverini, Jennifer
Summary: Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in Jennifer Chiaverini's lively and illuminating novel about the "munitionettes" who built bombs in Britain's arsenals during World War I, risking their lives for the war effort and discovering camaraderie and courage on the soccer pitch. Early in the Great War, men left Britains factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA Fiction ChiaveriniSummary: Set in the Libyan Desert during World War II, British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up "The Hill," a manmade instrument of torture--a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. They are in this military prison because they once defied, rebelled and talked back to their superiors.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie HillSummary: In 1837, a diminutive, neglected teenager is crowned Queen Victoria, navigates the scandal, corruption, and political intrigues of the Court, and soon rises to become the most powerful woman in the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV VICCopies Available at Interlochen
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Victioria 2017Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Vi 1Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD VIC NOT RATEDSummary: Follows the political rivalries and romance of Queen Elizabeth II's reign and the events that shaped the second half of the twentieth century.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2021