Ballantyne, Lisa.
Summary: "They're calling it the worst pile-up in London history. Driving home, Margaret Holloway has her mind elsewhere-on a troubled student, her daughter's acting class, the next day's meeting-when she's rear-ended and trapped in the wreckage. Just as she begins to panic, a disfigured stranger pulls her from the car just seconds before it's engulfed in flames. Then he simply disappears. Though she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALSummary: Set in 1940 London, the story is an ode to how women played a major role in boosting national morale during the Blitz of London in the second World War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THEMacNeal, Susan Elia
Summary: "This New York Times bestselling mystery series continues as American-born codebreaker extraordinaire, Maggie Hope, returns to England to continue her intelligence work during World War II. England, 1942. Great Britain and the U.S. have joined forces to fight the Nazis. In London, Maggie Hope takes on the biggest challenge of her career: finding a killer who models himself on Jack the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2016
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACGolabek, Mona
Summary: The true story of Lisa Jura, one of the thousands of Jewish children who survived World War II via the Kindertransport.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GOLKleypas, Lisa
Summary: Four young ladies enter London society with one common goal: they must use their feminine wit and wiles to find a husband. So a daring husband-hunting scheme is born. Annabelle Peyton, determined to save her family from disaster, decides to use her beauty and wit to tempt a suitable nobleman into making an offer of marriage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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Summary: The English singer-songwriter's long-awaited sophomore release includes the singles Try Me and Little Things.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1975
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL RHYTHM AND BLUES SMIGolabek, Mona
Summary: "In pre-World War II Vienna, Lisa Jura was a musical prodigy who dreamed of becoming a concert pianist. But when enemy forces threatened the city--particularly the Jewish people that lived there--Lisa's parents were forced to make a difficult decision. They chose to send Lisa to London for safety through the Kindertransport--a rescue effort that relocated Jewish children. As Lisa yearned to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 921 GOLBerne, Lisa
Summary: "Philip Thane--rogue, rake and scoundrel extraordinaire--hadn't wanted to visit some dumpy provincial town to give a speech, but he'd struck a devil's bargain with old Henrietta Penhallow, the imperious family matriarch. Nor did he expect that once he got there, he'd somehow be living the same day over and over again. It's strange! It's terrible! On the other hand, it is giving him time to cozy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERJewell, Lisa
Summary: On a beautiful summer night in a charming English suburb, a young woman and her boyfriend disappear after partying at the massive country estate of a new college friend. One year later, a writer moves into a cottage on the edge of the woods that border the same estate. Known locally as the Dark Place, the dense forest is the writer's favorite area for long walks and it's on one such walk that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JEWOwings, Lisa.
Summary: "Engaging images accompany information about Stonehenge. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 936 OWIMacNeal, Susan Elia
Summary: London, December 1942. As the Russian army repels German forces from Stalingrad, Maggie Hope finds herself living dangerously as a spy. When she's called upon to look into the theft of a Stradivarius, one of the finest violins ever made, Maggie can't resist. Meanwhile, there's a serial killer on the loose in London, targeting conscientious objectors. Little does she know that investigating this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MACMacNeal, Susan Elia
Summary: "London. December, 1942. As the Russian army repels German forces from Stalingrad, Maggie Hope, secret agent and spy, takes a break from the Special Operations Executive division to defuse bombs in London. But Maggie herself is like an explosion waiting to happen. Shaken by a recent case, she finds herself living more dangerously--taking more risks than usual, smoking again, drinking gin and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MACCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACSummary: Pongo and Perdita have a litter of 15 Dalmatian puppies. Cruella De Vil takes a fancy to the puppies and tries to buy them from their human owners, Roger and Anita. Cruella wants to get a hold of those puppies, as well as more puppies, to make herself a lovely dalmatian skin coat. She hires some thugs to kidnap the puppies and hold them at an abandoned mansion. Now Pongo and Perdita must use an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ONESummary: Humanity has been all but destroyed by a fungal disease that eradicates free will and turns its victims into flesh-eating 'hungries'. Only a small group of children seem to be immune to its effects. At an army base in rural England, these unique children are being studied and subjected to cruel experiments. When the base falls, one little girl escapes and must discover what she is, ultimately...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GIRSummary: Inspector Morse is a melancholy, enigmatic and romantic man who never uses his first name and who find solace in real ale, classical music, and difficult crosswords. Together with his able sergeant Lewis, Morse uses his considerable intellect and passion for truth and justice to investigate death and murder in the English university town of Oxford. (Cherubim & seraphim) While Morse goes on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV INSGhetts
Contents: Fine Wine (4:56) -- Mozambique (4:50) / feat. Jaykae & Moonchild Sanelly -- Fire and Brimstone (3:10) -- Hop Out (2:58) -- IC3 (3:48) / feat. Skepta -- Autobiography (6:50) -- Good Hearts (3:09) / feat. Aida Lae -- Dead To Me (3:48) -- 10,000 Tears (4:34) / feat. Ed Sheeran -- Sonya (4:38) / feat. Emeli Sande -- Proud Family (5:26) -- Skengman (4:32) / feat. Stormzy -- No Mercy (3:25) / feat....
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP GHESummary: The new series picks up where the last story ended - with Havers shot in the line of duty, and Lynley estranged from his wife Helen. How will these traumas affect their ability to do their jobs?
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV INSSummary: The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these four contemporary British television mysteries. Death and dust: The impending marriage of a widowed doctor and a well-to-do divorcée motivates a murder of mistaken identity. Picture of innocence: In the midst of a "shooting war" between rival camera clubs, someone tries to frame Barnaby, and definitely not for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MIDSummary: Miss Marple returns to help solve mysteries with her keen powers of observation and her quiet common-sense analysis. Towards zero: Eyebrows arch when the dashing Wimbledon tennis star Nevile Strange arrives with his attractive new wife, even though the first wife is also attending. Miss Marple observes the tightly wound group as they holiday by the sea, sensing the sexual tensions and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AGASummary: Based on P.D. James's global bestsellers, this riveting mystery series stars Bertie Carvel as enigmatic Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. A recent widower and acclaimed poet, Dalgliesh is a cerebral, reserved man but possessed of exceptional empathy and insight. As he investigates complex crimes in 1970s England, he plumbs the darker depths of the human psyche in his pursuit of justice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DALSummary: The brilliant 1958 TV sci-fi drama series, was an adaption of H.G. Wells' 1897 novel of the same name. A precursor to The Saint, The Avengers and the James Bond craze of the mid-1960's, this version, which portrays Wells' classic character in a 20th century setting, is perhaps the most famous of all the adaptations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV INVSummary: Joining the Outlaw's fight against injustice is mysterious Brother Tuck and a feisty Locksley girl, Kate. Robin leads the battle for a free world, but it's tough when corruption and evil sweep the land. The King is absent fighting in the Holy Land and while his throne is empty, his treacherous brother Prince John plots to seize it. The prince has his eye on Nottingham for his new capital and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corp. 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ROBSummary: Catherine of Aragon, the Princess of Spain, marries the English Prince Arthur. After his death, she sets her eyes on the future King Henry VIII.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SPACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Spanish 2021Summary: The numerous adventures of a friendly staff at a country veterinarian practice in 1930s to 1940s Yorkshire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021