Summary: The American: American Christopher Newman is smart, educated and rich. He is a Civil War veteran and a self made tycoon who goes to Europe to see the 'treasures and entertain' himself. He meets Claire and after the fifth meeting he asks her to marry him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2009
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Gregory, 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
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 GRESummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
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: After an au pair's tragic death, Henry Wingrave hires a young American nanny to care for his orphaned niece and nephew who reside at Bly Manor in 1980s England with the estate's chef Owen, groundskeeper Jamie and housekeeper, Mrs. Grose. But all is not as it seems at the manor, and centuries of dark secrets of love and loss are waiting to be unearthed in this chilling gothic romance. At Bly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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. (Happy families) When Sir John Balcombe is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV INSScott, Briana Corr
Summary: "A boldly illustrated gift edition of the beloved English Christmas carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas"--with an artful twist. East Coast artist Briana Corr Scott brings her naturalist's eye to the classic holiday song, pairing the original lyrics with bold and whimsical illustrations that celebrate flora and fauna. A kaleidoscope of monarch butterflies on milkweed flowers is Eight maids a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nimbus Publishing 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SCOHerrera, Adriana
Summary: "For Manuela del Carmen Caceres Galvan, the invitation to show her paintings at the 1889 Exposition Universelle came at the perfect time. Soon to be trapped in a loveless marriage, Manuela has given herself one last summer of freedom--in Paris, with her two best friends. Cora Kempf Bristol, Duchess of Sundridge, is known for her ruthlessness in business. It's not money she chases, but power....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Canary Street Press 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERSummary: When the secret organization headquarters are destroyed and the world is held hostage, their journey leads the agents to the discovery of an allied spy organization in the US called Statesman, dating back to the day they were both founded. In a new adventure that tests their agents' strength and wits to the limit, these two elite secret organizations band together to defeat a ruthless common...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE KINFreeman, Dianne
Summary: "1899. Risings, George Hazleton's family estate in Hampshire, is a perfect choice for the wedding of Lily, sister of Frances, the widowed Countess of Harleigh. But the bucolic setting harbors a menace. Above and below stairs, mysterious accidents befall guests and staff alike. Before long, Frances suspects these 'accidents' are deliberate, and fears that the intended victim is Lily's fiancé,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2020
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Freeman, Dianne
Summary: "With her new husband George busy on a special mission for the British Museum, Frances has taken on an assignment of her own. The dowager Viscountess Wingate needs someone to sponsor her niece, Kate, for presentation to Queen Victoria. Frances--who understands society's quirks and constraints as only an outsider can--is the perfect candidate. Kate is charming and intelligent, though perhaps not...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FRESummary: It's all 'elementary, my dear' in two classic Sherlock Holmes tales, starring Christopher Lee. In 'Sherlock Holmes & the Leading Lady', Holmes and Watson foil a bombing plot directed at killing the Austro-Hungarian Emperor. In 'Sherlock Holmes and the Incident at Victoria Falls', someone is killed on Africa's Orient Express while Holmes is on his way to save a famous diamond. A passenger is the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SIRSummary: Martha Costello is a brilliant, passionate defense barrister with a reputation for defending the poor and downtrodden. She is about to embark on the next step of her career and apply to be a member of the highly prestigious Queen's Counsel. But she's not the only one at her chambers applying. Joining Martha is Clive Reader - charming and ruthless, funny, gifted, and dangerous. Only one is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SILSummary: Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy decide to play hide-and-seek, and during the game Lucy discovers a mysterious wardrobe. She tucks herself inside and backs to the rear of the cabinet, there she finds herself in an entirely different world. The place is called Narnia, and it's been locked in winter for over 100 years by someone known as "The White Witch."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2016
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Vincenzi, Penny.
Summary: "On an ordinary London afternoon, a truck swerves across five lanes of traffic and creates a tangle of chaos and confusion. As loved ones wait to hear news and the hospital prepares to receive the injured, a dozen lives hang in the balance. A doctor is torn between helping the injured and hiding his young mistress; a bridegroom hopes to get to the church on time; a widow waiting to reunite with...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2010
Sorry, no copies available
Henry, Patti Callahan
Summary: "In the war-torn London of 1939, fourteen-year-old Hazel and five-year-old Flora are evacuated to a rural village to escape the horrors of the Second World War. Living with the kind Bridie Aberdeen and her teenage son, Harry, in a charming stone cottage along the River Thames, Hazel fills their days with walks and games to distract her young sister, including one that she creates for her sister...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HENSummary: "Maxine Peake returns as QC Martha Costello who, one year into being a member of the Queen's Counsel, is busier than ever. Sparks continue to fly between Martha and fellow QC Clive Reader. Can they keep their relationship professional? Will an Exciting job opening tear the team of barristers apart? Rivalries sizzle and passions flare in the gripping third season of Silk"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SILSummary: Follows the adventures of the Arabian stallion--known as the Godolphin Arabian--brought to England to become one of the founding sires of the Thoroughbred breed-- and the mute Moroccan stable boy who tends him with loyalty and devotion all his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2011
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family King 2011Summary: Silas Marner was a man who had everything, until he lost it all. Falsely accused of theft and driven out of his town, Silas starts life anew. One day, upon arriving home, he discovers a child asleep on the hearth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SILSummary: Anne Elliot fell deeply in love with handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth at the age of nineteen. But with neither fortune nor rank to recommend him, Anne was persuaded to break off her engagement. Eight years later, Anne has lived to regret her decision. She never stopped loving Wentworth, and when he returns from sea with rank and fortune, she can only watch as every eligible...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Martha Costello (Maxine Peake, The Village) returns to Shoe Lane Chambers having earned "silk." Now as a new member of the Queen's Counsel, Martha finds the stakes higher than ever as she faces Shoe Lane's newest prosecution barrister. As the pressure rises, so does the romantic tension between her and fellow barrister, Clive Reader (Rupert Penry-Jones, MI5). Meanwhile, Senior Clerk Billy Lamb...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SILSummary: Chief Inspector Boyd and his team are back to reopen the files of more cold cases. A spectral leader calling himself 'The Shepherd' is inciting vulnerable women to commit murder; a sadomasochistic killer is counting off his victims, leaving the word 'sorry' carved into their skin; and the discovery of an unexploded bomb threatens to bring unforeseen upheaval to the team.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corp. 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WAKSummary: A hauntingly atmospheric and star-studded adaptation of Henry James' classic gothic horror story. A young, inexperienced governess is hired to look after two small children abandoned by their uncle, following the death of their parents, at his grand country house. Unsettled by glimpses of ghostly figures that only she can see, she quickly believes that something malevolent is stalking the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GHOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD GHOSummary: John Jasper, a choirmaster and opium addict, struggles with fits of paranoia and jealousy as he watches the women he loves fall in love with his nephew, Edwin Drood; Fanny Price, a young impoverished woman, arrives at her uncle's country estate, and is snubbed by everyone except her cousin Edmund, whom she soon grows to love; mystery surrounds a pretty Victorian governess and her two young...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CLASummary: The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries inspired by the novels of Caroline Graham. Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby has policed the murderous county for decades, and now he is ready to retire. In these four episodes Barnaby investigates his final cases before leaving the denizens of MIdsomer in the capable...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2012