Worsley, Lucy

Summary: "Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was "just" an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? Her life is fascinating for its mysteries and its passions and, as Lucy Worsley says, "She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern." She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHRISTIE, AGATHA WOR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B CHRISTIE WOR

Garth, John.

Summary: This book tells the full story of how Tolkien embarked on the creation of Middle-earth as the world around him was plunged into the catastrophe of World War I. It reveals the horror and heroism that he experienced as a signals officer in the Battle of the Somme and introduces the circle of friends who spurred his mythology into life. It shows how, after two of these brilliant young men were...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio Tolkien

Jacobs, Alan

Summary: A journey into the imaginitive life of C.S. Lewis exploring the themes and life events that allowed an Oxford don, a scholar of medieval literature who loved to debate philosophy at his local pub, to the author of some of the greatest children's books of all time.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2005

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LEWIS, C.S. JAC

Collins, David R.

Summary: Describes the life of J.R.R. Tolkien, creator of Middle Earth and author of "The Hobbit" and "Lord of the Rings."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications Co. 1992

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB TOLKIEN COL

Summary: Made for television documentary chronicles the C.S. Lewis story from his early days in Northern Ireland, through his acclaimed academic career at Oxford University, his friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien, and his relationship with his wife, Joy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Crouse Entertainment Group/Duncan Group 2001

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAG

Feigel, Lara.

Summary: A portrait of World War II-era London by five literary volunteers documents their experiences as ambulance drivers, firefighters, and other civilian aids through five years of war, beginning with a single night in September 1940.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5342 FEI

Eagleton, Terry

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.085 EAG

Roiphe, Katie.

Summary: Cultural critic Roiphe delves deeply into one of the most layered of subjects: marriage. Drawn in part from the private memoirs, personal correspondence, and long-forgotten journals of the British literary community from 1910 to the Second World War, here are seven "marriages à la mode"--each rising to the challenge of intimate relations in more or less creative ways: H.G. and Jane Wells;...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 828.91209 ROI

Duraffourg, Willy

Summary: "This graphic novel explores the youth of the author of The Lord of the Rings, and his traumatic experience of the battlefields of the First World War, which will forge the imagination of his literary work" --

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ablaze Publishing 2023

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 TOLKIEN, J.R.R. DUR

Nichols, Beverley

Summary: In this, the second volume of the Merry Hall trilogy, Nichols is less concerned with his garden and more with his house, but the story does include the memorable characters Our Rose, the ditzy floral designer, and the cantankerous gardener Oldfield.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 1998

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Nichols, Beverley

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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.0942 NIC

Solnit, Rebecca

Summary: "A fresh take on George Orwell as a far more nature-loving figure than is often portrayed, and a dazzlingly rich meditation on roses, gardens, and the value and use of beauty and pleasure in the face of brutality and horror. "In the spring of 1936 a man planted roses." That man was George Orwell, shortly before he went off to fight against fascism in Spain. Today, those rosebushes are still...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021

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Ricks, Thomas E.

Summary: A "dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, with a focus on the pivotal years from the mid-1930s through the 1940s, when their farsighted vision and inspired action in the face of the threat of fascism and communism helped preserve democracy for the world"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2017

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Nichols, Beverley

Summary: Sunlight on the Lawn brings to a close Beverley Nichols's delightful Merry Hall trilogy describing the renovation of his run-down Georgian mansion and its garden.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 1999

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Dyer, Geoff.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823 DYE

Eames, Andrew

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 EAM

Summary: "This film tells the story of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, English writer, poet, philologist and author of many stories, including most famously The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. It describes the importance of the rural English West Midlands, where Tolkien grew up, in shaping his literary imagination and how the ancient northern languages he studied and taught throughout his life influenced...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2009

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV J.R.R.

Hastings, Selina

Summary: "From the celebrated biographer of Nancy Mitford, and Evelyn Waugh: a full and fascinating biography--the very first--of the long-admired and universally-acclaimed English writer. When Sybille Bedford died in 2006 at the age of 94, she had written ten books, including four novels and a biography of Aldous Huxley. Her novels--the last of which was shortlisted for the Booker--all fictionalized...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BEDFORD, SYBILLE HAS

Dennison, Matthew

Summary: "Inspired by the twenty-three "tales," Matthew Dennison takes a selection of quotations from Potter's stories and uses them to explore her multifaceted life and character: repressed Victorian daughter; thwarted lover; artistic genius; formidable country woman. This dramatic narrative charts her transformation from a young girl with a love of animals and fairy tales into a bestselling author and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POTTER, BEATRIX DEN

Thompson, Laura

Summary: "The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist Party; the sixth became Duchess of Devonshire. They were the Mitford sisters: Nancy, Pamela, Diana,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 THO

Marsden, George M.

Summary: Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis's eloquent and winsome defense of the Christian faith, originated as a series of BBC radio talks broadcast during the dark days of World War Two. Here is the story of the extraordinary life and afterlife of this influential and much-beloved book.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 230 LEW

Huxley, Elspeth Joscelin Grant

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1987

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 967 HUX