Morhain, Jorge Claudio
Summary: In this graphic novel adaptation of Oscar Wilde's classic story, Dorian Gray hides a monstrous secret in his attic--a portrait that ages and shows the results of his hedonistic and selfish lifestyle while he remains ever-youthful and handsome.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MORKleypas, Lisa
Summary: Dr. Garrett Gibson, the only female physician in England, has never been tempted to embark on an affair. Until now.... Ethan Ransom, a former detective for Scotland Yard, as gallant as he is secretive, is rumored to be an assassin. For one exhilarating night they give in to their potent attraction before becoming strangers again. As a Ravenel by-blow spurned by his father, Ethan has little...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KLEGoldberg, Leonard S.
Summary: "In the west end of London, an apparently crazed individual is on the loose, breaking into art galleries and private homes to slash valuable paintings of women. Despite Scotland Yard's best efforts, the criminal remains at large and continues on his destructive path. When Joanna and the Watsons are called in to solve the mystery, they soon discover that although the canvases have been slashed,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC GOLSummary: Thomas & Sarah reunites fans with the wily chauffeur and the sassy cockney parlor maid from Upstairs, Downstairs. In these thirteen episodes, the scheming pair embarks on adventures of smuggling, swindling, matchmaking, and magic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: ITV Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV THOSummary: Romance and intrigue at a London auction house. Written by John Mortimer (Rumpole of the Bailey), this 1990s British drama tells the story of art experts who share a passion for the treasures they put under the hammer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2011
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV UNDSummary: Follows three generations of an aristocratic and politically powerful English family and their circle of family and friends.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2005
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PALQuick, Amanda
Summary: "The author of the New York Times bestseller Garden of Lies returns to Victorian London in an all-new novel of deadly obsession. Calista Langley operates an exclusive "introduction" agency in Victorian London, catering to respectable ladies and gentlemen who find themselves alone in the world. But now, a dangerously obsessed individual has begun sending her trinkets and gifts suitable only for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Quick 2016Quick, Amanda
Summary: Calista Langley operates an exclusive "introduction" agency in Victorian London, catering to respectable ladies and gentlemen who find themselves alone in the world. But now, a dangerously obsessed individual has begun sending her trinkets and gifts suitable only for those in deepest mourning -- a black mirror, a funeral wreath, a ring set with black jet stone. Each is engraved with her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC QUIDickens, Charles
Summary: Tells the adventures of the orphan boy who is forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Book-of-the-Month Club 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction DicQuinn, Julia
Summary: Who stole Lady Neeley's bracelet? Was it the fortune hunter, the gambler, the servant, or the rogue? All of London is abuzz with speculation, but it is clear that one of four couples is connected to the crime. And you'll hear it first from Lady Whistledown!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUISummary: From musicians, writers and artists to dangerous thinkers, political radicals and, above all, ordinary people, this is the story of London's immigrants, its bohemians and how together they changed the city forever. Features archival footage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LONSummary: Who will inherit the riches of wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit? The only person he trusts is his companion and nurse, the young orphan Mary Graham, but she is employed on the understanding that she will not inherit a penny. He has disinherited his grandson, Young Martin, suspicious of the motives of the young man's love for Mary. With such a fortune at stake, the rest of the family closes in like...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD Cla Dickens MartinWolf, Naomi
Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Naomi Wolf, Outrages explores the history of state-sponsored censorship and violations of personal freedoms through the inspiring, forgotten history of one writer’s refusal to stay silenced.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.009 WOLBurnett, Frances Hodgson
Summary: Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London School, is left in poverty when her father dies, but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BURFinch, Charles (Charles B.)
Summary: A death in the family brings gentleman sleuth Charles Lenox back to the country house where he grew up - just in time to confront an odd, unsettling crime in a nearby village.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FINLeigh, Eva
Summary: "Tabitha Seaton, to join a collective of the most brilliant, influential minds in London, needs a husband and believes a notorious, handsome gambler may be her best bet, but the stakes are higher than she could have imagined when love enters the game"-- Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEISummary: Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-mad, self-important banker Josiah...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2005
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD Cla Dickens HardSchellman, Katharine
Summary: "London 1815. Though newly-widowed Lily Adler is returning to a society that frowns on independent women, she is determined to create a meaningful life for herself even without a husband. She's no stranger to the glittering world of London's upper crust. At a ball thrown by her oldest friend, Lady Walter, she expects the scandal, gossip, and secrets. What she doesn't expect is the dead body in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Fiction Schellman 2020Finch, Charles (Charles B.)
Summary: "London, 1855. A young and eager Charles Lenox faces his toughest case yet: a murder without a single clue. Slumped in a third-class car at Paddington Station is the body of a handsome young gentleman. He has no luggage, empty pockets, and no sign of identification on his person. And putting together the clues to the mystery of the man's identity only raises more questions, when Lenox discovers...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC FINSummary: In the gloom of a country graveyard, a young boy encounters an escaped convict, a chance meeting that later leads the boy to tragedy, mystery and wealth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD Cla Dickens GreatSummary: A bureaucrat becomes a suburban guru who marries a follower with a son who's a punk rocker named Charlie Hero. Consequently, the guru's son is propelled from his bland life into a series of erotic experiences in London. Set to a backdrop of politics, fashion, music, drugs, morality and race, Karim must negotiate adolescence, a dysfunctional family and his own sexuality, as he seeks...
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 BUDKleypas, Lisa
Summary: "Everything has a price...Railway magnate Tom Severin is wealthy and powerful enough to satisfy any desire as soon as it arises. Anything--or anyone--is his for the asking. It should be simple to find the perfect wife--and from his first glimpse of Lady Cassandra Ravenel, he's determined to have her. But the beautiful and quick-witted Cassandra is equally determined to marry for love--the one...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KLESummary: Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-made, self-important banker Josiah...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HARQuick, Amanda
Summary: Calista Langley operates an exclusive introduction agency in Victorian London, catering to respectable ladies and gentlemen who find themselves alone in the world. Now a dangerously obsessive individual has begun sending her trinkets and gifts suitable onle for those in deepest mourning: a black mirror, a funeral wreath, a ring set with black jet stone.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016