Alexander, Susan
Summary: It is high summer in the Cotswolds and newly-wed Maggie Eliot would be enjoying the season more if only she were less stressed out. There is the book she is writing whose deadline is approaching. There is the project of creating a database of the plantings in the gardens of her husband Thomas' estate she is trying to finish in time for his birthday. There is the imminent descent of two of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minerva 0000
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Summary: Maggie Eliot Raynham is afraid that she has bitten off more than she can chew. She has agreed to review and update a card catalogue of garden plants. One hundred and thirty years of garden plants. The project was mischievously proposed by her husband, Thomas, and the records pertain to the gardens of Beaumatin, his estate in the Cotswolds. Maggie has hardly started her task when billionaire...
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Summary: Professor Maggie Eliot has returned to her position at Oxford after a sabbatical year and is finding it difficult to balance the demands of her job with being a newlywed. Then, before she has the time to see if she can adjust, the wife of her friend and colleague Stephen Draycott is found dead, the victim of a bathtub slip and fall. Kitty Draycott had recently left her husband and claimed to...
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Summary: "Maggie Eliot has a problem. The American academic is supposed to be writing a book during a sabbatical year from her position at Oxford and has come down with a bad case of writer's block. Her friend Anne arranges for Maggie to borrow a cottage in a picturesque village in the Cotswolds, where she can write without distractions... Then Maggie and Anne discover a brutal murder."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minerva 2013
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Summary: To Oxford professor Maggie Eliot, it seems everyone she knows is pregnant. The women in her husband's family. The daughters of her friends. Her colleagues and her colleagues' wives. Too old to have children herself, Maggie finds the situation raises issues she thought had long since been resolved. Then two murders occur at her Oxford college and neither victim is a likely homicide candidate....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 738 ALEAlexander, Susan
Summary: It’s snowdrop season and Maggie Eliot is on a mission. The previous summer three people she knew died. The coroner ruled the first a suicide, the second a murder and the third an accident. Around the same time as the deaths, a number of very valuable snowdrops disappeared. Maggie is convinced that all three victims were murdered and that she knows who was behind both the killings and the...
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Summary: Professor Margaret Spence Eliot thought life was finally beginning to settle down after a year of personal upheaval that included getting married, accepting a new position at Oxford and having some other adventures. Then she meets Jersey Jones, a new media celebrity famous for her cable TV show, Jersey Jones and the New World Order. Jersey has come to England to interview Maggie's friend...
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Summary: Professor Maggie Eliot is getting married, even though she has serious qualms. They're not about Thomas, the man she is marrying. She admits she is completely besotted. They're more about the getting married bit. However, Thomas' attitude is, "Let's get married. Then we'll sort out whatever still needs sorting." Of course, Thomas has had practice. He is a widower and also the 28th Baron...
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Summary: Seven thousand, six hundred fairy lights, a rare snowdrop, and murder. It's Christmastime at Beaumatin, the Cotswold estate of the Barons Raynham. Oxford Professor Maggie Eliot is looking forward to spending the festive season there with her husband Thomas, who is also the current baron. Unfortunately, Thomas' daughter from his first marriage, Constance, has chosen to have a Christmas wedding...
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Summary: It is obvious to Father Bob that the Occupy London movement is coming to an end and soon the protestors will be forced to leave the great square in front of Saint Paul's. The self-styled clergyman has been enjoying the notoriety of the past weeks and is looking for a way to extend the status quo for himself as well as the small band of young followers he has attracted. Then he meets a...
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Summary: Maggie Eliot, Appleton Fellow for Global Issues at Merrion College, Oxford, is having an eventful sabbatical year. She has overcome writer's block, fallen in love and gotten married. She is now enjoying summer with her husband Thomas, who is also the 28th Baron Raynham, at Beaumatin, his Cotswolds estate. Thomas takes Maggie to visit St Margaret's House, a residence for Benedictine nuns...
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALEYates, Susan Alexander.
Summary: Provides a comprehensive guide to raising teenagers and addresses issues such as positive communication, setting limits, peer pressure, sex, encouragement, choosing the right college or career, and letting go.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.845 YATStoker, Bram
Summary: Having deduced the double identity of Count Dracula, a wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1980
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STOMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: The summer after university, Emma Woodhouse returns home to the village of Highbury, where she will live with her health-conscious father until she is ready to launch her interior-design business and strike out on her own. In the meantime, she will do what she does best: offer guidance to those less wise in the ways of the world than herself. Happily, this summer brings many new faces to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCCSummary: Old friends come to visit. Love is in the air for both young and old in Glenbogle. But nothing is as it seems on the Scottish estate. Will they all live happily ever after?
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MONMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: "From the author of the best-selling and universally adored No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series--a stand-alone, big-hearted, and often heartbreaking novel about unrequited love and the unexpected places it takes us. At age 4, Clover chooses her own name. At age 6, she falls in love with her best friend, James, with whom she happily spends all her time. But in the adult world, things are not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCCSummary: At the age of sixteen, Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. Hours after her parents were killed, Nazi officer Dr. Josef Mengele (The Angel of Death), forced her to dance for his amusement. This dance saved her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ISummary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VALSummary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA VALAlexander, Susie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teacher Created Materials 1996