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Summary: Seventeen-year-old Imogene Rockford turned away from her family and their English country manor after her parents' death, but assumes her duty as the new Duchess of Wickersham despite threats and strange occurrences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2014
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC MONFreeman, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FRELowell, Joanna
Summary: "When an artist and a duke cross paths in the bustling London slums, an unlikely love story begins and their lives will be forever changed. Royal Academy painting student Lucy Coover quickly comes to the aid of the naked drunkard she stumbles upon one evening in the Shoreditch slums. If only she could banish his lovely form from her dreams as easily. Instead, she finds herself compelled to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LOWWagman-Geller, Marlene
Summary: "Royal family secrets revealed! Have you ever wondered what royals go through? Have you ever thought about what the intimate lives of phenomenal women look like? The Secret Lives of Royal Women features the intimate and historically accurate details of some of history's most privileged women. Learn from the life stories of Meghan Duchess of Sussex, Princess Diana, Maharani Gayatri Devi, Queen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mango Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.72 WAGKleypas, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KLESummary: Adam Bede, an honest, hard-working carpenter, has his heart set on marrying his sweetheart, pretty dairymaid Hetty Sorrel. Hetty wants nothing to do with her boring life on the farm and she allows herself to be seduced by the heir to a local estate. She finds herself abandoned and pregnant from her ill-fated dalliance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2 entertain/BBC Video 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ADASummary: Set in late nineteenth-century Russia, a Russian aristocrat returns home after a long absence and learns her family fortune has been squandered and she may have to sell her mansion and the beloved cherry orchard.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS CHESummary: An adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo, set 3000 years in the future. Therein, the mysterious Count infiltrates the Parisian aristocracy in order to exact revenge on the men who destroyed his life decades years ago.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Geneon Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME GANSummary: The lady, Grace Elliot, was once the mistress of the Prince of Wales. She left him for Philippe, Duc d'Orleans, a cousin of Louis XVI. The film opens a year after the fall of the Bastille, and while their affair is over, Grace and the Duc have stayed close friends. But just because they're friends doesn't mean they can't (and don't) have powerful political arguments. Organized around five...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LADSummary: Begins with the forced marriage of Lady Glencora to Plantagenet Palliser. The British House of Commons serves as the backdrop as we watch the coming and goings and loves and tragedies of the powerful and not so powerful. This includes the lives of the friends and children of the Palliser's.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD PALSummary: Begins with the forced marriage of Lady Glencora to Plantagenet Palliser. The British House of Commons serves as the backdrop as we watch the coming and goings and loves and tragedies of the powerful and not so powerful. This includes the lives of the friends and children of the Palliser's.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD PALFlavell, Julie
Summary: "Finally revealing the family's indefatigable women among its legendary military figures, The Howe Dynasty recasts the British side of the American Revolution. In December 1774, Benjamin Franklin met Caroline Howe, the sister of British Admiral Richard and General William Howe, in a London drawing room for "half a dozen Games of Chess." As Julie Flavell reveals, the games concealed a matter of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FLALawson, Jessica
Summary: Eleven-year-old Tabitha Crum, whose parents were just about to abandon her, is invited to the country estate of a wealthy countess along with five other children and told that one of them will become her heir.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LAWPettersen, Siri
Summary: Hirka has always been a little bit different, ostracized because her tail was cut off when she was an infant, so it is unexpected that she's summoned to take place in this year's Rite -- and even more shocking that her adoptive father reveals she is a tailless, powerless, human whose kiss rots flesh. The Rite also looms for Rime, a popular young man whose discovery of Hirka's secret threatens...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arctis 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PETRaybourn, Deanna
Summary: "Veronica Speedwell returns in a brand new adventure from Deanna Raybourn, the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey mysteries. London, 1887. Victorian adventuress and butterfly hunter Veronica Speedwell receives an invitation to visit the Curiosity Club, a ladies-only establishment for daring and intrepid women. There she meets the mysterious Lady Sundridge, who begs her to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M RAYSteel, Danielle
Summary: Angélique Latham has grown up at magnificent Belgrave Castle under the loving tutelage of her father, the Duke of Westerfield, after the death of her aristocratic French mother. At eighteen she is her father's closest, most trusted child, schooled in managing their grand estate. But when he dies, her half-brothers brutally turn her out, denying her very existence. Angélique has a keen mind,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Steel 2017Toboso, Yana
Summary: When Queen Victoria becomes suspicious of a mysterious cult, Earl Ciel Phantomhive and Sebastian probe the group for answers, but Sebastian finds a sword-carrying girl standing in his way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BLAToboso, Yana
Summary: A mysterious cult mesmerises legions of spectators with glorious rituals of song and dance. But the unbridled passion it inspires in its followers gives Queen Victoria cause for concern, and she urges Earl Ciel Phantomhive and his expert butler, Sebastian, to do some digging.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BLASummary: Begins with the forced marriage of Lady Glencora to Plantagenet Palliser. The British House of Commons serves as the backdrop as we watch the coming and goings and loves and tragedies of the powerful and not so powerful. This includes the lives of the friends and children of the Palliser's.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD PALSummary: Begins with the forced marriage of Lady Glencora to Plantagenet Palliser. The British House of Commons serves as the backdrop as we watch the coming and goings and loves and tragedies of the powerful and not so powerful. This includes the lives of the friends and children of the Palliser's.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD PALSummary: Begins with the forced marriage of Lady Glencora to Plantagenet Palliser. The British House of Commons serves as the backdrop as we watch the coming and goings and loves and tragedies of the powerful and not so powerful. This includes the lives of the friends and children of the Palliser's.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD PALSummary: A fugitive noblewoman finds refuge in a remote village with a young painter, his mother, and Buddhist monks, but is soon discovered by a swordsman sent to find her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A painstakingly detailed adaptation of the Tolstoy novel which follows the interconnected lives of a group of Russian aristocrats from 1805 to 1812, including Napoleon's invasion of Russia.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Balogh, Mary
Summary: "Left unable to walk by a childhood illness, Lady Jennifer, sister of the Duke of Wilby, has grown up to make a happy place for herself in society. Outgoing and cheerful, she has many friends and enjoys the pleasures of high society--even if she cannot dance at balls or stroll in Hyde Park. She is blessed with a large, loving, and protective family. But she secretly dreams of marriage and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024