Summary: Dr. Thorndyke is an early proponent of forensic investigation; and there is the blind gumshoe Mac Carrados; and gentleman thief Simon Carne; and Mr. Carnacki who is a detective of the occult. These men pit their wits against the best that London's underworld has to offer. Victorian London was a boon for crooks and a bane to Scotland Yard, whose job it was to keep the city safe from criminals.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2009

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Summary: "The fifth and final series portrays the post-war period of 1919 to 1930"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2010

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV UPS

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Summary: The final episodes follow the indomitable heroine through the turmoil and terror of World War I to the 1920s. Based on a true story of Rosa Lewis, a culinary genius and the owner of London's Cavendish Hotel.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2012

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Summary: "In the years between 1912 and 1914, King Edward VII is dead and war looms"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 1974

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Summary: After Nazi Germany invades the British Channel Islands in the summer of 1940, occupiers and occupied settle into an uneasy coexistence. But when does cooperation become collaboration? What if passion meets restraint? Includes thirteen episodes.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2010

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Bail, Murray

Summary: In order to marry Ellen Holland, a suitor must identify every species of the five hundred trees on her family's property in Australia, a test set by her possessive father. To Ellen's alarm--she is attracted to a young man--an aging suitor has nearly succeeded. By the author of Homesickness.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2007

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Bail, Christopher

Summary: This book examines how social media functions like a prism that distorts our identities, empowers status-seeking extremists, and renders moderates all but invisible. It challenges common myths about echo chambers, foreign misinformation campaigns, and radicalizing algorithms, revealing that the solution to political tribalism lies deep inside ourselves.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 BAI

Balf, Todd.

Summary: At the turn of the 20th century, hundreds of handsome, lightning-fast racers won the hearts and minds of a bicycling-crazed public. Scientists studied them, newspapers glorified them, and millions of dollars in purse money was awarded to them. Major Taylor aimed to be the fastest of them all. A prominent black man at a time when such a thing was deemed scandalous, his mounting victories, high...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TAYLOR, MAJOR BAL

Baird, Bil

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1965

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.5 BAI