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Great Britain History 20th century Drama Great Britain History Elizabeth II, 1952- Drama Great Britain Politics and government Drama I, Queen of England Elizabeth 1533-1603 Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Murder victims Fiction Prime ministers Great Britain Drama Princesses Great Britain Drama Queens Great Britain Drama Women Political activity Great Britain DramaSummary: Season two follows Queen Elizabeth through the late 1950s and early '60s as she struggles to navigate a world that's changing around her. She must face the challenges of a new era, from the Suez Canal crisis to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, while preserving both the monarchy and her marriage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Cr 2Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CROCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Crown 2018Summary: The British Empire is in decline, the political world is in disarray, and a young woman takes the throne... a new era is dawning. Queen Elizabeth II is a 25-year-old newlywed faced with the daunting prospect of leading the world's most famous monarchy while forging a relationship with legendary Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CROCopies Available at Peninsula
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CROCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Cr 1Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Crown 2017Erickson, Carolly
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ERIHerring, Peg
Summary: Discontented with existence on the ship, Seamus decides it's time to do what he's been avoiding for six decades. Though he knows his wife and best friend teamed up to murder him, there are things about the crime he doesn't understand, as well as emotions he hasn't yet been able to face. With fellow Dead Detective Ronnie to assist, Seamus returns to 1953 to face his memories and answer questions...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gwendolyn Press 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERHerring, Peg
Summary: From the author of mysteries such as KILLING SILENCE and HER HIGHNESS' FIRST MURDER comes a compelling women's fiction story of friendship, love, loss, and the life-changing power of helping others. This powerful novel, which spans the decades from the 1960s to the present, plays out in two primary locations, Thailand and Michigan's Mackinac Island. On a cruise ship in the Gulf of Thailand,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gwendolyn Books 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERHerring, Peg.
Summary: Elizabeth Tudor is accused of treason and imprisoned in the Tower of London. Her old friend Simon Maldon visits her in prison and while there Simon meets Peto the Pope, who is accused of murder. While Simon attempts to prove Peto's innocence, Simon's wife Hannah takes in a frightened pregnant girl. Neither realizes until too late that in trying to help others they have placed themselves in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERHerring, Peg.
Summary: Book Two of the Loser Mysteries delves deeper into who Loser is--or who she was before the street person named Loser appeared. Determined to help a teenaged boy in crisis, she's pulled back into the world of normal people. But the normal world can be as dangerous as the streets of Richmond. Is Loser ready to handle both a home and a homicide?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: LL-Publications 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERHerring, Peg
Summary: When newly-arrived soul Cassie Parker refuses to believe she's no longer alive, Dead Detective Seamus is sent back to Life to learn what happened to her. He soon suspects it was murder, but why would someone kill the costume maker at a small Toronto theater? While Cassie struggles to accept being dead, Seamus tries to protect her less worldly sister Christy, who takes over Cassie's job as...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gwendolyn Press 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERHerring, Peg.
Summary: "Simon Maldon is sent by Queen Elizabeth to form an honest assessment of the Scottish queen's character. With Simon gone, his son Henry, wife Hannah, and old friend Calkin delve into the murder of Simon's brother-in-law, Will Clark. Determined to hide his crimes, the killer is willing even eager to murder again. Simon faces his own trials when Scottish outlaws capture his party. In order to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERHerring, Peg.
Summary: When a long-time friendship dies, will murder follow? Decades past junior high, Caroline Batzer is suddenly snubbed by her best friend. At first confused, she's later stunned to learn Sarah Leigh betrayed her in a way she'd never have suspected. In an all-too-public setting, Caroline airs her anger at the woman everyone else in town considers saintly, and when Sarah disappears soon afterward,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gwendolyn Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERHerring, Peg
Summary: When Dead Detective Seamus is asked to investigate the death of wealthy businessman William Dunbar, he agrees, but there is an additional request. Will he take a detective-in-training along? Reluctantly, Seamus agrees and meets Mildred, who seems charming if a little headstrong.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gwendolyn Press 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERHerring, Peg.
Summary: "Killing Silence, the first of The Loser Mysteries, presents a unique protagonist: Loser, who sleeps on the streets of Richmond, Virginia, washes up in gas station bathrooms, eats when an opportunity comes along, and spends her waking hours in front of the local drug store, watching the world pass by and speaking less than thirty words per day. When a child is murdered and Loser finds herself...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: LL-Publications 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERHerring, Peg.
Summary: As England's young king struggles with illness, one of his advisors is poisoned. Elizabeth Tudor, fearing her brother was the target, asks her old friend Simon Maldon to investigate the crime. When Elizabeth herself is accused of the murders, Simon faces a fight for his life against a wickedly clever adversary who will not be caught.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HERCochran, Peg
Summary: The entire town of Cranberry Cove is popping with excitement. Monica Albertson is baking cranberry goodies by the dozen, and shopkeepers are decking out their storefronts for the first annual Winter Walk-an event dreamed up by the mayor to bring visitors to the town during a normally dead time of year. But it's the mayor who turns up dead during the grand opening ceremony, his lifeless body...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2016
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Herring, Peg.
Summary: Recent murder victim Tori can't make peace with the afterlife until she finds out who killed her and why. With the help of a Portal Detective named Seamus, Tori returns to the world of the living to seek answers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: LL-Publications 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Local Author, Call number: FIC HERHerring, Peg.
Summary: A killer is stalking London, beheading young women and dressing their bodies in nuns' clothes. When one of the princess's own ladies becomes a victim, the 12-year-old Elizabeth, daughter of the now failing Henry VIII, joins with her friends Simon Maldon, a physician's son, and Hugh Bellows, the captain of the king's Welsh Guard, in the hunt for the murderer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HERKingman, Peg
Summary: "What is your name? Where did you come from? And where are you going? In this immersive novel set in the 1840s Britain and France, these questions probe at the essence of what it means to be human. A wet nurse in a lively Scottish household goes by an assumed name but longs to know the identity of her father. A quarryman furtively extricates a remarkable fossil from an island on the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINShepherd, Peng
Summary: From the critically acclaimed author of The Book of M, a highly imaginative thriller about a young woman who discovers that a strange map in her deceased father's belongings holds an incredible, deadly secret--one that will lead her on an extraordinary adventure and to the truth about her family's dark history. What is the purpose of a map? Nell Young's whole life and greatest passion is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SHECopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHEPetterson, Per
Summary: Anticipating a divorce against a backdrop of the fall of communism, Arvid Jansen is further dismayed by his mother's diagnosis with cancer, a situation that prompts his emotionally charged quest for understanding and balance.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PETPetterson, Per
Summary: An early morning adventure out stealing horses leads to the tragic death of one boy and a resulting lifetime of guilt and isolation for his friend, in this moving tale about the painful loss of innocence and of traditional ways of life that are gone forever.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETShepherd, Peng
Summary: "Set in a dangerous near future world, The Book of M tells the captivating story of a group of ordinary people caught in an extraordinary catastrophe who risk everything to save the ones they love. It is a sweeping debut that illuminates the power that memories have not only on the heart, but on the world itself. One afternoon at an outdoor market in India, a man's shadow disappears--an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2018
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SHEPetterson, Per
Summary: Anticipating a divorce against a backdrop of the fall of communism, Arvid Jansen is further dismayed by his mother's diagnosis with cancer, a situation that prompts his emotionally charged quest for understanding and balance.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Petterson 2010Petterson, Per
Summary: "[A] tale of two men whose accidental meeting one morning recalls their boyhood thirty-five years ago. Back then, Tommy was separated from his sisters after he stood up to their abusive father. Jim was by Tommy's side through it all. But one winter night, a chance event on a frozen lake forever changes the balance of their friendship. Now, Jim fishes alone on a bridge as Tommy drives by in a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Petterson 2015Summary: Marcus Aurelius Antonius is philosopher-emperor of Rome who summons his empire's governors and princes to his German war headquarters for a Pax Romanus. He confides to his daughter, Lucilla, that his adopted son, Livius, will succeed him instead of his more unstable heir, Commodus. Overhearing this, Cleander, a blind prophet loyal to Commodus, presents Marcus with a poisoned apple. After the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2008