Cook, Lorna
Summary: "1943: The world is at war, and the villagers of Tyneham are being asked to make one more sacrifice: to give their homes over to the British army. But on the eve of their departure, a terrible act will cause three of them to disappear forever. 2018: Melissa had hoped a break on the coast of Dorset would rekindle her stagnant relationship, but despite the idyllic scenery, it's pushing her and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOMacfarlane, Robert
Summary: "A hauntingly beautiful diptych of works inspired by Robert Macfarlane's travels with celebrated collaborators to two eerie corners of England. In Holloway, "a perfect miniature prose-poem" (William Dalrymple), Macfarlane, artist Stanley Donwood, and writer Dan Richards travel to Dorset, near the south coast of England, to explore a famed "hollowed way"-a path used by walkers and riders for so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.23 MACSummary: The final season in the trilogy starts three years on from the last season, and five years on from the start. There is a bold, new crime story, which forces residents to ask themselves whether the town has a crack running through it caused by Danny Latimer₂s death, is this new crime somehow the long-term legacy of that dark moment? The central characters must contend with this possibility as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: When local gossips brand him a killer despite his wife's death by natural causes, wealthy British colonel James Lockyer-Fox draws the concern of his attorney, who discovers that his reclusive client is also being accused of far worse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALWalters, Minette
Summary: Dorset, 1642. When bloody civil war breaks out between the king and Parliament, families and communities across England are riven by different allegiances. A rare few choose neutrality. One such is Jayne Swift, a Dorset physician from a Royalist family, who offers her services to both sides in the conflict. Through her dedication to treating the sick and wounded, regardless of belief, Jayne...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALSummary: In 1962 England, a young couple find their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ONJames, P. D.
Summary: Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate a murder at a private nursing home for rich patients being treated by the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M JamJames, P. D.
Summary: Responding to an old friend's call, Commander Adam Dalgliesh travels to Toynton Grange, a convalescence home in Dorset, where he finds his friend dead and, himself weakened by a recent illness, encounters multiple murder and malicious intrigue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner Paperback Fiction 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMCollins, Kate
Summary: "Once upon a time Orla was: a woman, a painter, a lover. Now she is a mother and a wife, and when her husband Nick suggests that their city apartment has grown too small for their lives, she agrees, in part because she does agree, and in part because she is too tired to think about what she really does want. She agrees again when Nick announces with pride that he has found an antiquated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLWalters, Minette
Summary: "As the year 1349 approaches, the Black Death continues its devastating course across England. In Dorseteshire, the quarantined people of Develish question whether they are the only survivors. Guided by their beloved young mistress, Lady Anne, they wait, knowing that when their dwindling stores are finally gone they will have no choice but to leave. But where will they find safety in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALSt. John, Lauren
Summary: When a suspicious death coincides with the discovery of fossilized dinosaur bones, Kat knows this case is for her, if she can juggle everything happening in her life, including clues she has uncovered about a secret society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ST.JLe Carré, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LECWoods, Janet
Summary: "Dorset, 1917. If it's not enough that a girl from a good background is forced to work as a maid, Livia Carr is then violated by the master of the house and becomes pregnant. Her only course is to marry the son of the house, Richard Sangster, a World War One hero who has returned home an invalid. He is not expected to live, and he offers Livia and the child legitimacy, as well as his name and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOSummary: Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy about Bathsheba Everdene who is an independent woman who attracts three different suitors: a sheep farmer; a dashing soldier; and a prosperous, older bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's passions explores the nature of relationships, love and resilience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Far 2015Gardam, Jane.
Summary: Presents a collection of short stories, including "Pangbourne," "The Hair of the Dog," "Waiting for a Stranger," and "The Last Reunion."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GARMcEwan, Ian.
Summary: The story centers around two newlyweds, Edward and Florence Mayhew both virgins who must struggle through their internal battles with sexual anxiety.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2007
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCEWalters, Minette.
Summary: Reporter Connie Burns vows to expose a British mercenary who is using the chaos of the war in Africa to hide his sadistic, misogynistic fantasies and murderous intentions, but her efforts to reveal the truth have devastating consequences when Connie is taken hostage and held for three terrifying days.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2006