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Depressions 1929 Great Plains Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939 Dust storms Great Plains History 20th century Great Britain Great Britain Social conditions 19th century Great Britain Social conditions 19th century Fiction Great Plains History 20th century Great Plains Social conditions 20th century Princesses Great Britain Drama Social conditionsSummary: World-famous author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in this three-part adaptation of Julian Barnes' acclaimed novel follows the separate but intersecting lives of two very different men: a half-Indian son of a vicar who is framed for a crime he may or may not have committed, and Doyle, who investigates the case.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ARTFollett, Ken
Summary: The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLHodder, Mark
Summary: The time is 1861; the place, London, England. The country is besieged by loups-garous (werewolves), and Spring Heeled Jack, the notorious (and possibly mythical) creature who appears out of nowhere to accost young women, is causing a bit of a ruckus. To deal with these problems, the prime minister recruits Sir Richard Francis Burton, the noted explorer, linguist, and self-promoter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pyr 2010
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC HODCannadine, David
Summary: To live in nineteenth-century Britain was to experience an astonishing and unprecedented series of changes. Cities grew vast; there were revolutions in transportation, communication, science, and work–all while a growing religious skepticism rendered the intellectual landscape increasingly unrecognizable. It was an exhilarating time, and as a result, most of the countries in the world that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941 CANMorrison, Robert
Summary: "A surprising history of the era that brought our modern world decisively into view. Though the Victorians are often credited with ushering in our modern era, the seeds were planted in the years before. The Regency (1811- 1820) began when the profligate Prince of Wales replaced his insane father, George III, as Britain's ruler; around the regent surged a society of evangelicalism and hedonism,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.07 MORGoodman, Ruth
Summary: We know what life was like for Victoria and Albert, but what was it like for a commoner? How did it feel to cook with coal and wash with tea leaves? Drink beer for breakfast and clean your teeth with cuttlefish? Dress in whalebone and feed opium to the baby? Catch the omnibus to work and wash laundry while wearing a corset?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941 GOOClare, Alys
Summary: "London, 1881. Lily Raynor, owner of the World's End Investigation Bureau, is growing increasingly worried. Work is drying up, finances are tight and she cannot find enough for her sole employee, Felix Wilbraham, to do. So when schoolteacher Georgiana Long arrives, with a worrying tale of runaway pupils, it seems like the answer to her prayers. The case is an interesting one, and what could be...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLALindsey, Johanna
Summary: William Blackburn, Earl of Ketterham, lives in exile in the Scottish Highlands with his daughter, Vanessa. When she comes of age, Vanessa returns to her mother in England to make her debut, despite her doubt about fitting into the mold of a proper young lady. Lord Montgomery Townsend, a visitor at the Countess of Dawton's home, watches his hostess try to match her estranged daughter with the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LINMendelssohn, Michèle
Summary: Witty, inspiring, and charismatic, Oscar Wilde is one of the Greats of English literature. Today, his plays and stories are beloved around the world. But it was not always so. His afterlife has given him the legitimacy that life denied him. 'Making Oscar Wilde' reveals the untold story of young Oscar's career in Victorian England and post-Civil War America. Set on two continents, it tracks a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILDE, OSCAR MENMalam, John
Summary: Describes the many dangerous jobs performed by children who worked in the cotton mills of industrial England in the nineteenth century, work that included long hours, low pay, and no provision for school work.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 331.7 MALSummary: The final season continues the story of high-spirited heroine, Charlotte Heywood, and her friend, Georgiana Lambe. What adventures, scandals, intrigue and above all else - romance - await them?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV SANEgan, Timothy
Summary: "The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the people who held on have never been fully told. Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, going from sod homes...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 EGACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 978 EGACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 978.03 EGACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US EganTaylor, D. J. (David John)
Summary: "Who were the Lost Girls? Chic, glamorous, and bohemian, as likely to be found living in a rat-haunted maisonette as dining at the Ritz, Lys Lubbock, Sonia Brownell, Barbara Skelton, and Janetta Parlade cut a swath through English literary and artistic life at the height of World War II."--Amazon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.082 TAYSummary: Set in England in the years leading up to the First World War, Downton Abbey tells the story of a complicated community. The house has been home to the Crawley family for many generations, but it is also where their servants live, and plan, and dream, and they are as fiercely jealous of their rank as anyone. Some of them are loyal to the family and committed to Downton as a way of life, others...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DOWWoolf, John
Summary: A radical new history that rediscovers the remarkable freak performers whose talents and charisma helped define an era.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.3 WOOSummary: 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