Summary: A modern day, alternate-reality drama about a hero who rises to become the King of his nation, based on the biblical story of King David. King Silas Benjamin rules the kingdom of Gilboa with steely determination unmatched by any rival. During a tense battle with the neighboring nation of Gath, David Shepherd, an idealistic young soldier from the countryside, heroically crosses over dangerous...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV KINMassie, Robert K.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: History Book club 1980
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PETER THE GREAT MASWard, J. R.
Summary: In Charlemont, Kentucky, the Bradford family is the crème de la crème of high society--just like their exclusive brand of bourbon. And their complicated lives and vast estate are run by a discrete staff who inevitably become embroiled in their affairs. This is especially true now, when the apparent suicide of the family patriarch is starting to look more and more like murder ... No one is above...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION WARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Ward 2016Druon, Maurice
Summary: Philip the Fair rules his kingdom with an iron fist but cannot control his own family, while a sentence he hands down that Grand Master Jacques de Molay be burned at the stake draws upon him a curse that could destroy his dynasty.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Druon 2013Hatcher, Robin Lee
Summary: "She blames him for her brother's death. Can she let go of resentment and open her heart to love? Penny Cartwright found it difficult to understand why her younger brother would choose to join a country singer's band rather than return to Kings Meadow after college and the separation strained their relationship. Then a car accident made certain her brother could never return. Trevor Reynolds...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P HATWard, J. R.
Summary: "When Edward Baldwine is arrested for his father's murder, life for the Baldwine family is thrown into disarray. Tensions at Easterly, the family estate, are already high--the family's bourbon business is hanging on by a thread and Miss Aurora, head of Easterly's kitchen and surrogate mother of the Baldwine children, is in the ICU. Lane Baldwine, the younger and more successful of the Baldwine...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2017
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARWard, J. R.
Summary: With his brother on trial for patricide, Lane Baldwine is now the head of the family, and the Bradford Bourbon Company. But his lover, Sutton Smythe, is the CEO of their biggest rival. It is said that love survives all things. But murder?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WARSummary: The death of Queen Elizabeth foreshadowed a power struggle between parliament and the monarchy. This program begins with the crowning of James I-whose policies made the confrontation inevitable-and documents five generations of tumultuous Stuart governance. Sifting through the complex mixture of financial crisis and mounting religious factionalism that characterized Jacobean England, the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: At what point did England's Norman rulers begin to think of themselves as English? This program addresses that question as it surveys the history of the monarchy from Henry III to the birth of Henry Tudor. Recounting the scramble for power that followed the death of King John, the program explores the little-known rule of Louis-the French king "imported" by ambitious barons, then ousted when he...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: How has the importance of English royalty evolved over the past two centuries? This program examines the passage of the monarchy into figurehead status, tracing the line of descent from Queen Victoria to the current ruling family. Recounting Victoria's bereaved isolation and her son's rejection of her standards of propriety, the program reflects on English rule through two world wars, the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: As the 18th century dawned, foreigners continued to dominate the English royal line. This program profiles the four Kings George and William IV, and their significance in the German House of Hanover. Beginning with the rancorous relationship between George I and II, the program explores the origin of the position of Prime Minister, the courtly rivalry between George II and his son...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: To William, the Duke of Normandy, England was "Angleterre" or the Old French equivalent-and in 1066 the country became as French as William could make it. This program describes the Norman invasion that ended Anglo-Saxon rule, summarizes William the Conqueror's transformative reign, and profiles the six rulers who followed him. How Henry I wrested the crown from his brothers and solidified...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: With a French princess and Welsh courtier as its progenitors, the Tudor dynasty continued England's tradition of rule shaped by outside influence. This program examines the saga set in motion by Owen Tudor and Catherine of Valois, illustrating the events that led to the coronation of Henry Tudor and shedding light on the entire succession of Tudor monarchs. With the murderous power-grab of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Child, Maureen.
Summary: In order to avoid marriage to a client's unsavory daughter, millionaire Travis King enters into a convenience-only marriage with the woman of his choice--his old friend Julie O'Hara--but their business needs may soon turn to love.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010