Summary: Worshipped as a national savior, Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson masterminded the naval victories that thwarted Napoleon's plans to invade Britain. Yet, in the midst of public adulation, rumors swirled about his private life. Nelson took a friend's wife as a mistress and even fathered a child by her in secret. Seen through the eyes of four people close to him: his wife, who feels bitter and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ISummary: On Valentine's Day, 1900, a group of Australian schoolgirls set out for a picnic at Hanging Rock. Four of them disappear.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1998
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Summary: The latest novel from number one New York Times best selling author Philippa Gregory features one of the most famous girls in history, Lady Jane Grey, and her two sisters, each of whom dared to defy her queen.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRECopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Gregory 2017Hand, Cynthia
Summary: On the eve of her marriage to a stranger, sixteen-year-old Lady Jane Grey is swept in a conspiracy to usurp the throne from her cousin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HANHand, Cynthia.
Summary: The comical, fantastical, romantical, (not) entirely true story of Lady Jane GreyIn My Lady Jane, coauthors Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows have created a one-of-a-kind fantasy in the tradition of The Princess Bride, featuring a reluctant king, an even more reluctant queen, a noble steed, and only a passing resemblance to actual history--because sometimes history needs a little...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC HANOsborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: Jack and Annie travel back to nineteenth-century Ireland to inspire a young Augusta Gregory to share her love of Irish legends and folktales with the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED OSBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC OSBSummary: It centers on Kate, a widow who lost her husband in the war in Afghanistan and is struggling to maintain her small-town farm with her daughter while also running the local volunteer fire department.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY DAKSummary: On the evening of December 11, 1936, England's King Edward VIII formally broadcast his farewell to a nation. Torn between duty and love, he had decided to follow his heart. Follows the true story and the unforgettable romance that developed between the Prince of Wales and an extraordinary American woman named Wallis Simpson. That she was already married and rumored to have had other affairs,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2005
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV EDWSummary: Early eighteenth-century England is at war with the French. A frail Queen Anne occupies the throne, and her friend Lady Sarah tends to her ill health. When a new servant Abigail arrives, Sarah takes her under her wing, and Abigail sees a chance at a return to her aristocratic roots. As the politics of war become time-consuming for Sarah, Abigail steps in to fill in as the Queen's companion....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2019
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FAVCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Favourite 2019Gregory, Philippa.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Encore/Simon & Schuster Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRESummary: Tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during child birth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His experiments lead to the creation of a creature which Frankenstein has put together from the remains of corpses. The creature turns into a monster when Dr. Frankenstein rejects him. Sticking close to the original...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR MARSummary: A musician helps a rising singer find fame as his own career begins a downward spiral.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE STACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Star 2019Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STACopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD StTenasco, Sunshine
Summary: "Nibi is an Indigenous girl on the search for clean water to drink. Though she is faced with repeated obstacles, Nibi's joyful and determined energy become a catalyst for change and action as her community, and in widening circles, the country and government rally around her to make clean drinking water available for all. There is a strong underlying message that even when a problem seems too...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Wind Press, an imprint of Scholastic Canada Ltd. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TENSummary: A string of grisly murders is traced back to the sinister, sensuous Countess, an infamous resident of the stylish Hotel Cortez in downtown Los Angeles. It is a visually stunning, visceral feast. Come explore the hidden corridors of this fiendishly entertaining show with accommodating extras.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AMESummary: During the summer of 1957, bankruptcy looms over the company that Enzo Ferrari and his wife built 10 years earlier. He decides to roll the dice and wager it all on the iconic Mille Miglia, a treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Decal Releasing 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Inspired by the shocking true story of the family behind the Italian fashion empire. When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately, murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2022
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY HOUCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HOUSummary: "A penetrating reimagining of the iconic and timeless Australian novel, Picnic at Hanging Rock depicts the mysterious disappearances of three schoolgirls and their governess on Valentine's Day, 1900. The complex, interwoven narrative charts the subsequent investigation and the event's far-reaching impact on the students, families, and staff of Appleyard College and on the nearby township....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PICSummary: In this comedy a nightclub singer is forced to take refuge from the mob in a convent. While there she turns the convent choir into a soulful chorus complete with a Motown repertoire. The sudden celebrity of the choir jeopardizes her identity
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SISLandy, Derek
Summary: The thirteenth thrilling novel in the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series, SEASONS OF WAR will test the Skeleton Detective and Valkyrie like never before ... War is coming. To avert catastrophe, Skulduggery and Valkyrie are sent on a secret mission that takes them away from everything they know, to a forsaken land of magic and grim, unrelenting terror. It is here that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Children's Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LANLandy, Derek
Summary: Valkerie. Darquesse. Stephanie. The world ain't big enough for the three of them. The end will come...The War of the Sanctuaries has been won, but it was not without its casualties. Following the loss of Valkyrie Cain, Skulduggery Pleasant must use any and all means to track down and stop Darquesse before she turns the world into a charred, lifeless cinder. And so he draws together a team of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Children's Books 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LANLandy, Derek.
Summary: Skulduggery is gone. All our hopes rest with Valkyrie. The world's weight is on her shoulders, and its fate is in her hands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Children's 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC LANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LANLadd, Sarah.
Summary: Darbury, England, 1814 Amelia Barrett gave her word. Keeping it could cost her everything. Amelia Barrett, heiress to an estate nestled in the English moors, defies family expectations and promises to raise her dying friend’s baby. She’ll risk everything to keep her word—even to the point of proposing to the child’s father—a sea captain she’s never met. When the child vanishes with little more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2013
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Lacy, Patti.
Summary: A storm the size of Texas brews when Gloria Powell and Kai Chang meet in a Dallas hotel. They have come to discuss the future of Lily, the daughter Gloria adopted from China and the sister Kai hopes to reclaim. Kai is a doctor who had to give up her little sister during the Cultural Revolution and has since discovered that an inherited genetic defect may be waiting to fatally strike Lily....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Publishing Group 2011
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Landy, Derek.
Summary: When the evil Baron Vengeous escapes from prison, Detective Skulduggery Pleasant and his apprentice, Valkyrie Cain, have just two days to recapture him or the Baron's creature, the Grotesquery, may summon the Faceless Ones back to their world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Children's Books 2008