O'Connor, Joseph

Summary: "Henry Irving is Victorian London's most celebrated actor and theater impresario. He has introduced groundbreaking ideas to the theater, bringing to the stage performances that are spectacular, shocking, and always entertaining. When Irving decides to open his own London theater with the goal of making it the greatest playhouse on earth, he hires a young Dublin clerk harboring literary...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2020

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OCO

Aliki.

Summary: Tells the story of the well-known playwright, William Shakespeare, and of the famous Globe Theatre in which many of his works were performed.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1999

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 792.09 ALI

Summary: Eden Starling is the glamorous singing diva of a theatre in Victorian London. Along with her snooty cat, Chuzzlewit, Eden selfishly plans to make the entire company of theatre performers stay and rehearse on Christmas Day. Not even Eden's costume designer and childhood friend, Catherine, can talk Eden out of her self-centered tantrum. It will be up to three very unusual Christmas Spirits to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BAR RATED G

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2 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday B
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Summary: To the stunned disbelief of his colleagues and patients, a London psychologist appears to have taken his own life. However, his daughter refuses to believe it, and instead is convinced it was murder. She recruits one of his former patients for help.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY THI

Summary: The year is 1613, and Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age. But disaster strikes when his renowned Globe Theatre burns to the ground. Devastated, Shakespeare returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a neglected family.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALL

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ALL

Shapiro, James S.

Summary: An intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year--1599--that changed not only his fortunes but the course of literature. How was Shakespeare transformed from being a talented poet and playwright to become one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this one exhilarating year we follow what he reads and writes, what he sees, and whom he works with as he invests in the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM SHA

Selznick, Brian

Summary: The journey begins on a ship at sea in 1766, with a boy named Billy Marvel. After surviving a shipwreck, he finds work in a London theatre. There, his family flourishes for generations as brilliant actors until 1900, when young Leontes Marvel is banished from the stage. Nearly a century later, Joseph Jervis runs away from school and seeks refuge with a reclusive uncle in London. Albert...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SEL

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SEL

Summary: A masterful drama about the twilight of a former vaudeville star is among the writer/director's most touching films. Calvero, a once beloved musical-comedy performer, now a washed-up alcoholic who lives in a small London flat. A glimmer of hope arrives when he meets a beautiful but melancholy ballerina who lives downstairs.

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2015

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LIM

Summary: A small-time crook takes on a bank heist when an old friend offers him an inside track to the vault. Along with his hastily assembled team of low-rung criminals, Terry finds himself in deep. Quit suddenly the group become the target of ruthless mobsters, the police, government officials at the highest level, and even the royal family. Based on the true story of a British princess and a sex...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BAN

Summary: Teenage secret agent Cody Banks must track down a former instructor who's gone rogue and left the States with a mind-control microchip. Cody masquerades as a musical prodigy to get close to a snobby, egocentric scientist who lives in London and is the only person who can make the microchip work. Along the way, Cody hooks up with a demoted agent and a teenage Scotland Yard operative.

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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AGE

Carrell, Jennifer Lee.

Summary: Shakespeare scholar Kate Stanley is given a mysterious box that holds the first piece in a Shakespeare puzzle; however, before she sets out on the trail of a 400-year-old mystery, the Globe Theater burns and a body is found, murdered in the manner of Hamlet's father.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2007

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAR

Summary: In 1939 London, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew is a middle-aged governess who finds herself once again unfairly dismissed from her job. Now she must seize the day if she wants a job. She does this by intercepting an employment assignment outside of her comfort level as social secretary. Arriving at a penthouse apartment for the interview, Miss Pettigrew is catapulted into the glamorous world and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MISS RATED PG-13

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MIS

Blackwood, Gary L.

Summary: The winter of 1602 brings many changes for Widge, a young apprentice at London's Globe Theatre, as he becomes infatuated with Shakespeare's daughter Judith, attempts to write a play, learns more about his past, endangers himself to help a friend, acquiresa new identity, and finds a new purpose in life.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2005

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BLA

Summary: "A tormented genius, drive by justice. Buckle your seatbelt for the turbulent career of London's DCI John Luther, starring Idris Elba, winner of Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards for his powerful performance in this gripping, smart and entertaining psychological thriller. As brilliant as he is impulsive, Luther wrestles with the darker side of humanity and with his own grim ghosts....

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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Studios 2019

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD LUT

Summary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KAT

Summary: After nearly 20 years of setting trends and pushing traditions, Selfridge's is still going strong as the triumph of London₂s Oxford Street. But Harry's potentially dangerous appetite for entertainment and women, while always a problem, has reached its peak. Now, he struggles to keep the reins of the store he loves, in the face of old troubles, new opportunities, and unsettled scores.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MR.

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MR. NOT RATED

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Mr Selfridge 2016

Summary: As World War II ends, thousands of British soldiers get 'demobbed', demobilized and sent back into civilian life. Among them are Captain Ian Deasey and Lance Corporal Dick Dobson. Deasey and Dobson have had a 'good war, ' much of it spent entertaining the troops with their bawdy stage routines. But after serving four years in the North African desert, they find it hard to adjust to peacetime...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2011

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DEM

Summary: After Mary Poppins departed London, Jane and Michael Banks grew up into loving and responsible adults. When Michael becomes a single father of three children after the death of his wife, Mary Poppins revisits the Cherry Tree Lane home again to try to help Michael and his family cope and move beyond their grief. Time passes quickly for most normal mortals. Mary Poppins has never been normal....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2019

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MAR

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Mary 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MAR

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAR

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAR

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF Ma

Waters, Martha

Summary: "Lady Emily Turner has been a debutante for six seasons now and should have long settled into a suitable marriage. However, due to her father's large debts, her only suitor is the persistent and odious owner of her father's favorite gambling house. Meanwhile, Lord Julian Belfry, the second son of a marquess, has scandalized society as an actor and owner of a theater-the kind of establishment...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAT

Summary: Jason Bourne finds himself up against a new generation of trained assassins and relentless CIA operatives who will stop at nothing to prevent him from finding out about his past.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE BOU

Summary: Emmy Award-winning actor Jeremy Piven stars as American entrepreneur and colorful retail magnate Harry Gordon Selfridge. Pioneering and reckless, with an almost manic energy, Harry Selfridge created a theater of retail for early 1900s Londoners where any topic or trend that was new, exciting, entertaining-or sometimes just eccentric-was showcased. Based on the book Shopping, Seduction and Mr....

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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2013

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MR.

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MR.

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MR. RATED NR

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Mr Selfridge 2013

Summary: Selfridges was the brain child of an American-Mr. Harry Gordon Selfridge. He brought about a complete revolution in the way that Londoners shopped, introducing a new American retail model which made shopping less of a practical pursuit and more of a luxurious adventure. But there was another side to the story-Harry's private life. When it began to seep into his business, the effect on him and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SEC

Summary: Emmy Award-winning actor Jeremy Piven stars as American entrepreneur and colorful retail magnate Harry Gordon Selfridge. Pioneering and reckless, with an almost manic energy, Harry Selfridge created a theater of retail for early 1900s Londoners where any topic or trend that was new, exciting, entertaining-or sometimes just eccentric-was showcased. Based on the book Shopping, Seduction and Mr....

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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2013

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MR.