Parkin, Simon

Summary: "Following the events of Kristallnacht in 1938, Peter Fleischmann evaded the Gestapo's midnight roundups in Berlin by way of a perilous journey to England via the Kindertransport train. But he could not escape the British police, who came for him in the early hours and shipped him off to Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man, under suspicion of being a spy for the very regime he had fled. Peter's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 PAR

Summary: Set over a tumultuous ten-year period in the early 20th century, this five-hour miniseries tells the story of an honorable Englishman coping with his growing disillusion at the end of a privileged era and the beginning of a new, egalitarian society. As the comfortable certainties of Edwardian England begin to give way to the chaos and destruction of WWI, nobleman Christopher Tietjens puts...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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

Summary: Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle works in the English town of Hastings. As World War II tears at the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered on the home front.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

Summary: Set 5: With the end of World War II slowly but inevitably approaching, Foyle and his fellow citizens learn the price of victory and face a peace that will transform their lives in unexpected ways.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

Summary: Establishing a home in the New World is by no means an easy task, particularly in the wild backcountry of North Carolina during a period of dramatic political upheaval. The Frasers strive to flourish within a society which, as Claire knows all too well, is unwittingly marching towards Revolution. Jamie must now defend this home established on land granted to him by the Crown although this new...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

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

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6 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OUT

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV OUT

Summary: The future's looking bright for the eccentric Durrells; catch up with their lives on the beautiful island of Corfu in the fourth and final season. Most of the family struggles with individual business ventures from running a guest house, attempting to get published, starting a beauty salon, and opening a zoo.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DUR

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Du 4

Summary: Based on Gerald Durrell's trilogy of Corfu novels, this latest series sees sparky English widow Louisa Durrell and her brood continue to put down roots in their dilapidated rented house, alongside an ever-increasing menagerie of animals brought home by youngest son Gerry.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Du 3

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Durrells 2018

Summary: Gary and Tony have everything a pair of single men could dream of. But then Gary goes and marries his girlfriend, Dorothy. Is this the start or the end of domestic bliss?

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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2006

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

Summary: The rollicking adventures of Tom Jones, as he romps across 18th century England. From bedrooms to rural inns to London's dangerous streets. Cast out from his home and forbidden his true love, Tom must overcome the charms of an older seductress and the sinister plot of a nefarious rival to win his lover's heart.

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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2002

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

Summary: Flatmates Tony and Gary have a time-tested way of settling all their problems. They have a lager in front of the TV and don't talk about it. It's worked quite well for them. But now Dorothy has moved in. Is there enough lager for three?

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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2006

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

Summary: Chief Inspector George Gently and Detective Sergeant John Bacchus investigate crimes.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2013

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

Summary: Begins with the forced marriage of Lady Glencora to Plantagenet Palliser. The British House of Commons serves as the backdrop as we watch the coming and goings and loves and tragedies of the powerful and not so powerful. This includes the lives of the friends and children of the Palliser's.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2004

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

Summary: Begins with the forced marriage of Lady Glencora to Plantagenet Palliser. The British House of Commons serves as the backdrop as we watch the coming and goings and loves and tragedies of the powerful and not so powerful. This includes the lives of the friends and children of the Palliser's.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2004

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

Summary: Begins with the forced marriage of Lady Glencora to Plantagenet Palliser. The British House of Commons serves as the backdrop as we watch the coming and goings and loves and tragedies of the powerful and not so powerful. This includes the lives of the friends and children of the Palliser's.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2004

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

Summary: Begins with the forced marriage of Lady Glencora to Plantagenet Palliser. The British House of Commons serves as the backdrop as we watch the coming and goings and loves and tragedies of the powerful and not so powerful. This includes the lives of the friends and children of the Palliser's.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2004

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

Summary: Begins with the forced marriage of Lady Glencora to Plantagenet Palliser. The British House of Commons serves as the backdrop as we watch the coming and goings and loves and tragedies of the powerful and not so powerful. This includes the lives of the friends and children of the Palliser's.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2004

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

Summary: Begins with the forced marriage of Lady Glencora to Plantagenet Palliser. The British House of Commons serves as the backdrop as we watch the coming and goings and loves and tragedies of the powerful and not so powerful. This includes the lives of the friends and children of the Palliser's.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2004

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

Summary: Begins with the forced marriage of Lady Glencora to Plantagenet Palliser. The British House of Commons serves as the backdrop as we watch the coming and goings and loves and tragedies of the powerful and not so powerful. This includes the lives of the friends and children of the Palliser's.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2004

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

Summary: Begins with the forced marriage of Lady Glencora to Plantagenet Palliser. The British House of Commons serves as the backdrop as we watch the coming and goings and loves and tragedies of the powerful and not so powerful. This includes the lives of the friends and children of the Palliser's.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2004

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

Summary: Chronicles the blunders of the fictitious Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship, a government department barely registering on the national radar. In this Ministry, every announcement is followed by a whirlwind of u-turns, every policy is a scramble and every mishap is met with abuse from the Prime Minister's policy enforcer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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

Summary: Begins with the forced marriage of Lady Glencora to Plantagenet Palliser. The British House of Commons serves as the backdrop as we watch the coming and goings and loves and tragedies of the powerful and not so powerful. This includes the lives of the friends and children of the Palliser's.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2004

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

Summary: Begins with the forced marriage of Lady Glencora to Plantagenet Palliser. The British House of Commons serves as the backdrop as we watch the coming and goings and loves and tragedies of the powerful and not so powerful. This includes the lives of the friends and children of the Palliser's.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2004

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

Summary: A sprawling BBC saga of wealth, passion, and power, set in the palatial country houses and grand Mayfair salons of mid-Victorian England. Chronicles twenty years in the life of an aristocratic dynasty moving through high society in the heyday of Queen Victoria's reign. Based on Anthony Trollope's six political novels about British Parliamentary life.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by RLJ Entertainment 2013

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

Summary: Begins with the forced marriage of Lady Glencora to Plantagenet Palliser. The British House of Commons serves as the backdrop as we watch the coming and goings and loves and tragedies of the powerful and not so powerful. This includes the lives of the friends and children of the Palliser's.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2004

Copies Available at Peninsula

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