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Earl of Essex Cromwell, Thomas 1485?-1540 Earl of Essex Cromwell, Thomas 1485?-1540 Fiction Great Britain Great Britain History George III, 1760-1820 Fiction Great Britain History Henry VIII, 1509-1547 Fiction Large type books Saint Cyr, Sebastian (Fictitious character) Saint Cyr, Sebastian (Fictitious character) Fiction Television programs Television programs Great BritainSummary: A bureaucrat becomes a suburban guru who marries a follower with a son who's a punk rocker named Charlie Hero. Consequently, the guru's son is propelled from his bland life into a series of erotic experiences in London. Set to a backdrop of politics, fashion, music, drugs, morality and race, Karim must negotiate adolescence, a dysfunctional family and his own sexuality, as he seeks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BUDMantel, Hilary
Summary: If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it? England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MANMantel, Hilary
Summary: "England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MANMantel, Hilary
Summary: "England, 1536. In the wake of Anne Boleyn's execution, Thomas Cromwell continues his climb to power and wealth. Meanwhile, Henry VIII settles into brief happiness with Queen Jane Seymour. With no family or private army backing him, Cromwell must rely upon his wits. Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad, and the threat of invasion, Cromwell imagines a new country in the mirror of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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Summary: "Locked doors. Unseen magic. The most contrary of friends. Ten-year-old Mary Lennox arrives at her uncle's secluded estate on the Yorkshire moors with a scowl and a chip on her shoulder. But as she begins to explore her new home alongside ragtag companions--a cocky robin redbreast, a sour-faced gardener, and a boy who can talk to animals--Mary uncovers long-buried family secrets and learns that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2021
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Summary: Assuming the power recently lost by the disgraced Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell counsels a mercurial Henry VIII on the latter's efforts to marry Anne Boleyn against the wishes of Rome, a successful endeavor that comes with a dangerous price. Employing a vast array of historical characters, and a story overflowing with incident, the author turns Tudor England into a compelling piece of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press/Gale, Centage Learning 2012
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Summary: Traces the author's post-retirement work as a surgeon and teacher in such remote areas as Nepal and Ukraine, illuminating the challenges of working in difficult regions and finding purposeful work after a career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARSH HENRY MARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B MARSH MARSummary: Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAN RATED PG-13Summary: The final Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental change.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE VICSummary: Hamish Macbeth is back for more crime fighting, romance and a proper treasure hunt in the third installment of this popular series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HAMSummary: Archie's brother Paul returns to Glenbogle and is enlisted into helping to run the estate. Although this brings him into conflict with Archie and Lexie, it also allows Archie to think about his role and the world beyond Glenbogle.
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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 MONHenry, Patti Callahan
Summary: "When a woman stumbles across a mysterious children's book, long-held secrets about her missing sister and their childhood spent in the English countryside during World War II are revealed"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HENSummary: Nicky's Family tells the nearly forgotten story of Nicholas Winton, an Englishman who organized the rescue of 669 Czech and Slovak children just before the outbreak of World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NICSummary: Set against the spectacular scenery of the Scottish Highlands, this immensely popular heart-warming drama centers around an ancient castle, a collection of tartan-clad eccentrics and the handsome new master of the improverished estate. Explore each season of the delightful drama from the arrival of young laird Archie MacDonald, his evolving romance with housekeeper Lexie, to the arrivel of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide America 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MONSummary: Javed, a British teen of Pakistani descent, is growing up in England in 1987. Amidst the racial and economic turmoil of the times, he writes poetry as a means to escape the intolerance of his hometown and the inflexibility of his traditional father. But when he is introduced to the music of 'the Boss,' Javed sees parallels to his working-class life in Springsteen's powerful lyrics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BLICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BLICopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BLICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BLICarby, Hazel V.
Summary: "A haunting and evocative history of British empire, told through one woman's family story 'Where are you from?' Hazel Carby was continually asked as a girl, at a time when being Black and being British was understood to be an impossibility. To answer that question properly, eminent scholar Hazel Carby finds she needs to trace not just the family history of her Jamaican father and her Welsh...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2019
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Summary: "In the war-torn London of 1939, fourteen-year-old Hazel and five-year-old Flora are evacuated to a rural village to escape the horrors of the Second World War. Living with the kind Bridie Aberdeen and her teenage son, Harry, in a charming stone cottage along the River Thames, Hazel fills their days with walks and games to distract her young sister, including one that she creates for her sister...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP fiction HenrySummary: An unearthly child: Teachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright are in for the adventure of a lifetime when they follow student Susan Foreman home to an odd police box in a junkyard and meet the Doctor, a strange old man who claims to be Susan's grandfather, who takes them on a short excursion back to 200,000 B.C. ; The Daleks: When the TARDIS lands on the seemingly dead planet Skaro, the Doctor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2012
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCSummary: The Glittering Prizes was a sensation when it premiered on PBS in the late 1970s. Frederick Raphael's tale portrays the hopes and frustrations of an entire generation through the story of a group of friends who meet at Cambridge University in the 1950s. Six 80-min. episodes follow the evolution of these college students through the 1960s and into the 1970s where their lives diverge and they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video/2 Entertain 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GLITurner, Pamela S.
Summary: "Once upon a time there lived a girl who swept floors and washed dishes, and was little more than a servant to her family. Until, one day, an invitation arrived. It was an invitation to a new country and a new beginning--a place where Caroline's dreams, her fascination with the night sky, and her extraordinary talent would open up a world of beauty and renown, and make her the belle of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HERHarris, C. S.
Summary: "The much-anticipated new entree in the Sebastian St. Cyr "simply elegant" historical mystery series, from the national bestselling author of Who Buries the Dead and Why Kings Confess. Ayleswick-on-Teme, 1813. Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, has come to this seemingly peaceful Shropshire village to honor a slain friend and on a quest to learn more about his own ancestry. But when the body...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M HARHarris, C. S.
Summary: "The death of a fiendish nobleman strikes close to home as Sebastian St. Cyr is tasked with finding the killer to save his young cousin from persecution in this riveting new historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Why Kill the Innocent"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HARHarris, Robert J.
Summary: June 1940. As German troops pour across France, the veteran soldier and adventurer Richard Hannay is called back into service. In Paris an individual, code-named 'Roland, ' has disappeared and is assumed to be in the hands of Nazi agents. Only he knows the secret of the Thirty-One Kings, one upon which the future of Europe depends. Hannay is dispatched to Paris to find Roland before the Germans...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2018
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHarris, C. S.
Summary: "It's October 1814. The war with France is finally over, Europe's diplomats are convening in Vienna for a conference that will put their world back together, and London finds itself in the grip of a series of terrifying murders eerily similar to the shocking Ratcliffe Highway murders of three years before. In 1811, two entire families were brutally murdered in their homes. A suspect--a young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021