Summary: In the picturesque English region of Wildemarsh, Detective Matilda Stone investigates crimes with the aid or, often, meddling of her three mystery-writing aunts, who raised her from childhood. Together, they look into a murder at a health spa, a killing in the contemporary art world, and the theft of an Edgar Allen Poe manuscript. Matilda has decidedly less success with her personal affairs,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV QUESummary: Miss Marple returns to help solve mysteries with her keen powers of observation and her quiet common-sense analysis. Towards zero: Eyebrows arch when the dashing Wimbledon tennis star Nevile Strange arrives with his attractive new wife, even though the first wife is also attending. Miss Marple observes the tightly wound group as they holiday by the sea, sensing the sexual tensions and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: While researching his book "In cold blood", writer Truman Capote develops a relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and, in particular Perry Smith, while both men waited for their date of execution on death row.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INFSummary: Albert Pierrepoint joins the family business and becomes the most feared and respected executioner in Britain. Living a split life as a master hangman, loyal husband and grocery delivery man, Albert became the most feared executioner in Britain, famed for his craftsmanship in hanging over 450 people. Once praised and demonized for his role in the Nazi war trials, he must ultimately face a fate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2007
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY PIE1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PIE
Summary: In this heart-warming coming-of-age story set in a remote Derbyshire village share the villagers' joys, and crises as Bert Middleton takes a nostalgic look back at his youth, between 1914 and 1929. Season One, 1914-1919: When a bus drives into the village for the first time, the rest of the world seems suddenly closer. Bert feels frustrated at being too young to fight in the Great War. Season...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV VILAusten, Jane
Summary: As a young, beautiful, and wealthy woman, Emma decides to introduce Harriet Smith to society to find a husband. Emma entangles herself in a web in which everythings ends up precisely as it began.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos AudioBooks 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Austen 2006Tremain, Rose.
Summary: A middle-aged migrant from Eastern Europe moves to London in search of work after losing his wife and job. Lev's London is awash with money, celebrity, and complacency.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos AudioBooks 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TREDahl, Roald.
Contents: Taste / read by Richard E. Grant -- Lamb to the slaughter / read by Juliet Stevenson -- Man from the South / read by Stephen Mangan -- The soldier / read by Stephen Mangan -- My lady love, my daove / read by Richard Griffiths -- Dip in the pool / read by Adrian Scarborough -- Galloping Foxley / read by Richard Griffiths -- Skin / read by Tamsin Greig -- Poison / read by Richard E. Grant -- The...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DAHSummary: Three generations of women, all with the same name, rid themselves of their unwanted husbands one by one and each in the same way: they drown them. The local coroner agrees to declare each of the deaths accidental in return for sexual favors. But when things don't go exactly as planned, he devises a final game that could result in the undoing of them all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DROSummary: Emma Woodhouse is a young woman who, having engineered the marriage of her companion, turns her attention toward making a match for the local vicar and her new protegGee, Harriet Smith. Her one voice of reason and restraint is Mr. Knightley, who has known her since she was a child and who watches her behaviour with wry amusement and sometimes with real anger. Emma presides over the small...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1997
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EMMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE EMMTóibín, Colm
Summary: Told in four parts, this is a fiercely dramatic portrait of a murderess, who will herself be murdered by her own son, Orestes. It is Orestes' story, too: his capture by the forces of his mother's lover Aegisthus, his escape and his exile. And it is the story of the vengeful Electra, who watches over her mother and Aegisthus with cold anger and slow calculation, until, on the return of her...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Toibin 2017Eliot, George
Summary: One of the great works of 19th-century England as well as one of the masterpieces of English fiction, this novel is set in the Midlands, 1830-32, in the fictitious town of Middlemarch. It is concerned with the blighted marriage of a young idealistic woman, but also presents a vivid portrait of England during the Georgian era.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos AudioBooks 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Eliot 2011Woolf, Virginia
Summary: During one day of arranging for her party Mrs. Dalloway remembers her youth, considers the crushing effects of the Great War, and reexamines her marriage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos AudioBooks 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WOOSummary: Julia is a true diva: beautiful, talented, wealthy and famous. She has a devoted husband who has masterminded her brillant career - but after years of the spotlight she begins to suffer from a severe case of boredom and longs for something new and exciting to put the twinkle back in her eye. She finds what she is looking for in a handsome young American fan, who adds a few more sparks than...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEISummary: Based on the true story of Mother Teresa, the film explores the life's work of the Nobel Peace Prize recipient and one of the greatest humanitarians of all time. Her selfless devotion to helping the poor changed hearts, transformed lives and inspired millions throughout the world. Told through a series of personal letters written to her longtime friend and spiritual advisor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LETCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LET RATED PGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LeAusten, Jane
Summary: Presents Jane Austen's classic novel in which young, well-to-do, and bored Emma Woodhouse learns a thing or two about true class--and love--after an eventful turn as a matchmaker.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Austen, Jane
Summary: Anne Elliot passes up an opportunity for happiness when she declines a match in marriage in hopes of bettering her position. Beauty fades as seven years pass, when her former love returns a wealthier man. Anne finds herself slighted and all traces of their former intimacy gone. Mishaps and mischief mount as the pair tempt fate in this comic story of love.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: NAXOS AudioBooks 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Austen 2007DiCamillo, Kate.
Summary: When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2013
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1 available in JT Audio Books, Call number: JT CD Fiction DiCamilloMcEwan, Ian.
Summary: In 1972 Cambridge student Serena Frome's intelligence and beauty land her a job with England's intelligence agency, MI5. In an attempt to monitor writers' politics, MI5 tasks Serena with infiltrating the literary circle of author Tom Healy. But soon matters of trust and identity subvert the operation.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MCESummary: "The "wickedly offbeat" (Parade), contemporary mystery series follows the adventures of newly promoted Detective Sergeant Matilda Stone and her three crime-writing aunts as they solve murders in the picturesque English region of Wildemarsh. Though Matilda's strict boss warns her that homicides are police-only matters, her aunts can't help but offer their expertise, as well as unsolicited dating...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV QUESummary: Set in 1953, Katherine Watson is a free-spirited graduate of UCLA who accepts a teaching post at Wellesley College, a women-only school where the students are torn between the repressive mores of the time and their longing for intellectual freedom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MONCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Mona 2004Summary: Washed up on the mysterious shores of Atlantis, Jason searches for his missing father and stumbles into deadly rituals that test his quick reactions and physical strength. Perilous trials, from leaping over charging bulls and fighting the dreaded Minotaur, to surviving the rites of Dionysus and the temptations of a snake-headed goddess, ensue. No matter how great the danger, Jason can count on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ATLSummary: Professor Jasper Tempest and the team untangle a series of knotty crimes ranging from an unexplained fire in a student block to the mystery of an entire family found dead in their home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PROSummary: Georgina is focused on trying to get away with murder as she gets to retain power within the Clios household and her position at the top of the elusive art world. The Clios family is still reeling from the devastation caused by Constantine's mysterious death, while Georgina continues her battle for dominance and control with Irina Clios and her children Christos and Adriana.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021