Thompson, Laura

Summary: "It has been one hundred years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. A brilliant and award winning biographer, Laura Thompson now turns her sharp eye to Agatha Christie. Arguably the greatest crime writer in the world, Christie's books still sell over four million copies each year--more than thirty years after her death--and it shows no signs of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2018

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B CHRISTIE THO

Thompson, Laura

Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Laura Thompson returns with Heiresses, a fascinating look at the lives of heiresses throughout history and the often tragic truth beneath the gilded surface. Heiresses: surely they are among the luckiest women on earth.Are they not to be envied, with their private jets and Chanel wardrobes and endless funds? Yet all too often those gilded lives have been beset...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.48 THO

Thompson, Laura

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Publisher / Publication Date: Review 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MITFORD, NANCY THO

Thompson, Laura

Summary: "The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist Party; the sixth became Duchess of Devonshire. They were the Mitford sisters: Nancy, Pamela, Diana,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 THO

Thompson, Laura

Summary: Nancy Mitford was, in the words of her sister Lady Diana Mosley, “very complex.” Her highly autobiographical early work, the biographies and novels of her more mature French period, her journalism, and the vast body of letters to her family, to friends such as Evelyn Waugh, and to the great love of her life, Gaston Palewski, all tell an intriguing story. Drawing from these, as well as...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MITFORD, NANCY THO

Pasek, Benj

Contents: Anybody have a map? (Rachel Bay Jones & Jennifer Laura Thompson) -- Waving through a window (Ben Platt & Original Broadway Cast) -- For forever (Ben Platt) -- Sincerely, me (Mike Faist, Ben Platt & Will Roland) -- Requiem (Laura Dreyfuss, Michael Park & Jennifer Laura Thompson) -- If I could tell her (Ben Platt & Laura Dreyfuss) -- Disappear (Mike Faist, Ben Platt, Kristolyn Lloyd, Will Roland,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC DEA

Summary: A socially awkward teenage math prodigy finds new confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the British squad at the International Mathematics Olympiad.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRI

Summary: Lucy Worsley brings to life key events in European royal history, covering: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and England's parting of ways with Catholic Europe; the Regency, and the reasons that George III reliquished power; the Russian Revolution, revealing that the Czar had actually been deposed by an uprising that had preceded the October Revolution of 1917.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LUC