Summary: The show follows Margaret and Helen Schlegel, two intelligent, idealistic sisters living together in Edwardian London with their hypochondriac brother, Tibby. Their loving but interfering Aunt Juley tries to keep the siblings in line after the death of their parents, but a series of events push the sisters to lead unorthodox lives full of romance, tragedy, and drama.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2020
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HOWWilson, Seán Michael.
Summary: Presents in graphic novel format an adaptation of Wilde's story of a celebrated and feared English ghost who is outraged when the new American owners of his haunting place refuse to take him seriously and actually fight back against him.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Classical Comics 2010
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WILCoe, Jonathan.
Summary: A social satire on Britain today. The narrator is a writer hired to do the biography of a prominent upper-class family. In the process, he finds the family represents everything that is wrong with the country, from Hilary, the yellow journalist, to Thomas, the inside trader, to Henry, the hypocritical medicare reformer, and so up and down the family tree.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COEByrd, Sandra
Summary: "Miss Eleanor Sheffield is a talented evaluator of antiquities, trained to know the difference between a genuine artifact and a fraud. But with her father's passing and her uncle's decline into dementia, the family business is at risk. In the Victorian era, unmarried Eleanor cannot run Sheffield Brothers alone. The death of a longtime client, Baron Lydney, offers an unexpected complication when...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BYRSummary: Dame Agatha left us more than Marple and Poirot. Set in Art Deco England, these classic stories spotlight lesser-known Christie sleuths solving crimes of the heart as well as larceny and murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AGAContents: Gan tae the kye / Peacock followed the hen / Nancy Kerr -- The sandgate dandling song / Rachel Unthank -- Cottenham medley / C Joynes -- The almsgiver / Richard Dawson -- Ladle / Richmond / Cath & Phil Tyler -- Barbera Allen / Mary Humphreys & Anahata -- The king of Rome / June Tabor -- Adieu sweet lovely Nancy / Laura Smyth & Ted Kemp -- Two lovely black eyes / Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne -- A...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK FROBadly Drawn Boy
Contents: The shining -- Everybodys stalking -- Bewilder -- Fall in the river -- Camping next to water -- Stone on the water -- Another pearl -- Body rap -- Once around the block -- This song -- Bewilderbeast -- Magic in the air -- Cause a rockslide -- Pissing in the wind -- Blistered heart -- Disillusion -- Say it again -- Epitaph.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BADSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOYSummary: When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In 2011, a group of amateur historians made an incredible archaeological find: the bones of King Richard III, hunchbacked, with an arrow through the spine. Now, scientists are testing the bones to find out more about the king and also conducting fascinating experiments to determine whether Richard could have fought so ferociously in battle with such a severe deformity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014